List of neurologists and neurosurgeons

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This is a list of neurologists and neurosurgeons, with their year of birth and death and nationality. This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a reflection of their relative importance in the field. Many neurologists and neurosurgeons are considered to be neuroscientists as well and some neurologists are also in the list of psychiatrists.

Letter Name Lifespan Nationality Eponyms
A Deepak Agrawal 1970 - India DREZotomy for Neuropathic pain
A Joseph Abadie 1873 - 1934 France Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis
A Adnan Abdallat 1943 - Jordan Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome
A William John Adie 1886 - 1935 United Kingdom Adie syndrome
A Théophile Alajouanine 1890 - 1980 France
A Alois Alzheimer 1864 - 1915 Germany Alzheimer's disease
A Gabriel Anton 1858 - 1933 Austria Anton syndrome
A François-Amilcar Aran 1817 - 1861 France Aran–Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy
A Antônio Austregésilo 1876 - 1960 Brazil
B Joseph Babinski 1857 - 1932 France Babinski sign
B Percival Bailey 1892 - 1973 United States
B Brenda Banwell 1967 - Canada Multiple sclerosis, Neuromyelitis optica, MOG antibody disease
B Jean Alexandre Barré 1880 - 1967 France Guillain–Barré syndrome, Barré–Liéou syndrome, Barré test
B Henry Charlton Bastian 1837 - 1915 United Kingdom Bastian-Bruns sign
B Diana Beck 1900 - 1956 United Kingdom
B Peter Emil Becker 1908 - 2000 Germany Becker's muscular dystrophy
B Charles Edward Beevor 1854 - 1908 United Kingdom Beevor's sign, Beevor's axiom
B Vladimir Bekhterev 1857 - 1927 Russia Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex, Bekhterev–Mendel reflex, Bekhterev's disease, Bekhterev's mixture
B Charles Bell 1774 - 1842 United Kingdom Bell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, Bell–Magendie law
B Morris Bender 1905 - 1983 United States
B Hans Berger 1873 - 1941 Germany Berger wave (rhythm)
B Paul Robert Bing 1878 - 1956 Switzerland Bing's sign
B Lucio Bini 1908 - 1964 Italy
B Otto Ludwig Binswanger 1852 - 1929 Germany Binswanger's disease
B Désiré-Magloire Bourneville 1840 - 1909 France Bourneville-Pringle syndrome
B Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain 1895 - 1966 United Kingdom Brain's reflex
B Édouard Brissaud 1852 - 1909 France Brissaud's reflex
B Paul Broca 1824 - 1880 France Broca's aphasia, Broca's area
B Korbinian Brodmann 1868 - 1918 Germany Brodmann area
B David R. Brown 1964 - Australia
B Józef Brudziński 1874 - 1917 Poland Brudziński's sign
B Ludwig Bruns 1858 - 1916 Germany Bruns apraxia, Bastian-Bruns sign, Bruns nystagmus
B Serafima Bryusova 1894 - 1958 Soviet Union
B Paul Bucy 1904 - 1992 United States Klüver–Bucy syndrome
B Robert A. Burton United States
C Donald Calne 1936 - Canada
C Ben Carson 1951 - United States
C Ugo Cerletti 1877 - 1963 Italy
C Charles Gilbert Chaddock 1861 - 1936 United States Chaddock reflex
C Jean-Martin Charcot 1825 - 1893 France Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Charcot–Wilbrand syndrome, Charcot–Bouchard aneurysm, Charcot's triad
C John Cheyne 1777 - 1836 British Cheyne–Stokes respiration
C Jeffrey A. Cohen 1954 - United States
C Jules Cotard 1840 - 1889 France Cotard delusion
C Domenico Cotugno 1736 - 1822 Italy
C Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt 1885 - 1964 Canada Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
C James Crichton-Browne 1840 - 1938 United Kingdom Crichton-Browne sign
C MacDonald Critchley 1900 - 1997 United Kingdom
C Bernard Croisile France
C Jeffrey Cummings United States
C Harvey Cushing 1869 - 1939 United States Cushing reflex, Cushing's disease, Cushing's syndrome
D Antonio Damasio 1944 - Portugal
D Hanna Damasio 1942 - Portugal
D Charles Loomis Dana 1852 – 1935 United States
D Walter Dandy 1886 - 1946 United States Dandy–Walker syndrome
D Daoud Mustafa Khalid 1917 - 2008 Sudan Daoud Research Group
