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

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 (born 1937), 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