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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Lewisohn | Richard Lewisohn | 1875 | 1961 | German | surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lewisohn |
| Nathaniel Wallich | Nathaniel Wolff Wallich FRS FRSE | 1786 | 1854 | null | surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Wallich |
| Henry Heimlich | Henry Judah Heimlich February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016) | null | null | American | thoracic surgeon and medical researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Heimlich |
| Maxwell Maltz | Maxwell Maltz | 1899 | 1975 | American | cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image leading to a more successful and fulfilling life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Maltz |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | Sherwin Bernard Nuland | null | null | American | surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwin_B._Nuland |
| Ben L. Salomon | Benjamin Lewis Salomon | 1944 | n/a | null | United States Army dentist during World War II, assigned as a front-line surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._Salomon |
| Steven Rosenberg | Steven A. Rosenberg | 1940 | n/a | American | cancer researcher and surgeon, chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and a Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Rosenberg |
| Leonard Shlain | Leonard Shlain | 1937 | 2009 | American | surgeon, author, and inventor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Shlain |
| Serge Voronoff | Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff | 1866 | 1951 | French | surgeon of Russian extraction who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Voronoff |
| Alain Calmat | Alain Calmat | 1940 | n/a | French | former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Calmat |
| Karl Koller (ophthalmologist) | Karl Koller | 1857 | 1944 | Austrian | ophthalmologist who began his medical career as a surgeon at the Vienna General Hospital and a colleague of Sigmund Freud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koller_(ophthalmologist) |
| Terry Dubrow | Terry J. Dubrow | 1958 | n/a | American | plastic surgeon and television personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Dubrow |
| Armin Tehrany | Armin M. Tehrany, M.D. | null | null | American | orthopaedic surgeon, assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Tehrany |
| Charles Kelman | Charles David Kelman | 1930 | 2004 | American | ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, jazz musician, entertainer, and Broadway producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kelman |
| John Frank (tight end) | John E. Frank | 1962 | n/a | null | hair restoration surgeon, former professional athlete and bobsledder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frank_(tight_end) |
| Bernard Fisher (scientist) | Bernard Fisher | 1918 | 2019 | American | surgeon and a pioneer in the biology and treatment of breast cancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Fisher_(scientist) |
| Roy Yorke Calne | Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRCP, FRCS, FRS | 1930 | n/a | British | surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Yorke_Calne |
| José Aboulker | José Aboulker | 1920 | 2009 | French | Jew and leading figure in French Algeria of the anti-Nazi resistance in World War II. After the war, he became a neurosurgeon and a political figure in France, who argued for the political rights of Algerian Muslims | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Aboulker |
| Jean Hamburger | Jean Hamburger | 1909 | 1992 | French | physician, surgeon and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hamburger |
| Al Gross (politician) | Alan Stuart Gross | 1962 | n/a | American | orthopedic surgeon and a commercial fisherman who, running as an independent candidate, was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gross_(politician) |
| Sheila Faith | Irene Sheila Faith | 1928 | 2014 | British | politician and dental surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Faith |
| Rudolph Nissen | Rudolph Nissen | 1896 | 1981 | null | surgeon who chaired surgery departments in Turkey, the United States and Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Nissen |
| James Israel | James Adolf Israel | 1848 | 1926 | German | surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Israel |
| Ernest Sachs | Ernest Sachs | 1879 | 1958 | American | neurosurgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Sachs |
| Leo Buerger | Leo Buerger | 1879 | 1943 | Austrian | pathologist, surgeon and urologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Buerger |
| João Faras | Mestre João Faras, better known simply as Mestre João | null | null | null | astrologer, astronomer, physician and surgeon of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, and wrote a famous letter identifying the Southern Cross constellation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Faras |
| Nicolae Blatt | Nicolae Blatt | 1890 | 1965 | Romanian | ophthalmologist, surgeon, and medical researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Blatt |
| Gary K. Michelson | Gary K. Michelson | 1949 | n/a | American | orthopedic surgeon, medical inventor, and billionaire philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_K._Michelson |
| Yona Kosashvili | Yona Kosashvili | 1970 | n/a | Israeli | chess Grandmaster and surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Kosashvili |
| Jan F. Esser | Johannes "Jan" Fredericus Samuel Esser | 1877 | 1946 | Dutch | plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_F._Esser |
| Henry Buchwald | Henry Buchwald | 1932 | n/a | Austrian | surgeon and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Buchwald |
| Aaron Cohen-Gadol | Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol | 1970 | n/a | null | professor of neurological surgery in the department of neurosurgery at Indiana University School of Medicine and a neurosurgeon at Indiana University Health specializing in surgical treatment of brain tumors and aneurysms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Cohen-Gadol |
| Julius Wolff (surgeon) | Julius Wolff | 1836 | 1902 | German | surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wolff_(surgeon) |
| Liebe Sokol Diamond | Liebe Sokol Diamond | 1931 | 2017 | American | pediatric orthopedic surgeon and an inductee of the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebe_Sokol_Diamond |
| Bernie S. Siegel | Bernie Siegel | 1932 | n/a | American | writer and retired pediatric surgeon, who writes on the relationship between the patient and the healing process | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_S._Siegel |
| Robert Goldwyn | Robert Malcolm Goldwyn | 1930 | 2010 | American | surgeon; an author, activist, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1972 to 1996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goldwyn |
