Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (died 1904)

Georges Gilles de la Tourette

French physician and the namesake of Tourette's syndrome (1857–1904)

Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French neurologist and the namesake of Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by tics. His main contributions in medicine were in the fields of hypnotism and hysteria.