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Falloppius, Gabriele, Italian Gabriello Fallopio or Falloppia 1523-62
Italian anatomist

He was born in Modena, and became Professor of Anatomy at Pisa (1548) and Padua (1551). He particularly studied bones and the reproductive organs, and the Fallopian tube connecting the ovaries with the uterus is named after him.