List of surgeons

These are lists of surgeons.

Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures

• Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
• William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
• John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), first open heart surgery
• John Hunter, first aneurysm operation
• Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
• Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.
• Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.
• Paolo Macchiarini, first stem cell grown trachea transplant.
• Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) aka Mohs surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.
• Richard Lehman (surgeon), pioneered several orthopedic surgeries that are designed to minimize scarring and lower re-injury chances.

Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery

• Moshe Gueron best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
• Victor Chang
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), creator of radial keratotomy
• Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
• Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
• Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
• Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
• John Heysham Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine.

Fame and longevity

• John Ronald Brown (1922–2010). A notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient.
• Fyodor Uglov, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon
• Paul Spangler Naval surgeon, Senior Long distance runner

• David Hayes Agnew
• Norman Bethune (1890–1939), battlefield surgery.
• Theodor Billroth, stomach resection
• Ben Carson
• William Cheselden
• Realdo Colombo (c. 1516 – 1559)
• Abraham Colles (1773–1843)
• Denton Cooley
• Astley Cooper
• S. Natarajan, Noted Indian vitreo retinal surgeon
• John Green Crosse, MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
• Harvey Cushing, neurosurgery
• Michael E. DeBakey, cardiac surgery
• Clinton Thomas Dent, (1850–1912)
• Ted Eisenberg
• Evenor (3rd century BC)
• Judah Folkman
• Walter Freeman, lobotomy
• Atul Gawande, writer and surgeon, MacArthur Fellow (2006)
• Hermes Grillo
• Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgery
• Sir Victor Horsley, neurosurgery
• William Jardine
• Wilbert Keon
• Gerhard Küntscher
• Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
• William Macewen, general surgery and neurosurgery
• Walter Karl Koch
• William E. Ladd
• Robert Liston
• Joseph Pancoast, 19th century American surgeon
• Hiram Polk
• Sushruta
• Robert B. Salter, orthopedic surgery
• Ferdinand Sauerbruch, thoracic surgery
• Thomas Starzl, transplantation surgery, often called as the father of "modern transplantation".
• George H. Tichenor
• Sid Watkins, neurosurgeon and former Formula One chief medic
• Magdi Yacoub, heart and lung transplants
• Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
• Robert M. Zollinger

See also

• Surgery

External links

• History of Surgeons on surgeons.org.uk
• Orthopaedic Surgeon Directory