This ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) genius is considered "the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly in the mists of antiquity" -- 2,500 years before the "father of medicine," Hippocrates

Imhotep (c. 2650-2600 BCE) was an ancient Egyptian polymath who served as chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser and is considered the first known physician in history. He designed the Step Pyramid of Saqqara and was later deified as the god of medicine. The quote correctly identifies him as predating Hippocrates by approximately 2,500 years. Thoth is a god, Khufu was a pharaoh, and Plato was a Greek philosopher.