D Dirk De Ridder 1966 - Belgium
D Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke 1859 - 1927 United States Dejerine-Klumpke paralysis
D Joseph Jules Dejerine 1849 - 1917 France Dejerine-Roussy syndrome, Dejerine-Sottas disease, Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome
D Mahlon DeLong 1938 - United States
D Margaret Dix 1902 - 1991 United Kingdom Dix–Hallpike test
D Guillaume Duchenne 1806 - 1875 France Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Duchenne-Aran spinal muscular atrophy, Erb-Duchenne palsy, Duchenne smile
E Constantin von Economo 1876 - 1931 Austria von Economo neurons
E Wilhelm Heinrich Erb 1840 - 1921 Germany Erb's palsy
F David Ferrier 1843 - 1924 United Kingdom
F C. Miller Fisher 1913 - 2012 Canada Miller Fisher test, Miller Fisher Syndrome
F Edward Flatau 1868 - 1932 Poland
F Otfrid Foerster 1873 - 1941 Germany
F Charles Foix 1882 - 1927 France Foix–Alajouanine syndrome
F Walter Jackson Freeman II 1895 - 1972 United States
F Sigmund Freud 1856 - 1939 Austria Freudian slip
F Łucja Frey 1889 - 1942 Poland Frey's syndrome
F Nikolaus Friedreich 1825 - 1882 Germany Friedreich's ataxia, Friedreich's sign
F Adolf Albrecht Friedländer 1870-1949 Austria
F Jules Froment 1878 - 1946 France Froment's sign
G Paulo Garcia 1959 - 2010 Brazil
G Henri Gastaut 1915 - 1995 France Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
G Norman Geschwind 1926 - 1984 United States Geschwind syndrome, Geschwind–Galaburda hypothesis
G Joseph Godwin Greenfield 1884 - 1958 United Kingdom Greenfield's disease
G Rickman Godlee 1849 - 1925 United Kingdom
G Justo Gonzalo 1910-1986 Spain
G Alfred Gordon 1874 - 1953 France - United States Gordon's sign
G William Richard Gowers 1845 - 1915 United Kingdom Gowers' sign
G Georges Guillain 1876 - 1961 France Guillain–Barré syndrome, Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret
G Sanjay Gupta 1969 - United States
H Salomón Hakim 1922 - 2011 Colombia
H William Alexander Hammond 1828 - 1900 United States
H Anita Harding 1952 - 1995 Ireland-United Kingdom
H Henry Head 1861 - 1940 United Kingdom
H Salomon Eberhard Henschen 1847 - 1930 Sweden
H Juha Hernesniemi 1947 - 2023 Finland
H Johann Hoffmann 1857 - 1919 Germany Hoffmann's reflex, Hoffmann's sign, Werdnig–Hoffmann disease
H Gordon Morgan Holmes 1876 - 1965 Ireland Holmes rebound phenomenon, Holmes tremor
H Victor Horsley 1857 - 1916 United Kingdom Horsley–Clarke apparatus
H Robert Roland Hughes 1911 - 1991 United Kingdom
H James Ramsay Hunt 1872 - 1937 United States Ramsay Hunt syndrome
H Janina Hurynowicz 1894 - 1967 Poland
H Abbashar Hussein 1959 - Sudan
I Ivan Izquierdo 1937 - 2021 Brazil
J John Hughlings Jackson 1834 - 1911 United Kingdom Jacksonian seizure
J Louis Jacobsohn-Lask 1863 - 1941 Germany Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex
J Alfons Maria Jakob 1884 - 1931 Germany Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
J Herbert Jasper 1906 - 1999 Canada
J Ernő Jendrassik 1858 - 1921 Hungary Jendrassik maneuver
J Friedrich Jolly 1844 - 1904 Germany Jolly's test
K Sean Kenniff 1969 - United States
K Robert Foster Kennedy 1884 - 1952 Ireland and United States Foster Kennedy syndrome
K Woldemar Kernig 1840 - 1917 Russia Kernig's sign
K Karl Kleist 1879 - 1961 Germany
K Gitte Moos Knudsen 1959 - Denmark
K Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff 1854 - 1900 Russia Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, Korsakoff's syndrome
K Georg N. Koskinas 1885 - 1975 Greece
K John Krakauer 1967 - United States
L Charles Lasègue 1816 - 1883 France Lasègue's sign
L Rita Levi-Montalcini 1909 - 2012 Italy Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
L Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy 1886 - 1934 France Roussy–Lévy syndrome
L Jean Lhermitte 1877 - 1959 France Lhermitte's sign, Lhermitte–Duclos disease
L Hugo Liepmann 1863 - 1925 Germany
L Zachary London 1976 - United States Neuromuscular disease
M B. K. Misra 1953 - India
