Louis Washkansky

Louis Washkansky

male, deceased (1967)
Louis Washkansky (1913 - 21 December 1967) was the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant. Washkansky was a Lithuanian Jew, who...
Denise Darvall

Denise Darvall

female, deceased (1967)
Denise Ann Darvall was the donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a te...

Philip Blaiberg

male, deceased (1969)
Philip Blaiberg (1909 - August 17, 1969) was a South African dentist and the second person to receive a heart transplant in the world. On January...

Peter Houghton

male
Peter Houghton is the longest surviving artificial heart transplant patient in the UK. Houghton was implanted with a Jarvik 2000 heart pump at the...
Jonathan Drummond-Webb

Jonathan Drummond-Webb

male, deceased (2004)
Jonathan Drummond-Webb was a South African pediatric heart surgeon. He gained national attention by way of a TV series called "Heart Attack", which...
Fiona Coote

Fiona Coote

female
Fiona Coote (born 1969 in Manilla, New South Wales) became the second and youngest person in Australia to undergo a heart transplant. The procedure...

Richard Devos

male, 83 years old (Ada, Michigan, United States)
Richard DeVos, Sr., (born March 4, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) is a billionaire co-founder of Amway (restructured as Alticor in 2000). In...
Derrick Morris

Derrick Morris

male, deceased (2005)
Derrick Morris (died July 30, 2005) was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient. Derrick Morris received his...

Travis Marcus

male, 19 years old
Travis Marcus (b. 1990) is the first child in the world to receive a heart transplant after the implementation of the DeBakey miniature heart pump,...
Bian Que

Bian Que

male
Bian Que [Chinese: 扁鹊, Wade Giles: Pien Ch'üeh; the characters are also often pronounced Bian Qiao, Wade-Giles: Pien Ch'iao] - The earliest known...