| Letter
|
Name
|
Lifespan
|
Nationality
|
Eponyms
|
| A
|
Deepak Agrawal
|
1970 -
|
India
|
DREZotomy for Neuropathic pain
|
| A
|
Joseph Abadie
|
1873 - 1934
|
France
|
Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis
|
| A
|
Adnan Abdallat
|
1943 -
|
Jordan
|
Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome
|
| A
|
William John Adie
|
1886 - 1935
|
United Kingdom
|
Adie syndrome
|
| A
|
Théophile Alajouanine
|
1890 - 1980
|
France
|
|
| A
|
Alois Alzheimer
|
1864 - 1915
|
Germany
|
Alzheimer's disease
|
| A
|
Gabriel Anton
|
1858 - 1933
|
Austria
|
Anton syndrome
|
| A
|
François-Amilcar Aran
|
1817 - 1861
|
France
|
Aran–Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy
|
| B
|
Joseph Babinski
|
1857 - 1932
|
France
|
Babinski sign
|
| B
|
Percival Bailey
|
1892 - 1973
|
United States
|
|
| B
|
Jean Alexandre Barré
|
1880 - 1967
|
France
|
Guillain–Barré syndrome, Barré–Liéou syndrome, Barré test
|
| B
|
Henry Charlton Bastian
|
1837 - 1915
|
United Kingdom
|
Bastian-Bruns sign
|
| B
|
Diana Beck
|
1900 - 1956
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| B
|
Peter Emil Becker
|
1908 - 2000
|
Germany
|
Becker's muscular dystrophy
|
| B
|
Charles Edward Beevor
|
1854 - 1908
|
United Kingdom
|
Beevor's sign, Beevor's axiom
|
| B
|
Vladimir Bekhterev
|
1857 - 1927
|
Russia
|
Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex, Bekhterev–Mendel reflex, Bekhterev's disease, Bekhterev's mixture
|
| B
|
Charles Bell
|
1774 - 1842
|
United Kingdom
|
Bell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, Bell–Magendie law
|
| B
|
Morris Bender
|
1905 - 1983
|
United States
|
|
| B
|
Hans Berger
|
1873 - 1941
|
Germany
|
Berger wave (rhythm)
|
| B
|
Paul Robert Bing
|
1878 - 1956
|
Switzerland
|
Bing's sign
|
| B
|
Lucio Bini
|
1908 - 1964
|
Italy
|
|
| B
|
Otto Ludwig Binswanger
|
1852 - 1929
|
Germany
|
Binswanger's disease
|
| B
|
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
|
1840 - 1909
|
France
|
Bourneville-Pringle syndrome
|
| B
|
Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
|
1895 - 1966
|
United Kingdom
|
Brain's reflex
|
| B
|
Édouard Brissaud
|
1852 - 1909
|
France
|
Brissaud's reflex
|
| B
|
Paul Broca
|
1824 - 1880
|
France
|
Broca's aphasia, Broca's area
|
| B
|
Korbinian Brodmann
|
1868 - 1918
|
Germany
|
Brodmann area
|
| B
|
David R. Brown
|
1964 -
|
Australia
|
|
| B
|
Józef Brudziński
|
1874 - 1917
|
Poland
|
Brudziński's sign
|
| B
|
Ludwig Bruns
|
1858 - 1916
|
Germany
|
Bruns apraxia, Bastian-Bruns sign, Bruns nystagmus
|
| B
|
Paul Bucy
|
1904 - 1992
|
United States
|
Klüver–Bucy syndrome
|
| B
|
Robert A. Burton
|
|
United States
|
|
| C
|
Donald Calne
|
1936 -
|
Canada
|
|
| C
|
Ben Carson
|
1951 -
|
United States
|
|
| C
|
Ugo Cerletti
|
1877 - 1963
|
Italy
|
|
| C
|
Charles Gilbert Chaddock
|
1861 - 1936
|
United States
|
Chaddock reflex
|
| C
|
Jean-Martin Charcot
|
1825 - 1893
|
France
|
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Charcot–Wilbrand syndrome, Charcot–Bouchard aneurysm, Charcot's triad
|
| C
|
John Cheyne
|
1777 - 1836
|
British
|
Cheyne–Stokes respiration
|
| C
|
Jeffrey A. Cohen
|
1954 -
|
United States
|
|
| C
|
Jules Cotard
|
1840 - 1889
|
France
|
Cotard delusion
|
| C
|
Domenico Cotugno
|
1736 - 1822
|
Italy
|
|
| C
|
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
|
1885 - 1964
|
Canada
|
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
|
| C
|
James Crichton-Browne
|
1840 - 1938
|
United Kingdom
|
Crichton-Browne sign
|
| C
|
MacDonald Critchley
|
1900 - 1997
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| C
|
Bernard Croisile
|
|
France
|
|
| C
|
Jeffrey Cummings
|
|
United States
|
|
| C
|
Harvey Cushing
|
1869 - 1939
|
United States
|
Cushing reflex, Cushing's disease, Cushing's syndrome
|
| D
|
Antonio Damasio
|
1944 -
|
Portugal
|
|
| D
|
Hanna Damasio
|
1942 -
|
Portugal
|
|
| D
|
Charles Loomis Dana
|
1852 – 1935
|
United States
|
|
| D
|
Walter Dandy
|
1886 - 1946
|
United States
|
Dandy–Walker syndrome
|
| D
|
Daoud Mustafa Khalid
|
1917 - 2008
|
Sudan
|
Daoud Research Group
|
| D
|
Dirk De Ridder
|
1966 -
|
Belgium
|
|
| D
|
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke
|
1859 - 1927
|
United States
|
Dejerine-Klumpke paralysis
|
| D
|
Joseph Jules Dejerine
|
1849 - 1917
|
France
|
Dejerine-Roussy syndrome, Dejerine-Sottas disease, Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome
|
| D
|
Mahlon DeLong
|
1938 -
|
United States
|
|
| D
|
Margaret Dix
|
1902 - 1991
|
United Kingdom
|
Dix–Hallpike test
|
| D
|
Guillaume Duchenne
|
1806 - 1875
|
France
|
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Duchenne-Aran spinal muscular atrophy, Erb-Duchenne palsy, Duchenne smile
|
| E
|
Constantin von Economo
|
1876 - 1931
|
Austria
|
von Economo neurons
|
| E
|
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
|
1840 - 1921
|
Germany
|
Erb's palsy
|
| F
|
David Ferrier
|
1843 - 1924
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| F
|
C. Miller Fisher
|
1913 - 2012
|
Canada
|
Miller Fisher test, Miller Fisher Syndrome
|
| F
|
Edward Flatau
|
1868 - 1932
|
Poland
|
|
| F
|
Otfrid Foerster
|
1873 - 1941
|
Germany
|
|
| F
|
Charles Foix
|
1882 - 1927
|
France
|
Foix–Alajouanine syndrome
|
| F
|
Walter Jackson Freeman II
|
1895 - 1972
|
United States
|
|
| F
|
Sigmund Freud
|
1856 - 1939
|
Austria
|
Freudian slip
|
| F
|
Nikolaus Friedreich
|
1825 - 1882
|
Germany
|
Friedreich's ataxia, Friedreich's sign
|
| F
|
Adolf Albrecht Friedländer
|
1870-1949
|
Austria
|
|
| F
|
Jules Froment
|
1878 - 1946
|
France
|
Froment's sign
|
| G
|
Henri Gastaut
|
1915 - 1995
|
France
|
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
|
| G
|
Norman Geschwind
|
1926 - 1984
|
United States
|
Geschwind syndrome, Geschwind–Galaburda hypothesis
|
| G
|
Joseph Godwin Greenfield
|
1884 - 1958
|
United Kingdom
|
Greenfield's disease
|
| G
|
Rickman Godlee
|
1849 - 1925
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| G
|
Justo Gonzalo
|
1910-1986
|
Spain
|
| G
|
Alfred Gordon
|
1874 - 1953
|
France - United States
|
Gordon's sign
|
| G
|
William Richard Gowers
|
1845 - 1915
|
United Kingdom
|
Gowers' sign
|
| G
|
Georges Guillain
|
1876 - 1961
|
France
|
Guillain–Barré syndrome, Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret
|
| G
|
Sanjay Gupta
|
1969 -
|
United States
|
|
| H
|
Salomón Hakim
|
1922 - 2011
|
Colombia
|
|
| H
|
William Alexander Hammond
|
1828 - 1900
|
United States
|
|
| H
|
Anita Harding
|
1952 - 1995
|
Ireland-United Kingdom
|
|
| H
|
Henry Head
|
1861 - 1940
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| H
|
Salomon Eberhard Henschen
|
1847 - 1930
|
Sweden
|
|
| H
|
Johann Hoffmann
|
1857 - 1919
|
Germany
|
Hoffmann's reflex, Hoffmann's sign, Werdnig–Hoffmann disease
|
| H
|
Gordon Morgan Holmes
|
1876 - 1965
|
Ireland
|
Holmes rebound phenomenon, Holmes tremor
|
| H
|
Victor Horsley
|
1857 - 1916
|
United Kingdom
|
Horsley–Clarke apparatus
|
| H
|
Robert Roland Hughes
|
1911 - 1991
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| H
|
James Ramsay Hunt
|
1872 - 1937
|
United States
|
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
|
| H
|
Janina Hurynowicz
|
1894 - 1967
|
Poland
|
|
| H
|
Abbashar Hussein
|
1959 -
|
Sudan
|
|
| I
|
Ivan Izquierdo
|
1937 - 2021
|
Brazil
|
|
| J
|
John Hughlings Jackson
|
1834 - 1911
|
United Kingdom
|
Jacksonian seizure
|
| J
|
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask
|
1863 - 1941
|
Germany
|
Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex
|
| J
|
Alfons Maria Jakob
|
1884 - 1931
|
Germany
|
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
|
| J
|
Herbert Jasper
|
1906 - 1999
|
Canada
|
|
| J
|
Ernő Jendrassik
|
1858 - 1921
|
Hungary
|
Jendrassik maneuver
|
| J
|
Friedrich Jolly
|
1844 - 1904
|
Germany
|
Jolly's test
|
| K
|
Sean Kenniff
|
1969 -
|
United States
|
|
| K
|
Robert Foster Kennedy
|
1884 - 1952
|
Ireland and United States
|
Foster Kennedy syndrome
|
| K
|
Woldemar Kernig
|
1840 - 1917
|
Russia
|
Kernig's sign
|
| K
|
Karl Kleist
|
1879 - 1961
|
Germany
|
|
| K
|
Gitte Moos Knudsen
|
1959 -
|
Denmark
|
|
| K
|
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff
|
1854 - 1900
|
Russia
|
Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, Korsakoff's syndrome
|
| K
|
Georg N. Koskinas
|
1885 - 1975
|
Greece
|
|
| K
|
John Krakauer
|
1967 -
|
United States
|
|
| L
|
Charles Lasègue
|
1816 - 1883
|
France
|
Lasègue's sign
|
| L
|
Rita Levi-Montalcini
|
1909 - 2012
|
Italy
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
| L
|
Jean Lhermitte
|
1877 - 1959
|
France
|
Lhermitte's sign, Lhermitte–Duclos disease
|
| L
|
Hugo Liepmann
|
1863 - 1925
|
Germany
|
|
| M
|
B. K. Misra
|
1953 -
|
India
|
|
| M
|
William Macewen
|
1848 - 1924
|
United Kingdom
|
Macewen's sign
|
| M
|
Pierre Marie
|
1853 - 1940
|
France
|
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
|
| M
|
Gheorghe Marinescu
|
1863 - 1938
|
Romania
|
Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome
|
| M
|
C. David Marsden
|
1938 - 1998
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| M
|
Ladislas J. Meduna
|
1896 - 1964
|
Hungary
|
|
| M
|
Friedrich Meggendorfer
|
1880 - 1953
|
Germany
|
|
| M
|
Kurt Mendel
|
1874 - 1946
|
Germany
|
Bekhterev–Mendel reflex
|
| M
|
H. Houston Merritt
|
1902 - 1979
|
United States
|
|
| M
|
Giovanni Mingazzini
|
1859 - 1929
|
Italy
|
Mingazzini test
|
| M
|
Pierre Mollaret
|
1898 - 1987
|
France
|
Triangle of Guillain-Mollaret, Mollaret's meningitis
|
| M
|
Constantin von Monakow
|
1853 - 1930
|
Switzerland
|
|
| M
|
Egas Moniz
|
1874 - 1955
|
Portugal
|
Moniz sign
|
| M
|
Karin Muraszko
|
1957 -
|
United States
|
|
| M
|
Abraham Myerson
|
1881 - 1948
|
United States
|
Myerson's sign
|
| N
|
Max Nonne
|
1861 - 1959
|
Germany
|
|
| N
|
Ralph Northam
|
1959 -
|
United States
|
|
| O
|
Herbert Olivecrona
|
1891 - 1980
|
Sweden
|
|
| O
|
Hermann Oppenheim
|
1858 - 1919
|
Germany
|
Oppenheim's sign
|
| P
|
James Papez
|
1883 - 1958
|
United States
|
Papez circuit
|
| P
|
Carlos Pardo-Villamizar
|
|
Colombia
|
|
| P
|
Ambroise Paré
|
1510 - 1590
|
France
|
|
| P
|
James Parkinson
|
1755 - 1824
|
United Kingdom
|
Parkinson's disease
|
| P
|
Wilder Penfield
|
1891 - 1976
|
United States
|
|
| P
|
Charles Poser
|
1923 - 2010
|
United States
|
|
| P
|
Ludvig Puusepp
|
1875 - 1942
|
Estonia
|
|
| Q
|
Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt
|
1876 - 1918
|
Germany
|
Queckenstedt's maneuver
|
| R
|
Marcus Raichle
|
1937-
|
United States
|
|
| R
|
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
|
1951-
|
India
|
|
| R
|
Robert Wheeler Rand
|
1928 - 2013
|
United States
|
|
| R
|
Wade Regehr
|
|
Canada
|
|
| R
|
Franco Regli
|
1931 - 2017
|
Switzerland
|
|
| R
|
Moritz Heinrich Romberg
|
1795 - 1873
|
Germany
|
Romberg's test
|
| R
|
Grigory Rossolimo
|
1860 - 1928
|
Russia
|
Rossolimo's sign
|
| S
|
Oliver Sacks
|
1933 - 2015
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| S
|
Manfred Sakel
|
1900 - 1957
|
Poland
|
|
| S
|
Majid Samii
|
1937 -
|
Iran - Germany
|
|
| S
|
Robert Sapolsky
|
1957 -
|
United States
|
|
| S
|
Hermann Schloffer
|
1868 - 1937
|
Austria
|
|
| S
|
William Beecher Scoville
|
1906 - 1984
|
United States
|
|
| S
|
Jean-Athanase Sicard
|
1872 - 1929
|
France
|
Collet-Sicard syndrome
|
| S
|
Pankaj Sharma
|
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| S
|
Robert F. Spetzler
|
1944-
|
United States, Germany
|
Spetzler-Martin grading of Cerebral arteriovenous malformation
|
| S
|
Roy Glenwood Spurling
|
1894 - 1968
|
United States
|
Spurling's test
|
| S
|
Adolph Strümpell
|
1853 - 1925
|
Baltic German
|
Strümpell-Lorrain disease, Strümpell's sign
|
| T
|
Charlie Teo
|
1957-
|
Australia
|
|
| T
|
Tom Bentley Throckmorton
|
1885 - 1961
|
United States
|
Throckmorton's reflex
|
| T
|
Jules Tinel
|
1879 - 1952
|
France
|
Tinel's sign
|
| T
|
Robert Bentley Todd
|
1809 - 1860
|
Ireland
|
Todd's paresis
|
| T
|
Howard Henry Tooth
|
1856 - 1925
|
United Kingdom
|
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
|
| V
|
Oskar Vogt
|
1870 - 1959
|
Germany
|
|
| V
|
N. K. Venkataramana
|
|
India
|
|
| W
|
Juhn Atsushi Wada
|
1924 - 2023
|
Japan - Canada
|
Wada test
|
| W
|
Arthur Earl Walker
|
1907 - 1995
|
United States
|
Dandy–Walker syndrome
|
| W
|
Adolf Wallenberg
|
1862 - 1949
|
Germany
|
Wallenberg syndrome
|
| W
|
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
|
1857 - 1940
|
Austria
|
|
| W
|
Robert Wartenberg
|
1887 - 1956
|
United States
|
Wartenberg wheel
|
| W
|
Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
|
1833 - 1890
|
Germany
|
Edinger–Westphal nucleus
|
| W
|
Robert Whytt
|
1714 - 1766
|
United Kingdom
|
|
| W
|
Thomas Willis
|
1621 - 1675
|
United Kingdom
|
Circle of Willis
|
| W
|
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
|
1878 - 1937
|
United Kingdom
|
Wilson's disease
|
| Y
|
Gazi Yaşargil
|
1925 -
|
Turkey
|
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