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.
Africa
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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Benin | C. Oviasu (née Ukponmwan)[1] | |
Cameroon | Jeanne Ngo Maï[2] | 1962 |
Cape Verde | Judite (Judith) Lima[3] | c. 1961 |
Ghana | Sackey Nee Vanderpuye[4] | |
Ivory Coast | Hortense Aka-Anghui[5] | |
Liberia | Clavenda Parker[6] | |
Libya | Wedad Muhammad Al-Senussi Al-Saqzli[7] | 1961 |
Mali | Rokia Sanogo[8] | 1989 |
Morocco | Fatima Al-Zahra Al-Warzazi[9] | 1912 |
Namibia | Lahya Hafeni, Anastancia Aluvilu, Fundisile Msibi, Tumo Pelekekae[10] | 2015 |
Nigeria | Oreoluwa Green*[11] | 1916 |
South Africa | Lily Heymann[12] | 1916 |
Togo | Abra Amédome[13] | |
Tunisia | Lucia Campisi[14] (born in Italy) | |
Uganda | Catherine Kisumba[15] | 1960 |
Zimbabwe | Nora Price[16][17] (born in Wales; country then known as Rhodesia) |
- Namibia: There might be more female graduates, as the names listed were the only women named in the cited article.
- Nigeria: Green is considered to have been the first female pharmacist in West Africa. Ekanem Bassey Ikpeme was considered the first native female pharmacist in Nigeria.[18]
- Tunisia: Dorra Bouzid is considered the first female pharmacist in Tunisia after independence. She started her practice sometime during the 1960s.[19]
Americas
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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Argentina | Élida Passo[20] | 1885 |
Bahamas | Gertrude Burnside[21] | |
Bolivia | Rosa Mercedes Guerra[22] | 1921 |
Brazil | Maria Luiza Torrezão[23] | 1887 |
Canada | A. Adrienne Preevoot[24] | 1901 |
Chile | Griselda Hinojosa[25] | 1889 |
Costa Rica | Felícitas Chaverri Matamoros[26] | 1917 |
Cuba | María Dolores Marty and Eloisa Figueroa Marty[27] | 1886 |
Curaçao | Dymphna van heb Elizabeths-Gasthu[28] | 1911 |
Dominican Republic | Encarnación Piñeyro[29][30] | |
El Salvador | Mercedes Amanda Martínez and Margarita Lanza[31] | 1930 |
Guatemala | Olimpia Altuve[32] | 1919 |
Guyana | Raymonde Horth[33] | 1905 |
Honduras | Corina Barahona[34] | 1931 |
Mexico | Esther Luque Muñoz[35] | c. 1906 |
Nicaragua | Elba Ochomogo Portocarrero de Hernandez[36] | 1922 |
Peru | Nicolasa Butler[37] | 1839 |
Suriname | Esseline Juliette Polanen[38] | 1936 |
Trinidad and Tobago | Amy Cox Rochford[39] | c. 1927 |
United States | Susan Hayhurst[40][41] | 1883 |
Venezuela | María Fernández Bawden[42] | 1927 |
- Canada: Preevoot was considered the first Canadian woman to pass the pharmacy exam by law.
- Chile: Glafira Vargas was the first female to graduate with a pharmacy degree in 1887, though Hinojosa appears to be the first female to work as a pharmacist upon graduation.[43][44]
- Curaçao: van heb Elizabeths-Gasthu was said to have been the first woman to have passed the exam for an assistant pharmacist in the colony.
- Guatemala: Altuve is considered the first Central American woman to have obtained a university degree.
- United States: Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf was the first not formally qualified pharmacist to practice in 1727.[45] Hayhust was the first woman to receive a pharmacy degree in the United States in 1883. Ella P. Stewart was one of the first African-American female pharmacists in the United States.[46][47]
Asia
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
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Azerbaijan | Mahbuba Valiyeva[48] | 1971 |
Bahrain | Layla Ahmed Abdulrahman[49] | |
India | Sneh Rani Jain[50] | |
Indonesia | Charlotte Jacobs[51] | 1879 |
Iraq | Josephine Bourjouni and Rahima Youssef[52] | 1940 |
Iran | Aqdas Gharbi and Akhtar Ferdows[53] | 1941 |
Israel | Sarah Mel[54] | |
Japan | Naoe Okamoto[55] | 1885 |
Jordan | Nabila Shoura Irsheidat[56] | c. 1950s |
Korea | Cha Soon-seok[57] | 1924 |
Lebanon | Zahie Barakat[58] | 1928 |
Nepal | Bijay Laxmi Shrestha[59] | |
Oman | Batool Jaffer[60] | 1977 |
Pakistan | Nasima Jamil[61][62][63] | c. 1967 |
Philippines | Filomena Francisco and Matilde S. Arquiza[64] | 1908 |
Qatar | Zakia Malallah[65] | |
Saudi Arabia | Samira bint Ibrahim Islam[66] | 1982 |
Singapore | Lucy Wan[67][68] | 1958 |
Syria | Najah Saati[69] | 1949 |
Taiwan | Lin Caisan[70] | 1951 |
Thailand | Prasit Prakobnil[71] | |
United Arab Emirates | Suhaila Al-Awadi[69] | |
Vietnam | Pham Thi Hao[72][73] |
- Indonesia: Jacobs is considered the first female pharmacist in the Netherlands and Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies).
