This is an evolving list of Danish nurses.
- Ilia Fibiger (1817–1867), writer, nurse, Denmark's first professional nurse
- Thora Fiedler (1854–1941), nurse, prosthetist, inventor, nursing home principal
- Victoria Jensen (1847–1930), deaconess, nursing supervisor, from 1914 head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute
- Charlotte Munck (1876–1932), nurse, trade unionist, important figure in the training of nurses
- Christiane Reimann (1888–1979), first Danish nursing graduate, secretary of the International Council of Nurses
- Sophie Zahrtmann (1841–1925), deaconess, nurse, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute