Physician

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon and biologist

1873 - 1944

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His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2024). Alexis Carrel is the 52nd most popular physician (down from 37th in 2024), the 464th most popular biography from France (down from 417th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Physician.

Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for his work on vascular suture and transplantation.

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Alexis Carrel is the most memorable of the 7 notable people born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France.

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Alexis Carrel's biography appears in 67 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 95% of all Physicians.

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Alexis Carrel shares a June 28 birthday with Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Peter Paul Rubens.

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Among Physicians

Among physicians, Alexis Carrel ranks 52 out of 726. Before him are Claude Bernard, Elias Lönnrot, Peter Damian, Polycarp, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Ronald Ross. After him are Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, Emil Kraepelin, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alexis Carrel ranks 12. Before him are Lee de Forest, Leon Czolgosz, Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After him are Henri Barbusse, Otto Loewi, Luigi Lucheni, Alfred Jarry, Karl Schwarzschild, and Spyridon Louis. Among people deceased in 1944, Alexis Carrel ranks 18. Before him are Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Hilma af Klint, Reza Shah, Bertha Benz, and Lou Henry Hoover. After him are Ludwig Beck, Thomas Midgley Jr., Galeazzo Ciano, Erwin von Witzleben, Manuel L. Quezon, and Ernst Thälmann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Carrel ranks 464 out of 6,770. Before him are André Le Nôtre (1613), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Livilla (-13), and Jean Monnet (1888). After him are Paul Éluard (1895), Jean Fouquet (1420), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Gaspard Monge (1746), Louis III of France (863), and Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770).

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Among Physicians In France

Among physicians born in France, Alexis Carrel ranks 5. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), and Claude Bernard (1813). After him are Charles Nicolle (1866), Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), René Laennec (1781), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Ambroise Paré (1510).

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