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Earth scientist
- Annie Montague Alexander 1867–1949
- Mary Anning 1799–1847
- Florence Bascom 1862–1945
- Etheldred Benett 1776–1845
- Millicent Todd Bingham 1880–1968
- Louise Arner Boyd 1887–1972
- Doris Malkin Curtis 1914–1991
- Tilly Edinger 1897–1967
- Inge Lehmann 1888–1993
- Mary Horner Lyell 1808–1873
- Mary Sears 1905–1997
- Ellen Churchill Semple 1863–1932
- Janet Vida Watson 1923–1985
Ecologist
- E. Lucy Braun 1889–1971
- Theodora Colborn 1927—
- Carrie Dormon 1888–1971
- Maria Tereza Jorge Pa ́dua 1943—
- Wangari Maathai 1940—
- Ruth Patrick 1907—
Economist
- Elizabeth Bailey 1938—
- Audrey P. Beck 1931–1983
- Esther Boserup 1910–1999
- Persia Campbell 1898–1974
- Tansu Çiller 1946—
- Clara Collet 1860–1948
- Katharine Coman 1857–1915
- Yvette Cooper 1969—
- Edith Cresson 1934—
- Molly Dewson 1874–1962
- Gladys Dickason 1903–1971
- Ruth Dreifuss 1940—
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles 1895–1996
- Maria Groza 1918—
- Sarah Hogg 1946—
- Anne Elisabet Jensen 1951—
- Ruth Kelly 1968—
- Karin Kock 1891–1976
- Juanita Kreps 1921—
- Hazel Kyrk 1886–1957
- Rosa Luxemburg 1870–1919
- Katharine C. Lyall 1941—
- Margaret McCoubrey 1880–1955
- Jessica Peixotto 1864–1941
- Jane Bryant Quinn 1939—
- Joan Violet Robinson 1903–1983
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- Anna Rochester 1880–1966
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz 1915—
- Christiane Scrivener 1925—
- Toni Sender 1888–1964
- Mary E. Switzer 1900–1971
- Nancy Hays Teeters 1930—
- Barbara Ward 1914–1981
- Theresa Wolfson 1897–1972
- Margaret Chase Going Woodhouse 1890–1984
- Barbara Wootton 1897–1988
- Tatyana Zaslavskaya 1924—
Educational institution/program founder
- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz 1822–1907
- Ann O’Connor Alabaster 1842–1915
- Josefina R. Aldecoa 1926—
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836–1917
- Mathilde Franziska Anneke 1817–1884
- May Hill Arbuthnot 1884–1969
- Anita Augspurg 1857–1943
- Alice Mabel Bacon 1858–1918
- Anna Letitia Barbauld 1743–1825
- Mary Downing Barnes 1850–1898
- Clara Barton 1821–1912
- Clara Baur 1835–1912
- Margaret Bayne 1798–1835
- Catharine Beecher 1800–1878
- Thekla Beere 1901–1991
- Philothey Benizelos fl. 1650
- Marie Bernays 1883–1939
- Annie Besant 1847–1933
- Joanne Bethune 1770–1860
- Mary McCleod Bethune 1875–1955
- Valerie Bettis 1919–1982
- Mary Ellen Bews 1856–1945
- Anna Bijns 1493/94–1575
- Hazel Bishop 1906–1998
- Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910
- Anita McCormick Blaine 1866–1954
- Eliza Ann Blaker 1854–1926
- Anna Bliss 1843–1925
- Gertrudis Bocanegra 1765–1817
- Ellen Scripps Booth 1863–1948
- Anna Callender Brackett 1836–1911
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown c. 1883–1961
- Cécile Brunschvicg 1877–1946
- Charlotte Bühler 1893–1974
- Mother Marie Joseph Butler 1860–1940
- Mary Ann Buxton c. 1795–1888
- Margaret Byers 1832–1912
- Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850–1917
- Mary Whiton Calkins 1863–1930
- Betty Carter 1929–1998
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary 1823–1893
- Caroline Chisholm 1808–1877
- Elizabeth de Clare 1295–1360
- Fannia Cohn c. 1885–1962
- Camilla Collett 1813–1895
- Flora Cooke 1864–1953
- Maria Cosway 1759–1838
- Prudence Crandall 1803–1890
- Fanny Crosby 1820–1915
- Joan Cross 1900–1993
- Gwendoline Davies 1882–1951
- Margaret Davies 1884–1963
- Dorothy Day 1897–1980
- Jeanne-Françoise Deroin 1805–1894
- Ninette de Valois 1898–2001
- Alice Chipman Dewey 1858–1927
- Caroline Dexter 1819–1884
- Angela Diller 1877–1968
- Abigail Scott Duniway 1834–1915
- Mileva Einstein-Marić 1875–1948
- Elizabeth of Portugal 1271–1336
- Elizabeth Petrovna 1709–1762
- Mary Erskine 1629–1707
- Martha Platt Falconer 1862–1941
- Cynthia Farrar 1795–1862
- Anne Walter Fearn 1865–1939
- Abbie Park Ferguson 1837–1919
- Elsie Fogerty 1865–1945
- Celia Franca 1921—
- Carrie Fuld 1864–1944
- Gayatri Devi 1919—
- Carol Gilligan 1936—
- Grace Arabell Goldsmith 1904–1975
- Anne Wilson Goldthwaite 1869–1944
- Jane Goodall 1934—
- Maria Georgina Grey 1816–1906
- Emily Griffith c. 1880–1947
- Yvette Guilbert 1865–1944
- Alice Gordon Gulick 1847–1903
- Charlotte Vetter Gulick 1865–1928
- Agnes Gund 1938—
- Lucina Hagman 1853–1946
- Motoko Hani 1873–1957
- Selina Hastings 1707–1791
- Lida Heymann 1867–1943
- Frances Mulligan Hill 1799–1884
- Elizabeth Christophers Hobson 1831–1912
- Sallie Holley 1818–1893
- Karen Horney 1885–1952
- Julia Arnold Huxley 1862–1908
- Beatrice Fry Hyslop 1899–1973
- Elisabeth Irwin 1880–1942
- Jadwiga 1374–1399
- Storm Jameson 1891–1986
- Anne Jellicoe 1823–1880
- Sophia Jex-Blake 1840–1912
- Joan I of Navarre 1273–1305
- Marjorie Stewart Joyner 1896–1994
- Edith K. Kanakaole 1913–1979
- Kartini 1879–1904
- Shulamit Katznelson 1919–1999
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 1889–1964
- Florence Kelley 1859–1932
- Lavinia Jane Kelsey 1856–1948
- Olga Kennard 1924—
- Florynce Kennedy 1916–2000
- Kathleen Kenyon 1906–1978
- Coretta Scott King 1927—
- Rebekah Kohut 1864–1951
- Maria Kraus-Boelté 1836–1918
- Alice Kroeger 1864–1909
- Suzanne Lacore 1875–1975
- Wanda Landowska 1877–1959
- Rose Wilder Lane 1886–1968
- Lucy Craft Laney 1854–1933
- Elizabeth Clovis Lange 1784–1882
- Helene Lange 1848–1930
- Suzanne Lenglen 1899–1938
- Eugénie Leontovich 1894–1993
- Elma Lewis 1921—
- Alice Lloyd 1876–1962
- Belva Ann Lockwood 1830–1917
- Marguerite Long 1874–1966
- Susan Love 1948—
- Emily Lemoine Loveridge 1860–1941
- Helga Maria zu Löwenstein 1910–2004
- Clemence S. Lozier 1813–1888
- Ruth Watson Lubic 1927—
- Mary Lyon 1797–1849
- Nancy A. Lytle 1924–1987
- Charlotte Macleod 1852–1950
- Clara Damrosch Mannes 1869–1948
- Margaret of Anjou 1429–1482
- Marie de St. Pol 1304–1377
- Anne Henrietta Martin 1875–1951
- Emma Marwedel 1818–1893
- Dorothy Maynor 1910–1996
- Augusta Maywood 1825–1876
- Anne Hunter McAllister 1892–1983
- Edith Rockefeller McCormick 1872–1932
- Katharine Dexter McCormick 1875–1967
- Ruth Hanna McCormick 1880–1944
- Sister Julia McGroarty 1827–1901
- Alice Woodby McKane 1865–1948
- Louise Leonard McLaren 1885–1968
- Rachel McMillan 1859–1917
- Lucy Meyer 1849–1922
- Louise Michel 1830–1905
- Anne Milbanke 1792–1860
- Susan Tolman Mills 1825–1912
- Myrtilla Miner 1815–1864
- Mireille 1906–1996
- Françoise Montespan Marquise de 1640–1707
- Maria Montessori 1870–1952
- Emma Revell Moody 1842–1903
- Mary Kimball Morgan 1861–1948
- Lina B. Morgenstern 1830–1909
- Eliza Maria Mosher 1846–1928
- Teresa Mulally 1728–1803
- Alva Myrdal 1902–1986
- Clara Dutton Noyes 1869–1936
- Mary Nzimiro 1898–1993
- Ruth Page 1899–1991
- Lizzie Merrill Palmer 1838–1916
- Sophia French Palmer 1853–1920
- Gret Palucca 1902–1993
- Maria Theresia von Paradis 1759–1824
- Helen Parkhurst 1887–1973
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 1804–1894
- Florence Peebles 1874–1956
- Mary Engle Pennington 1872–1952
- Sarah Worthington Peter 1800–1877
- Savitribai Phule 1831–1897
- Sarah Porter 1813–1900
- Emily Post 1872–1960
- Hortense Powdermaker 1896–1970
- Mary Ann Prout 1801–1884
- Sarah Purser 1848–1943
- Edith Quimby 1891–1982
- Pandita Ramabai 1858–1922
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti 1900–1978
- Dora Russell 1894–1986
- Alice Salomon 1872–1948
- Sappho c. 612–c. 557 BCE
- Emily Sartain 1841–1927
- Berta Scharrer 1906–1995
- Margarethe Meyer Schurz 1833–1876
- Ida Scudder 1870–1960
- Mary Sears 1905–1997
- Ellen Churchill Semple 1863–1932
- May Wright Sewall 1844–1920
- Pauline Agassiz Shaw 1841–1917
- Anna Peck Sill 1816–1889
- Sophia Smith 1796–1870
- Sosipatra fl. 4th c.
- Constance Spry 1886–1960
- Ruth St. Denis 1877–1968
- Nadezhda Stasova 1822–1895
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- Augusta Stetson 1842–1928
- Georgia Lydia Stevens 1870–1946
- Sarah Hackett Stevenson 1841–1909
- Betsey Stockton c. 1798–1865
- Marie Stopes 1880–1958
- Irene H. Sutliffe 1850–1936
- Henrietta Szold 1860–1945
- Janet Taylor 1804–1870
- Blanche Thebom 1918—
- Avra Theodoropoulou 1880–1963
- M. Carey Thomas 1857–1935
- Clara Thompson 1893–1958
- Mary Harris Thompson 1829–1895
- Matilda Thurston 1875–1958
- Alexandra Tolstoy 1884–1979
- Laura Matilda Towne 1825–1901
- Magda Trocme ́ 1901–1996
- Rosalyn Tureck 1914—
- Eleni Vakalo 1921—
- Victoria Adelaide 1840–1901
- Vera Volkova 1904–1975
- Margarethe Wallmann 1901–19922
- Olivia Davidson Washington 1854–1889
- Benigna von Watteville 1725–1789
- Irene Weir 1862–1944
- Louise Weiss 1893–1983
- Winifred West 1881–1971
- Lucy Wheelock 1857–1946
- Edna Noble White 1879–1954
- Ellen Gould White 1827–1915
- Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey 1788–1858
- Emma Hart Willard 1787–1870
- Fannie Barrier Williams 1855–1944
- Jennie Fowler Willing 1834–1916
- Katharine Prescott Wormeley 1830–1908
- Helen Wright 1914–1997
- Mary Clabaugh Wright 1917–1970
- Sophie Bell Wright 1866–1912
- Caroline A. Yale 1848–1933
- Marie Zakrzewska 1829–1902
Educational psychologist
- Leta Stetter Hollingworth 1886–1939
- Margo Jones 1911–1955
- Mia Lilly Pringle 1920–1983
- Caroline B. Zachry 1894–1945
Education reformer
- Maude Abbott 1869–1940
- Dorothea Beale 1831–1906
- Isabel Bevier 1860–1942
- Abala Bose 1865–1951
- Mary Steichen Calderone 1904–1998
- Lucy Caroline Cavendish 1841–1925
- Elizabeth Avery Colton 1872–1924
- Lucretia Crocker 1829–1886
- Learmonth White Dalrymple 1827–1906
- Florence Dunlop c. 1896–1963
- Kate Edger 1857–1935
- Maud Russell England 1863–1956
- Mary Erskine 1629–1707
- Eliza Anne Fewings 1857–1940
- Mary Isabel Fraser 1863–1942
- Maria Georgina Grey 1816–1906
- Sidonie Gruenberg 1881–1974
- Elizabeth Harrison 1849–1927
- Orie Latham Hatcher 1868–1946
- Patty Smith Hill 1868–1946
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain 1880–1932
- Anne Jellicoe 1823–1880
- Sophia Jex-Blake 1840–1912
- Christine Ladd-Franklin 1847–1930
- Helene Lange 1848–1930
- Catharine Macaulay 1731–1791
- Rachel McMillan 1859–1917
- Myrtilla Miner 1815–1864
- Maria Montessori 1870–1952
- Mary Bassett Mumford 1842–1935
- Ellen Spencer Mussey 1850–1936
- Phoebe Myers 1866–1947
- Antonia Pantoja 1922–2002
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 1804–1894
- Alice Whiting Putnam 1841–1919
- Margarethe Meyer Schurz 1833–1876
- Eugenie Schwarzwald 1872–1940
- Betty Shabazz 1936–1997
- Pauline Agassiz Shaw 1841–1917
- Cornelia Phillips Spencer 1825–1908
- Catherine Brieger Stern 1894–1973
- Éva Takács 1779–1845
- Blanka Teleki 1806–1862
- M. Carey Thomas 1857–1935
- Anna Eliot Ticknor 1823–1896
- Lila Valentine 1865–1921
- Winifred Annie Valentine 1886–1968
- Kate Douglas Wiggin 1856–1923
- Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy 1834–1913
- Mary E. Woolley 1863–1947
- Barbara Wootton 1897–1988
- Elizabeth Wordsworth 1840–1932
Egyptologist
- Gertrude Caton-Thompson 1888–1985
- Margaret S. Drower c. 1913—
- Dorothy Eady 1904–1981
- Amelia B. Edwards 1831–1892
- Margaret Murray 1863–1963
- Natacha Rambova 1897–1966
Electress
- Agnes of Habsburg c. 1257–1322
- Agnes of Hesse 1527–1555
- Anna Constancia 1619–1651
- Anna of Denmark 1532–1585
- Anna of Prussia 1576–1625
- Anna of Prussia
- Anna Sophia of Denmark 1647–1717
- Anne of Saxony 1437–1512
- Caroline of Baden 1776–1841
- Catherine of Custrin 1549–1602
- Catherine of Saxony 1421–1476
- Cunegunde d. 1357
- Cunigunde Sobieska fl. 1690s
- Dorothea of Denmark 1520–1580
- Eleonore Hohenzollern 1583–1607
- Elizabeth Amalia of Hesse 1635–1709
- Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate fl. 1620
- Elizabeth of Anhalt 1563–1607
- Elizabeth of Bavaria-Landshut 1383–1442
- Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596–1662
- Elizabeth of Denmark 1485–1555
- Elizabeth of Wittelsbach 1540–1594
- Hedwig of Denmark 1581–1641
- Hedwig of Poland 1513–1573
- Henrietta of Savoy c. 1630–?
- Louisa Henrietta of Orange 1627–1667
- Louisa Juliana 1576–1644
- Ludovica 1808–1892
- Magdalena Sybilla 1587–1659
- Margaret of Saxony c. 1416–1486
- Margaret of Saxony 1449–1501
- Maria Anna of Bavaria 1610–1665
- Maria Antonia 1669–1692
- Maria Antonia of Austria 1724–1780
- Maria Leopoldina 1776–1848
- Mariana Victoria 1768–1788
- Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 1519–1567
- Anna Maria Luisa de Medici 1667–1743
- Sabine of Brandenburg-Ansbach 1529–1575
- Sibylle Elizabeth of Wurttemberg 1584–1606
- Sophia 1630–1714
- Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Celle 1666– 1726
- Sophie of Brandenburg 1568–1622
- Wilhelmine 1650–1706
- Wilhelmine 1747–1820
Electrical engineer
- Hertha Marks Ayrton 1854–1923
- Edith Clarke 1883–1959
- Caroline Haslett 1895–1957
- Elizabeth Laverick 1925—
- Elsie MacGill d. 1980
- Lia Manoliu 1932–1998
- Ellen Ochoa 1958—
- Margaret Partridge b. 1891
- Irene Peden 1925—
- Judith Resnik 1949–1986
Embroiderer
- Dorothy Angus 1891–1979
- Mabel of Bury St. Edmunds fl. 1230
- Frances MacDonald 1874–1921
- Margaret Mackintosh 1865–1933
- May Morris 1862–1938
- Sophie Tauber-Arp 1889–1943
- Kathleen Whyte 1909–1996
- Lily Yeats 1866–1949
- Marguerite Thompson Zorach 1887–1968
Embryologist
- Rosa Beddington 1956–2001
- Susanna Phelps Gage 1857–1915
- Ethel Browne Harvey 1885–1965
- Elizabeth Dexter Hay 1927—
Employment agent
- Caroline Cadette Howard 1821–?
Empress
- Adelaide of Burgundy 931–999
- Adelaide of Kiev c. 1070–1109
- Agnes-Anne of France b. 1171
- Agnes of Poitou 1024–1077
- Albia Domnica fl. 4th c.
- Alexandra Feodorovna 1872–1918
- Amelia of Leuchtenburg 1812–1873
- Anastasia fl. 600s
- Anastasia Romanova d. 1560
- Anna Angelina d. 1210?
- Anna Dalassena c. 1025–1105
- Anna Ivanovna 1693–1740
- Anna Maria of the Palatinate 1561–1589
- Anna of Bohemia and Hungary 1503–1547
- Anna of Byzantium fl. 901
- Anna of Hohenberg c. 1230–1281
- Anna of Hungary d. around 1284
- Anna of Schweidnitz c. 1340–?
- Anna of the Palatinate fl. 1300s
- Anne of Savoy c. 1320–1353
- Ariadne fl. 457–515
- Augusta of Saxe-Weimar 1811–1890
- Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein 1858–1921
- Barca-Theodosia fl. 800s
- Beatrice of Anjou d. 1275
- Beatrice of Silesia fl. 1300s
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- Beatrice of Upper Burgundy 1145–1184
- Berengaria of Castile b. around 1199
- Bertha-Eudocia the Frank fl. 900s
- Bertha-Irene of Sulzbach d. 1161
- Bertha of Savoy 1051–1087
- Blanche of Valois c. 1316–?
- Bruttia Crispina d. 185
- Carlota 1840–1927
- Catherine I 1684–1727
- Catherine II the Great 1729–1796
- Catherine of Bulgaria fl. 1050
- Catherine of Tarento fl. early 1300s
- Chabi fl. 13th c.
