User:Ewingdo/sandbox/list of cardiologists

This is a list of people notable for their contributions to the field of cardiology. There are Wikipedia guidelines for notability and should serve as a starting point when determining who should be included in this list. There is not a single criterion for who should be included here. Many of the people on this list have associated eponyms. Examples include Jeremy Swan and William Ganz and their Swan-Ganz catheter and Karel Frederik Wenckebach and his association with second-degree atrioventricular block or Wenckebach phenomenon. Others are remembered for authoring key textbooks used by many in the study of cardiology. Examples include Eugene Braunwald and his textbook Braunwald's Heart Disease and J. Willis Hurst and his textbook Hurst's the Heart. Finally, most individuals on this list have had independent biographies published in mainstream literature. A common source is the journal Clinical Cardiology, where numerous biographies were written and/or edited by Drs. W. Bruce Fye and J. Willis Hurst.

Individuals who are cardiologists but notable for unrelated reasons would generally not be included on this list. For example, Conrad Murray is a cardiologist remembered for his involvement in the death of the American singer Michael Jackson.

For those individuals who made important contributions to cardiology yet would not be considered to be a cardiologist, their names have been added to the see also section at the end. For example, Melvin Judkins was a radiologist but also an early pioneer of coronary angiography. Norman Jefferis Holter was an American biophysicist who invented the Holter monitor. Neither were formally trained in cardiology.

A

 * Arthur Agatston (1947– ), American cardiologist, known for Agatston Score, used for measuring coronary artery calcium.
 * Robert Wayne Alexander (1941–2023), American biologist and cardiologist known for research in the fields of atherosclerosis, hypertension, and vascular biology.
 * Edgar Van Nuys Allen (1900–1961), American specialist in cardiovascular medicine, and remebered for his research of peripheral vascular disease. Known for the eponymous Allen test.
 * Robert Coleman Atkins (1930–2003), American cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet.

B

 * George William Balfour (1823–1903), Scottish physician and cardiologist.
 * John Brereton Barlow (1924–2008), South African cardiologist who first described mitral valve prolapse Barlow's syndrome
 * Robert Earl Beamish (1916–2001), Canadian physician and cardiologist.
 * Brigadier Davis Evan Bedford (1898–1978), British physician and cardiologist who was one of the first in England to study myocardial infarction.
 * Richard John Bing (1909–2010), German cardiologist.
 * Louis Faugères Bishop (1864–1941), American cardiologist who was first to limit his practice to cardiovascular disease and helped found the Sir James Mackenzie Cardiological Society which eventually evolved into the American College of Cardiology.
 * Edward F. Bland (1901–1992), American cardiologist with numerous contribution to the understanding of rheumatic fever and heart disease.
 * Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796–1881), French physician
 * Eugene Braunwald (1929– ), Austrian-born American cardiologist known for his work in the area of congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease. Editor of the cardiology textbook, Braunwald's Heart Disease.
 * Sir William Henry Broadbent (1835–1907), English neurologist who was a leading British authority in the field of cardiology as well as neurology.
 * Robert Arthur Bruce (1916–2004), American cardiologist and professor at the University of Washington known as the "father of exercise cardiology" for his research and development of the Bruce protocol.
 * George Edward Burch (1910–1986), American cardiologist, known for research on congestive heart failure and introduction of the “pressure-volume loop.”
 * Howard Burchell (1907–2009), American cardiologist with contributions to electrocardiography, pulmonary vascular disease, the role of dye dilution curves in cardiac catheterization, therapeutic and ill effects of quinidine and digitalis, uncommon manifestations of common heart disease as well as the recognition of uncommon heart disease, the spectrum of pericardial disease, and selected areas of valvular and coronary disease.

