Famous Nurses

• Barton, Clara

  Founder of the American Red Cross

• Byrne, Ethel Higgins

  Margaret Sanger’s sister and co-founder of the first birth control clinic

• Dix, Dorothea

  The 19th-century woman who improved treatment of the insane

• Gosselin, Kate

  The wife and mother from TV's Jon & Kate Plus 8

• Nightingale, Florence

  British nursing hero of the Crimean War

See: Index by Occupation