# 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.

## Real-life dentists
### A

* Sam Aanestad – former Californian politician
* Michele Aerden - the first female president of the FDI World Dental Federation
* 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
* Arif Alvi – President of Pakistan
* Steve Arlin – became a dentist after playing Major League Baseball
* Gunadasa Amarasekara – Sinhala language writer
* Amalia Assur (1803–1889) first woman dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe.
* Rafiuddin Ahmed (dentist) – Indian dentist. founded the First Dental College of India
* Ana Bedran-Russo (Brazilian) Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Chair of the Department of General Dental Sciences in Restorative Dentistry at Marquette University School of Dentistry

### 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
* 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
* Hedvig Bensow - the first female dentist in Finland
* Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – 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 – 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
* Robert Bunon [fr] (1702–1748), French dentist in enamel hypoplasia research.
* 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
* Donald J. Butz – U.S. Air Force Major General

### C

* Madeleine-Françoise Calais - the first female dentist to obtain a license as a master dentist from the Surgical Society of Paris
* 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
* James Carlisle – Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda and member of the British Dental Association
* Margaret Caro - the first woman to be listed on the Dentists' Register of New Zealand
* Emma Gaudreau Casgrain - the first licensed female dentist in Canada
* Henri-Edmond Casgrain - Canadian dental surgeon, inventor, city councillor and the first motorist in Quebec.
* 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"
* 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
* Thomas Connelly – American dentist, works on teeth of celebrities
* Pierre Corbeil – Canadian politician, Quebec cabinet minister
* Dan Crane – American dentist/politician. Republican Party
* L. Adele Cuinet - pioneer American dental surgeon
* Gerry Curatola

### 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
* G. Walter Dittmar – former president of the American Dental Association
* Robert Dudley – actor
* Winfield Dunn – governor of Tennessee

### E

* Bill Emmerson – California State Assembly member who had a 22-year practice
* Thomas W. Evans – founded the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

### F

* Sheila Faith – British politician of the Conservative party
* Pierre Fauchard – wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry
* Polonia Sanz y Ferrer - the first female dentist in Spain
* 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 – Sweden's first female dentist after the profession was opened to women

### 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
* 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

### 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, and possibly anywhere
* Gillette Hayden - served as the first female president of the American Academy of Periodontology
* 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
* Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius - the first woman to take a full college course in dentistry, as Lucy Hobbs Taylor received credit for her time in dental practice before attending dental college
* 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)

### I

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

### J

* Cheddi Jagan – former president of Guyana
* Fatima Jinnah – sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" in Pakistan
* Emeline Roberts Jones - the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States
* Minnie Evangeline Jordon - established the first dental practice in the United States devoted only to pediatric patients, also published the first textbook on pedodontics, titled Operative Dentistry for Children

### K

* 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

### 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
* Faith Sai So Leong, also called Sai So Yeong - the first Chinese-American woman to graduate from a school of dentistry and become a dentist in the United States
* Petra Lie - the first female dentist in Norway
* Hardy Limeback – proponent who led water fluoridation efforts in Canada
* Göran Lindblad – Swedish politician
* John Linder – American politician, representative in Congress
* Lilian Lindsay the first licensed female dentist in Britain
* 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).

### M

* Bernie Machen – president of University of Florida and University of Utah
* 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

### 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

### 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)

### 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

### R

* Bessie Raiche – aviation pioneer
* Earl W. Renfroe – broke barriers for African Americans, headed a dentistry department
* Charles Richard – Canadian politician
* Jessica Rickert - the first female American Indian dentist in America
* Ida Rollins - the first African-American woman to earn a dental degree in the United States, which she earned from the University of Michigan

### 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
* Chen Shih-chung - Taiwanese politician, the director of Taipei City Dentists Association
* Helen Rulison Shipley – first female dentist in Nevada
* Jeanne Sinkford - the first female dean of an American dental school (Howard University, School of Dentistry)
* 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 denture making
* Charles H. Strub – sports entrepreneur
* Jon Sudbø – Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct

### T

* Lucy Hobbs Taylor – first woman to graduate from dental school (Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1866)
* 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
* Carol I. Turner - the first female Chief of the U.S. Navy Dental Corps

### V

* 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
* Caroline Louise Josephine Wells - the first Canadian woman to graduate from any dental school
* Horace Wells – pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide
* Marie Imogene Williams – first African American female dentist to graduate from Howard University's dental school, in 1896
* Gerrit Wolsink – motocross racer

### Y

* 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

## 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. Phoebus Farb – from The Little Shop of Horrors
* 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.
* Jin Shun-an (Yu Jin) - from the TV series My Tooth Your Love [zh]
* Nonoko Kishii – from The Dragon Dentist.
* Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) – Manhattan dentist in the 1979 comedy film The In-Laws.
* Capt. Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, "Painless Pole" – in MASH.
* Dr. Molar Fox, resident dentist of Lake Hoohaw in the Playhouse Disney show PB&J Otter.
* Bernard Nadler – from the TV series Lost.
* Zen'nosuke Maki – from the TV series Manpuku.
* 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. – Little Shop of Horrors, played by Steve Martin in the film adaptation
* Gen. Tarsal – from Adventure Time episode "Dentist"
* Dr. Teeth – of The Muppets, revealed to be Gerald Teeth Jr DDS in The Muppets Mayhem
* Tina Teeth – Dr Teeth's mother in The Muppets Mayhem
* 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