Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:
Wayne Allard, U.S. Senator who started as a vet
Michael Archinal
Chris Back
Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, well-known 19th-century researcher
Denis Barberet
Harold William Bennetts
Natanael Berg
Reidar Birkeland
Baxter Black, radio commentator who started as a vet
Marie-Claude Bomsel
Claude Bourgelat, founder of 18th-century French vet school
Anton Johnson Brandt
Chris Brown
Louis J. Camuti, first American cat veterinarian
Craig Challen
John A. Charlton
Auguste Chauveau
Matthew Clarke
Ken Coghill
Robert Cook, modern expert on horse ailments
Robert Royston Amos Coombs, 20th-century researcher
Harry Cooper, Australian television personality
Peter C. Doherty, Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Mick Doyle, former Irish rugby player
Petrus Johann du Toit
John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the tyre
Henrik Edland
John Ensign, U.S. Senator who started as a vet
Martin J. Fettman, astronaut
Kevin Fitzgerald, Emergency Vet television documentary vet
Bruce Fogle
Birger Furugård
Doug Galt, Canadian politician who started as a vet
Hugh Gordon
Camille Guérin
Greg J. Harrison
Susanne Hart
Antonie Marinus Harthoorn
Annie Harvilicz, innovator and animal rights advocate
Herbert Haupt
Thomas William Hogarth
James Herriot (1916–1995), pen name of James Alfred Wight, veterinarian and author of books about animals
Dawda Jawara, first president of Gambia
Antonín Klobouk, (1885–1956), Czech professor, discovered Talfan disease in pigs, designed vaccine against foot and mouth disease
Barry Larkin, better known as a hoaxer during the 1956 Summer Olympics
Richard M. Linnehan
Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980), British veterinary surgeon
Svend Lomholt
Zoltán Magyar, Hungarian gymnast; gold medalist in men's pommel horse at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics
Keith Meldrum
Suzanne Morrow (1930–2006), Canadian figure skater and taker of the Official's Oath at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
Denis Napthine
Rich Nye, former professional baseball pitcher and exotic animal/avian veterinarian
Peter Ostrum
Frederick Douglass Patterson
Sonny Perdue, former Governor of Georgia
Brian Perry
Nicky Rackard (1922–1976)
Carl Gottlob Rafn
Robert L. Rooks, veterinary surgeon
John Gunion Rutherford
Suzanne Saueressig, the first practicing female veterinarian in Missouri
Dinah Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury, veterinary surgeon
Elmo Shropshire, best known as the singer of the novelty Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer"
Brian Sinclair
Danielle Spencer
Harry Spira
Leonid Stadnik
Harry Steele-Bodger
Arnold Theiler
James Thomson, American veterinary pathologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998
Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937)
Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990, resident veterinarian for CBS' The Early Show
Erik Viborg
Hugh Wirth, Australian animal welfare advocate with RSPCA Australia, radio broadcaster
Robert Zammit
