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 Reference(s) Maude Abbott 1869 1940 Canada Robert Adams 1791 1875 Ireland Anthony Adducci 19372006United States Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. Raymond Perry Ahlquist 1914 1983 United States John Ainsworth 1957 – BritishTreating 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 19332007Venezuela Barouh Berkovits 1926 2012 CzechoslovakiaPioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers Richard N. Fogoros United States Werner Forssmann 19041979Germany1929 first cardiac catheterization Michel Haïssaguerre 1955 France Roland Hetzer 1944 GermanyFounder 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. James S. Forrester: The Heart Healers. The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives. New York 2015. .pages 229-238 Max Holzmann 1899 1994 Murray S. Hoffman19242018United StatesChief 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 Hurst19202011United StatesCardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. Vladimir Kanjuh 1929 Macedonia Yariv KhaykinCanada John Kjekshus 1936 Norwaychaired 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 NepalKnown 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. Aldona Lukoševičiūtė19292016LithuanianInventor of clinical defibrillation and stimulation methods in Lithuania Rashid Massumi 19262015Iranian-American Quintiliano de Mesquita 19182000Brazil Michel Mirowski 19241990Polish-AmericanImplantable defibrillator Ivan Mitev 19242007Bulgaria Discovered the sixth heart tone Henry N. Neufeld 19231986Israeli Denis Noble 1936 British Awarded the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology. Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group: People (Denis Noble) Emmy Okello Uganda Wendy S. Post United StatesDirector 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 BelgiumEditor-in-Chief, European Heart Journal Hein Wellens 1935 2020NetherlandsCardiac electro-physiology Karel Frederik Wenckebach 1864 1940 Netherlands and Austria Mónica Xavier 1956 UruguayCardiologist turned politician Naresh Trehan1946IndianReceived numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award and Dr. B. C. Roy Award.Bruce LermanUnited StatesChief 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 StatesProfessor, researcher and scientists, known for novel findings in Linking atherosclerosis with blood monocytosis.

See also List of cardiac pharmaceutical agents

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