Dr Catherine Hamlin
Catherine Hamlin and her husband pioneered work to assist and eliminate obstetric fistula in Ethiopia, and over six decades established the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
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Ellen Gould
Ellen Gould was Matron and Superintendent of the training school of Sydney Hospital from 1891-1898 . In 1900 she was appointed Lady Superintendent with the newly formed Army Nursing Service.
Dorothy Durdin
Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999) is a nursing historian and as a nurse educator has contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector.
Dorothy MacArthur-Onslow
Leader in New South Wales Girl Guides, Sydney area hospitals and the University of Western Sydney
Dora Lush
Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dora Isabel Baudinet
Nurse Dora Baudinet founded the Sunshine Association of Tasmania in 1938, an organisation dedicated to providing convalescent care to underprivileged and isolated children.
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is a respected paediatric infectious diseases physician, researcher, public health communicator, and community advocate.
Wilma Young
Wilma Young was an Australian World War II veteran, providing decades of community work with the RSL and war veterans.
Doris Bardsley
Doris Bardsley was a nurse and midwife who worked for nearly 40 years in the Queensland public service in Australia.
Diana Dyason
Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974.