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Michael DeBakey

1908 - 2008

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Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a Lebanese-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 752,583 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael DeBakey is the 292nd most popular physician (down from 280th in 2019), the 2,702nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,528th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Physician.

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  • 27

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Michael DeBakey ranks 292 out of 502. Before him are Claus Schilling, Vincenz Priessnitz, William Osler, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Eugene Botkin, and Harvey Cushing. After him are Christian Bohr, Leon Pinsker, May-Britt Moser, Sun Simiao, Hakaru Hashimoto, and Andrew Taylor Still.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Michael DeBakey ranks 101. Before him are Johanna Budwig, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Jacques Massu, Sicco Mansholt, Lev Pontryagin, and Lionel Hampton. After him are Salo Flohr, Lee Krasner, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Sarit Thanarat, João Guimarães Rosa, and Arturo Frondizi. Among people deceased in 2008, Michael DeBakey ranks 90. Before him are Dora Ratjen, Sufi Abu Taleb, Paul Frère, Manuel Marulanda, Claude Piron, and Kiyosi Itô. After him are Bernardin Gantin, Charles Tilly, Mitch Mitchell, Suzanne Pleshette, Kon Ichikawa, and David Ausubel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael DeBakey ranks 2,702 out of 18,182. Before him are Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Cheryl Ladd (1951), Erich Segal (1937), Nolan Bushnell (1943), Ira Gershwin (1896), and Stella Adler (1901). After him are Dyan Cannon (1937), Ted Nelson (1937), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Winslow Homer (1836), Wallace Shawn (1943), and Allen Newell (1927).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Michael DeBakey ranks 32. Before him are Jack Kevorkian (1928), John O'Keefe (1939), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Peter Agre (1949), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), and Harvey Cushing (1869). After him are Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Charles Best (1899), Randy Schekman (1948), George Huntington (1850), and William Bates (1860).

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