- Hood Surgeon
Curtis Young (born December 15, 1981), known as Hood Surgeon, is the son of legendary hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre. Young performs under the Hood Surgeon moniker, and has been working with Lil Eazy-E, Eazy-E's son. Curtis' real birth name is Mclemore. He met his father, who's real name is Andre Young, in 2002 and since uses the same last name. Although some sources have confirmed his debut album to be "Son of a Doctor", …
- Michael E. Debakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (born Michel Dabaghi on September 7, 1908, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States) is a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and researcher. His motto is "Strive for nothing less than excellence."
- Surgeon
Surgeon is the pseudonym of Anthony Child, an English electronic musician and DJ. He began DJing regularly at Birmingham's House of God parties in 1991 and released his eponymous debut EP on Downwards Records in 1994. He currently releases music on his own labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension, and DJs using Ableton Live. His musical style is characterised by his ability to incorporate the more leftfield aspects of his musical background into his club-based material.
- Jayant Patel
Jayant Mukundray Patel (born April 10, 1950) is a surgeon who found himself at the centre of a scandal in early 2005 when he was accused of gross incompetence while working at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia. He has been nicknamed "Doctor Death" in Australian media, particularly newspapers such as News Ltd's "The Courier-Mail".
- Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr
Last week, the city of Lynchburg, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the entire country lost one of our dearest sons in the passing of Rev. Falwell. Today Dr. Falwell was laid to rest. I am sad that business here in Washington kept many of us from being able to attend today's services, but since we were unable to attend, we have joined here tonight to pay homage to this great leader. Dr. Falwell's legacy is one that will not soon be forgotten.
- John Taylor
"Chevalier" John Taylor (1703-1772) was the first in a long line of British eye surgeons. While there is some evidence that he showed promise as an eye surgeon early in his career, it became evident that his major talent was that of self-promotion. Dubbing himself "Chevalier" and "Ophthalmiater Royal," Taylor became the self-proclaimed personal eye surgeon to King George II, the Pope and number of European royal families.
- John Hunter
John Hunter (February 13, 1728 - October 16, 1793) was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of the application of rigorous scientific experimentation in medicine.
- James Andrews
Dr. James Andrews is an orthopaedic surgeon, widely considered one of the foremost surgeons in the United States for knee, elbow, and shoulder injuries. He is also credited with performing some of the very earliest arthroscopies
- John Murray
Sir John Murray KCB (3 March 1841 – 6 March 1914) was a pioneering Scots-Canadian oceanographer and marine biologist. Murray was born at Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, to Scottish parents who had emigrated seven years earlier. He returned to Scotland to study, firstly at Stirling High School, and then at the University of Edinburgh, but soon left to join a whaling expedition to Spitsbergen as ships' surgeon in 1868.
- Denton Cooley
Denton Arthur Cooley (born August 22, 1920) is a pioneering American Heart surgeon. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Tau Chapter and graduated in 1941 from the University of Texas, then went on to complete his medical degree and his...
- Mehmet Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz (born June 11, 1960) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and author. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents, and was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1982 and obtained a joint MD and MBA degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Oz is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.
- John White
John White (c. 1756 - 20 February 1832) was an English surgeon and botanical collector. White was the principal surgeon during the First Fleet to Australia. White arrived in Australia in 1788 as Surgeon-General of New South Wales. He wrote "A Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales" (1790), which described many species of Australian flora and fauna for the first time. He was the first to describe the South-East Asian frog "Litoria caerulea", …
- Robert Brown
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a classmate of Thomas Dick. He joined the army as a surgeon in 1795.
- John Bell
John Bell was a Scottish anatomist and surgeon. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland; an elder brother of Sir Charles Bell. After completing his professional education at Edinburgh, he carried on from 1790 in Surgeons' Square an anatomical lecture-theatre, where, in spite of much opposition, due partly to the unconservative character of his teaching, he attracted large audiences by his lectures, in which he was for a time assisted by his younger brother Charles.
- John Wright
John Wright was a surgeon from Birmingham, England who invented a process of electroplating involving potassium cyanide. The process was patented in 1840 by Wright's associate George Richards Elkington.
- William Hamilton
William Hamilton (died 4 December 1717) was a surgeon in the British East India Company. He was a part of the delegation that went from Calcutta, the base of the company, to meet Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar in his court in Delhi in 1715.
- Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 - September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He is famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
- Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith (b. 1823 - d. 1922) was an American surgeon and a pioneer in public health. Smith led the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Health in New York City in 1866, the first such public health agency in the United States. He later founded the American Public Health Association.
- Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson (January 7, 1750-February 20, 1830) was a Scottish author and critic. He was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took his M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1778. He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick in Northumberland, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of John Gray, …
- Andrew Smith
Dr. Sir Andrew Smith KCB (December 3, 1797 - August 12, 1872) was a Scottish surgeon, naturalist, explorer and zoologist. Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He obtained a good education by diligence and hard work and qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University obtaining an M.D. in 1819, having joined the Army Medical Services in 1816.