- Charito fl. 300s
- Charlotte of Prussia 1798–1860
- Cixi 1835–1908
- Constance d. 305 CE
- Constance-Anna of Hohenstaufen fl. 13th century
- Constance of Aragon d. 1222
- Constance of Sicily 1154–1198
- Constantia c. 293–?
- Constantina c. 321–c. 354
- Constantina fl. 582–602
- Cunigunde d. 1040?
- Cunigunde of Swabia fl. 900s
- Deng r. 105–121
- Marie Dolgorukova d. 1625
- Edgitha c. 912–946
- Eleanor of Pfalz-Neuburg 1655–1720
- Eleanor of Portugal 1434–1467
- Elizabeth Christina of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1691–1750
- Elizabeth of Baden 1779–1826
- Elizabeth of Bavaria 1837–1898
- Elizabeth of Pomerania 1347–1393
- Elizabeth Petrovna 1709–1762
- Engelberga c. 840–890
- Ermengarde c. 778–818
- Eudocia c. 400–460
- Eudocia fl. 700s
- Eudocia Angelina fl. 1204
- Eudocia Baiane d. 902
- Eudocia Decapolita fl. 800s
- Eudocia Ingerina fl. 800s
- Eudocia Macrembolitissa 1021–1096
- Eudocia of Byzantium d. 404
- Eudoxia Lopukhina 1669–1731
- Eudoxia Streshnev 1608–1645
- Eugénie 1826–1920
- Euphrosyne c. 790–840
- Euphrosyne d. 1203
- Eusebia of Macedonia fl. 300
- Eutropia fl. 270–300
- Fabia-Eudocia fl. 600s
- Fausta d. 324
- Fausta fl. 600s
- Faustina I c. 90–141
- Faustina II 130–175
- Faustina of Antioch fl. 300s
- Flaccilla c. 355–386
- Fulvia c. 85/80–40 BCE
- Galla fl. 320
- Galla c. 365–394
- Gemmei c. 661–721
- Gertrude of Sulzbach d. 1146
- Gisela of Swabia d. 1043
- Irene Godunova d. 1603
- Anna Gonzaga 1585–1618
- Eleonora I Gonzaga 1598–1655
- Eleonora II Gonzaga 1628–1686
- Go-Sakuramachi 1740–1814
- Gregoria-Anastasia fl. 640s
- Agraphia Grushevski 1662–1681
- Haruko 1850–1914
- Helena c. 255–329
- Helena c. 320–?
- Helena Cantacuzene fl. 1340s - cf Helena Kantakouzene, Empress of Trebizond
- Helena Dragas fl. 1400
- Helena Lekapena c. 920–961
- Helena of Alypia fl. 980s
- Helen Asen of Bulgaria d. 1255?
- Ino-Anastasia fl. 575–582
- Irene fl. 700s
- Irene Angela of Byzantium d. 1208
- Irene Asen fl. 1300s
- Irene Ducas c. 1066–1133
- Irene Lascaris fl. 1222–1235
- Irene of Athens c. 752–803
- Irene of Brunswick fl. 1300s
- Irene of Montferrat fl. 1300
- Irene of the Khazars d. 750?
- Irmengard c. 800–851
- Isabella of Aragon c. 1300–1330
- Isabella of England 1214–1241
- Isabella of Portugal 1503–1539
- Jingū c. 201–269
- Jitō 645–702
- Josephine 1763–1814
- Judith of Bavaria 802–843
- Julia Domna c. 170–217
- Julia Maesa c. 170–224
- Julia Mamaea c. 190–235
- Julia Paula fl. 220
- Julia Soaemias d. 222
- Justina fl. 350–370
- Kassi 1241–?
- Kōgyoku-Saimei 594–661
- Kōken-Shōtoku 718–770
- Leontia fl. 602–610
- Leopoldina of Austria 1797–1826
- Licinia Eudoxia 422–before 490
- Livia Drusilla 58 BCE–29 CE
- Lollia Paulina fl. 38–39
- Lu ̈ Hou r. 195–180 BCE
- Lupicinia-Euphemia d. 523
- Margaret-Mary of Hungary c. 1177–?
- Margaret of Brabant d. 1311
- Margaret Theresa of Spain 1651–1673
- Maria fl. 700s
- Maria Anna of Savoy 1803–1884
- Maria Anna of Spain 1606–1646
- Maria Josepha of Bavaria 1739–1767
- Maria-Kyratza Asen fl. late 1300s
- Maria Leopoldine 1632–1649
- Maria Louisa of Spain 1745–1792
- Maria Ludovica of Modena 1787–1816
- Maria Nagaia d. 1612
- Maria of Alania fl. 1070–1081
- Maria of Amnia fl. 782
- Maria of Armenia fl. 1300
- Maria of Circassia d. 1569
- Maria of Trebizond d. 1439
- Maria Teresa of Naples 1772–1807
- Marie de Courtenay fl. 1215
- Marie Feodorovna 1847–1928
- Marie Louise of Austria 1791–1847
- Marie of Antioch d. 1183
- Marie of Austria 1528–1603
- Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt 1824–1880
- Marpha 1664–1716
- Martina fl. 600s
- Mary of Brabant c. 1191–c. 1260
- Matilda of Boulogne c. 1103–1152
- Matilda of Saxony c. 892–968
- Meisho 1624–1696
- Menen 1899–1962
- Menetewab c. 1720–1770
- Statilia Messalina fl. 66–68
- Valeria Messalina c. 23–48
- Michiko 1934—
- Maria Miloslavskaia 1626–1669
- Min 1851–1895
- Marina Mniszek c. 1588–1614
- Mumtaz Mahal c. 1592–1631
- Nagako 1903–2000
- Natalya Narishkina 1651–1694
- Nur Jahan 1577–1645
- Octavia 39–62
- Oda of Bavaria fl. 890s
- Onshi 872–907
- Farah Pahlavi 1938—
- Soraya Pahlavi 1932—
- Philippa of Lesser Armenia fl. 1200s
- Galla Placidia c. 390–450
- Plotina d. 122
- Poppaea Sabina d. 65
- Priska-Irene of Hungary c. 1085–1133
- Prokopia fl. 800s
- Pulcheria c. 398–453
- Richensia of Nordheim 1095–1141
- Richilde d. 894
- Roxelana c. 1504–1558
- Sabina 88–136
- Sadako r. 976–1001
- Sadako 1885–1951
- Salonina r. 254–268
- Praskovya Saltykova 1664–1723
- Bianca Maria Sforza 1472–1510
- Natalia Sheremetskaia 1880–1952
- Shoshi fl. 990–1010
- Marta Sobakin d. 1571
- Sophia c. 525–after 600
- Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg 1759–1828
- Sophia of Byzantium 1448–1503
- Sophie of Montferrat fl. 15th c.
- Suiko 554–628
- Taytu c. 1850–1918
- Teresa Cristina of Bourbon 1822–1889
- Thecla c. 775–c. 823
- Theodora c. 500–548
- Theodora fl. early 900s
- Theodora fl. late 900s
- Theodora Ducas fl. 11th c.
- Theodora of the Khazars fl. 700s
- Theodora Porphyrogenita c. 989–1056
- Theodora the Blessed c. 810–c. 860
- Theodota c. 775–early 800s
- Theophano c. 866–c. 897
- Theophano c. 940–?
- Theophano of Athens fl. 800s
- Theophano of Byzantium c. 955–991
- Anna Vassiltschikov 16th c.
- Verina fl. 437–483
- Victoria Adelaide 1840–1901
- Wang Zhaojun 52 BCE–18 CE
- Wilhelmina of Brunswick 1673–1742
- Wu Zetian 624–705
- Yolande of Brienne 1212–1228
- Yolande of Courtenay d. 1219
- Yoshiko 1834–1907
- Zita of Parma 1892–1989
- Zoë Carbopsina c. 890–920
- Zoe Ducas fl. 11th c.
- Zoë Porphyrogenita 980–1050
- Zoë Zautzina c. 870–c. 899
Endocrinologist
- Joycelyn Elders 1933—
- Jane Anne Russell 1911–1967
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Engraver
- Amalie Baader b. 1763
- Hannah Barlow 1851–1916
- Marie Rosalie Bertaud c. 1700–?
- Anna Botsford Comstock 1854–1930
- Wanda Ga ́g 1893–1946
- Diana Ghisi c. 1530–1590
- Joan Hassall 1906–1988
- Gertrude Hermes 1901–1983
- Elizabeth Jones c. 1935—
- Clare Leighton 1899–1989
- Maria Sybilla Merian 1647–1717
- Agnes Miller Parker 1895–1980
- Monica Poole 1921–2003
- Gwen Raverat 1885–1957
- Emily Sartain 1841–1927
- Renée Sintenis 1888–1965
- Claudine Bousonnet Stella 1636–1697
- Ann Taylor 1782–1866
- Jane Taylor 1783–1824
- Lily Yeats 1866–1949
Entomologist
- Amy Castle 1880–?
- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman 1881–1969
- Theresa Clay 1911–1995
- Margaret Fountaine 1862–1940
- Cynthia Longfield 1896–1991
- Maria Sybilla Merian 1647–1717
- Mary Murtfeldt 1848–1913
- Eleanor A. Ormerod 1828–1901
- Edith Patch 1876–1954
- Miriam Rothschild 1908–2005
- Annie Trumbull Slosson 1838–1926
Entrepreneur
- Josephine Abaijah 1942—
- Benvenida Abrabanel d. 1560
- Polly Adler 1899–1962
- Elizabeth Arden 1878–1966
- Laura Ashley 1925–1985
- Sarah Todd Astor 1761–1832
- Hannah Awolowo 1915—
- Estelle Axton 1918–2004
- Harriet Hubbard Ayer 1849–1903
- Gertrudis Barcelo c. 1820–1852
- Kylene Barker c. 1956—
- Olive Ann Beech 1903–1993
- Lotte Berk 1913–2003
- Elsie Bertram 1912–2003
- Hazel Bishop 1906–1998
- Helen Boiardi 1905–1995
- Lane Bryant 1879–1951
- Kitty Buck 1907–2001
- Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850–1917
- Marie Callender 1907–1995
- Blanche Calloway 1902–1973
- Toni Carabillo 1926–1997
- Karen Carpenter 1950–1983
- Bonnie Cashin 1915–2000
- Ling Chai 1966—
- Anna Chennault 1923—
- Liz Claiborne 1929—
- Mme Clicquot 1777–1866
- Jacqueline Cochran 1906–1980
- Maureen Connolly 1934–1969
- Susie Cooper 1902–1995
- Clara Copley d. 1949
- Theresa Cornelys 1723–1797
- Camille Cosby 1945—
- Kate Cranston 1850–1934
- Betty Davies 1935—
- Anna Demel 1872–1956
- Suzanne de Passe 1946—
- Suzanne Deseo 1913–2003
- Amanda America Dickson 1849–1893
- Germaine Dulac 1882–1942
- Tracey Edwards 1962—
- Martha Entenmann 1906–1996
- Mary Erskine 1629–1707
- Debbi Fields 1956—
- Giovanna Fontana 1915–2004
- Eileen Ford 1922—
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1878–1972
- Kate Gleason 1865–1933
- Glückel of Hameln 1646–1724
- Mary Katherine Goddard 1738–1816
- Bette Nesmith Graham 1924–1980
- Margaret Greenaway fl. 15th c.
- Isabella Selmes Greenway 1886–1953
- Ruth Handler 1916–2002
- Luise V. Hanson 1913–2003
- Jan Harding 1925—
- Margaret Gaffney Haughery 1813–1882
- Margery Haynes fl. 15th c.
- Amy Maria Hellaby 1864–1955
- Mary Jane Innes 1852–1941
- Irene 1901–1962
- Marjorie Stewart Joyner 1896–1994
- Enid Justin 1894–1990
- Natalie Kalmus 1878–1965
- Lillian Katz 1927—
- Dorothy Kingsley 1909–1997
- Jane Langton fl. 15th c.
- Mary Wells Lawrence 1928—
- Frances Butler Leigh 1838–1910
- Belva Ann Lockwood 1830–1917
- Elizabeth Macarthur 1767–1850
- Helen Gregory MacGill 1871–1947
- Annie Turnbo Malone 1869–1957
- Effa Manley 1900–1981
- Alice Sheets Marriott 1907–2000
- Burnita S. Matthews 1894–1988
- Linda McCartney 1941–1998
- Marian McKnight c. 1937—
- Lillian Shedd McMurry 1921–1999
- Marian McPartland 1920—
- Lynda Lee Mead c. 1939—
- Kiyo Minijima 1833–1919
- Deborah Mitford 1920—
- Gertrude Muller 1887–1954
- Kathryn Murray 1906–1999
- Lalu Nathoy 1853–1933
- Jean Nidetch 1923—
- Esther Ocloo 1919–2002
- Okwei of Osomari 1872–1943
- Sister Parish 1910–1994
- Joan Whitney Payson 1903–1975
- Elizabeth Peck Perkins c. 1735–1807
- Ruth Perry 1939—
- Shirley Neil Pettis 1924—
- Lydia E. Pinkham 1819–1883
- Mary Ellen Pleasant c. 1814–1904
- Mary Quant 1934—
- Armi Ratia 1912–1979
- Mary Reibey 1777–1855
- Zandra Rhodes 1940—
- Rhodopis fl. 6th c. BCE
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003
- Anita Roddick 1942—
- Ida Cohen Rosenthal 1886–1973
- Helena Rubinstein 1870–1965
- Mala Rubinstein 1905–1999
- Margaret Rudkin 1897–1967
- Doris Saunders 1921—
- Hope Skillman Schary 1908–1981
- Laura Clough Scudder 1881–1959
- Mary Jane Seacole c. 1805–1881
- Mary F. Seymour 1846–1893
- Naomi Sims 1948—
- Chloethiel Woodard Smith 1910–1992
- Song Ailing 1890–1973
- Margarete Steiff 1847–1909
- Frances Steloff 1887–1989
- Martha Stewart 1941—
- Gene Stratton-Porter 1863–1924
- Alessandra Strozzi 1406–1469
- Frances Toor 1890–1956
- Mirabel Topham d. 1980
- Pauline Trigère 1912–2002
- Olga Tschechowa 1897–1980
- Marie Tussaud 1761–1850
- Anna Vandenhoeck 1709–1787
- Madame C.J. Walker 1867–1919
- Maggie Lena Walker 1867–1934
- Sarah Spencer Washington 1889–?
- Hannah Weinstein 1911–1984
- Candace Wheeler 1827–1923
- Eartha M. White 1876–1974
- Helen Hay Whitney 1876–1944
- Edna Gardner Whyte 1902–1992
- Mary Lou Williams 1910–1981
- Brownie Wise 1913–1992
- Marie Marguerite d’ Youville 1701–1771
- Lillian Zabar 1905–1995
- Hedda Zinner 1902–1990
Environmentalist
- Judi Bari 1949–1997
- Mollie Beattie 1947–1996
- Millicent Todd Bingham 1880–1968
- Erin Brockovich 1960—
- Carol M. Browner 1956—
- Rachel Carson 1907–1964
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1890–1998
- Gertrude Duby-Blom 1901–1993
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Massoumeh Ebtekar 1960—
- Lois Gibbs 1946—
- Petra Kelly 1947–1992
- Carole King 1942—
- Winona LaDuke 1959—
- Wangari Maathai 1940—
- Elisabeth Mann 1918–2002
- Helen Nearing 1904–1995
- Dixy Lee Ray 1914–1994
- Ellen Swallow Richards 1842–1911
- Anita Roddick 1942—
- Barbara Ward 1914–1981
- Peggy Wayburn 1917–2002
- Hazel Wolf 1898–2000
Epidemiologist
- Dorothy M. Horstmann 1911–2001
- Alice Stewart 1906–2002
Equestrian
- Constance Palgrave Abraham 1864–1942
- Halide Edib Adivar c. 1884–1964
- Alexandra of Denmark 1844–1925
- Princess Anne 1950—
- Nan Aspinwall fl. 1911
- Tineke Bartels 1951—
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- Malin Baryard 1975—
- Olga Benario 1908–1942
- Susan Blinks 1957—
- Ellen Bontje 1958—
- Christilot Boylen 1947—
- Jeanette Brakewell 1974—
- Charlotte Bredahl 1957—
- Margaret Jane Briggs 1892–1961
- Leslie Burr 1956—
- Isabel Button 1863–1921
- Ingamay Bylund 1949—
- Nadine Capellmann 1965—
- Carlota Joaquina 1775–1830
- Anna Casagrande 1958—
- Margaret Catchpole 1762–1819
- Ce ́leste de Chabrillan 1824–1909
- Diana Clapham 1957—
- Sally Clark 1958–
- Marion Coakes 1947—
- Maureen Connolly 1934–1969
- Amy-Catherine de Bary 1944—
- Anghelache Donescu 1945—
- Emma Edmonds 1841–1898
- Beatriz Ferrer Salat 1966—
- Torrance Fleischmann 1949—
- Nina Fout 1959—
- Pippa Funnell 1968—
- Michelle Gibson 1969—
- Mary Gordon-Watson 1948—
- Marianne Gossweiler 1943—
- Lucinda Green 1953—
- Gabriela Grillo 1952—
- Hilda Gurney 1943—
- Ulla Hakanson 1937—
- Nancy Hart c. 1846–1902
- Lis Hartel 1921—
- Elizabeth Ann Howard 1823–1865
- Bettina Hoy 1962—
- Anna Hyatt Huntington 1876–1973
- Cynthia Ishoy 1952—
- Lisa Jacquin 1962—
- Anne Grethe Jensen 1951—
- Hilda Lorne Johnstone b. 1902
- Kate Kelly 1862–1898
- Heike Kemmer 1962—
- Ethel Kennedy 1928—
- Jacqueline Kennedy 1929–1994
- Mary King 1961—
- Margaret Knighton 1955—
- Julie Krone 1963—
- Anneliese Ku ̈ppers 1929—
- Anne Kursinski 1959—
- Kathy Kusner 1940—
- Lakshmibai c. 1835–1858
- Victoria Latta 1951—
- Carol Lavell 1943—
- Leslie Law 1965—
- Alexandra Ledermann 1969—
- Janou Lefebvre 1945—
- Virginia Leng 1955—
- Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff 1960—
- Liselott Linsenhoff 1927—
- Vanessa Lloyd-Davies 1960–2005
- Lottie Lyell 1890–1925
- Beezie Madden 1963—
- Margaret of Parma 1522–1586
- Marie of Rumania 1875–1938
- Edith Master 1932—
- Deborah McDonald 1954—
- Tamara McKinney 1962—
- Alice McLean 1886–1968
- Lesley McNaught 1966—
- Nellie Melba 1861–1931
- Alicia Meynell fl. 1804–1805
- Vera Misevich 1945—
- Ruth Mitchell c. 1888–1969
- Ann Moore 1950—
- Dorothy Morkis 1942—
- Louise Nathhorst 1955—
- Ashley Nicoll 1963—
- Ka ̈te Niederkirchner 1909–1944
- Annie Oakley 1860–1926
- Karen O’Connor 1958—
- Margit Otto-Crepin 1945—
- Bridget Parker 1939—
- Irene Parlby 1868–1965
- Yelena Petushkova 1940—
- Etta Place fl. 1896–1905
- Judith Pottinger 1956—
- Eva-Maria Pracht 1937—
- Doris Ramseier 1939—
- Connie Reeves 1901–2003
- Julie Burns Richards 1970—
- Heidi Robbiani 1950—
- Gillian Rolton 1956—
- Manuela Sa ́enz 1797–1856
- Ulla Salzgeber 1958—
- Annemarie Sanders 1958—
- Wendy Schaeffer c. 1975—
- Karin Schlueter-Schmidt 1937—
- Marina Sciocchetti 1954—
- Barbara Ann Scott 1929—
- Eleanora Sears 1881–1968
- Katja Seizinger 1972—
- Kim Severson 1973—
- Bathsheba Smith 1822–1910
- Gina Smith 1957—
- Pat Smythe 1928–1996
- Karen Stives 1950—
- Karen Straker 1964—
- Christine Stückelberger 1947—
- Ninna Swaab 1940—
- Madge Cave Syers 1881–1917
- Mary Anne Tauskey 1955—
- Melanie Smith Taylor 1949—
- Monica Theodorescu 1963—
- Elisabeth Theurer 1956—
- Christine Traurig 1957—
- Amy Tryon 1970—
- Nicole Uphoff 1967—
- Coby van Baalen 1957—
- Anky van Grunsven 1968—
- Ida von Nagel 1917–1971
- Maud von Rosen 1925—
- Isabell Werth 1969—
- Hannelore Weygand 1924—
- Linden Wiesman 1975—
- Lisa Wilcox 1966—
- Sheila Willcox 1936—
- Wu Zetian 624–705
Essayist
- Juliette la Messine Adam 1836–1936
- Sarah Flower Adams 1805–1848
- Etel Adnan 1925—
- Grace Aguilar 1816–1847
- Mirta Aguirre 1912—
- Bella Akhmadulina 1937—
- Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi Contessa d’ 1770–1836
- Alice Meynell 1847–1922
- Hortense Allart 1801–1879
- Alice Ambrose 1906–2001
- Lou Andreas-Salome ́ 1861–1937
- Maya Angelou 1928—
- Jane Anger fl. c. 1580
- Anna Aníchkova 1868–1935
- Nini Roll Anker 1873–1942
- G.E.M. Anscombe 1919–2001
- Bettina Aptheker 1944—
- Mademoiselle Archambault c. 1724–?
