"355" (Colonial Period)

Adams, Abigail (Colonial Period) (First Ladies)

Addams, Jane (Activists)

Albright, Madeleine Korbel (Firsts) (Government Workers & Politicians)

Andrus, Dr. Ethel (Firsts) (Educators)

Anthony, Susan B. (Woman Suffrage)

d’Aquino, Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose)(Military) (Notorious Women)

Bailey, Ann Hennis Trotter (Colonial Period)

Baker, Josephine (Military) (Civil Rights) (Arts)

Balch, Emily Greene (Writer) (Activist)

Barker, Penelope (Colonial Period)

Ball, Lucille (Entertainers)

Barton, Clara (Activists) (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Beard, Mary Ritter (Historian)

Beecher, Catharine Esther (Educator)

Belmont, Alva Smith Vanderbilt (Woman Suffrage)

Bethune, Mary McLeod (Educator) (Activist)

Blache, Alice Guy (Arts)

Blackwell, Alice Stone (Woman Suffrage) (Writer)

Blackwell, Elizabeth (Doctor) (Firsts) (Educator)

Blatch, Harriot Stanton (Woman Suffrage)

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (Woman Suffrage) (Journalist) (Activist)

Bly, Nellie (Media)

Boggs, Corrine “Lindy” (Government Workers & Politicians)

Boissevain, Inez Milholland (Woman Suffrage) (Lawyer) (Activist)

Bourke-White, Margaret (Explorers and Adventurers) (Firsts)

Bratton, Martha (Colonial Period)

Breckinridge, Sophonisba (Activists) (Educators) (Firsts) (Woman Suffrage)

Brent, Margaret (Laywers, Judges & Law Enforcement Officials) (Colonial Period)

Brown, Olympia (Woman Suffrage) (Religious Leaders) (Firsts)

Burgin, Elizabeth (Colonial Period)

Burns, Lucy (Woman Suffrage)

Burroughs, Nannie Helen (Woman Suffrage) (Educator)

Cannary, Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" (Explorers & Adventurers) (Notorious Women)

Caraway, Hattie Wyatt (Government Workers & Politicians) (Firsts)

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd (Woman Suffrage) (Educator) (Lawyer) (Journalist)

Casals, Rosemary (Athletes)

Catt, Carrie Lane Chapman (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Clay, Laura (Woman Suffrage)

Coleman, Bessie (Firsts) (Explorers & Adventurers)

Corbin, Margaret Cochran (Colonial Period)

Crandall, Prudence (Educators)

Cunard, Grace (Arts)

Cunningham, Ann Pamela (Educators) (Firsts)

Darragh, Lydia Barrington (Colonial Period)

Dix, Dorothea (Activists)

Duniway, Abigail Scott (Woman Suffrage) (Journalist)

Eastman, Crystal (Woman Suffrage) (Writer) (Laywer)

Eddy, Mary Baker (Firsts)

Eustis, Dorothy (Activists)

Evans, Alice (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Friedan, Betty (Activists) (Writers)

Fuller, Sarah Margaret (Activists) (Writers)

Gage, Matilda Joslyn (Abolition Movement) (Activist) (Woman Suffrage) (Writer)

Gillett, Emma M. (Lawyers)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Woman Suffrage) (Writer)

Goddard, Mary Katherine (Colonial Period)

Gordon, Kate M. (Woman Suffrage)

Graham, Katharine (Journalists)

Grahn, Elna (Educators) (Military)

Green, Hetty (Firsts)

Grimke, Sarah (Abolition Movement) (Woman Suffrage)

Hale, Sarah J. (Writers)

Hall, Virginia (Government Workers & Politicians) (Military)

Hamer, Fannie Lou (Civil Rights)

Hamilton, Alice (Activists) (Educators) (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Hansberry, Lorraine (Firsts) (Writers)

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (Woman Suffrage) (Abolition) (Writer)

Harper, Martha Matilda (Businesswomen & Entrepreneurs) (Firsts)

Hart, Nancy Morgan (Colonial Period)

Havemeyer, Louisine Elder (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Hay, Mary Garrett (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Height, Dr. Dorothy (Civil Rights)

Hobby, Gladys (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Hooker, Isabella Beecher (Woman Suffrage)

Hopper, Grace Murray (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Howe, Julia Ward (Writers) (Woman Suffrage)

Huerta, Dolores (Activists) (Civil Rights)

Hurston, Zora Neale (Writers)

Jackson, Rachel Donelson Robards (First Ladies)

Jemison, Mae C. (Explorers & Adventurers) (Firsts)

Johnson, Lady Bird (First Ladies) (Environmentalists)

Jones, Vivian Malone (Civil Rights)

Joyner-Kersee, Jackie (Athletes)

Keichline, Anna Wagner (Architects & Engineers) (Inventors) (Military)

Kelley, Florence (Woman Suffrage) (Activist) (Writer)

King, Coretta Scott (Activists) (Civil Rights)

