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
- Harold Albrecht - Conservative Party of Canada politician.
- Bill Allen - former president of the British Dental Association.
- Edward Angle - Father of Orthodontics
- Steve Arlin - Dentist after playing Major League Baseball.
- Gunadasa Amarasekara - Sinhala language writer.
- Amalia Assur (1803-1889) first woman dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe.
- Franz Bäke - Nazi Panzer ace.
- Henryka Bartnicka-Tajchert - Member of the Anti-Nazi Polish resistance who became a dentist.
- Charles Spence Bate - An authority on crustacea, 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.
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow - Former head of the dentistry center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry under Saparmurat Niyazov, currently President of Turkmenistan.
- Paul Beresford - Conservative Party (UK) politician.
- Greene Vardiman Black - He invented a foot-driven dental drill and is classed as a father of modern dentistry.
- Robert Blake - He 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.
- Martin van Butchell - Eccentric who put his wife head on display at his home/practice after her death.
- 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.
- Chen Hsing-yu - Daughter of Chen Shui-bian.
- 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 - A secretary of the Ontario Dental Association and later mayor of Toronto.
- Dan Crane - American Dentist/politician. Republican Party.
- Miles Henry Davis - Ran for a seat on the State Legislature, NAACP member, and father to Miles Davis.
- Bessie Delany - Of some note as the second black woman to be granted a dentistry license in New York state.
- Bill Dickerson - Founder of the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies.
- G. Walter Dittmar - A former president of the American Dental Association.
- Bill Emmerson - California State Assembly member who had a 22 year practice.
- Thomas W. Evans - founded the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
- Sheila Faith - British politician of the Conservative party.
- Pierre Fauchard - He wrote the first complete scientific description of dentistry.
- Rabab Fetieh - First Saudi female orthodontist.
- Dan Fischer - President and founder of Ultradent; a dental supply company known, in part, for pioneering teeth whitening products. He is also known for starting "The Diversity Foundation"; an NPO dedicated to helping ex-members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and other similar groups.
- 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.
- Samir Ghawshah - Leader of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front.
- John Goodsir - Wrote a noted essay on teeth.
- George Franklin Grant - First African-American professor at Harvard. He also invented a wooden golf tee.
- 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. Also a Democratic Party (United States) politician.
- Chapin A. Harris - Founded the first dental school in the US, or possibly anywhere.
- John Henry "Doc" Holliday - Dentist and American Folklore icon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral participant
- 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)
- Fatima Jinnah - Sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" in Pakistan.
- Erhard Keller - Speed skater at the Winter Olympic Games and professional dentist for over thirty years.
- Michael Krop - Democratic Party (United States) politician with a school named for him.
- Peter Kunter - Football player for Eintracht Frankfurt.
- Donald Leake - Dentist and inventor of the alloplastic tray. Also an oboist.
- Charles Goodall Lee - He was the 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.
- 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.
- Edward Maynard - He worked on 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.
- Dr. Geraldine Morrow - First woman president of the American Dental Association.
- Jack Miller - The "racing dentist" who was in the Indianapolis 500.
- Richard Müller (murderer) - German dentist and murderer.
- John Newbrough - Of Oahspe.
- 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 - He organized the first course on dental pathology in the United States.
- Giovanni Battista Orsenigo - Monk/dentist
- Rodrigues Ottolengui - Sephardic Jewish dental pioneer who was one of the first to use X-rays.(Also wrote mystery novels)
- 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.
- Rudy Perpich - American dentist/politician of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
- Fritz Pfeffer - Dentist who hid with Anne Frank.
- Earl W. Renfroe - Broke barriers for African American, headed a dentistry department.
- Paul Rentsch - Dentist in the Nazi resistance movement.
- Iman Sadri- Dentist, and Author of 'Escaping the Magnetism of Mediocrity'
- 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 - A former dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.
- John Smith (dentist) - the founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry.
- George Soropoulos - Mechanical Engineer who later became a prominent dentist.
- Mark Spitz - Olympic swimmer (was actually accepted to dental school, but competed in the Olympics instead)
- Dr. Sherry Steinmetz Renowned Canadian/American cosmetic dentist
- Charles Stent - Dentist who advanced Dentures making.
- Jon Sudbø - Norwegian dentist linked to a case of scientific misconduct.
- Lucy Hobbs Taylor - The first female in the United States with a doctorate in dentistry.
- José Roberto Magalhães Teixeira - Brazilian politician.
- Mohamed Khir bin Toyo - Malaysian politician
- Charles Murray Turpin - Republican politician in the United States House of Representatives..
- Thomas Bramwell Welch - Founder of Welch's.
- Horace Wells - Pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, later committed suicide.
- Edward Zuckerberg - Father of Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.
- P.V. SRIHARI Dental Surgeon from India.
Fictional dentists
- Bernard - from the TV series Lost .
- Matthew Brock - from NewsRadio. (Although he gave it up to work in radio and is only seen practicing in one episode)
- Dr. Tariq Faraj - From Oz .
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