The Most Famous
PHYSICIANS from Sri Lanka
This page contains a list of the greatest Sri Lankan Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 726 Physicians, 1 of which were born in Sri Lanka. This makes Sri Lanka the birth place of the 50th most number of Physicians behind Tunisia, and Iraq.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sri Lankan Physicians of all time. This list of famous Sri Lankan Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. William Chester Minor (1834 - 1920)
With an HPI of 57.44, William Chester Minor is the most famous Sri Lankan Physician. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
William Chester Minor (also known as W. C. Minor; 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920) was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher. After serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Minor moved to England. Affected by delusions, he shot a man who he believed had broken into his room, and was consequently committed from 1872 to 1910 to a secure British psychiatric hospital. While incarcerated, Minor became an important contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. He was one of the project's most effective volunteers, reading through his large personal library of antiquarian books and compiling quotations that illustrated how particular words were used. In 1910, responding to protests about Minor's treatment, Winston Churchill, then British home secretary, ordered Minor deported to the United States. Minor was hospitalized in Connecticut, where he died in 1920.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Sri Lankan physicians born between 1834 and 1834. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Sri Lankan physicians include William Chester Minor.
