The eponym of the instrument

Scissors

Mayo Robson
Bristish Surgeon, Leeds
* 1853 † 1933
Mayo William James
* 1861, † 1939
Mayo Charles Horace
American Surgeons, Rochester Minnesota
* 1865, † 1939

Sir Joseph Lister
Surgeon of Bristish Royal Court
* 1827, † 1912

Erich Lexer
German Surgeon in Jena, Freiburg, Munich
* 1867, † 1938

Forceps

Francesco Durante
Founder of magazine “Il Policlinico”
* 1845

Haemostatic Forceps

William Stewart Halsted
American Surgeon,
he was the first surgeon to conceive the radical Mastectomy of breast cancer
* 1852, † 1923

Pean (Rochester)
French Suregon in field of Gynecology,
Inventor of Vessel Forceps
* 1830, † 1898
Kocher (Ochsner)
Swiss Surgeon,
He investigated the Thyroid Gland disease
Nobel Prize Winner 1909
* 1841, † 1917

Retractors

Bernhard Langenbeck
German Surgeon
One of the founders of the modern surgery and war-time surgery
* 1810, † 1887

Heinrich Fritsch
Gynäkologe
Special compression technique for bleeding in post partum
Born in Breslau, died in Bonn
* 1844, † 1915

Luis Albert Farabeuf
Professor of Anatomy Medical Faculty in Paris
* 1841, † 1910

Peritoneal Clamp Forceps

Johann Mikulicz Freiherr von Radecki
Polish Surgeon
* 1850, † 1905

Tissue and Organ Holding Forceps

William Wayne Babcock
American Surgeon, Philadelphia
* 1872, † 1963

Théodore Tuffier
French Professor of Medicine
Medical Faculty of the University Beaujou (F)
He was one of the first surgeons to concerned himself with lung, heart and vessel surgery.
* 1857, † 1929

Needle Holder

George Crile
American Professor of Surgery at
“Western Reserve University”
Founder of “Cleveland Clinic”
* 1864, † 1943