Harvard Medical School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• John R. Adler - academic
• Robert B. Aird - academic
• Tenley Albright - figure skater
• Harold Amos - microbiologist
• William French Anderson - geneticist
• Christian B. Anfinsen - chemist
• Paul S. Appelbaum - academic
• Jerry Avorn - academic
• Babak Azizzadeh - Facial surgery specialist and surgeon for Mary Jo Buttafuoco after she was shot by Amy Fisher in 1992.
• Herbert Benson - cardiologist
• Ira Black- neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.
• Roscoe Brady - biochemist
• Henry Bryant - physician
• Yoichi Takahashi - physician, also music composer
• Rafael Campo - poet
• Ethan Canin - author
• Walter Bradford Cannon - physiologist
• William B. Castle - hematologist
• George C. S. Choate - physician
• Gilbert Chu - physician, biochemist
• Aram Chobanian - President of Boston University (2003–2005)
• Stanley Cobb - neurologist
• Ernest Codman - physician
• Albert Coons - physician, immunologist, & Lasker Award winner
• Michael Crichton - author
• Harvey Cushing - neurosurgeon
• Elliott Cutler - surgeon
• Hallowell Davis (1896–1992) - researcher of hearing, contributor to the invention of the electroencephalograph.
• Martin Delany - One of the first African Americans to attend, and the first African-American field officer in the United States. He was expelled after a faculty vote to end the admission of blacks.
• Fe del Mundo - pediatrician, first Filipino and possibly first woman admitted to HMS (1936)
• Allan S. Detsky - physician
• James Madison DeWolf - soldier; physician
• Peter Diamandis - entrepreneur
• Daniel DiLorenzo - entrepreneur; neurosurgeon; inventor
• Thomas Dwight - anatomist
• Lawrence Eron - infectious disease physician
• Edward Evarts - neuroscientist
• Sidney Farber - pathologist
• Paul Farmer - infectious disease physician; global health
• Jonathan Fielding - past president American College of Preventive Medicine; health administrator; academic
• Harvey V. Fineberg - academic administrator
• John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald - Mayor of Boston (1906–08; 1910–14)
• Thomas Fitzpatrick - dermatologist
• Judah Folkman - scientist
• Bill Frist - U.S. Senator (1995–2007)
• Atul Gawande - surgeon, author
• Charles Brenton Huggins - physician; physiologist; Nobel laureate
• George Lincoln Goodale - botanist
• Robert Goldwyn - surgeon, editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 25 years
• Ernest Gruening - Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939–53); U.S. Senator (1959–69)
• I. Kathleen Hagen - Murder suspect
• Dean Hamer - geneticist
• Alice Hamilton - first female faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
• Michael R. Harrison - pediatrician
• Bernadine Healy - Director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–93); CEO of the American Red Cross (1999–2001)
• Ronald A. Heifetz - academic
• Lawrence Joseph Henderson - biochemist
• David Ho - infectious disease physician
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - physician; poet
• William James - philosopher
• Mildred Fay Jefferson Pro-Life Activist; first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
• Elliott P. Joslin - diabetolologist
• Nathan Cooley Keep - dentist
• Jim Kim - physician, global health leader, current President of the World Bank
• Melvin Konner - author and biological anthropologist
• Charles Krauthammer - columnist
• Daniel Laing, Jr. - One of the first African Americans to attend, and one of the first African American physicians. He was expelled after a faculty vote to end the admission of blacks, but finished his degree elsewhere.
• Philip J. Landrigan - epidemiologist and pediatrician
• Aristides Leão - biologist
• Philip Leder - geneticist
• Simon LeVay - neuroscientist
• Pam Ling - castmate on The Real World: San Francisco
• Joseph Lovell - Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1818–36)
• Karl Menninger - psychiatrist
• Randell Mills - scientist
• Vamsi Mootha - systems biologist and geneticist
• Siddhartha Mukherjee - physician, author
• Joseph Murray - surgeon
• Joel Mark Noe - plastic surgeon
• Amos Nourse - U.S. Senator (1857)
• David Page - biologist
• Hiram Polk - academic
• Geoffrey Potts - academic
• Morton Prince - neurologist
• Jayantibhai Patel — Cardiothoracic Surgeon
• Alexander Rich - biophysicist
• Oswald Hope Robertson - medical scientist
• Wilfredo Santa-Gómez - author
• George E. Shambaugh, Jr. -Otolaryngologist
• Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) - academic
• Philip Solomon (psychiatrist) - academic
• Paul Spangler - Naval surgeon and record setting Senior Long distance runner
• Samuel L. Stanley - 5th President of Stony Brook University, academic, physician, biomedical researcher
• Felicia Stewart - physician
• Lubert Stryer - academic
• Yellapragada Subbarao biochemist
• James B. Sumner - chemist
• Helen B. Taussig - cardiologist
• John Templeton, Jr - president of the John Templeton Foundation
• E. Donnall Thomas - physician
• Lewis Thomas - essayist
• Abby Howe Turner - academic
• Richard Urman - physician
• George Eman Vaillant - psychiatrist
• Mark Vonnegut - author; pediatrician
• Joseph Warren - soldier
• Andrew Weil - proponent of alternative medicine
• Paul Dudley White - cardiologist
• Robert J. White - neurosurgeon (Performed first monkey head transplant in the 1970s)
• Patrisha Zobel de Ayala - Chairman of World Medical Association, surgeon, anesthesiologist, neurologist, medical researcher
• Charles F. Winslow-early atomic theorist
• Leonard Wood - Chief of Staff of the United States Army ; Governor-General of the Philippines
• Louis Tompkins Wright - researcher, practitioner, first black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Chairman of NAACP
• David Wu - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2011)
• Jeffries Wyman - anatomist
• Yang Huanming - academic