Famous physician writers
physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine
77 people
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859
– 1930
· Age 71
Deceased
Friedrich Schiller
1759
– 1805
· Age 45
Deceased
L. L. Zamenhof
1859
– 1917
· Age 57
Deceased
François Rabelais
1494
– 1553
· Age 59
Deceased
Galen
0200
– 0300
Deceased
Nostradamus
1503
– 1566
· Age 62
Deceased
Albert Schweitzer
1875
– 1965
· Age 90
Deceased
William Somerset Maugham
1874
– 1965
· Age 91
Deceased
Moshe ben Maimon
1138
– 1204
· Age 66
Deceased
Paracelsus
1493
– 1541
· Age 47
Deceased
David Livingstone
1813
– 1873
· Age 60
Deceased
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1894
– 1961
· Age 67
Deceased
Khaled Hosseini
1965
· Age 60
Alive
Louis Aragon
1897
– 1982
· Age 85
Deceased
Michael Crichton
1942
– 2008
· Age 66
Deceased
Arthur Schnitzler
1862
– 1931
· Age 69
Deceased
Oliver Goldsmith
1728
– 1774
· Age 45
Deceased
Claude Bernard
1813
– 1878
· Age 64
Deceased
Josef Mengele
1911
– 1979
· Age 67
Deceased
Georg Büchner
1813
– 1837
· Age 23
Deceased
Agostinho Neto
1922
– 1979
· Age 56
Deceased
Nawal El Saadawi
1931
– 2021
· Age 89
Deceased
William Carlos Williams
1883
– 1963
· Age 79
Deceased
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809
– 1894
· Age 85
Deceased
Alfred Döblin
1878
– 1957
· Age 78
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q551835