Home›Nursing and Midwifery Professionals›All Nursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBrowse ByAll Nursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsReference and ClassificationVerifiedNurses and midwives, following ISCO-08 Minor Group 222, Nursing and Midwifery Professionals. Belongs here: a midwife, a nurse, and a nurse also noted as a businesswoman, embryologist, humanitarian, public health reformer, statistician or social reformer, where nursing is the recorded primary role. Does not belong here: a physician who also performed nursing-adjacent duties but whose SubLabel names physician as the primary role, grouped under a physician heading instead.FactsAll Nursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra First PracticedWell-attested1860 1Tradition or RegionWell-attestedWestern biomedicine 1All Nursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsFilter Results248 entriesHealing TraditionAllAnesthesiologists and Perioperative Care Pioneers (1)Founders of Modern Nursing and Battlefield Care (195)HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders (2)Midwifery, Reproductive Science and Hospice Care Pioneers (20)Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors (2)Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe (1)Profession/RoleAllAnesthesiologists and Perioperative Care Pioneers (1)Founders of Modern Nursing and Battlefield Care (195)HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders (2)Midwifery, Reproductive Science and Hospice Care Pioneers (20)Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors (2)Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe (1)Specialist InAllAnesthesiology (1)Epidemiology (1)Geriatrics (1)Hospice and Palliative Medicine (1)Infectious Disease (1)Nursing (110)Obstetrics and Gynecology (4)Oncology (1)Psychiatry (2)Public Health (11)Surgery (1)NationalityAllAlgeria (2)Argentina (1)Australia (13)Austria (2)Azerbaijan (1)Barbados (1)Belgium (1)Botswana (1)Brazil (1)Canada (15)China (1)Curacao (1)Denmark (5)Egypt (1)England (5)Finland (1)France (9)Gambia (1)Germany (10)Ghana (1)Greece (1)Guyana (1)Ireland (7)Isle of Man (1)Israel (2)Italy (2)Japan (1)Malaysia (1)Montenegro (1)Netherlands (3)New Zealand (4)Nigeria (2)Northern Ireland (1)Norway (5)Pakistan (2)Panama (1)Poland (2)Romania (1)Russia (3)Russian Empire (1)Scotland (5)Serbia (2)Slovenia (1)Somalia (1)South Africa (1)Spain (1)Sweden (2)Switzerland (4)Taiwan (1)Trinidad and Tobago (1)Ukraine (1)United Kingdom (27)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (2)United States (81)Era (Birth Year)All1560 (1)1606 (1)1735 (1)1764 (1)1771 (1)1773 (2)1794 (1)1800 (1)1802 (1)1809 (1)1814 (1)1818 (1)1820 (1)1821 (1)1824 (1)1830 (2)1834 (1)1836 (1)1838 (1)1839 (2)1840 (2)1841 (2)1842 (1)1844 (2)1845 (1)1848 (1)1855 (1)1856 (1)1857 (1)1858 (2)1859 (2)1860 (1)1862 (3)1863 (1)1864 (1)1865 (3)1866 (1)1867 (3)1868 (1)1869 (1)1870 (3)1871 (5)1872 (3)1873 (1)1874 (3)1875 (1)1876 (2)1878 (4)1879 (3)1880 (3)1881 (6)1882 (1)1883 (1)1884 (3)1885 (1)1886 (4)1887 (2)1888 (2)1889 (1)1890 (2)1891 (2)1892 (1)1893 (2)1894 (2)1895 (1)1896 (1)1897 (1)1898 (2)1899 (2)1901 (3)1902 (2)1905 (4)1907 (3)1909 (3)1910 (3)1911 (5)1914 (4)1915 (3)1917 (5)1918 (2)1919 (5)1920 (3)1921 (2)1922 (3)1926 (2)1927 (2)1928 (2)1931 (3)1933 (2)1934 (2)1935 (2)1940 (3)1941 (2)1942 (3)1943 (3)1948 (2)1952 (3)1953 (2)1961 (3)1966 (2)Showing the 100 most common of 130 options.GenderAllFemale (100)PrizeAllAmerican Academy of Nursing Living Legend (1)American Nurses Association Hall of Fame (3)Bronze Star (1)Chicago Women's Hall of Fame (1)Cross of St. George (1)Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2)Distinguished War Service Medal (1)Finland Medal for Humanitarian Work (1)Florence Nightingale Medal (1)Gold Public Service Medal of Merit of the Order of the Trinity (1)Hunger Strike Medal (2)Legion d'Honneur (3)Legion of Merit (2)Mary Adelaide Nutting Medal (1)Mary Mahoney Award (3)Medical Dedication Award (1)Military Medal (2)Officer of the Order of the British Empire (4)Order of Canada (1)Order of Luthuli (1)Oveta Culp Hobby Award (1)President's 21st Century Award (1)R. Louise McManus Award (1)Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Award (1)Royal Red Cross (4)Ruth B. Freeman Award (1)Silver Shield (Chinese government) (1)Walter Burns Saunders Medal (1)WHO Director-General's Health Leaders Award (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Adah Belle ThomsNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAfaf MeleisNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAgathe de RambaudNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAgnes KarllNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAgnes RestonNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAgnes VetchNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAgnes von KurowskyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAgnès-Marie ValoisNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAilke WesterhofNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsĀkenehi HeiNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAleda E. LutzNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAlex WubbelsNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAlice GirardNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAlison J. TierneyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAlma Elizabeth GaultNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAlma S. WoolleyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAlta BatesNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAna NériNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAngela BoškinNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnita Thigpen PerryNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnn BurgessNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnna Mela-PapadopoulouNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnna ReijnvaanNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnne Marie RaffertyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnnette KennedyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnnie Warburton GoodrichNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAnnie Warren GillNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsArtémides ZattiNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsAugusta JawaraNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBarbara L. NicholsNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBeatrice Mary MacDonaldNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBelle ReynoldsNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBerenice DollyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBertha HarmerNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBetty JeffreyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBridget DirraneNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsBronisława Wieniawa-DługoszowskaNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCatherine Jane WoodNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCatherine RoyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCatherine TolsonNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCathinka GuldbergNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCathy CroweNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCecilia Fire ThunderNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCharlotte BradfordNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCharlotte NorrieNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsChen Ching-minNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsChristine GradyNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsCicely SaundersNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsClara BartonNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsConnie KruckowNursing and Midwifery Professionals123…5Next →Sources1. History of Nursing (Wikipedia)WikipediaHistory of nursing, Nightingale school 1860, eraFlorence Nightingale, an angel of mercy, set up her nursing school in 1860History of nursing, Nightingale school 1860, regionFlorence Nightingale, an angel of mercy, set up her nursing school in 1860View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.