List of neurologists and neurosurgeons

This is a list of

neurosurgeons, with their year of birth and death and nationality. This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a reflection of their relative importance in the field. Many neurologists and neurosurgeons are considered to be neuroscientists as well and some neurologists are also in the list of psychiatrists

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Letter	Name	Lifespan	Nationality	Eponyms
A	Deepak Agrawal	1970 -	India	DREZotomy for Neuropathic pain
A	Joseph Abadie	1873 - 1934	France	Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis
A	Adnan Abdallat	1943 -	Jordan	Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome
A	William John Adie	1886 - 1935	United Kingdom	Adie syndrome
A	Théophile Alajouanine	1890 - 1980	France
A	Alois Alzheimer	1864 - 1915	Germany	Alzheimer's disease
A	Gabriel Anton	1858 - 1933	Austria	Anton syndrome
A	François-Amilcar Aran	1817 - 1861	France	Aran–Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy
B	Joseph Babinski	1857 - 1932	France	Babinski sign
B	Percival Bailey	1892 - 1973	United States
B	Brenda Banwell	1967 -	Canada	Neuromyelitis optica, MOG antibody disease
B	Jean Alexandre Barré	1880 - 1967	France	Guillain–Barré syndrome, Barré–Liéou syndrome, Barré test
B	Henry Charlton Bastian	1837 - 1915	United Kingdom	Bastian-Bruns sign
B	Diana Beck	1900 - 1956	United Kingdom
B	Peter Emil Becker	1908 - 2000	Germany	Becker's muscular dystrophy
B	Charles Edward Beevor	1854 - 1908	United Kingdom	Beevor's sign, Beevor's axiom
B	Vladimir Bekhterev	1857 - 1927	Russia	Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex, Bekhterev–Mendel reflex, Bekhterev's disease, Bekhterev's mixture
B	Charles Bell	1774 - 1842	United Kingdom	Bell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, Bell–Magendie law
B	Morris Bender	1905 - 1983	United States
B	Hans Berger	1873 - 1941	Germany	Berger wave (rhythm)
B	Paul Robert Bing	1878 - 1956	Switzerland	Bing's sign
B	Lucio Bini	1908 - 1964	Italy
B	Otto Ludwig Binswanger	1852 - 1929	Germany	Binswanger's disease
B	Désiré-Magloire Bourneville	1840 - 1909	France	Bourneville-Pringle syndrome
B	Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain	1895 - 1966	United Kingdom	Brain's reflex
B	Édouard Brissaud	1852 - 1909	France	Brissaud's reflex
B	Paul Broca	1824 - 1880	France	Broca's aphasia, Broca's area
B	Korbinian Brodmann	1868 - 1918	Germany	Brodmann area
B	David R. Brown	1964 -	Australia
B	Józef Brudziński	1874 - 1917	Poland	Brudziński's sign
B	Ludwig Bruns	1858 - 1916	Germany	Bastian-Bruns sign, Bruns nystagmus
B	Serafima Bryusova	1894 - 1958	Soviet Union
B	Paul Bucy	1904 - 1992	United States	Klüver–Bucy syndrome
B	Robert A. Burton		United States
C	Donald Calne	1936 -	Canada
C	Ben Carson	1951 -	United States
C	Ugo Cerletti	1877 - 1963	Italy
C	Charles Gilbert Chaddock	1861 - 1936	United States	Chaddock reflex
C	Jean-Martin Charcot	1825 - 1893	France	Charcot's triad
C	John Cheyne	1777 - 1836	British	Cheyne–Stokes respiration
C	Jeffrey A. Cohen	1954 -	United States
C	Jules Cotard	1840 - 1889	France	Cotard delusion
C	Domenico Cotugno	1736 - 1822	Italy
C	Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt	1885 - 1964	Canada	Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
C	James Crichton-Browne	1840 - 1938	United Kingdom	Crichton-Browne sign
C	MacDonald Critchley	1900 - 1997	United Kingdom
C	Bernard Croisile		France
C	Jeffrey Cummings		United States
C	Harvey Cushing	1869 - 1939	United States	Cushing reflex, Cushing's disease, Cushing's syndrome
D	Antonio Damasio	1944 -	Portugal
D	Hanna Damasio	1942 -	Portugal
D	Charles Loomis Dana	1852 – 1935	United States
D	Walter Dandy	1886 - 1946	United States	Dandy–Walker syndrome
D	Daoud Mustafa Khalid	1917 - 2008	Sudan	Daoud Research Group
