List of surgeons
These are lists of notable surgeons.
Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures
- Silvano Raia, Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989
- B. K. Misra, First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
- Claudius Amyand, performed the first Appendicectomy
- Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
- William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
- Eric Mühe, first laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.
- John Heysham Gibbon, first open heart surgery
- Simon Hullihen, The Father of Oral Surgery
- John Hunter, first aneurysm operation and founder of early schools of anatomy
- Leonard B. Kaban, Walter C. Guralnick Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, pioneer in oral, maxillofacial and craniofacial surgery
- Richard Lehman, pioneered several orthopedic surgeries
- Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique aka Mohs surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.
- Dallas B. Phemister, developed the Phemister graft and early innovator in orthopedics
- 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.. Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
- Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.
- Sergelen Orgoi developed low cost liver transplantation for developing countries
Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery
- Onyekwere Akwari, Nigerian-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.
- Victor Chang, a cardiac surgeon
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov, creator of radial keratotomy
- John Heysham Gibbon, invented the heart-lung machine.
- Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy
- Moshe Gueron, best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
- Gavril Ilizarov, Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
- Walter Lawrence Jr., surgical oncologist and leader in civil rights health equity efforts
- Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
- Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
- Kakish Ryskulova, inventor of new techniques in vascular surgery
- Hilda Villegas Castrejón, Mexican surgeon and pioneer in electron microscopy
- Vivien Thomas, developer with Alfred Blalock and Helen B. Taussig of the first congenital heart surgery techniques