Rheba de Tornyay

Rheba de Tornyay (April 17, 1926 - September 27, 2013) was a nurse. She was named in the Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing in 1995.

She was a pioneering dean who in 1984 took the University of Washington’s School of Nursing to a No. 1 U.S. News & World Report ranking, where it has stayed ever since.

De Tornyay served as dean of the UCLA School of Nursing from 1971 to 1975.