| Janusz Bardach | Janusz Bardach | 1919 | 2002 | null | gulag survivor, author, and noted plastic surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Bardach |
| Leonard Abrahamson | Leonard Abrahamson | 1896 | 1961 | Irish | surgeon specialising in cardiology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Abrahamson |
| Tirone E. David | Tirone Esperidiao David | 1944 | n/a | Brazilian | cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Toronto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirone_E._David |
| Jacob Moritz Blumberg | Jacob Moritz Blumberg | 1873 | 1955 | German | Jewish surgeon and gynaecologist and inventor and namesake of the Blumberg sign | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Moritz_Blumberg |
| Izidor Papo | Izidor Papo | 1913 | 1996 | null | surgeon, general, military medical chief and academician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izidor_Papo |
| Gertrude Herzfeld | Gertrude Marian Amalia Herzfeld | 1890 | 1981 | English | surgeon, one of the first female surgeons to work in Scotland and the first woman paediatric surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Herzfeld |
| Albert Salomon (surgeon) | Albert Salomon | 1883 | 1976 | German | Jewish surgeon at the Royal Surgical University Clinic in Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Salomon_(surgeon) |
| Harold Reitman | Harold "Hackie" Stuart Reitman, M.D. | 1950 | n/a | American | orthopedic surgeon, former professional boxer, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Reitman |
| Jeffrey P. Gold | Jeffrey Philip Gold, M.D. | null | null | American | surgeon, medical educator, and academic administrator who has been the chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center since February 1, 2014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_P._Gold |
| Benjamin Milstein | Benjamin Bethel Milstein | 1918 | 2013 | British | surgeon and heart surgery pioneer who was heavily involved in the development of cardiothoracic surgery and early heart transplant attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Milstein |
| Otto Zuckerkandl | Otto Zuckerkandl | 1861 | 1921 | Austrian | urologist and surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Zuckerkandl |
| Eugen Pólya | Jenő Sándor Pólya | 1876 | 1944 | Hungarian | surgeon who was a native of Budapest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Pólya |
| Luis de Almeida (missionary) | Luis de Almeida | 1525 | 1583 | Portuguese | surgeon, merchant and missionary of the Society of Jesus in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Almeida_(missionary) |
| Ludwig Lewin Jacobson | Ludwig Lewin Jacobson | 1783 | 1843 | Danish | surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Lewin_Jacobson |
| Alexander Lipmann-Kessel | Lipmann Kessel, MBE, MC, FRCS | 1914 | 1986 | null | famous orthopaedic surgeon and Second World War medical officer, often known by his nickname of Lippy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lipmann-Kessel |
| Siegmund Hadda | Siegmund Hadda | 1882 | 1977 | German | Jewish surgeon and chief physician at the Jewish Hospital in Breslau (now Wrocław) during the rise of the Nazi Regime | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegmund_Hadda |
| Julian Chorążycki | Julian Chorążycki | 1885 | 1943 | null | throat surgeon practising in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Chorążycki |
| Karel Sperber | Karel Sperber OBE | 1910 | 1957 | Czech | Jewishoslovak surgeon who travelled to England after the Nazi invasion of his country, but unable to practice medicine because he was an alien, took a job as a ship's doctor instead and was captured by Axis forces when his ship was sunk by the Germans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Sperber |
| George Berci | George Berci, MD, FACS, FRCS, Ed | 1921 | n/a | Hungarian | surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, United States and a pioneer in minimally invasive surgeries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berci |
| Leon Goldman (1904–1975) | Leon Goldman | 1904 | 1975 | American | surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Goldman_(1904–1975) |
| Laurence Levy | Professor Laurence Fraser Levy | 1921 | 2007 | null | pioneering neurosurgeon based in Harare, Zimbabwe, noted as the first neurosurgeon in Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Levy |
| Fava of Manosque | Fava of Manosque | null | null | null | Jewish physician and surgeon known to practice medicine in the early 14th century in Provence, France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fava_of_Manosque |
| Albert Levy (surgeon) | Albert Moses Levy | 1800 | 1848 | Dutch | physician best known for his work as a surgeon to the Texas Military Forces during and after the Texas Revolution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Levy_(surgeon) |
| Phineas Jonathan Horwitz | Phineas Jonathan Horwitz | 1822 | 1904 | American | surgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Jonathan_Horwitz |
| Lewis Durlacher | Lewis Durlacher | 1792 | 1864 | null | chiropodist who was appointed as surgeon-chiropodist to the royal household in 1823 and served under George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Durlacher |
| John G. Millingen | John Gideon Millingen | 1782 | 1862 | British | army surgeon and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Millingen |
| Ernest Sachs Jr. | Ernest Sachs Jr. | 1916 | 2001 | American | neurosurgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Sachs_Jr. |
| Alexander Gershman | Alexander Gershman | 1961 | n/a | Russian | surgeon (born on May 26, 1961 in Moscow, Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gershman |
| Mirko Beer | Mirko Beer | 1905 | 1942 | null | surgeon, a military physician and a political activist originally from what is now Serbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Beer |
| Ellis Douek | Ellis Douek | 1934 | n/a | British | surgeon and cochlear implant pioneer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Douek |
| Montague Durlacher | Montague Durlacher | 1824 | 1894 | English | surgeon-chiropodist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Durlacher |
| Joshua Medow | Joshua Eric Medow | 1973 | n/a | American | neurosurgeon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Medow |
| Isadore Tarlov | Isadore Max Tarlov | 1905 | 1977 | American | neurosurgeon, academic and researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadore_Tarlov |
| Yakov Brand | Yakov Beniaminovich Brand | 1955 | 2018 | Russian | cardiac surgeon and television presenter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Brand |
| Jeffrey Oppenheim | Jeffrey Sable Oppenheim | 1962 | n/a | American | physician and politician, known for being a neurosurgeon in the state of New York as well as the second mayor of the Village of Montebello, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Oppenheim |