| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Bella Abzug |
Politician |
24-Jul-1920 |
31-Mar-1998 |
Feminist and former Congresswoman |
| Abigail Adams |
First Lady |
11-Nov-1744 |
28-Oct-1818 |
Wife of US President John Adams |
| Jane Addams |
Activist |
6-Sep-1860 |
21-May-1935 |
Founder of Hull House |
| Madeleine Albright |
Diplomat |
15-May-1937 |
|
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State |
| Louisa May Alcott |
Author |
29-Nov-1832 |
6-Mar-1888 |
Little Women |
| Linda G. Alvarado |
Business |
1952 |
|
Alvarado Construction, Inc. |
| Maya Angelou |
Poet |
4-Apr-1928 |
|
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
| Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
| Lucille Ball |
Actor |
6-Aug-1911 |
26-Apr-1989 |
I Love Lucy |
| Anne Bancroft |
Actor |
17-Sep-1931 |
6-Jun-2005 |
Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate |
| Clara Barton |
Activist |
25-Dec-1821 |
12-Apr-1912 |
Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Eleanor Baum |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union |
| Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
| Mary McLeod Bethune |
Educator |
10-Jul-1875 |
18-May-1955 |
Black activist and educator |
| Elizabeth Blackwell |
Doctor |
3-Feb-1821 |
31-May-1910 |
America's first woman doctor |
| Amelia Jenks Bloomer |
Activist |
27-May-1818 |
30-Dec-1894 |
Bloomers |
| Nellie Bly |
Journalist |
5-May-1864 |
27-Jan-1922 |
Ten Days in a Mad-House |
| Pearl S. Buck |
Author |
26-Jun-1892 |
6-Mar-1973 |
The Good Earth |
| Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
| Rosalynn Carter |
First Lady |
18-Aug-1927 |
|
Wife of US President Jimmy Carter |
| Willa Cather |
Novelist |
7-Dec-1873 |
24-Apr-1947 |
O Pioneers! |
| Shirley Chisholm |
Politician |
30-Nov-1924 |
1-Jan-2005 |
First black woman elected to US House |
| Hillary Clinton |
Politician |
26-Oct-1947 |
|
US Secretary of State |
| Jackie Cochran |
Aviator |
11-May-1906 |
9-Aug-1980 |
First woman to break the sound barrier |
| Joan Ganz Cooney |
Film/TV Producer |
30-Nov-1929 |
|
Producer of Sesame Street |
| Dorothy Day |
Activist |
8-Nov-1897 |
29-Nov-1980 |
Founder of the Catholic Worker movement |
| Emily Dickinson |
Poet |
10-Dec-1830 |
15-May-1886 |
Perplexing American poet |
| Elizabeth Dole |
Politician |
29-Jul-1936 |
|
US Senator from North Carolina, 2003-09 |
| Amelia Earhart |
Aviator |
24-Jul-1897 |
2-Jul-1937 |
Misplaced aviatrix |
| Mary Baker Eddy |
Religion |
16-Jul-1821 |
3-Dec-1910 |
Founded Christian Science movement |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Geraldine Ferraro |
Politician |
26-Aug-1935 |
26-Mar-2011 |
Walter Mondale's VP candidate in 1984 |
| Ella Fitzgerald |
Singer |
25-Apr-1917 |
15-Jun-1996 |
The First Lady of Jazz |
| Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Activist |
3-Jul-1860 |
17-Aug-1935 |
Women and Economics |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| Fannie Lou Hamer |
Activist |
6-Oct-1917 |
14-Mar-1977 |
Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer |
| Helen Hayes |
Actor |
10-Oct-1900 |
17-Mar-1993 |
First Lady of the Theater |
| Dorothy Height |
Activist |
24-Mar-1912 |
20-Apr-2010 |
National Council of Negro Women |
| Swanee Hunt |
Diplomat |
1-May-1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Austria, 1993-97 |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
Novelist |
7-Jan-1891 |
28-Jan-1960 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Barbara Jordan |
Politician |
21-Feb-1936 |
17-Jan-1996 |
Gave 1976 Democratic keynote speech |
| Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
| Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Billie Jean King |
Tennis |
22-Nov-1943 |
|
Defeated Bobby Riggs in '73 Battle of the Sexes |
| Stephanie Kwolek |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1923 |
|
Invented Kevlar |
| Maya Lin |
Artist |
5-Oct-1959 |
|
Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Aviator |
22-Jun-1906 |
7-Feb-2001 |
Wife of Charles Lindbergh |
| Belva Lockwood |
Activist |
24-Oct-1830 |
19-May-1917 |
Feminist |
| Juliette Gordon Low |
Activist |
31-Oct-1860 |
18-Jan-1927 |
Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA |
| Shannon Lucid |
Astronaut |
14-Jan-1943 |
|
Five space shuttle flights |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
| Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
| Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
Judge |
26-Mar-1930 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe |
Painter |
15-Nov-1887 |
6-Mar-1986 |
American abstract and landscape painter |
| Rosa Parks |
Activist |
4-Feb-1913 |
24-Oct-2005 |
Wouldn't sit in the back of the bus |
| Alice Paul |
Activist |
11-Jan-1885 |
9-Jul-1977 |
Suffragette |
| Janet Reno |
Government |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Clinton's US Attorney General |
| Sally Ride |
Astronaut |
26-May-1951 |
23-Jul-2012 |
First American woman in space |
| Rozanne L. Ridgway |
Diplomat |
22-Aug-1935 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89 |
| Edith Nourse Rogers |
Politician |
19-Mar-1881 |
10-Sep-1960 |
Congresswoman from Massachusetts, 1925-60 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady |
11-Oct-1884 |
7-Nov-1962 |
First Lady under FDR |
| Margaret Sanger |
Activist |
14-Sep-1879 |
6-Sep-1966 |
Birth control advocate |
| Pat Schroeder |
Politician |
30-Jul-1940 |
|
Congresswoman from Colorado, 1973-97 |
| Blanche Stuart Scott |
Aviator |
8-Apr-1885 |
12-Jan-1970 |
Auto and air daredevil |
| Anna Howard Shaw |
Activist |
14-Feb-1847 |
2-Jul-1919 |
National American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
Relative |
10-Jul-1921 |
11-Aug-2009 |
Founder of the Special Olympics |
| Beverly Sills |
Singer |
25-May-1929 |
2-Jul-2007 |
Soprano at the New York City Opera |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Activist |
12-Nov-1815 |
26-Oct-1902 |
National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Gloria Steinem |
Activist |
25-Mar-1934 |
|
Founder, Ms. Magazine |
| Lucy Stone |
Activist |
13-Aug-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1811 |
1-Jul-1896 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Maria Tallchief |
Dancer |
24-Jan-1925 |
|
New York City Ballet |
| Ida M. Tarbell |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1857 |
6-Jan-1944 |
History of the Standard Oil Company |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Sojourner Truth |
Activist |
c. 1797 |
26-Nov-1883 |
Abolitionist, former slave |
| Harriet Tubman |
Activist |
c. 1821 |
10-Mar-1913 |
Operated the Underground Railroad |
| Lillian Wald |
Activist |
10-Mar-1867 |
1-Sep-1940 |
Henry Street Settlement |
| Faye Wattleton |
Activist |
8-Jul-1943 |
|
President, Planned Parenthood, 1978-92 |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
Activist |
16-Jul-1862 |
25-Mar-1931 |
Civil rights advocate |
| Eudora Welty |
Author |
13-Apr-1909 |
23-Jul-2001 |
The Optimist's Daughter |
| Edith Wharton |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1862 |
11-Aug-1937 |
The Age of Innocence |
| Oprah Winfrey |
Talk Show Host |
29-Jan-1954 |
|
The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| Victoria Woodhull |
Activist |
23-Sep-1838 |
9-Jun-1927 |
First woman candidate for US President |
| Rosalyn Sussman Yalow |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1921 |
30-May-2011 |
Developed radioimmunoassay technique |
| Babe Zaharias |
Golf |
26-Jun-1914 |
27-Sep-1956 |
Best female athlete of all time |
