A–J •
Faye Glenn Abdellah, nursing pioneer •
Bella Abzug, politician •
Abigail Adams, former First Lady •
Jane Addams, activist and sociologist •
Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State •
Tenley Albright, figure skater •
Louisa May Alcott, novelist and poet •
Florence E. Allen, first woman to serve of the Ohio Supreme Court •
Gloria Allred, attorney •
Linda Alvarado, construction executive •
Dorothy H. Andersen, researcher who named cystic fibrosis •
Marian Anderson, African-American contralto •
Ethel Percy Andrus, founder of the AARP •
Maya Angelou, poet and activist •
Susan B. Anthony, women's rights activist •
Virginia Apgar, physician who invented the Apgar score •
Ella Baker, civil rights activist •
Lucille Ball, actress •
Ann Bancroft, first woman to trek to the North Pole •
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross •
Eleanor K. Baum, first female dean of a US engineering school •
Ruth Fulton Benedict, anthropologist and folklorist •
Mary McLeod Bethune, first Black woman to lead a federal agency •
Antoinette Blackwell, first female minister •
Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to earn a MD in the United States •
Emily Blackwell, women's right's activist and the second woman to earn a MD in the United States •
Amelia Bloomer, temperance advocate and women's right's activist •
Nellie Bly, investigate journalist who circumnavigated the world •
Louise Bourgeois, artist •
Margaret Bourke-White, documentary photographer and photojournalist •
Lydia Moss Bradley, founder of the Bradley Polytechnic Institute •
Myra Bradwell, publisher and political activist •
Mary Carson Breckinridge, founder of the American FNS •
Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist •
Nancy Brinker •
Gwendolyn Brooks, first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize •
Pearl S. Buck, writer and humanitarian •
Betty Bumpers, politician •
Charlotte Bunch, feminist author and women's rights activist •
Octavia Butler, science and speculative fiction writer •
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American saint •
Mary Steichen Calderone, physician and first female medical director of Planned Parenthood •
Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer and suffragist who helped develop stellar classification •
Rachel Carson, marine biologist and conservationist •
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter, former first lady •
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, anti-slavery activist and the first black woman publisher in North America •
Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter and printmaker •
Willa Cather, Pulitzer winning writer •
Carrie Chapman Catt, social reformer and suffragist •
Judy Chicago, contemporary and feminist artist •
Julia Child, chef and author •
Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist and author •
Shirley Chisholm, first black woman to be elected to congress •
Hillary Clinton, politician and diplomat •
Jacqueline Cochran, aviator and businesswoman •
Mildred Cohn, biochemist specializing in chemical reactions within animal cells •
Bessie Coleman, first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license •
Eileen Collins, NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel •
Ruth Colvin, founder of ProLiteracy Worldwide •
Rita Rossi Colwell, microbiologist and founder of CosmosID •
Joan Ganz Cooney, writer and producer who co-founded Sesame Workshop •
Mother Marianne Cope, canonized saint •
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori, first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine •
Jane Cunningham Croly, author and journalist •
Matilda Cuomo, former first lady of New York •
Angela Davis, political activist and scholar •
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, abolitionist and suffragist •
Dorothy Day, religious and social activist •
Marian de Forest, journalist and playwright •
Donna de Varona, former American 4x Olympic gold medalist in swimming •
Karen DeCrow, lawyer and feminist •
Sarah Deer, lawyer •
Emma Smith DeVoe, suffragist •
Emily Dickinson, poet •
Dorothea Dix, antebellum social-reformer •
Elizabeth Hanford Dole •
Marjory Stoneman Douglas •
St. Katharine Drexel •
Anne Dallas Dudley •
Mary Barret Dyer •
Amelia Earhart •
Sylvia A. Earle •
Catherine Shipe East •
Crystal Eastman •
Mary Baker Eddy •
Marian Wright Edelman •
Gertrude Ederle •
Gertrude Belle Elion •
Dorothy Harrison Eustis •
Alice C. Evans •
Geraldine Ferraro •
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer •
Jane Fonda •
Betty Ford •
Loretta C. Ford •
Abby Kelley Foster •
Aretha Franklin, soul and R&B singer •
Helen Murray Free •
Betty Friedan •
Margaret Fuller •
Matilda Joslyn Gage •
Ina May Gaskin •
Althea Gibson •
Lillian Moller Gilbreth •
Charlotte Perkins Gilman •
