Maria Cicherschi Ropală (1881–1973), was a Romanian medical examiner and a professor at the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași.

She obtained the title of "Doctor of Medicine" in 1907 with the thesis titled "Contributions to the biological study of female crime from a forensic point of view" completed under the direction of Professor George Bogdan, president of the Society of Physicians and Naturalists.

[1][2] After finishing medical school, she went to work in the hydrotherapy laboratory of the baths in the Slănic-Moldova spas, then as a doctor in several communities in the country's south.

She also worked in the Red Cross Society of Romanian Ladies, during military campaigns of World War I, which caused her to enlist as a doctor at the front.

[1][3] After returning to Romania, she was appointed foreman and forensic doctor of the Iași Court of Justice where she worked for 20 years.