List of dentists

This is a list of dentists who have gained a degree of notability, particularly with regard to the history of those in the field.

Farmer at the dentist, Johann Liss, c. 1616–17

Real-life dentists

A
  • Sam Aanestad – former Californian politician
  • Harold Albrecht – Conservative Party of Canada politician[1]
  • Tomas Albrektsson – implant dentistry
  • Henry Aldridge – politician from North Carolina
  • Bill Allen – former president of the British Dental Association.[2]
  • Theodore C. Almquist – Brigadier General, US Air Force
  • Edward Angle – father of orthodontics
  • Arif Alvi – President of Pakistan
  • Steve Arlin – became a dentist after playing Major League Baseball
  • Gunadasa Amarasekara – Sinhala language writer[3]
  • Amalia Assur (1803–1889) first woman dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe.
  • Rafiuddin Ahmed (dentist) – Indian dentist. founded the First Dental College of India
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B
  • Franz Bäke – Nazi Panzer ace
  • Britt Baker – American professional wrestler currently performing with All Elite Wrestling; also has a full-time dental practice in Florida[4]
  • Charles Spence Bate – authority on crustaceans, five species are named for him
  • William George Beers – established the Montreal Lacrosse Club and the Canada Journal of Dental Science[5]
  • Samuel Bemis – photography pioneer who became an eccentric recluse[6]
  • Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – President of Turkmenistan[7]
  • André Bolhuis – Netherlands Field Hockey Player
  • Daniel Bukantz – American fencer
  • Paul Beresford – Conservative Party (UK) politician
  • David Bernier – Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
  • Greene Vardiman Black – invented a foot-driven dental drill and is classed as a father of modern dentistry
  • Robert Blake – wrote, An Essay on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth in Man and Various Animals.
  • Jan Boubli – French professional poker player and retired dentist[8]
  • Allan G. Brodie – American dentist who established the Prize Essay Award to promote research
  • Edgar Buchanan – primarily known for his later career as an actor in shows like Petticoat Junction
  • Julius Bruck – also designed a water-cooled diaphanoscopic instrument for translumination of the bladder via the rectum
  • Martin van Butchell – Eccentric who put his wife's head on display at his home/practice after her death[9]
  • Donald J. Butz – U.S. Air Force Major General
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C
  • Héctor José Cámpora – President of Argentina
  • Billy Cannon – American football player and counterfeiter
  • Georg Carabelli – court dentist to the Austrian Emperor who founded a clinic in the University of Vienna
  • Gerald Cardinale – Republican Party (United States) politician with a dental office in Fort Lee, New Jersey[10]
  • James Carlisle – Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda and member of the British Dental Association[11]
  • Allen M. Christensen – American politician, Utah state senator
  • Steve Christian – one of the Pitcairn Island sex abusers who did dentistry and was Mayor
  • Dipak Chudasama – cricketer called "The Doc" because he's a qualified dentist
  • Antoni Cieszyński – Polish head of a Stomatology Institute who was killed in the Massacre of Lwów professors
  • Bernard J. Cigrand – possibly the "Father of Flag Day"[12]
  • Barney Clark – first recipient of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart
  • Henry D. Cogswell – designed a method of securing dental plates, and in the temperance movement[13]
  • Frederick J. Conboy – secretary of the Ontario Dental Association and later mayor of Toronto
  • Pierre Corbeil – Canadian politician, Quebec cabinet minister
  • Dan Crane – American dentist/politician. Republican Party[14]
  • Gerry Curatola
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D
  • Miles Dewey Davis, Jr. – ran for a seat on the State Legislature, NAACP member, and father to Miles Davis
  • Bessie Delany – second black woman to be granted a dentistry license in New York state[15]
  • G. Walter Dittmar – former president of the American Dental Association
  • Robert Dudley – actor
  • Winfield Dunn – governor of Tennessee
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E
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F
  • Sheila Faith – British politician of the Conservative party
  • Pierre Fauchard – wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry[16]
  • Rabab Fetieh – first Saudi female orthodontist
  • Charles Finnigan (1901–1967) – Surgeon Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy who was Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Queen from 1955 to 1960.
  • Alfred Fones (1869–1938) – came up with the name "dental hygienist" and founded that profession[17]
  • Sten Forshufvud – Swedish dentist who drew on his professional knowledge when theorizing about the poisoning of Napoleon
  • Rosalie Fougelberg – early female dentist in Sweden
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G
  • Samir Ghawshah – Leader of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front
  • Michael Glick – dean of SUNY Buffalo Dental School
  • John Goodsir – wrote a noted essay on teeth
  • Paul Gosar – American politician, representative in Congress from Arizona
  • George Franklin Grant – first African-American professor at Harvard. He also invented a wooden golf tee.[18]
  • Zane Grey – author of Riders of the Purple Sage and practicing dentist
  • William Guy – Scottish dentist, creator of the Dental Act of 1921 in UK
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H
  • John "Dok" Hager – cartoonist whose nickname came from his days as a dentist
  • Jim Harrell, Jr. – past chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Governmental Affairs, and a Democratic Party (United States) politician
  • Chapin A. Harris – co-Founded the first dental school in the US, or possibly anywhere
  • Horace H. Hayden – architect of the American system of dental education & organizer of professional dentistry
  • Heimir Hallgrímsson – Icelandic football player and manager, former manager of the Iceland men's national football team, has practiced dentistry throughout his playing and managing career.
  • Harold G. Hillam – General Authority of LDS Church
