Marta Trancu-Rainer

Marta Trancu-Rainer (25 September 1875 – 9 January 1950) was a Romanian surgeon. She is known as the first woman surgeon in Romania. She saved hundreds of lives during World War I, and operated on Queen Maria. She was accepted into the Academy of Medicine in 1935. Her husband was Francisc Rainer, a Romanian anatomist and anthropologist and founded of the Romanian Institute of Anthropology.

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