List of people in healthcare

Famous people in healthcare are famous for many different reasons. For physicians see: List of physicians.

Nurses

England

• Florence Nightingale OM, RRC — 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 — Canadian 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 — Subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

References

1. Revels, T.J. (2004). Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women During the Civil War. University of South Carolina Press. p. 28. ISBN   9781570035593 . Retrieved 2015-04-10.