List of surgeons
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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
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