Nanette Hanson AM (1941 – 1 November 1967) was a teacher at St John's Roman Catholic High School, Dundee, Scotland.
She talked down Robert Mone during a siege before being fatally wounded by him, and is credited with saving the lives of the twelve girls in her class for which she was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal, which later became the George Cross.
In May 1967 she married Guy Hanson in Bradford, and the couple moved to Dundee, where Nanette had got a job teaching at St John's School.
[2] Hanson was taking a needlework class of twelve girls when Robert Mone, a soldier armed with a shotgun, entered her classroom.
During the period that followed the man fired several blasts from the shot gun at the classroom door, on the other side of which the headmaster and members of the staff had gathered.
Mrs. Hanson persuaded those outside to leave her to handle the situation; this despite the fact that the soldier had already once attempted to shoot her at point blank range and would have done so had the gun not misfired.