Kadambini Ganguly, one of India's 1st modern medicine doctors

Kadambini Ganguly was the first woman to be admitted to Calcutta Medical College in 1884, a remarkable achievement by late-nineteenth-century standards when the institute was male-dominated. She further went on to study medicine in Scotland before returning to India and establishing a medical practice. Ganguly, along with Chandramukhi Basu, were the first women to graduate from Bethune College.