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Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik Ibn Zuhr
Abul-Qasim al-Zahrawi
Addison, Thomas
Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge
Agassiz, Alexander
Agassiz, (Jean) Louis Rodolphe
Al-Razi
Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
Andrews, Roy Chapman
Arbuthnot, John
Asclepiades
Audubon, John James
Avery, Oswald Theodore
Avicenna
Axelrod, Julius

Dam, (Carl Peter) Henrik
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin, Erasmus
Davenport, Charles Benedict
Dawkins, Richard
De Vries, Hugo Marie
DeBakey, Michael Ellis
Dioscorides, Pedanius
Ditmars, Raymond Lee
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Doisy, Edward Adelbert
Domagk, Gerhard Johannes Paul
Donald, Ian
Douglas, David
Drew, Charles Richard
Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard
Dubos, René Jules
Dunlop, Sir Ernest Edward

E	Eccles, Sir John Carew Egas Moniz, António Ehrlich, Paul Eijkman, Christiaan Ellis, (Henry) Havelock Enders, John Franklin Erasistratus Eustachio, Bartolomeo

Fabre, Jean Henri
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus
Fallopius, Gabriel
Farrer, William James
Finlay, Carlos Juan
Fleming, Sir Alexander
Florey, Sir Howard Walter, Baron
Forssmann, Werner
Frankl, Victor E.
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund
Frisch, Karl von
Fromm, Erich
Funk, Casimir

G	Galen Gall, Franz Joseph Galton, Sir Francis Galvani, Luigi Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Gesner, Konrad von Godwin, Sir Harry Golgi, Camillo Goodall, Jane Gorgas, William Crawford Gould, Stephen Jay Gray, Asa Gray, Henry Gregg, Sir Norman McAlister Grenfell, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grew, Nehemiah

I	Ingenhousz, Jan Ingram, Vernon

J	Jenner, Edward Jerne, Niels Kai Johnson, Martin Elmer and Osa Helen Jung, Carl Gustav Jussieu, Antoine-Laurent de

K	Kellogg, John Harvey Kendall, Edward Calvin Kenny, Elizabeth Khorana, Har Gobind Kinsey, Alfred Charles Klein, Melanie Koch, Robert Köhler, Georges J. F. Kornberg, Arthur Kossel, Albrecht Kraepelin, Emil Krafft-Ebing, Richard, Freiherr von Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de
Landsteiner, Karl
Lauterbur, Paul
Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse
Lederberg, Joshua
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Lejeune, Jérôme Jean Louis Marie
Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Linnaeus (or Von Linné), Carolus
Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron
Loeb, Jacques
Long, Crawford Williamson
Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias
Lubbock, Sir John
Luria, Salvador Edward
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich

N	Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri Nightingale, Florence Nirenberg, Marshall Warren Nossal, Sir Gustav Joseph Victor

O	Ochoa, Severo Oparin, Aleksandr Ivanovich Osborn, Henry Fairfield Osler, Sir William

P	Paget, Sir James, 1st Baronet Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paré, Ambroise Pasteur, Louis Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich Penrose, Lionel Sharples Pinchot, Gifford Pincus, Gregory Goodwin Purkinje, Johannes Evangelista

R	Ramón y Cajal, Santiago Ray, John Reed, Walter Reich, Wilhelm Ross, Sir Ronald Rous, (Francis) Peyton Roux, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Wilhelm Rush, Benjamin

T	Tatum, Edward Lawrie Taussig, Helen Brooke Tinbergen, Nikolaas Tonegawa Susumu Tull, Jethro

V	Vesalius, Andreas Virchow, Rudolf Voronoff, Serge

Waksman, Selman Abraham
Wald, George
Walker, Mary Edwards
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace, Henry Cantwell
Warburg, Otto Heinrich
Wassermann, August von
Watson, James Dewey
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Weidenreich, Franz
Weismann, August
Wells, Horace
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick
Wilson, Alexander
Wilson, Edward Osborne
Withering, William
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich
Wright, Sewall
Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner

Y	Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman Yerkes, Robert Mearns Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh

Z	Zinsser, Hans

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