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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 11,928,836 page views. Her biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Florence Nightingale is the 2nd most popular physician, the 31st most popular biography from Italy (up from 40th 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 2 out of 502. Before her are Hippocrates. After her are Galen, Paracelsus, Robert Koch, Josef Mengele, Edward Jenner, Basil of Caesarea, Andreas Vesalius, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, L. L. Zamenhof, 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, Nadar, Anne Brontë, Henri, Count of Chambord, Harriet Tubman, Jenny Lind, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Multatuli, and Heungseon Daewongun. Among people deceased in 1910, Florence Nightingale ranks 2. Before her is Leo Tolstoy. After her are Mark Twain, Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, William James, Edward VII, Henri Rousseau, Nadar, O. Henry, Mily Balakirev, and Marius Petipa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Florence Nightingale ranks 31 out of 4,668. Before her are Sandro Botticelli (1445), Marcus Aurelius (121), Petrarch (1304), Caligula (12), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), and Alessandro Volta (1745). After her are Niccolò Paganini (1782), Parmenides (-501), Horace (-65), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Titian (1488), and Pontius Pilate (-12).

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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), Francesco Redi (1626), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Bernardino of Siena (1380), Peter Damian (1007), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682), and Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501).

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