List of surgeons
# 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 (1903–1973), 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 (surgeon), pioneered several orthopedic surgeries
* Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) 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.(Edin.). 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

* 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
* Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), 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
