Famous physician writers

physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine

77 people

All Alive Deceased
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 – 1930 · Age 71
Deceased
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805 · Age 45
Deceased
L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof

1859 – 1917 · Age 57
Deceased
François Rabelais

François Rabelais

1494 – 1553 · Age 59
Deceased
Galen

Galen

0200 – 0300
Deceased
Nostradamus

Nostradamus

1503 – 1566 · Age 62
Deceased
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965 · Age 90
Deceased
William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

1874 – 1965 · Age 91
Deceased
Moshe ben Maimon

Moshe ben Maimon

1138 – 1204 · Age 66
Deceased
Paracelsus

Paracelsus

1493 – 1541 · Age 47
Deceased
David Livingstone

David Livingstone

1813 – 1873 · Age 60
Deceased
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1894 – 1961 · Age 67
Deceased
Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

1965 · Age 60
Alive
Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon

1897 – 1982 · Age 85
Deceased
Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

1942 – 2008 · Age 66
Deceased
Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

1862 – 1931 · Age 69
Deceased
Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

1728 – 1774 · Age 45
Deceased
Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard

1813 – 1878 · Age 64
Deceased
Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele

1911 – 1979 · Age 67
Deceased
Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

1813 – 1837 · Age 23
Deceased
Agostinho Neto

Agostinho Neto

1922 – 1979 · Age 56
Deceased
Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi

1931 – 2021 · Age 89
Deceased
William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

1883 – 1963 · Age 79
Deceased
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1809 – 1894 · Age 85
Deceased
Alfred Döblin

Alfred Döblin

1878 – 1957 · Age 78
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q551835