Throughout history, there have been many women physicians who have made significant contribution to the field. The list includes many familiar and great female physicians such as Maria Montessori, Elizabeth Blackwell, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mae Jemison, Mary Edwards Walker.The women physicians featured in this list are from United States, United Kingdom, Canada & Australia and many more countries.
Maria Montessori31 August 1870, Italian
Physician and Educator
Mae Jemison17 October 1956, American
First African American Woman To Travel To Space
Connie Booth31 January 1944, American
Actress, Psychotherapist
Elizabeth Blackwell03 February 1821, American
First Woman Medical Graduate
Mary Edwards Walker26 November 1832, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
Rita Levi-Montalcini22 April 1909, Italian
Neurologist
Roberta Bondar04 December 1945, Canadian
Astronaut & Neurologist
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson09 June 1836, British
Mayor of Aldeburgh
Virginia Apgar07 June 1909, American
Physician and Anesthesiologist
Fe del Mundo27 November 1911, Filipino
Pediatrician
Cicely Saunders22 June 1918, British
English nurse
Nora Volkow27 March 1956, Mexican
Psychiatrist
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Anna Comnena01 December 1083, Greek
Greek Princess & Scholar
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877, British
Physician
Nina Gray23 August 1974, American
Entrepreneur
Tran Jeong24 February 1972, American
Wife of Ken Jeong
Ursula von der Leyen08 October 1958, German
Physician, Politician
Anandi Gopal Joshi31 March 1865
Physician
Teresa of Ávila28 March 1515, Spanish
Philosopher, Writer, Cleric
Michelle Bachelet29 September 1951, Chilean
Politician, Surgeon, Epidemiologist
Taslima Nasrin25 August 1962, Bangladeshi
Poet, Physician, Novelist, Essayist, Writer,
Renée Richards19 August 1934, American
Tennis player, Surgeon, Officer, Ophthalmologist,
Linda Hazzard1867 AD, American
physician
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross08 July 1926, Swiss, American
Psychiatrist
Laurel Clark10 March 1961, American
Officer, Astronaut, Physician, Submariner
Jennifer Ashton23 April 1969, American
Physician
Herta Oberheuser15 May 1911, German
Military physician, Physician
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail03 December 1952, Malaysian
Ophthalmologist, Politician
Colleen McCullough01 June 1937, Australian
Novelist, Writer, Neurologist, Biographer, Science
Gro Harlem Brundtland20 April 1939, Norwegian
Physician, Politician, Diplomat
Patricia Bath04 November 1942, American
Ophthalmologist, Physician
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Mehriban Aliyeva26 August 1964, Azerbaijani
Ophthalmologist, Politician, Physician
Debora Green28 February 1951, American
Physician
Frances Cress Welsing18 March 1935, American
Psychiatrist
Marianne Koch19 August 1931, German
Actor, Television presenter, Physician, Internist
Anna Komnene01 December 1083, Turkish
Byzantine physician
Ewa Kopacz03 December 1956, Polish
Politician, Physician
Philippa Perry01 November 1957, British
Psychotherapist, Novelist
Marci Bowers18 January 1958, American
Gynaecologist
Marie Bashir01 December 1930, Australian
Engineer, Psychiatrist, Physician, University
Sara Josephine Baker15 November 1873, American
Physician
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869, American
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
Susan La Flesche Picotte17 June 1865, American
American doctor
Carolyn Bennett20 December 1950, Canadian
Politician, Physician
Margaret Mahler10 May 1897, Hungarian
Psychiatrist, Child psychiatrist
Grethe Rask1930 AD, Danish
physician, surgeon
May-Britt Moser04 January 1963, Norwegian
Professor, Neuroscientist, Psychologist, Physician
Johanna Budwig30 September 1908, German
Chemist, Biochemist, Inventor, Physician
Regina Benjamin26 October 1956, American
Surgeon General of the United States
Carol W. Greider15 April 1961, American
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Emily Stowe01 May 1831, Canadian
Teacher, Physician
Helen Caldicott07 August 1938, Australian
Physician, Autobiographer
Fiona Wood02 February 1958, Australian, British
Plastic surgeon, Physician
Sneha Anne Philip07 October 1969, American
Bluma Zeigarnik09 November 1900
Psychologist, Psychiatrist
Maud Menten20 March 1879, Canadian
Chemist, Physician, Biochemist
Leila Denmark01 February 1898, American
Pediatrician, Author
Alexa Canady07 November 1950, American
neurosurgeon, physician
Carol M. BlackBritish
Physician
Helene Deutsch09 October 1884, Polish, American
Psychologist, Psychiatrist
Mathilde Krim09 July 1926, Israeli
Geneticist, Physician
Samantha Nutt30 September 1969, Canadian
physician
Thérèse de Lisieux02 January 1873, French
Saint
Dorothea Erxleben13 November 1715, German
Physician
Zilda Arns25 August 1934, Brazilian
Brazilian pediatrician
Helen Flanders Dunbar14 May 1902, American
Psychiatrist, Physician
Sandra Wood Scarr1936 AD, American
Penelope J. Leach19 November 1937, British