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For the New Testament scholar, see James Carleton Paget.

Sir James Paget, 1st BaronetFRS HFRSE (11 January – 30 December ) (, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.

His famous works included Lectures on Tumours () and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (). There are several medical conditions which were described by, and later named after, Paget:

• Paget's disease of bone
• Paget–Schroetter disease
• Paget's abscess, an abscess that recurs at the site of a former abscess which had resolved.

Life

Paget was born in Great Yarmouth, England, on 11 January , the son of Samuel Paget, a brewer and shipowner, and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Tolver.

He was one of a large family, and his brother Sir George Edward Paget (–