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Michelle Bachelet
president of Chile from (2006–2010; 2014–2018)
Françoise Dolto
French pediatrician & psychoanalyst (1908–1988)
Soumya Swaminathan
Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist
Rebecka Liljeberg
Swedish physician and former actress
Joycelyn Elders
American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
Agnes Binagwaho
Rwandan pediatrician, academic and politician
Vera Weizmann
First Lady of Israel (1881–1966)
Marthe Gautier
paediatrician and discoverer of trisomy 21
Madeleine Brès
French physician (1849–1921)
Khalida Zahir
Sudanese physician and women's rights activist
Glenda Gray
South African researcher
Ingeborg Rapoport
German physician and East German communist functionary (1912-2017)
Amelia Villa
Bolivian physician
Fatima Abdel Mahmoud
politician
Farida Momand
Afghan physician and politician
Heather Zar
South African physician
Stella Immanuel
Cameroonian physician
Jane Aceng
Ugandan pediatrician and politician
Jolanta Wadowska-Król
Nadia Hashimi
American author
Anda Čakša
Latvian physician, businessperson, and politician (born 1974)
Isabelle Rapin
Autism researcher
Liri Berisha
Albanian pediatrician and wife of former president
Najat Maalla M’jid
Moroccan pediatrician, United Nations Special Representative
Sarah Loguen Fraser
American physician
Valentina Pavlovna Wasson
Russian-American pediatrician, ethnomycologist and author
Françoise Brauner
French-Austrian pediatrician and child psychiatrist (1911-2000)
Lya Imber
first female physician in Venezuela (1914-1981)
Shireen Abed
Johanna Geissmar
German pediatrician (1877–1942)
Nazira Abdul
Mozambique pediatrist and politician
Olga Aleinikova
scientist
Kellie Leitch
Canadian politician
Aqmaral Älnazarova
Kazakh doctor, politician and Minister of Healthcare (2024–)
Wanda Szczawińska
Polish biologist, pediatrician, lecturer
Theresa Tam
Chief Public Health Officer of Canada
Celia Mercedes Alpuche Aranda
Mexican Infectious diseases scientist
Maria Fischer-Slyzh
Ukrainian Canadian pediatrician and mecenate (1922–2012)
Margot Shiner
German-British gastroenterologist (1923-1998)
Cristina Lustemberg
uruguayan pediatric doctor and legislator
Flossie Cohen
Indian American pediatric immunologist
Emily Bacon
First physician in Philadelphia to devote her practice exclusively to pediatrics
Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
physician and minister of Comores
Miriam Adhikari
South African physician and scientist
Carmen Deseda
Puerto Rican pediatrician
Kate O'Brien
pediatric infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and vaccinologist
Berta Bergman
physician from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the first woman in its history to finish high school
María Luisa Ávila Agüero
Costa Rican politician