- Maria Archer 1905–1982
- Robyn Archer 1948—
- Concepcio ́n Arenal 1820–1893
- Chryssoula Argiriadou 1901–1998
- Bettine von Arnim 1785–1859
- Fanny von Arnstein 1758–1818
- Margot Tennant Asquith 1864–1945
- Ottilie Assing 1819–1884
- Awiakta 1936—
- Samiha Ayverdi 1906–1993
- Mariama Bâ 1929–1981
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Yolanda Bedregal 1916–1999
- Madame Belot 1719–1804
- Stella Benson 1892–1933
- Nina Berberova 1901–1993
- Emilie von Berlepsch 1755–1830
- L.S. Bevington 1845–1895
- Angela Bianchini 1921—
- Marthe Lucie Bibesco 1887–1973
- Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910
- Eavan Boland 1944—
- Elizabeth Bonhote 1744–1818
- María Angélica Bosco 1917—
- Anne C.L. Botta 1815–1891
- Marie-Henriette Payad d’Estang Bourdic-Viot de 1746–1802
- Margret Boveri 1900–1975
- Catherine Drinker Bowen 1897–1973
- Elizabeth Bowen 1899–1973
- Kay Boyle 1902–1992
- Carry Brachvogel 1864–1942
- Beth Brant 1941—
- Fredrika Bremer 1801–1865
- Anne Hampton Brewster 1818–1892
- Vera Brittain 1893–1970
- Suzanne Brøgger 1944—
- Jacqueline-Aimée Brohon 1731–1778
- E.M. Broner 1930—
- Brigid Brophy 1929–1995
- Nicole Brossard 1943—
- Olympia Brown 1835–1926
- Rita Mae Brown 1944—
- Tina Brown 1953—
- Ilse Brüll 1925–1942
- Adelaide Cabete 1867–1935
- Esther de Cáceres 1903–1971
- Maria Cadilla de Mart ́ınez 1886–1951
- Mona Alison Caird 1858–1932
- Minna Canth 1844–1897
- Rachel Carson 1907–1964
- Rosario Castellanos 1925–1974
- Willa Cather 1873–1947
- Laura Cereta of Brescia 1469–1499
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 1951–1982
- Eileen Chang 1920–1995
- Isabelle de Charriere 1740–1805
- Mary Ellen Chase 1887–1973
- Victorine de Chastenay 1771–1855
- Émilie du Châtelet 1706–1749
- Lidiya Davydovna Chervinskaya 1907–1988
- Lydia Maria Child 1802–1880
- Kate Chopin 1850–1904
- Inger Christensen 1935—
- Christine de Pizan c. 1363–c. 1431
- Mary Lee Chudleigh 1656–1710
- Eleanor Clark 1913–1996
- Gillian Clarke 1937—
- Mary Cowden Clarke 1809–1898
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- Frances Power Cobbe 1822–1904
- Catharine Trotter Cockburn 1679–1749
- Madame de Coicy fl. 18th c.
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861–1907
- Sara Coleridge 1802–1852
- Colette 1873–1954
- Camilla Collett 1813–1895
- Louisa Stuart Costello 1799–1870
- Elizabeth Cotten c. 1893–1987
- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie 1867–1906
- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826–1887
- Jane Cunningham Croly 1829–1901
- Letitia Cunningham fl. 1783
- Mary Montgomerie Currie 1843–1905
- Sarah Anne Curzon 1833–1898
- Dai Qing 1941—
- Caroline Wells Dall 1822–1912
- Genevie`ve d’Arconville 1720–1805
- Julie-Victoire Daubié 1824–1874
- Julia Daudet 1844–1940
- Emily Davies 1830–1921
- Lucy Dawidowicz 1915–1990
- Boonlua Kunjara Debyasuvan 1911–1982
- Draga Dejanovic ́ 1843–1870
- Elaine Fried de Kooning 1918–1989
- Grace Mead de Laguna 1878–1978
- Claire Démar 1800–1833
- Maya Deren 1908–1961
- C.I. Dessaur 1931–2002
- Tamara Deutscher 1913–1990
- Christine D’haen 1923—
- Elizaveta Diakonova 1874–1902
- Isak Dinesen 1885–1962
- Ding Ling 1904–1985
- Louise Dittmar 1807–1884
- Mary Abigail Dodge 1833–1896
- Mar ́ıa Alicia Dominguez 1908—
- Hilda Doolittle 1886–1961
- Lily Dougall 1858–1923
- Agnes Mary F. Duclaux 1856–1944
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1875–1935
- Marguerite Duras 1914–1996
- Toru Dutt 1856–1877
- Françoise d’ Eaubonne 1920–2005
- Isabelle Eberhardt 1877–1904
- Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm 1865–1946
- Barbara Ehrenreich 1941—
- Lotte Eisner 1896–1983
- Elizabeth of Wied 1843–1916
- Mary Moody Emerson 1774–1863
- Louise-Florence-Pétronille Épinay Madame la
- Live d’ 1726–1783
- Mary Anne Evans 1819–1880
- Alexandra Exter 1882–1949
- Harriet Farley 1813–1907
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847–1929
- Fanny Fern 1811–1872
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879–1958
- Marieluise Fleisser 1901–1974
- Mademoiselle Fontette de Sommery fl. 18th c.
- Philippa Foot 1920—
- Karoline Freifrau de la Motte Fouqué 1774–1831
- Anna Franchi 1866–1954
- Anne Fremantle 1909–2002
- Alice French 1850–1934
- Anna Freud 1895–1982
- Gisèle Freund 1912–2000
- Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
- Marie Armande Jeanne Gacon-Dufour 1753–c.1835
- Zona Gale 1874–1938
- Beatriz Galindo 1475–1534
- Carmen Ga ́ndara 1900–1977
- Fina Garc ́ıa Marruz 1923—
- Kay Gardner 1941–2002
- Xavie`re Gauthier 1942—
- Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer 1861–1951
- Mary Gilmore 1865–1962
- Evgenia Ginzburg 1896–1980
- Natalia Ginzburg 1916–1991
- Nikki Giovanni 1943—
- Ellen Glasgow 1873–1945
- Susan Glaspell 1876–1948
- Lea Goldberg 1911–1970
- Emma Goldman 1869–1940
- Nadine Gordimer 1923—
- Caroline Gordon 1895–1981
- Lois Gould 1932–2002
- Marie le Jars de Gournay 1565–1645
- Anne Grant 1755–1838
- Nicolete Gray 1911–1997
- Joyce Grenfell 1910–1979
- Charlotte L. Forten Grimké 1837–1914
- Sarah Moore Grimké 1792–1873
- Benoîte Groult 1921—
- Louise Imogen Guiney 1861–1920
- Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza 1875–1942
- Helena Rose Gutteridge 1879–1960
- Yoko Hagiwara 1920—
- Susan Hale 1833–1910
- Edith Hamilton 1867–1963
- Lorraine Hansberry 1930–1965
- Elizabeth Hardwick 1916—
- Claire Harris 1937—
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 1934–2002
- Julia Hartwig 1921—
- Mary Hays 1760–1843
- Caroline Hazard 1856–1945
- Bessie Head 1937–1986
- Josephine Herbst 1892–1969
- Emily Henrietta Hickey 1845–1924
- Octavia Hill 1838–1912
- Evelyn Hofer
- Linda Hogan 1947—
- Karen Horney 1885–1952
- Mary Howitt 1799–1888
- Marie Huber 1695–1753
- Mollie Hunter 1922—
- Fannie Hurst 1889–1968
- Zora Neale Hurston c. 1891–1960
- Helen Hunt Jackson 1830–1885
- Mary Putnam Jacobi 1842–1906
- Aletta Jacobs 1854–1929
- Anna Brownell Jameson 1794–1860
- Storm Jameson 1891–1986
- Pupul Jayakar 1915–1999
- Clara Mitsuko Jelsma 1931—
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1927—
- June Jordan 1936–2002
- Juana Ine ́s de la Cruz 1651–1695
- Alicia Jurado 1915—
- Pauline Kael 1919–2001
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1901–1974
- Rachel Katznelson-Shazar 1888–1975
- Helen Keller 1880–1968
- Petra Kelly 1947–1992
- Jean Kerr 1923–2003
- Ellen Key 1849–1926
- Anne Killigrew 1660–1685
- Barbara Kingsolver 1955—
- Johanna Kinkel 1810–1858
- Freda Kirchwey 1893–1976
- Annette Kolb 1870–1967
- Brigitte Kronauer 1940—
- Maria Lamas 1893–1983
- Martha J.R. Lamb 1826–1893
- Dorothea Lange 1895–1965
- Norah Lange 1906–1972
- Edme ́e La Rochefoucauld Duchesse de 1895–1991
- Claudia Lars 1899–1974
- Frieda Lawrence 1879–1956
- Emma Lazarus 1849–1887
- Harper Lee 1926—
- Maria Teresa Leo ́n 1903–1988
- Miriam Folline Squier Leslie 1836–1914
- Denise Levertov 1923–1997
- Fanny Lewald 1811–1889
- Mechthilde Lichnowsky 1879–1958
- Sara Lidman 1923–2004
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906–2001
- Lin Haiyin 1918–2001
- Eliza Lynn Linton 1822–1898
- Li Qingzhao 1083–c. 1151
- Henriquetta Lisboa 1904–1985
- Mary A. Livermore 1820–1905
- Anita Loos 1893–1981
- Audre Lorde 1934–1992
- Amy Lowell 1874–1925
- Helen Lowe-Porter 1876–1963
- N.A. Lukhmanova 1840–1907
- Joyce Salvadori Lussu 1912–1988
- Enid Lyons 1897–1981
- Rose Macaulay 1881–1958
- Luz Machado 1916–1999
- Sister Mary Madeleva 1887–1964
- Marya Mannes 1904–1990
- Clotilde Marghieri 1897–1981
- Benedetta Cappa Marinetti 1897–1977
- Ra ̈ıssa Maritain 1883–1960
- Julia Marlowe 1866–1950
- Harriet Martineau 1802–1876
- Moa Martinson 1890–1964
- Clorinda Matto de Turner 1854–1909
- Rosa Mayreder 1858–1938
- Nellie L. McClung 1873–1951
- Carson McCullers 1917–1967
- Mary Eliza McDowell 1854–1936
- Phyllis McGinley 1905–1978
- Maureen McTeer 1952—
- Elisa Mercoeur 1809–1835
- Charlotte Mew 1869–1928
- Annie Nathan Meyer 1867–1951
- Hanny Michaelis 1922—
- Olive Thorne Miller 1831–1918
- Sarah Millin 1888–1968
- Juliet Mitchell 1934—
- Naomi Mitchison 1897–1999
- Marie-Jose ́phine de Lescun Monbart 1758–1800
- Harriet Monroe 1860–1936
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689–1762
- Anne Carroll Moore 1871–1961
- Marianne Moore 1887–1972
- Elsa Morante 1912–1985
- Fulvia Olympia Morata 1526–1555
- Inge Morath 1923–2002
- Robin Morgan 1941—
- Mari Mori 1903–1987
- Toni Morrison 1931—
- Mourning Dove c. 1888–1936
- Anna Cora Mowatt 1819–1870
- Vera Mukhina 1889–1953
- Kuniko Mukoda 1929–1981
- Klara Mu ̈ller Mundt 1814–1873
- Judith Sargent Murray 1751–1820
- Gilda Musa 1926–1999
- Vera P. Mutafchieva 1929—
- Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden 1858–1889
- Lilika Nákou 1903–1989
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- Zofia Nalkowska 1884–1954
- Carmen Naranjo 1928—
- Gloria Naylor 1950—
- Suzanne Necker 1739–1794
- Joan Nestle 1940—
- Anna de Noailles 1876–1933
- Yaeko Nogami 1885–1985
- Dorothy Norman 1905–1997
- Mary Norton 1903–1992
- Tere ́za Nova ́kova ́ 1853–1912
- Minako Oba 1930—
- Victoria Ocampo 1890–1979
- Margaret Oliphant 1828–1897
- Mary Oliver 1935—
- Tillie Olsen c. 1912—
- Hagar Olsson 1893–1978
- Amelia Opie 1769–1853
- Jane Marion Oppenheimer 1911–1996
- Ana de Castro O ́sorio 1872–1935
- Cynthia Ozick 1928—
- Violet Paget 1856–1935
- Camille Paglia 1947—
- Alice Freeman Palmer 1855–1902
- Nettie Palmer 1885–1964
- Betty Paoli 1814–1894
- Emilia Pardo Baza ́n 1852–1921
- Pat Parker 1944–1989
- Bessie Rayner Parkes 1829–1925
- Franc ̧oise Parturier 1919—
- Hertha Pauli 1909–1973
- Irene Rice Pereira 1902–1971
- Julia Peterkin 1880–1961
- Magdalena Petit 1900–1968
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer 1827–1890
- Karoline Pichler 1769–1843
- Rina Faccio Pierangeli 1876–1960
- Sylvia Plath 1932–1963
- Ann Plato c. 1820–?
- Marie-Prudence Plisson 1727–1788
- Maria Louise Pool 1841–1898
- Katherine Anne Porter 1890–1980
- Ethel Portnoy 1927–2004
- Emily Post 1872–1960
- Mme Poulain c. 1750–c. 1800
- Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969
- Emily James Putnam 1865–1944
- Natacha Rambova 1897–1966
- Louise de la Rame ́e 1839–1908
- Sara Estela Ramirez 1881–1910
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti 1900–1978
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896–1953
- Myrtle Reed 1874–1911
- Agnes Repplier 1855–1950
- Gabriele Reuter 1859–1941
- Adrienne Rich 1929—
- Dorothy Richardson 1873–1957
- Marilla Ricker 1840–1920
- Clementina Rind c. 1740–1774
- Luise Rinser 1911–2002
- Anne Isabella Ritchie 1837–1919
- Erika Ritter 1948—
- Elizabeth Robins 1862–1952
- Joan Violet Robinson 1903–1983
- Therese Albertine Louise von Jakob Robinson 1797–1870
- Christiane Rochefort 1917–1998
- Pauline Roland 1805–1852
- Henrie ̈tte Roland Holst 1869–1952
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
- Maria Elisabeth Rothmann 1875–1975
- Constance Rourke 1885–1941
- Susanna Rowson 1762–1824
- Renate Rubinstein 1929–1990
- Muriel Rukeyser 1913–1980
- Dora Isella Russell 1925—
- Mercedes Saenz-Alonso 1916–2000
- Claire-Marie Mazarelli Saint-Chamond Marquise de La Vieuville de 1731–?
- Meta Salis-Marschlins 1855–1929
- Olga Samaroff 1882–1948
- Jessie Sampter 1883–1938
- Carol Lee Sanchez 1934—
- George Sand 1804–1876
- Elizabeth Elkins Sanders 1762–1851
- Margaret Sangster 1838–1912
- Beatriz Santos Arrascaeta 1947—
- Nicolosa Sanuti fl. 1453
- Nathalie Sarraute 1900–1999
- May Sarton 1912–1995
- Aiko Sato 1923—
- Ruth Saw 1901–1983
- Hisae Sawachi 1930—
- Dorothy L. Sayers 1893–1957
- Nora Sayre 1932–2001
- Therese Schlesinger 1863–1940
- Jeanne Schmahl 1846–1916
- Sophie Scholl 1921–1943
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink 1902–1999
- Olive Schreiner 1855–1920
- Margarete Schu ̈tte-Lihotzky 1897–2000
- Ina Seidel 1885–1974
- Sei Shonagon c. 965–?
