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Ben Carson
Ben Carson (born 1951), retired pediatric neurosurgeon and HUD Secretary 2017-2021; led the first successful 1987 separation of head-conjoined twins at Johns Hopkins, ran for president in 2016, and was later named for a second Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Bryan Jennett
Bryan Jennett (1926–2008) was a British neurosurgeon and the first full-time Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow, best known for co-creating the Glasgow Coma Scale and coining persistent vegetative state.
Casey H. Halpern
Casey H. Halpern is an American neurosurgeon who is Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, known for responsive deep brain stimulation.
Donald D. Matson
Donald D. Matson (1913–1969) was an American pediatric neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital, wrote the first pediatric neurosurgery textbook, and devised the lumbar-ureteral shunt.
Donald Munro (neurosurgeon)
Donald Munro (1889–1973) was an American neurosurgeon at Boston City Hospital known as the "father of paraplegia" for founding the first US spinal cord injury unit in 1936.
Emad N. Eskandar
Emad N. Eskandar is an American neurosurgeon who chairs Neurological Surgery at Montefiore Einstein, having held the Pappas chair at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Harvey Williams Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) was an American neurosurgeon widely called the father of modern neurological surgery, who described Cushing syndrome and won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize.
Irving S. Cooper
Irving S. Cooper (1922–1985) was an American neurosurgeon who pioneered cryothalamectomy, freezing brain targets to abolish tremor, and implanted cerebellar stimulators anticipating deep brain stimulation.
Leopold Schönbauer
Leopold Schönbauer (1888–1963) was an Austrian surgeon regarded as the founder of neurosurgery in Austria, director of Vienna General Hospital, and rector of the University of Vienna.
Percival Bailey
Percival Bailey (1892–1973) was an American neurosurgeon and neuropathologist best known for the first histological classification of brain gliomas with Harvey Cushing and for showing in 1921 that diabetes insipidus originates in the hypothalamus.
Thomas H. Milhorat
Thomas H. Milhorat (1936–2025) was an American neurosurgeon who overturned the choroid plexus model of cerebrospinal fluid production and founded the Chiari Institute in 2001.
William Macewen
Sir William Macewen (1848–1924) was a Scottish surgeon in Glasgow who performed the first documented successful brain tumor resection in 1879, pioneered human bone grafting, and advanced aseptic surgery.
William Williams Keen
William Williams Keen (1837–1932) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful removal of a brain tumor in the United States, in Philadelphia in 1887.
Wouter I. Schievink
Wouter I. Schievink is a Dutch-born neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles since 1998, known for research on spinal CSF leaks.