List of ancient doctors
The following is a list of ancient doctors who were known to have practised medicine in some form before AD 700:
| Name | Time period | Ethnicity | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abascantus | AD 2nd century | Greek | invented antidote against serpent bites |
| Adamantius Judaeus | AD 5th century | Greek | |
| Bogar | 3rd century BC | Indian | The Pharmacognosy is the best known of his treatises |
| Tirumular | 2nd century BC | Indian | |
| Aegimus | 5th century BC | Greek | first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse |
| Korakkar | 2nd century BC | Indian | His works include Korakkar Malai Vagatam (Korakkar's Mountain Medicines) |
| Aemilia Hilaria | AD 4th century | Roman | female physician. Wrote books on gynecology and obstetrics. |
| Aeschrion of Pergamon | AD 2nd century | Greek | pharmaceutist |
| Aëtius of Amida | AD 5th–6th century | Byzantine Greek | |
| Patanjali | 2nd century BC | Indian | Founder of Yoga School |
| Agathinus | AD 1st century | Greek | founder of the Eclectic school of medicine |
| Albucius | AD 1st century | Roman | wealthy physician, with annual income of 250,000 sesterces |
| Alcon (classical history) | AD 1st century | Greek | surgeon |
| Alexander of Tralles | AD 6th century | Byzantine Greek | chief work titled Twelve Books on Medicine |
| Amenhotep | 13th century BC | Egyptian | chief physician of the early 19th Dynasty |
| Androcydes | 4th century BC | Greek | |
| Andromachus | AD 1st century | Greek | |
| Anonymus Londinensis | AD 1st century | Greek | author of the physiological work On Medicine |
| Antipater | 1st century BC | Greek | author of a work titled On the Soul |
| Antipater | AD 2nd century | Greek | gave an account of the morbid symptoms that precede death |
| Antiphanes of Delos | AD 2nd century | Greek | "the sole cause of diseases in man was the too great variety of his food" |
| Antonius Castor | AD 1st century | Roman | herbal remedies |
| Antyllus | AD 2nd century | Greek | surgeon, treatment of aneurysms became standard until the 19th century |
| Apollonius Claudius | AD 2nd century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Cyprius | AD 1st century | Greek | |
| Kashyapa | BCE 8th century | Indian | wrote Kashyap Samhita |
| Apollonius Organicus | AD 2nd century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Pergamenus | AD 3rd century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Pitaneus | AD 1st century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Senior | AD 1st century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Tarensis | AD 1st century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Ther | AD 1st century | Greek | |
| Apollonius Glaucus | 3rd century BC | Greek | On Internal Diseases |
| Dridhabala | AD 2nd century | India | edited the Charaka Samhita |
| Apollonios of Kition | 1st century BC | Greek Cypriot | most important work is On Joints |
| Archigenes | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | very high reputation for his professional skill |
| Arcyon | AD 1st century | Greek | surgeon |
| Agnivesa | 8th century BC | Indian | wrote Agnivesha Samhita considered foundational text of the Agnivesha school of early Ayurveda |
| Bharadwaja | 12th century BC | Indian | He stated that embryo is caused from union of man's sperm and menstrual blood of woman |
| Atreya | 8th century BC | Indian | writer of Bhela Samhita |
| Aretaeus | AD 1st century | Greek | general treatise on diseases |
| Aristotle | 4th century BC | Greek | |
| Asclepiades Pharmacion | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | skill and knowledge of pharmacy |
| Asclepiades of Bithynia | 2nd–1st century BC | Greek | built a new theory of disease |
| Aspasia the Physician | AD 4th century | Greek | Female gynecologist |
| Athenaeus of Attalia | AD 1st century | Greek | founder of the Pneumatic school of medicine |
| Bian Que | 4th century BC | Chinese | earliest known Chinese physician |
| Bolus of Mendes | 3rd century BC | Greek | |
| Caelius Aurelianus | AD 5th century | Roman | medical translator |
| Cassius Felix | AD 3rd century | Roman African | medical writer |
| Cato the Elder | 2nd century BC | Roman | |
| Aulus Cornelius Celsus | AD 1st century | Roman | De Medicina |
| Charaka | 6th–2nd century BC | Indian | one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda |
| Charmis | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | Physician active in Rome |
| Saints Cosmas and Damian | AD 3rd century | Arab | persecuted by Diocletian |
| Crinas | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | Physician active in Rome |
| Criton of Heraclea | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | Chief physician of emperor Trajan |
| Ctesias | 5th century BC | Greek | |
| Damocrates | AD 1st century | Greek | wrote pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse |
| Demetrius of Apamea | 2nd century BC | Greek | studied sexual organs |
| Demosthenes Philalethes | AD 1st century | Greek | author of the Ophthalmicus, the most influential work of ophthalmology in antiquity |
| Dexippus of Cos | 4th century BC | Greek | pupil of Hippocrates |
| Dieuches | 4th century BC | Greek | Dogmatic school of medicine |
| Diocles of Carystus | 4th century BC | Greek | practical medicine, especially diet and nutrition |
| Saint Diomedes | AD 3rd century | Greek | arrested by Diocletian |
| Pedanius Dioscorides | AD 1st century | Greek | De Materia Medica |
| Dong Feng | AD 3rd century | Chinese | |
| Erasistratus | 3rd century BC | Greek | founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria |
| Erotianus | AD 1st century | Greek | Collection of Hippocratic Words |
| Eudemus (physician) | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | two persons, the first the poisoner of Drusus Julius Caesar, the second an acquaintance of Galen |
| Saint Fabiola | AD 4th century | Roman | nurse |
