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List of nurses

This is a list of famous nurses in history. To be listed here, the nurse must already have a Wiki biography article. For background information see History of nursing and Timeline of nursing history.

Contents

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  • Lady Harriet Acland (1750-1815), British noblewoman
  • Saint Alda (died c. 1309), Italian Catholic saint
  • Moyra Allen (1921-1996), helped develop the McGill Model of Nursing
  • Allen Allensworth (1842-1914) 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 (1880-1943), paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon
  • Martha Ballard (1735-1812), American frontier midwife, great-aunt of Clara Barton
  • Ann A. Bernatitus (1912-2003), one of the Angels of Bataan — USN nurses in the Philippines in WW2
  • Clara Barton (1821-1912), organized the American Red Cross
  • Christine Beasley CBE (1944-), Chiefing Nursing Officer for England
  • Claire Bertschinger Swiss-British nurse who inspired the Band Aid charity movement
  • Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817-1901), nurse during the American Civil War known as "Mother Bickerdyke"
  • Florence Blake (1907-1983), American pediatric nursing professor and author
  • Florence A. Blanchfield (1884-1971), superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps
  • Cecilia Blomqvist (1845-1890), Finnish deaconess
  • Angela Boškin (1885-1977) first professionally trained Slovenian nurse and social worker in Yugoslavia
  • Jo Brand (born 1957), British nurse-turned-comedian
  • Elsa Brändström (1888-1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
  • Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881-1965), founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
  • Vera Brittain (1893-1970), WWI nurse
  • Ellen Johanne Broe (1900-1994) Danish nurse and nursing educator
  • Anna Broms (1862-1890), first trained nurse in Finland
  • Viola Davis Brown (born 1936), first African-American to lead a state office of public health nursing in the United States
  • Abraão José Bueno (born 1977), Brazilian nurse and serial killer.
  • Vivian Bullwinkel (1915-2000), lone survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, celebrated by the Australian Service Nurses Memorial
  • Betsi Cadwaladr (1789-1860), Welsh nurse who worked alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimea
  • Amanda Cajander, (1827-1871), pioneer in the education of deaconesses and nursing in Finland
  • Maude E. Callen (1898-1990), American 20th century nurse-midwife
  • Vice Admiral Richard Carmona (born 1949), 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 (1865-1915), heroine of World War I
  • Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess) (1815-1892), pioneer in the education of deaconesses and nursing in Sweden
  • Luther Christman (1915-2011), first male dean of a U.S. nursing program; established the Rush model of nursing
  • Lady Diana Cooper, prominent social figure in London and Paris, widely acknowledged as the beauty of the century
  • Dame June Clark (born 1941), Professor at University of Swansea
  • Louise Conring (1824–1891), first trained nurse in Denmark, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute
  • Cubah Cornwallis (d. 1848), Jamaican nurse and "doctoress" who treated Nelson and William IV when they were stationed in the West Indies.
  • Harriet Patience Dame (1815-1900), nurse during the American Civil War, served with the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.
  • Grace Ebun Delano (born 1935), pioneer of reproductive health services in Nigeria
  • Jane Delano (1862-1919), founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service
  • Maria de Villegas de Saint-Pierre (1870-1941) founded the Saint-Camille Nursing School and directed the Élisabeth Hospital in Poperinge during World War I
  • Marion Dewar (born 1928), mayor of Ottawa and a member of the Parliament
  • Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), superintendent of Army Nurses during the American Civil War
  • Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington (1921-2003), Lord Mayor of London
  • Sister Dora (1832-1878), British 19th century nurse
  • Ellen Dougherty (1844-1919), first Registered Nurse
  • Diane Duane (born 1952) American science fiction and fantasy author

