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Michael DeBakey

1908 - 2008

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Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades. Born to Lebanese immigrants, DeBakey was inspired to pursue a career in medicine by the physicians that he had met at his father's drug store, and he simultaneously learned sewing skills from his mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael DeBakey has received more than 814,995 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Michael DeBakey is the 274th most popular physician (up from 292nd in 2019), the 2,355th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,695th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Physician.

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  • 3.26

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Michael DeBakey ranks 274 out of 726. Before him are May-Britt Moser, Richard Axel, Bian Que, James Barry, Gavriil Ilizarov, and Rembert Dodoens. After him are Edmond Locard, Kadambini Ganguly, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, Leonid Kulik, Vera Weizmann, and Saint Fabiola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Michael DeBakey ranks 95. Before him are Afet İnan, Lev Pontryagin, Sicco Mansholt, Gustavo Marzi, Lionel Hampton, and Michael Redgrave. After him are Libertad Lamarque, Carlo Abarth, Eugen Weidmann, Eduard Roschmann, Fyodor Okhlopkov, and Ahmad Shukeiri. Among people deceased in 2008, Michael DeBakey ranks 80. Before him are Anthony Minghella, Don S. Davis, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Bernardin Gantin, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, and Kiyosi Itô. After him are Leyla Gencer, Eva Dahlbeck, Gerard Damiano, Cyd Charisse, Joseph M. Juran, and Tommy Lapid.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael DeBakey ranks 2,355 out of 20,380. Before him are Dwight F. Davis (1879), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Gordon Scott (1926), George Lakoff (1941), Paul Goodman (1911), and Al Di Meola (1954). After him are Irvin Kershner (1923), Anne Heche (1969), Hilary Swank (1974), Andrew Garfield (1983), Eva Longoria (1975), and Randy Newman (1943).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Michael DeBakey ranks 32. Before him are Henry Heimlich (1920), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), John O'Keefe (1939), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), and Richard Axel (1946). After him are Drew Weissman (1959), Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Jack Kevorkian (1928), William Bates (1860), and Anthony Fauci (1940).

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