List of surgeons

Below follows a list of surgeons:

• David Hayes Agnew
• Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
• Norman Bethune (1890-1939), battlefield surgery.
• Theodor Billroth, stomach resection
• John Ronald Brown (1922- ). A notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient.
• Ben Carson
• Victor Chang
• William Cheselden
• Realdo Colombo (c. 1516-1559)
• Abraham Colles (1773-1843)
• Denton Cooley
• Astley Cooper
• John Green Crosse, MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
• Harvey Cushing, neurosurgery
• Michael E. DeBakey, cardiac surgery
• William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
• Clinton Thomas Dent, (1850-1912)
• Evenor (3rd century BC)
• Walter Freeman ,lobotomy
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927-2000), creator of radial keratotomy
• John Heysham Gibbon (1903-1973), first open heart surgery
• Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgery
• Sir Victor Horsley, neurosurgery
• John Hunter, first aneurysm operation
• Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
• William Jardine
• Wilbert Keon
• Gerhard Küntscher
• Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
• Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
• William Macewen, general surgery and neurosurgery
• Walter Karl Koch
• Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
• Robert Liston
• Joseph Pancoast, 19th century American surgeon
• Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
• Hiram Polk
• Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
• Sushruta
• Robert B. Salter, orthopedic surgery
• Ferdinand Sauerbruch, thoracic surgery
• George H. Tichenor
• Sid Watkins, neurosurgeon and former Formula One chief medic
• Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.
• Magdi Yacoub, heart and lung transplants
• Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
• Robert M. Zollinger

See also

• Surgery