D	Dirk De Ridder	1966 -	Belgium
D	Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke	1859 - 1927	United States	Dejerine-Klumpke paralysis
D	Joseph Jules Dejerine	1849 - 1917	France	Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome
D	Mahlon DeLong	1938 -	United States
D	Margaret Dix	1902 - 1991	United Kingdom	Dix–Hallpike test
D	Guillaume Duchenne	1806 - 1875	France	Erb-Duchenne palsy, Duchenne smile
E	Constantin von Economo	1876 - 1931	Austria	von Economo neurons
E	Wilhelm Heinrich Erb	1840 - 1921	Germany	Erb's palsy
F	David Ferrier	1843 - 1924	United Kingdom
F	C. Miller Fisher	1913 - 2012	Canada	Miller Fisher Syndrome
F	Edward Flatau	1868 - 1932	Poland
F	Otfrid Foerster	1873 - 1941	Germany
F	Charles Foix	1882 - 1927	France	Foix–Alajouanine syndrome
F	Walter Jackson Freeman II	1895 - 1972	United States
F	Sigmund Freud	1856 - 1939	Austria	Freudian slip
F	Łucja Frey	1889 - 1942	Poland	Frey's syndrome
F	Nikolaus Friedreich	1825 - 1882	Germany	Friedreich's ataxia, Friedreich's sign
F	Adolf Albrecht Friedländer	1870-1949	Austria
F	Jules Froment	1878 - 1946	France	Froment's sign
G	Henri Gastaut	1915 - 1995	France	Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
G	Norman Geschwind	1926 - 1984	United States	Geschwind syndrome, Geschwind–Galaburda hypothesis
G	Joseph Godwin Greenfield	1884 - 1958	United Kingdom	Greenfield's disease
G	Rickman Godlee	1849 - 1925	United Kingdom
G	Justo Gonzalo	1910-1986	Spain
G	Alfred Gordon	1874 - 1953	France - United States	Gordon's sign
G	William Richard Gowers	1845 - 1915	United Kingdom	Gowers' sign
G	Georges Guillain	1876 - 1961	France	Guillain–Barré syndrome, Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret
G	Sanjay Gupta	1969 -	United States
H	Salomón Hakim	1922 - 2011	Colombia
H	William Alexander Hammond	1828 - 1900	United States
H	Anita Harding	1952 - 1995	Ireland-United Kingdom
H	Henry Head	1861 - 1940	United Kingdom
H	Salomon Eberhard Henschen	1847 - 1930	Sweden
H	Juha Hernesniemi	1947 - 2023	Finland
H	Johann Hoffmann	1857 - 1919	Germany	Werdnig–Hoffmann disease
H	Gordon Morgan Holmes	1876 - 1965	Ireland	Holmes rebound phenomenon, Holmes tremor
H	Victor Horsley	1857 - 1916	United Kingdom	Horsley–Clarke apparatus
H	Robert Roland Hughes	1911 - 1991	United Kingdom
H	James Ramsay Hunt	1872 - 1937	United States	Ramsay Hunt syndrome
H	Janina Hurynowicz	1894 - 1967	Poland
H	Abbashar Hussein	1959 -	Sudan
I	Ivan Izquierdo	1937 - 2021	Brazil
J	John Hughlings Jackson	1834 - 1911	United Kingdom	Jacksonian seizure
J	Louis Jacobsohn-Lask	1863 - 1941	Germany	Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex
J	Alfons Maria Jakob	1884 - 1931	Germany	Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
J	Herbert Jasper	1906 - 1999	Canada
J	Ernő Jendrassik	1858 - 1921	Hungary	Jendrassik maneuver
J	Friedrich Jolly	1844 - 1904	Germany	Jolly's test
K	Sean Kenniff	1969 -	United States
K	Robert Foster Kennedy	1884 - 1952	Ireland and United States	Foster Kennedy syndrome
K	Woldemar Kernig	1840 - 1917	Russia	Kernig's sign
K	Karl Kleist	1879 - 1961	Germany
K	Gitte Moos Knudsen	1959 -	Denmark
K	Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff	1854 - 1900	Russia	Korsakoff's syndrome
K	Georg N. Koskinas	1885 - 1975	Greece
K	John Krakauer	1967 -	United States
L	Charles Lasègue	1816 - 1883	France	Lasègue's sign
L	Rita Levi-Montalcini	1909 - 2012	Italy	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
L	Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy	1886 - 1934	France	Roussy–Lévy syndrome
L	Jean Lhermitte	1877 - 1959	France	Lhermitte's sign, Lhermitte–Duclos disease
L	Hugo Liepmann	1863 - 1925	Germany
L	Zachary London	1976 -	United States	Neuromuscular disease
M	B. K. Misra	1953 -	India
M	William Macewen	1848 - 1924	United Kingdom	Macewen's sign
