List of first women dentists by country
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This is a list of the first qualified female dentist to practice in each country, where that is known.
Africa
| Country | Dentist | Year of
graduation |
Year of
starting practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Burkina Faso |
Véronique Kyelem[1] | 1972 | 1987 |
 Ghana |
Hilda Ayensu[2] | ||
 Kenya |
Muthoni Gitata[3] | ||
 Liberia |
Rachael Hill Townsend[4] | ||
 Namibia |
Sarti Mwatilifange[5] and another woman | 1994 | |
 Nigeria | Simi Johnson[6] and Grace Guobadia[7] | 1957 | |
 South Africa |
Jane Nathan[8][9][10] | 1917 | |
 Sudan |
Nashina Makos[11] | c. 1963 |
Americas
| Country | Dentist | Year of
graduation |
Year of
starting practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina | Cidanelia R. González de Carrillo[12][13][14] | 1896 | |
 Bolivia |
Maria H. Oropeza[15] | 1914 | |
 Brazil | Isabella Von Sydow[16] | 1906 | 1906 |
 Canada | Emma Gaudreau Casgrain[17] | 1898 | |
 Chile | Amelia Venegas[18][19] | 1884 | |
 Colombia |
Hortensia Lince[20] | 1890 | |
 Costa Rica |
Pilar Celina Duval[21] | ||
 Cuba |
Serafina Daumy y Martínez[22] | 1879 | |
 Dominican Republic |
Victoria Sofía Oliva Montás[23] | 1917 | |
 Ecuador |
Delfina Luis Rodríguez[20] | 1916 | |
 El Salvador |
Bertha Orbelina González[24] | 1938 | |
 Guatemala |
Carlota Estévez Arrutia[20] | 1924 | |
 Haiti |
Marcelle Bellande (née Hakime)[25][26] | ||
 Honduras |
Rosa Galo de Castillo[27] | 1948 | |
 Mexico | Margarita Chorné y Salazar[17][28] | 1896 | |
 Panama |
Aida Illueca Avilés[29] | ||
 Peru |
Ana Seminario de Mac Sorley[30][31] | ||
 Saint Lucia |
Azmina Long[32] | 1980 | |
 Suriname |
Tine Putscher[33] | 1937 | |
 United States | Emeline Roberts Jones[17] | 1855 | |
 Uruguay |
Iride Casullo de Peluffo[34][35] | 1897 | |
 Venezuela |
Rosario Cotton[20] | 1909 |
Asia
| Country | Dentist | Year of
graduation |
Year of
starting practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bahrain |
Zakia Salman[36][37] | 1972 | 1984 |
 China |
Zhang Qiongxian[38] | 1936 | |
 India | Vimla Sood[39] | 1944 | |
 Iran | Badri Teymourtash[40] | ||
 Iraq |
Madiha Saleh Zaki[41] | c. 1950s | |
 Japan |
Kou Takahashi[42] | 1897 | |
 Jordan |
Aida Jamal Al-Alami[43][44] | ||
 Korea |
Geum-bong Choi[45][46] | ||
 Kuwait |
Eqbal Abdulmohsen Al-Asfour[47] | 1970 | |
 Lebanon |
Nihad Kfoury[48][49] | 1973 | |
 Pakistan | Fatima Jinnah[50] | 1923 | |
 Philippines | Nieva Basa Eraña-Velasquez[51] | ||
 Saudi Arabia |
Fatima Al Nasrallah[52] | ||
 Sri Lanka | Rosaline Karthigesu[53] | 1947 | |
 Syria |
Amira Sabaa El Layl[54] | ||
 United Arab Emirates | Ayehsa Sultan Al Suwaidi[55] | ||
 Yemen |
Abeer Abdel Rahman Ahmed Al-Faqih[56] |
Europe
| Country | Dentist | Year of
graduation |
Year of
starting practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Austria | Martha Wolf[57] | 1912 | |
 Bulgaria |
Yurdanka Kaldaramova-Senkova[58] | 1901 | |
 Cyprus |
Rebecca Savvidou[59] | ||
 Czech Republic |
Štěpánka Líčková[60] (country then known as Bohemia) | 1910 | |
 Denmark | Nicoline Møller[61] | 1888 | 1888 |
 Estonia |
Josephine Serre[62] | 1814 | |
 Finland | Hedvig Eleonora Ståhlberg[63][64] | 1887 | 1887 |
 France | Madeleine-Françoise Calais[65] | 1740 | 1740 |
 Germany | Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius[66] | 1869 | 1869 |
 Greece |
Eliza Karakatsani[67] | 1895 | |
 Hungary |
Gizella Barát[68] | 1910 | |
 Iceland |
Thyra Loftsson (née Lange)[69][70] | 1925 | |
 Italy |
Elena Venturi[71] | ||
 Latvia |
Late Veibele[72] | 1901 | |
 Luxembourg |
Marcelle Dauphin[73][74] | 1922 | 1923 |
 Malta |
Carmen Joslin (née Attard)[75][76] | 1960 | |
 Montenegro |
Jevrosima Berezina Kaluđerović[77] | 1904 | |
 Netherlands | Virginie Waltjen-Stadelmann[78][79] | 1885 | 1885 |
 Norway | Petra Lie[80] | 1872 | 1872 |
 Poland |
Józefa Serre[81][82] | 1813 | |
 Romania |
Alma Mohora-Popovici[83] | ||
 Russia |
Maria Nazon[84][85] | 1829 | |
 Serbia |
Milica Mihajlović[86] | ||
 Slovenia |
Pavla Marija Kocjančič[87] | c. 1926 | |
 Spain | Polonia Sanz y Ferrer[88][89] | 1849 | |
 Sweden | Amalia Assur[90][91] | 1852 | |
 Switzerland | Mathilde Heumann | 1887 | |
 Turkey |
Ayşe Şadiye and Azra Hatice[92][93] | 1926 | |
 United Kingdom | Lilian Lindsay[94] | 1895 | 1895 |
Oceania
| Country | Physician | Year graduated medical school |
Year began practice |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia |
|
1906-1907 | |
 Fiji |
Jiko Yasa (née Luveni)[98][99] | 1967 | 1967 |
 New Zealand |
Margaret Caro[100] | 1881 | |
 Vanuatu |
Toumelu Kalsakau[101] |