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lawyer and Supreme Court Associate Justice •
Maria Goeppert Mayer, theoretical physicist who contributed to the nuclear shell model •
Katharine Graham •
Martha Graham •
Temple Grandin •
Ella T. Grasso •
Marcia Greenberger •
Martha Wright Griffiths •
Sarah Grimké •
Angelina Emily Grimke Weld •
Mary Hallaren •
Rebecca S. Halstead •
Fannie Lou Hamer •
Alice Hamilton •
Mia Hamm •
Lorraine Hansberry •
Joy Harjo •
Martha Matilda Harper •
Patricia Roberts Harris •
Helen Hayes •
Dorothy Height •
Beatrice Hicks •
Barbara Hillary •
Oveta Culp Hobby, second woman to serve in the Cabinet •
Barbara Holdridge, recording executive •
Billie Holiday, singer •
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts •
Jeanne Holm, first female Two-Star General in the United States •
Bertha Holt, adoption advocate •
Grace Murray Hopper, naval officer •
Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist •
Emily Howland, philanthropist who supported women's rights and the temperance movement •
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the NFWA •
Helen LaKelly Hunt, activist and writer •
Swanee Hunt, former Ambassador to Austria •
Zora Neale Hurston, author and filmmaker •
Anne Hutchinson, early female preacher •
Barbara Iglewski, microbiologist •
Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist •
Victoria Jackson, cosmetics entrepreneur •
Mary Jacobi, first female pharmacist in the United States •
Frances Wisebart Jacobs, philanthropist who funded the founding of United Way •
Mae Jemison, astronaut and doctor •
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician •
Barbara Rose Johns, civil rights activist •
Mary Harris Jones, labor organizer •
Barbara Jordan, lawyer and educator
K–Z •
Helen Keller •
Leontine T. Kelly •
Susan Kelly-Dreiss •
Frances Oldham Kelsey •
Nannerl Keohane •
Jean Kilbourne •
Billie Jean King •
Coretta Scott King •
Julie Krone •
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross •
Maggie Kuhn •
Stephanie L. Kwolek •
Henrietta Lacks •
Susette La Flesche •
Winona LaDuke •
Carlotta Walls LaNier •
Dorothea Lange •
Sherry Lansing •
Allie B. Latimer •
Emma Lazarus •
Lilly Ledbetter •
Mildred Robbins Leet •
Maya Lin •
Anne Morrow Lindbergh •
Patricia Locke •
Belva Lockwood •
Juliette Gordon Low •
Clare Boothe Luce •
Shannon W. Lucid •
Mary Lyon •
Mary Mahoney •
Nicole Malachowski •
Wilma Mankiller •
Philippa Marrack •
Barbara McClintock •
Katharine Dexter McCormick •
Louise McManus •
Margaret Mead •
Barbara Mikulski •
Kate Millett •
Patsy Takemoto Mink •
Maria Mitchell •
Toni Morrison •
Constance Baker Motley •
Lucretia Mott •
Kate Mullany •
Aimee Mullins •
Carol Mutter •
Indra Nooyi •
Antonia Novello •
Sandra Day O'Connor •
Georgia O'Keeffe •
Rose O'Neill •
Annie Oakley •
Michelle Obama •
Rosa Parks •
Ruth Patrick •
Alice Paul •
Nancy Pelosi •
Mary Engle Pennington •
Frances Perkins •
Rebecca Talbot Perkins •
Esther Peterson •
Judith L. Pipher •
Jeannette Rankin •
Janet Reno •
Ellen Swallow Richards •
Linda Richards •
Sally Ride •
Rozanne L. Ridgway •
Edith Nourse Rogers •
Mary Joseph Rogers •
Eleanor Roosevelt •
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose •
Sister Elaine Roulet •
Janet Rowley •
Wilma Rudolph •
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin •
Mary Harriman Rumsey •
Florence Sabin •
Sacagawea •
Bernice Sandler •
Margaret Sanger •
Katherine Siva Saubel •
Betty Bone Schiess •
Ann Schonberger •
Patricia Schroeder •
Anna Schwartz •
Felice N. Schwartz •
Blanche Stuart Scott •
Florence B. Seibert •
Elizabeth Ann Seton •
Donna Shalala •
Anna Howard Shaw •
Catherine Filene Shouse •
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver •
Muriel Siebert •
Beverly Sills •
Louise Slaughter •
Eleanor Smeal •
Bessie Smith •
Margaret Chase Smith •
Sophia Smith •
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon •
Susan Solomon •
Sonia Sotomayor •
Laurie Spiegel •
Elizabeth Cady Stanton •
Gloria Steinem •
Helen Stephens •
Nettie Stevens •
Lucy Stone •
Kate Stoneman •
Harriet Beecher Stowe •
Harriet Williams Russell Strong •
Anne Sullivan •
Kathrine Switzer •
Henrietta Szold •
Mary Burnett Talbert •
Maria Tallchief •
Ida Tarbell •
Helen Brooke Taussig •
Mary Church Terrell •
Sojourner Truth •
Harriet Tubman •
Wilma Vaught •
Diane von Furstenberg •
Florence Schorske Wald •
Lillian Wald •
Madam C. J. Walker •
Mary Edwards Walker •
Emily Howell Warner •
Mercy Otis Warren •
Alice Waters •
Faye Wattleton •
Annie Dodge Wauneka •
Ida Wells-Barnett •
Eudora Welty •
Edith Wharton •
Sheila E. Widnall •
Emma Willard •
Frances Willard •
Serena Williams •
Oprah Winfrey •
Sarah Winnemucca •
Flossie Wong-Staal •
Victoria Woodhull •
Fanny Wright •
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright •
Chien-Shiung Wu •
Rosalyn Yalow •
Gloria Yerkovich •
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