List of first female dentists by country

This is a list of the first qualified female dentist to practice in each country, where that is known.

Africa

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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

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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]
 United States Emeline Roberts Jones[17] 1855
 Uruguay Iride Casullo de Peluffo[34][35] 1897
 Venezuela Rosario Cotton[20] 1909

Asia

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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

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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 [ro][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

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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]

See also

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