General
Individuals who made important contributions to the field
- Agostino Bassi (1773-1856)
- Emil von Behring (1854-1917), discover of tetanus and diphtheria antitoxins
- Jules Bordet (1870-1961)
- Christian A. Th. Billroth (1829-1894), who coined the name Streptococcus
- Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas (1879-1934)
- Albert Calmette (1863-1933)
- Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)
- Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1818-1898)
- Julius F. Cohnheim (1839-1884)
- Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880-1952) and the Carrel-Dakin wound-treatment solution
- Félix d'Hérelle (1873-1949) and the bacteriophage
- Émile Duclaux (1840-1904), pioneering microbiologist
- Karl Joseph Eberth (1835-1926), discoverer of typhoid bacillus
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876), intropduced terms "bacteria" and "bacillus"
- Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), discoverer of the “magic bullet” cure for syphilis
- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
- Simon Flexner (1863-1946), isolated dysentery bacillus
- Georg Theodor August Gaffky (1850-1918)
- Joseph von Gerlach (1820-1896)
- Hans Christian Gram (1853-1938) and Gram staining
- Ernest Hanbury Hankin (1865-1939), discoverer of the bacteriophage
- Gerhard Henrik Hansen (1841-1912) and leprosy
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809-1885)
- Kitasato Shibasaburo (1852-1931) and bacteriology in Japan
- Edwin Klebs (1834-1913), diptheria, and theories of the nature of disease
- Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch (1843-1910), pioneer in bacterial culture, histology, and vaccination
- Charles Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), discover of the parasites responsible for malaria and sleeping sickness
- Friedrich Augustus Loeffler (1852-1915), pioneer in histology
- Elie (Ilya) Metchnikoff (1845-1916), founder of immunology
- Charles Murchison (1830-1879)
- Johannes Peter Mueller (1801-1858)
- Albert Ludwig Neisser (1855-1916) and the causative microbe of gonorrhoea
- Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (1866-1936)
- A.S. Packard (1839-1905)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), inventor of germ theory
- Max Josef Pettenkofer (1818-1901), founder of "experimental hygiene"
- Johann Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869)
- Émile Roux (1835-1933), pioneering medical bacteriologist
- Walter Reed (1851-1902) and yellow fever
- Robert Remak ((1815-1865)
- Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910)
- Carl Julius Salomonsen (1847-1924)
- Fritz Richard Schaudinn (1871-1906)
- Theodor Schwann (1810-1882)
- Nathan Strong (1781-1837)
- Jean Antoine Villemin (1827-92)
- Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
- Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920)
- Almoth Edward Wright (1861-1947), one of the discoverers of typhoid vaccine
- Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), rats, and bubonic plague
- Carl Zeiss (1816-1888), microscope maker
Last modified 1 February 2017