page_title: List of nurses
section_title: M-R
hierarchical_section_title: List of nurses / M-R
caption_attribution_description: English: Kate Marsden, photographed in 1892 before she set off for Sakha in Siberia to search for a herb said to cure leprosy. Photo by Otto Renard, Moscow. Español: Kate Marsden, en 1892, antes de partir hacia Yacutia en busca de una hierba a la que se atribuía la capacidad de curar la lepra.
context_page_description: This is a list of famous nurses in history. To be listed here, the nurse must already have a Wiki biography article.
context_section_description: Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897-1965)
  Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1946), first professionally trained African-American nurse
  Jeanne Mance (1606-1673), French nurse, founder of Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (1645).
  Sophie Mannerheim (1863-1928), pioneer of modern nursing in Finland
  Marie Manthey (born 1935), one of the originators of Primary Nursing
  Louise de Marillac (1591-1660), founder of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
  Kate Marsden (1859-1931), British missionary nurse
  Anna Maxwell (1851–1929), U.S. Army nurse whose activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in America
  Carolyn McCarthy, American politician
  Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff
  Louisa McLaughlin (1836-1921), one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars
  Louise McManus, first nurse to earn a PhD Referred to as Louise McManus
  Agda Meyerson, (1866-1924) pioneering Swedish nurse
  Anne Milton (born 1955), British Member of Parliament
  Jane Minor, aka Gensey Snow, 1792–1858, African-American healer, midwife, and slave emancipator
  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 Bishop of London
  Charlotte Munck (1876–1932), Danish nurse, important figure in the training of nurses
  Annie Murray (1906-1996) Scottish nurse who went to the Spanish Civil War
  Razan al-Najar (1996/1997-2018), Palestinian nurse shot during a rescue in 2018 Gaza border protests.
  Elizabeth Grace Neill (1846-1926), Kiwi nurse
  Bonnie Nettles (1927-1985), co-leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult
  Nora Neve (1873-1952), pioneer of missionary nursing in Kashmir
  Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing
  Clara Noyes (1869-1946), enrolled 20,000 Red Cross nurses for World War I service, founded the first school for midwives in the U.S.
  Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824-1880) American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mt. Auburn Hospital
  Emma Maria Pearson (1828–93), writer and one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars
  Hildegard Peplau, first published nursing theorist since Florence Nightingale. She created the middle-range nursing theory of interpersonal relations
  Anita Thigpen Perry, First Lady of Texas
  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
  Emmy Rappe (1835-1896), Swedish pioneer in the education of nurses
  Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss America 1988
  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
  Rachel Robinson (born 1922), wife of baseball star Jackie Robinson
  Debbie Rowe (born 1958), wife of singer Michael Jackson
  Elaine Roe, U.S. Army nurse, one of the first four women to be awarded the Silver Star
caption: Kate Marsden
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