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This is a list of notable pharmacists, sorted by particular fields in which they distinguished themselves:
Pharmacy practice
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Dora Akunyili (1954-2010), Director General of
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of
Nigeria
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George F. Archambault (1910–2001), considered to be the "father" of
consultant pharmacy
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Sabina Baldoncelli (b. 1781), one of the first Italian female pharmacists with a university degree but was allowed to work only in an orphanage
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Philo Carpenter (1805–1886), first pharmacist in Chicago, Illinois
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Maria Dauerer (1624–1688), first Swedish female apothecary
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Edna Gleason, American pharmacist and "mother of fair-trade"
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Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (1681–1762), first American female apothecary
[1]
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Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist and president of the
National Association of Women Pharmacists
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Isa Marte Hussaini (born 1956), Nigerian pharmacist and
fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science
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Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993),
Polish pharmacist in the Kraków Ghetto
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William Procter, Jr. (1817–1872), regarded as the "father of American pharmacy", was instrumental in the founding of the
American Pharmaceutical Association in 1852
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Joseph P. Remington, namesake of the
Remington Medal
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R. Tim Webster (1946–2003), founder and long-time executive director of the
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
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Harvey A. K. Whitney (1894–1957), founder and first president of the
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1942
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Suzanne Rabi Soliman (born 1980), founder Pharmacist Moms Group and Women Pharmacist Day
Pharmacy business
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George H. Bartell, Sr. (1868–1956), American founder of
Bartell Drugs, the oldest family–owned drug store chain in the United States
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David Bernauer, American, former CEO of
Walgreens drug store chain
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Jesse Boot (1850–1931), British businessman and transformer of the
Boots Pharmacy/Drug Company into a national retailer
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John Boot (1815–1860), British founder of
Boots the Chemists
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Ornella Barra, Italian, Chief Executive, Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division
Alliance Boots
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Jean Coutu (born 1927),
French Canadian founder of the
Jean Coutu Group
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Jack Eckerd (1913–2004), owner/founder of
Eckerd Drugs
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David Jack (1924–2011), leader of research that developed major
asthma drugs
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Murray Koffler (1924–2017), founder of Canadian drug store chain
Shoppers Drug Mart
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Ernest Mario, American pharmaceutical industry executive
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Jeff Rein (born 1953), former CEO of
Walgreens drug store chain
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Thomas Ryan, American, former CEO of
CVS Caremark drug store chain
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Charles Rudolph Walgreen (1873–1939), founder of
Walgreens Drugstore
Botany and chemistry
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Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1720–1778), French botanist and explorer
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Ibn al-Baitar (1197–1248),
Islamic physician, pharmacist, botanist, and scientist from the Middle Ages
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Bill Charman, Australian pharmaceutical scientist
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Stanley Stewart Davis (born 1942), winner of Eurand Award for Outstanding Research in Oral Drug Delivery
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706),
Czech
Jesuit missionary and botanist
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John Uri Lloyd (1849–1936), influential American pharmacist
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Charles Mohr (1824–1901), German botanist
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James Parkinson, English apothecary and namesake of the disease Parkinson's
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Ruiz y Pavón (1850–1931), Ruiz and Pavón, Spanish famous pharmacists
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Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842), co-discoverer of
quinine,
caffeine, and
strychnine
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James Petiver (ca. 1664–1718), botanist and entomologist, considered the "father of British butterflies"
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Sara Borrell Ruiz (1917–1999), Spanish steroid hormone researcher
[2]
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-
Swedish chemist, discoverer of
oxygen
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Wilbur Scoville (1865–1942), American developer of
the Scoville Organoleptic Test
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Friedrich Sertürner (1783–1841), German chemist and discover of
morphine
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Eugène Soubeiran (1797–1859), French discover of
chloroform
Industry
Soft drinks
Politics
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Lawrence Brock (1906–1968),
Nebraskan politician
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Buddy Carter (born 1957), politician from
Georgia USA
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Ikililou Dhoinine (born 1962),
Comorian politician
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Misako Enoki (born 1945), Japanese feminist, pharmacist, and politician
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Pravin Gordhan (born 1949), minister in South African government
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John Hodges (born 1937), Australian politician
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Chuck Hopson (born 1941), Texas politician
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Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), pharmacist and 38th Vice President of the United States
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Altaf Hussain (born 1961), Pakistani politician; founder of APMSO and of MQM, the third largest political party of Pakistan
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Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (1835–1913), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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Ronnie Johns (born 1949), Louisiana state legislator
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Tony Lamb (born 1939), Australian politician
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Bernard LeBas (born 1943), Louisiana state legislator
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Antonio Luna (1866–1899),
Philippine General
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Nancy McFarlane (born 1956), mayor of
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Randy McNally (born 1944), Tennessee politician
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Fred Mills (born 1955), member of the
Louisiana State Senate
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Robert Nutting (born 1947), member of the
Maine House of Representatives
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Dave O'Neal (1937–2021), Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
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Oscar Rennebohm (1889–1968), 32nd Governor of Wisconsin (1947–1951)
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George H. Ryan (born 1934), Illinois Governor
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Charlie Smithgall (born 1945), Mayor of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Ron Stephens (born 1954), member of
Georgia House of Representatives
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Harve Tibbott (1885–1969), Republican politician and U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan MP
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Evan Vickers (born 1954), Utah politician
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Gerry Weiner (born 1933), Canadian politician; former
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MP and cabinet minister, president of the
Equality Party and mayor of
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec
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Terry White (born 1936), Australian businessman and politician
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Jim Wilson (1872–1956), pioneering banker and Los Angeles City Council member
Other
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Adaeze Atuegwu (born 1977), Nigerian-American author, pharmacist, and disability inclusion advocate
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Michel Casseux (1794–1869), French developer of
Savate
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Étienne J. Caire (1868–1955), Louisiana merchant
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Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and poet
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O. Henry (1862–1910), American writer, real name William Sidney Porter
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Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand inventor (tranquilizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe, child–proof medicine container)
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Edna O'Brien (born 1930), Irish author and playwright
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John O'Grady, Australian writer
They're a Weird Mob)
[4]
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Pat Ogrin (born 1958), American football player
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Alberto de Oliveira (1855–1937), Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor
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Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist who discovered
electromagnetism
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György Pásztor, International Ice Hockey Federation
doping in sport committee chairman
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Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), French chemist and authority on the Holocaust of
World War II
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Nina Radojičić (born 1968), Serbian pharmacist and singer, represented
Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest
2011
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Daniel B Smith (1792–1883), American educator
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Joseph Swan (1828–1914), inventor of the
incandescent light bulb
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Naoko Takeuchi (born 1957), Japanese pharmacist, manga artist best known for work on
Sailor Moon
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John Worsfold (born 1968), Australian football player
Fictional pharmacists
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