Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. This is a list of notable veterinarians, both real and fictional.
Real-life veterinarians
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- Chris Back (born 1950) â Australian Senator (2009âÂÂ2017)
- Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848âÂÂ1932) â Danish veterinarian who discovered Brucella abortus
- Denis Barberet (1714âÂÂ1770) â French bibliographer and author
- Harold William Bennetts (1898âÂÂ1970) â Australian known for research on livestock and the toxic effects of native Australian plants
- Natanael Berg (1879âÂÂ1957) â Swedish composer
- Reidar Birkeland (born 1928) â professor at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
- Baxter Black (1945âÂÂ2022) â U.S. radio commentator
- Marie-Claude Bomsel (born 1946) â wildlife expert
- Alfred Boquet (1879âÂÂ1947) â French veterinarian, known for his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
- Claude Bourgelat (1712âÂÂ1779) â founder of 18th-century French veterinary school
- Anton Johnson Brandt (1893âÂÂ1951) â professor of pathological anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
- Chris Brown (born 1978) â known for the Australian television series Bondi Vet
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- Nelson R. ÃÂabej (born 1939) â Albania evolutionary biologist and author
- Charles J Coottes Campbell (1894âÂÂ2001) British/Commonwealth equine veterinarian
- Louis J. Camuti (1893âÂÂ1981) â first American cat veterinarian
- Philibert Chabert (1737âÂÂ1814) â French agronomist who wrote on early treatise on anthrax control
- Craig Challen (born 1965/1966) â Australian diver and caver
- John A. Charlton (1907âÂÂ1977) â Canadian politician
- Auguste Chauveau (1827âÂÂ1917) â French veterinarian, in whose honor the bacterium Clostridium chauvoei is named
- Matthew Clarke (born 1973) â former professional Australian rules footballer
- Ken Coghill (born 1944) â former Australian politician
- Robert Cook â British equine veterinarian
- Robin Coombs (1921âÂÂ2006) â British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test
- Harry Cooper (born 1943) â Australian television personality
- Miguel Cordero del Campillo (1925âÂÂ2020) â Spanish parasitologist
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- Morné de la Rey (born 1970) â South African veterinarian who was the first person in Africa to clone an animal, as well as first person to do successful IVF in Cape Buffalo in the world.
- Darlene Dixon â American veterinarian and toxicologic pathologist
- Sydney Dodd (1874âÂÂ1926) â British veterinary surgeon who was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney
- Peter C. Doherty (born 1940) â Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Mick Doyle (1941âÂÂ2004) â Irish rugby player
- Petrus Johann du Toit (1888âÂÂ1967) â South African veterinarian
- John Boyd Dunlop (1840âÂÂ1921) â Scottish inventor of the tyre
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- Henrik Edland (1905âÂÂ1984) â professor of anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
- John Ensign (born 1958) â U.S. Senator (2001âÂÂ2011)
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- Mark D Kittleson (born 1950) â American veterinary cardiologist, researcher, and educator
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- Frederick Douglass Patterson (1901âÂÂ1988) â recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
- Sonny Perdue (born 1946) â U.S. politician, former Governor of Georgia
- Brian Perry (born 1946) â epidemiologist
- Walter Plowright (1923âÂÂ2010) â English veterinary scientist who worked to eradicate rinderpest
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- Arnold Theiler (1867âÂÂ1936) â described the horse disease which became known as Theiler's disease
- James Thomson (born 1958) â American developmental biologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998
- Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867âÂÂ1937) â Canadian politician
- Debbye Turner (born 1965) â Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS' The Early Show
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- Erik Viborg (1759âÂÂ1822) â Danish veterinarian and botanist
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- Sophia Yin (1966âÂÂ2014) â American animal behaviorist and pioneer of positive reinforcement training for pets.
- William Youatt (1776âÂÂ1847) â English veterinary surgeon and animal welfare writer
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Fictional veterinarians
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