| A | B |
| fabiola | wealthy matron of roman empire, some say a patron saint of nursing |
| Knights of St Lazarus | cared for pesons with leprosy, syphyllis |
| Alexian brothers | cared for persons with black plague |
| Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
| Harriet Tubman | "moses of her people" worked with underground railroad |
| Sojourner Truth | worked with the freedmen's relief association after the war |
| Dorothea Dix | Union's superintendent of nurses during the Civil War |
| Spirit of Nursing momument to WWI Nurses | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Sairy Gamp | negative image of nurses created by Dickens |
| Virginia Henderson | created a modern definition of nursing |
| Clara Barton | established the Red Cross |
| Linda Richards | America's first trained nurse |
| Mary Mahoney | First african american professional nurse |
| Lillian Wald | Visiting Nurse Service |
| Lavinia L Dock | suffragist worked for obtaining women's right to vote |
| Margaret Higgins Sanger | Founder of planned parenthood |
| Mary Breckinridge | established frontier nursing services |