Medical
- Bagshaw, Elizabeth (1881–1982) – physician and birth control activist
- Sir, Major Banting, Frederick (1891–1941) – Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin
- Bell, John (born 1953) – pioneer of oncolytic virus therapies for cancer
- Bethune, Norman (1890–1939) – surgeon, inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China
- Bigelow, Wilfred (1913–2005) – inventor of the first artificial pacemaker
- Callaghan, John (1923–2004) – pioneer of open-heart surgery
- Dick, John (born 1957) – credited with discovery of cancer stem cell
- Douglas, Tommy (1904–1986) – introduced publicly-funded health care in Canada; commonly known as the Father of Medicare
- Goresky, Carl A. (1932–1996) – physician and scientist
- Hubel, David (born 1926) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine for mapping the visual cortex
- Johns, Harold E. (1915–1998) – medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
- Kimura, Doreen (unknown) – behavioural psychologist, world expert on sex differences in the brain
- Mance, Jeanne (1606–1673) – established the first hospital in North America – the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal – in 1644
- McCulloch, Ernest (born c. 1925) – cellular biologist credited with the discovery of stem cell with James Till
- Morgentaler, Henry (born 1923) – abortionist who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification
- Osler, Sir William (1849–1919) – physician, called "father of modern medicine"; wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine
- Palmer, Daniel David (1845–1913) – founded the chiropractic profession
- Parker, Edgar Randolph (1871–1951) – (known as "Painless" Parker) flamboyant dentist
- Penfield, Wilder (1891–1976) – neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
- Sackett, David (born 1934) – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University
- Till, James (born 1931) – biophysicist, credited for the discovery of stem cell with Ernest McCulloch
- Tilley, A. Ross (1904–1988) plastic surgeon
- Uchida, Irene Ayako (born 1917) – cytogenticist, Down Syndrome researcher
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Famous quotes containing the word medical:
“If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Often, we expect too much [from a nanny]. We want someone like ourselves—bright, witty, responsible, loving, imaginative, patient, well-mannered, and cheerful. Also, we want her to be smart, but not so smart that she’s going to get bored in two months and leave us to go to medical school.”
—Louise Lague (20th century)
“Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character, until we hesitate to lay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)