Hikapuhi
Māori healer who came to prominence in 1905
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Margaret Huxley
Irish nursing pioneer
Eva Hill
New Zealand medical doctor, medical superintendent, writer, publicist and health campaigner.
Dr Lise Meitner
Jewish Austrian-Swedish physicist best known for discovering the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917 and, in 1938, discovering nuclear fission
Gladys Tompkins
New Zealand nurse, prisoner of war
Janet Moore
New Zealand civilian and army nurse, nursing administrator, hospital matron
Janet Gillies
New Zealand civilian and military nurse, army nursing administrator
Fanny McHugh
Although the work for which she was more widely known was done during and after the First World War, McHugh had striven to enhance the health and welfare of women for nearly half a century.
Emily Nutsey
New Zealand nurse, civilian and army matron
Fanny Wilson
New Zealand army nurse, matron