Clifford Stanley Kwan-Gett is an Australian-born Chinese American engineer, physician, and artificial heart pioneer.

Kwan-Gett was born as Clifford Gett in 1934 in Emmaville, New South Wales, a small tin mining town in the Australian bush.

He married Joo Een Tan, then adopted his Chinese family name by changing his surname from Gett to Kwan-Gett.

[4] In 1971 Kwan-Gett left full-time research to pursue fellowship and residency training at the University of Utah.

Kwan-Gett practiced cardiovascular thoracic surgery in Salt Lake City and remained active in the artificial organs research community there.