List of veterinarians
Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:
- Wayne Allard, U.S. Senator who started as a vet
- Michael Archinal
- Chris Back
- Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, well-known 19th-century researcher
- Denis Barberet
- Harold William Bennetts
- Natanael Berg
- Reidar Birkeland
- Baxter Black, radio commentator who started as a vet
- Claude Bourgelat, founder of 18th-century French vet school
- Anton Johnson Brandt
- Chris Brown
- Louis J. Camuti, first American cat veterinarian
- Craig Challen
- John A. Charlton
- Auguste Chauveau
- Matthew Clarke
- Ken Coghill
- Robert Cook, modern expert on horse ailments
- Robert Royston Amos Coombs, 20th-century researcher
- Harry Cooper, Australian television personality
- 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
- Petrus Johann du Toit
- John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the tyre
- Henrik Edland
- 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
- Susanne Hart
- Antonie Marinus Harthoorn
- Annie Harvilicz, innovator and animal rights advocate
- Herbert Haupt
- Thomas William Hogarth
- James Herriot (1916–1995), pen name of James Alfred Wight, veterinarian and author of books about animals
- 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]
- Barry Larkin, better known as a hoaxer during the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Richard M. Linnehan
- Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980), British veterinary surgeon
- 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
- Denis Napthine
- Rich Nye, former professional baseball pitcher and exotic animal/avian veterinarian[2]
- Peter Ostrum
- Frederick Douglass Patterson
- Sonny Perdue, former Governor of Georgia
- Brian Perry
- Nicky Rackard (1922–1976)
- Carl Gottlob Rafn
- Robert L. Rooks, veterinary surgeon
- John Gunion Rutherford
- Suzanne Saueressig, the first practicing female veterinarian in Missouri
- Dinah Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury, veterinary surgeon
- Elmo Shropshire, best known as the singer of the novelty Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer"
- Brian Sinclair
- Danielle Spencer
- Harry Spira
- Leonid Stadnik
- Harry Steele-Bodger
- Arnold Theiler
- James Thomson, American veterinary pathologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998
- 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
- 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
- Tom Fetch (Gray O'Brien) from Fetch the Vet
- Doctor Dolittle in the children's books series The Story of Doctor Dolittle
References
- ↑ Kouba, Václav. "ERADICATION OF TESCHEN DISEASE (TESCHOVIRUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS) IN FORMER CZECHOSLOVAKIA" (PDF). Veterinary Biotechnology, Epidemiology and Food Safety Network. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ↑ "Richard R. Nye, DVM". Ness Exotic Wellness Center. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
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