List of nurses

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• Lady Harriet Acland, British noblewoman
• Saint Alda, Italian Catholic saint
• Moyra Allen, helped develop the McGill Model of Nursing
• Allen Allensworth famous African-American American Civil War soldier who started as a nurse
• Sir Jonathan Asbridge was the first president of the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Charles Atangana, paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon
• Martha Ballard, American frontier midwife, great-aunt of Clara Barton
• Ann A. Bernatitus, one of the Angels of Bataan — USN nurses in the Philippines in WW2
• Clara Barton, organized the American Red Cross
• Christine Beasley CBE, Chiefing Nursing Officer for England
• Irene L. Beland, American nursing educator, author of Clinical Nursing: Pathophysiological and Psychosocial Approaches
• Claire Bertschinger Swiss-British nurse who inspired the Band Aid charity movement
• Mary Ann Bickerdyke, nurse during the American Civil War known as "Mother Bickerdyke"
• Florence Blake, American pediatric nursing professor and author
• Florence A. Blanchfield, superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps
• Cecilia Blomqvist, Finnish deaconess
• Angela Boškin , first professionally trained Slovenian nurse and social worker in Yugoslavia
• Hilda Bowen, credited with establishing the modern nursing profession in The Bahamas
• Jo Brand, British nurse-turned-comedian
• Elsa Brändström, Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
• Mary Carson Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
• Vera Brittain, WWI nurse
• Mary Francis Bridgeman, nun and Crimean War nurse
• Ellen Johanne Broe Danish nurse and nursing educator
• Anna Broms, first trained nurse in Finland
• Viola Davis Brown, first African-American to lead a state office of public health nursing in the United States
• Abraão José Bueno, Brazilian nurse and serial killer.
• Carrie E. Bullock, African American nurse
• Vivian Bullwinkel, lone survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, celebrated by the Australian Service Nurses Memorial
• Elizabeth Burchill was an Australian nurse, philanthropist and author
• Betsi Cadwaladr, Welsh nurse who worked alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimea
• Amanda Cajander,, pioneer in the education of deaconesses and nursing in Finland
• Maude E. Callen, American 20th century nurse-midwife
• Vice Admiral Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
• Dr Peter Carter OBE, British nurse and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing
• Anne Casey, New Zealand-born pediatric British nurse who developed Casey's model of nursing
• Edith Cavell, heroine of World War I
• Maria Cederschiöld , pioneer in the education of deaconesses and nursing in Sweden
• Ellen Christensen, Danish nurse and resistance fighter
• Luther Christman, first male dean of a U.S. nursing program; established the Rush model of nursing
• Dame June Clark, Professor at University of Swansea
• Louise Conring, first trained nurse in Denmark, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute
• Lady Diana Cooper, prominent social figure in London and Paris, widely acknowledged as the beauty of the century
• Cubah Cornwallis, Jamaican nurse and "doctoress" who treated Nelson and William IV when they were stationed in the West Indies.
• Paul Crawford, pioneer of the field of health humanities
• Evelyn May Cridlan, British nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War
• Harriet Patience Dame, nurse during the American Civil War, served with the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
• Grace Ebun Delano, pioneer of reproductive health services in Nigeria
• Jane Delano, founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service
• Maria de Villegas de Saint-Pierre founded the Saint-Camille Nursing School and directed the Élisabeth Hospital in Poperinge during World War I
• Edith DeVoe 1st African-American nurse to serve in the regular Navy, World War II and Korean War nurse
• Marion Dewar, mayor of Ottawa and a member of the Parliament
• Dorothea Dix, superintendent of Army Nurses during the American Civil War
• Josephine Dolan, nursing historian and educator at the University of Connecticut
• Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, Lord Mayor of London
• Sister Dora, British 19th century nurse
• Ellen Dougherty, first Registered Nurse
• Rosalie Dreyer Swiss-born, naturalized British nurse and administrator who led the conversion from a volunteer service to the profession of nursing in Britain
• Diane Duane American science fiction and fantasy author

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• Sarah Emma Edmundson, Canadian-American author who served with the Union Army in the American Civil War
• Victoria Joyce Ely, Florida's first licensed midwife. Conducted training programs for midwives in the state
• Queen Fabiola of Belgium
• Saint Fabiola
• Helen Fairchild, World War I nurse
• Florence Farmborough, British nurse who kept diaries of her service during World War I as a Red Cross nurse with the Imperial Russian army
• Ethel Gordon Fenwick, British nurse who campaigned for a law limiting nursing to "registered" nurses only
• Erna Flegel, Adolf Hitler's nurse
• Alma E. Foerster, American nurse who served in World War I, received the Florence Nightingale Medal and then worked in the United States Public Health Service
• Elizabeth Warham Forster, American nurse who served the Navajo Nation and advocated for their retention of traditional medicine practices
• Michiko Fujiwara, Japanese nurse who later became a politician
• Genevieve de Galard, French nurse during the French war in Indochina
• Eliza George, American Civil War nurse
• Abigail Hopper Gibbons, abolitionist activist during the American Civil War
• Helen L. Gilson, American Civil War nurse
• Marjory Gordon, nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns
• Kate Gosselin, American television personality
• Cornelia Hancock, American Civil War nurse
• Lucille Hegamin, blues recording artist
• Virginia Henderson, 'First Lady of Nursing", American nurse theorist
• Bodil Hellfach, Danish nurse, deputy head of the Danish Nurses' Organization
• Lenah Higbee, pioneering U.S. Navy nurse during World War I
• Gerda Höjer, recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal and President of the International Council of Nurses
• Dame Agnes Hunt, British Orthopaedic Nursing pioneer
• Alberta Hunter, jazz singer
• Rachela Hutner Polish pioneer nurse, credited with establishing the modern Polish nursing profession
• Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and nurse
• Sally Lucas Jean, American health educator and nurse
• Victoria Jensen, deaconess, nursing supervisor, from 1914 head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute
• Hazel Johnson-Brown, first African-American head of the United States Army Nurse Corps
• June Jolly, British pioneer of children's nursing
• Virginia Clinton Kelley, mother of United States President Bill Clinton
• Dame Betty Kershaw, Professor at Sheffield
• Eunice Muringo Kiereini,, Chief Nursing Officer of Kenya and first African president of the International Council of Nurses
• Docia Kisseih,, initiated advances in nursing and nurse training in post-independence Ghana
• Nancy J. Lescavage, Director of the Navy Nurse Corps
• Daurene Lewis, first black woman mayor in North America.
• Janet Lim, nurse at St. Andrew's Community Hospital. She was the first nurse from Singapore to study in Britain. She was inducted as 2014 Singapore Women's Hall of Fame.
• Mary Todd Lincoln, volunteer nurse during the American Civil War
• Kate Lorig, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
• Ljubica Luković, established the first nurses' training course in Serbia and in 1925 was posthumously awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal
• Courtney Lyder, first black dean of the UCLA School of Nursing

