Katherine Prescott Wormeley (January 14, 1830[1] – August 4, 1908) was a nurse in the American Civil War, author, editor, and translator of French language literary works.

Born to Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley and Caroline Preble[2] in Ipswich,[3] Suffolk,[4] England, the daughter of a naval officer, Katherine Prescott Wormeley emigrated to the United States at a young age.

During the American Civil War, she played a role in the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian agency set up to coordinate the volunteer efforts of women and men who wanted to contribute to the war effort, with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rev.

She lived in Newport, in a cottage designed by Charles Follen McKim, that was next door to John La Farge's house.

[5] Katherine Prescott Wormeley died on August 4, 1908, at her summer home in Jackson, New Hampshire.