Eva Josephine Jellett (8 April 1880 – 2 July 1955), doctor, was the first woman to graduate in medicine from Dublin University.
[1] Jellett was born in Wellington Row to John Hewitt Jellett who was a clergyman, mathematician, and provost of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and his wife and cousin Dora Charlotte Morgan (1823–1911) who was from Tivoli, County Cork.
Jellett was initially educated by governesses from Germany and later sent to Alexandra college.
She was one of the early women students, matriculating in 1897, who attended courses in the Catholic University of Ireland School of Medicine, St Cecilia St., Dublin.
In 1919 she was promoted to head associate giving her control over all the female staff in India.