Mona Grey
Irish nurse and philanthropist who promoted nursing education
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Joan Burke
Irish nurse, politician and farmer
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Julia Walworth Long
Ohio temperance activist who helped organize two Presbyterian churches in Cleveland and devoted much time to social service
Lucinda Elizabeth Stewart Boyce
The first Euro-American woman to live permanently on San Juan Island, she also served as a community leader and role model for hundreds of women who braved the primitive conditions of the island’s early settlement years.
Dr Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau
The first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Léonie Abo
Congolese writer and activist Léonie Abo is best known for her role in the 1963-65 Kwilu rebellion.
Blanche Huber
Although Blanche Huber was the first woman in Malta to train as a doctor at university, graduating from the University of Malta in 1925, she never practiced medicine professionally, instead working as a pharmacist.
Dr Soromini Kallichurum
South African medical doctor and medical school professor, the first woman to serve as Dean of the medical faculty at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Susanna Kok
South African doctor who researched leprosy