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Florence Nightingale

1820 - 1910

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Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Florence Nightingale has received more than 12,675,401 page views. Her biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Florence Nightingale is the 4th most popular physician (down from 2nd in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Italy (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Italian Physician.

Florence Nightingale is most famous for being a nurse during the Crimean War. She was also instrumental in the development of modern nursing.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Florence Nightingale ranks 4 out of 726. Before her are Hippocrates, Galen, and Paracelsus. After her are Robert Koch, Basil of Caesarea, Josef Mengele, Edward Jenner, L. L. Zamenhof, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Andreas Vesalius, and Albert Schweitzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Florence Nightingale ranks 2. Before her is Friedrich Engels. After her are Herbert Spencer, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Anne Brontë, Nadar, Henri, Count of Chambord, Jenny Lind, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Multatuli, Harriet Tubman, and Susan B. Anthony. Among people deceased in 1910, Florence Nightingale ranks 4. Before her are Leo Tolstoy, Henry Dunant, and Mark Twain. After her are Robert Koch, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Edward VII, Nadar, Chulalongkorn, and O. Henry.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Florence Nightingale ranks 44 out of 5,161. Before her are Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), Pontius Pilate (-12), Pope John Paul I (1912), Tiberius (-42), and Donatello (1386). After her are Empedocles (-490), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Pope Pius IX (1792), Pope John XXIII (1881), and Fibonacci (1170).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Florence Nightingale ranks 1. After her are Cesare Lombroso (1835), Camillo Golgi (1843), Marcello Malpighi (1628), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Francesco Redi (1626), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Peter Damian (1007), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Bernardino of Siena (1380), Trota of Salerno (1001), and Andrea Cesalpino (1519).

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