List of nurses
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List of prominent nurses [edit]
- Lady Harriet Acland, British noblewoman
- Saint Alda (died c. 1309), Italian Catholic saint
- Moyra Allen, helped develop the McGill Model of Nursing
- 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
- Anne Baker, British author
- Ann A. Bernatitus, 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 (born 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
- Jo Brand (born 1957), British comedian
- Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
- Viola Davis Brown (born 1936), first African-American to lead a state office of public health nursing in the United States
- Vivian Bullwinkel who survived the Banka Island massacre and celebrated by the Australian Service Nurses Memorial
- Betsi Cadwaladr (1789-1860), Welsh nurse who worked alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimea
- 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 British nurse who developed Casey's model of nursing
- Edith Cavell (1865–1915), heroine of World War I
- 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, Professor at University of Swansea
- Cubah Cornwallis (d. 1848), Jamaican nurse and "doctoress" who treated Nelson and William IV when they were stationed in the West Indies.
- Marion Dewar (born 1928), was mayor of Ottawa and a member of the Parliament
- Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, Lord Mayor of London
- Sister Dora (1832–1878), British 19th century nurse
- Ellen Dougherty (1844–1919), the first Registered Nurse
- Diane Duane (born 1952) American science fiction and fantasy author
- Sarah Emma Edmundson (1841–1898), Canadian-American author who served with the Union Army in the American Civil War
- Queen Fabiola of Belgium (born 1928)
- Florence Farmborough (1887–1978), British nurse who kep 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
- Marjory Gordon, a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns
- Kate Gosselin, American television personality
- Erna Flegel (born 1903), Adolf Hitler's nurse
- Genevieve de Galard, French nurse during the French war in Indochina
- Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801–1893), Abolitionist activist during the American Civil War
- Cornelia Hancock (1839–1926), American Civil War nurse
- Virginia Henderson (1897–1996), American nurse theorist
- Lucille Hegamin (1894–1970), blues recording artist
- Lenah Higbee (1874–1941), pioneering U.S. Navy nurse during World War I
- Dame Agnes Hunt (1867–1948), British Orthopaedic Nursing pioneer
- Alberta Hunter (1895–1984), jazz singer
- Virginia Clinton Kelley, mother of United States President Bill Clinton.
- Dame Betty Kershaw, Professor at Sheffield
- Lanike, Alexander the Great's nurse
- Nancy J. Lescavage, Director of the Navy Nurse Corps
- Daurene Lewis, Canadian. 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
- Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Revolutionary War Nurse. Mother of Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President.
- Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897–1965)
- Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845–1946), first professionally trained African-American nurse
- Sophie Mannerheim (1863–1928), pioneer of modern nursing in Finland
- 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, the first nurse to earn a Ph.D. Referred to as Louise McManus
- Anne Milton (born 1955), British Member of Parliament
- 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
- Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), pioneer of modern nursing
- Emma Maria Pearson (1828–93), writer and one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars
- Hildegard Peplau, the 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
- Elaine Roe, U.S. Army nurse, one of the first four women to be awarded the Silver Star
- Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of the "birth control movement" in America
- Dame Cicely Saunders, British hospice pioneer
- Lynda Scott, New Zealand Member of Parliament
- Mary Seacole (1805–1881), Jamaican British nurse in the Crimean War known as "the black Florence Nightingale"
- Nigar Shikhlinskaya (1871–1931), first Azerbaijani nurse
- Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon (1864-1955), British abolitionist
- 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 US armed forces
- Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833–1916) humanitarian and philanthropist during the American Civil War
- Harriet Tubman (1820–1913), African American freedom fighter and Abolitionist activist
- Tome Yoshida (1876–1963) Pioneer of modern Eastern University hospital nursing education.
- Lillian Wald (1867–1940), regarded as the "founder of visiting nursing in America"
- Jean Watson, an American nurse theorist and nursing professor who is best known for her Theory of Human Caring.
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, American Civil War nurse
