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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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