Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Famous for her development and promotion of nursing, she was mythologized as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ during the Crimean War.
Her work in statistics and what we now call data visualisation is less well known but significant. In 1859, she was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society
Nightingale developed the ‘Polar Area Graph’. These days we may call this a ‘cyclic histogram’ or a ‘Nightingale Rose’ chart:
