Surgery

Uncover the world of celebrity surgery! Explore a curated list of famous individuals who have undergone surgical procedures, from cosmetic enhancements to life-saving interventions. Dive into their stories, surgeries, and recovery journeys to gain insights into the impact of surgery on the lives of celebrities.

Laureate of the USSR State Prize, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Citizen of the City of Rostov-on-Don

Soviet surgeon and polar explorer performed an appendectomy on himself

Konstantin Konik

Estonian surgeon and politician, member of the Estonian Salvation Committee

Gaspare Tagliacozzi

Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery

Ernst von Feuchtersleben

Austrian scientist, surgeon, psychiatrist, writer, poet, philosopher

Hermann Krukenberg

Soviet neurosurgeon, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

Kyrgyz surgeon, founder of thoracic surgery in Kyrgyzstan

London otolaryngologist, considered the father of modern plastic surgery

Jean Cruveilhier

French pathologist

In 1787 John Abernethy was appointed assistant surgeon. While in this position, he began lecturing at his home near the hospital, and in time became the founder of St. Bartholomew's Medical School.

James Parkinson

English doctor who discovered Parkinson's disease

English physician, surgeon.

French surgeon, ethnographer, anatomist and anthropologist

William Beaumont

US Army surgeon, gastroenterologist and physiologist.

Arkadiy Livshits

Famous neurosurgeon

Mihail Kovalsky

Scientist-morphologist working in the field of operative surgery and topographic anatomy, surgery, human anatomy,

French surgeon, one of the “fathers” of modern surgery.

Ancient physician

Leonid Barbarash

Laureate of the Russian Government Prize, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Semen Khecheenashvilli

Lenin Prize Laureate, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Leonid Poluektov

Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Citizen of the City of Omsk

Azerbaijani doctor, National Hero of Azerbaijan

Enrico Albanese

Italian surgeon.

Henry Norman Bethune

Canadian surgeon, innovator in surgery

Outstanding American surgeon in the field of robotic oncology

Nathaniel Wallich

Danish and English surgeon and botanist of the first half of the 19th century.

An outstanding Swedish surgeon

Paralyzed surgeon

Lieutenant Colonel of Medicine

Varazdat Gazandyan

Plastic surgeon

Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard

Werner Forssmann

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1956, jointly with Andre Cournan and Dickinson W. Richards

Soviet medical scientist, surgeon

Theodor Kolliker

American surgeon of the 20th century

Charles Boarman Harris

American physician and surgeon.

Doctor, collector, cultural figure, publisher of the "Vilnius Album".

Plastic surgeon

Implantologist, periodontist, surgeon, maxillofacial surgeon

American physician, one of the founders of neurosurgery

Heinrich Waldeyer

German anatomist and histologist.

Bernhard Langenbeck

An outstanding German surgeon of the 19th century.

Christiaan Barnard

South African surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplant in 1969

Rudolf Kronlein

Prominent Russian surgeon and anatomist, Doctor of Medicine

Isaac Israel Hayes

Medic, Arctic researcher

Timofey Krasnobaev

Russian surgeon, one of the founders of domestic pediatric surgery, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences

American surgeon