List of first female dentists by country

This is a list of the first qualified female dentist to practice in each country, where that is known.

Africa

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Burkina Faso	Véronique Kyelem[1]	1972	1987
Ghana	Hilda Ayensu[2]
Kenya	Muthoni Gitata[3]
Liberia	Rachael Hill Townsend[4]
Namibia	Sarti Mwatilifange[5] and another woman		1994
Nigeria	Simi Johnson[6] and Grace Guobadia[7]	1957
South Africa	Jane Nathan[8][9][10]	1917
Sudan	Nashina Makos[11]	c. 1963

Americas

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Argentina	Cidanelia R. González de Carrillo[12][13][14]		1896
Bolivia	Maria H. Oropeza[15]	1914
Brazil	Isabella Von Sydow[16]	1906	1906
Canada	Emma Gaudreau Casgrain[17]		1898
Chile	Amelia Venegas[18][19]	1884
Colombia	Hortensia Lince[20]		1890
Costa Rica	Pilar Celina Duval[21]
Cuba	Serafina Daumy y Martínez[22]	1879
Dominican Republic	Victoria Sofía Oliva Montás[23]	1917
Ecuador	Delfina Luis Rodríguez[20]		1916
El Salvador	Bertha Orbelina González[24]	1938
Guatemala	Carlota Estévez Arrutia[20]	1924
Haiti	Marcelle Bellande (née Hakime)[25][26]
Honduras	Rosa Galo de Castillo[27]	1948
Mexico	Margarita Chorné y Salazar[17][28]	1896
Panama	Aida Illueca Avilés[29]
Peru	Ana Seminario de Mac Sorley[30][31]
Saint Lucia	Azmina Long[32]	1980
Suriname	Tine Putscher[33]
United States	Emeline Roberts Jones[17]		1855
Uruguay	Iride Casullo de Peluffo[34][35]	1897
Venezuela	Rosario Cotton[20]	1909

Asia

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Bahrain	Zakia Salman[36][37]	1972	1984
China	Zhang Qiongxian[38]	1936
India	Vimla Sood[39]	1944
Iran	Badri Teymourtash[40]
Iraq	Madiha Saleh Zaki[41]	c. 1950s
Japan	Kou Takahashi[42]	1897
Jordan	Aida Jamal Al-Alami[43][44]
Korea	Geum-bong Choi[45][46]
Kuwait	Eqbal Abdulmohsen Al-Asfour[47]	1970
Lebanon	Nihad Kfoury[48][49]	1973
Pakistan	Fatima Jinnah[50]	1923
Philippines	Nieva Basa Eraña-Velasquez[51]
Saudi Arabia	Fatima Al Nasrallah[52]
Sri Lanka	Rosaline Karthigesu[53]		1947
Syria	Amira Sabaa El Layl[54]
United Arab Emirates	Ayehsa Sultan Al Suwaidi[55]
Yemen	Abeer Abdel Rahman Ahmed Al-Faqih[56]

Europe

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Austria	Martha Wolf[57]	1912
Bulgaria	Yurdanka Kaldaramova-Senkova[58]	1901
Cyprus	Rebecca Savvidou[59]
Czech Republic	Štěpánka Líčková[60] (country then known as Bohemia)	1910
Denmark	Nicoline Møller[61]	1888	1888
Estonia	Josephine Serre[62]	1814
Finland	Hedvig Eleonora Ståhlberg[63][64]	1887	1887
France	Madeleine-Françoise Calais[65]	1740	1740
Germany	Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius[66]	1869	1869
Greece	Eliza Karakatsani[67]		1895
Hungary	Gizella Barát[68]		1910
Iceland	Thyra Loftsson (née Lange)[69][70]	1925
Italy	Elena Venturi[71]
Latvia	Late Veibele[72]	1901
Luxembourg	Marcelle Dauphin[73][74]	1922	1923
Malta	Carmen Joslin (née Attard)[75][76]	1960
Montenegro	Jevrosima Berezina Kaluđerović[77]	1904
Netherlands	Virginie Waltjen-Stadelmann[78][79]	1885	1885
Norway	Petra Lie[80]	1872	1872
Poland	Józefa Serre[81][82]	1813
Romania	Alma Mohora-Popovici [ro][83]
Russia	Maria Nazon[84][85]		1829
Serbia	Milica Mihajlović[86]
Slovenia	Pavla Marija Kocjančič[87]		c. 1926
Spain	Polonia Sanz y Ferrer[88][89]		1849
Sweden	Amalia Assur[90][91]		1852
Switzerland	Mathilde Heumann	1887
Turkey	Ayşe Şadiye and Azra Hatice[92][93]	1926
United Kingdom	Lilian Lindsay[94]	1895	1895

Oceania

Country	Physician	Year graduated medical school	Year began practice
Australia	Annie Praed[95] Margaret "Madge" Estelle Maltby-Robinson (née Barnes)[96] Frances Dorothy Gray[97]	1906-1907
Fiji	Jiko Yasa (née Luveni)[98][99]	1967	1967
New Zealand	Margaret Caro[100]	1881
Vanuatu	Toumelu Kalsakau[101]

See also

• List of first female pharmacists by country
• List of first female physicians by country
• Women in dentistry
• Women in medicine

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