Elizabeth Fanning
Australian dentist and dental surgeon
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Columba Rivera
A teacher, poet, and playwright, she was also a professor at the National School of Medicine and the National School of Nursing. A polyglot, she founded the magazine La Mujer Mexicana and contributed to El Mundo Ilustrado.
Martine Rothblatt
Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.
Colonel Kathy Ann C Baptiste-Jones
Col. Kathy Ann C. Baptiste-Jones helped start the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Mary Locke
Irish divorcee, WWI hospital worker and company director
Major Maginia Morales
Filipina-American US Army veteran
Helen Grace McClelland
US Army Veteran Helen Grace McClelland served as a nurse during World War I.
Dr Mary O’Brien
1900s Irish missionary sister and doctor in Africa
Ethel Gray
Ethel Gray enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Australian Imperial Force, on 9 February 1915 as matron. Over the subsequent five years Gray was matron of several hospitals in England and France, returning to Australia in 1920.
Dr Margaret Harper
Paediatrician and the first woman to be appointed to the honorary staff of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; the Medical Officer of the first baby clinic established in New South Wales (1914); the first Director of the Mothercraft Homes and Nurses’ Training Schools; the first person to differentiate between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis.