# List of neurologists and neurosurgeons

This is a list of neurologists and neurosurgeons, with their year of birth and death and nationality. This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a reflection of their relative importance in the field. Many neurologists and neurosurgeons are considered to be neuroscientists as well and some neurologists are also in the list of psychiatrists.
| 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 |
| A | Antônio Austregésilo | 1876 - 1960 | Brazil | |
| B | Joseph Babinski | 1857 - 1932 | France | Babinski sign |
| B | Percival Bailey | 1892 - 1973 | United States | |
| B | Brenda Banwell | 1967 - | Canada | Multiple sclerosis, Neuromyelitis optica, MOG antibody disease |
| 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 | Serafima Bryusova | 1894 - 1958 | Soviet Union | |
| 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 | Łucja Frey | 1889 - 1942 | Poland | Frey's syndrome |
| 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 | Paulo Garcia | 1959 - 2010 | Brazil | |
| 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 | Juha Hernesniemi | 1947 - 2023 | Finland | |
| 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 | Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy | 1886 - 1934 | France | Roussy–Lévy syndrome |
| L | Jean Lhermitte | 1877 - 1959 | France | Lhermitte's sign, Lhermitte–Duclos disease |
| L | Hugo Liepmann | 1863 - 1925 | Germany | |
| L | Zachary London | 1976 - | United States | Neuromuscular disease |
| M | B. K. Misra | 1953 - | India | |
| M | William Macewen | 1848 - 1924 | United Kingdom | Macewen's sign |
| M | Samia Maimani | 1955 - 1997 | Saudi Arabia | |
| 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 | Ricardo Ramina | 1951 - | Brazil | |
| R | Robert Wheeler Rand | 1928 - 2013 | United States | |
| R | Wade Regehr | | Canada | |
| R | Franco Regli | 1931 - 2017 | Switzerland | |
| R | Helena Riggs | 1899 - 1968 | United States | |
| 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 | Pratibha Singhi | 1951 - | India | Pediatrics |
| 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 |
| W | Tissa Wijeratne | | Sri Lanka and Australia | Post Covid-19 Neurological Syndrome, Serial Systemic Immune Inflammatory Indices |
| Y | Gazi Yaşargil | 1925 - | Turkey | |