Famous physician writers
physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine
136 people
Sextus Empiricus
0200
– 0300
Deceased
R. D. Laing
1927
– 1989
· Age 61
Deceased
Oliver Sacks
1933
– 2015
· Age 82
Deceased
Thomas Browne
1605
– 1682
· Age 77
Deceased
C
Colleen McCullough
1937
– 2015
· Age 77
Deceased
Mungo Park
1771
– 1806
· Age 34
Deceased
A. J. Cronin
1896
– 1981
· Age 84
Deceased
Erasmus Darwin
1731
– 1802
· Age 70
Deceased
Pío Baroja
1872
– 1956
· Age 83
Deceased
Axel Munthe
1857
– 1949
· Age 91
Deceased
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1803
– 1882
· Age 78
Deceased
Gottfried Benn
1886
– 1956
· Age 70
Deceased
Tobias Smollett
1721
– 1771
· Age 50
Deceased
Jan Baptist van Helmont
1577
– 1644
· Age 67
Deceased
Angelus Silesius
1624
– 1677
· Age 52
Deceased
Girolamo Fracastoro
Mori Ōgai
1862
– 1922
· Age 60
Deceased
Carlo Levi
1902
– 1975
· Age 72
Deceased
Sergey Lukyanenko
1968
· Age 57
Alive
Guimarães Rosa
1908
– 1967
· Age 59
Deceased
Hans Martin Sutermeister
1907
– 1977
· Age 69
Deceased
Robin Cook
1940
· Age 85
Alive
Nise da Silveira
1905
– 1999
· Age 94
Deceased
Ruth Pfau
1929
– 2017
· Age 87
Deceased
Mykola Amosov
1913
– 2002
· Age 89
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q551835