List of British women physicians

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson[1]

This is a list of British women physicians.

## A

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

## B

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* 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

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* 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

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* Sally Davies (doctor)

## G

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

## H

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* Gillian Hanson
* Mary Hemingway Rees
* Gertrude Herzfeld

## J

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* Sophia Jex-Blake
* Caroline Johnson

## K

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* Anna Kingsford (1846–1888)
* Judith Kingston

## L

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* Barrie Lambert
* Janet Lane-Claypon
* Elizabeth Lepper

## M

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

## P

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* Innes Hope Pearse

## S

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

## V

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* Alice Vickery

## W

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* 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

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

## References

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1. ^ "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) | Art UK".