# List of pharmacists

This is a list of notable pharmacists, sorted by particular fields in which they distinguished themselves:

## Pharmacy practice

* Dora Akunyili (1954-2010), Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of Nigeria
* George F. Archambault (1910–2001), considered to be the "father" of consultant pharmacy
* Sabina Baldoncelli (b. 1781), one of the first Italian female pharmacists with a university degree but was allowed to work only in an orphanage
* Philo Carpenter (1805–1886), first pharmacist in Chicago, Illinois
* Maria Dauerer (1624–1688), first Swedish female apothecary
* Edna Gleason, American pharmacist and "mother of fair-trade"
* Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (1681–1762), first American female apothecary
* Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist and president of the National Association of Women Pharmacists
* Isa Marte Hussaini (born 1956), Nigerian pharmacist and fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science
* Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993), Polish pharmacist in the Kraków Ghetto
* William Procter, Jr. (1817–1872), regarded as the "father of American pharmacy", was instrumental in the founding of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1852
* Joseph P. Remington, namesake of the Remington Medal
* R. Tim Webster (1946–2003), founder and long-time executive director of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
* Harvey A. K. Whitney (1894–1957), founder and first president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1942
* Suzanne Rabi Soliman (born 1980), founder Pharmacist Moms Group and Women Pharmacist Day

## Pharmacy business

* George H. Bartell, Sr. (1868–1956), American founder of Bartell Drugs, the oldest family–owned drug store chain in the United States
* David Bernauer, American, former CEO of Walgreens drug store chain
* Jesse Boot (1850–1931), British businessman and transformer of the Boots Pharmacy/Drug Company into a national retailer
* John Boot (1815–1860), British founder of Boots the Chemists
* Ornella Barra, Italian, Chief Executive, Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division Alliance Boots
* Jean Coutu (born 1927), French Canadian founder of the Jean Coutu Group
* Jack Eckerd (1913–2004), owner/founder of Eckerd Drugs
* David Jack (1924–2011), leader of research that developed major asthma drugs
* Murray Koffler (1924–2017), founder of Canadian drug store chain Shoppers Drug Mart
* Ernest Mario, American pharmaceutical industry executive
* Jeff Rein (born 1953), former CEO of Walgreens drug store chain
* Thomas Ryan, American, former CEO of CVS Caremark drug store chain
* Charles Rudolph Walgreen (1873–1939), founder of Walgreens Drugstore

## Botany and chemistry

* Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1720–1778), French botanist and explorer
* Ibn al-Baitar (1197–1248), Islamic physician, pharmacist, botanist, and scientist from the Middle Ages
* Bill Charman, Australian pharmaceutical scientist
* Stanley Stewart Davis (born 1942), winner of Eurand Award for Outstanding Research in Oral Drug Delivery
* Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706), Czech Jesuit missionary and botanist
* John Uri Lloyd (1849–1936), influential American pharmacist
* Charles Mohr (1824–1901), German botanist
* James Parkinson, English apothecary and namesake of the disease Parkinson's
* Ruiz y Pavón (1850–1931), Ruiz and Pavón, Spanish famous pharmacists
* Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842), co-discoverer of quinine, caffeine, and strychnine
* James Petiver (ca. 1664–1718), botanist and entomologist, considered the "father of British butterflies"
* Sara Borrell Ruiz (1917–1999), Spanish steroid hormone researcher
* Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-Swedish chemist, discoverer of oxygen
* Wilbur Scoville (1865–1942), American developer of the Scoville Organoleptic Test
* Friedrich Sertürner (1783–1841), German chemist and discover of morphine
* Eugène Soubeiran (1797–1859), French discover of chloroform

## Industry

* Paul Carl Beiersdorf (1836–1896), German founder of Beiersdorf AG
* Herbert Haft (1920–2004), American corporate raider
* Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918), German entrepreneur and owner of Beiersdorf AG
* Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Polish pharmacist, inventor of kerosene lamp, pioneer of oil industry in Europe
* Paul Jean Rigollot (1810-1873), French pharmacist, inventor and chocolatier

## Soft drinks

* Charles Alderton (1857–1941), American inventor of the soft drink Dr Pepper
* Caleb Bradham (1867–1934), American inventor of the soft drink Pepsi
* Charles Elmer Hires (1851–1937), American inventor of the soft drink Hires Root Beer
* John Pemberton (1831–1888), American inventor of the soft drink Coca-Cola
* James Vernor (1843–1927), American inventor of Vernor's ginger ale

## Politics

* Lawrence Brock (1906–1968), Nebraskan politician
* Buddy Carter (born 1957), politician from Georgia USA
* Ikililou Dhoinine (born 1962), Comorian politician
* Misako Enoki (born 1945), Japanese feminist, pharmacist, and politician
* Pravin Gordhan (born 1949), minister in South African government
* John Hodges (1937–2024), Australian politician
* Chuck Hopson (born 1941), Texas politician
* Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), pharmacist and 38th Vice President of the United States
* Altaf Hussain (born 1961), Pakistani politician; founder of APMSO and of MQM, the third largest political party of Pakistan
* Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (1835–1913), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
* Ronnie Johns (born 1949), Louisiana state legislator
* Tony Lamb (born 1939), Australian politician
* Bernard LeBas (born 1943), Louisiana state legislator
* Antonio Luna (1866–1899), Philippine General
* Nancy McFarlane (born 1956), mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina
* Randy McNally (born 1944), Tennessee politician
* Fred Mills (born 1955), member of the Louisiana State Senate
* Robert Nutting (born 1947), member of the Maine House of Representatives
* Dave O'Neal (1937–2021), Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
* Oscar Rennebohm (1889–1968), 32nd Governor of Wisconsin (1947–1951)
* George H. Ryan (born 1934), Illinois Governor
* Charlie Smithgall (born 1945), Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
* Ron Stephens (born 1954), member of Georgia House of Representatives
* Harve Tibbott (1885–1969), Republican politician and U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
* Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan MP
* Evan Vickers (born 1954), Utah politician
* Gerry Weiner (born 1933), Canadian politician; former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MP and cabinet minister, president of the Equality Party and mayor of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec
* Terry White (born 1936), Australian businessman and politician
* Jim Wilson (1872–1956), pioneering banker and Los Angeles City Council member

## Other

* Adaeze Atuegwu (born 1977), Nigerian-American author, pharmacist, and disability inclusion advocate
* Michel Casseux (1794–1869), French developer of Savate
* Étienne J. Caire (1868–1955), Louisiana merchant
* Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and poet
* O. Henry (1862–1910), American writer, real name William Sidney Porter
* Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand inventor (tranquilizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe, child–proof medicine container)
* Edna O'Brien (born 1930), Irish author and playwright
* John O'Grady, Australian writer They're a Weird Mob)
* Pat Ogrin (born 1958), American football player
* Alberto de Oliveira (1855–1937), Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor
* Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist who discovered electromagnetism
* György Pásztor, International Ice Hockey Federation doping in sport committee chairman
* Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), French chemist and authority on the Holocaust of World War II
* Nina Radojičić (born 1968), Serbian pharmacist and singer, represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
* Daniel B Smith (1792–1883), American educator
* Joseph Swan (1828–1914), inventor of the incandescent light bulb
* Naoko Takeuchi (born 1957), Japanese pharmacist, manga artist best known for work on Sailor Moon
* John Worsfold (born 1968), Australian football player

## Fictional pharmacists

* Douglas "Doug" Varney (Sam Rockwell) in Better Living Through Chemistry
* Eddie Walzer (Paul Schulze) in Nurse Jackie
* Percival Almanac (Barry Otto) in The Dressmaker
* Yusuf (Dileep Rao) in Inception
* Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer) in the early seasons of The Simpsons