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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson has received more than 689,626 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the 329th most popular physician (up from 373rd in 2019), the 1,847th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,150th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 329 out of 502Before her are Pierre Fauchard, Shinya Yamanaka, Alessandro Achillini, William Chester Minor, Louis de Jaucourt, and Filippo Pacini. After her are James Curtis Hepburn, Prospero Alpini, Tomáš Špidlík, Victor Babeș, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, and Gregg L. Semenza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 36Before her are Princess Anna of Saxony, Ding Ruchang, Jan Gotlib Bloch, Ronglu, Inoue Kaoru, and Nikolay Dobrolyubov. After her are Antônio Carlos Gomes, Matsudaira Katamori, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Georges Leclanché, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville. Among people deceased in 1917, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 54Before her are Spyridon Samaras, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Manuel de Arriaga, Sarah Aaronsohn, Maksim Bahdanovič, and Anton Haus. After her are Octave Lapize, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Eduardo di Capua, Madge Syers, Enric Prat de la Riba, and Teresa Carreño.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 1,847 out of 7,765Before her are Arthur Phillip (1738), John Webster (1578), George Grenville (1712), Ronald Colman (1891), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), and Hamnet Shakespeare (1585). After her are Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), Tony Sheridan (1940), George Meredith (1828), Jojo Moyes (1969), Henry Tandey (1891), and Richard Long (1945).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 27Before her are Thomas Sydenham (1624), Lorna Wing (1928), John Hunter (1728), Clarke Abel (1780), Cicely Saunders (1918), and Henry Gray (1827). After her are William Cullen (1710), William Bayliss (1860), John Latham (1740), James Braid (1795), William Gull (1816), and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762).