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Awarded by:
Heads of State or Heads of Red Cross National Societies.
Type:
International nursing decoration (both military and civilian).
Awarded for
"Exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled or to civilian victims of a conflict or disaster" or "exemplary services or a creative and pioneering spirit in the areas of public health or nursing education"
Status
Currently awarded.
Description
Gold and silver medallion with the inscription 'Ad memoriam Florence Nightingale 1820-1910' suspended from a red cross encircled by green laurel.
Statistics
- Established 1912
- First awarded 1920
- Total awarded 1,512
- Posthumous awards 2
- Distinct recipients 1,512
Recipients
A
- Joan Stevenson Abbott
- Anna Rydlówna
B
- Pia Bauer
- Doris Beale
- Annie Skau Berntsen
- Claire Bertschinger
- Emily Blair
- Florence A. Blanchfield
- Luba Blum-Bielicka
- Ruby Bradley
- Ellen Broe
- Sidney Browne
- Vivian Bullwinkel
C
- Elizabeth Cockayne
- Evelyn Conyers
D
- Helga Dagsland
- Edna Nell Doig
- Emmy Dörfel
- Anka Đurović
F
- Jean Elsie Ferguson
- María Fernández de Tinoco
- Alice Fitzgerald
- Alma E. Foerster
- Elizabeth Gordon Fox
G
- Alice Girard
- Mary E. Gladwin
H
- Take Hagiwara
- Helen Scott Hay
- Jean Evelyn Headberry
- Gerda Höjer
- Rosa Zelma Huppatz
- Rachela Hutner
I
- Yae Ibuka
- Delfa Ivanić
J
- Florence Merriam Johnson
- Beatrice Isabel Jones
- Marie Joys
K
- Vera Kashcheyeva
L
- Lucile Petry Leone
- Irina Levchenko
- Ruth Lubic
- Ljubica Luković
M
- Margaret MacDonald (nurse)
- Sylva Macharová
- Hester Maclean
- Maud McCarthy
- Pearl McIver
- Jennifer McMahon (nutritionist)
- Linda K. Meirs
- Chiyo Mikami
- Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina
- Lucy Minnigerode
- Helen Mussallem
- Ellen Musson
N
- Matrena Necheporchukova
- Clara Noyes
- Constance Annie Nothard
P
- Olive Dorothy Paschke
- Edith Helen Paull
- Evelyn Pepper
- Kofoworola Abeni Pratt
R
- Claudine Röhnisch
- Alice Ross-King
- Edith Rudd
- Martha M. Russell
S
- Mariya Shcherbachenko
- Mariya Shkarletova
- Maria Stencel
- Julia Catherine Stimson
T
- Effie J. Taylor
- Sheila Tlou
- Sylvia Trent-Adams
- Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko
W
- Bertha Wellin
- Ailke Westerhof
- Grace Wilson
- Mona Gordon Wilson