The invention relates to a surgical lamp (1) that can be controlled without contact, comprising a control unit and a sensor unit, wherein the control unit is designed to control the surgical lamp (1), wherein the sensor unit is designed to detect a motion of an action element and to convert said motion of the action element into motion data, wherein the control unit is designed to read out the motion data generated by the sensor unit and to control the surgical lamp (1) in dependence on the motion data. The sensor unit is designed in such a way that the sensor unit ensures the detection of the motion of the action element in three dimensions in a measurement space (3), which is arranged below the surgical lamp in an emission direction.
