| 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 Inflmmatory IndicesTissa Wijeratne |
| Y |
Gazi Yaşargil |
1925 - |
Turkey |
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