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physician

professional who practices medicine
Intangible medical_profession Q39631
physician
Wesley Carter, U.S. Air Force · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

physician is a medical profession[1]. physician draws 9,723 Wikipedia views per month (medical profession category, ranking #2 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation[3], position[4], occupation group according to ISCO-08[5], health profession[6], ambiguous Wikidata item[7]
  • Subclass of: health professional[8]
  • Commons category: Physicians[9]
  • Field of this occupation: medicine[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Physicians[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox physician[14]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Physician[15]
  • Different from: physicist[16], Doctor of Philosophy[17], Practitioner[18]
  • Female form of label: طبيبة[19], دكتوره[20], médica[21], metgessa[22], lékařka[23], Ärztin[24], kuracistino[25], médecin[26], médecine[27], רופאה[28], medikino[29], medica[30], Doktesch[31], ārste[32]

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Influence

Things named for physician include doctor's sausage[33], founded in 1936[34].

Why It Matters

physician has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] physician is known by 114 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for physician include doctor's sausage[33], founded in 1936[34].

Related Entities

Aaron Ciechanover Abbas Ibn Firnas Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi Abraham ibn Ezra Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi Abu Bakr al-Razi Adamantios Korais Adolf Fick Agnodice Ahn Cheol-soo Aimé Bonpland A. J. Cronin Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Alan Rector Albert B. Sabin Albert Calmette Albert Claude Alberto Granado Albert Schweitzer Albert Szent-Györgyi Albrecht Kossel Albrecht von Haller Alcmaeon of Croton Alessandro Cagliostro Aletta Jacobs Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Borodin Alexander Bunge Alexander Fleming Alexander Luria

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . www2.ub.gu.se. www2.ub.gu.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . International Standard Classification of Occupations. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Q56243408. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Q56243408. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · Tiziana Deluca · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ami', 'an', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bat_smg', 'b
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Bncf thesaurus id: 3903"
  2. 6w ago · Treisijs · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Occupations
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Medicine"
  3. 9w ago · Openpep · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → —
    P14439 → 000394
    Position held → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Position held: Minister of Public Health, rollback: erroneous/duplicate P39 from faulty batch of 2026-08-17 (wrong-entity search fallback / duplicate creation)"
  4. 9w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap tag → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Openstreetmap tag: healthcare=doctor"
  5. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  6. 10w ago · Openpep · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Position held: Minister of Public Health"
  7. 13w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → doctors, physicians
    Biblissima authority id → Q295908
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q295908, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  8. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → doctors, physicians
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: doctors, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289931990|doctors (#289931990)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  9. 17w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → medical profession, occupation, position +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: ambiguous Wikidata item"
  10. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008297-lekarky, h0001006-lekari
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Subject named as: lékaři, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259620|batch #259620]]"
  11. 19w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008297-lekarky, h0001006-lekari
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008297-lekarky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  12. 22w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-88 occupation class → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33401|batch #33401]]: fix ISCO-88 statements (1)"
  13. 23w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Label in sign language → Docteur.webm
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Library of congress authority id: sh85101610"
  14. 25w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Field of this occupation → medicine
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary
    Subclass of → health professional
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 221, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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