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[edit] List of prominent nurses
- Saint Alda (d. c. 1309), Italian Catholic saint
- 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
- Clara Barton (1821-1912), organized the American Red Cross
- Christine Beasley CBE (b. 1944), Chiefing Nursing Officer for England
- Ethel Bedford-Fenwick (1856-1947) British nurse who campaigned for a law limiting nursing to "registered" nurses only
- 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
- 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
- Dame 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
- 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
- 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
- Dame Betty Kershaw, Professor at Sheffield
- Daurene Lewis, Canadian. First black woman mayor in North America
- Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), volunteer nurse during the 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
- Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff
- 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
- Tom Quinn, influential UK Professor of Cardiac nursing
- Claire Rayner (b. 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
