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Famous people throughout our world's short historical record with surnames beginning with the letter "H" are rather numerous, so here's a list of doctors:

William Harvey (1578-1657); first complete and detailed description of the human body's circulatory system.

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919); physician and anatomist who coined many terms in Biology.

Henry Heimlich (born 1920); inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver and the Vietnam War era Chest Drain Valve.

Orvan Hess (1906-2002); noted physician who developed the fetal heart monitor and, along with John Bumstead, became the first in the world (March 14, 1942) to treat a patient (Anne Miller) with penicillin.

John Hunter (1728-1793); Scottish surgeon famous for his study of the human anatomy, and regarded to be the Father of Modern Surgery.

Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460-370 BCE); ancient Greek physician known as the Father of Medicine, who coined the Hippocratic Oath.

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