list of dermatologists

| 1768–1837

| French

| Authored one of the first dermatologic atlases, entitled "Descriptions des maladies de la peau"{{cite book |author=Alibert JLM |title=Descriptions des maladies de la peau observées a l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, et exposition des meilleures méthodes suivies pour leur traitement |year=1806 |location=Paris |publisher=Barrois l’ainé |language=French |url=http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&doc_number=000636854&l_base=uiowa |page=286 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121212102832/http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=direct&doc_number=000636854&l_base=uiowa |archivedate=2012-12-12 }}

| 1934–2004

| Brazilian

| Was a physician and dermatologist respected due to his lifetime work with leprosy patients and leprosy research. Opromolla performed all his work at Lauro de Souza Lima Institute in Bauru, São Paulo, a WHO reference hospital for dermatology. He taught dermatology and leprosy to doctors, nurses, and other health workers. Among other things, he was the first to introduce rifamycin in the treatment of leprosy, in 1963.

| 1684–1766

| American

| Wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and considered, by some, to be the "founder of modern dermatology"{{cite web |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1558306 |title=The History of Dermatology |format= |accessdate=2009-04-13}}

|1726–1783

|French

|Student of Astruc wrote a treatise on skin diseases

| 1943–

| American

| Governor of Alabama. He entered private medical practice and opened a series of dermatology clinics throughout the southern United States.

|1816–1880

|Austrian

|Co-author of the influential Atlas der Hautkrankheiten, a detailed illustrated guide to skin diseases.{{Cite web |title='Atlas der Hautkrankheiten : Nach Originalien von Prof. v. Baerensprung, in Berlin und Professor Hebra, in Wien. Zeichnungen von Dr. Carl Heitzmann, in Wien. Text nach Professor Hebra' - Viewer {{!}} MDZ |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10330478?page=5 |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=www.digitale-sammlungen.de}}

| 1842–1910

| American

| Wrote An Elementary Treatise on Diseases of the Skin (1871), A Treatise on the Materia Medica and Therapeutics of the Skin (1881), A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin (1891), and translated Alfred Hardy's The Dartrous Diathesis, or Eczema and its Allied Affections.{{Cite AMB1920|wstitle=Piffard, Henry Granger}}

| 1846–1909

| English

| Wrote Diseases of the Skin: their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, which established him as a leading figure in the field{{Citation |last=Burton |first=J. L. |title=Diet and Dermatology in 1888: The Influence of H. Radcliffe Crocker |journal=British Journal of Dermatology |pages=471–477 |volume=119 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb03250.x |publisher=British Association of Dermatologists |year=1988 |issue=4 |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119449284/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105104011/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119449284/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 January 2013 |access-date=23 May 2010 |pmid=3056493 |s2cid=29350636}}

| 1955–

| American

| Author of twenty-one medical textbooks on the subject

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| American

| Described the "tumescent liposuction technique", which added high volumes of fluid containing a local anesthetic, allowing the procedure to be done in an office setting under intravenous sedation rather than general anesthesia

| 1957–

| American

| Also has Guinness world record collection of yo-yos; athlete, author, and actor

| 1922–2019

| American

| Performed the first successful modern hair transplant in 1952 in his New York office. Created Clinique, the first widely popular cosmetics brand developed by a dermatologist.

| 1920—2017

| Polish

| Pioneering work on human papillomaviruses and their link to cancer. Recipient of the National Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

| fl. 2000s

| American

| Academic dermatologist and writer, promoting diversity and inclusion.