Famous Pharmacists

John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an English pharmacist. He invented Coca-Cola. In May 1886, he created an early version of the drink that became world-famous. He sold the drink's rights before his death.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician. He served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey served twice in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. Humphrey was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican Richard Nixon. Humphrey was born in Wallace, South Dakota. He attended the University of Minnesota. Humphrey helped run his father's pharmacy. He earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University and worked for the Works.

George F. Archambault, Ph.G., Ph.C., J.D. (1909 – January 1, 2001) became the first pharmacy liaison officer for the United States Public Health Service. People called him the “father of consultant pharmacy”. On April 22, 1999, Deputy Surgeon General Kenneth P. Moritsugu named Archambault a “living treasure of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps” at his 90th birthday party.

David Edgar Herold (June 16, 1842 – July 7, 1865) was an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After the shooting, Herold went with Booth to Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's injured leg. The two men escaped through Maryland and into Virginia. Herold stayed with Booth until authorities cornered them in a barn. Herold surrendered. Booth was shot and died hours later. Herold received a death sentence and was hanged with three other conspirators at the Washington Arsenal, now Fort Lesley J.

Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) was an American pharmacist. He created the "Scoville Organoleptic Test," now known as the Scoville scale. Scoville devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company. He used it to measure the pungency, "spiciness" or "heat", of various chili peppers.

Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. Trakl is best known for his poem "Grodek," which he wrote before dying from a cocaine overdose.

Caleb Davis Bradham (May 27, 1867 – February 19, 1934) was an American pharmacist. He invented the soft drink Pepsi.

Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (Persian: ابوبكر محمّد زکرياى رازى‎ Abūbakr Mohammad-e Zakariyyā-ye Rāzī, also known by his Latinized name Rhazes () or Rasis; 854–925 CE) was a Persian polymath. He served as a physician, alchemist, philosopher, and an important figure in medical history. Razi also wrote about logic, astronomy, and grammar. This comprehensive thinker made basic, lasting contributions to many fields. He recorded these findings in over 200 manuscripts. People remember Razi for many medical advances from his observations and discoveries.

Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville, born April 13, 1942, is a Bioethics Professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She was previously the Samuel Gale Professor of Law at McGill University. Somerville was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She studied at Mercedes College in Springfield, South Australia. She earned a A.u.A. (pharm.) from the University of Adelaide in 1963. She got a Bachelor of Law degree (Hons. I) and the University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1973. She obtained a D.C.L. from McGill University in 1978. In 1978, she became an assistant professor in the law faculty at McGill.

Vanessa Grazziotin Bezerra, born June 29, 1961, is a Brazilian politician from the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B). She was born in Videira, Santa Catarina, but she built her political career in the state of Amazonas. She was elected twice to represent the state in the Chamber of Deputies. She was recently elected to the Federal Senate in the 2010 parliamentary election. She is the third Communist Senator in Brazil's history, following Luís Carlos Prestes and Inácio Arruda. Vanessa is also Amazonas' first female Communist Senator. Vanessa served as a senator in the Brazilian state of Amazonas for

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross, born October 18, 1964, is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and fantasy. Stross focuses on hard science fiction and space opera. From 1994 to 2004, he wrote for the magazine Computer Shopper and wrote the monthly Linux column. He stopped writing for the magazine to write novels instead. However, he continues to publish articles online.

George Homer Ryan Sr., born February 24, 1934, became a former American politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. Ryan joined the Republican Party. National attention focused on his 1999 Illinois moratorium on executions. He commuted over 160 death sentences to life sentences in 2003. Federal corruption charges later led to his conviction. Ryan spent over five years in federal prison and seven months in home confinement. He left federal prison on July 3, 2013.

José Carlos do Patrocínio (October 9, 1854 – January 29, 1905) wrote,Journalisted, acted, spoke, and practiced pharmacy in Brazil. He supported the end of slavery in Brazil; people called him "O Tigre da Abolição" (The Tiger of Abolition). He held the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1905.

Ibn al-Baitar (1197–1248 AD), Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, was an Amazigh Andalusian pharmacist, botanist, physician, and scientist. He systematically recorded additions by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages. These additions included 300 to 400 types of medicine, increasing the known quantity from a thousand since antiquity.

Peter Mark Richman played serious football. A knee injury sidelined him. Afterward, he became a registered pharmacist and operated a drug store for one year. Richman transitioned to acting and did television. He landed the role of Gardner "Gard" Jordan in William Wyler's drama "Friendly Persuasion," starring Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins. In 1957, Richman appeared with Ben Gazzara in the strange film "The Strange One." He focused mainly on television later. Richman played the lead in the 1960s mob series "Cain's Hundre".

