Famous people in healthcare are famous for many different reasons. For physicians see: List of physicians.
Nurses
England
- Florence Nightingale OM, RRC — A celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.
United States
- Mary Martha Reid — Florida's "most famous nurse and Confederate heroine."[1]
Respiratory therapists
Canada
- Susan O'Connor — A Canada curler from Alberta.
United States
- 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 — The subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
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