Laura Margaret Hope

Laura Margaret Hope (née Fowler) MBBS (3 May 1868 – 14 September 1952) was an Australian surgeon who worked at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital and the house surgeon. She served in World War I as a doctor in Serbia, before being captured and spending three months as a prisoner of war. She was awarded the Serbian Samaritan Cross. She devoted over thirty years to medical and Baptist missionary work in Bengal and Serbia. for which she was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal.
Hope was the first woman to graduate in medicine and surgery at the University of Adelaide and Australia’s first woman surgeon.