# List of cardiologists

This is a list of people notable in the field of cardiology. Presented along with their year of birth, death, nationality, notability, and reference(s).

## Cardiologists

| Name | Birth | Death | Nationality | Notes |
| Maude Abbott | 1869 | 1940 | Canada | |
| Robert Adams | 1791 | 1875 | Ireland | |
| Anthony Adducci | 1937 | 2006 | United States | Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. |
| Raymond Perry Ahlquist | 1914 | 1983 | United States | |
| John Ainsworth | 1957 | – | British | Treating complex heart conditions |
| Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff | 1866 | 1942 | Germany | |
| John Brereton Barlow | 1924 | 2008 | South Africa | First described mitral valve prolapse (also called Barlow's syndrome) |
| Christiaan Neethling Barnard | 1922 | 2001 | South Africa | Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation |
| Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias | 1933 | 2007 | Venezuela | |
| Barouh Berkovits | 1926 | 2012 | Czechoslovakia | Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers |
| Richard N. Fogoros | | | United States | |
| Werner Forssmann | 1904 | 1979 | Germany | 1929 first cardiac catheterization |
| Michel Haïssaguerre | 1955 | | France | |
| Roland Hetzer | 1944 | | Germany | Founder of Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin |
| Mark Josephson | 1943 | | United States | Published "Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations," |
| Geza de Kaplany | 1926 | | Hungary | Murdered his wife in August 1962. Received life imprisonment. |
| Antonio Fernós-Isern | 1895 | 1974 | Puerto Rico | Was the "first" Puerto Rican cardiologist and a former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico |
| Mario R. García Palmieri | 1927 | 2014 | Puerto Rico | Was given the title Master of the American College of Cardiology (M.A.C.C.), an honor given to a maximum three cardiologists in practice each year. |
| Mervyn Gotsman | 1935 | | South Africa | Was chairman of the cardiology department at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem for 27 years. |
| Andreas Gruentzig | 1939 | 1985 | German/American | Performed first balloon angioplasty. |
| Max Holzmann | 1899 | 1994 | | |
| Murray S. Hoffman | 1924 | 2018 | United States | Chief of Cardiology at National Jewish Hospital and then went into private practice in Denver, Colorado, President of the National Mayo Alumni Association, Member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology, President of the Colorado Heart Association, retired from private practice and joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical Center. As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. |
| J. Willis Hurst | 1920 | 2011 | United States | Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. |
| Vladimir Kanjuh | 1929 | | Macedonia | |
| Yariv Khaykin | | | Canada | |
| John Kjekshus | 1936 | | Norway | chaired the National Association for Public Health from 2005. Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was awarded the King's Medal of Merit |
| Bhagawan Koirala | 1960 | | Nepal | |
| Om Murti Anil | 1978 | | Nepal | Known for raising health awareness against heart diseases. Received many awards including Suprabal Janasewa Shree, Best paper award by NHRC |
| Nicholas Kounis | | | Greece | Described Kounis syndrome. |
| Rashid Massumi | 1926 | 2015 | Iranian-American | |
| Quintiliano de Mesquita | 1918 | 2000 | Brazil | |
| Michel Mirowski | 1924 | 1990 | Polish-American | Implantable defibrillator |
| Ivan Mitev | 1924 | 2007 | Bulgaria | Discovered the sixth heart tone |
| Henry N. Neufeld | 1923 | 1986 | Israeli | |
| Denis Noble | 1936 | | British | Awarded the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology. |
| Emmy Okello | | | Uganda | |
| Wendy S. Post | | | United States | Director of Research for the Hopkins Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program |
| Amiran Revishvili | 1956 | | Russia | |
| Park Seung-jung | | | Korean | |
| Walter Somerville | 1913 | 2005 | Ireland | |
| Ramón M. Suárez | 1895 | 1981 | Puerto Rico | |
| Frans Van de Werf | | | Belgium | Editor-in-Chief, European Heart Journal |
| Hein Wellens | 1935 | 2020 | Netherlands | Cardiac electro-physiology |
| Karel Frederik Wenckebach | 1864 | 1940 | Netherlands and Austria | |
| Mónica Xavier | 1956 | | Uruguay | Cardiologist turned politician |
| Naresh Trehan | 1946 | | Indian | Received numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award and Dr. B. C. Roy Award. |
| Bruce Lerman | | | United States | Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital. |
| Filip Swirski | 1974- | | United States | Professor, researcher and scientists, known for novel findings in Linking atherosclerosis with blood monocytosis. |