Captain Sally Tompkins
US Civil War Confederate nurse who turned her Richmond mansion into Robertson Hospital, which had by far the lowest death rate of any facility in the North or South, even though physicians sent their worst cases to her.
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Dr Margaret Floy Washburn
Advocate for equal educational opportunities for women who became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a doctoral degree in psychology.
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).
Susie Carson Rijnhart
1800s Canadian physician, medical missionary, and author
Patricia Anne Brennan
Australian Anglican missionary, campaigner, feminist theologian, forensic physician and media presenter
Sarah Forbes
1800s Canadian military nurse
Sibella Barrington
Canadian nurse and administrator
Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
Christine Ewan
Australian medical educator
Dr Anna Darrow
The second woman to be licensed as a doctor in Florida