The Most Famous
PHYSICIANS from Malaysia
This page contains a list of the greatest Malaysian Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 502 Physicians, 1 of which were born in Malaysia. This makes Malaysia the birth place of the 52nd most number of Physicians behind Sri Lanka and Cuba.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malaysian Physicians of all time. This list of famous Malaysian Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Wu Lien-teh (1879 - 1960)
With an HPI of 52.98, Wu Lien-teh is the most famous Malaysian Physician. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wǔ Liándé; Jyutping: Ng5 Lin4 Dak1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gó͘ Liân-tek; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1910–11. He is the inventor of the Wu mask, which is the forerunner of today's N95 respirator. Wu was the first medical student of Chinese descent to study at the University of Cambridge. He was also the first Malayan nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1935.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicians born between 1879 and 1879. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased physicians include Wu Lien-teh. As of April 2022, 1 new physicians have been added to Pantheon including Wu Lien-teh.
