Mélanie Lipinska (January 1, 1865–June 27, 1933) was a Polish-French physician and known as a historian of women in medicine. She received recognition for her thesis Histoire des femmes médecins, which she submitted to the Académie de médecine de Paris in 1900. Mélanie Lipinska was born in Ostrołęka, Poland. The area was at the time part of the Russian Empire. Although she was born in Poland, she spent the later part of her life in France. Among other places, her training was in Parisian hospitals. During Lipinska's training, she worked closely with Joséphine Joteyko, a physician and physiolog