- Anna Sewell 1820–1878
- Anne Sexton 1928–1974
- Marietta Shaginian 1888–1982
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851
- Mary Shepherd c. 1780–1847
- Shoshi fl. 990–1010
- Lydia H. Sigourney 1791–1865
- Leslie Marmon Silko 1948—
- May Sinclair 1863–1946
- Constance Lindsay Skinner 1877–1939
- Cornelia Otis Skinner 1901–1979
- Maria Skobtsova 1891–1945
- Jane Smiley 1949—
- Charlotte Smith 1749–1806
- Lillian Smith 1897–1966
- Song Meiling b. 1897
- Susan Sontag 1933–2004
- Hilde Spiel 1911–1990
- Harriet Prescott Spofford 1835–1921
- Jean Stafford 1915–1979
- Eliza Allen Starr 1824–1901
- Edith Stein 1891–1942
- Gloria Steinem 1934—
- Julia Prinsep Stephen 1846–1895
- Kate Stephens 1853–1938
- Maria W. Stewart 1803–1879
- Gene Stratton-Porter 1863–1924
- Mabel Strickland 1899–1988
- Su Hsueh-lin 1897–1999
- Wislawa Szymborska 1923—
- Gladys Taber 1899–1980
- Genevieve Taggard 1894–1948
- Catherine Talbot 1721–1770
- Arcangela Tarabotti 1604–1652
- Ann Taylor 1782–1866
- Ann Martin Taylor 1757–1830
- Harriet Taylor 1807–1858
- Jane Taylor 1783–1824
- ‘A’isha ‘Ismat al- Taymuriyya 1840–1902
- N.A. Teffi 1872–1952
- Mary Virginia Terhune 1830–1922
- Flora Thompson 1876–1947
- Marta Traba 1930–1983
- Melesina Trench 1768–1827
- Dea Trier Mørch 1941—
- Diana Trilling 1905–1996
- Irma von Troll-Borostyani 1847–1912
- Birgitta Trotzig 1929—
- Marina Tsvetaeva 1892–1941
- Barbara Tuchman 1912–1989
- Jane Turell 1708–1735
- Evelyn Underhill 1875–1941
- Sigrid Undset 1882–1949
- Alison Uttley 1884–1976
- Aslaug Vaa 1889–1965
- Nicole Védrès 1911–1965
- Lucila Velãsquez 1928—
- Zinaida Vengerova 1867–1941
- Halldis Moren Vesaas 1907–1995
- Idea Vilarin ̃o 1920—
- Catherine des Jardins Villedieu Mme de 1640–1683
- Emilia Ferretti Viola 1844–1929
- Edith von Haynau 1884–1978
- Margaret Walker 1915–1998
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 1844–1911
- Maria Waser 1878–1939
- Rosamund Watson 1860–1911
- Mary Webb 1881–1927
- Augusta Webster 1837–1894
- C.V. Wedgwood 1910–1997
- Simone Weil 1909–1943
- Eudora Welty 1909–2001
- Rebecca West 1892–1983
- Edith Wharton 1862–1937
- Candace Wheeler 1827–1923
- Katharine S. White 1892–1977
- Sarah Helen Whitman 1803–1878
- Adeline Dutton Whitney 1824–1906
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850–1919
- Fannie Barrier Williams 1855–1944
- Christa Wolf 1929—
- Victoria Wolff 1903–1992
- Virginia Woolf 1882–1941
- Abba Goold Woolson 1838–1921
- Elizabeth Wordsworth 1840–1932
- Judith Wright 1915–2000
- Sylvia Wynter 1928—
- Xiang Jingyu 1895–1928
- Xie Wanying 1900–1999
- Yamada Waka 1879–1956
- Frances Amelia Yates 1899–1981
- Marguerite Young 1908–1995
- Marguerite Yourcenar 1903–1987
- Mar ́ıa Zambrano 1904–1991
- Mayy Ziyada 1886–1941
- Lili Zographou
- Cvijeta Zuzoric c. 1555–1600
Etcher
- Anna Airy 1882–1964
- Hermina Arndt 1885–1926
- Peggy Bacon 1895–1987
- Isabel Bishop 1902–1988
- Mary Bonner 1885–1935
- Kate Cameron 1874–1965
- Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
- Sonia Delaunay 1885–1979
- Elisabeth Frink 1930–1993
- Anne Wilson Goldthwaite 1869–1944
- Sylvia Gosse 1881–1968
- Nancy Graves 1940–1995
- Eliza Greatorex 1820–1897
- Lea Grundig 1906–1977
- Gertrude Hermes 1901–1983
- Lotte Jacobi 1896–1990
- Laura Knight 1877–1970
- Ka ̈the Kollwitz 1867–1945
- Jessica Landseer 1810–1880
- Marie Laurencin 1883–1956
- Alice Trumbull Mason 1904–1971
- Anna Lea Merritt 1844–1930
- Mary Nimmo Moran 1842–1899
- Barbara Nessim 1939—
- Louise Nevelson 1899–1988
- Paula Rego 1935—
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- Elizabetta Sirani 1638–1665
- Rini Templeton 1935–1986
- Maria Yakunchikova 1870–1901
Ethnologist/ethnographer
- Dany Bébel-Gisler 1935–2003
- Martha Warren Beckwith 1871–1959
- Lydia Cabrera 1899–1991
- Frederica de Laguna 1906–2004
- Ella Deloria 1888–1971
- Eliza Hamilton Dunlop 1796–1880
- Florence Hawley Ellis 1906–1991
- Ellen Russell Emerson 1837–1907
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher 1838–1923
- Sara Gomez 1943–1974
- Jane Richardson Hanks b. 1908
- Carobeth Laird 1895–1983
- Margaret Mead 1901–1978
- Louise Michel 1830–1905
- Teréza Nováková 1853–1912
- Makereti Papakura 1873–1930
- Hortense Powdermaker 1896–1970
- Pearl Primus 1919–1994
- Erminnie A. Platt Smith 1836–1886
- Galina Starovoitova 1946–1998
- Germaine Tillion b. 1907
- Frances Toor 1890–1956
- Ruth Murray Underhill 1883–1984
Etiquette writer
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown c. 1883–1961
- Eliza Rotch Farrar 1791–1870
- Eliza Leslie 1787–1858
- Clara Moore 1824–1899
- Mary Elizabeth Sherwood 1826–1903
- Amy Vanderbilt 1908–1974
Eugenicist
- Virginia Apgar 1909–1974
- Nina Agatha Rosamond Barrer 1879–1965
- Lily Braun 1865–1916
- Madge Macklin 1893–1962
- Bethenia Owens-Adair 1840–1926
- Mary Harriman Rumsey 1881–1934
- Helene Stoecker 1869–1943
- Marie Stopes 1880–1958
- Pierra Vejjabul b. 1909
- Maria Ve ́rone 1874–1938
- Gladys Aylward 1902–1970
- Gertrud Ba ̈umer 1873–1954
- Laura Bell 1829–1894
- Evangeline Booth 1865–1950
- Laura Bridgman 1829–1889
- Elspeth Buchan 1738–1791
- Eva Burrows 1929—
- Elizabeth Cairns 1685–1714
- Fanny Crosby 1820–1915
- Martha Finley 1828–1909
- Mary Fisher c. 1623–1698
- Georgia Harkness 1891–1974
- Selina Hastings 1707–1791
- Ellice Hopkins 1836–1904
- Julia Ward Howe 1819–1910
- Ann Fletcher Jackson 1833–1903
- Annie Jiagge 1918–1996
- Sarah Boardman Judson 1803–1845
- Kapiolani c. 1781–1841
- Fanny Kemble 1809–1893
- Julie de Krüdener 1764–1824
- Kathryn Kuhlman 1907–1976
- Harriet Livermore 1788–1868
- Margaret of Angouleˆme 1492–1549
- Aimee Semple McPherson 1890–1944
- Joyce Meyer 1943—
- Hannah More 1745–1833
- Carry Nation 1846–1911
- Phoebe Worrall Palmer 1807–1874
- Christabel Pankhurst 1880–1958
- Lucy Peabody 1861–1949
- Fuchsia T. Pickett 1918–2004
- Anna Maria Porter 1780–1832
- Priscilla fl. 1st c.
- Linda Richards 1841–1930
- Olive Schreiner 1855–1920
- Amanda Berry Smith 1837–1915
- Willie Mae Ford Smith 1904–1994
- Ruth Carter Stapleton 1929–1983
- Hesba Stretton 1832–1911
- Corrie ten Boom 1892–1983
- Isabella Thoburn 1840–1901
- Margaret Van Cott 1830–1914
- Mary Edwards Walker 1832–1919
- Mrs. Humphry Ward 1851–1920
- Anna Bartlett Warner 1827–1915
- Susan Bogert Warner 1819–1885
- Ellen Gould White 1827–1915
- Narcissa Whitman 1808–1847
- Elsie Hart Wilcox 1879–1954
Event founder
- Myra Hess 1890–1965
- Elisabeth Lutyens 1906–1983
- Elizabeth Maconchy 1907–1994
- Alicia Markova 1910–2004
- Ruth Hanna McCormick 1880–1944
- Maria Storer 1849–1932
- Joanne Winter 1924—
Exotic dancer
- Ann Corio 1914–1999
- Carol Doda
- Margie Hart 1916—
- Tahiya Karioka c. 1921–1999
- Gypsy Rose Lee 1914–1970
- Sally Rand 1904–1979
- Georgia Sothern 1912–1981
- Wendy O. Williams 1951–1998
- Margaretha Zelle 1876–1917
Expatriate/exile
- Natalie Clifford Barney 1876–1972
- Kay Boyle 1902–1992
- Catherine Breshkovsky 1844–1934
- Louise Bryant 1885–1936
- Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
- Elizabeth Dmitrieff 1851–1910
- Hilda Doolittle 1886–1961
- Sofia Dzerzhinska 1882–1968
- Janet Flanner 1892–1978
- Muriel Gardiner 1901–1985
- Emily Hahn 1905–1997
- Patricia Highsmith 1921–1995
- Harriet Hosmer 1830–1908
- Kathryn Hulme 1900–1981
- Maria Jolas 1893–1987
- Nora Joyce 1884–1951
- Marie Laurencin 1883–1956
- Edmonia Lewis c. 1845–c. 1909
- Olga Liubatovich 1853–1917
- Mina Loy 1882–1966
- Ilona Massey 1910–1974
- Anna Lea Merritt 1844–1930
- Elizabeth Nourse 1859–1938
- Rose Cecil O’Neill 1874–1944
- Henry Handel Richardson 1870–1946
- Elsa Schiaparelli 1890–1973
- Solita Solano 1888–1975
- Elizabeth Taylor 1932—
- Maria Volkonskaya 1805–1863
- Marguerite Yourcenar 1903–1987
Experimental aviator
- Jacqueline Auriol 1917–2000
- Jerrie Cobb b. 1931
- Eileen Collins 1956—
- Nancy Love 1914–1976
- Hanna Reitsch 1912–1979
- Svetlana Savitskaya b. 1948
- Litta von Stauffenberg c. 1905–1945
- E. Lilian Todd fl. early 1900s
Explorer/traveler
- Harriet Chalmers Adams 1875–1937
- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz 1822–1907
- Delia J. Akeley 1875–1970
- Mary Jobe Akeley 1878–1966
- Gloria Hollister Anable 1903–1988
- Liv Arnesen 1953—
- Olympe Audouard 1830–1890
- Florence von Sass Baker 1841–1916
- Ann Bancroft 1955—
- Jeanne Baret 1740–after 1795
- Gertrude Bell 1868–1926
- Isabella Bishop 1831–1904
- Marie-The ́re`se Blanc 1840–1907
- Anne Blunt 1837–1917
- Louise Arner Boyd 1887–1972
- Selina Bunbury 1802–1882
- Isabel Burton 1831–1896
- Frances Caldero ́n de la Barca 1804–1882
- Agnes Deans Cameron 1863–1912
- Maude B. Campbell c. 1908–?
- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman 1881–1969
- Octavie Coudreau c. 1870–c. 1910
- Jennie Darlington c. 1925—
- Alexandra David-Neel 1868–1969
- Jane Digby el Mesrab 1807–1881
- Lady Florence Dixie 1857–1905
- Marie Dorion c. 1790–1850
- Isabelle Eberhardt 1877–1904
- Mina A. Ellis 1870–1956
- Celia Fiennes 1662–1741
- Virginia Fiennes 1947–2004
- Rosita Forbes 1893–1967
- Jane Franklin 1792–1875
- Isabel Godin des Odonais 1728–d. after 1773
- Emily Hahn 1905–1997
- Osa Johnson 1894–1953
- Dora Keen 1871–1963
- Mary H. Kingsley 1862–1900
- Julie de Kru ̈dener 1764–1824
- Ella Maillart 1903–1997
- Effa Manley 1900–1981
- Kate Marsden 1859–1931
- Margaret Mead 1901–1978
- Margaret Mee 1909–1988
- Maria Sybilla Merian 1647–1717
- Ynes Mexia 1870–1938
- Lola Montez 1818–1861
- Blair Niles 1880–1959
- Josephine Peary 1863–1955
- Annie Smith Peck 1850–1935
- Ida Pfeiffer 1797–1858
- Edith Ronne 1919—
- Kathleen Saville 1956—
- Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore 1856–1928
- Grace Gallatin Seton 1872–1959
- May French Sheldon 1847–1936
- Hester Stanhope 1776–1839
- Freya Stark 1893–1993
- Annie Royle Taylor 1855–c. 1920
- Mary Taylor 1817–1893
- Alexandrine Tinné 1839–1869
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- Louisa Wade Wetherill 1877–1945
- Fanny Workman 1859–1925
Extreme athlete
- Tori Allen 1988—
- Carlee Baker 1978—
- Tina Basich 1969—
- Hana Beaman 1982—
- Gretchen Bleiler 1981—
- Ste ́phanie Bodet 1976—
- Darian Boyle c. 1968—
- Katie Brown 1982—
- Elke Brutsaert 1968—
- Sarah Burke 1982—
- Cara-Beth Burnside 1968—
- Anne-Caroline Chausson 1977—
- Barrett Christy 1971—
- Kelly Clark 1983—
- Theresa Cliff 1978—
- Aleisha Cline 1970—
- Emily Copeland-Durham 1984—
- Kim Csizmazia c. 1968—
- Jenny Curry 1984—
- Tara Dakides 1975—
- Fabiola da Silva 1979—
- Anik Demers 1972—
- Tina Dixon 1976—
- Candice Drouin 1976—
- Shannon Dunn 1972—
- Cheri Elliott 1970—
- Robyn Erbesfield 1963—
- Cheryl Ezzell c. 1979—
- Sarah Fisher 1980—
- Dallas J. Friday 1986—
- Tanya Garcia-O'Brien c. 1973—
- Missy Giove 1972—
- Julie Glass 1979—
- Laurence Grenard Gouault-Haston Lizz 1965—
- Tara Hamilton 1982—
- Gretchen Heffernan Hammarberg Fallon 1986—
- Agung Hendrawati 1975—
- Lynn Hill 1961—
- Tasha Hodgson 1974—
- Lindsey Jacobellis 1985—
- Magdalena Jonsson 1969—
- Ayumi Kawasaki 1984—
- Leslie Kent 1981—
- Kim Jum-Sook c. 1968—
- Stine Brun Kjeldaas 1975—
- Chiara Lawrence 1975—
- April Lawyer 1975—
- Bird Lew c. 1966—
- Tara Llanes 1976—
- Jenny Logue c. 1982—
- Jaime Macleod 1976—
- Maeghan Major 1984—
- Melissa Marquardt 1983—
- Marie Martinod c. 1984—
- Janet Matthews 1965—
- Kelly Matthews 1982—
- Lesley McKenna 1974—
- Janna Meyen 1977—
- Katrina Miller 1975—
- Anne Molin-Kongsgard 1977—
- Line Oestvold 1978—
- Leslee Olson 1978—
- Elena Ovtchinnikova 1965—
- Renata Piszczek 1969—
- Ine Poetzl 1976—
- Elena Repko 1975—
- Maelle Ricker 1978—
- Jennifer Rodriguez 1976—
- Corrie Rudishauser 1973—
- Aurelie Sayres 1977—
- Lisa Sher 1969—
- Patti Sherman-Kauf 1963—
- Erin Simmons 1976—
- Kim Stacey 1980—
- Marla Streb 1965—
- Martina Svobodova 1983—
- Michele Taggart 1970—
- Hannah Teter 1987—
- Gypsy Tidwell-Lucas c. 1975—
- Lel Tone c. 1971—
- Vanessa Torres 1986—
- Donna Vano c. 1955—
- Katrina Voutilainen 1975—
- Jennie Waara 1975—
- Angie Walton 1966—
- Sa ́bine Wehr-Ha ́sler 1967—
- Olga Zakharova 1973—
- Tara Zwink 1973—
Factory worker
- Mary Anderson 1872–1964
- Electra Apostoloy 1911–1944
- Anna Mae Aquash 1945–1976
- Gladys Aylward 1902–1970
- Anna Boschek 1874–1957
- Renate Burgess 1910–1988
- Hayashi Fumiko 1903–1951
- Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck 1882–1936
- Alice Lee Jemison 1901–1964
- Rosa Jochmann 1901–1994
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya 1923–1941
- Marie Kuderikova 1921–1943
- Lucy Larcom 1824–1893
- Meridel Le Sueur 1900–1996
- Asta Nielsen 1881–1972
- Christa Reinig 1926—
- Mary Renault 1905–1983
- Lola Ridge 1873–1941
- Helma Sanders-Brahms 1940—
Fado singer
- Amalia Rodrigues 1921–1999
Faith healer
- Aimee Semple McPherson 1890–1944
- Ruth Carter Stapleton 1929–1983
- Puna Himene Te Rangimarie fl. 1908–1911
Fantasy/science-fiction writer
- Leigh Brackett 1915–1978
- Marion Zimmer Bradley 1930–1999
- Johanna Braun 1929—
- Rosel George Brown 1926–1967
- Mildred Downey Broxon 1944—
- Katharine Burdekin 1896–1963
- Octavia E. Butler 1947—
- Margaret Cavendish 1623–1673
- Vera Chapman 1898–1996
- Suzy McKee Charnas 1939—
- C.J. Cherryh 1942—
- Juanita Coulson 1933—
- Sonya Dorman 1924—
- Diane Duane 1952—
- Phyllis Eisenstein 1946—
- Suzette Haden Elgin 1936—
- Carol Emshwiller 1921—
- Sylvia Engdahl 1933—
- Zo ̈e Fairbairns 1948—
- Cynthia Felice 1942—
- Nancy Freedman 1920—
- Phyllis Gotlieb 1926—
- Cherry Barbara Grimm 1930–2002
- Charlotte Haldane 1894–1969
- Zenna Henderson 1917–1983
- Cecelia Holland 1943—
- J. Hunter Holly 1932–1982
- H.M. Hoover 1935—
- Monica Hughes 1925–2003
- Anna Kavan 1901–1968
- Lee Killough 1942—
- Tanith Lee 1947—
- Ursula K. Le Guin 1929—
- Madeleine L'Engle 1918—
- Doris Lessing 1919—
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg 1942—
- A.M. Lightner 1904–1988
- Elizabeth A. Lynn 1946—
- Katherine MacLean 1925—
- Sheila MacLeod 1939—
- Ardath Mayhar 1930—
- Anne McCaffrey 1926—
- Vonda N. McIntyre 1948—
- Judith Merril 1923–1997
- Naomi Mitchison 1897–1999
- C.L. Moore 1911–1987
- Janet E. Morris 1946—
- Andre Norton 1912–2005
- Doris Piserchia 1928—
- Marta Randall 1948—
- Kit Reed 1932—
- Joanna Russ 1937—
- Helma Sanders-Brahms 1940—
- Pamela Sargent 1948—
- Anna Seghers 1900–1983
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851
- Evelyn E. Smith 1922–2000
- Emma Tennant 1937—
- Joan D. Vinge 1948—
- Sharon Webb 1936—
- Kate Wilhelm 1928—
- Connie Willis 1945—
- Patricia Wrightson 1921—
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 1942—
Farmer
- Sarah Cryer 1848–1929
- Agnes Fabish 1873–1947
- Helen Gibb 1838–1914
- Christina Gregg c. 1814–1882
- Edith Stanway Halcombe 1844–1903
- Mary Hames 1827–1919
- Grace Hirst 1805–1901
- Te Aitu-o-te-rangi Jury c. 1820–1854
- Elizabeth Ann Louisa Mackay 1843–1908
- Ann O'Donnell c. 1857–1934
- Edith Alma Eileen Savell 1883–1970
- Elizabeth McHutcheson Sinclair 1800–1892
- Isabella Flora Siteman c. 1842–1919
- Mary Elizabeth Small 1812/13–1908
- Mary Ann Sutherland 1864–1948
- Helen Mary Wilson 1869–1957
Fashion commentator
- Vyvyan Donner 1895–1965
Faahion Designer
- Laura Ashley 1925–1985
- Bonnie August 1947–2003
- Jhane Barnes 1954—
- Guiliana Benetton 1935—
- Lane Bryant 1879–1951
- Hattie Carnegie 1886–1956
- Carven b. 1909
- Bonnie Cashin 1915–2000
- Coco Chanel 1883–1971
- Liz Claiborne 1929—
- Betty Davies 1935—
- Ellen Curtis Demorest 1824–1898
- Lucy Duff Gordon 1862–1935
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- Ruth Etting 1896–1978
- Emilie Flo ̈ge 1874–1952
- Giovanna Fontana 1915–2004
- Fernanda Gattinoni 1906–2002
- Alix Gre`s 1910–1993
- Katherine Hamnett 1952—
- Elizabeth Hawes 1903–1971
- Irene 1901–1962
- Norma Kamali 1945—
- Donna Karan 1948—
- Rei Kawakubo 1942—
- Anne Klein 1923–1974
- Jeanne Lanvin 1867–1946
- Vera Maxwell 1901–1995
- Claire McCardell 1905–1958
- Neysa McMein 1888–1949
- Jean Muir 1928–1995
- Odette Myrtil 1898–1978
- Mollie Parnis 1905–1992
- Natacha Rambova 1897–1966
- Armi Ratia 1912–1979
- Janet Reger 1935–2005
- Lilly Reich 1885–1947
- Rose Marie Reid 1906–1978
- Zandra Rhodes 1940—
- Nina Ricci 1883–1970
- Jil Sander 1943—
- Elsa Schiaparelli 1890–1973
- Simone Simon 1910–2005
- Adele Simpson 1903–1995
- Varvara Stepanova 1894–1958
- Liz Tilberis 1947–1999
- Pauline Trige`re 1912—
- Valentina 1899–1989
- Madeleine Vionnet 1876–1975
- Diane von Furstenberg 1946—
- Diana Vreeland 1903–1989
- Vera Wang 1949—
- Claire West 1893–1980
- Vivienne Westwood 1941—
Fashion model
- Julie Alexander 1938–2003
- Pat Ast 1941–2001
- Marisa Berenson 1946—
- Halle Berry 1966—
- Christie Brinkley 1953—
- Frances Burke c. 1921—
- Capucine 1931–1990
- Jinx Falkenburg 1919–2003
- Marla Hanson c. 1962—
- Tippi Hedren 1931—
- Margaux Hemingway 1955–1996
- Gloria Holden 1908–1991
- Lauren Hutton 1943—
- Esther Marion Pretoria James 1900–1990
- Florence La Badie 1888–1917
- Jessica Lange 1949—
- Henrietta Leaver c. 1916–1993
- Ali MacGraw 1938—
- Maggie McNamara 1928–1978
- Marilyn Meseke 1916–2001
- Lee Miller 1907–1977
- Kim Novak 1933—
- Suzy Parker 1932–1932
- Jean Shrimpton 1942—
- Simone Simon 1910–2005
- Naomi Sims 1948—
- Olive Thomas 1884–1920
Fashion photographer
- Kathryn Abbe 1919—
- Emmy Andriesse 1914–1953
- Berry Berenson 1948–2001
- Eva Besnyo ̈ 1910–2003
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe 1895–1989
- Trude Fleischmann 1895–1990
- Toni Frissell 1907–1988
- Genevieve Naylor 1915–1989
U.S.Federal Communications Commissioner
- Frieda B. Hennock 1904–1960
- Charlotte Thompson Reid b. 1913
Feminist
- Josephine Abaijah 1942—
- Oyinkansola Abayomi 1897–1990
- Josepha Abiertas 1894–1929
- Bella Abzug 1920–1998
- Janet Achurch 1864–1916
- Juliette la Messine Adam 1836–1936
- Aesara of Lucania fl. 400s–300s BCE
- Lucy Aikin 1781–1864
- Chantal Akerman 1950—
- Anna Akhmatova 1889–1966
- Soteria Aliberty 1847–1929
- Sharifa Alkhateeb 1946–2004
- Hortense Allart 1801–1879
- Gloria Allred 1941—
- Jessie Daniel Ames 1883–1972
- Maybanke Anderson 1845–1927
- Maya Angelou 1928—
- Mathilde Franziska Anneke 1817–1884
- Tina Anselmi 1927—
- Katharine Susan Anthony 1877–1965
- Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906
- Susan B. Anthony 1916–1991
- Yayoi Aoki 1927—
- Bettina Aptheker 1944—
- Liwayway Arceo 1924—
- Mademoiselle Archambault c. 1724–?
