Dagny Bang

Dagny Kristine Bang (8 June 1868 – 11 August 1944) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Liberal Party. She was among the first physicians in Norway, and was also a proponent for women's rights.

She took her examen artium at Ragna Nielsen School in 1888, enrolled in medicine studies at the Royal Frederick University and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1896. Bang was the sixth woman to graduate in medicine in Norway. she was a co-founder of the Medical Women's Association in 1921, an organization she later chaired for four years. In 1935, she founded the Norwegian branch of Open Door International.

Bang was eventually struck with cancer. She underwent treatment, among others, at the Karolinska Hospital in Solna, where she died in August 1944.