The Most Famous
PHYSICIANS from Senegal
This page contains a list of the greatest Senegalese Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 502 Physicians, 2 of which were born in Senegal. This makes Senegal the birth place of the 39th most number of Physicians behind Estonia and Ireland.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Senegalese Physicians of all time. This list of famous Senegalese Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Didier Raoult (1952 - )
With an HPI of 50.39, Didier Raoult is the most famous Senegalese Physician. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Didier Raoult (French pronunciation: [didje ʁa.ul(t)]; born 13 March 1952) is a retired French physician and microbiologist specialising in infectious diseases. He taught about infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and in 1984, created the Rickettsia Unit of the university. From 2008 to 2022, Raoult was the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. He gained significant worldwide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for vocally promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease, despite the lack of evidence for its effectiveness and the subsequent opposition from NIH and WHO to its use for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. As of 2024, ten of Raoult's research publications have been retracted, and at least another 156 of his publications have received an expression of concern from their publishers, due to questions related to ethics approval for his studies.
2. Marie Senghor Basse (1930 - 2019)
With an HPI of 40.66, Marie Senghor Basse is the 2nd most famous Senegalese Physician. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Marie Senghor Basse (1930-2019), full name Marie-Thérèse Camille Senghor Basse, was a Senegalese physician who led the Centre de protection maternelle et infantile (Maternal and Child Protection Center). Basse represented Senegal at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and directed the Institute of Food Technology.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as physicians born between 1930 and 1952. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicians include Didier Raoult. The most famous deceased physicians include Marie Senghor Basse. As of April 2022, 2 new physicians have been added to Pantheon including Didier Raoult and Marie Senghor Basse.