C

 * Alan John Camm (1947– ), British cardiologist with contributions to electrophysiology.
 * Agustin Walfredo Castellanos (1902–2000), Cuban pediatric cardiologist known for his contributions to congenital heart disease and cardiac catheterization.
 * Leszek Ceremużyński (1932–2009), Polish cardiologist with contributions in the field of neurohormonal responses in myocardial infarction, limitation of infarct size, and prevention of sudden cardiac death.
 * Ignacio Chávez Sánchez (1897–1979), Mexican cardiologist and founder and director (1944–1961) of the National Institute of Cardiology.
 * Dennis V. Cokkinos (1938– ), Greek cardiologist known for the study of preconditioning in diseased hearts and his contributions to cardiology education in Greece and the United States.
 * Charles Richard Conti (1934–2022), American cardiologist with contributions to the study of ischemic heart disease.
 * Carey Franklin Coombs (1879–1932), British cardiologist known for his work involving rheumatic and coronary heart disease.
 * Eliot Corday (1913–1999), Canadian-American cardiologist with contributions to invasive cardiology, ambulatory ECG monitoring, nuclear cardiology, sudden cardiac death, ischemic heart disease, and the concept of intensive coronary care units.
 * Sir Dominic John Corrigan (1802–1880), Irish physician, known for his original observations in heart disease and the abnormal "collapsing" pulse of aortic valve insufficiency called Corrigan's pulse.
 * Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets (1755–1821), French physician who was one of Napoleon’s physicians, with contributions to the field of pathological anatomy and his best known work, Essay on the Diseases and Organic Lesions of the Heart and Large Vessels.
 * André Frédéric Cournand (1895–1988), French-American physician and physiologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization.

D

 * Lewis Dexter (1910–1995), American cardiologist with contributions to early classic cardiology studies.
 * William Dock (1898–1990), American cardiologist.
 * William Dressler (1890–1969), Jewish-American cardiologist, known for Dressler syndrome.
 * Thomas M. Durant (1905–1977),
 * Paul Louis Duroziez (1826–1897), French physician remembered for describing Duroziez's sign.
 * Dirk Durrer (1918–1984), Dutch physician with contributions to electrophysiology and understanding of the electrical activity of the myocardium.

E

 * Inge Gudmar Edler (1911–2001), Swedish cardiologist, who in collaboration with Carl Hellmuth Hertz developed medical ultrasonography and echocardiography.
 * William Evans (1895–1988), British cardiologist with contributions to the areas of electrocardiography, cardiac radiology, alcohol and the heart, pulmonary hypertension, atrial fibrillation, the diagnosis of coronary disease, and the treatment of angina pectoris and heart failure. Along with Clifford Hoyle studied the "placebo effect".

F

 * Harvey Feigenbaum (1933 ), American cardiologist known for his contributions to echocardiography.


 * Charles Fisch (1921–2002), Polish-American cardiologist known for his contributions to medical education.
 * Guy Fontaine (1936–2018), French cardiologist with contributions to electrophysiology and pacemaker implantation.
 * Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann (1904–1979), German physician who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for contributions to cardiac catheterization.
 * John Milner Fothergill (1841–1888), British physician and medical writer.
 * Noble O. Fowler (1919–2003), American cardiologist best known for his study of pericardial disease and the management of cardiac tamponade.
 * Robert S. Fraser (1922– ), Canadian cardiologist.
 * Leon Frazin Performed the first TEE.
 * Charles Kaye Friedberg (1908–1972), American cardiologist, known for his medical textbook Diseases of the Heart.
 * Meyer Friedman (1910–2001), American cardiologist who developed, with colleague Ray H. Rosenman, the theory that the "Type A" behavior of chronically angry and impatient people increases their risk of heart failure.
 * Wallace Bruce Fye (1946– ), retired American cardiologist, medical historian, writer, bibliophile and philanthropist.

G

 * Louis Gallavardin (1875–1957), French cardiologist remembered for the Gallavardin phenomenon.
 * William Ganz (1919–2009), Hungarian-born American cardiologist who co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter, often referred to as the Swan-Ganz catheter, with Jeremy Swan in 1970.
 * Mario R. García Palmieri (1927–2014), Puerto Rican cardiologist and the first Hispanic to have the distinction of being designated a "Master" by the American College of Cardiology in recognition of his contributions to the field.
 * Frances Violet Gardner (1913–1989), British cardiologist who introduced angiocardiography to Britain in 1946.
 * Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), French philosopher remembered for his observations of the foramen ovale and pulmonary circulation.
 * Peter C. Gazes (1921–2019), American cardiologist and teacher.
 * John F. Goodwin (1918–2001), British cardiologist known for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy research.
 * Richard Gorlin (1926–1997), American cardiologist known for his contributions to the fields of valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease and cardiac catheterization, digitalis and vasodilators in congestive heart failure, and thrombolysis in myocardial infarctions. Co-developed the Gorlin Formula.