M	Pierre Marie	1853 - 1940	France	Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
M	Gheorghe Marinescu	1863 - 1938	Romania	Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome
M	C. David Marsden	1938 - 1998	United Kingdom
M	Ladislas J. Meduna	1896 - 1964	Hungary
M	Friedrich Meggendorfer	1880 - 1953	Germany
M	Kurt Mendel	1874 - 1946	Germany	Bekhterev–Mendel reflex
M	H. Houston Merritt	1902 - 1979	United States
M	Giovanni Mingazzini	1859 - 1929	Italy	Mingazzini test
M	Pierre Mollaret	1898 - 1987	France	Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret, Mollaret's meningitis
M	Constantin von Monakow	1853 - 1930	Switzerland
M	Egas Moniz	1874 - 1955	Portugal	Moniz sign
M	Karin Muraszko	1957 -	United States
M	Abraham Myerson	1881 - 1948	United States	Myerson's sign
N	Max Nonne	1861 - 1959	Germany
N	Ralph Northam	1959 -	United States
O	Herbert Olivecrona	1891 - 1980	Sweden
O	Hermann Oppenheim	1858 - 1919	Germany	Oppenheim's sign
P	James Papez	1883 - 1958	United States	Papez circuit
P	Carlos Pardo-Villamizar		Colombia
P	Ambroise Paré	1510 - 1590	France
P	James Parkinson	1755 - 1824	United Kingdom	Parkinson's disease
P	Wilder Penfield	1891 - 1976	United States
P	Charles Poser	1923 - 2010	United States
P	Ludvig Puusepp	1875 - 1942	Estonia
Q	Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt	1876 - 1918	Germany	Queckenstedt's maneuver
R	Marcus Raichle	1937-	United States
R	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran	1951-	India
R	Robert Wheeler Rand	1928 - 2013	United States
R	Wade Regehr		Canada
R	Franco Regli	1931 - 2017	Switzerland
R	Helena Riggs	1899 - 1968	United States
R	Moritz Heinrich Romberg	1795 - 1873	Germany	Romberg's test
R	Grigory Rossolimo	1860 - 1928	Russia	Rossolimo's sign
S	Oliver Sacks	1933 - 2015	United Kingdom
S	Manfred Sakel	1900 - 1957	Poland
S	Majid Samii	1937 -	Iran - Germany
S	Robert Sapolsky	1957 -	United States
S	Hermann Schloffer	1868 - 1937	Austria
S	William Beecher Scoville	1906 - 1984	United States
S	Jean-Athanase Sicard	1872 - 1929	France	Collet-Sicard syndrome
S	Pankaj Sharma		United Kingdom
S	Pratibha Singhi	1951 -	India	Pediatrics
S	Robert F. Spetzler	1944-	United States, Germany	Spetzler-Martin grading of Cerebral arteriovenous malformation
S	Roy Glenwood Spurling	1894 - 1968	United States	Spurling's test
S	Adolph Strümpell	1853 - 1925	Baltic German	Strümpell-Lorrain disease, Strümpell's sign
T	Charlie Teo	1957-	Australia
T	Tom Bentley Throckmorton	1885 - 1961	United States	Throckmorton's reflex
T	Jules Tinel	1879 - 1952	France	Tinel's sign
T	Robert Bentley Todd	1809 - 1860	Ireland	Todd's paresis
T	Howard Henry Tooth	1856 - 1925	United Kingdom	Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
V	Oskar Vogt	1870 - 1959	Germany
V	N. K. Venkataramana		India
W	Juhn Atsushi Wada	1924 - 2023	Japan - Canada	Wada test
W	Arthur Earl Walker	1907 - 1995	United States	Dandy–Walker syndrome
W	Adolf Wallenberg	1862 - 1949	Germany	Wallenberg syndrome
W	Julius Wagner-Jauregg	1857 - 1940	Austria
W	Robert Wartenberg	1887 - 1956	United States	Wartenberg wheel
W	Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal	1833 - 1890	Germany	Edinger–Westphal nucleus
W	Robert Whytt	1714 - 1766	United Kingdom
W	Thomas Willis	1621 - 1675	United Kingdom	Circle of Willis
W	Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson	1878 - 1937	United Kingdom	Wilson's disease
W	Tissa Wijeratne		Sri Lanka and Australia	Post Covid-19 Neurological Syndrome, Serial Systemic Immune Inflmmatory IndicesTissa Wijeratne
Y	Gazi Yaşargil	1925 -	Turkey

Bibliography

Webb Haymaker and Francis Schiller: The Founders of Neurology: One Hundred and Forty-Six Biographical Sketches. Springfield, Ill., Charles Thomas, 1970.
Kurt Kolle (edit.): Grosse Nervenärzte, 1-3 Vol., Stuttgart, Georg Thieme, 1963-1970.

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