Find out more about the greatest Canadian Physicians, including Frederick Banting, Carolyn Bennett, Charles Tupper, Norman Bethune and Oswald Avery.
Erik Erikson15 June 1902
American-German psychologist
Frederick Banting14 November 1891
Discoverer of Insulin
Norman Bethune03 March 1890
Physician
William Osler12 July 1849
Physician
Roberta Bondar04 December 1945
Astronaut & Neurologist
Charles Brenton Huggins22 September 1901
Physician & Surgeon
Andrew Schally30 November 1926
Endocrinologist
Charles Best27 February 1899
Co-discoverer of Insulin
Margaret Chan21 August 1947
Physician
Charles Krauthammer13 March 1950
Columnist
Rudolf Vrba11 September 1924
Pharmacologist, Physician, University teacher
John McCrae30 November 1872
Poet
Frances Oldham Kelsey24 July 1914
Pharmacologist
Oswald Avery21 October 1877
Biologist, Physician, Geneticist
Hans Selye26 January 1907
Endocrinologist
Ian Stevenson31 October 1918
Psychiatrist, Parapsychologist, University teacher
Wilder Penfield26 January 1891
Surgeon, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, University
Carolyn Bennett20 December 1950
Politician, Physician
Jack W. Szostak09 November 1952
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Henry Morgentaler19 March 1923
Physician
Ralph M. Steinman14 January 1943
Canadian physician
Anderson Ruffin Abbott07 April 1837
Physician
Emily Stowe01 May 1831
Teacher, Physician
Robert Thirsk17 August 1953
Astronaut
John Hamm08 April 1938
Politician
Wilfred Grenfell28 February 1865
Missionary
Samantha Nutt30 September 1969
physician
William Henry Drummond13 April 1854
Poet
Camille Laurin06 May 1922
Psychiatrist
Philippe Panneton30 April 1895
Physician
Arthur Vineberg24 May 1903
Surgeon
Andrzej W. Schally30 November 1926
Endocrinologist
John Rolph04 March 1793
Physician