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This is a list of the first qualified female pharmacists to practice in each country, where that is known.
Please note: the list should foremost contain the first female pharmacist with a formal qualification from each country. Historically, it was normal for widows of apothecaries and pharmacist to inherit their late husband's profession without being formally qualified. These cases – and other of note – can be noted in the margin, but should not be listed first.
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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![]() | C. Oviasu (née Ukponmwan) [1] | |
![]() | Jeanne Ngo Maï [2] | 1962 |
![]() | Judite (Judith) Lima [3] | c. 1961 |
![]() | Sackey Nee Vanderpuye [4] | |
![]() | Hortense Aka-Anghui [5] | |
![]() | Clavenda Parker [6] | |
![]() | Wedad Muhammad Al-Senussi Al-Saqzli [7] | 1961 |
![]() | Rokia Sanogo [8] | 1989 |
![]() | Fatima Al-Zahra Al-Warzazi [9] | 1912 |
![]() | Lahya Hafeni, Anastancia Aluvilu, Fundisile Msibi, Tumo Pelekekae [10] | 2015 |
![]() | Oreoluwa Green* [11] | 1916 |
![]() | Lily Heymann [12] | 1916 |
![]() | Abra Amédome [13] | |
![]() | Lucia Campisi [14] (born in Italy) | |
![]() | Catherine Kisumba [15] | 1960 |
![]() | Nora Price [16] [17] (born in Wales; country then known as Rhodesia) |
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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![]() | Élida Passo [20] | 1885 |
![]() | Gertrude Burnside [21] | |
![]() | Rosa Mercedes Guerra [22] | 1921 |
![]() | Maria Luiza Torrezão [23] | 1887 |
![]() | A. Adrienne Preevoot [24] | 1901 |
![]() | Griselda Hinojosa [25] | 1889 |
![]() | Felícitas Chaverri Matamoros [26] | 1917 |
![]() | María Dolores Marty and Eloisa Figueroa Marty [27] | 1886 |
![]() | Dymphna van heb Elizabeths-Gasthu [28] | 1911 |
![]() | Encarnación Piñeyro [29] [30] | |
![]() | Mercedes Amanda Martínez and Margarita Lanza [31] | 1930 |
![]() | Olimpia Altuve [32] | 1919 |
![]() | Raymonde Horth [33] | 1905 |
![]() | Corina Barahona [34] | 1931 |
![]() | Esther Luque Muñoz [35] | c. 1906 |
![]() | Elba Ochomogo Portocarrero de Hernandez [36] | 1922 |
![]() | Nicolasa Butler [37] | 1839 |
![]() | Esseline Juliette Polanen [38] | 1936 |
![]() | Amy Cox Rochford [39] | c. 1927 |
![]() | Susan Hayhurst [40] [41] | 1883 |
![]() | María Fernández Bawden [42] | 1927 |
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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![]() | Mahbuba Valiyeva [48] | 1971 |
![]() | Layla Ahmed Abdulrahman [49] | |
![]() | Sneh Rani Jain [50] | |
![]() | Charlotte Jacobs [51] | 1879 |
![]() | Josephine Bourjouni and Rahima Youssef [52] | 1940 |
![]() | Aqdas Gharbi and Akhtar Ferdows [53] | 1941 |
![]() | Sarah Mel [54] | |
![]() | Naoe Okamoto [55] | 1885 |
![]() | Nabila Shoura Irsheidat [56] | c. 1950s |
![]() | Cha Soon-seok [57] | 1924 |
![]() | Zahie Barakat [58] | 1928 |
![]() | Bijay Laxmi Shrestha [59] | |
![]() | Batool Jaffer [60] | 1977 |
![]() | Nasima Jamil [61] [62] [63] | c. 1967 |
![]() | Filomena Francisco and Matilde S. Arquiza [64] | 1908 |
![]() | Zakia Malallah [65] | |
![]() | Samira bint Ibrahim Islam [66] | 1982 |
![]() | Lucy Wan [67] [68] | 1958 |
![]() | Najah Saati [69] | 1949 |
![]() | Lin Caisan [70] | 1951 |
![]() | Prasit Prakobnil [71] | |
![]() | Suhaila Al-Awadi [69] | |
![]() | Pham Thi Hao [72] [73] |
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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![]() | Emili Dishnica Gliozheni [74] (then known as Socialist Albania) | 1961 |
![]() | Gisela Kun [75] | c. 1906 |
![]() | H-B. Geronimus (Taubina) [76] | |
![]() | Jeanne Rademackers [77] [78] | 1885 |
![]() | Sarajka Ljubica Jokanovic [79] | 1914 |
![]() | Anna Belizarova Yakova [80] | 1911 |
![]() | Vjera Rojc Katušić [81] | 1913 |
![]() | Ruzena Krontilová-Librova [82] (then known as Czechoslovakia) | 1904 |
![]() | Charlotte Schou and Nielsine Schousen [83] | 1896 |
![]() | Alma Tomingas [84] | 1933 |
![]() | Hilda Amanda Brunberg [85] | 1874 |
![]() | Hélina Leiannier-Gaboriau [86] | 1898 |
![]() | Magdalena Neff [87] | 1906 |
![]() | Polymnia Panagiotidou [88] | 1899 |
![]() | Erzsébet Légrády [89] and Thinagel Szerafin [82] | 1903 |
![]() | Jóhanna Magnúsdóttir [90] | 1928 |
![]() | Christina Jesop Wilson [91] | 1900 |
![]() | Dorina Crespi Andini [92] | 1895 |
![]() | Staņislava Dovgjallo [93] | |
![]() | Juzefa Girdzijevska [94] | 1870 |
![]() | Caterina Vitale [95] | 1590 |
![]() | Aaltje Visser [96] | 1868 |
![]() | Rajna Aleksova [97] | 1906 |
![]() | Helga Eide [82] | 1893 |
![]() | Antonina Leśniewska [98] [99] | 1884 |
![]() | Maria Serpa dos Santos [100] | 1947 |
![]() | Paulina Cruceanu [101] and Clara Colesin [82] | 1892 |
![]() | Antonina Boleslavovna Lesnevskaya and Zinaida I. Akker [102] | 1897 |
![]() | Desanka Ruvidić Okoličanin [103] | 1913 |
![]() | Ruzena Krontilová-Librova [82] (then known as Czechoslovakia) | 1904 |
![]() | Emilija Fon [104] | 1915 |
![]() | Dolores Rodriguez [82] | 1893 |
![]() | Märtha Leth [105] | 1897 |
![]() | Clara Winnicki [106] | 1905 |
![]() | Fatma Belkis Derman [107] | 1930 |
![]() | Anna Mikhailovna Makarova [108] | 1892 |
![]() | Frances Elizabeth Deacon [109] | 1870 |
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
---|---|---|
![]() | Caroline Copp [116] [117] | 1880 |
![]() | Lila Thakerar [118] | 1979 |
![]() | Elizabeth Robinson [119] | 1881 |
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