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Florence Nightingale was named after the city of Florence in Italy, where she was born. Her wealthy family didn’t want her to be a nurse, but she did it anyway. During the Crimean War she took a team of nurses to a military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, and cleaned it up.

The soldiers called her the Lady with the Lamp because she checked on them at night. She was also good with numbers and made charts to show that bad sanitation was killing more soldiers than the fighting. In 1860 she started a nursing school in London.