Overview
Famous Jefferson Alumni
| Alumni | School/Year | Known for... |
| Samuel D. Gross | JMC 1828 | Professor of Surgery at JMC and founder of the Alumni Association (1870). Featured in Thomas Eakins "The Gross Clinic." |
| Jonathan M. Foltz | JMC 1830 | First White House Physician and U.S. Navy Surgeon General. |
| Robley Dunglison | JMC 1830 | Physician to Thomas Jefferson, "Father of American Human Physiology" and Dean of JMC (1854-1868). |
| Jonathan Letterman | JMC 1849 | Conceived on and implemented America's first effective ambulance corps system for the removal of wounded from the battlefield during the Civil War. |
| S. Weir Mitchell | JMC 1850 | Neuro-psychiatrist, physiologist, and novelist. |
| William S. Forbes | JMC 1852 | "Father of the Anatomical Act" |
| Carlos Finlay | JMC 1855 | Discovered the carrier of yellow fever. |
| William W. Keen | JMC 1862 | Performed the first successful removal of a brain tumor in America that led to a cure. |
| J. Chalmers Da Costa | JMC 1885 | Editor of "Gray's Anatomy." |
| John H. Gibbon, Jr. | JMC 1927 | Developed the heart-lung machine. |
| James M. Hunter | JMC 1953 | Developed the first artificial tendon for use in the rehabilitation of impaired hands. |
| Robert C. Gallo | JMC 1963 | Associated the HIV virus with AIDS. |
More information on TJU famous alumni found on Wikipedia and JeffLINE.
