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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1836 - 1917

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. She was the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the 379th most popular physician (up from 403rd in 2019), the 2,211th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,205th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 379 out of 726. Before her are Johann Peter Frank, Christian Bohr, Paul Janssen, Paul Julius Möbius, Charles Estienne, and Johann Kremer. After her are Peseshet, Vera Weizmann, Eugene Botkin, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Carlos Chagas, and Ferdinand Sauerbruch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 39. Before her are Ronglu, Daniel Peter, Antônio Carlos Gomes, Winslow Homer, Georges Leclanché, and Cato Maximilian Guldberg. After her are Piet Cronjé, Inoue Kaoru, Isabella Beeton, Pauline von Metternich, Matsudaira Katamori, and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville. Among people deceased in 1917, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 56. Before her are Georges Guynemer, Otto Finsch, Enric Prat de la Riba, Spyridon Samaras, Eric Campbell, and Duke Philipp of Württemberg. After her are Émile Boirac, Marian Smoluchowski, Joseph B. Foraker, Teresa Carreño, Friedrich Robert Helmert, and George Dewey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 2,211 out of 8,785. Before her are Mike Leigh (1943), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Steve Jones (1955), Liam Gallagher (1972), Mary Dyer (1611), and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871). After her are Geri Halliwell (1972), William Jones (1675), John Stevens Henslow (1796), David Platt (1966), David Edward Hughes (1831), and Cliff Jones (1935).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 33. Before her are Harry Seeley (1839), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), William Cullen (1710), and Robert Darwin (1766). After her are Robert Liston (1794), Lorna Wing (1928), James Braid (1795), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), and William Stukeley (1687).

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