- Inessa Armand 1874–1920
- Mary Astell 1666–1731
- Luise Aston 1814–1871
- Nora Astorga 1949–1988
- Lily May Atkinson 1866–1921
- Ti-Grace Atkinson 1939—
- Hubertine Auclert 1848–1914
- Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain 1848–1944
- Matilde Bajer 1840–1934
- Hidiya Afifi Barakat 1898–1969
- Natalia Baranskaya b. 1908
- Jane Barker 1652–1732
- Djuna Barnes 1892–1982
- Natalie Clifford Barney 1876–1972
- Rosetta Lulah Baume 1871–1934
- Annette Bear-Crawford 1853–1899
- Mary Ritter Beard 1876–1958
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Madge Bellamy 1899–1990
- Maria Luisa Bemberg 1922–1995
- Ruth Benedict 1887–1948
- Mildred Benson 1905–2002
- Stella Benson 1892–1933
- Minerva Bernardino 1907–1998
- Eva Besnyo ̈ 1910–2003
- Yolande Betbeze 1930—
- Louise Blanchard Bethune 1856–1913
- Alice Stone Blackwell 1857–1950
- Emily Newell Blair 1877–1951
- Rhoda Alice Bloodworth 1889–1980
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818–1894
- Barbara Bodichon 1827–1891
- Mia Boissevain 1878–1959
- Martha Bol Poel 1877–1956
- Margarete Ottilie Bonnevie 1884–1970
- Angela Elizabeth Booth 1869–1954
- Jessie Boucherett 1825–1905
- Jeanne Bouvier 1865–1964
- Gerd Brantenberg 1941—
- Ruth Bre ́ 1862–1911
- Marie de Brinvilliers 1630–1676
- He ́le`ne Brion 1882–1962
- Vera Brittain 1893–1970
- Romaine Brooks 1874–1970
- Rosemary Brown 1930—
- Ce ́cile Brunschvicg 1877–1946
- Dorothy Bryant 1930—
- Justyna Budzynska-Tylicka 1876–1936
- Margaret Bullock 1845–1903
- Josephine Butler 1828–1906
- Adelaide Cabete 1867–1935
- Dolce Ann Cabot 1862–1943
- Mary Whiton Calkins 1863–1930
- June Callwood 1924—
- Calypso Rose 1940—
- Ada Cambridge 1844–1926
- Agnes Deans Cameron 1863–1912
- Clara Campoamor 1888–1972
- Minna Canth 1844–1897
- Toni Carabillo 1926–1997
- Emilia Carle ́n 1807–1892
- Winifred Carney 1887–1943
- Angela Carter 1940–1992
- The ́re`se Casgrain 1896–1981
- Alice Mary Cassie 1887–1963
- Rosario Castellanos 1925–1974
- Carrie Chapman Catt 1859–1947
- Minna Cauer 1841–1922
- Augusta Chapin 1836–1905
- E ́milie du Chaˆtelet 1706–1749
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya 1903–1988
- Chantal Chawaf 1943—
- Chen Tiejun 1904–1928
- Phyllis Chesler 1940—
- Judy Chicago 1939—
- Leela Chitnis 1909–2003
- Christine de Pizan c. 1363–c. 1431
- Catherine Cle ́ment 1939—
- Harriet Clisby 1830–1931
- Frances Power Cobbe 1822–1904
- Mary Ann Colclough 1836–1885
- Corrine Grad Coleman 1927–2004
- Clara Collet 1860–1948
- Camilla Collett 1813–1895
- Freda Mary Cook 1896–1990
- Anna J. Cooper c. 1858–1964
- Margery Corbett-Ashby 1882–1981
- Maria Velho de Costa b. 1938
- Martha Cotera 1938—
- Margaret Cousins 1878–1954
- Hannah Mather Crocker 1752–1829
- Winifred Clara Cullis 1875–1956
- Eveline Willert Cunnington 1849–1916
- Amey Daldy c. 1829–1920
- Learmonth White Dalrymple 1827–1906
- Mary Daly 1928—
- Margaretta D'Arcy 1934—
- Constance Davey 1882–1963
- Caroline Edgeworth David 1856–1951
- Sonja Davies 1923–2005
- Paulina Wright Davis 1813–1876
- Alice Madge Dawson c. 1980–2003
- Angie Debo 1890–1988
- Voltairine de Cleyre 1866–1912
- Maria Velho De Costa b. 1938
- Draga Dejanovic ́ 1843–1870
- Lucie Delarue-Mardrus 1880–1945
- Teresa De Lauretis 1938—
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- Christine Delphy 1941—
- Claire De ́mar 1800–1833
- Deng Yuzhi 1900–1996
- Flora MacDonald Denison 1867–1921
- Maria Deraismes 1828–1894
- Jeanne-Franc ̧oise Deroin 1805–1894
- Charlotte Despard 1844–1939
- Helene Deutsch 1884–1982
- Jean Devanny 1894–1962
- Caroline Dexter 1819–1884
- Daisy Di Robilant Countess fl. 1922–1933
- Louise Dittmar 1807–1884
- Hedwig Dohm 1831–1919
- Hilda Doolittle 1886–1961
- Rheta Childe Dorr 1866–1948
- Helen Pitts Douglass 1838–1903
- Judith Drake fl. 1696
- Jane Drew 1911–1996
- Gabrielle Ducheˆne 1870–1954
- Lucy Duff Gordon 1862–1935
- Henrietta Dugdale 1826–1918
- Germaine Dulac 1882–1942
- Fanny Durack 1889–1956
- Lucile Durand 1930—
- Marguerite Durand 1864–1936
- Amelia Earhart 1897–1937
- Annis Ford Eastman 1852–1910
- Franc ̧oise d' Eaubonne 1920–2005
- Inji Efflatoun 1923–1989
- Egyptian Feminism 1800–1980
- Mary Ann Ellen 1897–1949
- Nawal El Saadawi 1931—
- Maud Russell England 1863–1956
- Miswo Enoki 1939—
- Susan R. Estrich 1952—
- Emily Faithfull 1835–1895
- Lidia Falco ́n 1935—
- Forugh Farrokhzad 1935–1967
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847–1929
- Nuala Fennell 1935—
- Bobbi Fiedler 1937—
- Eva Figes 1932—
- Anna Filosofova 1837–1912
- Ruth First 1925–1982
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879–1958
- Hallie Flanagan 1889–1969
- Doris Fleeson 1901–1970
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1890–1964
- Clara Foltz 1849–1934
- Isabella O. Ford 1855–1924
- Alice Freeman 1857–1936
- Nancy Friday 1937—
- Betty Friedan 1921–2006
- Fukuda Hideko 1865–1927
- Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
- Monica Furlong 1930–2003
- Frances D. Gage 1808–1884
- Louise Gagneur 1832–1902
- Zona Gale 1874–1938
- Hermila Galindo de Topete 1896–1954
- Patricia Galva ̃o 1910–1962
- Kim A. Gandy c. 1954—
- Helen Hamilton Gardener 1853–1925
- Amy Jacques Garvey 1896–1973
- Annabella Mary Geddes 1864–1955
- Marie Ge ́rin-Lajoie 1867–1945
- Emily Patricia Gibson 1863/64?–1947
- Emma Gillett 1852–1927
- Mary Gilmore 1865–1962
- Marie Goegg 1826–1899
- Vida Goldstein 1869–1949
- Sara Gomez 1943–1974
- Maud Gonne 1866–1953
- Buzz Goodbody 1946–1975
- Eva Gore-Booth 1870–1926
- Emilie Gourd 1879–1946
- Jane Grant 1895–1972
- Hanna Holborn Gray 1930—
- Elsa Gress 1919–1989
- Angelina E. Grimke ́ 1805–1879
- Charlotte L. Forten Grimke ́ 1837–1914
- Sarah Moore Grimke ́ 1792–1873
- Edith Searle Grossmann 1863–1931
- Maria Groza 1918—
- Armanda Guiducci 1923–1992
- Juana Bele ́n Gutie ́rrez de Mendoza 1875–1942
- Helena Rose Gutteridge 1879–1960
- Ellen Hagan 1873–1958
- Lucina Hagman 1853–1946
- Marianne Hainisch 1839–1936
- Charlotte Haldane 1894–1969
- Gise`le Halimi 1927—
- Radclyffe Hall 1880–1943
- Cicely Hamilton 1872–1952
- Mary Hamilton 1882–1966
- Phebe Ann Hanaford 1829–1921
- Latife Hanim 1898–1975
- Joy Harjo 1951—
- Harriet Harman 1950—
- Jane Hart 1920—
- Anna Haslam 1829–1922
- Marlen Haushofer 1920–1970
- Louisine Havemeyer 1855–1929
- Elizabeth Hawes 1903–1971
- Mary Hays 1760–1843
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 1926–2003
- Stella Henderson 1871–1962
- He Xiangning 1879–1972
- Lida Heymann 1867–1943
- Ichiyo Higuchi 1872–1896
- Raicho Hiratsuka 1886–1971
- Rachel Hirsch 1870–1953
- Shere Hite 1943—
- Linda Hogan 1947—
- Marietta Holley 1836–1926
- Marion B. Hollins 1892–1944
- Julia Archibald Holmes 1838–1887
- Winifred Holt 1870–1945
- Winifred Holtby 1898–1935
- Kate Challis Hooper 1894–1982
- Ellice Hopkins 1836–1904
- Karen Horney 1885–1952
- Maria Teresa Horta b. 1937
- Edith How-Martyn 1875–1954
- Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim c. 935–1001
- Sarah T. Hughes 1896–1985
- Helen Rose Hull 1888–1971
- Fannie Hurst 1889–1968
- Abigail Hutchinson 1829–1892
- Lauren Hutton 1943—
- Juana de Ibarbourou 1895–1979
- Ichikawa Fusae 1893–1981
- Jovita Idar 1885–1946
- Emma Ihrer 1857–1911
- Patricia Ireland 1945—
- Inez Haynes Irwin 1873–1970
- Jozka Jaburkova d. 1944
- Rosamund Jacob 1888–1960
- Aletta Jacobs 1854–1929
- Harriet A. Jacobs 1813–1897
- Svava Jakobsdo ́ttir 1930—
- Magdalena Jalandoni 1891–1978
- Storm Jameson 1891–1986
- Elizabeth Janeway 1913–2005
- Milena Jesenska ́ 1896–1945
- Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse 1888–1958
- Sarah Orne Jewett 1849–1909
- Geraldine Jewsbury 1812–1880
- Adelaide Johnson 1859–1955
- Mary Johnston 1870–1936
- Juana Ine ́s de la Cruz 1651–1695
- Evanthia Kairi 1797–1866
- Sufia Kamal 1911–1999
- Carme Karr 1865–1943
- Kartini 1879–1904
- Judith Kazantzis 1940—
- Kalliopi Kehajia 1839–1905
- Aoua Ke ́ita 1912–1979
- Abby Kelley 1810–1887
- Petra Kelly 1947–1992
- Florynce Kennedy 1916–2000
- Helena Kennedy 1950—
- Dorothy Kenyon 1888–1972
- Anna Ke ́thly 1889–1976
- Ellen Key 1849–1926
- Begum Liaquat Ali Khan 1905–1990
- Freda Kirchwey 1893–1976
- Julieta Kirkwood 1936–1985
- Sheila Kitzinger 1929—
- Irena Klepfisz 1941—
- Natalia Ivanovna Kobrynska 1855–1920
- Alexandra Kollontai 1872–1952
- Ka ̈the Kollwitz 1867–1945
- Maria Konopnicka 1842–1910
- Elizaveta Kovalskaia 1851–1943
- Juanita Kreps 1921—
- Barbara Kruger 1945—
- Maggie Kuhn 1905–1995
- Kushida Fuki 1899–2001
- Louise Labe ́ c. 1523–1566
- Matilde Landeta 1913—
- Marie Lang 1858–1934
- Helene Lange 1848–1930
- Edme ́e La Rochefoucauld Duchesse de 1895–1991
- Aikaterini Laskaridou 1842–1916
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- Susan Lawrence 1871–1947
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- Annie Leclerc 1940—
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- Sue Lees 1941–2003
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- Gerda Lerner 1920—
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- Esther Pohl Lovejoy 1869–1967
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- Dacia Maraini 1936—
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- Moa Martinson 1890–1964
- Zahia Marzouk 1906–1988
- Lucy Randolph Mason 1882–1959
- Rosa Mayreder 1858–1938
- Mary Ann McCracken 1770–1866
- Millicent Carey McIntosh 1898–2001
- Agnes McLaren 1837–1913
- Heather McPherson 1942—
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- Eliza Ellen Melville 1882–1946
- Ma ́rta Me ́sza ́ros 1931—
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- Karin Michae ̈lis 1872–1950
- Louise Michel 1830–1905
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- Alice Duer Miller 1874–1942
- Emma Guffey Miller 1874–1970
- Kate Millett 1934—
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- Patria Mirabal de Gonza ́lez 1924–1960
- Mar ́ıa Teresa Mirabal de Guzma ́n 1936–1960
- Minerva Mirabal de Tava ́rez 1927–1960
- Pilar Miro ́ 1940–1997
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- Anna Maria Mozzoni 1837–1920
- Fade ́la M’rabet 1935—
- Wendy Mulford 1941—
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- Holly Near 1949—
- Torborg Nedreaas 1906–1987
- Ada Negri 1870–1945
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- Ntozake Shange 1948—
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- Marlo Thomas 1937—
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- Toyen 1902–1980
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- Mariia Trubnikova 1835–1897
- Sojourner Truth c. 1797–1883
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- Mary Jean Crenshaw Tully 1925–2003
- Fadwa Tuqan 1917–2003
- Srbuhi Tusap 1841–1901
- Jill Tweedie 1936–1993
- Hilda Tweedy b. 1911
- Chizuko Ueno 1948—
- Anne Uze`s Duchesse d’ 1847–1933
- Aslaug Vaa 1889–1965
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- Alexandra Van Grippenberg 1859–1913
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- Anna Wickham 1883–1947
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- Lee Capes 1961—
- Michelle Capes 1966—
- Sally Carbon 1967—
- Caroline Casaretto 1978—
- Jirina Cermakova 1944—
- Chang Eun-Jung 1970—
- Elizabeth Chase 1950—
- Gwen Cheeseman 1951—
- Sandra Chick 1947—
- Choi Choon-Ok 1965—
- Cho Ki-Hyang 1963—
- Chung Eun-Kyung 1965—
- Chung Sang-Hyun 1963—
- Cora Maris Clark 1885–1967
- Elspeth Clement 1956—
- Gillian Cowley 1955—
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- Bernadette de de Beus 1958—
- Chantal de Bruijn 1976—
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- Gertrude Dunn c. 1932–2004
- Sarah English 1955—
- Nadine Ernsting-Krienke 1974—
- Renita Farrell 1972—
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- Maria Paz Ferrari 1973—
- Nadya Filipova 1959—
- Maree Fish 1963—
- Annemieke Fokke 1967—
- Susan Fraser 1966—
- Wendy Fraser 1963—
- Lyudmila Frolova 1953—
- Anabel Gambero 1972—
- Agustina Soledad Garcia 1981—
- Maureen George 1955—
- Lidiya Glubokova 1953—
- Maria Gonzalez Laguillo 1961—
- Mariana Gonzalez Oliva 1976—
- Nelli Gorbyatkova 1958–1981
- Ann Grant 1955—
- Franziska Gude 1976—
- Alejandra Gulla 1977—
- Yelena Guryeva 1958—
- Mandy Haase 1982—
- Birgit Hagen 1957—
- Eva Hagenbaumer 1967—
- Birgit Hahn 1958—
- Jirina Hajkova 1954—
- Han Keum-Sil 1968—
- Han Ok-Kyung 1965—
- Juliet Haslam 1969—
- Rechelle Hawkes 1967—
- Irene Hendriks 1958—
- Franziska Hentschel 1970—
- Lorraine Hillas 1961—
- Francisca Hillen 1959—
- Noor Holsboer 1967—
- Grace Murray Hopper 1906–1992
- Berta Hruba 1946—
- Ida Hubackova 1954—
- Nikki Hudson 1976—
- Susan Huggett 1954—
- Hwang Keum-Sook 1963—
- Rachel Imison 1978—
- Galina Inzhuvatova 1952—
- Jin Won-Sim 1965—
- Kathryn Johnson 1967—
- Sheryl Johnson 1957—
- Caren Jungjohann 1970—
- Jirina Kadlecova 1948—
- Sylvia Karres 1976—
- Katrin Kauschke 1971—
- Natascha Keller 1977—
- Alina Kham 1959—
- Kim Mi-Sun 1964—
- Kim Soon-Duk 1967—
- Kim Young-Sook 1965—
- Denise Klecker 1972—
- Martina Koch 1959—
- Nicole Koolen 1972—
- Jarmila Kralickova 1944—
- Natella Krasnikova 1953—
- Jirina Krizova 1948—
- Anke Kuehn 1981—
- Irina Kuhnt 1968—
- Alena Kyselicova 1957—
- Jana Lahodova 1957—
- Sigrid Landgraf 1959—
- Christine Larson-Mason 1956—
- Badri Latif 1977—
- Heike Latzsch 1973—
- Sonja Lehmann 1979—
- Elisabeth Lejeune 1963—