Douglas Cockburn Frith (March 5, 1945 – March 21, 2009) was a Canadian politician. Frith represented the Sudbury riding in the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1988 for the Liberal Party. From July 1996 to January 2008, Frith headed the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, which is linked to the Motion Picture Association of America. The Queen's Jubilee Medals honored Frith's public service in 1977, 1992, and 2002. He received the Public Service Award in 1988 for his work on pension reform.

Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff (August 8, 1836 – April 7, 1898) was a German pharmacist and chemist. He was born in Rostock.

Una Winifred Atwell (February 27, 1910 or April 27, 1914 – February 28, 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist. She gained popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She became the first Black person with a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and remains the only female instrumentalist to do so.

Felisa Rincón de Gautier (born Felisa Rincón Marrero) (also known as Doña Fela) (January 9, 1897 – September 16, 1994) became the first woman elected Mayor of a capital city in The Americas.

Kerry Hore (born July 3, 1981) is an Australian former rower. She was a national champion, world-champion, and four-time Olympian. Hore competed in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. Her Australian quad sculls won a 2003 World Championship and a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics.

Dora Nkem Akunyili served as the Director-General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) from 2001 to 2008. She was born in July 1954 and died in 2014.

Antônio Mariano de Oliveira (April 28, 1857 – January 19, 1937) was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist, and professor. He used the name Alberto de Oliveira. He joined Olavo Bilac and Raimundo Correia to form the Brazilian "Parnassian Triad." He founded and held the 8th chair at the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1937.

Harvey Bland Morgan, born August 18, 1930, is an American politician. From 1980 to 2012, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 98th district on the Middle Peninsula. Morgan is a member of the Republican Party.

David E. Burke, born July 26, 1967, served as State Senator for Ohio's 26th District. He also served in the Ohio House of Representatives. Burke currently chairs the Senate Finance Medicaid subcommittee.

William Doohan worked as a pharmacist, veterinarian, and dentist.

Willis Harvey "Bubs" Ricketts became the 1962 Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas. The incumbent Democrat Orval Eugene Faubus defeated him overwhelmingly. Ricketts, a 37-year-old pharmacist, ran his father's Ricketts Drug Store in Fayetteville, Washington County, northwestern Arkansas. Ricketts gathered 82,349 votes against Faubus' 225,743. Faubus won all seventy-five counties; Ricketts achieved 42 percent in Baxter County, the far north of the state. The 52-year-old Faubus called his victory over Ricketts "a".

Anne Katherine Carnell (née Knowlman; born May 30, 1955) is an Australian businesswoman and former Liberal Party politician. She served as the third Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) from 1995 to 2000.

Leticia R. San Miguel Van de Putte, born December 6, 1954, is an American politician from San Antonio, Texas. She represented the 26th District in the Texas Senate from 1999 to 2015. Van de Putte was in the Texas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1999. In 2014, she ran as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor but lost the general election, 58-38 percent, to Republican Dan Patrick of Houston. After that loss, she resigned from the Texas Senate to seek mayor of San Antonio, losing narrowly to Ivy Taylor, 52-48 percent.

Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet, born December 24, 1887, died August 16, 1951. He worked as a French actor, director, and theatre director.

Joseph Yieleh Chireh, born July 8, 1954, is a Ghanaian pharmacist, barrister, diplomat, and politician. He is the Member for Parliament for Wa West and a Member of the Pan-African Parliament.

Lunsford Richardson, who lived from December 29, 1854, to August 21, 1919, was an American pharmacist from Selma, North Carolina. He founded the Vick Chemical Company, which became Richardson Vicks Inc. He died on August 20, 1919.

C. Austin Miles composed music.

Kevin Tripp serves as executive vice president and president of Retail Midwest for SUPERVALU. Tripp manages retail operations for Cub Foods, Hornbachers, Jewel and Shop n Save, and company pharmacy operations.

Benyoucef Benkhedda (Arabic: بن يوسف بن خدة‎; February 23, 1920 – February 4, 2003) was an Algerian politician. He led the third GPRA exile government of the National Liberation Front (FLN), acting as a leader during the Algerian War (1954–62). After the war, he briefly held de jure leadership, but conservative figures quickly sidelined him.

Per Flatberg, born September 18, 1937, is a Norwegian environmentalist and pharmacist. Flatberg earned his pharmacy degree from the University of Oslo in 1961 and began working at the university and a pharmacy. From 1981, he ran the pharmacy in Lørenskog; from 1990, he ran the pharmacy in Levanger. In the 1970s, Flatberg helped drive the Alta controversy and received a large fine later. Flatberg held key environmental and pharmacy roles, including information secretary for Folkeaksjonen mot utbygging av Alta-Kautokeinovass.

Jimmy Lee Smithson, known as Jim L. Smithson (born September 15, 1943), is a conservative Republican. He was a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives and sponsored state legislation allowing generic substitution for prescription medications. A registered pharmacist from Marshall in Searcy County, northwestern Arkansas, Smithson served in the House from January 1, 1975, to December 31, 1984. He represented District 43, created in 1970, which included his Searcy, Marion, and parts of Baxter counties. Later, the district became 40 and then 39.

Kubec Glasmon was an American screenwriter from Poland. He received a nomination for Best Story at the 4th Academy Awards, a category that is now defunct. He was nominated alongside John Bright for The Public Enemy.

S. Chris Jones, born June 23, 1958, in Suffolk, Virginia, is an American politician. A Republican, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 1997. He now represents the 76th district, which covers parts of Suffolk and Chesapeake. In 2014, he became chair of the House Appropriations Committee.

Gregory Pearl Peck was a chemist and pharmacist. He was the father of actor Gregory Peck.

Trupti Patel, a qualified pharmacist from Berkshire, England, was acquitted in 2003 of murdering three children: Amar (September 5, 1997 – December 10, 1997), Jamie (June 21, 1999 – July 6, 1999), and Mia (May 14, 2001 – June 5, 2001).

Christian Dettweiler (1915 – 16 March 1995) innovated graphology. Dettweiler wrote over 40 articles and books. He studied Pharmacy. In 1942, he earned a PhD in Botany (Plant Physiology). Dettweiler served as a Scientific Assistant at the Universities of Rostock and Stuttgart. Dettweiler built his graphological approach from Klosinski's "Dynamic Handwriting Analysis." This direction used psycho-analysis, mixing theories from Balint and Winnicott, Otto Kernberg, and Heinz Kohut. Dr. Dettweiler founded the International Association for Dynamic and Clinical Psyc.

Anthony John "Tony" Lawler (born 18 October 1961) was an Australian politician. Lawler was born in Dubbo, New South Wales. He attended the University of Sydney before becoming a pharmacist. In 1998, Lawler won election to the Australian House of Representatives for Parkes, representing the Nationals. Lawler retired from politics in 2001.

Richard William Guenther (November 30, 1845 – April 5, 1913) was a Prussian-born 19th-century politician and pharmacist in Wisconsin. Guenther was born in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg. He got a college education and graduated from the Royal Pharmacy in Potsdam. Guenther moved to the United States in 1866, settling in New York City, New York. He moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1867 and worked in the pharmaceutical business. Guenther served as Wisconsin State Treasurer from 1878 to 1882. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in 1880, serving from 1881 to 1889.

Dr. Seet Ai Mee (simplified Chinese: 薛爱美; traditional Chinese: 薛愛美; pinyin: Xuē Aì Měi; born 31 March 1943) was a former politician from Singapore. She was a member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP). She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bukit Gombak Single Member Constituency (SMC) from 1988 to 1991. In 1991, she became the Acting Minister for Community Development. Ling How Doong of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) defeated her in the 1991 general election, causing her to lose her seat in Parliament. She has not been active in politics since then.

Samuel Rosborough Balcom (March 24, 1888 – May 4, 1981) was a Canadian politician, businessman, and pharmacist. In a June 19, 1950, by-election, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Liberal Party representing the Halifax riding after Isnor went to the Senate. He was re-elected in 1953 and lost in 1957. Before his federal political work, Balcom was a commanding officer in medical stores during World War II, from 1942 to 1942. Between 1944 and 1945, he was the chief medical stores inspection officer in the Canadian Army.

Jacobo Zobel y Zangroniz was born on October 12, 1842. He served as mayor (alcalde) of Manila. Zobel y Zangroniz was also a polyglot academician, a world-renowned numismatist, a pharmacist, a construction magnate, a scholar, and a businessman.

Lowell Ray Barron was a Democratic politician and businessman. He served in the Alabama Senate and represented the 8th District from 1982 to 2010. He became President Pro Tem of the Alabama Senate from 1999 to 2007. After seven terms in the state Senate, Republican Shadrack McGill defeated him by 628 votes in the 2010 general election. Alabama's 8th Senate district covers all of Jackson County plus parts of DeKalb and Madison Counties.

Frank Watson has several potential identities. These include Frank Watson (cricketer) (1898–1976). Another possibility is English first-class cricketer Frank Watson (American politician) (born 1945). Frank Watson served as the Republican Minority Leader of the Illinois State Senate (rugby league) (1923–2016). Other figures include a rugby league footballer for Leeds in the 1940s and 1950s, Castleford Frank Rushmore Watson (1859–1940), Philadelphia architect Frank Watson (footballer) (1898–1972), English football forward Frank Watson (Bahamas politician) (born 1940), and former Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas.