title: List of pharmacists
text: # List of pharmacists
  
  This is a list of notable pharmacists, sorted by particular fields in which they distinguished themselves:
  
  ## Pharmacy practice
  
  * Dora Akunyili (1954-2010), Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of Nigeria
  * George F. Archambault (1910–2001), considered to be the "father" of consultant pharmacy
  * Sabina Baldoncelli (b. 1781), one of the first Italian female pharmacists with a university degree but was allowed to work only in an orphanage
  * Philo Carpenter (1805–1886), first pharmacist in Chicago, Illinois
  * Maria Dauerer (1624–1688), first Swedish female apothecary
  * Edna Gleason, American pharmacist and "mother of fair-trade"
  * Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (1681–1762), first American female apothecary
  * Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist and president of the National Association of Women Pharmacists
  * Isa Marte Hussaini (born 1956), Nigerian pharmacist and fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science
  * Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993), Polish pharmacist in the Kraków Ghetto
  * William Procter, Jr. (1817–1872), regarded as the "father of American pharmacy", was instrumental in the founding of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1852
  * Joseph P. Remington, namesake of the Remington Medal
  * R. Tim Webster (1946–2003), founder and long-time executive director of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
  * Harvey A. K. Whitney (1894–1957), founder and first president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1942
  * Suzanne Rabi Soliman (born 1980), founder Pharmacist Moms Group and Women Pharmacist Day
  
  ## Pharmacy business
  
  * George H. Bartell, Sr. (1868–1956), American founder of Bartell Drugs, the oldest family–owned drug store chain in the United States
  * David Bernauer, American, former CEO of Walgreens drug store chain
  * Jesse Boot (1850–1931), British businessman and transformer of the Boots Pharmacy/Drug Company into a national retailer
  * John Boot (1815–1860), British founder of Boots the Chemists
  * Ornella Barra, Italian, Chief Executive, Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division Alliance Boots
  * Jean Coutu (born 1927), French Canadian founder of the Jean Coutu Group
  * Jack Eckerd (1913–2004), owner/founder of Eckerd Drugs
  * David Jack (1924–2011), leader of research that developed major asthma drugs
  * Murray Koffler (1924–2017), founder of Canadian drug store chain Shoppers Drug Mart
  * Ernest Mario, American pharmaceutical industry executive
  * Jeff Rein (born 1953), former CEO of Walgreens drug store chain
  * Thomas Ryan, American, former CEO of CVS Caremark drug store chain
  * Charles Rudolph Walgreen (1873–1939), founder of Walgreens Drugstore
  
  ## Botany and chemistry
  
  * Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1720–1778), French botanist and explorer
  * Ibn al-Baitar (1197–1248), Islamic physician, pharmacist, botanist, and scientist from the Middle Ages
  * Bill Charman, Australian pharmaceutical scientist
  * Stanley Stewart Davis (born 1942), winner of Eurand Award for Outstanding Research in Oral Drug Delivery
  * Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706), Czech Jesuit missionary and botanist
  * John Uri Lloyd (1849–1936), influential American pharmacist
  * Charles Mohr (1824–1901), German botanist
  * James Parkinson, English apothecary and namesake of the disease Parkinson's
  * Ruiz y Pavón (1850–1931), Ruiz and Pavón, Spanish famous pharmacists
  * Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842), co-discoverer of quinine, caffeine, and strychnine
  * James Petiver (ca. 1664–1718), botanist and entomologist, considered the "father of British butterflies"
  * Sara Borrell Ruiz (1917–1999), Spanish steroid hormone researcher
  * Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-Swedish chemist, discoverer of oxygen
  * Wilbur Scoville (1865–1942), American developer of the Scoville Organoleptic Test
  * Friedrich Sertürner (1783–1841), German chemist and discover of morphine
  * Eugène Soubeiran (1797–1859), French discover of chloroform
  