- Alexandra LePoole 1959—
- Lim Kye-Sook 1964—
- Corinna Lingnau 1960—
- Sandra Lister 1961—
- Ella Maillart 1903–1997
- Ana Maiques Dern 1967—
- Clover Maitland 1972—
- Silvia Manrique Perez 1973—
- Elisabeth Maragall Verge 1970—
- Mercedes Margalot 1975—
- Karen Marsden 1962—
- Paula Karina Masotta 1972—
- Kathleen McGahey 1960—
- Heather McKay 1941—
- Patricia McKillop 1956—
- Jackie McWilliams 1964—
- Ann Meyers 1955—
- Anita Miller 1951—
- Tammy Miller 1967—
- Leslie Milne 1956—
- Claire Mitchell-Taverner 1970—
- Fatima Moreira de Melo 1978—
- Charlene Morett 1957—
- Helen Morgan 1966—
- Jenny Morris 1972—
- Christina Moser 1960—
- Teresa Motos Iceta 1963—
- Diane Moyer 1958—
- Silke Mueller 1978—
- Susanne Mueller 1972—
- Eefke Mulder 1977—
- Mary Nevill 1961—
- Mandy Nicholls 1968—
- Anneloes Nieuwenhuizen 1963—
- Martine Ohr 1964—
- Nuria Olive Vancells 1968—
- Vanina Oneto 1973—
- Patricia Ott 1960—
- Nadezhda Ovechkina 1958—
- Park Soon-Ja 1966—
- Irene Parlby 1868–1965
- Kathleen Partridge 1963—
- Sharon Patmore 1963—
- Caroline Pearce 1925—
- Jean Pearce 1921—
- May Pearce 1915–1981
- Morna Pearce 1932—
- Alison Peek 1969—
- Jacqueline Pereira 1964—
- Nova Peris-Kneebone 1971—
- Kristina Peters 1968—
- Kvetoslava Petrickova 1952—
- Brenda Phillips 1958—
- Sandra Pisani 1959—
- Marcella Place 1959—
- Viera Podhanyiova 1960—
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- Marjorie Pollard 1899–1982
- Alette Pos 1962—
- Katrina Powell 1972—
- Lisa Powell 1970—
- Christine Prinsloo 1952—
- Virginia Ramirez Merino 1964—
- Alison Ramsay 1959—
- Jorgelina Rimoldi 1972—
- Fanny Rinne 1980—
- Sonia Robertson 1947—
- Danni Roche 1970—
- Marion Rodewald 1976—
- Maria Rodriguez Suarez 1957—
- Cecilia Rognoni 1976—
- Hella Roth 1963—
- Marine Russo 1980—
- Maartje Scheepstra 1980—
- Gabriela Schley 1964—
- Susanne Schmid 1960—
- Janneke Schopman 1977—
- Eleanora Sears 1881–1968
- Elizabeth Sevens 1949—
- Karen Shelton 1957—
- Tatyana Shvyganova 1960—
- Clarinda Sinnige 1973—
- Jane Sixsmith 1967—
- Angie Skirving 1981—
- Hanneke Smabers 1973—
- Minke Smabers 1979—
- Kim Small 1965—
- Jiske Snoeks 1978—
- Iveta Sramkova 1963—
- Katie Starre 1971—
- Brenda Stauffer 1961—
- Julie Staver 1952—
- Florentine Steenberghe 1967—
- Ayelen Stepnik 1975—
- Shirley Strickland 1925—
- C. Vivian Stringer 1948—
- Judy Strong 1960—
- Suh Hyo-Sun 1966—
- Suh Kwang-Mi 1965—
- Marie Sykorova 1952—
- Josepha Teeuwen 1974—
- Maider Telleria Goni 1973—
- Carole Thate 1971—
- Ursula Thielemann 1958—
- Simone Thomaschinski 1970—
- Joanne Thompson 1965—
- Liane Tooth 1962—
- Daphne Touw 1970—
- Julie Towers 1976—
- Jacqueline Toxopeus 1968—
- Marta Urbanova 1960—
- Fleur van de Kieft 1973—
- Helena van der Ben 1964—
- Macha van der Vaart 1972—
- Suzan van der Wielen 1971—
- Marieke van Doorn 1960—
- Miek van Geenhuizen 1981—
- Lieve van Kessel 1977—
- Aletta van Manen 1958—
- Myrna Veenstra 1975—
- Helen Volk 1954—
- Sophie von Weiler 1958—
- Paola Vukojicic 1974—
- Lenka Vymazalova 1959—
- Galina Vyuzhanina 1952—
- Louisa Walter 1978—
- Linda Watson 1955—
- Andrea Weiermann-Lietz 1958—
- Bianca Weiss 1968—
- Anke Wild 1967—
- Ingrid Wolff 1964—
- Susanne Wollschlaeger 1967—
- Tatyana Yembakhtova 1956—
- Valentina Zazdravnykh 1954—
- Margriet Zeghers 1954—
- Julia Zwehl 1976—
Figurative painter
- Harriet Backer 1845–1932
- Peggy Bacon 1895–1987
- Mary Beale 1632–1699
- Isabel Bishop 1902–1988
- Alice Boughton 1866–1943
- Romaine Brooks 1874–1970
- Elizabeth Thompson Butler 1846–1933
- Lillian Genth 1876–1953
- Anne Hall 1792–1863
- Laura Knight 1877–1970
- Giulia Lama c. 1685–c. 1753
- Tamara de Lempicka 1898–1980
- Mary Fairchild Low 1858–1946
- Agnes Martin 1912–2004
- Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876–1907
- Eunice Griswold Pinney 1770–1849
- Liubov Popova 1889–1924
- Judith Rothschild 1921–1993
- Zinaida Serebryakova 1884–1967
- Suzanne Valadon 1865–1938
Film animation artist
- Joy Batchelor 1914–1991
- Claire Parker 1906–1981
- Lotte Reiniger 1899–1981
- Joyce Wieland 1931–1998
Film critic
- Renata Adler 1938—
- Iris Barry 1895–1969
- Sally Benson 1900–1972
- Nina Berberova 1901–1993
- Iris Carpenter b. 1906
- Judith Crist 1922—
- E ́ve Curie b. 1904
- Lotte Eisner 1896–1983
- Penelope Gilliatt 1932–1993
- Pauline Kael 1919—
- Freda Kirchwey 1893–1976
- Helen Lawrenson b. 1907
- C.A. Lejeune 1897–1973
- Paulette McDonagh 1901–1978
- Dilys Powell 1901–1995
- E. Arnot Robertson 1903–1961
- Christiane Rochefort 1917–1998
- Nora Sayre 1932–2001
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington 1877–1946
Film designer
- Julia Trevelyan Oman 1930–2003
Film director
- Chantal Akerman 1950—
- Gillian Armstrong 1950—
- Dorothy Arzner 1897–1979
- Dinara Asanova 1942–1985
- Jacqueline Audry 1908–1977
- Ruth Ann Baldwin fl. 1915–1921
- Margarita A. Barskaya 1903–1938
- Maria Luisa Bemberg 1922–1995
- Clara Beranger 1886–1956
- Marguerite Bertsch 1889–1967
- Kathryn Bigelow 1951—
- Muriel Box 1905–1991
- Jane Campion 1954—
- Dyan Cannon 1937—
- Liliana Cavani 1933—
- Joyce Chopra 1938—
- Vera Chytilova 1929—
- Martha Coolidge 1946—
- Cheryl Crawford 1902–1986
- Julie Dash 1952—
- Maya Deren 1908–1961
- Vyvyan Donner 1895–1965
- Doris Do ̈ rrie 1955—
- Lucille Drew 1890–1925
- Germaine Dulac 1882–1942
- Nora Ephron 1941—
- Marie Epstein c. 1899–1995
- Mary Field 1896–c. 1968
- Sally Field 1946—
- Jodie Foster 1962—
- Rose Franken c. 1895–1988
- Helen Gardner 1884–1968
- Franc ̧oise Giroud 1916–2003
- Sara Gomez 1943–1974
- Marleen Gorris 1948—
- Alice Guy-Blache ́ 1875–1968
- Astrid Henning-Jensen 1914—
- Hidari Sachiko 1930—
- Agnieszka Holland 1948—
- Anjelica Huston 1951—
- Fatime-Zohra Imaleyene 1936—
- Wanda Jakubowska 1907–1998
- Diane Kurys 1948—
- Matilde Landeta 1913—
- Nancy Littlefield c. 1929—
- Barbara Loden 1932–1980
- Ida Lupino 1914–1995
- Lottie Lyell 1890–1925
- Jeanie Macpherson 1887–1946
- Cleo Madison 1883–1964
- Frances Marion 1888–1973
- Penny Marshall 1942—
- Jessie Matthews 1907–1981
- Paulette McDonagh 1901–1978
- Frances McLaughlin-Gill 1919—
- Ma ́rta Me ́sza ́ros 1931—
- Pilar Miro ́ 1940–1997
- Jeanne Moreau 1928—
- Kira Muratova 1934—
- Jane Murfin 1893–1955
- Musidora 1884–1957
- Mira Nair 1957—
- Alla Nazimova 1879–1945
- Mabel Normand 1892–1930
- Elvira Notari 1875–1946
- Euzhan Palcy 1957—
- Ida May Park 1879–1954
- Antoinette Perry 1888–1946
- Marie-France Pisier 1944—
- Sally Potter 1949—
- Dorothy Davenport Reid 1895–1977
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003
- Stephanie Rothman 1936—
- Leontine Sagan 1889–1974
- Helke Sander 1937—
- Helma Sanders-Brahms 1940—
- Suzanne Schiffman 1929–2001
- Susan Seidelman 1952—
- Coline Serreau 1947—
- Larissa Shepitko 1938–1979
- Esther Shub 1894–1959
- Joan Micklin Silver 1935—
- Yulia Solntseva 1901–1989
- Susan Sontag 1933–2004
- Penelope Spheeris 1945—
- Ruth Stonehouse 1892–1941
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- Barbra Streisand 1942—
- Elizaveta Svilova 1900–1975
- Takamine Hideko 1924—
- Kinuyo Tanaka 1907–1977
- Julie Taymor 1952—
- Nadine Trintignant 1934—
- Florence E. Turner c. 1888–1946
- Liv Ullmann 1939—
- Agnes Varda 1928—
- Salka Viertel 1889–1978
- Monica Vitti 1931—
- Thea von Harbou 1888–1954
- Margarethe Von Trotta 1942—
- Deborah Warner 1959—
- Lois Weber 1881–1939
- Lina Wertmu ̈ller 1928—
- Joyce Wieland 1931–1998
- Margery Wilson 1896–1986
- Mai Zetterling 1925–1994
Film editor
- Dede Allen 1923—
- Dorothy Arzner 1897–1979
- Anne Bauchens 1881–1967
- Margaret Booth 1898–2002
- Anne V. Coates 1925—
- Kathleen Collins 1942–1988
- Forugh Farrokhzad 1935–1967
- Verna Fields 1918–1982
- Frances Hubbard Flaherty c. 1886–1972
- Marjorie Fowler 1920–2003
- Agne`s Guillemot 1931—
- Viola Lawrence 1894–1973
- Barbara McLean 1903–1996
- Alla Nazimova 1879–1945
- Alma Reville 1899–1982
- Margret Rey 1906–1996
- Thelma Schoonmaker 1940—
- Esther Shub 1894–1959
- Dorothy Spencer b. 1909
- Penelope Spheeris 1945—
- Elizaveta Svilova 1900–1975
- Nadine Trintignant 1934—
- Agnes Varda 1928—
Film producer
- Erica Anderson 1914–1976
- Robin Anderson 1948–2002
- Fern Andra 1893–1974
- Dorothy Arzner 1897–1979
- Dinara Asanova 1942–1985
- Eileen Atkins 1934—
- Jacqueline Audry 1908–1977
- Jacqueline Babbin 1921–2001
- Toni Cade Bambara 1939–1995
- Margarita A. Barskaya 1903–1938
- Janine Bazin 1923–2003
- Louise Beavers 1902–1962
- Anne Belle 1935–2003
- Maria Luisa Bemberg 1922–1995
- Mag Bodard 1916—
- Betty E. Box 1915–1999
- Muriel Box 1905–1991
- Dana Broccoli 1922–2004
- Kay Brown 1903–1995
- Mary Ellen Bute 1906–1983
- Joyce Chopra 1938—
- Vera Chytilova 1929—
- Shirley Clarke 1925–1997
- Jackie Collins 1937—
- Kathleen Collins 1942–1988
- Cheryl Crawford 1902–1986
- Grace Cunard c. 1891–1967
- Michaela Denis 1914–2003
- Maya Deren 1908–1961
- Vyvyan Donner 1895–1965
- Germaine Dulac 1882–1942
- Marguerite Duras 1914–1996
- Ray Eames 1912–1988
- Rene ́e Falconetti 1892–1946
- Forugh Farrokhzad 1935–1967
- Mary Field 1896–c. 1968
- Sally Field 1946—
- Beryl Fox 1931—
- Rose Franken c. 1895–1988
- Rita Gam 1928—
- Helen Gardner 1884–1968
- Lana Gogoberidze 1928—
- Whoopi Goldberg 1949—
- Sara Gomez 1943–1974
- Nancy Graves 1940–1995
- Alice Guy-Blache ́ 1875–1968
- Joan Harrison c. 1908–1994
- Goldie Hawn 1945—
- Lisa Henson 1960—
- Sachiko Hidari 1930–2001
- Hidari Sachiko 1930—
- Debra Hill 1950–2005
- Gale Anne Hurd 1955—
- Wanda Jakubowska 1907—
- Osa Johnson 1894–1953
- Helena Kennedy 1950—
- Kathleen Kennedy 1954—
- Matilde Landeta 1913—
- Nancy Littlefield c. 1929—
- Barbara Loden 1932–1980
- Ida Lupino 1914–1995
- Marion Mack 1902–1989
- Lata Mangeshkar 1929—
- Penny Marshall 1942—
- Paulette McDonagh 1901–1978
- Nina Mae McKinney c. 1912–1967
- Frances McLaughlin-Gill 1919—
- Marie Menken 1909–1970
- Lucia Moholy 1894–1989
- Musidora 1884–1957
- Lynda Myles 1947—
- Alla Nazimova 1879–1945
- Elvira Notari 1875–1946
- Ruth Orkin 1921–1985
- Harriet Parsons 1906–1983
- Antoinette Perry 1888–1946
- Julia Phillips 1944–2002
- Lourdes Portillo
- Mary Queeny 1913–2003
- Yvonne Rainer 1934—
- Dorothy Davenport Reid 1895–1977
- Beah Richards 1920–2000
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902—
- Rene ́e Saint-Cyr 1904–2004
- Helke Sander 1937—
- Hazel Scott 1920–1981
- Larissa Shepitko 1938–1979
- Nell Shipman 1892–1970
- Joan Micklin Silver 1935—
- Penelope Spheeris 1945—
- Barbra Streisand 1942—
- Bathia Howie Stuart 1893–1987
- Efua Sutherland 1924–1996
- Elizaveta Svilova 1900–1975
- Kinuyo Tanaka 1907–1977
- Valerie Taylor 1935—
- Florence E. Turner c. 1888–1946
- Virginia Van Upp 1902–1970
- Agnes Varda 1928—
- Thea von Harbou 1888–1954
- Hannah Weinstein 1911–1984
- Louise Weiss 1893–1983
- Lina Wertmu ̈ ller 1928—
- Joyce Wieland 1931–1998
- Oprah Winfrey 1954—
- Mai Zetterling 1925–1994
Film sound editor
- Kay Rose 1922–2002
Film-studio executive
- Germaine Dulac 1882–1942
- Sherry Lansing 1944—
- Amy Pascal 1959—
- Mary Pickford 1893–1979
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003
- Dawn Steel 1946–1997
- Gene Stratton-Porter 1863–1924
- Hannah Weinstein 1911–1984
Financial writer
- Clara Driscoll 1881–1945
- Sylvia Porter 1913–1991
First daughter
- Abigail Adams 1765–1813
- Mary Elizabeth Bliss 1824–1909
- Amy Carter 1967—
- Diana Spencer Churchill 1909–1963
- Mary Churchill 1922—
- Ruth Cleveland 1891–1904
- Chelsea Clinton 1980—
- Alina Fernandez 1956—
- Susan Ford 1957—
- Luci Baines Johnson 1947—
- Lynda Bird Johnson 1944—
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 1884–1980
- Eliza Kortright Monroe 1786–1840
- Maria Hester Monroe 1803–1850
- Julie Nixon 1948—
- Tricia Nixon 1946—
- Martha Jefferson Randolph 1775–1836
- Maureen Reagan 1941–2001
- Ethel Carow Roosevelt 1891–1977
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg 1957—
- Knox Taylor 1814–1835
- Margaret Truman 1924—
First Lady
- Mary Martha Abbott 1823–1898
- Abigail Adams 1744–1818
- Louisa Catherine Adams 1775–1852
- Ellen Herndon Arthur 1837–1880
- Rachel Yanait Ben Zvi 1886–1979
- Nusrat Bhutto 1929—
- Laura Borden 1862–1940
- Viktoriya Brezhneva 1908–1995
- Barbara Bush 1924—
- Laura Bush 1946—
- Rosalynn Carter 1927—
- Elena Ceausescu 1916–1989
- Faina Chiang 1916–2004
- Bernadette Chirac 1933—
- Aline Chrétien 1936—
- Clementine Churchill 1885–1977
- Frances Folsom Cleveland 1864–1947
- Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947—
- Grace Goodhue Coolidge 1879–1957
- Varina Howell Davis 1826–1906
- Yvonne de Gaulle 1900–1979
- Marike de Klerk 1937–2001
- Olive Diefenbaker 1902–1976
- Mamie Eisenhower 1896–1979
- Abigail Powers Fillmore 1798–1853
- Sine ́ad Flanagan 1878–1975
- Betty Ford 1918—
- Carmen Polo de Franco 1902–1988
- Indira Gandhi 1917–1984
- Lucretia Garfield 1832–1918
- Raisa Gorbacheva 1932–1999
- Julia Grant 1826–1902
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- Florence K. Harding 1860–1924
- Anna Symmes Harrison 1775–1864
- Caroline Scott Harrison 1832–1892
- Olga Havel 1933–1996
- Lucy Webb Hayes 1831–1889
- Lou Henry Hoover 1874–1944
- Martha Jefferson 1748–1782
- Eliza McCardle Johnson 1810–1876
- Margarita Juarez 1826–1871
- Rachel Katznelson-Shazar 1888–1975
- Jacqueline Kennedy 1929–1994
- Khieu Ponnary 1920–2003
- Hannelore Kohl 1933–2001
- Zoé Laurier 1841–1921
