Category
page 1American cardiac surgeons

Michael Ellis DeBakey
American cardiac surgeon (1908–2008)
Mehmet Öz
Turkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official (born 1960)
Russell M. Nelson
cardiothoracic surgeon and 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1924–2025)
Denton Cooley
American heart surgeon (1920–2016)
Vivien Thomas
American surgeon (1910-1985)
Larry Bucshon
American politician and physician
Myra Adele Logan
African-American physician
Daniel Hale Williams
African American cardiologist who performed the first documented, successful pericardium surgery in the world
Claude Beck
American cardiac surgeon and professor of cardiovascular surgery (1894–1971)

Adrian Kantrowitz
American cardiac surgeon (1918–2008)

Lawrence H. Cohn
American surgeon