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Michael DeBakey

1908 - 2008

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Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades. Born to Lebanese immigrants, DeBakey was inspired to pursue a career in medicine by the physicians that he had met at his father's drug store, and he simultaneously learned sewing skills from his mother. He subsequently attended Tulane University for his premedical course and Tulane University School of Medicine to study medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael DeBakey is the 102nd most popular physician (up from 274th in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,355th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Michael DeBakey ranks 102 out of 726. Before him are Peter Canisius, François Duvalier, Djer, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Shirō Ishii, and George Minot. After him are Louis Auguste Blanqui, Ulf von Euler, Niels Kaj Jerne, Cornelius Jansen, Frederick Banting, and Harvey J. Alter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Michael DeBakey ranks 32. Before him are Józef Gosławski, Mika Waltari, Geli Raubal, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Ilya Frank, and Aden Adde. After him are Franz Stangl, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph Rotblat, Nelson Rockefeller, Manoel de Oliveira, and Alfred Hershey. Among people deceased in 2008, Michael DeBakey ranks 25. Before him are Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Sydney Pollack, Jørn Utzon, Richard Wright, Henry Molaison, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. After him are Harold Pinter, Leonid Hurwicz, William F. Buckley Jr., Roy Scheider, Jules Dassin, and Yma Sumac.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael DeBakey ranks 779 out of 20,380. Before him are Roy Sullivan (1912), Henry Molaison (1926), Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Robert W. Holley (1922), Carrie Fisher (1956), and Barbara Liskov (1939). After him are Albert Ellis (1913), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Rod Steiger (1925), Howard Hawks (1896), James Ivory (1928), and Keith Jarrett (1945).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Michael DeBakey ranks 8. Before him are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Joseph Murray (1919), William P. Murphy (1892), Harvey Cushing (1869), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), and George Minot (1885). After him are Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), William T. G. Morton (1819), and Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903).

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