Andréa de Balmann (24 April 1913 – 2007)[1] was the first French Polynesian woman to qualify as a doctor.
[3] Her mother died in the 1918 influenza pandemic when she was four years old, and at the age of 11 she was sent to France for her education.
[1] In 1936, she graduated as a dental surgeon, and in 1939, as a medical doctor - the first Polynesian woman to do so.
[1] After graduating, she returned to Tahiti, where she became involved in the conspiracy of the Mamao group to rally French Polynesia to the cause of Free France.
[1] In 1972 she was made a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite.