







The Most Famous
Physicians from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 726 Physicians, 10 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 19th most number of Physicians behind Ukraine and Canada.
Top 10 Chinese Physicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Chinese Physicians of all time. This list of famous Chinese Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Chinese Physicians.
- #1

Li Ching-Yuen
1677 - 1933
HPI 75.9840 langsLi Ching-Yuen is most famous for being the oldest man in the world. He was born in 1887 and died in 1997 at the age of 110.
- #2

Hua Tuo
200 - 208
HPI 72.3432 langsHua tuo is most famous for its role in Chinese medicine as a diuretic and for its use in the treatment of kidney stones.
- #3

Zhang Zhongjing
150 - 219
HPI 65.8624 langsa physician and pharmacologist (150–219), hailed as medical sage, from Eastern Han Dynasty, China
- #4

Li Shizhen
1517 - 1593
HPI 65.0226 langsChinese polymath and scientist (1517-1593)
- #5

Sun Simiao
581 - 682
HPI 63.6323 langsChinese physician and writer (Tang dynasty)
- #6

Bian Que
401 BC - 310 BC
HPI 62.9315 langsancient Chinese physician
- #7

Andrew Yao
b. 1946
HPI 60.4629 langscomputer scientist and computational theorist
- #8

Zhong Nanshan
b. 1936
HPI 54.0721 langsChinese pulmonologist
- #9

Liang Wudong
1959 - 2020
HPI 49.7921 langsChinese physician
- #10

Li-Meng Yan
b. 1987
HPI 36.8914 langsLi-Meng Yan is a Chinese virologist most famous for her controversial claims regarding the origins of COVID-19, alleging that it was...Read moreShow less
Li-Meng Yan is a Chinese virologist most famous for her controversial claims regarding the origins of COVID-19, alleging that it was engineered in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Her assertions have sparked significant debate and criticism within the scientific community.
