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 CountryPharmacistYearC. Oviasu (née Ukponmwan)Jeanne Ngo Maï1962Judite (Judith) Limac. 1961Sackey Nee VanderpuyeHortense Aka-AnghuiClavenda ParkerWedad Muhammad Al-Senussi Al-Saqzli1961Rokia Sanogo1989Fatima Al-Zahra Al-Warzazi1912Lahya Hafeni, Anastancia Aluvilu, Fundisile Msibi, Tumo Pelekekae2015Oreoluwa Green*1916Lily Heymann1916Abra AmédomeLucia Campisi (born in Italy)Catherine Kisumba1960Nora Price (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. Tunisia: Dorra Bouzid is considered the first female pharmacist in Tunisia after independence. She started her practice sometime during the 1960s.
Americas CountryPharmacistYearÉlida Passo1885Gertrude BurnsideRosa Mercedes Guerra1921Maria Luiza Torrezão1887A. Adrienne Preevoot1901Griselda Hinojosa1889Felícitas Chaverri Matamoros1917María Dolores Marty and Eloisa Figueroa Marty1886Dymphna van heb Elizabeths-Gasthu1911Encarnación PiñeyroMercedes Amanda Martínez and Margarita Lanza1930Olimpia Altuve1919Raymonde Horth1905Corina Barahona1931Esther Luque Muñozc. 1906Elba Ochomogo Portocarrero de Hernandez1922Nicolasa Butler1839Esseline Juliette Polanen1936Amy Cox Rochfordc. 1927Susan Hayhurst1883María Fernández Bawden1927
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. 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.| 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.Royster, Jacqueline Jones (2003). "Ella Nora Phillips Myers Stewart." Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803 –2003. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. . p. 97."Ella Stewart." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 39. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Accessed via Biography in Context database, 2016-07-02. Available online via Encyclopedia.com.
Asia CountryPharmacistYearMahbuba Valiyeva1971Layla Ahmed AbdulrahmanSneh Rani JainCharlotte Jacobs1879Josephine Bourjouni and Rahima Youssef1940Aqdas Gharbi and Akhtar Ferdows1941Sarah MelNaoe Okamoto1885Nabila Shoura Irsheidatc. 1950sCha Soon-seok1924Zahie Barakat1928Bijay Laxmi ShresthaBatool Jaffer1977Nasima Jamilc. 1967Filomena Francisco and Matilde S. Arquiza1908Zakia MalallahSamira bint Ibrahim Islam1982Lucy Wan1958Najah Saati1949Lin Caisan黄静宜. 醫療從愛出發《第十一屆醫療奉獻獎個人獎得主素描》林蔡娩老藥師關懷弱勢 用心又專情. 《民生报》. 2001-05-08 （中文（台湾））1951Prasit PrakobnilSuhaila Al-AwadiPham Thi Hao
Indonesia: Jacobs is considered the first female pharmacist in the Netherlands and Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies).
Europe CountryPharmacistYearEmili Dishnica GliozheniEdi Shukriu:Gra të shquara shqiptare I, "Teuta", Prishtinë, 2003, fq. 90 – 91. (then known as Socialist Albania)1961Gisela Kunc. 1906H-B. Geronimus (Taubina)Jeanne Rademackers1885Sarajka Ljubica Jokanovic1914Anna Belizarova Yakova1911Vjera Rojc Katušić1913Ruzena Krontilová-Librova (then known as Czechoslovakia)1904Charlotte Schou and Nielsine Schousen1896Alma Tomingas1933Hilda Amanda Brunberg1874Hélina Leiannier-Gaboriau1898Magdalena NeffBeisswanger, Gabriele.: Frauen in der Pharmazie : die Geschichte eines Frauenberufes. Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, .1906Polymnia Panagiotidou1899Erzsébet Légrády and Thinagel Szerafin1903Jóhanna Magnúsdóttir1928Christina Jesop Wilson1900Dorina Crespi Andini1895Staņislava DovgjalloJuzefa Girdzijevska1870Caterina Vitale1590Aaltje Visser1868Rajna Aleksova1906Helga Eide1893Antonina LeśniewskaTwo nuns of Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Filipina and Konstancja Studzińskie, was given dispensation to take a degree in pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University in 1824, and Jadwiga Klemensiewicz, Janina Kosmowska and Stanisława Dowgiałłówna became the first female pharmacists to graduate in Poland rather than abroad.1884Maria Serpa dos Santos1947Paulina Cruceanu and Clara Colesin1892Antonina Boleslavovna Lesnevskaya and Zinaida I. Akker1897Desanka Ruvidić Okoličanin1913Ruzena Krontilová-Librova (then known as Czechoslovakia)1904Emilija Fon1915Dolores Rodriguez1893Märtha LethIdun 29 januari 1897: Martha Leth. Sveriges första kvinnliga farmaceut1897Clara WinnickiFranziska Rogger: Der Doktorhut im Besenschrank: Das abenteuerliche Leben der ersten Studentinnen – am Beispiel der Universität Bern. Bern 1999/2002, ISBN 978-3-905561-32-6, S. 63–71.1905Fatma Belkis Derman1930Anna Mikhailovna Makarova1892Frances Elizabeth Deacon1870
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. Czech Republic and Slovakia: Other sources cited Elza Fantová as the first Bohemia woman to earn a pharmaceutical degree in 1908. 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. 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. Netherlands: In the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, Charlotte Jacobs became the first female pharmacist with a degree in 1879. Norway: Christine Dahl passed her assistant pharmacy exam in 1889, but Eide was considered the first female pharmacist. 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. Russia: Olga Evgenevna Gabrilovich was the first female pharmacist to earn a degree in 1906. 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.Levertin Alfred, Schimmelpfennig Carl Fredrik Vilhelm, Ahlberg Karl, red (1910–1918). Sveriges apotekarhistoria från konung Gustaf I:s till närvarande tid. Bd 1, Stockholms stad, Stockholms län, Uppsala län, Södermanlands län, Östergötlands län, Jönköpings län, Kronobergs län. Stockholm: Ernst Westerbergs boktr. The first woman to have obtained a degree in pharmacology was Agnes Arvidsson (1903). Ukraine: Makarova, a Kiev University graduate, was the first woman to pass the examination for the title of pharmaceutical assistant.
Oceania CountryPharmacistYearCaroline Copp1880Lila Thakerar1979Elizabeth Robinson1881
See also List of first female physicians by country List of first women dentists by country Women in medicine Women in pharmacy
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