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

 *  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

 *  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

 *  Indonesia:  Jacobs is considered the first female pharmacist in the Netherlands and Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies).

Europe

 *  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 wom  a  n 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.