    • E-L

  • Sarah Emma Edmundson (1841-1898), Canadian-American author who served with the Union Army in the American Civil War
  • Victoria Joyce Ely (1889-1979), Florida's first licensed midwife. Conducted training programs for midwives in the state
  • Queen Fabiola of Belgium (born 1928)
  • Saint Fabiola (died 399)
  • Helen Fairchild (1885-1918), World War I nurse
  • Florence Farmborough (1887-1978), 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 (1856-1947), British nurse who campaigned for a law limiting nursing to "registered" nurses only
  • Erna Flegel (born 1903), Adolf Hitler's nurse
  • Alma E. Foerster (1885-1967), American nurse who served in World War I, received the Florence Nightingale Medal (1920) and then worked in the United States Public Health Service
  • Nina Sage (1883–1946), American who ran school of nursing in China, president of International Council of Nurses 1925–1929
  • Genevieve de Galard, French nurse during the French war in Indochina
  • Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), abolitionist activist during the American Civil War
  • Helen L. Gilson (1836-1868), 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 (1839-1926), American Civil War nurse
  • Lucille Hegamin (1894-1970), blues recording artist
  • Virginia Henderson (1897-1996), 'First Lady of Nursing", American nurse theorist
  • Bodil Hellfach (1856–1941), Danish nurse, deputy head of the Danish Nurses' Organization
  • Lenah Higbee (1874-1941), pioneering U.S. Navy nurse during World War I
  • Gerda Höjer (1893-1974), recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal and President of the International Council of Nurses
  • Dame Agnes Hunt (1867-1948), British Orthopaedic Nursing pioneer
  • Alberta Hunter (1895-1984), jazz singer
  • Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Revolutionary War nurse. Mother of Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President
  • Calamity Jane (1852-1903), American frontierswoman and nurse
  • Victoria Jensen (1847–1930), deaconess, nursing supervisor, from 1914 head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute
  • Hazel Johnson-Brown (1927-2011), first African-American head of the United States Army Nurse Corps
  • Virginia Clinton Kelley (1923-1994), mother of United States President Bill Clinton
  • Dame Betty Kershaw, Professor at Sheffield
  • Eunice Muringo Kiereini, b.1939, Chief Nursing Officer of Kenya and first African president of the International Council of Nurses
  • Docia Kisseih, (1919-2008), 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.
  • Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), volunteer nurse during the American Civil War
  • Kate Lorig, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Ljubica Luković, (1858-1915) established the first nurses' training course in Serbia and in 1925 was posthumously awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal

    • M-R

  • Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897-1965)
  • Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1946), first professionally trained African-American nurse
  • Jeanne Mance (1606-1673), French nurse, founder of Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (1645).
  • Sophie Mannerheim (1863-1928), pioneer of modern nursing in Finland
  • Marie Manthey (born 1935), one of the originators of Primary Nursing
  • Louise de Marillac (1591-1660), founder of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
  • Kate Marsden (1859-1931), British missionary nurse
  • Anna Maxwell (1851–1929), 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 (1836-1921), 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
  • Anne Milton (born 1955), British Member of Parliament
  • Jane Minor, aka Gensey Snow, 1792-1858, African-American healer, midwife, and slave emancipator
  • Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), British novelist and poet
  • Jeannine Moquin-Perry, Canadian religious and political activist
  • Sarah Mullally (born 1962) British Chief Nursing Officer and priest
  • Charlotte Munck (1876–1932), Danish nurse, important figure in the training of nurses
  • Elizabeth Grace Neill (1846-1926), Kiwi nurse
  • Bonnie Nettles (1927-1985), co-leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult
  • Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing
  • Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824-1880) American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mt. Auburn Hospital
  • Emma Maria Pearson (1828–93), 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 (1835-1896), Swedish pioneer in the education of nurses
  • Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss America 1988
  • Claire Rayner (born 1931), British journalist, agony aunt and activist
  • Linda Richards (1841-1930), America's first professionally trained nurse
  • Isabel Hampton Robb, helped develop early programs of nursing education
  • Rachel Robinson (born 1922), wife of baseball star Jackie Robinson
  • Debbie Rowe (born 1958), wife of singer Michael Jackson
  • Elaine Roe, U.S. Army nurse, one of the first four women to be awarded the Silver Star

    • S-Z

  • Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), founder of the U.S. birth control movement.
  • Lynda Scott, New Zealand MP.
  • Mary Seacole (1805-1881), Jamaican British nurse in the Crimean War known as "the Black Florence Nightingale".
  • Schwester Selma (1884-1984), German-Jewish head nurse in Jerusalem, known as "the Jewish Florence Nightingale".
  • Nigar Shikhlinskaya (1871-1931), first Azerbaijani nurse.
  • Kapelwa Sikota (1928 – 2006), first Zambian registered nurse.
  • Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon (1864-1955), British abolitionist.
  • Jessie Sleet Scales (1865-1956), first black public health nurse in the United States.
  • Mabel Keaton Staupers (1890-1989), advocate for racial equality in the nursing profession during era of American segregation.
  • Margaretta Styles (1930-2005), 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 (1870-1943), pioneering African-American rights activist, who fought for African-American nurses to be permitted to serve in the U.S. armed forces.
  • Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978), nurse in WWI, decorated for bravery.
  • Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833-1916), humanitarian and philanthropist during the American Civil War.
  • Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913), African-American abolitionist.
  • Florence Wald (1917-2008), founder of the hospice movement in the U.S.
  • Lillian Wald (1867-1940), 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 (born 1943), president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
  • Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, American Civil War nurse.
  • Sarah Palmer Young (1830-1908), American Civil War nurse, author of a memoir.
  • Tome Yoshida (1876-1963), pioneer of modern Eastern University hospital nursing education.
  • Sophie Zahrtmann (1841–1925), deaconess, nurse, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute

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