Europe
Country | Pharmacist | Year |
---|---|---|
Albania | Emili Dishnica Gliozheni[74] (then known as Socialist Albania) | 1961 |
Austria | Gisela Kun[75] | c. 1906 |
Belarus | H-B. Geronimus (Taubina)[76] | |
Belgium | Jeanne Rademackers[77][78] | 1885 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajka Ljubica Jokanovic[79] | 1914 |
Bulgaria | Anna Belizarova Yakova[80] | 1911 |
Croatia | Vjera Rojc Katušić[81] | 1913 |
Czech Republic | Ruzena Krontilová-Librova[82] (then known as Czechoslovakia) | 1904 |
Denmark | Charlotte Schou and Nielsine Schousen[83] | 1896 |
Estonia | Alma Tomingas[84] | 1933 |
Finland | Hilda Amanda Brunberg[85] | 1874 |
France | Hélina Leiannier-Gaboriau[86] | 1898 |
Germany | Magdalena Neff[87] | 1906 |
Greece | Polymnia Panagiotidou[88] | 1899 |
Hungary | Erzsébet Légrády[89] and Thinagel Szerafin[82] | 1903 |
Iceland | Jóhanna Magnúsdóttir[90] | 1928 |
Ireland | Christina Jesop Wilson[91] | 1900 |
Italy | Dorina Crespi Andini[92] | 1895 |
Latvia | Staņislava Dovgjallo[93] | |
Lithuania | Juzefa Girdzijevska[94] | 1870 |
Malta | Caterina Vitale[95] | 1590 |
Netherlands | Aaltje Visser[96] | 1868 |
North Macedonia | Rajna Aleksova[97] | 1906 |
Norway | Helga Eide[82] | 1893 |
Poland | Antonina Leśniewska[98][99] | 1884 |
Portugal | Maria Serpa dos Santos[100] | 1947 |
Romania | Paulina Cruceanu[101] and Clara Colesin[82] | 1892 |
Russia | Antonina Boleslavovna Lesnevskaya and Zinaida I. Akker[102] | 1897 |
Serbia | Desanka Ruvidić Okoličanin[103] | 1913 |
Slovakia | Ruzena Krontilová-Librova[82] (then known as Czechoslovakia) | 1904 |
Slovenia | Emilija Fon[104] | 1915 |
Spain | Dolores Rodriguez[82] | 1893 |
Sweden | Märtha Leth[105] | 1897 |
Switzerland | Clara Winnicki[106] | 1905 |
Turkey | Fatma Belkis Derman[107] | 1930 |
Ukraine | Anna Mikhailovna Makarova[108] | 1892 |
United Kingdom | Frances Elizabeth Deacon[109] | 1870 |
- Belgium: Certain sources cite Louise Popelin (sister of Belgium's first female lawyer Marie Popelin) or Ida Huys as Belgium's first female pharmacist. They both completed their exams in 1887.[110][82]
- Czech Republic and Slovakia: Other sources cited Elza Fantová as the first Bohemia woman to earn a pharmaceutical degree in 1908.[111] Krontilová-Librova started her pharmacy practice in 1904 and became the first female pharmacy student at the University of Prague in 1907 (graduating in 1909).
- Finland: The first female pharmacist to qualify without dispensation in Finland was Helene Aejneleus in 1911. Brunberg was the first women to be qualified by dispensation.
- Germany: Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony was a non-professional female pharmacist in Germany.[112] Helena Magenbuch and Maria Andreae were professional pharmacists in the 16th-century.
- Ireland: Wilson was the first female pharmacist to qualify in the south of Ireland.
- Italy: Elisa Gagnatelli and Edvige Moroni were the first women to pass the pharmacy exam in 1897.[82]
- Netherlands: In the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, Charlotte Jacobs became the first female pharmacist with a degree in 1879.[51]
- Norway: Christine Dahl passed her assistant pharmacy exam in 1889, but Eide was considered the first female pharmacist.[82]
- Poland: Although Lesniewska was considered the first female pharmacist, Filipina and Konstancja Studzinska (sisters) were the first women to pass the pharmacy examination in 1824.[82]
- Russia: Olga Evgenevna Gabrilovich was the first female pharmacist to earn a degree in 1906.[113]
- Sweden: Leth was the first female pharmacist to have fulfilled a formal qualification. Maria Dauerer was the first female pharmacist to have obtained a license.[114] The first woman to have obtained a degree in pharmacology was Agnes Arvidsson (1903).[115]
- Ukraine: Makarova, a Kiev University (Ukraine) graduate, was the first woman to pass the examination for the title of pharmaceutical assistant.[108]
Oceania
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