- Thomas Thomas
Thomas Thomas (August 29 1917 - October 31 1998), widely known as "Dr. T. Thomas", was the first cardio-thoracic surgeon of Indian citizenship, as well as a prolific author and poet. He was trained by Reeve H. Betts in cardio-thoracic surgery at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. He studied at Madras Christian College, Tamil Nadu, and did his medical training at Stanley Hospital, Tamil Nadu. He was the first surgeon in South Asia to do a mitral valvulotomy.
- John Richardson
Sir John Richardson (November 5, 1787 - June 5, 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer. Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He travelled with John Franklin between 1819 and 1822 in search of the Northwest Passage. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and icthyology for the official account of the expedition.
- Robert Patterson
Robert Patterson (1743-1824) was an American educator and director of the mint. He was born near Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1768, and lived for a time in Philadelphia. In 1774 he became principal of an academy in Wilmington, Del. In the dispute between the Colonies and the British ministry he allied himself with the Whig or Patriot party, …
- Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell (November 1774, in Doun in Monteath, Edinburgh - April 28, 1842, in North Hallow, Worcestershire) was a Scottish anatomist, surgeon, physiologist and natural theologian. He was the younger brother of John Bell (1763-1820), also a noted surgeon and writer.
- Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on September 15, 1921), an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere has written several novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with "Doctor in the House", and their film, …
- Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Wakefield (born 1956 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian trained surgeon, best known as the lead author of a controversial 1998 research study, published in "The Lancet", which reported bowel symptoms in a selected sample of twelve children with autistic spectrum disorders and other disabilities, and alleged a possible connection with MMR vaccination. Citing safety concerns, in a press conference held in conjunction with the release of the report Dr.
- William Adams
Sir William Adams also known as Sir William Rawson after 1825. He was born at Morwenstow in Cornwall. He was well known as an ophthalmic surgeon and was founder of Exeter's West of England Eye Infirmary. William Adams was a pupil of John Cunningham Saunders. He was one of the central figures in the controversy which raged between 1806 and 1820 over the treatment of Egyptian ophthalmia.
- William Anderson
William Anderson FRCS (18 December 1842 - 27 0ctober 1900), was a Scottish surgeon, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an important collector and scholar of Japanese art. He was the first chairman of the Japan Society. Between 1882 and 1900, Anderson donated his collection of approximately 2000 of Japanese illustrated woodcut books to what is now the British Library.
- Magdi Yacoub
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub FRS, FRCS, (born November 16, 1935), is an eminent heart surgeon. He was born in Belbis, Egypt, to a Coptic Orthodox family hailing from the southern town of Assiut. He studied at Cairo University. He taught at Chicago, and moved to Britain in 1962 where he became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1969-2001) and director of medical research and education (from 1992).
- William Cullen
William Cullen was a Scottish doctor and chemist. Cullen was born at Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He received his early education at the grammar school of Hamilton, and he appears to have subsequently attended some classes at the University of Glasgow. He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies.
- William Watson
William Watson (1837-1879), was a surgeon in the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the American Civil War. During his duty in the Army of the Potomac, he took part in several battles including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Gettysburg notably. Major Watson is recognized most by his contribution to the understanding of soldier life during the Civil War, …
- James Paget
Sir James Paget (11 January 1814 - 30 December 1899) was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included "Lectures on Tumours" (1851) and "Lectures on Surgical Pathology" (1853). While most people recall that Paget's disease refers to bone, …
- Ambroise Paré
Ambroise Paré was a French surgeon, the official royal surgeon for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III, is considered by some as one of the Fathers of Surgery. He was a leader in surgical techniques, especially the treatment of wounds.
- Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 - September 15, 1964) was a 20th century American innovator in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot--known commonly as the blue baby syndrome--with his assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig.
- Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 - August 4, 1931) was an African-American surgeon. Williams is known today for performing an early surgery on the pericardium, repairing a knife wound with the use of sutures. Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, to Daniel and Sarah Price Williams. In 1883, Williams graduated from the Chicago Medical College, …
- John Warren
Dr. John Warren (1753-1815) was a Continental Army surgeon during the American Revolutionary War and the younger brother of Dr. Joseph Warren. Warren was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and studied medicine under his elder brother Joseph, later becoming a renowned doctor in Boston. He joined Colonel Pickering's Regiment in 1773 as an army surgeon.
- Randolph Chitwood
W. Randolph "Ranny" Chitwood, Jr. is a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University located in Greenville, NC. Chitwood recognized as the first heart surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in North America. He currently serves as Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Sr. Vice Chancellor at East Carolina University.East Carolina University
- Peter Butler
Peter E M Butler MD, FRCSI, FRCS, FRCS (Plast) is currently a consultant surgeon and head of the face transplantation team at the Royal Free and University College Hospitals in London, England. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Physicians of Ireland. In October 2006, his team received permission from the hospital's Research Ethics Committee to go ahead with a series of full face transplant operations.
- James Thomson
- Naresh Trehan
Dr. Naresh Trehan, an internationally renowned surgeon and medical administrator, is founder, executive director and chief cardiovascular surgeon for Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center, one of the world's leading heart institutes. Dr. Trehan has served as personal surgeon to the President of India since 1991, has received numerous awards for distinguished service in medicine, and been president of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.