François Chopart

François Chopart (20 October 1743 – 9 June 1795) was a French surgeon born in Paris.

He was trained in medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu, Pitié and the Bicêtre hospitals.

In 1771 he became a professor of practical surgery at the École pratique in Paris, and in 1782 succeeded Toussaint Bordenave (1728–1782) as chair of physiology.

Chopart was a pioneer of urological surgery, putting emphasis on dealing with the urinary tract as a whole.

There are three eponyms associated with the foot that are named after him: In 1795 François Chopart died in Paris during a cholera epidemic.