List of surgeons

These are lists 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

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.

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