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."
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.
See also List of health insurance chief executive officers in the United States
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