List of dentists

Real-life dentists

Sam Aanestad – former Californian politician

Harold Albrecht – Conservative Party of Canada politician

Tomas Albrektsson – implant dentistry

Henry Aldridge – politician from North Carolina

Bill Allen – former president of the British Dental Association.

Theodore C. Almquist – Brigadier General, US Air Force

Edward Angle – Father of Orthodontics

Steve Arlin – Dentist after playing Major League Baseball

Gunadasa Amarasekara – Sinhala language writer

Amalia Assur (1803–1889) first woman dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe.

Franz Bäke – Nazi Panzer ace.

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

Samuel Bemis – Photography pioneer who became an eccentric recluse

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – Former head of the dentistry center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry under

Saparmurat Niyazov – former President of Turkmenistan

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 – He 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

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

Martin van Butchell – Eccentric who put his wife's head on display at his home/practice after her death

Donald J. Butz – U.S. Air Force Major General

Billy Cannon

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

James Carlisle – Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda and member of the British Dental Association

Allen M. Christensen

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"

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

Frederick J. Conboy – secretary of the Ontario Dental Association and later mayor of Toronto

Pierre Corbeil

Dan Crane – American Dentist/politician. Republican Party

Gerry Curatola

Miles Dewey Davis, Jr. – Ran for a seat on the State Legislature, NAACP member, and father to Miles Davis

Bessie Delany – Of some note as the second black woman to be granted a dentistry license in New York state

G. Walter Dittmar – former president of the American Dental Association

Winfield Dunn

Bill Emmerson – California State Assembly member who had a 22-year practice

Saskia Estupiñán, Ecuadoran oral health researcher and advisor, known for her work with the World Health Organization

Thomas W. Evans – founded the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

Sheila Faith – British politician of the Conservative party

Pierre Fauchard – wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry

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

Sten Forshufvud – Swedish dentist who drew on his professional knowledge when theorizing about the poisoning of Napoleon

Rosalie Fougelberg – early female dentist in Sweden

Samir Ghawshah – Leader of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front

John Goodsir – Wrote a noted essay on teeth

Paul Gosar

Michael Glick

George Franklin Grant – First African-American professor at Harvard. He also invented a wooden golf tee.

Greeeen – Four member Japanese pop music band consisting entirely of dentists who studied at Ohu University in Fukushima

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

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

Harold G. Hillam

Gay Hitler – Pickaway County, Ohio pioneer

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)

Francis Brodie Imlach – Scottish dental pioneer. First dentist to use chloroform as an anaesthetic

Fatima Jinnah – Sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" in Pakistan

Arif Alvi – Former Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Scott Keadle

Erhard Keller – Speed skater at the Winter Olympic Games and professional dentist for over thirty years

Michael Krop – Democratic Party (United States) politician with a school named for him

Peter Kunter – Football player for Eintracht Frankfurt

Gordon R. Lawson

Donald Leake – Dentist, inventor of the alloplastic tray, and oboist

Charles Goodall Lee – He was the 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.

Hardy Limeback – proponent who led water fluoridation efforts in Canada

Göran Lindblad

John Linder

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).

Bernie Machen

Martin Marks

Edward Maynard – He worked on 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

Richard Mounce

Frederick B. Morrehead – Helped save the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

Jack Miller – The "racing dentist" who was in the Indianapolis 500

Mike Morton

John Newbrough – Of Oahspe

Phil Northrup

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

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)

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

Steve Petryk

Rudy Perpich – American dentist/politician of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

William Albert Pommer

Fritz Pfeffer – Dentist who hid with Anne Frank

Earl W. Renfroe – Broke barriers for African American, headed a dentistry department

Charles Richard

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

Helen Rulison Shipley – first female dentist in Nevada

Mike Simpson

Joseph Slogan

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

Jon Sudbø – Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct

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

John Weisbeck

Thomas Bramwell Welch – Founder of Welch's

Horace Wells – Pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide

Gerrit Wolsink

Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch – Pioneer female dentist who practiced in Texas, Alaska, Arizona and California

Fictional dentists

Lincoln Rice DDS– from Broad City.

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. Dillingham– From Prostho Plus.

Dr. Tariq Faraj – From Oz.

Dr. Barry Farber – Rachel's fiance whom she left at the altar from Friends

The W.C. Fields character in the 1932 short film The Dentist

Bob Fish – a title character in Bob and Margaret.

Unnamed 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.

Jerry Robinson, an orthodontist who shared the office suite on the Bob Newhart Show

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.

Dr. Wolfe – from The Simpsons

Isaac Yankem, DDS – professional wrestler portrayed by Glenn Jacobs in the WWF (now known as Kane)