List of British women physicians

This is a list of British women physicians.

A

• Heather Ashton (1929–2019), physician and psychopharmacologist.

B

• Josephine Barnes (1912–1999), obstetrician and gynaecologist, first female president of the British Medical Association.
• Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), third woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (born Bristol).
• Margaret Bromhall (1890–1967), English radiotherapist.
• Edith Mary Brown (1864–1956), founded the first medical training facility for women in Asia.

C

• Sheila Cassidy (born 1937), known for her work in the hospice movement and human rights campaigning.
• Maud Chadburn
• Hilda Clark (doctor)
• Rachel Clarke
• Vicky Clement-Jones
• Harriet Clisby

D

• Sally Davies (doctor)

G

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), co-founder of London School of Medicine for Women.
• Louisa Garrett Anderson

H

• Gillian Hanson
• Mary Hemingway Rees
• Gertrude Herzfeld

J

• Sophia Jex-Blake
• Caroline Johnson

K

• Anna Kingsford (1846–1888)
• Judith Kingston

L

• Barrie Lambert
• Janet Lane-Claypon
• Elizabeth Lepper

M

• Isabella Macdonald Macdonald
• Joan Malleson
• Louisa Martindale
• Florence Miller
• Jessie Murray
• Christine Murrell

P

• Innes Hope Pearse

S

• Ella Campbell Scarlett
• Mary Scharlieb
• Edith Shove
• Miriam Stoppard
• Mary Sturge

V

• Alice Vickery

W

• Eliza Walker Dunbar (1845-1925), first woman to receive a UK medical licence by examination (Jan 1877).
• Marjory Warren
• Edith Whetnall
• Ethel Williams (physician)
• Jane Wilson-Howarth
• Helena Rosa Wright

See also

• List of first female physicians by country
• List of physicians
• Women in medicine

References