 * Robert Purves Grant (1915–1966), American cardiologist and director of the National Heart Institue, known for his research on Spatial Vector Electrocardiography.
 * Wilson Greatbatch (1919–2011), American engineer that invented early implantable pacemaker.
 * George C. Griffith (1898–1975), American cardiologist known for his study of rheumatic heart disease and diet in the treatment of atherosclerosis.
 * Franz Maximilian Groedel (1881–1951), German-American cardiologist and president of the New York Cardiological Society in 1949. From there, founded the American College of Cardiology.
 * Andreas Roland Gruentzig (1939–1985), German radiologist and cardiologist, known for development of coronary balloon angioplasty.
 * Naum Lazarevich Gurvich (1905–1981), Soviet-Jewish cardiac physician and pioneer in the development of defibrillators.
 * George James Guthrie
 * Arthur Clifton Guyton (1919–2003), American physiologist and author Textbook of Medical Physiology.

H

 * Edgar Haber (1932–1997), research physician specializing in cardiology, immunology, and molecular biology.
 * Stephen Hales (1677–1761), English clergyman with contributions to botany, pneumatic chemistry and physiology. He was the first person to measure blood pressure.
 * Marshall Hall (1790–1857), English physician, physiologist and early neurologist. His name is attached to the theory of reflex arc mediated by the spinal cord, to a method of resuscitation of drowned people, and to the elucidation of function of capillary vessels.
 * Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. Known by some as "the father of modern physiology.
 * William Ferguson Hamilton (1893–1964), American physician remembered for his contributions to hemodynamics.
 * David G. Harrison (1948– ), American cardiologist and teacher.
 * Tinsley Randolph Harrison (1900–1978), American physician and editor of the first five editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
 * Geoffrey O. Hartzler (1946–2012), American cardiologist with contributions in the fields of acute myocardial infarction and patients with complex multivessel disease.
 * William Harvey (1578–1657), English physician with contributions in anatomy and physiology, first physician to describe in detail the systemic circulation and the properties of blood being pumped by the heart.
 * Watkins Proctor Harvey (1918–2007), American cardiologist and teacher.
 * John Hay (1873–1959), British cardiologist and identified a form of second degree AV block.
 * William Heberden (1710–1801), English physician with early contributions to the understanding of angina pectoris.
 * Herman K. Hellerstein (1916–1993), American cardiologist and early pioneer in exercise physiology and cardiac rehabilitation.
 * James Bryan Herrick (1861–1954), American cardiologist and one of the first physicians to describe the symptoms and cause of myocardial infarction.
 * Albion Walter Hewlett (1874–1925), American physician and physiologist with important contributions to our understanding of cardiac arrhythmias and their pharmacological treatment.
 * Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866–1952), British physiologist known for Hill's sign.
 * Arthur Douglas Hirschfelder (1879–1942), American cardiologist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Minnesota and known for his studies of local anesthesia and heart ailments.
 * Wilhelm His Jr. (1831–1904), Swiss-born cardiologist and anatomist, discovered the bundle of His.
 * Arthur Hollman (1923–2014), British cardiologist, noted medical historian, and plantsman.
 * Norman Jefferis Holter (1914–1983), American biophysicist who along with Bill Glasscock invented the Holter monitor.
 * Max Holzmann (1899–1994), Swiss cardiologist and author of the textbook Clinical Electrocardiography.
 * James Hope (1801–1841), English physician was the first to classify murmurs in “A Treatise on the Disease of the Heart and the Great Vessels”.
 * Reginald E. B. Hudson (1922–1992), British pathologist, author of Cardiovascular Pathology and especially remembered for his studies of the conduction system and human aortic valve homograft.
 * Herbert N. Hultgren (1917–1997), American cardiologist and head of the Division of Cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
 * John O’Neal Humphries
 * John Hunter (1728–1793), Scottish surgeon who studied congenital abnormalities of the heart and acquired cardiac pathology.
 * John WIllis Hurst (1920–2011), American cardiologist who served as the cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and was the editor of the textbook Hurst's the Heart.
 * Albert Salisbury Hyman (1893–1972), American cardiologist, together with his brother Charles, constructed in 1930-1932 an electro-mechanical device which was one of the earliest artificial pacemakers.

J

 * Lewis E. January (1910–2002), American cardiologist and professor emeritus in the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
 * Edward Jenner (1749–1823), English physician and scientist who introduced vaccination and made important observations on the relationship between coronary artery disease and angina pectoris.
 * T. Duckett Jones (1899–1954), American cardiologist known for the Jones criteria used in the diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
 * Mark Josephson (1943–2017), American cardiologist and pioneer in cardiac electrophysiology and catheter-based treatments of cardiac arrhythmias.
 * Melvin Paul Judkins (1922–1985), American radiologist known for his contributions to the field of interventional cardiology and the development of Judkins catheters.
 * Desmond Gareth Julian (1926–2019), British cardiologist who pioneered the creation of coronary care units.

