Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley
Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley was a midwife who, during the mid-eighteenth century in Virginia, purportedly delivered as many as three thousand babies.
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Dr Constance Stone
Dr Constance Stone was the first woman to be registered as a medical practitioner in Australia.
Clara Louise Maass
Nurse Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901) volunteered to participate in an immunization experiment against yellow fever in Cuba, but succumbed to the disease at the young age of 25.
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
Deaf British suffragist
Abby Hopper Gibbons
1800s American philanthropist
Dr Dagmar Berne
Dr Dagmar Berne was the first woman to study medicine in Australia.
Dr Lisa I Iezzoni
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.
Captain María Inés Ortiz
Capt. Ortiz, who grew up in Puerto Rico, served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was killed by mortar fire in the Green Zone of Baghdad on July 10, 2007. She was the first Army nurse killed in combat since the Vietnam War.
Namahoyke Curtis
Namahyoke Curtis, known as Namah, was a prominent African American nurse in late-19th-century Washington, D.C. During the Spanish-American War (1898), the Surgeon General assigned her to recruit other Black women to serve as U.S. Army contract nurses.
Brigadier General Hazel W Johnson-Brown
The first African American woman to attain a general officer rank in American military history, Brig. Gen. Johnson-Brown was appointed in 1979 as chief of the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of brigadier general.