Kate Cumming
Kate Cumming is best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. She spent much of the latter half of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.
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Julia Henderson
Canadian journalist, novelist, mountaineer, botanist, photographer and lecturer
Elizabeth O’Farrell
20th century Irish republican
Winifred Pink
1920s British car racer and mechanic
Anna Toews
Ukrainian-Canadian midwife
Maria Morris Miller
1800s Canadian teacher, artist, and poet
Letitia Munson
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife
Maria Mahoi
1800s Hawaiian-Canadian midwife
Maria Angwin
Canadian educator and physician
Captain Mary Therese Klinker
Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a U.S. Air Force flight nurse who died during Operation Babylift, a humanitarian mission to evacuate orphans from Vietnam.