List of nurses

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• Lydia Abell ARRC Australian civilian and military nurse during the First World War
• Judith Adams Australian nurse, midwife and politician
• Justus A. Akinsanya Professor of Nursing and Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing
• 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
• Annie Altschul Britain's mental health nurse pioneer
• Margaret Irene Anderson Australian Army nurse
• Pixie Annat Australian Matron and Queensland Great
• Olive Anstey CBE Australian nurse
• Sir Jonathan Asbridge, first president of the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Charles Atangana, paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon
• Margaret Auld Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland 1977-1988
• Martha Ballard, American frontier midwife, great-aunt of Clara Barton
• Anna Baillie RRC established the first provincial Preliminary Training School for Nurses, and served as a Principal military Matron of Bristol during the First World War.
• Anna DeCosta Banks, first head nurse at the Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina
• Doris Bardsley Australian nurse, President of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
• Williamina Barclay Scottish nurse; one of the main initiators of the evacuation of St Kilda archipelago
• Kathleen Hope Barnes ARRC MBE Australian nurse
• Ellen Barron Australian matron
• Nita Barrow, 5th Governor-General of Barbados who started as a nurse midwife and public health educator
• Clara Barton, organized the American Red Cross
• Dora Isabel Baudinet Australian nurse
• Dame Doris Beale, DBE, RRC & Bar Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
• Ethel Hope Becher GBE, RRC & Bar, Matron in Chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service
• Christine Beasley CBE, Chief Nursing Officer for England
• Irene L. Beland, American nursing educator, author of Clinical Nursing: Pathophysiological and Psychosocial Approaches
• Jane Bell OBE Scotland-born Australian principal matron of the First Australian General Hospital in Egypt in First World War
• Agnes Jessie Bennett Australian nurse
• Isabel Bennett RRC, civilian matron and during First World War ran an annexe for injured officers.
• Ann A. Bernatitus, one of the Angels of Bataan - USN nurses in the Philippines in WW2
• 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"
• Louisa Bicknell Australian civilian and military nurse
• Martha Bidmead RRC Australian nurse
• Dame Emily Mathieson Blair DBE, RRC was a British military nurse and nursing administrator
• Florence Blake, American pediatric nursing professor and author
• Florence A. Blanchfield, superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps
• Isla Blomfield Australian nurse
• Cecilia Blomqvist, Finnish deaconess
• Kath Bonnin was an Australian army nurse during WW2
• Doris Booth Australian nursing volunteer
• Angela Boškin , first professionally trained Slovenian nurse and social worker in Yugoslavia
• Hilda Bowen, credited with establishing the modern nursing profession in The Bahamas
• Peggy Boyd, one of Scotland's first air ambulance nurses; served during World War II
• Jo Brand, British nurse-turned-comedian
• Elsa Brändström, Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
• Sister Philippa Brazill Sister of Mercy, Australian nurse and hospital administrator
• Mary Carson Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
• Daisy Bridges CBE British nurse and midwife, known for being International Council of Nurses General Secretary
• Louisa Briggs Australian nurse and, Aboriginal leader and activist
• Mary Francis Bridgeman, nun and Crimean War nurse
• Ellen Johanne Broe Danish nurse and nursing educator
• Anna Broms, first professionally trained nurse in Finland
• Sidney Browne, first Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and first President of the Royal College of Nursing
• 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
• Beryl Burbridge OBE Australian military matron
• Elizabeth Burchill was an Australian nurse, philanthropist and author
• Mercia Butler Indigenous Australian nurse and nun

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• 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
• John Campbell, British nurse, nursing educator, and YouTuber
• Sadie Canning MBE Western Australia's first Aboriginal trained nurse and hospital matron
• Vice Admiral Richard Carmona, American, registered nurse, later Surgeon General of the United States
• Kate Carruthers Scottish nurse, joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service.
• 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
• Alice Cashin RRC & Bar Australian WWI military nurse
• Harriett Cassells FRCN Northern Ireland nurse known for her work in fever nursing and infection control
• Mabel Helen Cave RRC was a matron of The Westminster Hospital and war time nursing leader and member of the Army Nursing Board
• Edith Cavell, British nurse, World War I
• Dorothy Cawood MM an Australian civilian and military nurse
• Maria Cederschiöld , pioneer in the education of deaconesses and nursing in Sweden
• Justina Charles, Dominican politician
• Patricia Downes Chomley Australian nurse and college director
• Ellen Christensen, Danish nurse and resistance fighter
• Luther Christman, first male dean of a U.S. nursing program; established the Rush model of nursing
• Letitia Clark, MBE, RRC, matron, nursing leader and founding member of the precursor to the College of Nursing.
• Dame June Clark, Professor at University of Swansea and President of Royal College of Nursing 1990-1994
• Margaret Turner Clarke pioneering Australian nurse
• Trevor Clay General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing 1982-1989
• Jessie Clifton Australian nurse who became Matron in charge of the Western Australian Nursing Transport system in WW1
• Rosabella Paulina Fynes Clinton, nurses, and founding member of masseuse institute, and council member of Royal College of Midwives
• Frances Cluett Newfoundland army nurse and educator
• Sheila Collins Royal College of Nursing's Chair of Council
• Louise Conring first professionally trained nurse in Denmark, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute
• Evelyn Conyers CBE, RRC & Bar New Zealand-born Australian matron-in-chief during WW1
• Dorothy S Coode British nurse, President of the Royal College of Nursing
• Margaret Cooper British nurse tutor
• Pearl Corkhill MM decorated Australian military nurse of the First World War
• Cubah Cornwallis, Jamaican nurse and "doctoress" who treated Nelson and William IV when they were stationed in the West Indies
• Rachael Cox-Davies CBE, RRC Bar, British nurse, Matron, Royal Free Hospital and co-founder of the Royal College of Nursing
• Rose Creal RRC decorated Australian military nurse of the First World War
• Joanna Cruickshank DBE, RRC British nurse, founder and Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service
• Emily Margaret Cummins RRC, nursing leader and arranged first nurses day service in 1924.
• Lilian Ellen Cushon was a British nursing leader. During World War I, she was principal matron of the British Red Cross Hospital at Netley.
• Beatrice Cutler. Pioneering matron and founding Secretary of the National Council of Nurses of the United Kingdom.
• Andrea Dalzell, American nurse, first wheelchair-using registered nurse in the state of New York
• Harriet Patience Dame, nurse during the American Civil War, served with the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
• Grace Ebun Delano, Nigerian nurse and midwife, pioneer of reproductive health services in Nigeria
• Jane Delano, founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service
• Sylvia Denton, President of the Royal College of Nursing 2002-2006
• 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, Canadian nurse, mayor of Ottawa and a member of the Parliament
• Louise Dietrich, American nurse in Texas and suffragist
• Dorothea Dix, superintendent of Army Nurses during the American Civil War
• Elizabeth Dodds RRC Nursing leader and matron of Bethnal Green Infirmary and Military Hospital.
• 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 professionally trained Registered Nurse in New Zealand
• Rosalie Dreyer Swiss-born, naturalized British nurse, known as matron-in-charge of the Nursing Service of the London County Council.
• Lucy Lincoln Drown, American nursing educator
• Diane Duane American nurse who became a science fiction and fantasy author
• Lois Dunbar, American Civil War nurse
• Anka Đurović, Serbian nurse in the first Serbian-Turkish War, the Bulgarian-Serbian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balkan War, and World War I.