Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

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 gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.Recent commentators have asserted that Nightingale's Crimean War achievements were exaggerated by the media at the time, but critics agree on the importance of her later work in professionalising nursing roles for women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Florence Nightingale has received more than 7,493,490 page views. Her biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). Florence Nightingale is the 2nd most popular physician (up from 4th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Italy (up from 41st 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.