Jane Hellicar was the first Nightingale-nurse to be employed as Lady Superintendent of any hospital in Queensland. In 1877 she was appointed to the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane, the second children’s hospital established in Australia.
Dame Emma McCarthy was a highly decorated war-time nurse.
One of the founders of Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne
Frances Holden was Lady Superintendent of the Hospital for Sick Children, Sydney from 1880 to 1887, during which time she published works on medicine and nursing training as well as verse and prose.
Ida Mann was an ophthalmologist who was the first woman to be appointed Senior Surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, and in 1944 the first woman to hold a Chair at the University of Oxford.
Phoebe Chapple graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1904 and practised medicine in Adelaide until she was 85. She distinguished herself during World War I and was awarded the Military Medal. Later she specialised in obstetrics and the veneral diseases of women.
Evelyn Conyers was a highly regarded war-time nurse. She served in Egypt and Greece for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during 1914-1915 and was promoted to matron.
Lucy Osburn was Lady Superintendent of the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (later Sydney Hospital) 1868-1884 and the founder of Nightingale nursing in Australia.
During the Second World War she was a member of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nursing Service, rising to the position of area matron.
Boyne Russell was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia, 26 January 1994, for her service to medicine and the community health, particularly in relation to the care of aged people.