  • Gay Hitler – Pickaway County, Ohio pioneer[19]
  • John Henry "Doc" Holliday – Dentist and American Folklore icon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral participant
  • Matthew Hopcraft – public dentistry expert and MasterChef Australia contestant
  • Les Horvath – winner of Heisman Trophy who became a dentist
  • Edward Hudson – eminent dentist when the field was new, he is also noted for making fake "ruins"
  • Lester C. Hunt – Democratic Party (United States) politician who served in the Dental Corps in World War I.(Committed suicide)
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I
  • Francis Brodie Imlach – Scottish dental pioneer. First dentist to use chloroform as an anaesthetic
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J
  • Cheddi Jagan – former president of Guyana
  • Fatima Jinnah – sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" in Pakistan
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K
  • Scott Keadle – American politician from North Carolina
  • Erhard Keller – speed skater at the Winter Olympic Games and professional dentist for over thirty years
  • Ryan Kohlmeier – former professional baseball player in Major League Baseball
  • Michael Krop – Democratic Party (United States) politician with a school named for him
  • Peter Kunter – football player for Eintracht Frankfurt
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L
  • Gordon R. Lawson -New Zealand rugby player
  • Donald Leake – dentist, inventor of the alloplastic tray, and oboist
  • Charles Goodall Lee – first licensed dentist of Asian ancestry in the United States of America. He was a founder of Chinatown, Oakland, California, and helped fund the founding of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance
  • Robert Lee – African-American emigrant to Ghana.[20]
  • Hardy Limeback – proponent who led water fluoridation efforts in Canada
  • Göran Lindblad – Swedish politician
  • John Linder – American politician, representative in Congress
  • Jim Lonborg – in the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, he is now a dentist
  • Mahlon Loomis – known for a wireless telegraph patent
  • Jiko Luveni – Fijian dentist who works on combatting AIDS
  • Alexander Gordon Lyle – United States Navy dentist and World War I Medal of Honor recipient and first military dentist to be promoted to Flag rank (Admiral/General).
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M
  • Bernie Machen – president of University of Florida and University of Utah
  • Martin Marks
  • Edward Maynard – treated United States Congressmen and in 1888 he held the chair of Dental Theory and Practice at the National university in Washington. (Better known for firearms inventions)
  • Stanley McInnis – Canadian who moved a motion at a meeting of the Canadian Dental Association to adopt a code of ethics, also a politician
  • Markus Merk – FIFA referee from Germany
  • Ramón Mestre – former Governor of Córdoba
  • Frederick B. Morrehead – helped save the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
  • Jack Miller – "racing dentist" who was in the Indianapolis 500
  • Bill Mlkvy – former professional basketball player for the Philadelphia Warriors
  • Mike Morton – football player
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N
  • John Newbrough – of Oahspe
  • Phil Northrup – Spiritualist author
  • Charlie Norwood – served in the Dental Corps and was a member of the United States Congress
  • Hessam Nowzari – founder of the Taipei Academy of Reconstructive Dentistry in Taiwan
  • Frederick Bogue Noyes – organized the first course on dental pathology in the United States
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O
  • Giovanni Battista Orsenigo – monk/dentist
  • Weedon E. Osborne – United States Navy dentist and World War I Medal of Honor recipient
  • Rodrigues Ottolengui – Sephardic Jewish dental pioneer who was one of the first to use X-rays (also wrote mystery novels)
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P
  • Ron Packard – Navy Dental Corps and a private practice, he was later on the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
  • Painless Parker – dentist and huckster
  • William Paulus – swimmer
  • Guillermo Peschard – Mexican founder of the UJED School of Dentistry
  • Steve Petryk – curler
  • Rudy Perpich – American dentist/politician of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
  • William Albert Pommer – Canadian politician
  • Fritz Pfeffer – dentist who hid with Anne Frank
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Q
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R
  • Bessie Raiche – aviation pioneer
  • Earl W. Renfroe – broke barriers for African Americans, headed a dentistry department
  • Charles Richard – Canadian politician
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S
  • Harry Sagansky – gangster trained in dentistry who had a practice
  • Ben L. Salomon – American military dentist and World War II Medal of Honor recipient
  • Hugo Sánchez – Mexican football player
  • Isaac Schour – former dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
  • Terry Schmidt – football player
  • Helen Rulison Shipley – first female dentist in Nevada
  • Mike Simpson – US representative from Idaho
  • Joseph Slogan – Canadian politician
  • John Smith (dentist) – founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
  • Mark Spitz – Olympic swimmer (was actually accepted to dental school, but competed in the Olympics instead)
  • Charles Stent – dentist who advanced Dentures making
  • Charles H. Strub – sports entrepreneur
  • Jon Sudbø – Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct
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T
  • Lucy Hobbs Taylor – first female in the United States with a doctorate in dentistry
  • José Roberto Magalhães Teixeira – Brazilian politician
  • Mohamed Khir bin Toyo – Malaysian politician
  • Joseph Trumpeldor – Zionist national hero
  • Charles Murray Turpin – Republican politician in the United States House of Representatives
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U
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V
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  • Mahesh Verma – Indian prosthodontist and the Director and Principal of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences

W
  • Harold Gladstone Watkin (1882–1965) – orthodontist
  • John Weisbeck – Canadian politician
  • Thomas Bramwell Welch – founder of Welch's
  • Horace Wells – pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide
  • Gerrit Wolsink – motocross racer
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X
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Y
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  • W. J. Younger – American dentist who performed some of the earliest and most groundbreaking research in the field of periodontology

Z
  • Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch – pioneer female dentist who practiced in Texas, Alaska, Arizona and California
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Fictional dentists
  • The aforementioned Britt Baker is routinely introduced in All Elite Wrestling as "Dr. Britt Baker, DMD", reflecting her real-life dental practice.
  • Jeremy Hillary Boob (voiced by Dick Emery) – from Yellow Submarine.
  • Matthew Brock – from NewsRadio. (Although he gave it up to work in radio and is only seen practicing in one episode)
  • Dr. Carey – from Stuart Little
  • Dr. Dillingham – from Prostho Plus.
  • Walt Duncan – head of the household at the centre of comic strip Zits.
  • Dr. Tariq Faraj – from Oz.
  • Dr. Barry Farber – Rachel's fiancé whom she left at the altar from Friends.
  • The unnamed W.C. Fields character in the 1932 short film The Dentist.
  • Bob Fish – a title character in Bob and Margaret.
  • Wendell and Monica Wilkins: originally only named as Mr. and Mrs. Granger, parents of Hermione Granger – from the Harry Potter novels.
  • Julia Harris – from the film Horrible Bosses.
  • Ben Harper – from British sitcom My Family.
  • Brock Hart – from the TV series Reba.
  • Hermey the Elf – became a dentist in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys prior was an elf.
  • Jesse W. Heywood (Don Knotts) – from the 1968 comedy film The Shakiest Gun in the West, a remake of Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948).
  • Orson Hodge – from Desperate Housewives.
  • Carl Howell (John Stamos) – from the TV series Glee.
  • Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) – Manhattan dentist in the 1979 comedy film The In-Laws.
  • Capt. Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, "Painless Pole" – in MASH.
  • Bernard Nadler – from the TV series Lost.
  • Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky – from The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards.
  • John Patterson – in For Better or For Worse.
  • Peter "Painless" Potter (Bob Hope) – from the 1948 comedy film The Paleface. Bumbling dentist who was fooled into believing that he was a deadly gunfighter.
  • Lincoln Rice DDS – from Broad City.
  • Jerry Robinson – orthodontist who shared the office suite on the Bob Newhart Show
  • Miss Root – dentist in the book Demon Dentist by David Walliams
  • Dr. Frank Sangster – in Novocaine.
  • Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin) – Little Shop of Horrors
  • Dr. Charley Shanowski (Ted McGinley) – from Hope & Faith
  • Eugene Sutphin (Sam Waterston) – from Serial Mom.
  • Christian Szell – from William Goldman's Marathon Man, later a movie by John Schlesinger
  • Noah Werner (Alan Tudyk) – Suburgatory (TV series)
  • Tim Whatley (Bryan Cranston) and Mr. Abbot (Robert Wagner) – from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, Whatley alleged to be an insincere convert to Judaism.
  • Julian Winston – adulterer in the play ) and its film adaptation
  • Dr. Wolfe – from The Simpsons
  • Isaac Yankem, DDS – professional wrestler portrayed by Glenn Jacobs, now known as Kane, in the WWF

Other
  • Greeeen – four member Japanese pop music band consisting entirely of dentists who studied at Ohu University in Fukushima[21]

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  20. Ghana Business news
  21. "GReeeeNのSOHが歯科医師国家試験合格！ メンバー全員が歯科医に" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
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