List of surgeons 1970781 221958335 2008-06-26T21:34:32Z Ghirlandajo 147410 [[Fyodor Uglov]] Below follows a list of famous [[surgery|surgeons]] and [[cardiologists]]: * [[David Hayes Agnew]] * [[Christiaan Barnard]], cardiac surgery, first [[heart transplantation]] * [[Norman Bethune]] (1890-1939), [[battlefield medicine|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]] * [[Moshe Gueron]] best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting. * [[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 (surgeon)|John Hunter]], first aneurysm operation * [[Gavril Ilizarov]] a Russian [[orthopedics| orthopedic]] surgeon who invented [[Ilizarov apparatus|the procedure]] to lengthen or reshape limb bones. * [[William Jardine (surgeon)|William Jardine]] * [[Wilbert Joseph Keon|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 [[cardiothoracic surgery|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]] * [[Fyodor Uglov]], listed in the [[Guinness Book of Records]] as the oldest practicing surgeon * [[Sid Watkins]], neurosurgeon and former [[Formula One]] chief medic * [[Michael Woodruff]], [[Organ transplant|transplantation]] pioneer. * [[Magdi Yacoub]], heart and lung transplants * [[Gazi Yasargil|Gazi Yaşargil]], founder of micro-neurosurgery * [[Zollinger-Ellison syndrome|Robert M. Zollinger]] == See also == * [[Surgery]] ==External links== *[http://www.surgeons.org.uk/history-of-surgeons/index.html History of Surgeons] on surgeons.org.uk [[Category:Surgery]]