List of veterinarians

Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:

• Wayne Allard, a U.S. Senator who started as a vet
• Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, a well-known 19th-century researcher
• Baxter Black, a radio commentator who started as a vet
• Claude Bourgelat, founder of 18th-century French vet school
• Louis J. Camuti, first American cat veterinarian
• Robert Cook, modern expert on horse ailments
• Robert Royston Amos Coombs, 20th-century researcher
• Harry Cooper, Australian television personality
• Peter C. Doherty, 20th-century Australian researcher
• Mick Doyle, former Irish rugby player
• John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the tire (tyre)
• John Ensign, U.S. Senator who started as a vet
• Martin J. Fettman, astronaut
• Kevin Fitzgerald, Emergency Vet television documentary vet
• Doug Galt, Canadian politician who started as a vet
• Camille Guérin
• Herbert Haupt
• James Alfred Wight, better known under his pen name of James Herriot (1916-1995)
• Dawda Jawara, first president of Gambia
• Johann Adam Kersting
• Richard M. Linnehan
• Mari Blanca Ruiz Martinez
• Peter Ostrum
• Frederick Douglass Patterson
• Sonny Perdue, current Governor of Georgia
• Nicky Rackard (1922-1976)
• Danielle Spencer
• Harry Spira
• Frank Schofield
• Leonid Stadnik
• Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867-1937)
• Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS 'The Early Show'
• Robert Zammit
• Antonín Klobouk, (1885-1956), Czech profesor of bovine medicine, discovered Talfan disease in pigs, designed vaccine against foot and mouth disease
• Aberra Molla