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Kadambini Ganguly

1861 - 1923

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Kadambini Bose Ganguly (18 July 1861 – 3 October 1923) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine. She and Anandibai Joshi both got their degree in Western medicine in 1886. However, she was India's first practicing lady doctor, as Anandibai died soon after. She was India's first practicing female doctor in modern medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kadambini Ganguly is the 509th most popular physician (down from 276th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from India (down from 237th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kadambini Ganguly ranks 509 out of 726. Before her are Wu Lien-teh, Madeleine Pelletier, Ibn Butlan, Fritz Klein, Carlo Urbani, and Ruth Pfau. After her are Ernst von Bergmann, Caspar Peucer, Thomas Francis Wade, Jean Cruveilhier, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, and Frederic Lewy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Kadambini Ganguly ranks 99. Before her are Émile Grumiaux, Fanny Brate, Ernest Renshaw, Karl Groos, Nikola Ivanov, and Prafulla Chandra Ray. After her are Helen Herron Taft, Dorothea Klumpke, Krikor Zohrab, Hannes Hafstein, Maximilian Harden, and J. B. Bury. Among people deceased in 1923, Kadambini Ganguly ranks 80. Before her are Józef Bilczewski, Krišjānis Barons, Gunnar Nordström, Takeo Arishima, Kuroki Tamemoto, and Jacoba van Heemskerck. After her are Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Vatslav Vorovsky, Stefanos Dragoumis, Itō Noe, Ernst Hartwig, and Ruy Barbosa.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kadambini Ganguly ranks 529 out of 1,861. Before her are Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Rajinikanth (1950), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), and Mastani (1699). After her are Bhaichung Bhutia (1976), Cerverí de Girona (1259), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Jhalkaribai (1830), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), and U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932).

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Among PHYSICIANS In India

Among physicians born in India, Kadambini Ganguly ranks 5. Before her are Ronald Ross (1857), Sushruta (-620), Dean Mahomed (1759), and Soumya Swaminathan (1959). After her are Devi Shetty (1953), Kamal Ranadive (1917), Indira Nath (1938), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970), and Suniti Solomon (1938).

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