Fame and Longevity
- John Ronald Brown (1922–2010). A notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient.
- Fyodor Uglov, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon
- Paul Spangler Naval surgeon, Senior Long distance runner
- David Hayes Agnew
- Norman Bethune (1890–1939), battlefield surgery.
- Theodor Billroth, stomach resection
- Ben Carson
- William Cheselden
- Realdo Colombo (c. 1516 – 1559)
- Abraham Colles (1773–1843)
- Denton Cooley
- Astley Cooper
- S. Natarajan, Noted Indian vitreo retinal surgeon
- John Green Crosse, MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
- Harvey Cushing, neurosurgery
- Michael E. DeBakey, cardiac surgery
- Clinton Thomas Dent, (1850–1912)
- Ted Eisenberg
- Evenor (3rd century BC)
- Judah Folkman
- Walter Freeman, lobotomy
- Atul Gawande, writer and surgeon, MacArthur Fellow (2006)
- Hermes Grillo
- Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgery
- Sir Victor Horsley, neurosurgery
- William Jardine
- Wilbert Keon
- Gerhard Küntscher
- Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
- William Macewen, general surgery and neurosurgery
- Walter Karl Koch
- William E. Ladd
- Robert Liston
- Joseph Pancoast, 19th century American surgeon
- Hiram Polk
- Sushruta
- Robert B. Salter, orthopedic surgery
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch, thoracic surgery
- Thomas Starzl, transplantation surgery, often called as the father of "modern transplantation".
- George H. Tichenor
- Sid Watkins, neurosurgeon and former Formula One chief medic
- Magdi Yacoub, heart and lung transplants
- Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
- Robert M. Zollinger
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Famous quotes containing the words fame and, fame and/or longevity:
“The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects, of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,—or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every thing teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)