  ## Industry
  
  * Paul Carl Beiersdorf (1836–1896), German founder of Beiersdorf AG
  * Herbert Haft (1920–2004), American corporate raider
  * Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918), German entrepreneur and owner of Beiersdorf AG
  * Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Polish pharmacist, inventor of kerosene lamp, pioneer of oil industry in Europe
  
  ## Soft drinks
  
  * Charles Alderton (1857–1941), American inventor of the soft drink Dr Pepper
  * Caleb Bradham (1867–1934), American inventor of the soft drink Pepsi
  * Charles Elmer Hires (1851–1937), American inventor of the soft drink Hires Root Beer
  * John Pemberton (1831–1888), American inventor of the soft drink Coca-Cola
  * James Vernor (1843–1927), American inventor of Vernor's ginger ale
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Lawrence Brock (1906–1968), Nebraskan politician
  * Buddy Carter (born 1957), politician from Georgia USA
  * Ikililou Dhoinine (born 1962), Comorian politician
  * Misako Enoki (born 1945), Japanese feminist, pharmacist, and politician
  * Pravin Gordhan (born 1949), minister in South African government
  * John Hodges (born 1937), Australian politician
  * Chuck Hopson (born 1941), Texas politician
  * Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), pharmacist and 38th Vice President of the United States
  * Altaf Hussain (born 1961), Pakistani politician; founder of APMSO and of MQM, the third largest political party of Pakistan
  * Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (1835–1913), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  * Ronnie Johns (born 1949), Louisiana state legislator
  * Tony Lamb (born 1939), Australian politician
  * Bernard LeBas (born 1943), Louisiana state legislator
  * Antonio Luna (1866–1899), Philippine General
  * Nancy McFarlane (born 1956), mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina
  * Randy McNally (born 1944), Tennessee politician
  * Fred Mills (born 1955), member of the Louisiana State Senate
  * Robert Nutting (born 1947), member of the Maine House of Representatives
  * Dave O'Neal (1937–2021), Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
  * Oscar Rennebohm (1889–1968), 32nd Governor of Wisconsin (1947–1951)
  * George H. Ryan (born 1934), Illinois Governor
  * Charlie Smithgall (born 1945), Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  * Ron Stephens (born 1954), member of Georgia House of Representatives
  * Harve Tibbott (1885–1969), Republican politician and U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  * Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan MP
  * Evan Vickers (born 1954), Utah politician
  * 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
  * Terry White (born 1936), Australian businessman and politician
  * Jim Wilson (1872–1956), pioneering banker and Los Angeles City Council member
  
  ## Other
  
  * Adaeze Atuegwu (born 1977), Nigerian-American author, pharmacist, and disability inclusion advocate
  * Michel Casseux (1794–1869), French developer of Savate
  * Étienne J. Caire (1868–1955), Louisiana merchant
  * Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and poet
  * O. Henry (1862–1910), American writer, real name William Sidney Porter
  * Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand inventor (tranquilizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe, child–proof medicine container)
  * Edna O'Brien (born 1930), Irish author and playwright
  * John O'Grady, Australian writer They're a Weird Mob)
  * Pat Ogrin (born 1958), American football player
  * Alberto de Oliveira (1855–1937), Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor
  * Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist who discovered electromagnetism
  * György Pásztor, International Ice Hockey Federation doping in sport committee chairman
  * Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), French chemist and authority on the Holocaust of World War II
  * Nina Radojičić (born 1968), Serbian pharmacist and singer, represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
  * Daniel B Smith (1792–1883), American educator
  * Joseph Swan (1828–1914), inventor of the incandescent light bulb
  * Naoko Takeuchi (born 1957), Japanese pharmacist, manga artist best known for work on Sailor Moon
  * John Worsfold (born 1968), Australian football player
  
  ## Fictional pharmacists
  
  * Douglas "Doug" Varney (Sam Rockwell) in Better Living Through Chemistry
  * Eddie Walzer (Paul Schulze) in Nurse Jackie
  * Percival Almanac (Barry Otto) in The Dressmaker
  * Yusuf (Dileep Rao) in Inception
  * Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer) in the early seasons of The Simpsons
  