List of veterinarians
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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
- Michael Archinal
- Chris Back
- Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, a well-known 19th-century researcher
- Harold William Bennetts
- Denis Barberet
- Reidar Birkeland
- Anton Johnson Brandt
- Chris Brown
- Baxter Black, a radio commentator who started as a vet
- Natanael Berg
- Harry Steele-Bodger
- Claude Bourgelat, founder of 18th-century French vet school
- Louis J. Camuti, first American cat veterinarian
- John A. Charlton
- Craig Challen
- Auguste Chauveau
- Matthew Clarke
- Robert Cook, modern expert on horse ailments
- Robert Royston Amos Coombs, 20th-century researcher
- Harry Cooper, Australian television personality
- Ken Coghill
- Peter C. Doherty, Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Mick Doyle, former Irish rugby player
- Henrik Edland
- Petrus Johann du Toit
- 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
- Bruce Fogle
- Birger Furugård
- Doug Galt, Canadian politician who started as a vet
- Hugh Gordon
- Camille Guérin
- Antonie Marinus Harthoorn
- Annie Harvilicz, an innovator and animal rights advocate
- Susanne Hart
- Herbert Haupt
- Thomas William Hogarth
- 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, discovered Talfan disease in pigs, designed vaccine against foot and mouth disease[1]
- 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
- Svend Lomholt
- Zoltán Magyar, Hungarian gymnast. Gold medalist in men's pommel horse at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics.
- Keith Meldrum
- 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.[2]
- Denis Napthine
- Peter Ostrum
- Frederick Douglass Patterson
- Sonny Perdue, prior Governor of Georgia
- Brian Perry
- Nicky Rackard (1922–1976)
- Carl Gottlob Rafn
- Robert L. Rooks, veterinary surgeon
- John Gunion Rutherford
- Brian Sinclair
- Dinah Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury, a 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
- James Thomson (cell biologist), American veterinary pathologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell(ES) line in 1998.
- Arnold Theiler
- Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937)
- Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS 'The Early Show'
- Erik Viborg
- Hugh Wirth, Australian animal welfare advocate with RSPCA Australia, radio broadcaster
- Robert Zammit
Fictional veterinarians [edit]
- Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry), Max King (Charlie Kemp), Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt), Hari Prasad (John Nayagam), Zoe Tate (Leah Bracknell) in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Steve Parker (Steve Bastoni), Gemma Ramsay (Beth Buchanan) in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Doctor Dolittle in the children's books series The Story of Doctor Dolittle Doctor Liz Wilson from Garfield
References [edit]
- ^ Kouba, Václav. "ERADICATION OF TESCHEN DISEASE (TESCHOVIRUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS) IN FORMER CZECHOSLOVAKIA". Veterinary Biotechnology, Epidemiology and Food Safety Network. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ^ "Richard R. Nye, DVM". Ness Exotic Wellness Center. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
