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Sophia Jex-Blake

1840 - 1912

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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. She was the first practising female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; a leading campaigner for medical education for women, she was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh, at a time when no other medical schools were training women. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sophia Jex-Blake is the 637th most popular physician (up from 649th in 2019), the 4,426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,564th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 637 out of 726. Before her are Greene Vardiman Black, Georgi Valkovich, Yevgeniy Chazov, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, and Bernard Nathanson. After her are Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Richard Doll, Astley Cooper, Leila Denmark, Giovanni Saldarini, and Fidel Pagés.

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Among people born in 1840, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 91. Before her are Franz Mertens, Édouard Vaillant, Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Richard Knill Freeman, Simeon Solomon, and Ghazaros Aghayan. After her are Jakub Arbes, American Horse, Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Stainer, and John Addington Symonds. Among people deceased in 1912, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 122. Before her are Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Richard Andree, Máximo Tajes, Henry Sweet, and Juan Gualberto González. After her are Luis Cordero Crespo, Julio Herrera y Obes, Emil Stang, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Björn Jónsson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 4,427 out of 8,785. Before her are Gerry Ashmore (1936), Edwin Long (1829), Susan Blackmore (1951), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Daniel Tammet (1979), and William Yarrell (1784). After her are Ashley Young (1985), Albert Oldman (1883), Maxi Jazz (1957), Abraham Cowley (1618), Claire Foy (1984), and James Bowen (1979).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 57. Before her are Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Patrick Steptoe (1913), James Paget (1814), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), and Richard Leach Maddox (1816). After her are Richard Doll (1912), Astley Cooper (1768), George E. P. Box (1919), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Almroth Wright (1861), and Thomas Lewis (1881).

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