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