- Paul Nurse
Sir Paul M. Nurse, FRS, (b. January 25, 1949) is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. Nurse's parents came from Norfolk. He was born and raised in Wembley, in north-west London, and was educated at Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
- George Edward Nurse
George Edward Nurse (April 14, 1873 -November 25, 1945) was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was educated in the Channel Islands where both his parents had been born. He was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Mel Nurse
Mel Nurse is a former Wales international footbal player. A centre-half he played for Swindon Town and Swansea City.
- Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse (February 21, 1621 - July 19, 1692) was an accused witch in the Salem witch trials.
- Martin Nurse
Martin Andre Nurse (b. 11 June, 1985) in Durants, Barbados. He is a West Indies cricketer who played in the 2004 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Bangladesh. He plays as a batsman.
- Jon Nurse
Jon Nurse (born March 1 1981) is a footballer, currently playing for Dagenham & Redbridge. Jon started his career in parks football before joining local club Sutton United. He broke into the first team after doing well in the reserves and went onto score over 25 goals in that season which triggered the interest of higher league clubs and ended up being snapped up by Stevenage Borough in the summer of 2004, …
- Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Towne Nurse (or Nourse) (baptized February 21 1621 - July 19 1692) was an important figure in the Salem witch trials.
- Nick Nurse
Nick Nurse (born July 24, 1967 in Iowa) is till most recently the American coach of British Basketball League team Brighton Bears, and has been hired by the NBA Development League's expansion team Iowa as head coach. He studied at the University of Northern Iowa.
- Seymour Nurse
Seymour MacDonald Nurse (b. 10 November, 1933) in Barbados, played 29 Tests for the West Indies. Nurse was a powerfully-built batsman who batted in the middle-order. His debut came against England in Kingston on the 17th of February 1960. He scored a fluent 70 in his maiden innings. Nurse starred in the 1966 West Indian tour of England where he passed 50 five times in as many Tests. He smashed a series best 137 at Headingley.
- Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award- and SAG Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actress, and producer. She first became known for her role as Sydney Bristow on "Alias", a CIA agent.
- Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady of the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing and a noted statistician.
- Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959 in Berkeley, California) is an American pornographic actress and sex educator.
- Abi Titmuss
Abigail Evelyn Titmuss, best known as Abi Titmuss, (born 8 February, 1976 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire), is an English television personality, glamour model and occasional actress.
- Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, he is viewed as the first urban poet. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism, incorporating both views in his works. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
- Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Mrs. Tubman helped John Brown recruit soldiers for his raid on Harpers Ferry (1859). She spied for the Union (in South Carolina ) during the US Civil War. After the war, she lived in Auburn, New York , and founded the Harriet Tubman Home for Aged Negroes.
- Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 - April 12, 1912), better known as Clara Barton, was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.
- Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Anthony Isaacs (born 15 July, 1950) is a Jamaican reggae musician. Isaacs was born in Fletchers Land, Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1970s, he emerged as one of the most prolific and popular recording artists in Jamaica. He released a number of self-produced singles on his African Museum (JA) record label, formed in 1973 with Errol Dunkley. Much of Isaacs' output reflected the 'conscious' themes of roots reggae, …
- Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1976) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the Hollywood films "Mean Girls", "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers", which all proved to be successful at movie theaters.
- Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer.
- Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when she will bear children.
- Dora Venter
Dora Venter is the most popular pseudonym of a Hungarian pornographic film actress. She was born October 1, 1976 in a village in northern Hungary. She moved to Budapest, and studied to be a nurse, receiving her CCRN (critical care registered nurse) certificate in 1998. She auditioned for pornography in late April 1999, and shot her first films several weeks afterwards, her second at the Cannes Hot D'Or. This was initially intended to supplement her low pay as a nurse, …
- Suze Randall
Suze Randall is an American model, photographer, and pornographer originally from England. She has been one of the world's leading erotic photographers for more than 25 years. Working first as a nurse, then as a fashion model in the early 1970s, Randall gained attention for erotic photographs she took of her fellow model friends. In 1972 she played an au pair in Éric Rohmer's film "Love in the Afternoon".
- Edith Cavell
Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865-October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for allegedly helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide.
- Sue Johanson
Sue Johanson, CM, RN (born March 16, 1946) is a Canadian writer, public speaker, registered nurse, sex educator and media personality.
- Michael Schiavo
Michael Richard Schiavo (born April 3, 1963) was the husband of Terri Schiavo, who became a public figure in a national debate over end-of-life issues. Following his wife's collapse, he led a seven-year but ultimately successful and controversial campaign to remove her feeding tube after she was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.
- Chessie Moore
Chessie Moore (born September 8, 1959) is an American pornographic actress and model.
- Loni Anderson
Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Jennifer Marlowe" on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle. Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. As she tells it in her autobiography, "My Life in High Heels", …
- Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM, DBE (June 22 1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England - July 14 2005 at St Christopher's Hospice, South London, England) was a prominent English nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities. She is best known for her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasizing the importance of palliative care in modern medicine. She was an Anglican by religious conviction.
- Matthew Goode
Matthew Goode (born April 3 1978) is a British actor. Goode was born in Exeter, England, the youngest of five siblings (he has a brother, two half brothers and a half sister from his mother's other marriage); he grew up in Devon with a geologist father and a nurse mother who was also an amateur theatre director. Goode studied drama at the University of Birmingham and classical theatre at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
- Brigitte Lahaie
Brigitte Lahaie (born Brigade Van Meerhaegue on October 12, 1955, in Tourcoing, France) is a notable French porn actress who began her career at the age of 20 performing in pornographic films from 1976 through 1980. In 1980, having become a kind of idol of the French adult film industry's golden age, she decided to put an end to her hardcore career and appeared in more "traditional" movies and "big" productions, …
- Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Lynn Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer.
- John Of God
John of God (Spanish: Juan de Dios; Portuguese: João de Deus; 8 March 1495 - 8 March 1550) was a Portuguese-born friar and saint, who has become one of Spain's leading religious figures. John of God was born João Cidade in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, into a once prominent family that was impoverished but had great religious faith. His mother died when he was only a small child and his father joined a monastic order.
- Beverly Malone
Dr Beverly Malone PhD, RN, FAAN recently stepped down as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, a post she has held since July 2001. She is also a board member of HEFCE. On 01 February 2007, she started her tenure as CEO for the US National League for Nursing. Malone was the eldest of seven siblings – six girls and one boy. Her mother worked as a tax auditor for the Internal Revenue Service and her father was a train engineer.
- Brian Keith
Brian Keith was an American stage, film and television actor.
- Victoria Valentino
Victoria Valentino (born 13 December 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an American model who was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1963 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Victoria was married at the time of her pictorial, and in fact she had found out the day before that she was pregnant. The joy of this news was greatly blunted by the fact that her husband had been physically and emotionally abusive, …
- Virginia Henderson
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 - March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the fifth of eight children of Lucy Abbot Henderson and Daniel B. Henderson and a descendant of a long line of scholars and educators. She graduated from the Army School of Nursing, Washington, D.C., in 1921. She is part of the "Columbia school" of nursing theory, having graduated from Teachers College, …
- Charles Cullen
Charles Cullen (b. February 22, 1960) is a former nurse and the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. Cullen startled authorities in December 2003 when he admitted to killing as many as 40 patients during the 16 years he worked at ten hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.
- Mary Seacole
Mary Jane Seacole (1805 - 14 May 1881) was a mixed-race British nurse. Born in Jamaica, she operated boarding houses in Panama and Crimea while simultaneously treating the sick. Seacole was taught herbal remedies and folk medicine by her mother. Always of a nomadic disposition, on hearing of the terrible conditions of the Crimean War and certain that her knowledge of tropical medicine would be of use, she travelled to London and volunteered as a nurse.
- Lois Capps
Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 23rd District of California (District map), which was numbered as the 22nd District prior to the 2000 round of redistricting. It consists of a long, thin strip of the Southern California coast in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. It includes the cities of San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, …