Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. This is a list of notable veterinarians, both real and fictional. Real-life veterinarians A Wayne Allard (born 1943) — U.S. Senator (1997–2009) Maurice Allen (born 1937) — veterinary pathologist B Chris Back (born 1950) — Australian Senator (2009–2017) Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848–1932) — Danish veterinarian who discovered Brucella abortus Denis Barberet (1714–1770) — French bibliographer and author Harold William Bennetts (1898–1970) — Australian known for research on livestock and the toxic effects of native Australian plants Natanael Berg (1879–1957) — Swedish composer Reidar Birkeland (born 1928) — professor at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science Baxter Black (1945-2022) — U.S. radio commentator Marie-Claude Bomsel (born 1946) — wildlife expert Alfred Boquet (1879–1947) — French veterinarian, known for his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris Claude Bourgelat (1712–1779) — founder of 18th-century French veterinary school Anton Johnson Brandt (1893–1951) — professor of pathological anatomy at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science Chris Brown (born 1978) — known for the Australian television series Bondi Vet C Nelson R. Çabej (born 1939) — Albania evolutionary biologist and author Charles J Coottes Campbell (born 1894 - 2001 British/ Commonwealth equine veterinarian Louis J. Camuti (1893–1981) — first American cat veterinarian Philibert Chabert (1737–1814) — French agronomist who wrote on early treatise on anthrax control Craig Challen — Australian diver and caver John A. Charlton (1907–1977) — Canadian politician Auguste Chauveau (1827–1917) — French veterinarian, in whose honor the bacterium Clostridium chauvoei is named Matthew Clarke (born 1973) — former professional Australian rules footballer Ken Coghill (born 1944) — former Australian politician Robert Cook — British equine veterinarian Robin Coombs (1921–2006) — British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test Harry Cooper (born 1943) — Australian television personality Miguel Cordero del Campillo (1925–2020) — Spanish parasitologist D Morné de la Rey (born 1970) — South African veterinarian who was the first person in Africa to clone an animal, as well as first person to do successful IVF in Cape Buffalo in the world. Darlene Dixon — American veterinarian and toxicologic pathologist Sydney Dodd (1874–1926) — British veterinary surgeon who was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney Peter C. Doherty (born 1940) — Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Mick Doyle (1941–2004) — Irish rugby player Petrus Johann