- Draga Ljočić was born in Šabac in 1855
- She was the first female Serbian doctor
- She studied medicine in Zurich and was one of the rare female medical students of the time
- Dr Ljočić was a great philanthropist and a patron of children. She pledged to open children’s hospitals and build orphanages
- She publicly advocated women’s right to vote and participated in the women’s emancipation movement in Serbia
- She served as a nurse, and later as a doctor, in several wars
