List of neurologists and neurosurgeons


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.
LetterNameLifespanNationalityEponymous
AJoseph Abadie1873 - 1934FranceAbadie's sign of tabes dorsalis
AAbbashar HusseinSudan
AWilliam John Adie1886 - 1935United KingdomAdie syndrome
AThéophile Alajouanine1890 - 1980France
AAlois Alzheimer1864 - 1915GermanyAlzheimer's disease
BJoseph Babinski1857 - 1932FranceBabinski sign
BPercival Bailey1892 - 1973United States
BJean Alexandre Barré1880 - 1967FranceGuillain–Barré syndrome, Barré–Liéou syndrome, Barré test
BHenry Charlton Bastian1837 - 1915United KingdomBastian-Bruns sign
BDiana Beck1900 - 1956United Kingdom
BPeter Emil Becker1908 - 2000GermanyBecker's muscular dystrophy
BCharles Edward Beevor1854 - 1908United KingdomBeevor's sign, Beevor's axiom
BVladimir Bekhterev1857 - 1927RussiaBekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex, Bekhterev–Mendel reflex, Bekhterev's disease, Bekhterev's mixture
BCharles Bell1774 - 1842United KingdomBell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, Bell–Magendie law
BMorris Bender1905 - 1983United States
BHans Berger1873 - 1941GermanyBerger wave
BPaul Robert Bing1878 - 1956SwitzerlandBing's sign
BLucio Bini1908 - 1964Italy
BOtto Ludwig Binswanger1852 - 1929GermanyBinswanger's disease
BDésiré-Magloire Bourneville1840 - 1909FranceBourneville-Pringle syndrome
BRussell Brain, 1st Baron Brain1895 - 1966United KingdomBrain's reflex
BÉdouard Brissaud1852 - 1909FranceBrissaud's reflex
BPaul Broca1824 - 1880FranceBroca's aphasia, Broca's area
BKorbinian Brodmann1868 - 1918GermanyBrodmann area
BDavid R. Brown1964 -Australia
BJózef Brudziński1874 - 1917PolandBrudziński's sign
BLudwig Bruns1858 - 1916GermanyBruns apraxia, Bastian-Bruns sign, Bruns nystagmus
BPaul Bucy1904 - 1992United StatesKlüver–Bucy syndrome
BRobert A. BurtonUnited States
CDonald Calne1936 -Canada
CUgo Cerletti1877 - 1963Italy
CCharles Gilbert Chaddock1861 - 1936United StatesChaddock reflex
CJean-Martin Charcot1825 - 1893FranceCharcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Charcot–Wilbrand syndrome, Charcot–Bouchard aneurysm, Charcot's triad
CJohn Cheyne1777 - 1836BritishCheyne–Stokes respiration
CJeffrey A. Cohen1954 -United States
CJules Cotard1840 - 1889FranceCotard delusion
CDomenico Cotugno1736 - 1822Italy
CHans Gerhard Creutzfeldt1885 - 1964CanadaCreutzfeldt–Jakob disease
CJames Crichton-Browne1840 - 1938United KingdomCrichton-Browne sign
CMacDonald Critchley1900 - 1997United Kingdom
CBernard CroisileFrance
CJeffrey CummingsUnited States
CHarvey Cushing1869 - 1939United StatesCushing reflex, Cushing's disease
DAntonio Damasio1944 -Portugal
DHanna Damasio1942 -Portugal
DCharles Loomis Dana1852 – 1935United States
DWalter Dandy1886 - 1946United StatesDandy–Walker syndrome
DDaoud Mustafa Khalid1917 - 2008SudanDaoud Research Group
DDirk De Ridder1966 -Belgium
DAugusta Déjerine-Klumpke1859 - 1927United StatesDejerine-Klumpke paralysis
DJoseph Jules Dejerine1849 - 1917FranceDejerine-Roussy syndrome, Dejerine-Sottas disease, Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome
DMahlon DeLong1938 -United States
DMargaret Dix1902 - 1991United KingdomDix–Hallpike test
DGuillaume Duchenne1806 - 1875FranceDuchenne muscular dystrophy, Duchenne-Aran spinal muscular atrophy, Erb-Duchenne palsy
EConstantin von Economo1876 - 1931Austriavon Economo neurons
EWilhelm Heinrich Erb1840 - 1921GermanyErb's palsy
FDavid Ferrier1843 - 1924United Kingdom
FC. Miller Fisher1913 - 2012CanadaMiller Fisher test, Miller Fisher Syndrome
FEdward Flatau1868 - 1932Poland
FOtfrid Foerster1873 - 1941Germany
FCharles Foix1882 - 1927FranceFoix–Alajouanine syndrome
FWalter Jackson Freeman II1895 - 1972United States
FSigmund Freud1856 - 1939AustriaFreudian slip
FNikolaus Friedreich1825 - 1882GermanyFriedreich's ataxia, Friedreich's sign
FJules Froment1878 - 1946FranceFroment's sign
GHenri Gastaut1915 - 1995FranceLennox-Gastaut syndrome
GNorman Geschwind1926 - 1984United StatesGeschwind syndrome, Geschwind–Galaburda hypothesis
GJoseph Godwin Greenfield1884 - 1958United KingdomGreenfield's disease
GRickman Godlee1849 - 1925United Kingdom
GAlfred Gordon1874 - 1953France - United StatesGordon's sign
GWilliam Richard Gowers1845 - 1915United KingdomGowers' sign
GGeorges Guillain1876 - 1961FranceGuillain–Barré syndrome, Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret
HSalomón Hakim1922 - 2011Colombia
HWilliam Alexander Hammond1828 - 1900United States
HAnita Harding1952 - 1995Ireland-United Kingdom
HHenry Head1861 - 1940United Kingdom
HSalomon Eberhard Henschen1847 - 1930Sweden
HJohann Hoffmann1857 - 1919GermanyHoffmann's reflex, Hoffmann's sign, Werdnig–Hoffmann disease
HGordon Morgan Holmes1876 - 1965IrelandHolmes rebound phenomenon
HVictor Horsley1857 - 1916United KingdomHorsley–Clarke apparatus
HRobert Roland Hughes1911 - 1991United Kingdom
HJames Ramsay Hunt1872 - 1937United StatesRamsay Hunt syndrome
IIvan Izquierdo1937 -Brazil
JJohn Hughlings Jackson1834 - 1911United KingdomJacksonian seizure
JLouis Jacobsohn-Lask1863 - 1941GermanyBekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex
JAlfons Maria Jakob1884 - 1931GermanyCreutzfeldt–Jakob disease
JHerbert Jasper1906 - 1999Canada
JErnő Jendrassik1858 - 1921HungaryJendrassik maneuver
JFriedrich Jolly1844 - 1904GermanyJolly's test
KSean Kenniff1969 -United States
KRobert Foster Kennedy1884 - 1952Ireland and United StatesFoster Kennedy syndrome
KWoldemar Kernig1840 - 1917RussiaKernig's sign
KKarl Kleist1879 - 1961Germany
KGitte Moos Knudsen1959Denmark
KSergei Sergeievich Korsakoff1854 - 1900RussiaWernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, Korsakoff's syndrome
KGeorg N. Koskinas1885 - 1975Greece
KJohn Krakauer1967 -United States
LCharles Lasègue1816 - 1883FranceLasègue's sign
LRita Levi-Montalcini1909 - 2012ItalyNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
LJean Lhermitte1877 - 1959FranceLhermitte's sign, Lhermitte–Duclos disease
LHugo Liepmann1863 - 1925Germany
MB. K. Misra1953India
MWilliam Macewen1848 - 1924United KingdomMacewen's sign
MPierre Marie1853 - 1940FranceCharcot–Marie–Tooth disease
MGheorghe Marinescu1863 - 1938RomaniaMarinesco–Sjögren syndrome
MC. David Marsden1938 - 1998United Kingdom
MLadislas J. Meduna1896 - 1964Hungary
MFriedrich Meggendorfer1880 - 1953Germany
MKurt Mendel1874 - 1946GermanyBekhterev–Mendel reflex
MH. Houston Merritt1902 - 1979United States
MGiovanni Mingazzini1859 - 1929ItalyMingazzini test
MPierre Mollaret1898 - 1987FranceTriangle of Guillain-Mollaret, Mollaret's meningitis
MConstantin von Monakow1853 - 1930Switzerland
MEgas Moniz1874 - 1955PortugalMoniz sign
MKarin Muraszko1957 -United States
MAbraham Myerson1881 - 1948United StatesMyerson's sign
NMax Nonne1861 - 1959Germany
NRalph Northam1959 -United States
OHermann Oppenheim1858 - 1919GermanyOppenheim's sign
PJames Papez1883 - 1958United StatesPapez circuit
PCarlos Pardo-VillamizarColombia
PAmbroise Paré1510 - 1590France
PJames Parkinson1755 - 1824United KingdomParkinson's disease
PWilder Penfield1891 - 1976United States
PCharles Poser1923 - 2010United States
PLudvig Puusepp1875 - 1942Estonia
QHans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt1876 - 1918GermanyQueckenstedt's maneuver
RMarcus Raichle1937-United States
RVilayanur S. Ramachandran1951-India
RRobert Wheeler Rand1928 - 2013United States
RWade RegehrCanada
RMoritz Heinrich Romberg1795 - 1873GermanyRomberg's test
RGrigory Rossolimo1860 - 1928RussiaRossolimo's sign
SOliver Sacks1933 - 2015United Kingdom
SManfred Sakel1900 - 1957Poland
SMajid Samii1937 -Iran - Germany
SRobert Sapolsky1957 -United States
SHermann Schloffer1868 - 1937Austria
SWilliam Beecher Scoville1906 - 1984United States
SJean-Athanase Sicard1872 - 1929FranceCollet-Sicard syndrome
SPankaj SharmaUnited Kingdom
SDerek Shepherd1966 - 2015United States
SRoy Glenwood Spurling1894 - 1968United StatesSpurling's test
SAdolph Strümpell1853 - 1925Baltic GermanStrümpell-Lorrain disease, Strümpell's sign
TTom Bentley Throckmorton1885 - 1961United StatesThrockmorton's reflex
TJules Tinel1879 - 1952FranceTinel's sign
TRobert Bentley Todd1809 - 1860IrelandTodd's paresis
THoward Henry Tooth1856 - 1925United KingdomCharcot–Marie–Tooth disease
VOskar Vogt1870 - 1959Germany
VN. K. VenkataramanaIndia
WJuhn Atsushi Wada1924 -Japan - CanadaWada test
WArthur Earl Walker1907 - 1995United StatesDandy–Walker syndrome
WAdolf Wallenberg1862 - 1949GermanyWallenberg syndrome
WJulius Wagner-Jauregg1857 - 1940Austria
WRobert Wartenberg1887 - 1956United StatesWartenberg wheel
WKarl Friedrich Otto Westphal1833 - 1890GermanyEdinger–Westphal nucleus
WRobert Whytt1714 - 1766United Kingdom
WThomas Willis1621 - 1675United KingdomCircle of Willis
WSamuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson1878 - 1937United KingdomWilson's disease
YGazi Yaşargil1925 -Turkey