Angeliki Panajiotatou

Angeliki Panagiotatou (; 1875 or 1878 – 1954) was a Greek physician and microbiologist. She was the first woman physician in modern Greece to have graduated from a university in Greece (her predecessor Maria Kalapothakes having qualified abroad). She was the first Deputy Professor of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Greece, was an honorary Professor at the Medical School of Athens and in 1950 became the first female member of the Academy of Athens.

Life Born in Greece, in 1875 or 1878, Panagiotatou and her sister Alexandra were the first two female students to be accepted in the medical school at the University of Athens in 1893, after having proved that there were not a formal law banning women from attending university in Greece. In 1897, she became the first woman to graduate from the Medical School at the University of Athens. and refused to attend Panagiotatou's classes because she was a woman, and she was forced to resign.