Lucy Ann White Cox
Lucy Ann White Cox was a vivandière during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
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Angela Russell
Irish physician and social reformer
Sarah Garland Boyd Jones
Sarah Garland Boyd Jones became the first African American woman to pass the Virginia Medical Examining Board’s examination.
Catherine Flon
Catherine Flon was a seamstress who famously sewed the first Haitian flag at the request of Dessalines, but she is also known for having nursed the sick and wounded after nearby battles.
Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére
Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére was a Haitian soldier known not only for her courage but for her skills in battle and strategy. She was a leading figure in the pivotal Battle of Crête-á-Pierrot in 1802.
Alessandra Alberta Pucci
Alessandra Pucci was founder and chief executive of Australia’s first biotechnology company Australian Monoclonal Development (AMD).
Hannah Glidden Myrick
Myrick earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins in 1900. She practiced medicine in Boston and for a decade served as the superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children (NEHWC).
Ada A Achorn
American osteopath
Dr Fanny Berlin
Dr. Fanny Berlin (1852-1921) traveled from her home in Ukraine to medical school in Switzerland, one of the few medical schools that would accept women at the time. She emigrated to the United States right after graduating and worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, one of the few hospitals who treated immigrant women.
Jane Wadsworth
Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.