Famous people in healthcare are famous for many different reasons. For physicians see: List of physicians.
Nurses edit
England edit
- Florence Nightingale OM, RRC — Celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.
United States edit
- Mary Martha Reid — Florida's "most famous nurse and Confederate heroine."[1]
Respiratory therapists edit
Canada edit
- Susan O'Connor — Canadian curler from Alberta.
United States edit
- Tom Araya — Respiratory therapist famous through his band Slayer.
- Efren Saldivar — Murdered 60+ people while working in Brownsville, Texas as a respiratory therapist.
- Ronald G. Beckett — Famous for advancing science in Mummy Science.
- Mary Ann Vecchio — Subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
References edit
- ^ Revels, T.J. (2004). Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women During the Civil War. University of South Carolina Press. p. 28. ISBN 9781570035593. Retrieved 2015-04-10.