Florence Nightingale
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Previous banknotes have pictured other national figures including novelist Charles Dickens, physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, composer Edward Elgar, nurse Florence Nightingale and architect Christopher Wren.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
Thanks to the work of Bagmanyan and the rest of the repair shop staff, it soon will be back in the hands of a cello student at Florence Nightingale Middle School.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025
Similar reforms were also underway in hospitals thanks, in part, to the crusading work of Florence Nightingale, the British nurse who was stationed at a filthy military hospital during the Crimean War in 1854.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2023
He is aided by fictional Hester Latterly, a resourceful nurse who was a friend of Florence Nightingale.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023
“You want me to go into some old lady’s room and take a book about Florence Nightingale out from under her bed.”
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
