List of nurses

A-D

 * Saint Alda (died 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 (born 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 (born 1957), British comedian
 * Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
 * Vice Admiral Richard Carmona (born 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 (born 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 (born 1952) American science fiction and fantasy author

E-L

 * 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)
 * 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
 * Dame Betty Kershaw, Professor at Sheffield
 * Lanike, Alexander the Great's nurse
 * 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.

M-R

 * 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 (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
 * 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 (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

S-Z

 * 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"
 * Mabel Keaton Staupers (1890–1989), Advocate for racial equality in the nursing profession during era of American segregation.
 * Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833–1916) humanitarian and philanthropist during the American Civil War
 * Harriet Tubman (1820–1913), African American freedom fighter and Abolitionist activist
 * Lillian Wald (1867–1940), regarded as the "founder of visiting nursing in America"
 * Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, American Civil War nurse