| Gaius Stertinius Xenophon | AD 1st century | Greek | personal physician of emperor Claudius |
| Galen | AD 2nd–3rd century | Greek | developer of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology |
| Ge Hong | AD 4th century | Chinese | originator of First Aid in TCM |
| Heliodorus | AD 1st century | Greek | wrote on medical technique |
| Heraclides of Tarentum | 2nd century BC | Greek | physician of the Empiric school |
| Herodotus (physician) | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | Two doctors, the first a Pneumaticist, the second an Empiricist |
| Herophilus | 3rd century BC | Greek | deemed to be the first anatomist |
| Hicesius | 1st century BC | Greek | head of a medical school established at Smyrna |
| Hippocrates | 5th century BC | Greek | "Father of Medicine", wrote the Hippocratic Corpus |
| Hua Tuo | AD 2nd century | Chinese | abilities in acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine and medical Daoyin exercises |
| Huangfu Mi | AD 3rd century | Chinese | compiled the Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion |
| Ji Ben | AD 3rd century | Chinese | physician who started a failed rebellion |
| Irynachet | 22nd century BC | Egyptian | senior physician of the great house |
| Jivaka Komarabhacca | 5th century BC | Indian | personal physician of King Bimbisara and Gautama Buddha |
| Leonidas (physician) | AD 2nd–3rd century | Greek | surgical writer, provided the first detailed description of a mastectomy |
| Leoparda | AD 4th century | Greek | female gynecologist |
| Madhava-kara | 8th century BC | Indian | listed diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications |
| Marcellus Empiricus | AD 4th–5th century | Roman | author of pharmacological compendium De medicamentis |
| Marcellus of Side | AD 2nd century | Greek | wrote a long medical poem |
| Quintus Gargilius Martialis | AD 3rd century | Roman | writer on horticulture, botany and medicine |
| Meges of Sidon | 1st century BC | Greek/Roman | surgeon |
| Menemachus | AD 2nd century | Greek | Methodic school of medicine |
| Menodotus of Nicomedia | AD 2nd century | Greek | Empiricist |
| Metrodora | AD 4th century | Greek | female gynecologist, author of On the Diseases and Cures of Women. |
| Merit-Ptah | 27th century BC | Egyptian | early female physician |
| Mnesitheus | 4th century BC | Greek | classification of diseases |
| Sextius Niger | 1st century BC | Roman | pharmacology |
| Oribasius | AD 4th century | Greek | medical writer and person physician of Julian the Apostate |
| Paccius Antiochus | AD 1st century | Roman | wealthy commercial physician |
| Palladius (physician) | AD 6th century | Greek | professor of medicine at Alexandria |
| Paul of Aegina | AD 7th century | Byzantine Greek | Medical Compendium in Seven Books |
| Penthu | 16th century BC | Egyptian | Chief Physician to Akhenaten |
| Peseshet | 25th century BC | Egyptian | one of the earliest known female physicians |
| Philagrius of Epirus | AD 3rd century | Greek | medical writers |
| 8th century BCE | Indian | pupil of Atreya and composed samhita | |
| 8th century BCE | Indian | pupil of Atreya and composed "Jatukarna Samhita" | |
| Philinus of Cos | 3rd century BC | Greek | reputed founder of the Empiric school |
| Philistion of Locri | 4th century BC | Greek | physician and writer of medicine |
| Philonides (physician) | AD 1st century | Greek | author of De Medicina |
| Philoxenus (physician) | 3rd century BC | Greco-Egyptian | wrote several volumes on surgery |
| Philumenus | AD 3rd century | Greek | |
| Plistonicus | 4th–3rd century BC | Greek | wrote a work on anatomy |
| Posidonius | 2nd–1st century BC | Greek | polymath |
| Praxagoras of Cos | 4th century BC | Greek | theory of circulation |
| Aelius Promotus | AD 2nd century | Greek | author of Medicinalium Formularum Collectio |
| Qar | 23rd century BC | Egyptian | Chief Physician during the Sixth dynasty |
| Raban Gamliel VI | AD 5th century | Hebrew | demonstrated a special remedy of the spleen |
| Rabâ-ša-Marduk | 13th century BC | Kassite | |
| Rufus of Ephesus | AD 1st–2nd century | Greek | wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care |
| Serenus Sammonicus | AD 3rd century | Roman | author of a didactic medical poem Liber Medicinalis |
| Scribonius Largus | AD 1st century | Roman | court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius |
| Serapion of Alexandria | 3rd century BC | Greek | member of the Empiric school of medicine |
| Sextius Niger | AD 1st century | Roman | author of the pharmacologist work On material |
| Sextus Empiricus | AD 2nd century | Roman | |
| Sextus Placitus | AD 4th century | Roman | author of Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae |
| Shepseskaf-ankh | 25th century BC | Egyptian | Chief Physician during the Fifth dynasty |
| Soranus of Ephesus | AD 2nd century | Greek | author of treatise on gynecology and On Acute and Chronic Diseases |
| Sushruta | 7th century BC | Indian | author of the treatise The Compendium of Suśruta |
| Themison of Laodicea | 1st century BC | Greek | founder of the Methodic school of medicine |
| Theodorus Priscianus | AD 4th century | Roman | author of Medical Matters in Four Books |
| Theophilus Protospatharius | AD 7th century | Greek | |
| Vagbhata | AD 4th century AD | Indian | He is considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge |
| Theophrastus | 4th–3rd century BC | Greek | |
| Thessalus of Tralles | AD 1st century | Roman | Methodic school of medicine, court physician of Emperor Nero |
| Xenocrates of Aphrodisias | AD 1st century | Greek | pharmaceutical writer, including On Useful Things from Living Beings |
| Zhang Zhongjing | AD 150—219 | Chinese | made great contributions to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| Zopyrus (physician) | AD 1st century | Greek | antidote inventor |
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