Knight, Margaret E. (Firsts) (Inventors)

Knight, Sarah Kemble (Writers)

Krim, Mathilde (Educators) (Scientists & Doctors & Nurses)

Lamarr, Heddy (Arts) (Inventors)

Lampkin, Daisy Elizabeth Adams (Woman Suffrage) (Civil Rights)

Landes, Bertha Knight (Government Workers & Politicians)

Leslie, Mirian Folline (Woman Suffrage) (Journalist)

Lathrop, Julia (Activist) (Government Workers & Politicians)

Lerner, Gerda (HIstorian)

Lili’uokalani (American Royalty)

Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennet McNall (Woman Suffrage) (Lawyer) (First) (Educator) (Activist)

Ludington, Sybil (Colonial Period)

Lyon, Mary (Educators)

Madison, Dolley (First Ladies) (Colonial Period)

Manderfield, Ellen (Businesswomen & Entreprenuers) (Inventors)

Martin, Anne Henrietta (Woman Suffrage) (Politician)

McClintock, Barbara (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

McCormick, Katherine Dexter (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

McCulloch, Catherine Gouger Waugh (Woman Suffrage) (Lawyer)

Mink, Patsy Takemoto (Firsts) (Government Workers & Politicians)

Monroe, Harriet (Writers)

Morgan, Julia (Architects & Engineers)

Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack (Woman Suffrage) (First) (Judge)

Mott, Lucretia Coffin (Woman Suffrage) (Abolition) (Religious Leader)

Murray, Judith Sargent (Educators) (Writers)

Murray, Mary Lindley (Colonial Period)

Nooyi, Indra ("Firsts") (Businesswomen & Entreprenuers)

Novello, Antonia C. (Government Workers & Politicians) (Firsts)

Park, Maud Wood (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Parks, Rosa (Activists)

Paul, Alice (Activists) (Woman Suffrage)

Peratrovich, Elizabeth Wanamaker (Activists) (Civil Rights)

Pickford, Mary (Firsts)

Pinckney, Eliza Lucas (Inventors)

Pinkham, Lydia Estes (Businesswomen & Entrepreneurs)

Pocahontas (American Royalty) (Colonial Period)

Rankin, Jeanette (Woman Suffrage) (Politician) (First)

Reed, Esther de Berdt (Colonial Period)

Richards, Ellen Swallow (Educators) (Environmentalists) (Firsts)

Ride, Dr. Sally (Explorers & Adventurers) (Firsts)

Rogers, Edith Nourse (Government Workers & Politicians)

Rose, Ernestine Louise Siismondi Potowski (Woman Suffrage) (Activist) (Abolition)

Ross, Nellie Tayloe (Government Workers & Politicians)

Rudolph, Wilma (Athletes)

Runyan, Marla (Athletes) (Different Abilities)

Salmon, Lucy (Educators) (Firsts)

Sampson, Deborah (Colonial Period)

Schniederman, Rose (Woman Suffrage) (Education)

Sears, Eleonora R. (Athlethes)

Sears, Mary (Government Workers & Politicians) (Military)

Severance, Caroline Maria Seymour (Woman Suffrage) (Abolition) (Activist)

Shaw, Anna Howard (Woman Suffrage) (Religious Leader) (Doctor) (Activist)

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (Woman Suffrage)

Starr, Ellen Gates (Activists)

Stone, Lucy (Woman Suffrage) (Abolition)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Writers)

Swainson, Anne (Inventors)

Tallchief, Maria (Arts)

Taylor, Lucy Hobbs (Firsts) (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Terrell, Mary Church (Civil Rights) (Woman Suffrage)

Truth, Sojourner (Abolition Movement)

Tubman, Harriet (Abolition Movement) (Military)

Tucker, Dr. C. Delores (Activists) (Civil Rights)

Tuttle, Julia (Firsts)

Upton, Harriet Taylor (Woman Suffrage) (Journalist)

Vernon, Mabel (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Wald, Lillian D. (Activists) (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Walker, Madam C.J. (Businesswomen & Entrepreneurs)

Walker, Maggie Mitchell (Businesswomen & Entrepreneurs)

Ward, Hortense Sparks (Woman Suffrage) (Lawyers, Judges & Law Enforcement Officials) (Firsts)

Ward, Nancy or Nanye-hi (Colonial Period)

Warner, Susan Bogart (Writers)

Warren, Mercy Otis (Writers)

Weber, Lois (Arts)

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (Journalist) (Civil Rights) (Woman Suffrage)

Wheatley, Phillis (Writers)

White, Sue Shelton (Woman Suffrage) (Lawyer)

Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Woodhull, Victoria (Firsts) (Businesswomen & Entrepreneurs)

Wu, Dr. Chien-Shiung (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Younger, Maud (Woman Suffrage) (Activist)

Yu, Dr. Tsai-Fan (Scientists, Doctors & Nurses)

Zaharias, Mildred Ella “Babe” Didrikson (Athletes)

 

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