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• Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
• Mary Eliza Mahoney, first professionally trained African-American nurse
• Jeanne Mance, French nurse, founder of Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.
• Sophie Mannerheim, pioneer of modern nursing in Finland
• Marie Manthey, one of the originators of Primary Nursing
• Louise de Marillac, founder of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
• Kate Marsden, British missionary nurse
• Anna Maxwell, U.S. Army nurse whose activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in America
• Carolyn McCarthy, American politician
• Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff
• Louisa McLaughlin, one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars
• Louise McManus, first nurse to earn a PhD Referred to as Louise McManus
• Agda Meyerson, pioneering Swedish nurse
• Anne Milton, British Member of Parliament
• Jane Minor, aka Gensey Snow, 1792–1858, African-American healer, midwife, and slave emancipator
• Naomi Mitchison, British novelist and poet
• Jeannine Moquin-Perry, Canadian religious and political activist
• Sarah Mullally British Chief Nursing Officer and Bishop of London
• Charlotte Munck, Danish nurse, important figure in the training of nurses
• Annie Murray Scottish nurse who went to the Spanish Civil War
• Razan al-Najar, Palestinian nurse shot during a rescue in 2018 Gaza border protests.
• Elizabeth Grace Neill, Kiwi nurse
• Bonnie Nettles, co-leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult
• Nora Neve, pioneer of missionary nursing in Kashmir
• Florence Nightingale, pioneer of modern nursing
• Clara Noyes, enrolled 20,000 Red Cross nurses for World War I service, founded the first school for midwives in the U.S.
• Emily Elizabeth Parsons American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mt. Auburn Hospital
• Emma Maria Pearson, writer and one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars
• Hildegard Peplau, first published nursing theorist since Florence Nightingale. She created the middle-range nursing theory of interpersonal relations
• Anita Thigpen Perry, First Lady of Texas
• Jill Pettis, New Zealand Member of Parliament
• Lynne Pillay, New Zealand Member of Parliament
• Kerry Prendergast, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand
• Tom Quinn, influential UK Professor of Cardiac nursing
• Emmy Rappe, Swedish pioneer in the education of nurses
• Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss America 1988
• Claire Rayner, British journalist, agony aunt and activist
• Linda Richards, America's first professionally trained nurse
• Isabel Hampton Robb, helped develop early programs of nursing education
• Rachel Robinson, wife of baseball star Jackie Robinson
• Debbie Rowe, wife of singer Michael Jackson
• Elaine Roe, U.S. Army nurse, one of the first four women to be awarded the Silver Star

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• Margaret Sanger, founder of the U.S. birth control movement.
• Betty Schmoll, founder of Hospice of Dayton, one of the first hospice programs in the United States.
• Lynda Scott, New Zealand MP.
• Mary Seacole, Jamaican British nurse in the Crimean War known as "the Black Florence Nightingale".
• Schwester Selma, German-Jewish head nurse in Jerusalem, known as "the Jewish Florence Nightingale".
• Nigar Shikhlinskaya, first Azerbaijani nurse.
• Kapelwa Sikota, first Zambian registered nurse.
• Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon, British abolitionist.
• Jessie Sleet Scales, first black public health nurse in the United States.
• Myrah Keating Smith nurse, midwife, only medical provider on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands for two decades
• Mabel Keaton Staupers, advocate for racial equality in the nursing profession during era of American segregation.
• Daphne Steele, Guyanese Matron, was the first Black Matron in the British NHS.
• Margaretta Styles, American advocate for standardization of nursing credentials, University of California, San Francisco Nursing School dean, past president of the American Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses.
• Adah Belle Samuels Thoms, pioneering African-American rights activist, who fought for African-American nurses to be permitted to serve in the U.S. armed forces.
• Violetta Thurstan, nurse in WWI, decorated for bravery.
• Sally Louisa Tompkins, humanitarian and philanthropist during the American Civil War.
• Harriet Tubman, African-American abolitionist.
• Florence Wald, founder of the hospice movement in the U.S.
• Lillian Wald, founder of visiting nursing in the U.S.
• Jean Watson, an American nurse theorist and nursing professor, best known for her Theory of Human Caring.
• Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
• Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Canadian serial killer who murdered eight of her patients with insulin injections.
• Walt Whitman, American poet, American Civil War nurse.
• Sarah Palmer Young, American Civil War nurse, author of a memoir.
• Tome Yoshida, Japanese nurse.
• Sophie Zahrtmann, deaconess, nurse, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute