A list of people notable in the field of pathology.
- Maude Abbott
- Lauren Ackerman
- Max Bielschowsky
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906
- Francis Camps
- Marie Cassidy
- Benjamin Castleman
- David C. Dahlin (1917–2003)
- Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915)
- Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926
- Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948)
- Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
- Ernest Goodpasture
- Austin Gresham (1925–2009)
- Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951)
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958)
- Jack Kevorkian
- William Boog Leishman (1865–1926)
- Richard May
- Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941)
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology
- George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962)
- Artur Pappenheim
- Donald Rix (1931-2009)
- Carl von Rokitansky
- Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky (1861–1921)
- Juan Rosai, see Rosai-Dorfman disease and desmoplastic small round cell tumor
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
- Maud Slye (1879–1954)
- Sophie Spitz (1910–1956)
- Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967)
- Paul Gerson Unna
- Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902)
- Robin Warren, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005
- Carl Weigert
- Sharon Weiss, a well-known soft tissue pathologist.
- James Homer Wright (1869–1928)