| A | B |
| Jonas Salk | polio vaccine |
| Clara Barton | founder of American Red Cross |
| Hippocrates | father of medicine |
| Florence Nightengale | first nurse; mother of nursing |
| William Harvey | discovered how blood circulates in body |
| Robert Jarvik | developed Jarvic-7 artificial heart |
| James Derham | first African Amercian physician to practice medicine |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first female physician |
| team for Robert Briggs | first to clone DNA |
| James McCune Smith | first African Amercian physician to earn a medical degree |
| Dr. Barney Clark | first human recipient of artificial heart |
| Dr. Benjamin Rush | father of AMERICAN medicine |
| Anton Van Leeuwenhoek | invented microsope |
| Mary BethMahoney | first African Amercian nurse |
| Robert Hooke | discovered cells |
| Dr. Robert Gello | HIV |
| Antonia Novello | first woman and first Latina Surgeon General |
| Dr. SarahEllen Palmer | first female surgeon |
| William Roentgen | X-rays |
| Dr. Joan Pere | did world's first full face transplant |
| Peter Safer | developed live saving technique |
| Bessie Cooper | oldest living person |
| Salvino Degli Armati | Man who invented eye glasses |