Manes Kartagener (7 January 1897 in Przemyśl, then Galicia, Austria-Hungary – 5 August 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland) was a Swiss internist of Polish-Jewish origins.
His father, Lazar Kartagener, was both, a rabbi and a small businessman, His mother, also from Przemyśl, was called Tzluva, née Guth.
Late in his life, Kartagener appears to have developed a polyneuropathic disorder which made him abandon his practice, and he died in Zurich in 1975.
He made further familial investigations afterwards, but never recognised the autosomal recessive inheritance or the presence of male infertility, which was added to the syndrome afterwards.
It was Bjorn Afzelius, of Stockholm, who eventually traced the source of the pathology to a malfunction of cilia and flagella.