List of Famous Nurses

Tiffany Michelle Brissette, born December 26, 1974, is an American former child actress. She played V.I.C.I. the Robot (also known as Vicki Lawson) on the syndicated American sitcom Small Wonder, which ran from 1985 to 1989.

Robin Quivers co-hosted Howard Stern's media ventures for over thirty years. She rose from regional broadcasting in the early 1980s to a top-rated satellite radio program in the 21st century. Quivers stayed Stern's most level-headed on-air partner, using polished delivery and wry humor to respond to his outrageous comments.

Tina Marie Wesson is an American nurse, motivational speaker, and reality TV personality. She won $1,000,000 as the winner of the second season of Survivor, Survivor: The Australian Outback, in 2001. Wesson returned for Survivor: All-Stars in 2004 and was the first person voted off. After those shows, Wesson taught outdoor survival classes. She returned as a contestant on Survivor: Blood vs. Water with her daughter, Katie Collins; Katie finished eighth, and Wesson finished fourth.

Naomi Judd, born Diana Ellen Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Kentucky, is a country music figure. She started her career with her daughter, Wynonna Judd, forming the Grammy-winning duo, The Judds. Their journey, from simple beginnings to success in the 1980s, shows perseverance. Judd faced hardship, including a teenage pregnancy and a failed marriage, but she turned those issues into steps toward her success. She worked as a nurse while raising her children.

Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician. She founded modern nursing. Nightingale gained attention managing and training nurses during the Crimean War, where she organized care for wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a good reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture as "The Lady with the Lamp," visiting wounded soldiers at night. Some commentators claim media exaggerated Nightingale's Crimean War work, but critics agree.

Cirie Fields is an American actress. She appeared in "Survivor" and "The Traitors."

Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger pushed the term "birth control." She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. Sanger established groups that grew into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Sanger used her writings and speeches to push her ideas. People prosecuted her for her book Family Limitation under the Comstock Act in 1914. She feared what might happen.

Jo Brand started her career as a stand-up comedian. She delivered routines spoofing pop culture, celebrities, and politicians using a flat tone and long pauses. Stage audiences later called her "The Sea Monster." Her first TV appearance was a guest spot on "Saturday Live," a British version of "Saturday Night Live." In 1990, she starred in the live comedy special "The Famous Compere's Police Dog," a benefit for Amnesty International. She soon started appearing regularly.

Luann de Lesseps (born LuAnn Nadeau; born May 17, 1965) is an American television personality, model, author, and singer. In 1993, she married French entrepreneur and aristocrat Count Alexandre de Lesseps. They divorced in 2009, but she kept the courtesy title "countess" until she married again in 2016. In 2008, de Lesseps gained attention after appearing in the reality TV series The Real Housewives of New York City, which shows the lives of women in New York City. Luann began leading "Countess and Friends," a cabaret show she created, in 2018.

Julie Ege (Norwegian pronunciation: [jʉːliə ˈeːɡə]; November 12, 1943 – April 29, 2008) was a Norwegian actress and model. Julie Ege appeared in many British films during the 1960s and 1970s.

Jane Toppan (August 17, 1854 – October 29, 1938), born Honora Kelley, was an American serial killer, nicknamed "Jolly Jane." After her arrest in 1901, she admitted to 31 murders. She stated her ambition was "to have killed more people—helpless people—than any other man or woman who ever lived."

Charles Edmund Cullen was an American serial killer. Cullen admitted to authorities that he killed up to forty patients during his sixteen years as a nurse in New Jersey. Police, psychiatrists, and journalists later revealed he killed many more people. Cullen could not name them all, but he often recalled murder details. Experts estimate Cullen caused 400 deaths, making him the most prolific serial killer in recorded history.

Bonnie Hunt, a multi-talented person from Chicago, Illinois, helped the entertainment industry as an actress, comedian, director, producer, and television host. She was born September 22, 1961. She grew up in a big Irish Catholic family; this shaped her comedy skills early. Bonnie first aimed for nursing at Northwestern University. Her love for improvisation led her to start the famous Chicago comedy group, Annoyance Theatre. Director Barry Levinson noticed her in the late 1980s.

Kathryn Joosten (December 20, 1939 – June 2, 2012) was an American television actress. She played Dolores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002. She also played Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2005 to 2012. She won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2008.

Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819, died March 26, 1892, was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He was a humanist. Whitman bridged transcendentalism and realism in his writing, using both ideas. Whitman remains one of the most influential American poets; people call him the father of free verse. His work caused controversy; his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, seemed obscene due to its overt sensuality. People questioned Whitman's life because of his presumed homosexuality. Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island and worked as a jo

Kristen Heather Gilbert, born Kristen Heather Strickland on November 13, 1967, was a former nurse. She is an American serial killer. A jury convicted her of four murders and two attempted murders of patients at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Northampton, Massachusetts. She caused cardiac arrest in patients by injecting their intravenous therapy bags with large doses of epinephrine, an untraceable heart stimulant. She then responded to emergency codes, often bringing patients back to life herself. Known victims include Stanley Jagodowski, Henry Hudon, and Kenneth Cutting.

Beverley Gail Allitt, born October 4, 1968, is an English serial child killer. She was convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three others, and causing serious injury to six more. She committed these crimes over 59 days between February and April 1991 at the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire. Allitt worked as a State Enrolled Nurse there. She gave large doses of insulin to at least two victims. Police found a large air bubble in another victim's body, but they could not figure out how all the attacks happened.

Colin Norris, born February 12, 1976, was a nurse and serial killer from Glasgow, Scotland. He murdered four elderly patients in a Leeds, England hospital in 2002. A 2008 sentence required him to serve at least 30 years in prison. Retired Professor Vincent Marks, an insulin poisoning expert, raised doubts about his conviction.

Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) founded the American Red Cross. She served as a hospital nurse during the American Civil War. Barton also worked as a teacher and patent clerk. She provided self-taught nursing care because nursing education lacked formal structure then. Barton performed humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy before women could vote. The National Women's Hall of Fame inducted her in 1973.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova; Russian: Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна; 10 June 1897 – 17 July 1918) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She was born at Peterhof, Saint Petersburg. Tatiana Nikolaevna was known more than her three sisters. She led Red Cross committees during World War I. Like her sister Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital from 1914 to 1917 until the family faced arrest after the first Russian

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) lived from November 15, 1895, to July 17, 1918. She was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia. During her life, speculation surrounded Olga's future marriage. Rumors linked her to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, and Edward, Prince of Wales, the eldest.

Raymond Martinez Fernandez (December 17, 1914 – March 8, 1951) and Martha Jule Beck (May 6, 1920 – March 8, 1951) were an American serial killer couple. They were convicted of one murder and are known to have committed two more. Authorities suspected they had up to 20 victims during a killing spree from 1947 to 1949. After their 1949 serial murder trial and arrest, they became "The Lonely Hearts Killers" because they targeted people via lonely hearts ads. Several films and television shows use this case.

Claire Berenice Rayner, OBE (; née Chetwynd; 22 January 1931 – 11 October 2010), was an English nurse, journalist, broadcaster, and novelist. She gained recognition for her long role as an agony aunt.

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) fought for the mentally ill poor. She lobbied state legislatures and the U.S. Congress. This work built the first American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.

Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin was born February 4, 1959. She is an American animal rights activist and a former child actress. Ferdin acted mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, though she appeared in projects in the 1980s and later. Ferdin started her career in TV series. She became known as a voice actress, supplying the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) and two other Peanuts specials. She had supporting roles in The Beguiled (1971) with Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and a lead role in the exploi

Genene Anne Jones (born July 13, 1950) killed up to 60 infants and children. She did this as a licensed vocational nurse in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1984, Jones faced murder and injury charges for a child. Jones used digoxin, heparin, and succinylcholine injections to cause medical crises in her patients, leading to many deaths. Hospital officials allegedly hid and destroyed records of Jones' actions after her first conviction.

Megumi Hayashibara acted in "Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo," "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie," and "Paprika."

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) wrote the novel Little Women (1868), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up near thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alcott's family faced money problems, and she worked to help support them.

Betty Shabazz (born Betty Dean Sanders; May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), also known as Betty X, was an educator and civil rights advocate. She married Malcolm X. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where foster parents protected her from racism. She went to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where she first met racism. Unhappy with Alabama, she moved to New York City and became a nurse. There, she met Malcolm X and joined the Nation of Islam in 1956. The couple married in 1958.

Lilian Greuze was a stage and motion picture actress from Paris, France. She also worked as a model.

Yvonne Agneta Ryding, born December 14, 1962, in Eskilstuna, Södermanland, is a Swedish dancer, model, TV Host, and beauty queen. She won Miss Universe 1984 on July 9, 1984. She became the third Swede to win the title.

Vera Mary Brittain (December 29, 1893 – March 29, 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist. Her 1933 memoir, *Testament of Youth*, recounted her experiences in World War I and her move toward pacifism.

Dr. Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine. She directs the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. Lorig studies chronic disease and patient education. She published books and journal articles in these areas. She built a self-management course for patients with chronic diseases. Lorig has Gaucher's disease, diagnosed at age three. She earned her B.S. in nursing from Boston University in 1964 and her M.S. in nursing.

Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer was a colonel in the Washington National Guard and a gay rights activist. She was born in Oslo, Norway, and became a U.S. citizen in 1960. In 1961, she joined the Army Nurse Corps as a student. She got her B.S. in Nursing in 1963 from the University of Maryland. She earned a master's degree at the University of Washington School of Nursing in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1991. She married a man for fifteen years and had four sons. In 1988, at age 46, she met Diane Divelbess, who became her wife. In 1989, r

Hunky Matt Keeslar was nearly unknown. Director Peter Yates cast the Juilliard student as Danny, Albert Finney's confused son, in the 1995 film *The Run of the Country*. The novice actor had to learn an Irish brogue quickly. He played a young man whose fight with his father and his mother's recent death caused him to run to the Irish countryside. There, he met and fathered a young woman, an experience that led to reconciliation with his father. Before this, he played a soldier in *Renaissance Man* and an NBC Page in *Quiz Show*.

Ellen Newbold La Motte was an American nurse, journalist, and author. She started her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1915, she volunteered as one of the first American war nurses sent to Europe to treat soldiers in World War I. She worked in a French field hospital in Belgium, keeping a diary detailing the daily horrors she saw. Back in America, she made her diary into a book, *The Backwash of War*, which had fourteen scenes of typical events. The truth she wrote was difficult; the book was suppressed and not reprinted until 1934. After

Deborah Jeanne Rowe, born December 6, 1958, is an American woman. She married Michael Jackson and had two children. She lives in Palmdale, California.

Mary Breckinridge may be Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881–1965), who founded the Frontier Nursing Service, or Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (1826–1907), the Second Lady of the United States and wife of John C. Breckinridge.

Rachel Annetta Robinson, born July 19, 1922, was a professor, registered nurse, and Jackie Robinson's widow.

Susan J. Kelley was the former Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University. She currently serves as a Professor of Nursing and the Director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and Project Healthy Grandparents, both at Georgia State University.

Miriam Yeung is an actress. She appeared in "Gaudzi," "Three...Extremes," and "2 Become 1."

Diane Duane, born May 18, 1952, writes American science fiction and fantasy. Her books include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova (née Taneyeva), born July 16, 1884, died July 20, 1964. She was a Russian lady-in-waiting, the best friend and confidante of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Kristine Moore Gebbie is a professor at the Flinders University School of Nursing & Midwifery in Adelaide, Australia. From 2008 to 2010, she served as the Joan Hansen Grabe Dean of the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College-City University of New York. Before Hunter College, Gebbie held the Elizabeth Standish Gill Professorship at the Columbia University School of Nursing and directed Columbia's Center for Health Policy. Gebbie became the first U.S. AIDS Czar from 1993 to 1994 during the Clinton Administration. She was a member of the President's Commission on the HIV.

Theresa Magdalena "Tisa" Farrow, born July 22, 1951, died January 10, 2024. She was an American actress and model.

Stephan Letter, born September 17, 1978, was a German former nurse and serial killer. He murdered at least 29 patients while working at a hospital in Sonthofen, Bavaria, between January 2003 and July 2004. These acts total Germany's largest number of killings since World War II.

Gale S. Pollock is a retired United States Army major general. She served as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Army from October 2006 to March 2007 and also as chief of the Army Nurse Corps. Following the March 20, 2007 retirement of her predecessor, Kevin C. Kiley, due to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal, she became acting Surgeon General of the United States Army for nine months. She became the first woman and the first non-physician to hold that position. She served 30 years in the Army and is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.

Carolyn McCarthy, born January 5, 1944, is an American nurse and politician. She served as the U.S. Representative for New York's 4th congressional district from 1997 to 2015. She was a Democrat. On January 8, 2014, she announced she would not seek re-election that November due to health. She retired in January 2015; Kathleen Rice, a fellow Democrat, replaced her.