Medicine

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Anna Komnene, Greek Physician and Historian, born 1st December 1083
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Jeanne Mance, French Canadian Nurse, born 12th November 1606

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi, Italian Anatomy Professor, born 31st October 1711

Dorothea Erxleben, 1st female German Doctor, born 13th November 1715

Ana Néri, Brazilian Nurse, born 13th December 1814

Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American Hospital Administrator, born 19th July 1817

Bridget Mason, African American Nurse & Entrepreneur, born 15th August 1818
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Florence Nightingale, British Statistician, Nurse and Social Reformer, born 12th May 1820
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Elizabeth Blackwell, British/American Physician, born 3rd February 1821

Sarah Parker Remond, African American Physician & Abolitionist, born 6th June 1826
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Maria Zakrzewska, German American Physician, born 6th September 1829

Rebecca Lee Crumpler, African American Physician, born 8th February 1831

Emily Stowe, Canadian Physician & Suffragist, born 1st May 1831

Mary Edwards Walker, American Abolitionist & Doctor, born 26th November 1832
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Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American Dentist, born 14th March 1833

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British Physician & Feminist, born 9th June 1836

Sarah Stevenson, American Obstetrician, born 2nd February 1841
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Lillien Jane Martin, American Psychologist, born 7th July 1851

Anna Bayerová, Czech physician, born 4th November 1853

Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female Physician, born 9th February 1854

Kate Bushnell, American Writer, Physician & Reformer, born 5th February 1856

Mary Calkins, American Philosopher & Psychologist, born 30th March 1863
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Elsie Inglis, British Doctor & Suffragist, born 16th August 1864

Susan La Flesche, Native American Doctor & Reformer, born 17th June 1865
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Edith Cavell, British Nurse, born 4th December 1865

Lillian Wald, American Nurse & Social Reformer, born 10th March 1867

Maud Chadburn, British Surgeon, born 9th March 1868

Alice Hamilton, American MD/Occupational Health expert, born 27th February 1869

Maria Montessori, Italian Physician & Educator, born 31st August 1870
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Eleanor Davies-Colley, British Surgeon, born 21st August 1874

Margaret Sanger, American Nurse and birth control activist, born 14th September 1879
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Melanie Klein, Austrian/British Psychoanalyst, born 30th March 1882

Elsa Brändström, Swedish Nurse & Philanthropist, born 26th March 1888

Dorothy Price, Irish Doctor, born 8th September 1890

Nella Larsen, African American Nurse and Author, born 13th April 1891

​​Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American Psychologist, born 20th February 1893

Leila Denmark, American Paediatrician, born 1st February 1898

Helen Taussig, American Paediatric Cardiologist, born 24th May 1898

Margaret K. Knight,  British Psychologist & Humanist, born 23rd November 1903
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Enid Balint, British Psychoanalyst, born 12th December 1903

Hilde Bruch, German American Psychoanalyst, born 11th March 1904

Ellen Church, American "flying nurse", born 22nd September 1904

Sabine Zlatin, Polish/French Nurse who helped Jewish children in WW2, born 13th January 1907

Betty Jeffrey, Australian WW2 Nurse and Author, born 14th May 1908
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Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Neurologist & Nobel Prize winner, born 22nd April 1909

Virginia Apgar, American Anaesthesiologist, born 7th June 1909

Anna Terruwe, Dutch Psychiatrist , born 19th August 1911

Han Suyin, Eurasian Physician & Author, born 12th September 1917

Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian Psychologist, born 18th May 1922

Janet Rowley, American Geneticist, born 5th April 1925
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Mildred Fay Jefferson, African American Doctor, born 4th April 1926

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss American Psychiatrist, born 8th July 1926

Audrey Wagner, American Baseball player, doctor & pilot, born 27th December 1927
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Lorna Wing, British Psychiatrist & Autism Expert, born 7th October 1928

Rosalinde Hurley, British Pathologist & Public Health Expert, born 30th December 1929