Christiaan Barnard
Doctor
Famous cardiac surgeon who progressed the entire field of medicine with his surgeries.
In 1945, he graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School.
He completed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1953.
He married Aletta Geertuida Louq in 1948. The couple had a child two years later.
Another their cardiac surgeon was Michael Elias DeBakey.