Jane Elizabeth Waterston (1843 – 7 December 1932) was a Scottish teacher and the first woman physician in southern Africa.

Prejudice led her [clarification needed] to leave Livingstone's footsteps and to work with the poor in southern Africa.

She was a Scottish teacher who was given the job of the first Superintendent of a new girl's section at the Lovedale Missionary Institute in South Africa.

She arrived in South Africa in January 1867 to work for Dr James Stewart who led the mission.

[1] After training she went to the Livingstonia Free Church mission which at the time was at Cape Maclear on the shores of Lake Malawi.

She went into private practice, lived in part as a socialite,[5] and was able to send money back to Scotland where her own family were unemployed, following the failure of the Caledonian bank in 1878.