K

 * Louis Nelson Katz (1897–1973), Polish-American physician and physiologist. Known for his contrbutions to electrocardiography, hemodynamics, and teaching.
 * Chuichi Kawai (1928– ), Japanese cardiologist, known for his research in cardiomyopathies and myocarditis and for his contributions to medical education.
 * Arthur Keith (1866–1965), Scottish anatomist and anthropologist who discovered the sinoatrial node.
 * Albert Frank Stanley Kent (1863–1958), English physiologist known for the bundle of Kent, an alternative conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles.


 * Bruno Kisch (1890–1966), Czechoslovakian-American cardiologist and co-founder of the American College of Cardiology.
 * Charles Kite, British physician with early contributions in the late 1700's to cardiac resuscitation and defibrillation.
 * Rudolf Albert Von Koelliker (1817–1905), Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and histologist remembered for his early experiments involving the electrical activity of the heart.
 * Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov (1874–1920), Russian Empire surgeon, a pioneer of 20th-century vascular surgery, and the inventor of auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement Korotkoff sounds.
 * Nicholas George Kounis, Greek cardiologist, described Kounis syndrome.
 * William Bennet Kouwenhoven (1886–1975), German-American engineer is known as the "Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" and famous for his development of the closed-chest cardiac massage and his invention of the cardiac defibrillator.
 * Friedrich Kraus (1858–1936), Austrian internist, remembered for his achievements in the field of electrocardiography.
 * Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig (1770–1839), German physician with contributions to understanding endocarditis and Heim-Kreysig sign.
 * Dennis Michael Krikler (1928–2016), South African cardiologist known for research and publications on arrhythmias.

L

 * René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826), French physician and musician. Invented the stethoscope in 1816.
 * Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654–1720), Italian physician, epidemiologist, and anatomist known for his studies about cardiovascular diseases and is remembered in the eponymous Lancisi's sign.
 * Pierre Mere Latham (1789–1875), British physician, teacher, and early proponent of auscultation, and studied various heart diseases.
 * Aubrey Leatham (1920–2012), British cardiologist and teacher who advanced the art of auscultation, pacemakers, and angiography.
 * César Julien Jean Legallois (1770–1814), French physician and physiologist, remembered for his study of the heartbeat.
 * Samuel Albert Levine (1891–1966), American cardiologist, Levine scale, Levine's sign and Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome are named after him.
 * Thomas Lewis (1881–1945), British cardiologist and author of the textbook Diseases of the Heart.
 * William Likoff (1912–1987), American cardiologist, noted clinician, and teacher.
 * Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist who invented the first perfusion pump with Alexis Carrel opening the way to organ transplantation.
 * Wilhelm Löffler (1887–1972), Swiss physician, best known for Loeffler endocarditis and Löffler's syndrome.
 * R. Bruce Logue (1911–2007),
 * Richard Lower (1631–1691), British physician remembered for his works on transfusion and the function of the cardiopulmonary system. He also studied the arterial circle at the base of the brain, named the circle of Willis after his teacher.
 * Bernard Lown (1921–2021), Lithuanian-American cardiologist, original developer of the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation.
 * Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1816–1895), German physician and physiologist with contributions to cardiovascular physiology and invented the kymograph.

M

 * Friedrich Maass (1859– ), German surgeon who pioneered external chest compressions for resuscitation.
 * Sir James Mackenzie (1853–1925), Scottish cardiologist who was a pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias.
 * Arthur MacNalty (1880–1969), British physician with early contributions to the use of electrocardiography in the diagnosis of heart disease.
 * Ivan Mahaim(1897–1965), Belgium physician remembered for rare accessory pathways referred to as Mahaim pathways or Mahaim fibers.
 * George William Manning (1911–1992), Canadian cardiologist with contributions to electrocardiography and aviation medicine.
 * Frank I. Marcus (1928– ), American cardiologist and expert on arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
 * Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), French scientist and physiologist known for his studies of the cardiac cycle.
 * Henry Joseph Llewellyn Marriott (1917–2007)
 * Henry Newell Martin (1848–1896), British cardiac physiologist and vivisection activist.
 * Arthur M. Master (1895–1973), American cardiologist remembered for the Master two-step exercise test
 * Donald Arthur McDonald (1917–1973), British physiologist who established the modern approach to the study of arterial hemodynamics.
 * Sir John McMichael (1904–1993), Scottish cardiologist who introduced cardiac catheterization to Great Britain.
 * William R. Milnor (1920–2008), American cardiologist remembered for his study of hemodynamics.
 * George Ralph Mines (1886–1914), English electrophysiologist remembered for his studies of ventricular fibrillation.
 * Michel Mirowski (1924–1990), Polish-American, Implantable defibrillator.
 * Woldemar Mobitz (1889–1951), Russian-German physician, with the forms of second-degree AV block named after him.
 * Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology.
 * Arthur Jay Moss (1931–2018), American cardiologist with contributions to long QT syndrome, sudden cardiac death, and the MADIT trials.
 * William Murrell (1853–1912), English physician, clinical pharmacologist, and toxicologist known for recognizing the clinical benefits of glyceryl trinitrate (also known as nitroglycerin) for the management of angina pectoris.

O

 * Robert A. O'Rourke (1936–2011), American cardiologist.
 * John Jay Osborn (1917–2014), American physician who made contributions to the early use of cardiopulmonary bypass during heart surgery. Known for the ECG finding Osborn wave found in the hypothermic patient.
 * William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, remembered for his study of diseases of the heart and circulation.

P

 * Irvine H. Page (1901–1991), American physiologist who played an important part in the field of hypertension while at the Cleveland Clinic as the first Chair of Research.
 * James Paget (1814–1899), English surgeon and pathologist who first describe the bicuspid aortic valve.
 * Giovanni Paladino (1842–1917), Italian physician remembered for his contribution to the description of AV conduction pathways.
 * James Francis Pantridge (1916–2004), Irish cardiologist who introduced the modern system of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, introduction of the mobile coronary care unit, and invention of the portable defibrillator.
 * D. John Parker (1938–1997), British cardiac surgeon noted for early work comparing angioplasty with surgical and medical treatment of coronary disease.
 * Sir John Parkinson (1885–1976), British cardiologist known for Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
 * Caleb Hillier Parry (1755–1822), Anglo-Welsh physician known for early investigation coronary artery disease and angina.
 * Thomas Bevill Peacock (1812–1882), British cardiologist remembered for founding the London Chest Hospital and making a large contribution to the understanding of aortic dissection.
 * Joseph K. Perloff (1924–2014), American cardiologist and founder of the discipline of adult congenital heart disease.
 * Hubert V. Pipberger (1920–1993),
 * William Townsend Porter (1862–1949), American physician, physiologist, and medical educator who spent most of his career at Harvard Medical School. Founding editor of the American Journal of Physiology.
 * Pierre-Cal Potain (1825–1901), French physician remembered for his study of heart sounds and murmurs.
 * Myron Prinzmetal (1908–1987), American cardiologist, first to describe Prinzmetal angina.
 * Raymond D. Pruitt (1912–1993), American cardiologist remembered for his study of the AV conduction system.
 * Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869), Czech anatomist and physiologist, best known for his discovery of Purkinje cells.

R

 * Wilhelm Raab (1895–1970), Austrian-American physician known for his studies of catecholamines and heart disease.
 * Hilmert A. Ranges (1906–1969), American physician known for contributions to right heart catheterization.
 * Elliot Rapaport (1924–2010), American cardiologist known for his contributions to the understanding of the pathophysiology of mitral valve stenosis.
 * Max Ratschow (1904–1963), German physician who helped establish the discipline of angiology.
 * Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (1895–1973), American physician and physiologist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterization of a number of cardiac diseases.
 * Scipione Riva-Rocci (1863–1937), Italian internist, pathologist and pediatrician, best known for the invention of an easy-to-use cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer.
 * Lazare Rivière (1589–1655), French physician credited as the first physician to describe aortic valve disease.
 * William C. Roberts (1932– ), American pathologist and cardiologist specializing in cardiac pathology.
 * Karl Rokitanski (1804–1878),
 * Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), Bohemian autopsy pathologist.
 * Mauricio Rosenbaum (1921–2003),
 * Richard Starr Ross (1924–2015), American cardiologist and physiologist known for his study of myocardial blood flow and introduced coronary cineangiography, a method for taking the first motion pictures of the heart.
 * Olof Rudbeck (1630–1702), Swedish scientist known for his discovery of the lymphatic system and his anatomical studies of the heart.

S

 * Alexander F. Samoylov (1867–1930), Russian cardiologist and pioneering electrophysiologist.
 * Hikaru Sato ( –2021), Japanese physician and discoverer of ‘Takotsubo syndrome’.
 * Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832), Italian anatomist and surgeon. Remembered for his classic observations on aneurysms and his original description of the cardiac nerves.
 * Leo Schamroth (1924–1988), South African cardiologist remembered for his work in electrocardiography and for describing Schamroth's window test.


 * David Scherf (1899–1977), Austro-Hungarian and American cardiologist known for his clinical and experimental research of electrocardiography and arrhythmias.
 * Robert C. Schlant (1929–2002), American cardiologist.
 * Harold Nathan Segall (1897–1990), Romanian-Canadian cardiologist and teacher.
 * Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921–1998), Swedish radiologist who introduced the Seldinger technique to obtain safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs.
 * Jean-Baptiste de Sénac (1693–1770), French physician known for his studies of the heart and was the first physician to describe the correlation between atrial fibrillation and mitral valve disease, as well as the first to provide a comprehensive study of cardiac hypertrophy.
 * Elena Sgarbossa ( – )Argentinian physician who described Sgarbossa criteria in recognizing acute myocardial infarction with a left bundle branch block.
 * Edward Peter Sharpey-Schafer (1908–1963), British physician known for his study of the circulation.
 * Ulrich Sigwart (1941– ), German cardiologist known for development and use of vascular stents and introduced a non-surgical treatment for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
 * Mark Edwin Silverman (1939–2008), American cardiologist, medical historian, medical educator, and author, who founded the cardiology program at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * Joseph Škoda (1805–1881), Czech physician, medical professor who pioneered the art of percussion and auscultation when examining the patient.
 * Homer William Smith (1895–1962), American physiologist, known for his study of the kidney and it's role in hypertension.
 * Thomas Woodward Smith (1936–1997), American cardiologist known for contributions to the determination of serum digoxin concentrations and was a principal investigator of the “DIG” (Digitalis Investigation Group) study.
 * Demetrio Sodi-Pallares (1913–2003), Mexican cardiologist known for his contributions to ECG interpretation and teaching.
 * Jane Somerville (1933– ), British cardiologist, known for defining the concept and subspecialty of grown ups with congenital heart disease (GUCH) and being involved with Britain's first heart transplantation in 1968.
 * Walter Somerville (1913–2005), Irish cardiologist
 * F. Mason Sones, Jr. (1918–1985), American physician pioneered work in cardiac catheterization and was instrumental in the development of coronary artery bypass surgery and interventional cardiology.
 * Edmund Sonnenblick (1932–2007), American cardiologist, known for his studies of the function of cardiac muscle cells that shaped the basis of both cardiovascular physiology and the modern treatment of cardiovascular disease.
 * George Edgar Sowton
 * Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799), Italian Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist who made classic observations on the physiology of the circulation.
 * Howard B. Sprague (1895–1970), American cardiologist.
 * Jeremiah Stamler (1919– ), American scientist credited with introducing the term "risk factors" into the field of cardiology.
 * Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. (1908–2005), American physician and early pioneer in cardiac catheterization and congestive heart failure.
 * Graham Steell (1851–1942), Scottish cardiologist remembered for Graham Steell murmur.
 * Niels Stensen (1638–1686), Danish scientist, first proposed the heart was only a muscle (and nothing more).
 * William Stokes (1804–1878), British physician and surgeon, Cheyne–Stokes respiration and Adams–Stokes syndrome are named after him.
 * Josephus Struthius (1510–1568), Polish physician, early pioneer of modern cardiology.
 * Harold James Charles Swan (1922–2005), Irish cardiologist, who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter.

T

 * Helen Brooke Taussig (1898–1986), American physician, known for research into congenital heart defects, with Alfred Blalock, perfected the Blalock–Taussig shunt.
 * Sunao Tawara (1873–1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node.
 * Robert Tigerstedt (1853–1923), Finnish-born medical scientist and physiologist who, with his student Per Bergman, discovered renin.
 * Pavlos K. Toutouzas (1935– ), Greek cardiologist.
 * João Tranchesi (1922–1978), Brazilian cardiologist and electro-vectorcardiographer.
 * Ludwig Traube (1818–1876), German physician known for Traube pulse (pulsus bigeminus) and Traube sign.

V

 * Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666–1723), Italian anatomist, described the aortic sinuses of Valsalva and the Valsalva maneuver.
 * Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of an influential book on human anatomy, referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.
 * Raymond Vieussens (c 1635 or 1641–1715), French physician and anatomist who provided early accurate descriptions of the left ventricle and several blood vessels of the heart.
 * Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821–1902), German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology.
 * Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power, credited as the inventor of the electric battery.

W

 * Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922), British physiologist known for using a capillary electrometer to record the first human electrocardiogram.
 * James Wardrop (1782–1869), Scottish surgeon and ophthalmologist, known in cardiology for his books on heart disease and aneurysms.
 * James V. Warren (1915–1990), American cardiologist who contributed to research in sudden cardiac death, congestive heart failure, the utility of cardiac catheterization, and helped develop the precursor to today’s paramedic programs.
 * John Collins Warren (1778–1856), American surgeon, published the first monograph on heart disease in the United States.
 * Thomas Watson (1792–1882), British physician primarily known for describing the water hammer pulse found in aortic regurgitation.
 * Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Weber (1806–1871), German anatomist and physiologist who contributed to important research and publications dealing with hemodynamics and electrophysiology.
 * Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Weber (1795–1878), German physician who contributed to important research and publications dealing with hemodynamics and electrophysiology.
 * Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–1891), German physicist who contributed to research in hemodynamics and electrophysiology.
 * Arnold M. Weissler (1927– ),
 * Henrick Joan Joost (Hein) Wellens (1935–2020), Dutch cardiologist considered one of the founding fathers of clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
 * Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940), Dutch anatomist who first described what became known as second degree AV block Mobtiz Type 1 or Wenckebach phenomenon.
 * Nanette Wenger (1930– ), American cardiologist known for her contributions to the study of heart disease in women.
 * Paul Dudley White (1886–1973), American cardiologist, remembered as a prominent advocate of preventive medicine.
 * Carl John Wiggers (1883–1963), American physician known for his work on the systemic circulation and Wiggers diagram.
 * Morris Wilburne, proposed the first coronary care unit.
 * Frederick Arthur Willius (1888–1972), American research cardiologist and the author of many hundreds of essays and textbooks in his field.
 * Frank Norman Wilson (1890–1952), American cardiologist known primarily for his contributions to electrocardiography.
 * William Withering (1741–1799), English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician, and first systematic investigator of the bioactivity of digitalis.
 * Louis Wolff (1898–1972), American cardiologist, described Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with Doctors John Parkinson and Paul Dudley White.
 * Earl Howard Wood (1912–2009), American cardiopulmonary physiologist who helped invent the G-suit, brought heart catheterization into clinical reality and introduced dynamic volumetric computed tomography for the study of the heart and lungs.
 * Paul Hamilton Wood (1907–1962), Australian cardiologist known for contribution in congenital heart disease, rheumatic valve disease, and pulmonary hypertension
 * Irving Sherwood Wright (1901–1997), American cardiologist known for the first use of an anti-coagulant to dissolve blood clots.

Y

 * Thomas Young (1773–1829), British physician scientist who made notable contributions to the field of blood circulation and was the author of the 1809 paper, “On the Functions of the Heart and Arteries”.

Z

 * Henry Abram Zimmerman (1915–2007), American physician who performed the first left-sided cardiac catheterization in the late 1940s.
 * Paul Maurice Zoll (1911–1999), Jewish American cardiologist and pioneer in the development of the artificial cardiac pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator.

A

 * Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women who graduated in Medicine, an expert in congenital heart diseases.
 * Peter Christian Abildgaard (1740–1801), Danish veterinarian and physician, conducted experiments on electrical countershock on animals.
 * Anthony J. Adducci (1937–2006), American inventor of the first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker.
 * Raymond Perry Ahlquist (1914–1983), American pharmacist and pharmacologist. Published seminal work in 1948 that divided adrenoceptors into α- and β-adrenoceptor subtypes.
 * Kurt Anton Amplatz (1924–2019), Austrian radiologist and medical device inventor known for performing one of the first percutaneous catheterizations of the heart, the invention of cardiac septal occlusion devices, cardiac catheters, and wires used in cardiac catheterization.
 * Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942), German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart.

B

 * Jean George Bachmann (1877–1959), German-American physiologist discovered the function of the intraauricular bundle Bachmann's bundle.
 * Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707), Armenio-Italian physician and scientist who published the first clinical description of heart failure, pulmonary edema, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, and described what was later called cardiac asthma.
 * Henry Theodore Bahnson (1920–2003), American surgeon noted for basic research of the pulmonary circulation, coarctation of the aorta and the association with kidney-related hypertension, and his pioneering role in the excision of thoracic aortic aneurysms.
 * Matthew Baillie (1761–1823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels (TGV) and situs inversus.
 * Earl Elmer Bakken (1924–2018), Dutch-Norwegian-American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist founded Medtronic, developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
 * Robert Hebard Bayley (1906–1969), American physician who advanced the application of mathematical principles to electrocardiography.
 * Claude Beck (1894–1971), American cardiac surgeon, known for innovating various cardiac surgery techniques and performing the first defibrillation of the exposed human heart.
 * Lorenzo Bellini (1643–1704), Italian physician and anatomist.
 * Antonio di Paolo Benivieni (1443–1502), Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy and many medical historians have considered him a founder of pathology.
 * Barouh Vojtec Berkovits (1926–2012), American engineer from Czechoslovakia who pioneered while at Medtronic the development of the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker.
 * Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physician and physiologist one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments and discovery of the vasomotor system.


