List of surgeons

Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures

Claudius Amyand, performed the first Appendicectomy

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 and founder of early schools of anatomy

Theodore H. Schwartz, first center in New York City to use intraoperative MRI scanning during endoscopic pituitary surgery

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

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

Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy

Gavril Ilizarov, 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.

William Stewart Halsted, remembered for his emphasis on aseptic technique during surgical procedures.

Fame and longevity

John Ronald Brown (1922–2010), 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 A. Cooley, cardiac surgery, first total artificial heart (TAH) implantation

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

Nancy Snyderman

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

Michael Salzhauer, plastic surgeon