List of prominent nurses

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• Saint Alda (d. c. 1309), Italian Catholic saint
• Charles Atangana (1880—1943), paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon
• Anne Baker, British author
• Clara Barton (1821-1912), organized the American Red Cross
• Christine Beasley (b. 1944), Chiefing Nursing Officer for England
• Ethel Bedford-Fenwick (1856-1947) Registered Nurse No 1
• Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817-1901), nurse during the Civil War known as "Mother Bickerdyke"
• Jo Brand (b. 1957), British comedian
• Elsa Brändström (1888-1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
• Vice Admiral Richard Carmona (b. 1949), United States Surgeon General
• Anne Casey, British who developed Casey's Model of Nursing
• Edith Cavell (1865-1915), heorine of World War I
• June Clark, Professor at University of Swansea
• Marion Dewar (b. 1928), was mayor of Ottawa and a member of the Parliament
• Sister Dora, (1832-1878), British 19th century nurse
• Ellen Dougherty, (1844-1919), the first Registered Nurse
• Diane Duane (b. 1952) American science fiction and fantasy author

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• Sarah Emma Edmundson (1941-1898), Canadian-American author who served with the Union Army in the American Civil War
• Queen Fabiola of Belgium (b. 1928)
• Erna Flegel (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
• 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
• Betty Kershaw, Professor at Sheffield
• Daurene Lewis, Canadian. First black woman mayor in North America

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• 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
• Anne Milton (b. 1955), British member of parliament
• Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999), British novelist and poet
• Jeannine Moquin-Perry, Canadian religious and political activist
• Sarah Mullally, (b. 1962) British Chief Nursing Officer and priest
• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing
• Jill Pettis, New Zealand member of Parliament
• Lynne Pillay, New Zealand member of Parliament
• Kerry Prendergast, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand
• Claire Rayner (b. 1931), British journalist, agony aunt and activist
• Isabel Hampton Robb, helped develop early programs of nursing education

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• 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"
• Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833-1916) humanitarian and philanthropist during the American Civil War
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), African American freedom fighter and Abolitionist activist
• Wendy Van Horne, 2006 Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Massachusetts Lt. Governor.
• Lillian Wald (1867-1940), regarded as the "founder of visiting nursing in America"
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, American Civil War nurse

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