List of first female physicians by country
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This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial, however modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. The dates given in parentheses below are the dates the women graduated from medical school.
Africa
| Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Algeria |
Nefissa Hamoud[1] | ||
 Egypt |
Hilana Sedarous | 1930 | 1930 |
 Ghana |
Susan Ofori-Atta | 1949 | 1949 |
 Kenya |
Mary de Sousa | 1919[2] | |
 Mauritania |
Two women[3] | 2015 | 2015 |
 Morocco |
Françoise Legey[3] (born in France) | 1910 | |
 Namibia |
Libertina Amathila | 1969 | 1969 |
 Nigeria |
Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi | 1938 | 1938 |
 Senegal |
Marie-Thérèse Basse[4] | ||
 Somalia |
Hawa Abdi | 1971 | 1971 |
 South Africa |
Jane Elizabeth Waterston | ||
 Sudan |
Khalida Zahir[5] | 1952 | 1952 |
| And one other woman[6] | 1952 | ||
 Tanzania |
Esther Mwaikambo[7] | 1969 | 1969 |
 Tunisia |
Tewhida Ben Sheikh | 1936 | 1936 |
 Uganda |
Josephine Nambooze | 1959 | 1962 |
 Zimbabwe |
Madeline Nyamwanza-Makonese | 1970 | 1970 |
Americas
| Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina |
Cecilia Grierson | 1889 | 1889 |
 Bermuda |
Barbara Ball | 1949 | 1949 |
 Bolivia |
Amelia Chopitea Villa | 1926 | 1929 |
 Brazil |
Marie Durocher | 1834 | 1834 |
 Canada |
Emily Stowe
|
1867
1875 |
1867
1875 |
| Jennie Kidd Trout | 1875 | 1875 | |
 Chile |
Eloísa Díaz | 1886 | 1887 |
 Colombia |
Ana Galvis Hotz | 1877 | 1877 |
 Costa Rica |
Anita Figueredo (lived in USA) | ||
 Cuba |
Laura Martínez de Carvajal | 1889 | 1889 |
 Dominican Republic |
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo | ||
 Ecuador |
Matilde Hidalgo | 1921 | 1921 |
 El Salvador |
Estela Gavidia | 1945 | 1945 |
 Haiti |
Yvonne Sylvain | 1940 | 1940 |
 Honduras |
Lucila Gamero de Medina | ||
 Jamaica |
Cicely Williams | 1923 | 1923 |
 Mexico |
Matilde Montoya | 1887 | 1887 |
 Nicaragua |
Concepción Palacios Herrera | 1927 | 1928 |
 Peru |
Laura Esther Rodriguez Dulanto | 1899 | 1900 |
 Puerto Rico |
María Elisa Rivera Díaz | 1909 | 1909 |
| Ana Janer | 1909 | 1909 | |
 United States |
Elizabeth Blackwell | 1849 | 1851 |
 Uruguay |
Paulina Luisi | 1908 | 1909 |
 Venezuela |
Lya Imber | 1936 | 1936 |
Asia
| Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan |
Maghul M. Ali[8] | Late 1950s | Late 1950s |
 Azerbaijan |
Sona Valikhan | 1908 | 1908 |
 Bahrain |
Sadeeqa Ali Al-Awadi[9] | ||
 Bangladesh |
Zohra Begum Kazi | ||
 Cyprus |
Maria Michaelides | 1927 | 1927 |
 Hong Kong |
Lai Po-cheun[10] | ||
 India |
Anandi Gopal Joshi | 1886 | Never practiced |
 Indonesia |
Marie E. Thomas[11] | ||
 Iran |
Badri Teymourtash | 1920s | 1920s |
 Iraq |
1922[12] | ||
 Israel |
Bat Sheva Yonis-Guttman
(first recorded)[13] |
1909 | |
 Japan |
Ogino Ginko | 1882 | 1885 |
 Korea |
Jang-geum | 16th century | |
 Kuwait |
Eleanor Calverley (born in USA)[14] | 1908 | 1911 |
 Lebanon |
Edma Abouchdid | 1931 | 1936 |
 Malaysia |
Salma Ismail[14] | 1949 | 1949 |
 Palestine |
Alexandra Belkind (born in Russia) | 1882 | |
 Philippines |
Honoria Acosta-Sison | 1909 | 1909 |
 Russia |
Nadezhda Suslova | 1867 | 1868 |
 Singapore |
Lee Choo Neo | 1919 | 1919 |
 Syria |
Tabat M. Islamboody[15] | 1890 | 1890 |
 Taiwan |
Tsai Ah-hsin | 1921 | 1925 |
 Thailand |
Pierra Vejjabul | 1936 | 1936 |
 Turkey |
Safiye Ali | 1922 | |
 Vietnam |
Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu | 1934 | |
 Yemen |
1990s[16] | ||
Europe
Oceania
| Country | Physician | Year graduated
medical school |
Year began
practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia |
Constance Stone | 1890 | |
 Fiji |
Jiko Luveni | 1967 | 1967 |
 New Zealand |
Emily Siedeberg | 1896 | 1905 |
 Tuvalu |
Nese Ituaso[21] | 1999 | |
| Miliama Simeona[21] | 1999 |
See also
References
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