Notable Women
Notable Women in Media, The Arts, and Entertainment | Notable Female Athletes
While there are few Queens or Princesses among them, all these women have distinguished themselves for courage, creativity, persistence and vision. Well-loved or notorious, they have all made their mark on history.
Atwood, Margaret
Baker, Josephine
Balch, Emily Greene
Barton, Clara
Black, Shirley Temple
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blatch, Harriot
Bloomer, Amelia
Brown, Molly
Cady Stanton, Elizabeth
Carson, Rachel
Cassatt, Mary
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Chicago, Judy
Chisholm, Shirley
Clinton, Hillary
Cochran, Jacqueline
Crosby, Caresse
Dandridge, Dorothy
Davis, Angela
Day, Dorothy
Dickinson, Emily
Duncan, Isadora
Dyer, Mary
Earhart, Amelia
Elders, Jocelyn
Flanagan, Hallie
Ford, Betty
Fossey, Dian
Friedan, Betty
Fuller, Margaret
Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Giovanni, Nikki
Goodall, Jane
Graham, Martha
Green, Hetty
Guthrie, Janet Hamer, Fannie Lou
Hamilton, Alice Hansberry, Lorraine Hong Kingston, Maxine Huerta, Dolores
Hurston, Zora Neale Jacobs, Jane Jamison, Dr. Mae Jones, Mary 'Mother'
Keene, Laura Keller, Helen Picotte, Susan La Flesche Leakey, Mary
Lockwood, Belva Lorde, Audre Lupino, Ida Lyon, Mary
Mankiller, Wilma Marion, Frances McAuliffe, Christa Mead, Margaret
Morrison, Toni Moseley-Braun, Carol Mott, Lucretia Murray, Pauli
Nevelson, Louise Oakley, Annie Ochoa, Ellen O'Connor, Flannery
O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Keeffe, Georgia Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy Park, Mary Maud
Parker, Dorothy Parks, Rosa Parsons, Lucy Gonzalez Paul, Alice
Pelosi, Nancy Perkins, Frances Pickford, Mary Plath, Sylvia
Pocahontas Princess Diana Rainey, Ma Rankin, Jeanette
Rice, Condoleeza Richards, Anne Richards, Ellen Swallow Ride, Sally
Roosevelt, Eleanor Sabin, Florence Sanger, Margaret Sarton, May
Schneiderman, Rose Seaman, Barbara Silkwood, Karen Sills, Beverly
Smith, Bessie Stein, Gertrude Steinem, Gloria Stewart, Martha
Sullivan, Anne Surratt, Mary Tallchief, Maria Tarbell, Ida
Thompson, Dorothy Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet Vanderbilt, Alva Belmont
Wald, Lillian Walker, Alice Walker, Dr. Mary E. Walker, Madam C.J.
Wells, Ida B. Willard, Emma Wilson, Harriet Winnemucca, Sara
Woodhull, Victoria Zaharias, Babe Didrikson
History Makers | Notable Female Athletes
There are many successful and groundbreaking women in media, the arts, and entertainment. Below are a select few that have left their mark their respective field of work.
Amanpour, Christiane Andrews, Julie Bacall, Lauren Baez, Joan
Ball, Lucille Banks, Tyra Barr, Roseanne Bergen, Candace
Bernhard, Sandra Berry, Halle Brinkley, Christie Burnett, Carol
Cash, June Carter Chanel, Coco Channing, Carol Cher
Child, Julia Cline, Patsy Clooney, Rosemary Coppola, Sophia
Couric, Katie Crawford, Cindy Davis, Bette De Havilland, Olivia
Dee, Sandra DeGeneres, Ellen Ephron, Nora Fitzgerald, Ella
Fonda, Jane Foster, Jodie Garland, Judy Goldberg, Whoopi
Hawn, Goldie Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Holiday, Billie
Hynde, Chrissie Ifill, Gwen Jackson, Mahalia Jolie, Angelina
Joplin, Janis Keaton, Diane Kelly, Grace Lansbury, Angela
Leibovitz, Annie Lynn, Loretta Madonna Marshall, Penny
Midler, Bette Mitchell, Joni Monroe, Marilyn Moore, Mary Tyler
O'Donnell, Rosie Parton, Dolly Pauley, Jane Radner, Gilda
Ray, Rachel Saralegui, Cristina Sarandon, Susan Sawyer, Diane
Shriver, Maria Smith, Patti Spade, Kate Streep, Meryl
Streisand, Barbra Tomlin, Lily Vreeland, Diana Walters, Barbara
Wang, Vera Wasserstein, Wendy West, Mae Westheimer, Dr. Ruth
Winfrey, Oprah Wintour, Anna
History Makers | Notable Women in Media, The Arts, and Entertainment
These 20 talented athletes have left their historic marks in their respective sport.
Blair, Bonnie Evert, Chris Fleming, Peggy Gibson, Althea
Hamill, Dorothy Hamm, Mia Hughes, Sarah Jones, Marion
Joyner, Florence Griffith Joyner-Kersee, Jackie King, Billie Jean Kwan, Michelle
Leslie, Lisa Lopez, Nancy Moody, Helen Willia Retton, Mary Lou
Rudolph, Wilma Wie, Michelle Williams, Serena Williams, Venus
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