* Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532–1585), while an interested amateur and not a professional pharmacist, is now considered to have been the first female pharmacist in Germany.
* Caterina Vitale (1566–1619) was the first female pharmacist and chemist in Malta, and the first female pharmacist of the Knights Hospitaller.
* Maria Dauerer  (1624-1688) was first Swedish female apothecary (first formally trained female pharmacist was Märtha Leth).
* Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (1681–1762) was the first female apothecary in the Thirteen Colonies. She is considered to be the first female pharmacist in the United States.
* Susan Hayhurst (1820–1909) was the first woman to receive a pharmacy degree in the United States, which she received in 1883 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
* Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906), who upon graduating from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863, became the first woman to graduate from a United States school of pharmacy.
*Isabella Skinner Clarke (1842–1926) and Rose Coombes Minshull (1845–1905) became the first two women elected as full members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1879.
* Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan (1865–1940) became the first woman to be elected to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1918, serving until 1926.
* Cora Dow (1868–1915), a pharmacist in Cincinnati, Ohio, the leading female pharmacist of her time, with eleven stores under her name when she died.
* Fanny Deacon (née Potter) became the first female pharmacist in the United Kingdom in 1870.
* Julia Pearl Hughes (1873–1950) was the first African-American female pharmacist to own and operate her own drug store.
* Jean Irvine (1877–1962) became the first female president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1947, which position she held until 1948.
* Charlotte Jacobs became the first female pharmacist in the Netherlands in 1879.
* Caroline Copp became the first female pharmacist in Australia in 1880.
* In 1896 Charlotte Schou and Nielsine Schousen became the first female pharmacists in Denmark.
* Anna Louise James (1886–1977) was the first African-American female pharmacist in Connecticut.
* Ella P. Stewart (1893–1987) was one of the first African-American female pharmacists in the United States.
* Christina Jesop Wilson became the first female pharmacist to qualify in the south of Ireland in 1900.
* Kamran Aziz (1922-2017) and Ayşe Dana became the first female pharmacists in Northern Cyprus in 1944.
* Mary Munson Runge (1928–2014) became the first woman and the first African-American elected president of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), which occurred in 1979; she was president for two terms, from 1979 to 1981.
* Remedios M. "Remy" Gabriel became the first civilian woman to become a licensed pharmacist in Guam in 1953.
* Julie Zinihite became the first Solomon Islands woman to serve as the Chief Pharmacist at the National Referral Hospital in 2010.
* Angelita Bosch was the first female pharmacist in Puerto Rico.