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.
 * Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
 * Robert M. Zollinger