Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) was a suffragist and feminist.[1] Born in Austria, she was the first girl in that country to graduate from high school, and the first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree, as well as the first female eye doctor in Europe.[2][3] She earned her medical degree in 1878 from the University of Bern.[2][3] She had three sisters, Ida, Leonora, and Sara.[2] After she and one of her sisters came to America, she worked as an eye surgeon in the eye hospital and the Women's Hospital in New York.[1] She married businessman Louis Straus and had a daughter, Nellie Straus-Mochenson.[1] In 1904, she participated in the first congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance as a member of the American delegation.[1] She continued to participate as such for some time, and later represented the Union of Hebrew Women for Equal Rights in Eretz Israel at these assemblies.[1]