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I have one for this!
I once asked someone "In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?"
I thought she'd say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i'm hearing about Edward Jenner
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
Variolation isn't vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it's an attenuated vaccine.