Omphalopagus twins John Nelson and James Edward Freeman (Johnny and Jimmy) were born in Youngstown, Ohio, on April 27, 1956. The boys shared a liver but had separate hearts and were successfully separated at North Side Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, by Bertram Katz. The operation was funded by the Ohio Crippled Childrens Service Society.Recent successful separations of conjoined twins include that of the separation of Ganga and Jamuna Shreshta in 2001, who were born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2000. The 97-hour surgery on the pair of craniopagus twins was a landmark one which took place in Singapore; the team was led by neurosurgeons Chumpon Chan and Keith Goh. The surgery left Ganga with brain damage and Jamuna unable to walk. Seven years later, Ganga Shrestha died at the Model Hospital in Kathmandu in July 2009, at the age of eight, three days after being admitted for treatment of a severe chest infection.Infants Rose and Grace Attard, conjoined twins from Malta, were separated in the United Kingdom by court order Re A over the religious objections of their parents, Michaelangelo and Rina Attard. The twins were attached at the lower abdomen and spine. The surgery took place in November 2000, at St Marys Hospital in Manchester. The operation was controversial because Rose, the weaker twin, would die as a result of the procedure as her heart and lungs were dependent upon Graces. However, if the operation had not taken place, it was certain that both twins would die.
They were separated on June 5, 2020, at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, Italy. Mercy and Goodness Ede, born August 13, 2019, conjoined by the chest and abdomen. Successfully separated at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria in November 2019. Marie-Cléa and Marie-Cléanne Papillon, born in Mauritius in 2019. Conjoined from neck to abdomen, but also from heart which had seven rooms, instead of four. Marie-Cléa did not survive the surgery to separate the two. Susannah and Elizabeth Castle, born April 22, 2021, and separated December 10, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In fiction
Conjoined twins have been the focus of several noteworthy works of entertainment, including:

Stuck on You (2003 film), a 2003 American comedy film screen written and directed by the Farrelly brothers and starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twin brothers, whose conflicting aspirations provide both conflict and humorous situations, in particular when one of them wishes to move to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Alone, a Thai horror film following Pim after the death of her sister Ploy and their subsequent separation. Blood Sisters focuses on a French Canadian model who has a separated conjoined twin. Irish author Sarah Crossan won the Carnegie Medal for her verse novel, One. The story follows the life and survival of conjoined twin sisters. The book also won The Booksellers 2016 prize for young adult fiction and the Irish Childrens Book of the Year.