Midwives

Tara Devi Tuladhar (Devanagari: तारा देवी तुलाधर) (21 August 1931 – 27 November 2012) was Nepal's first female blood donor and a social worker who dedicated her life to serving society.

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Eunice Muringo Kiereini (born 1939) is a retired nurse who was Kenya's Chief Nursing Officer from 1968 to 1986, with responsibility for overseeing and developing nursing in Kenya after independence.

Docia Angelina Naki Kisseih (1919 – 2008) was a leading Ghanaian nurse, midwife and educator.

Kapelwa Sikota (1928 – 2006) was the first Zambian registered nurse, in the 1950s when her country was still the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia.

A midwife is a professional in midwifery.

Aoua Kéita (12 July 1912, Bamako, French Sudan – 7 May 1980, Bamako, Mali) was a Malian independence activist, politician and writer.

Grace White Sherwood (c. 1660 – c. 1740), known as the Witch of Pungo, is the last person known to have been convicted of witchcraft in Virginia.

María Digna Collazo y del Castillo was a Cuban midwife, essayist, editor, suffragist, and feminist activist.

Miyuki Ishikawa (石川 ミユキ Ishikawa Miyuki, born 1897, date of death unknown) was a Japanese midwife and serial killer who is believed to have murdered many infants with the aid of several accomplices throughout the 1940s.

Kirkina Mucko also known as Elizabeth Mukko, (1890-1970) was a Canadian Inuit nurse and midwife.

Rachel Chalkowski (Hebrew: רחל שלקובסקי‎‎; born 1939) is an Israeli midwife and a gemach organiser.

Esther Madudu (Born in 1980) is a Ugandan midwife.

Countess Vilma Hugonnai de Szentgyörgy (September 30, 1847 in Nagytétény, Hungary (today part of Budapest) – March 25, 1922 in Budapest) was the first Hungarian woman medical doctor.

Angela Murdaugh is an American Catholic religious sister in the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, a certified nurse midwife.

Loffo Camara (c.1925 – 25 January 1971) was a senior Guinean politician, and a member of the Politburo of the First Republic of Guinea in the years immediately following independence.

Dame Mary Elizabeth Uprichard, DBE, FRCM (born March 1938) is a British nursing, midwifery and health care activist.