Famous people in healthcare are famous for many different reasons. For physicians see: List of physicians.
Nurses
England
Florence Nightingale OM, RRC — A 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 — A 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 — The subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.