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

He is aided by fictional Hester Latterly, a resourceful nurse who was a friend of Florence Nightingale.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Her father has died under suspicious circumstances, and she’s enlisted Harold for help, which is why Burt soon performs an autopsy alongside Zoe Saldana’s Irma, another Florence Nightingale.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

I told her about my newspaper dreams, as well as my admiration for Miss Florence Nightingale and her fame as a nurse.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan