List of veterinarians

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Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. This is a list of notable veterinarians, both real and fictional.

Real-life veterinarians

A

B

  • Chris Back (born 1950) — Australian Senator (2009–2017)
  • Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang
    (1848–1932) — Danish veterinarian who discovered Brucella abortus
  • Denis Barberet (1714–1770) — French bibliographer and author
  • Harold William Bennetts (1898–1970) — Australian known for research on livestock and the toxic effects of native Australian plants
  • Natanael Berg (1879–1957) — Swedish composer
  • Reidar Birkeland (born 1928) — professor at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
  • Baxter Black (1945-2022) — U.S. radio commentator
  • Marie-Claude Bomsel (born 1946) — wildlife expert
  • Alfred Boquet (1879–1947) — French veterinarian, known for his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
  • Claude Bourgelat (1712–1779) — founder of 18th-century French veterinary school
  • Anton Johnson Brandt (1893–1951) — professor of pathological anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
  • Chris Brown (born 1978) — known for the Australian television series Bondi Vet

C

  • Nelson R. Çabej
    (born 1939) — Albania evolutionary biologist and author
  • Charles J Coottes Campbell (born 1894 - 2001 British/ Commonwealth equine veterinarian
  • Louis J. Camuti (1893–1981) — first American cat veterinarian
  • Philibert Chabert (1737–1814) — French agronomist who wrote on early treatise on anthrax control
  • Craig Challen — Australian diver and caver
  • John A. Charlton (1907–1977) — Canadian politician
  • Auguste Chauveau (1827–1917) — French veterinarian, in whose honor the bacterium Clostridium chauvoei is named
  • Matthew Clarke (born 1973) — former professional Australian rules footballer
  • Ken Coghill (born 1944) — former Australian politician
  • Robert Cook — British equine veterinarian
  • Robin Coombs (1921–2006) — British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test[3]
  • Harry Cooper (born 1943) — Australian television personality
  • Miguel Cordero del Campillo (1925–2020) — Spanish parasitologist

D

  • Morné de la Rey (born 1970) — South African veterinarian who was the first person in Africa to clone an animal, as well as first person to do successful IVF in Cape Buffalo in the world.
  • Darlene Dixon — American veterinarian and toxicologic pathologist[4]
  • Sydney Dodd (1874–1926) — British veterinary surgeon who was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney
  • Peter C. Doherty (born 1940) — Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Mick Doyle (1941–2004) — Irish rugby player
  • Petrus Johann du Toit (1888–1967) — South African veterinarian
  • John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921) — Scottish inventor of the tyre

E

  • Henrik Edland (1905–1984) — professor of anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
  • John Ensign (born 1958) — U.S. Senator (2001–2011)[5]

F

G

H

J

L

M

N

O

  • Peter Ostrum (born 1957) — child actor who was Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

P

  • Frederick Douglass Patterson (1901–1988) — recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
  • Sonny Perdue (born 1946) — U.S. politician, former Governor of Georgia
  • Brian Perry
    (born 1946) — epidemiologist
  • Walter Plowright (1923–2010) — English veterinary scientist who worked to eradicate rinderpest

R

S

T

V

W

Y

  • Sophia Yin (1966–2014) — American animal behaviorist and pioneer of positive reinforcement training for pets.[21]

Z

Fictional veterinarians

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