 * René-Joseph-Hyacinthe Bertin (1757–1828), French anatomist known for his pioneer work in cardiology, especially cardiac hypertrophy.
 * Marie-François-Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology.
 * John Blackall (1771–1860), English physician, early interest in "dropsy" (anasarca, ascites, hydrothorax or pleural effusion, and “dropsy” of the brain or hydrocephalus) and angina pectoris.
 * Herrmann Ludwig Blumgart (1895–1977), American physician considered by some as “the father of nuclear medicine”.
 * Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679), Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation.
 * Leonardo Botallo (1519–1587 or 1588), Italian physician known for the rediscovery of Botallo’s duct (ductus arteriosus) and Botalio’s foramen (foramen ovale cordis).
 * Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808–1892), American physician and a prominent Christian abolitionist who popularized the stethoscope.
 * Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840–1911), American soldier, physician, physiologist, and dean of the Harvard Medical School.
 * Harris H. Branham (1862–1938), American physician known for Branham’s sign.
 * Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844–1916), Scottish physician who is associated with the use of amyl nitrite to treat angina pectoris.
 * Allan Burns (1781–1813), Scottish surgeon known for the classic monograph "Observations on Some of the Most Frequent and Important Diseases of the Heart" and his study of cardiovascular disease.

C

 * Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), Italian physician known for his study of blood circulation.
 * Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro das Chagas (1879–1934), Brazilian physician known for discovery of Chagas disease and discovery of the parasitic fungal genus Pneumocystis, later linked to pneumocystis pneumonia in AIDS patients.
 * Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884), German-Jewish pathologist known for his research on the mechanism of inflammation and the study of circulation.
 * Matteo Realdo Colombo (1510 or 1515–1559), Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua who published the first definitive description of the pulmonary circulation.
 * William Cowper (1666–1709), English surgeon and anatomist who first described aortic valve regurgitation.
 * James Curry (1763–1819), Irish physician known for how electricity might be used to revive those who appeared to had died.
 * Arthur Robertson Cushny (1866–1926), Scottish pharmacologist and physiologist performed first experimental analysis of the action of digitalis.

D

 * René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who contributed an early and very important response to William Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood.
 * Franz Cornelis Donders (1818–1889), Dutch ophthalmologist with contributions to cardiovascular physiology and the rhythm of heart sounds.
 * Harriet Pearson Dustan (1920–1999), American physician known for her pioneering contributions to effective detection and treatment of hypertension.

E

 * Wilhelm Ebstein (1836–1912), Polish-German physician best known for Ebstein's anomaly and for proposing a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet to treat obesity.
 * Jesse E. Edwards (1911–2008), American cardiac pathologist known for his large collection of human hearts for the study of pathology and congenital defects.
 * Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), Dutch physician and physiologist who invented the first practical electrocardiogram and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it.
 * Rune Elmqvist - Swedish physician and engineer who developed the first implantable pacemaker.
 * John Eric Erichsen (1818–1896), Danish-born British surgeon known for his pioneering observations on the experimental ligation of the coronary arteries and his important textbook on aneurysms.

F

 * Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (1850–1911), French physician who described in detail the four anatomical characteristics of tetralogy of Fallot.
 * Harvey Feigenbaum known for his contributions to echocardiography.
 * Jean François Fernel (1497–1558), French physician who introduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function.
 * John Ferriar (1761–1815), Scottish physician who published the first monograph on digitalis after William  Withering
 * Adolph Eugen Fick (1829–1901), German physician, physicist, and mathematician who first described how mass balance might be used to measure cardiac output, now known as the Fick principle.
 * Martin William Flack (1882–1931), British physiologist who co-discovered the sinoatrial node with Sir Arthur Keith.
 * Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955),
 * Austin Flint (1812–1886), American physician, remembered for the Austin Flint murmur.
 * John Floyer (1649–1734), English physician known for introducing the practice of pulse rate measurement.
 * John Forbes (1787–1861), British physcian known for popularizing the stethoscope.