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Susan La Flesche Picotte

1865 - 1915

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Susan La Flesche Picotte (June 17, 1865 – September 18, 1915) was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe. Picotte was an active social reformer as well as a physician. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Susan La Flesche Picotte is the 693rd most popular physician (up from 700th in 2024), the 13,019th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,629th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Susan La Flesche Picotte ranks 693 out of 726. Before her are Fe del Mundo, Anders Nordström, Liang Wudong, Ben Klassen, Louisa Garrett Anderson, and William Hewson. After her are Elizabeth Kenny, Samia al-Amoudi, Joycelyn Elders, Rachel Levine, Maude Abbott, and Steven M. Greer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Susan La Flesche Picotte ranks 160. Before her are Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, John Monash, Arthur Symons, Janez Evangelist Krek, Charles Stanton Ogle, and Charles Sands. After her is Gifford Pinchot. Among people deceased in 1915, Susan La Flesche Picotte ranks 127. Before her are W. G. Grace, Vasily Goncharov, John Bunny, Nelson W. Aldrich, Tom Watson, and Lawrence Hargrave. After her is Robert Smalls.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susan La Flesche Picotte ranks 13,023 out of 20,380. Before her are Alice Stone Blackwell (1857), Kendall Cross (1968), Scott Hahn (1957), Craig Robinson (1971), Joan Mondale (1930), and Mitch Daniels (1949). After her are Quinta Brunson (1989), Sarah G. Buxton (1965), Rob McElhenney (1977), Ana Brenda Contreras (1986), Marcus Morris (1989), and Michele Bachmann (1956).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Susan La Flesche Picotte ranks 91. Before her are Robert Spitzer (1932), Thomas Starzl (1926), Sara Josephine Baker (1873), Samuel George Morton (1799), Samuel Gridley Howe (1801), and Bert Vogelstein (1949). After her are Joycelyn Elders (1933), Rachel Levine (1957), Steven M. Greer (1955), Charles R. Drew (1904), Caldwell Esselstyn (1933), and David Shulkin (1959).

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