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Figures in the history of medicine

Name a famous figure in the history of medicine. Hopdown accepts 586 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper. A doctor, scientist or other figure who made a major contribution to medicine, such as Hippocrates, Pasteur or Florence Nightingale.

Most common answers

• HippocratesExtremely common
• Louis PasteurExtremely common
• Edward JennerExtremely common
• Florence NightingaleExtremely common
• Alexander FlemingExtremely common
• Jonas SalkExtremely common
• Marie CurieCommon
• Joseph ListerCommon
• GalenUncommon
• James SimpsonUncommon
• Oliver Wendell HolmesUncommon
• Rudolf VirchowUncommon
• Claude BernardUncommon
• Francois MagendieUncommon
• Ignaz SemmelweisUncommon

Rare answers

• Hieronymus FabriciusRare
• Johann WeyerRare
• Jean-Nicolas CorvisartRare
• John CaiusRare
• Dominic CorriganRare
• Patrick MansonRare
• Patrick SteptoeRare
• William WelchVery rare
• Alice EvansVery rare
• Stanley PrusinerVery rare
• Paul LauterburVery rare
• Georg GaffkyVery rare
• Viktor FranklVery rare
• Gavriil IlizarovVery rare
• Gregorio MaranonVery rare

Deep cuts

The answers almost nobody gives.

• Robin WarrenDeep cut
• Ian FrazerDeep cut
• John HoppsDeep cut
• Niels FinsenDeep cut
• Virginia HendersonDeep cut
• Ugur SahinDeep cut
• Harald Zur HausenDeep cut
• Hakim Ajmal KhanDeep cut
• Hans KrebsDeep cut
• Thomas YoungDeep cut

Plus 546 more answers you'll have to find yourself.