List of veterinarians

Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:

• Wayne Allard, a U.S. Senator who started as a vet
• Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, a well-known 19th-century researcher
• Baxter Black, a radio commentator who started as a vet
• Claude Bourgelat, founder of 18th-century French vet school
• Louis J. Camuti, first American cat veterinarian
• Robert Cook, modern expert on horse ailments
• Robert Royston Amos Coombs, 20th-century researcher
• Harry Cooper, Australian television personality
• Peter C. Doherty, 20th-century Australian researcher
• Mick Doyle, former Irish rugby player
• John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the tire (tyre)
• John Ensign, U.S. Senator who started as a vet
• Martin J. Fettman, astronaut
• Kevin Fitzgerald, Emergency Vet television documentary vet
• Doug Galt, Canadian politician who started as a vet
• Camille Guérin
• Annie Harvilicz, an innovator and animal rights advocate
• Herbert Haupt
• James Alfred Wight, better known under his pen name of James Herriot (1916–1995)
• Dawda Jawara, first president of Gambia
• Antonín Klobouk, (1885–1956), Czech professor of bovine medicine, discovered Talfan disease in pigs, designed vaccine against foot and mouth disease
• Buster Lloyd-Jones, a famous British Veterinary Surgeon (1914–1980)
• Barry Larkin, better known as a hoaxer during the 1956 Summer Olympics.
• Richard M. Linnehan
• Zoltán Magyar, Hungarian gymnast. Gold medalist in men's pommel horse at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics.
• Suzanne Morrow (1930–2006), Canadian figure skater and taker of the Official's Oath at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
• Rich Nye, former professional baseball pitcher and exotic animal/Avian veterinarian.
• Peter Ostrum
• Frederick Douglass Patterson
• Sonny Perdue, prior Governor of Georgia
• Arnold Plotnick, Owner of Manhattan Cat Specialists, board certified internal medicine feline specialist, published over 100 veterinary medicine articles and has won numerous awards for his expertise.
• Nicky Rackard (1922–1976)
• Robert L. Rooks, veterinary surgeon
• Elmo Shropshire, best known as the singer of the novelty Christmas song, Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
• Danielle Spencer
• Harry Spira
• Leonid Stadnik
• Jack Stephens, the vet who founded pet insurance in the US in the early 1980s
• Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937)
• Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS 'The Early Show'
• Hugh Wirth, Australian animal welfare advocate with RSPCA Australia, radio broadcaster
• Robert Zammit