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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David A. Kessler | David Aaron Kessler | 1951 | n/a | American | pediatrician, attorney, author, and administrator (both academic and governmental) serving as Chief Science Officer of the White House COVID-19 Response Team since 2021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Kessler |
| Saul Krugman | Saul Krugman | 1911 | 1995 | null | physician, and later a pediatrician, whose studies of hepatitis, rubella, and measles resulted in the development of vaccinations for these debilitating diseases | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Krugman |
| Peter Hotez | Peter Jay Hotez | 1958 | n/a | American | scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hotez |
| Rachel Levine | Rachel Leland Levine | 1957 | n/a | American | pediatrician, and a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, who has been the United States assistant secretary for health since March 26, 2021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine |
| Louis Diamond | Louis Klein Diamond | 1902 | 1999 | American | pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Diamond |
| Paul Adelstein | Paul Adelstein | 1969 | n/a | American | actor and writer, known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the Fox television series Prison Break and his role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the ABC medical drama Private Practice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Adelstein |
| Herbert Needleman | Herbert Leroy Needleman | 1927 | 2017 | null | pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and the founder of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (later known as the Alliance for Healthy Homes, it has since merged with the National Center for Healthy Housing) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Needleman |
| Gideon Koren | Gideon Koren, FACMT, FRCP | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist, toxicologist, and a composer of Israeli folk music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Koren |
| Clemens von Pirquet | Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet | 1874 | 1929 | Austrian | scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_von_Pirquet |
| Béla Schick | Béla Schick | 1877 | 1967 | Hungarian | pediatrician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Schick |
| Victor Goldbloom | Victor Charles Goldbloom | 1923 | 2016 | Canadian | pediatrician, lecturer, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Goldbloom |
| Leonid Roshal | Leonid Mikhailovich Roshal | 1933 | n/a | null | noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for the World Health Organization, and chairman of International Charity Fund to Help Children in Disasters and Wars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Roshal |
| Paul M. Fleiss | Paul Murray Fleiss | 1933 | 2014 | American | pediatrician and author known for his unconventional medical views | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_M._Fleiss |
| Ingeborg Rapoport | Ingeborg Rapoport | 1912 | 2017 | German | pediatrician who was a prominent figure in East German medicine and, at age 102, the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingeborg_Rapoport |
| Richard Goldbloom | Richard Ballon Goldbloom | 1924 | 2021 | Canadian | pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth chancellor of Dalhousie University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldbloom |
| Paul Gyorgy | Paul György | 1893 | 1976 | Hungarian | biochemist, nutritionist, and pediatrician best known for his discovery of three B vitamins: riboflavin, B6, and biotin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gyorgy |
| Kurt Hirschhorn | Kurt Hirschhorn | 1926 | n/a | Austrian | pediatrician, medical geneticist, and cytogeneticist who identified the chromosomal defects that underlie Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Hirschhorn |
| Léone-Noëlle Meyer | Léone-Noëlle Meyer | 1939 | n/a | French | heiress, pediatrician, businesswoman and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léone-Noëlle_Meyer |
| Horace Hodes | Horace Louis Hodes | 1907 | 1989 | American | pediatrician and infectious disease researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Hodes |
| Ruth Morris Bakwin | Ruth Morris Bakwin | 1898 | 1985 | null | noted pediatrician and child psychologist and the first woman intern at the Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City (now the New York Medical College) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Morris_Bakwin |
| Samuel Katz (pediatrician) | Samuel L. Katz | 1927 | n/a | American | pediatrician and virologist whose career has been devoted to infectious disease research, focusing principally on vaccine research and development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Katz_(pediatrician) |
| Howard Engle | Howard Aaron Engle | 1919 | 2009 | American | pediatrician and lifelong smoker who was one of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed against the tobacco industry, in which Engle claimed that he smoked multiple packs of cigarettes daily since he was in college and was unable to quit despite multiple attempts even after contracting emphysema, continuing to smoke until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Engle |
| Berthold Epstein | Berthold Epstein | 1890 | 1962 | null | pediatrician, professor, and scientist who was conscripted as a doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Epstein |
| Zofia Zamenhof | Zofia Zamenhof | 1889 | 1942 | Polish | pediatrician and the daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Zamenhof |
| Heinrich Finkelstein | Heinrich Finkelstein | 1865 | 1942 | German | Jewish pediatrician and a pioneer in pediatric nutrition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Finkelstein |
| Kurt Huldschinsky | Kurt Huldschinsky | 1883 | 1940 | German | pediatrician of Prussian heritage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Huldschinsky |
| Françoise Brauner | Françoise Brauner | 1911 | 2000 | Austrian | pediatrician and child psychiatrist who was part of the medical contingent of International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and was an Austrian Resistance member during Occupied France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françoise_Brauner |
| Yevsey Gindes | Yevsey Yakovlevich Gindes | 1872 | 1954 | Azerbaijani | statesman and pediatrician of Jewish origin who served as the Minister of Healthcare of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and was member of Azerbaijani National Council and later Parliament of Azerbaijan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevsey_Gindes |
| John D. Lantos | John D. Lantos | 1954 | n/a | American | pediatrician and a leading expert in medical ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Lantos |
| Sara Benoliel | Sara Benoliel | null | null | null | first female pediatrician in Portugal and was an active feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Benoliel |
| Harry Bakwin | Harry Bakwin | 1894 | 1973 | null | New York pediatrician, and also a Professor of Pediatrics at New York University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bakwin |
| Harry Medovy | Harry Medovy, OC | 1904 | 1995 | Canadian | pediatrician and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Medovy |
| Johanna Geissmar | Johanna Elsa Geissmar | 1877 | 1942 | German | Jewish pediatrician murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Geissmar |
| Hans Aronson | Hans Aronson | 1865 | 1919 | German | pediatrician and bacteriologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Aronson |
| Robert O. Fisch | Robert O. Fisch | 1925 | n/a | Hungarian | pediatrician, artist, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_O._Fisch |
| Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer | Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer | 1879 | 1954 | null | pediatrician and nutrition expert (especially nutrition of infants and children), professor of Medicine at the University of Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Ferdinand_Meyer |
| Ernst Bernhard | Ernst Bernhard | 1896 | 1965 | German | Jungian psychoanalyst, pediatrician and astrologer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bernhard |
| Tom Stiris | Tom Arne Stiris | 1954 | n/a | Norwegian | pediatrician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stiris |
| Lisamaria Meirowsky | Lisamaria Meirowsky | 1904 | 1942 | German | dermatologist and pediatrician murdered by the Nazis because of her Jewish heritage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisamaria_Meirowsky |