Connie Booth31 January 1944, American
Actress, Psychotherapist
Mae Jemison17 October 1956, American
First African American Woman To Travel To Space
Jill Stein14 May 1950, American
Physician
Maria Montessori31 August 1870, Italian
Physician and Educator
Anandi Gopal Joshi31 March 1865, Indian
First Indian Female Doctor
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
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson09 June 1836, British
Mayor of Aldeburgh
Roberta Bondar04 December 1945, Canadian
Astronaut & Neurologist
Virginia Apgar07 June 1909, American
Physician and Anesthesiologist
Tran Jeong24 February 1972, American
Wife of Ken Jeong
Nora Volkow27 March 1956, Mexican
Psychiatrist
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Fe del Mundo27 November 1911, Filipino
Pediatrician
Cicely Saunders22 June 1918, British
English nurse
Nina Gray23 August 1974, American
Entrepreneur
Anna Comnena01 December 1083, Greek
Greek Princess & Scholar
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877, British
Physician
Carol S. Dweck17 October 1976, American
Physiologists
Ursula von der Leyen08 October 1958, German
Physician, Politician
Margaret Chan21 August 1947, Canadian, Chinese
Physician
Jennifer Ashton23 April 1969, American
Physician
Michelle Bachelet29 September 1951, Chilean
Politician, Surgeon, Epidemiologist
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross08 July 1926, Swiss, American
Psychiatrist
Philippa Perry01 November 1957, British
Psychotherapist, Novelist
Laurel Clark10 March 1961, American
Medical Doctor
Annie Sprinkle23 July 1954, American
Sexologist
Frances Cress Welsing18 March 1935, American
Psychiatrist
Renée Richards19 August 1934, American
Tennis player, Surgeon, Officer, Ophthalmologist,
Taslima Nasrin25 August 1962, Bangladeshi
Poet, Physician, Novelist, Essayist, Writer,
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Karen Horney16 September 1885, German
Psychoanalyst
Gro Harlem Brundtland20 April 1939, Norwegian
Physician, Politician, Diplomat
Mehriban Aliyeva26 August 1964, Azerbaijani
Ophthalmologist, Politician, Physician
Joycelyn Elders13 August 1933, American
Pediatrician
Colleen McCullough01 June 1937, Australian
Novelist, Writer, Neurologist, Biographer, Science
Marianne Koch19 August 1931, German
Actor, Television presenter, Physician, Internist
Anna Komnene01 December 1083, Turkish
Byzantine physician
Herta Oberheuser15 May 1911, German
Military physician, Physician
Frances Oldham Kelsey24 July 1914, Canadian, American
Pharmacologist
Linda Hazzard1867 AD, American
physician
Debora Green28 February 1951, American
Physician
Nawal El Saadawi27 October 1931, Egyptian
Writer
Antonia Novello23 August 1944, Puerto Rican, American
Former Surgeon General
Sara Josephine Baker15 November 1873, American
Physician
Carol W. Greider15 April 1961, American
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Regina Benjamin26 October 1956, American
Surgeon General of the United States
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail03 December 1952, Malaysian
Ophthalmologist, Politician
Ewa Kopacz03 December 1956, Polish
Politician, Physician
Patricia Bath04 November 1942, American
Ophthalmologist, Physician
Marci Bowers18 January 1958, American
Gynaecologist
Susan La Flesche Picotte17 June 1865, American
American doctor
Marie Bashir01 December 1930, Australian
Engineer, Psychiatrist, Physician, University
Helen B. Taussig24 May 1898, American
Cardiologist
Chiaki Mukai06 May 1952, Japanese
Physician
Margaret Mahler10 May 1897, Hungarian
Psychiatrist, Child psychiatrist
Bernadine Healy04 August 1944, American
Cardiologist
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869, American
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
Fiona Wood02 February 1958, Australian, British
Plastic surgeon, Physician
May-Britt Moser04 January 1963, Norwegian
Professor, Neuroscientist, Psychologist, Physician
Grethe Rask1930 AD, Danish
physician, surgeon
Carolyn Bennett20 December 1950, Canadian
Politician, Physician
Johanna Budwig30 September 1908, German
Chemist, Biochemist, Inventor, Physician
Tenley Albright18 July 1935, American
Figure Skater
Bluma Zeigarnik09 November 1900
Psychologist, Psychiatrist
Claudie Haigneré13 May 1957, French
Doctor
Emily Stowe01 May 1831, Canadian
Teacher, Physician
Helen Caldicott07 August 1938, Australian
Physician, Autobiographer
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi31 August 1842, British, American
Physician
Leila Denmark01 February 1898, American
Pediatrician, Author
Alexa Canady07 November 1950, American
neurosurgeon, physician
Emily Blackwell08 October 1826
Physician
Sheila Sherlock31 March 1918, Northern Irish
Physician
Samantha Nutt30 September 1969, Canadian
physician
Lucy Hobbs Taylor14 March 1833, American
Dentist
Dot Richardson22 September 1961, American
Physician
Mary Ann Bickerdyke19 July 1817, American
Medical worker
Mathilde Krim09 July 1926, Israeli
Geneticist, Physician
Helene Deutsch09 October 1884, Polish, American
Psychologist, Psychiatrist
Mary Calderone01 July 1904, American
Physician
Sneha Anne Philip07 October 1969, American
Tina Strobos19 May 1920, Dutch
Physician
Carol M. Black26 December 1939, British
Physician
Edith Summerskill19 April 1901, British
Physician
Dorothea Erxleben13 November 1715, German
Physician
Zsuzsanna Jakab17 May 1951, Hungarian
Public health expert
Zilda Arns25 August 1934, Brazilian
Brazilian pediatrician
Harriot Kezia Hunt09 November 1805, American
Physician
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska06 September 1829, Polish, American
Physician
Helen Flanders Dunbar14 May 1902, American
Psychiatrist, Physician
Ann Preston01 December 1813, American
Physician
Claribel Cone14 November 1864, American
American art collectors
Georgeanna Seegar Jones06 July 1912, American
Physician
Hattie Alexander05 April 1901, American
Pediatrician