M William Macewen 1848 - 1924 United Kingdom Macewen's sign
M Samia Maimani 1955 - 1997 Saudi Arabia
M Pierre Marie 1853 - 1940 France Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
M Gheorghe Marinescu 1863 - 1938 Romania Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome
M C. David Marsden 1938 - 1998 United Kingdom
M Ladislas J. Meduna 1896 - 1964 Hungary
M Friedrich Meggendorfer 1880 - 1953 Germany
M Kurt Mendel 1874 - 1946 Germany Bekhterev–Mendel reflex
M H. Houston Merritt 1902 - 1979 United States
M Giovanni Mingazzini 1859 - 1929 Italy Mingazzini test
M Pierre Mollaret 1898 - 1987 France Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret, Mollaret's meningitis
M Constantin von Monakow 1853 - 1930 Switzerland
M Egas Moniz 1874 - 1955 Portugal Moniz sign
M Karin Muraszko 1957 - United States
M Abraham Myerson 1881 - 1948 United States Myerson's sign
N Max Nonne 1861 - 1959 Germany
N Ralph Northam 1959 - United States
O Herbert Olivecrona 1891 - 1980 Sweden
O Hermann Oppenheim 1858 - 1919 Germany Oppenheim's sign
P James Papez 1883 - 1958 United States Papez circuit
P Carlos Pardo-Villamizar Colombia
P Ambroise Paré 1510 - 1590 France
P James Parkinson 1755 - 1824 United Kingdom Parkinson's disease
P Wilder Penfield 1891 - 1976 United States
P Charles Poser 1923 - 2010 United States
P Ludvig Puusepp 1875 - 1942 Estonia
Q Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt 1876 - 1918 Germany Queckenstedt's maneuver
R Marcus Raichle 1937- United States
R Vilayanur S. Ramachandran 1951- India
R Ricardo Ramina 1951 - Brazil
R Robert Wheeler Rand 1928 - 2013 United States
R Wade Regehr Canada
R Franco Regli 1931 - 2017 Switzerland
R Helena Riggs 1899 - 1968 United States
R Moritz Heinrich Romberg 1795 - 1873 Germany Romberg's test
R Grigory Rossolimo 1860 - 1928 Russia Rossolimo's sign
S Oliver Sacks 1933 - 2015 United Kingdom
S Manfred Sakel 1900 - 1957 Poland
S Majid Samii 1937 - Iran - Germany
S Robert Sapolsky 1957 - United States
S Hermann Schloffer 1868 - 1937 Austria
S William Beecher Scoville 1906 - 1984 United States
S Jean-Athanase Sicard 1872 - 1929 France Collet-Sicard syndrome
S Pankaj Sharma United Kingdom
S Pratibha Singhi 1951 - India Pediatrics
S Robert F. Spetzler 1944- United States, Germany Spetzler-Martin grading of Cerebral arteriovenous malformation
S Roy Glenwood Spurling 1894 - 1968 United States Spurling's test
S Adolph Strümpell 1853 - 1925 Baltic German Strümpell-Lorrain disease, Strümpell's sign
T Charlie Teo 1957- Australia
T Tom Bentley Throckmorton 1885 - 1961 United States Throckmorton's reflex
T Jules Tinel 1879 - 1952 France Tinel's sign
T Robert Bentley Todd 1809 - 1860 Ireland Todd's paresis
T Howard Henry Tooth 1856 - 1925 United Kingdom Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
V Oskar Vogt 1870 - 1959 Germany
V N. K. Venkataramana India
W Juhn Atsushi Wada 1924 - 2023 Japan - Canada Wada test
W Arthur Earl Walker 1907 - 1995 United States Dandy–Walker syndrome
W Adolf Wallenberg 1862 - 1949 Germany Wallenberg syndrome
W Julius Wagner-Jauregg 1857 - 1940 Austria
W Robert Wartenberg 1887 - 1956 United States Wartenberg wheel
W Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal 1833 - 1890 Germany Edinger–Westphal nucleus
W Robert Whytt 1714 - 1766 United Kingdom
W Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675 United Kingdom Circle of Willis
W Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson 1878 - 1937 United Kingdom Wilson's disease
W Tissa Wijeratne Sri Lanka and Australia Post Covid-19 Neurological Syndrome, Serial Systemic Immune Inflmmatory IndicesTissa Wijeratne
Y Gazi Yaşargil 1925 - Turkey

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Webb Haymaker and Francis Schiller: The Founders of Neurology: One Hundred and Forty-Six Biographical Sketches. Springfield, Ill., Charles Thomas, 1970.
  • Kurt Kolle (edit.): Grosse Nervenärzte, 1-3 Vol., Stuttgart, Georg Thieme, 1963-1970.
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