# List of first female pharmacists by country

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 |
| Benin | C. Oviasu (née Ukponmwan) | |
| Cameroon | Jeanne Ngo Maï | 1962 |
| Cape Verde | Judite (Judith) Lima | c. 1961 |
| Ghana | Sackey Nee Vanderpuye | |
| Ivory Coast | Hortense Aka-Anghui | |
| Liberia | Clavenda Parker | |
| Libya | Wedad Muhammad Al-Senussi Al-Saqzli | 1961 |
| Mali | Rokia Sanogo | 1989 |
| Morocco | Fatima Al-Zahra Al-Warzazi | 1912 |
| Namibia | Lahya Hafeni, Anastancia Aluvilu, Fundisile Msibi, Tumo Pelekekae | 2015 |
| Nigeria | Oreoluwa Green* | 1916 |
| South Africa | Lily Heymann | 1916 |
| Togo | Abra Amédome | |
| Tunisia | Lucia Campisi (born in Italy) | |
| Uganda | Catherine Kisumba | 1960 |
| Zimbabwe | Nora 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

| Country | Pharmacist | Year |
| Argentina | Élida Passo | 1885 |
| Bahamas | Gertrude Burnside | |
| Bolivia | Rosa Mercedes Guerra | 1921 |
| Brazil | Maria Luiza Torrezão | 1887 |
| Canada | A. Adrienne Preevoot | 1901 |
| Chile | Griselda Hinojosa | 1889 |
| Costa Rica | Felícitas Chaverri Matamoros | 1917 |
| Cuba | María Dolores Marty and Eloisa Figueroa Marty | 1886 |
| Curaçao | Dymphna van heb Elizabeths-Gasthu | 1911 |
| Dominican Republic | Encarnación Piñeyro | |
| El Salvador | Mercedes Amanda Martínez and Margarita Lanza | 1930 |
| Guatemala | Olimpia Altuve | 1919 |
| Guyana | Raymonde Horth | 1905 |
| Honduras | Corina Barahona | 1931 |
| Mexico | Esther Luque Muñoz | c. 1906 |
| Nicaragua | Elba Ochomogo Portocarrero de Hernandez | 1922 |
| Peru | Nicolasa Butler | 1839 |
| Suriname | Esseline Juliette Polanen | 1936 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Amy Cox Rochford | c. 1927 |
| United States | Susan Hayhurst | 1883 |
| Venezuela | María Fernández Bawden | 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.
* 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.

## Asia

| Country | Pharmacist | Year |
| Azerbaijan | Mahbuba Valiyeva | 1971 |
| Bahrain | Layla Ahmed Abdulrahman | |
| India | Sneh Rani Jain | |
| Indonesia | Charlotte Jacobs | 1879 |
| Iraq | Josephine Bourjouni and Rahima Youssef | 1940 |
| Iran | Aqdas Gharbi and Akhtar Ferdows | 1941 |
| Israel | Sarah Mel | |
| Japan | Naoe Okamoto | 1885 |
| Jordan | Nabila Shoura Irsheidat | c. 1950s |
| Korea | Cha Soon-seok | 1924 |
| Lebanon | Zahie Barakat | 1928 |
| Nepal | Bijay Laxmi Shrestha | |
| Oman | Batool Jaffer | 1977 |
| Pakistan | Nasima Jamil | c. 1967 |
| Philippines | Filomena Francisco and Matilde S. Arquiza | 1908 |
| Qatar | Zakia Malallah | |
| Saudi Arabia | Samira bint Ibrahim Islam | 1982 |
| Singapore | Lucy Wan | 1958 |
| Syria | Najah Saati | 1949 |
| Taiwan | Lin Caisan | 1951 |
| Thailand | Prasit Prakobnil | |
| United Arab Emirates | Suhaila Al-Awadi | |
| Vietnam | Pham Thi Hao | |
* 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 (then known as Socialist Albania) | 1961 |
| Austria | Gisela Kun | c. 1906 |
| Belarus | H-B. Geronimus (Taubina) | |
| Belgium | Jeanne Rademackers | 1885 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajka Ljubica Jokanovic | 1914 |
| Bulgaria | Anna Belizarova Yakova | 1911 |
| Croatia | Vjera Rojc Katušić | 1913 |
| Czech Republic | Ruzena Krontilová-Librova (then known as Czechoslovakia) | 1904 |
| Denmark | Charlotte Schou and Nielsine Schousen | 1896 |
| Estonia | Alma Tomingas | 1933 |
| Finland | Hilda Amanda Brunberg | 1874 |
| France | Hélina Leiannier-Gaboriau | 1898 |
| Germany | Magdalena Neff | 1906 |
| Greece | Polymnia Panagiotidou | 1899 |
| Hungary | Erzsébet Légrády and Thinagel Szerafin | 1903 |
| Iceland | Jóhanna Magnúsdóttir | 1928 |
| Ireland | Christina Jesop Wilson | 1900 |
| Italy | Dorina Crespi Andini | 1895 |
| Latvia | Staņislava Dovgjallo | |
| Lithuania | Juzefa Girdzijevska | 1870 |
| Malta | Caterina Vitale | 1590 |
| Netherlands | Aaltje Visser | 1868 |
| North Macedonia | Rajna Aleksova | 1906 |
| Norway | Helga Eide | 1893 |
| Poland | Antonina Leśniewska | 1884 |
| Portugal | Maria Serpa dos Santos | 1947 |
| Romania | Paulina Cruceanu and Clara Colesin | 1892 |
| Russia | Antonina Boleslavovna Lesnevskaya and Zinaida I. Akker | 1897 |
| Serbia | Desanka Ruvidić Okoličanin | 1913 |
| Slovakia | Ruzena Krontilová-Librova (then known as Czechoslovakia) | 1904 |
| Slovenia | Emilija Fon | 1915 |
| Spain | Dolores Rodriguez | 1893 |
| Sweden | Märtha Leth | 1897 |
| Switzerland | Clara Winnicki | 1905 |
| Turkey | Fatma Belkis Derman | 1930 |
| Ukraine | Anna Mikhailovna Makarova | 1892 |
| United Kingdom | Frances Elizabeth Deacon | 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.
* 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. The first woman to have obtained a degree in pharmacology was Agnes Arvidsson (1903).
* Ukraine: Makarova, a Kiev University (Ukraine) graduate, was the first woman to pass the examination for the title of pharmaceutical assistant.

## Oceania

| Country | Pharmacist | Year |
| Australia | Caroline Copp | 1880 |
| Fiji | Lila Thakerar | 1979 |
| New Zealand | Elizabeth Robinson | 1881 |