Ethel Lote (née Nutting; 28 November 1920 – 11 June 2024) was a British World War II nurse and yoga instructor.

[1][2] She joined St John Ambulance while she was still at school as well as working as a first aider at the local Crabtree electrical factory on Saturdays.

The hospital received the first convoy of evacuated soldiers from Dunkirk, Lote later remembered "they were still in the uniforms, just how they had been picked up from the beaches.

"[2][3] When invited by a doctor to witness an autopsy to further her medical knowledge, she encountered Albert Lote, a superintendent with St John Ambulance after the lights failed during an air raid.

They got engaged in October 1939, with the wedding originally scheduled for February 1940 or 1941, however Albert was called up into the Royal Navy and served abroad for five years, during which they did not see each other.

[5][6] Lote officially retired from teaching classes when she was 88, but continued practicing yoga and tai chi until she was 95, when she fractured her femur and could no longer get her foot over the back of her neck.