- Mary Todd Lincoln 1818–1882
- Margaret Lloyd George d. 1941
- Eliza Lynch 1835–1886
- Susan Agnes Macdonald 1836–1920
- Graca Machel 1946—
- Jane MacKenzie 1825–1893
- Dolley Payne Madison 1768–1849
- Imelda Marcos 1929—
- Mirjana Markovic 1942—
- Ida Saxton McKinley 1847–1907
- Maureen McTeer 1952—
- Isabel J. Meighen 1883–1985
- Danielle Mitterrand 1924—
- Elizabeth Monroe 1768–1830
- Sally Mugabe 1932–1992
- Mila Mulroney 1953—
- Geills Napier 1937—
- Tahia Nasser 1923—
- Madame Nhu 1924—
- Pat Nixon 1912–1993
- Fathia Nkrumah c. 1931—
- Maryon Pearson 1901–1989
- Eva Perón 1919–1952
- Jane Means Pierce 1806–1863
- Sarah Childress Polk 1803–1891
- Leah Rabin 1928–2000
- Nancy Reagan 1921—
- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 1861–1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
- Encarnación de Rosas 1795–1838
- Jehan Sadat 1933—
- Jeanne Saint-Laurent 1887–1966
- Song Meiling 1897–2003
- Siti Suharto 1923–1996
- Helen Herron Taft 1861–1943
- Margaret Smith Taylor 1788–1852
- Annie E. Thompson 1845–1913
- Jovanka Broz Tito 1924—
- Margaret Trudeau 1948—
- Bess Truman 1885–1982
- Frances Tupper 1826–1912
- Julia Gardiner Tyler 1820–1889
- Letitia Tyler 1790–1842
- Hannah Hoes Van Buren 1783–1819
- Martha Washington 1731–1802
- Vera Weizmann 1881–1966
- Edith Bolling Wilson 1872–1961
- Ellen Axson Wilson 1860–1914
- Margaret Winthrop c. 1591–1647
- Lyudmila Zhivkova 1942–1981
Flamenco dancer
- Carmen Amaya 1913–1963
- Lola Flores 1924–1995
- Encarnación Lopez 1898–1945
- Antonia Mercé c. 1886–1936
- Jean Sullivan 1923–2003
Floral painter
- Joy Adamson 1910–1980
- Anna Airy 1882–1964
- Anastaise fl. 1400
- Cicely Mary Barker 1895–1973
- Magdalene Basseporte ?–c. 1780
- Fidelia Bridges 1834–1923
- Dora Carrington 1893–1932
- Marjorie Content 1895–1984
- Henrietta Muir Edwards 1849–1933
- Giovanna Garzoni 1600–1670
- Gluck 1895–1978
- Guan Daosheng 1262–1319
- Anne Hall 1792–1863
- Clementine Hunter 1886–1988
- Marie Laurencin 1883–1956
- Sarah Plummer Lemmon 1836–1923
- Judith Leyster 1609–1660
- Mary Lizzie Macomber 1861–1916
- Maria Martin 1796–1863
- Rosa Mayreder 1858–1938
- Mary Moser 1744–1819
- Alice Neel 1900–1984
- Winifred Nicholson 1893–1981
- Marianne North 1830–1890
- Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986
- Maria van Oosterwyck 1630–1693
- Anna Claypoole Peale 1791–1878
- Margaretta Angelica Peale 1795–1882
- Sarah Miriam Peale 1800–1885
- Clara Peeters 1594–after 1657
- Anne Redpath 1895–1965
- Rachel Ruysch 1664–1750
- Millicent Sowerby 1878–1967
- Florine Stettheimer 1871–1944
- Suzanne Valadon 1865–1938
- Mary Morris Walcott 1860–1940
- Irene Weir 1862–1944
Flutist
- Anne Boyd 1946—
- Doriot Anthony Dwyer 1922—
- Kay Gardner 1941–2002
- Katherine Hoover 1937—
- Eleanor Lawrence 1936–2001
- Ellen Ochoa 1958—
- Paula Robison 1941—
Folk artist
- Clementine Hunter 1886–1988
- Helen Kalvak 1901–1984
- Anna ‘‘Grandma Moses 1860–1961
- Mattie Lou O'Kelley c. 1908–1997
- Eunice Griswold Pinney 1770–1849
- Harriet Powers 1837–1911
Folklorist
- Francesca Alexander 1837–1917
- Marie-Louise Amrouche 1913–1976
- Isabel Aretz 1909—
- Martha Warren Beckwith 1871–1959
- Louise Simone Bennett 1919—
- Maria Cadilla de Martínez 1886–1951
- Maria Campbell 1940—
- Eileen Costello 1870–1962
- Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm 1865–1946
- Edith Fowke 1913–1996
- Frances Gillmor 1903–1993
- Augusta Gregory 1852–1932
- Angeliki Hatzimichali 1895–1956
- Zora Neale Hurston c. 1891–1960
- Florence Marian McNeill 1885–1973
- Arthenia J. Bates Millican 1920—
- Mourning Dove c. 1888–1936
- Jean Ritchie 1922—
- Constance Rourke 1885–1941
- Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1800–1841
- Jessie Laidlay Weston 1850–1928
Folksinger
- Fadhma Mansour Amrouche 1882–1967
- Joan Baez 1941—
- Meg Christian 1946—
- Jeanette Carter 1923–2006
- Shawn Colvin 1956—
- Elizabeth Cotten c. 1893–1987
- Iris DeMent 1961—
- Sandy Denny 1947–1978
- Mimi Farina 1945–2001
- Charlotte Milligan Fox 1864–1916
- Ronnie Gilbert 1926—
- Nanci Griffith 1953—
- Emmylou Harris 1947—
- Juliana Hatfield 1967—
- Janis Ian 1951—
- Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser 1857–1930
- Joni Mitchell 1943—
- Odetta 1930—
- Phranc 1957—
- Maddy Prior 1947—
- Bonnie Raitt 1949—
- Jean Redpath 1937—
- Malvina Reynolds 1900–1978
- Jean Ritchie 1922—
- Jeannie Robertson 1908–1975
- Buffy Sainte-Marie 1941—
- Melanie Schekeryk 1947—
- Peggy Seeger b. 1935
- Mercedes Sosa 1935—
- Linda Thompson 1948—
- Mary Travers 1936—
- Suzanne Vega 1959—
- Lucinda Williams 1953—
- Victoria Williams 1958—
- Kate Wolf 1942–1986
Foreign correspondent
- Anne Hampton Brewster 1818–1892
- Iris Carpenter b. 1906
- Gloria Emerson 1929–2004
- Janet Flanner 1892–1978
- Martha Foley c. 1897–1977
- Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
- Martha Gellhorn 1908–1998
- Marguerite Higgins 1920–1966
- Helen Kirkpatrick 1909–1997
- Irene Corbally Kuhn 1898–1995
- Flora Lewis 1922–2002
- Anne O'Hare McCormick 1880–1954
- Elizabeth Neuffer 1956–2003
- Oda Olberg 1872–1955
- Isabel de Palencia 1878–c. 1950
- Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876–1958
- Sigrid Schultz 1893–1980
- Agnes Smedley 1892–1950
- Helen Foster Snow 1907–1997
- Bella Spewack 1899–1990
- Dorothy Thompson 1893–1961
- Esther Van Wagoner Tufty 1896–1986
- Mrs. Humphry Ward 1851–1920
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Forester
- Mary Sutherland 1893–1955
Frontierswoman/homesteader
- Ann Bailey 1742–1825
- Ann Bassett 1878–1956
- Martha Jane Cannary 1852–1903
- Sarah Pierpont Edwards 1710–1758
- Kate Elder fl. 1881
- Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh 1680–1762
- Isabella Selmes Greenway 1886–1953
- Rachel Donelson Jackson 1767–1828
- Helen Lake Kanahele 1916–1976
- Kate Maxwell fl. 1886
- Helen Nearing 1904–1995
- Sadie Orchard c. 1853–1943
- Sarah Royce 1819–1891
- Alice Tubbs 1851–1930
- Ellen Watson 1861–1889
- Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867–1957
- Betty Zane c. 1766–c. 1831
Furnishings designer
- Mina Loy 1882–1966
- Vera Neumann 1907–1993
- Marianne Strengell 1909–1998
Furniture designer
- Nana Ditzel 1923—
- Ray Eames 1912–1988
- Florence Schust Knoll 1917—
- Charlotte Perriand 1903–1999
- Marianne Strengell 1909–1998
- Sophie Tauber-Arp 1889–1943
Fur trader
- Sarah Todd Astor 1761–1832
Gambler
- Martha McTier c. 1743–1837
- Alice Tubbs 1851–1930
Garden designer
- Thalassa Cruso 1908–1997
- Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872–1959
- Gertrude Jekyll 1843–1932
- Nur Jahan 1577–1645
- Vita Sackville-West 1892–1962
- Rosemary Verey 1918–2001
- Emily Louisa Merielina White 1839–1936
Gay-rights activist
- Ti-Grace Atkinson 1939—
- Mary Steichen Calderone 1904–1998
- Margarethe Cammermeyer 1942—
- Storme ́ Delarverie ́ 1922—
- Radclyffe Hall 1880–1943
- Mabel Hampton 1902–1989
- Audre Lorde 1934–1992
- Martina Navratilova 1956—
- Adrienne Rich 1929—
- May Sarton 1912–1995
- Sharon Stone 1958—
Geisha
- Kiharu Nakamura 1913–2004
Genealogist
- Dorothy Lowry-Corry 1885–1967
- Hariata Whakatau Pitini-Morera 1871/72?–1938
- Helen Foster Snow 1907–1997
Geneticist
- Dorothy Hansine Andersen 1901–1963
- Virginia Apgar 1909–1974
- Charlotte Auerbach 1899–1994
- Margaret Blackwood 1909–1986
- Kristine Bonnevie 1872–1948
- Alice Middleton Boring 1883–1955
- Katherine Esau 1898–1997
- Elizebeth Friedman d. 1980
- Mary Frances Lyon 1925—
- Madge Macklin 1893–1962
- Lynn Margulis 1938—
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992
- Anne Laura McLaren 1927—
- Helen Newton Turner 1908–1995
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 1942—
- Tomoko Ohta 1933—
- Elizabeth S. Russell 1913—
- Ruth Sager 1918–1997
- Idah Sithole-Niang 1957—
- Nettie Maria Stevens 1861–1912
- Tine Tammes 1871–1947
- Flossie Wong-Staal 1946—
Geographer
- Harriet Chalmers Adams 1875–1937
- Millicent Todd Bingham 1880–1968
- Isabella Bishop 1831–1904
- Arlene Blum 1945—
- Louise Arner Boyd 1887–1972
- Marguerite Harrison 1879–1967
- Mary Kingdon Heslop 1885–1955
- Mary Nicol Leakey 1913–1996
- Marion I. Newbigin 1869–1934
- Phyllis Pearsall 1906–1996
- Ida Pfeiffer 1797–1858
- Ellen Churchill Semple 1863–1932
- Eva Taylor 1879–1966
- Mary Morris Walcott 1860–1940
Geologist
- Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye c. 1940—
- Mary Anning 1799–1847
- Florence Bascom 1862–1945
- Dorothea Bate 1879–1951
- Etheldred Benett 1776–1845
- Ethel Dobbie Currie 1898–1963
- Doris Malkin Curtis 1914–1991
- Tilly Edinger 1897–1967
- Aline Ehrlich 1928–1991
- Joan M. Eyles 1907–1986
- Julia Anna Gardner 1882–1960
- Eileen M. Guppy 1903–1980
- Antonina Halicka 1908–1973
- Mary Kingdon Heslop 1885–1955
- Dorothy Hill 1907–1997
- Elizabeth Hodgson 1814–1877
- Elise Hofmann 1889–1955
- Eleanora Bliss Knopf 1883–1974
- Mary Horner Lyell 1808–1873
- Rachel MacRobert 1884–1954
- Carlotta Maury 1874–1938
- Karen Cook McNally 1940—
- Pauline Moyd
- Beryl Nashar 1923—
- Maria M. Ogilvie Gordon 1864–1939
- Catherine Raisin 1855–1945
- Katsuko Saruhashi 1920—
- Ludmila Slavikova 1890–1943
- Janet Vida Watson 1923–1985
- Barbara Welch c. 1904–1986
- Maria Wilman 1867–1957
Geophysicist
- Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye c. 1940—
- Rosie Gallagher 1970–2003
- Inge Lehmann 1888–1993
Gold miner
- Nellie Cashman 1844–1925
- Bridget Goodwin c. 1802/27–1899
- Sarah Royce 1819–1891
Goldsmith
- Elizabeth Kirkeby fl. 1482
- Grete Prytz Kittelsen 1917—
Golfer
- Lorraine Abbott 1937—
- Margaret Abbott 1878–1955
- Constance Palgrave Abraham 1864–1942
- Kathy Ahern 1949–1996
- Amy Alcott 1956—
- Bessie Anthony 1880–1912
- Maria Astrologes 1951—
- Debbie Austin 1948—
- Kathy Baker 1961—
- Pamela Barnett 1944—
- Pam Barton 1917–1943
- Alice Bauer 1927–2002
- Laura Baugh 1955—
- Peggy Kirk Bell 1921—
- Patty Berg 1918—
- Susie Maxwell Berning 1941—
- Silvia Bertolaccini 1959—
- Georgianna M. Bishop 1878–1971
- Jane Blalock 1945—
- Barbara White Boddie 1940—
- Jane Bastanchury Booth 1948—
- Jocelyn Bourassa 1947—
- Alberta Bower 1922—
- Pat Bradley 1951—
- Murle MacKenzie Breer 1939—
- Jerilyn Britz 1943—
- Lucy Brown fl. 1895
- Mary K. Browne 1891–1971
- Bonnie Bryant 1943—
- Mary Anne Budke 1953—
- Betty Burfeindt 1945—
- Carole Jo Callison 1938—
- Donna Caponi 1945—
- JoAnne Carner 1939—
- Silvia Cavalleri 1972—
- Leona Pressler Cheney 1904–1982
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- Mrs. Allison Choate b. 1910
- Kay Cockerill 1964—
- Dawn Coe 1960—
- Peggy Conley 1947—
- Kathy Cornelius 1932—
- Jane Crafter 1955—
- Jean Ashley Crawford 1939—
- Clifford Anne Creed 1938—
- Fay Crocker 1914—
- Mary Lou Crocker 1944—
- Carolyn Cudone 1918—
- Betsy Cullen 1938—
- Edith Cummings 1899–1984
- Harriot Curtis 1881–1974
- Peggy Curtis 1883–1965
- Justine B. Cushing b. 1918
- Beth Daniel 1956—
- Laura Davies 1963—
- Gail Denenberg 1947—
- Helen Dettweiler 1914–1990
- Judy Dickinson 1950—
- Mary Lou Dill 1948—
- Gloria Ehret 1941—
- Shirley Englehorn 1940—
- Mary Lena Faulk 1926–1995
- Jan Ferraris 1947—
- Marta Figueras-Dotti 1957—
- Joan Fontaine b. 1917
- Alexa Stirling Fraser 1897–1977
- Maureen Garrett 1922—
- Eleanor Wright Gatehouse 1886–1973
- Jane Geddes 1960—
- Althea Gibson 1927–2003
- Charlotte E. Glutting 1910–1996
- Vicki Goetze 1972—
- Tammie Green 1959—
- Ellen Griffin 1918–1986
- Frances C. Griscom 1880–1973
- Marlene Bauer Hagge 1934—
- Shelley Hamlin 1949—
- Joan Hammond 1912–1996
- Beverly Hanson 1924—
- Katherine Harley 1881–1961
- Denise Hastings 1958—
- Michiko Hattori 1968—
- Patty Hayes 1955—
- Sandra B. Haynie 1943—
- Genevieve Hecker 1884–1960
- Betty Hicks 1920—
- Helen Hicks 1911–1974
- Pam Higgins 1945—
- Chako Higuchi 1945—
- Atsuko Hikage 1954—
- Cindy Hill 1948—
- Opal S. Hill 1892–1981
- Marion B. Hollins 1892–1944
- Miriam Burns Horn 1904–1951
- Beatrix Hoyt 1880–1963
- Dorothy Campbell Hurd 1883–1945
- Juli Inkster 1960—
- Betty Jameson 1919—
- Ruth Jessen 1936—
- Chris Johnson 1958—
- Ann Casey Johnstone 1921—
- Cathy Johnston-Forbes 1963—
- Judy Kimball 1938—
- Kim Mi-Hyun 1977—
- Betsy King 1955—
- Dorothy Kirby 1920—
- Martha Wilkinson Kirouac 1948—
- Kelli Kuehne 1977—
- Catherine Lacoste 1945—
- Bonnie Lauer 1951—
- Jenny Lee Smith 1948—
- Cecil Leitch 1891–1977
- Grace Lenczyk 1927—
- Patricia Lesser 1933—
- Sally Little 1951—
- Jane Lock 1954—
- Nancy Lopez 1957—
- Ada Mackenzie 1891–1973
- Joyce Malison c. 1935—
- Meg Mallon 1963—
- Carol Mann 1941—
- Marge Mason 1918–1974
- Debbie Massey 1950—
- Margaret Masters 1934—
- Susie McAllister 1947—
- Barbara McIntire 1935—
- Lauri Merten 1960—
- Marion Miley c. 1914–1941
- Alice Miller 1956—
- Sharon Kay Miller 1941—
- Mary Mills 1940—
- Charlotte Montgomery 1958—
- Liselotte Neumann 1966—
- Alison Nicholas 1962—
- Catrin Nilsmark 1967—
- Tatsuko Ohsako 1952—
- Ayako Okamoto 1951—
- Maureen Orcutt b. 1907
- Estelle Lawson Page 1907–1983
- Se Ri Pak 1977—
- Anne-Marie Palli 1955—
- Sandra Palmer 1941—
- Catherine Panton 1955—
- Grace Park 1979—
- Issette Pearson fl. 1893
- Dottie D. Pepper 1965—
- Violet Pooley 1886–1965
- Dorothy Germain Porter 1924—
- Mary Bea Porter 1949—
- Sandra Post 1948—
- Kathy Postlewait 1949—
- Louise Pound 1872–1958
- Daria Pratt 1861–1938
- Jo Ann Prentice 1933—
- Phyllis Preuss 1939—
- Penny Pulz 1953—
- Jackie Pung 1921—
- Judy Rankin 1945—
- Gladys Ravenscroft 1888–1960
- Betsy Rawls 1928—
- Polly Ann Riley 1926–2002
- Laurie Rinker 1962—
- Patti Rizzo 1960—
- Kelly Robbins 1969—
- Sue Roberts 1948—
- Barbara Romack 1932—
- Jody Rosenthal 1962—
- Anne Quast Sander 1937—
- N.C. Sargeant fl. 1895
- Vivien Saunders 1946—
- Barb Scherbak 1958—
- Margaret Scott 1875–1938
- Eleanora Sears 1881–1968
- Patty Sheehan 1956—
- Cathy Sherk 1950—
- Dinah Shore 1917–1994
- Pearl Sinn 1967—
- Marilynn Smith 1929—
- Wiffi Smith 1936—
- Carol Sorenson 1942—
- Annika Sorenstam 1970—
- Charlotta Sorenstam 1973—
- Sandra Spuzich 1937—
- Hollis Stacy 1954—
- Frances Stephens 1924–1978
- Jan Stephenson 1951—
- Helen Stetson 1887–1982
- Beth Stone 1940—
- Marlene Stewart Streit 1934—
- Louise Suggs 1923—
- Cynthia Jan Sullivan 1937—
- Nancy Roth Syms 1939—
- Rachel Teske 1972—
- Carol Semple Thompson 1948—
- Muriel Thomson 1954—
- Mabel Trevor-Jones fl. 1904–1921
- Sherri Turner 1956—
- Marion Turpie d. 1967
- Florence Vanderbeck 1884–1935
- Virginia Van Wie 1909–1997
- Glenna Collett Vare 1903–1989
- Colleen Walker 1956—
- Michelle Walker 1952—
- Lisa Walters 1960—
- Jo Ann Washam 1950—
- Karrie Webb 1974—
- Joyce Wethered 1901–1997
- Donna White 1954—
- Polly Whittier 1877–1946
- Kathy Whitworth 1939—
- Eileen Hope Williams 1884–1958
- Enid Wilson b. 1910
- Peggy Wilson 1934—
- Ruth Wilson 1919–2001
- Mickey Wright 1935—
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1911–1956
- Mary Beth Zimmerman 1960—
Gospel Singer
- Mattie Moss Clark 1925–1994
- Dorothy Love Coates 1928–2002
- Amy Grant 1960—
- Cissy Houston 1933—
- Mahalia Jackson 1911–1972
- Linda Jones 1944–1972
- Sara Martin 1884–1955
- Vicki Sue Robinson 1954–2000
- Nina Simone 1933–2003
- Willie Mae Ford Smith 1904–1994
- Cleo Staples 1934—
- Mavis Staples 1940—
- Yvonne Staples 1939—
- Rosetta Tharpe 1915–1973
- Clara Mae Ward 1924–1973
- Dinah Washington 1924–1963
- Deniece Williams 1951—
- Marion Williams 1927–1994
Gothic-fiction Writer
- Natalie Clifford Barney 1876–1972
- Victoria Benedictsson 1850–1888
- Charlotte Dacre c. 1772–1825
- Isak Dinesen 1885–1962
- Nadezhda Durova 1783–1866
- Mignon G. Eberhart 1899–1996
- Shirley Jackson 1916–1965
- P.D. James 1920—
- Elizabeth Jolley 1923—
- Sophia Lee 1750–1824
- Carson McCullers 1917–1967
- Rose Cecil O'Neill 1874–1944
- Eliza Parsons c. 1748–1811
- Ann Radcliffe 1764–1823
- Clara Reeve 1729–1807
- Regina Maria Roche c. 1764–1845
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851
- E.D.E.N. Southworth 1819–1899
- Harriet Prescott Spofford 1835–1921
- Emma Tennant 1937—
- Ellen Price Wood 1814–1887
- Elinor Wylie 1885–1928
Governess
- Sofonisba Anguissola 1532–1625
- Daisy May Bates 1859–1951
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- Annie Besant 1847–1933
- Matilda Betham-Edwards 1836–1919
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818–1894
- Enid Blyton 1897–1968
- Angela Brazil 1868–1947
- Catherine Breshkovsky 1844–1934
- Bridget of Sweden 1303–1373
- Anne Brontë 1820–1849
- Charlotte Brontë 1816–1855
- Emily Brontë 1818–1848
- Mary Carpenter 1807–1877
- Edith Cavell 1865–1915
- Sarah Ingersoll Cooper 1835–1896
- Marie Curie 1867–1934
- Aagje Deken 1741–1804
- Célestine Doudet b. 1817
- Elizabeth Elstob 1683–1756
- Mary Anne Evans 1819–1880
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher 1838–1923
- Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
- Stéphanie-Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis 1746–1830
- Susanna Hanan 1870–1970
- Mary Austin Holley 1784–1846
- Juliette Huxley 1896–1994
- Anna Brownell Jameson 1794–1860
- Eliza Kellas 1864–1943
- Anna Leonowens c. 1831–1914
- Meridel Le Sueur 1900–1996
- Mary A. Livermore 1820–1905
- Rosa Luxemburg 1870–1919
- Mary Helen MacKillop 1842–1909
- Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)
- Margaret of Austria 1480–1530
- Winifred Maxwell 1672–1749
- Helene Mayer 1910–1953
- Sydney Morgan 1780–1859
- Betty Paoli 1814–1894
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 1804–1894
- Mary Pilkington 1766–1839
- Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969
- Dagny Juel Przybyszewska 1867–1901
- Mary Ann Radcliffe c. 1746–after 1810
- Dorothy Richardson 1873–1957
- Susanna Rowson 1762–1824
- Sarah Salmond 1864–1956
- Olive Schreiner 1855–1920
- Adeline Sergeant 1851–1904
- Eliza Roxey Snow Smith 1804–1887
- Catherine Spence 1825–1910
- Madame de Staal de Launay 1684–1750
- Bertha von Suttner 1843–1914
- Elizabeth Taylor 1912–1975
- Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817)
- Marguerite Tinayre 1831–?
- Marie Under 1883–1980
- Freda Utley 1898–1977
- Pierra Vejjabul b. 1909
- Maria Von Trapp 1905–1987
- Mehetabel Wesley 1697–1750
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–1797
Government Official
- Magdalena Abakanowicz 1930—
- Bella Abzug 1920–1998
- Susanna Agnelli 1922—
- Dolly Smith Akers 1901–1986
- Claribel Alegría 1924—
- Shulamit Aloni 1931—
- Libertine Appolus Amathila 1940—
- Betsy Ancker-Johnson 1927—
- Lale Andersen 1910–1972
- Mary Anderson 1872–1964
- Tina Anselmi 1927—
- S. Inkeri Anttila 1916—
- Inessa Armand 1874–1920
- Anne L. Armstrong 1927—
- Hanan Ashrawi 1946—
- Nora Astorga 1949–1988
- S. Josephine Baker 1873–1945
- Angelica Balabanoff 1878–1965
- Emily Greene Balch 1867–1961
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916–2000
- Nina Bang 1866–1928
- Mollie Batten 1905–1985
- Lilly Becher 1901–1976
- Thekla Beere 1901–1991
- Hilde Benjamin 1902–1989
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohl 1946—
- Benazir Bhutto 1953—
- Nusrat Bhutto 1929—
- Alexandra Biryukova 1929—
- Margaret Bondfield 1873–1953
- Esther Boserup 1910–1999
- Virginia Mae Brown 1923–1991
- Carol M. Browner 1956—
- Esther C. Brunauer 1901–1959
- Gro Harlem Bruntland 1939—
- Julia Brystygierowa 1902–1980
- Tamara Bunke 1937–1967
- Henriette Caillaux ?–1943
- Persia Campbell 1898–1974
- Miriam Camps 1916–1994
- Eunice Hunton Carter 1899–1970
- Barbara Castle 1910–2002
- Catherine II the Great of Russia 1729–1796
- Elena Ceausescu 1916–1989
- Eugenia Charles 1919—
- Lynne Cheney 1941—
- Tansu Çiller 1946—
- Jeanne-Martin Cisse 1926—
- Margaret Clapp 1910–1974
- Georgia Neese Clark 1900–1995
- Ada Deer 1935—
- Elizabeth Hanford Dole 1936—
- Tsola Dragoicheva 1893–1993
- Joycelyn Elders 1933—
- Harriet Wiseman Elliott 1884–1947
- Ellen Fairclough 1905–2004
- Pattie H. Field b. around 1902
- Ekaterina Furtseva 1910–1974
- Indira Gandhi 1917–1984
- Maria Selina Hale 1864–1951
- Nancy Hanks 1927–1983
- Patricia Roberts Harris 1924–1985
- Judith Hart 1924—
- Aquila al-Hashimi 1953–2003
- Margaret Jane Scott Hawthorne 1869–1958
- Jessie Isabel Hetherington 1882–1971
- Carla Hills 1934—
- Oveta Culp Hobby 1905–1995
- Jane M. Hoey 1892–1968
- Margot Honecker 1927—
- Florence Horsbrugh 1889–1969
- Mildred McAfee Horton 1900–1994
- Caroline Cadette Howard 1821–?
- Mabel Howard 1893–1972
- Nexhmije Hoxha 1920—
- Stella Isaacs 1894–1971
- Janet Jagan 1920—
- Ira Jarrell 1896–1973
- Emma R. H. Jentzer c. 1883–1972
- Jiang Qing 1914–1991
- Irène Joliot-Curie 1897–1956
- Anna Kéthly 1889–1976
- Begum Liaquat Ali Khan 1905–1990
- Karin Kock 1891–1976
- Juanita Kreps 1921—
- Sucheta Kripalani 1908–1974
- Julia Clifford Lathrop 1858–1932
- Mary Nicol Leakey 1913–1996
- Jennie Lee 1904–1988
- Muna Lee 1895–1965
- Li Qingzhao 1083–c. 1151
- Lynn Martin 1939—
- Hilda Martindale 1875–1952
- Mary Matalin 1953—
- Golda Meir 1898–1978
- Melina Mercouri 1923–1994
- Frieda S. Miller 1889–1973
- Gertrude Mongella 1945—
- Federica Montseny 1905–1994
- Esther Hobart Morris 1814–1902
- Sally Mugabe 1932–1992
- Dee Dee Myers 1961—
- Carmen Naranjo 1928—
- Elizabeth Grace Neill 1846–1926
- Pauline Neville-Jones 1939—
- Klavdiia Nikolaeva 1893–1944
- Antonia Novello 1944—
- Elizabeth Odio Benito 1939—
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1900–1990
- Irene Parlby 1868–1965
- Hannah Patterson 1879–1937
- Ana Pauker c. 1893–1960
- Frances Perkins 1880–1965
- Esther Peterson 1906–1997
- Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo 1930–2004
- Milka Planinc 1924—
- Ivy Baker Priest 1905–1975
- Liese Prokop 1941—
- Kazimiera Prunskiene 1943—
- Qian Zhengying 1923—
- Nicole Questiaux 1931—
- Annabelle Rankin 1908–1986
- Anahita Ratebzad 1931—
- Dixy Lee Ray 1914–1994
- Magdalene Stuart Reeves 1865–1953
- Elisabeth Rehn 1935—
- Grete Rehor 1910–1987
- Janet Reno 1938—
- Stella Rimington 1935—
- Josephine Roche 1886–1976
- Nellie Tayloe Ross 1876–1977
- J.M. Ruth-Rolland 1937–1995
- Alice B. Sanger
- Jeanne Sauvé 1922–1993
- Bertha Schroeder 1872–1953
- Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt 1901–1986
- Gillian Shephard 1940—
- Ruth B. Shipley 1885–1966
- Miina Sillanpää 1866–1952
- Mary Smieton 1902–2005
- Mary Ellen Smith 1861–1933
- Winnie Sorgdrager 1948—
- Mabel Strickland 1899–1988
- Hanna Suchocka 1946—
- Edith Summerskill 1901–1980
- Rita Süssmuth 1937—
- Mary E. Switzer 1900–1971
- Margaret Thatcher 1925—
- Agathe Uwilingiyimana 1953–1994
- Simone Veil 1927—
- Wanda Wasilewska 1905–1964
- Sue Shelton White 1887–1943
- Christine Todd Whitman 1946—
- Ellen Wilkinson 1891–1947
- Mabel Walker Willebrandt 1889–1963
- Shirley Williams 1930—
- Ellen Sullivan Woodward 1887–1971
- Sühbaataryn Yanjmaa 1893–1962
- Daisy Zamora 1950—
- Khaleda Zia 1946—
Government Petitioner
- Annie Chemis 1862–1939
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Governor
- Anne of Austria 1601–1666
- Nita Barrow 1916–1995
- Marie Bashir 1930—
- Thekla Beere 1901–1991
- Lucrezia Borgia 1480–1519
- Constance de Cezelli d. 1617
- Miriam A. Ferguson 1875–1961
- Joan Finney 1925–2001
- Leneen Forde 1935—
- Jennifer M. Granholm 1959—
- Ella Grasso 1919–1981
- Mary Hamilton 1882–1966
- Linda Lingle 1953—
- Violante Beatrice de Medici d. 1731
- Ruth Ann Minner 1935—
- Roma Mitchell 1913–2000
- Rose Mofford 1922—
- Agnes Nestor 1880–1948
- Camilla Odhnoff 1923—
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1900–1990
- Dixy Lee Ray 1914–1994
- Ann Willis Richards 1933—
- Mary G. Roebling 1906–1994
- Encarnación de Rosas 1795–1838
- Nellie Tayloe Ross 1876–1977
- Irene Sáez 1961—
- Jeanne Sauvé 1922–1993
- Jane M. Swift 1965—
- Catherine Tizard 1931—
- Olene S. Walker 1930—
- Christine Todd Whitman 1946—
Grand Duchess
- Alexandra Feodorovna 1872–1918
- Alexandra Guelph 1882–1963
- Alexandrine of Prussia 1803–1892
- Alice Maud Mary 1843–1878
- Alicia of Parma 1849–1935
- Anastasia 1901–1918
- Anastasia Romanova 1860–1922
- Anna Maria of Saxony 1836–1859
- Anna of Byzantium 963–1011
- Anna Pavlovna 1795–1865
- Blanche of Bourbon 1868–1949
- Elisa Bonaparte 1777–1820
- Bianca Cappello 1548–1587
- Catherine II the Great 1729–1796
- Catherine of Russia 1788–1819
- Charlotte 1896–1985
- Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt 1755–1785
- Christine of Lorraine c. 1571–1637
- Eleanor of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich 1871–1937
- Elizabeth fl. 1850s
- Elizabeth Hohenzollern 1815–1885
- Elizabeth of Anhalt-Dessau 1857–1933
- Ella 1864–1918
- Helena of Russia 1882–1957
- Helene of Wurttemberg 1807–1873
- Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1899–1948 - we do also have the correct target, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1899–1948)
- Joanna of Austria 1546–1578
- Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium 1927—
- Helen Karadjordjevic 1884–1962
- Anne Loughlin 1894–1979
- Louisa Amelia 1773–1802
- Louise of Baden 1838–1923
- Berta Lutz 1894–1976
- Margaret of Baden 1932—
- Marguerite Louise of Orleans c. 1645–1721
- Maria Anna of Saxony 1795–1865
- Maria Anna of Saxony 1799–1832
- Maria Antonia of Sicily 1814–1898
- Maria Magdalena of Austria 1589–1631
- Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1854–1920
- Marie 1899–1918
- Marie 1900–1961
- Marie Adelaide of Luxemburg 1894–1924
- Marie Alexandrovna 1853–1920
- Marie Feodorovna 1847–1928
- Camilla Martelli fl. 1570s
- Mary of Hesse-Cassel 1796–1880
- Matilda 1813–1862
- Anna Maria de Medici d. 1741
- Vittoria de Medici d. 1694
- Olga 1895–1918
- Olga Alexandrovna 1882–1960
- Olga of Russia 1822–1892
- Pauline of Saxe-Weimar 1852–1904
- Elizabeth Romanov 1826–1845
- Natalya Romanov 1674–1716
- Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg 1759–1828
- Sophia of Nassau 1824–1897
- Sophia of Sweden 1801–1865
- Stephanie de Beauharnais 1789–1860
- Tatiana 1897–1918
- Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg 1876–1936
- Wilhelmine of Baden 1788–1836
- Xenia Alexandrovna 1876–1960
Grand Princess
- Barbara of Byzantium d. 1125
- Christina of Sweden d. 1122
- Gertrude of Poland d. 1107
- Elena Glinski c. 1506–1538
- Julianna of Ruthenia fl. 1377
- Maria of Tver c. 1440–1467
- Marie of Kiev d. 1179
- Solomonia fl. 16th c.
Graphic Artist/designer
- Anni Albers 1899–1994
- Peggy Bacon 1895–1987
- Isabel Bishop 1902–1988
- Virginia Lee Burton 1909–1968
- Toni Carabillo 1926–1997
- Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
- Sue Coe 1951—
- Ray Eames 1912–1988
- Gwen Frostic 1906–2001
- Wanda Gág 1893–1946
- Anne Grahame Johnstone 1928–1998
- Janet Grahame Johnstone 1928–1979
- Nancy Graves 1940–1995
- Lea Grundig 1906–1977
- Zaha Hadid 1950—
- Julie Haydon 1910–1994
- Hannah Höch 1889–1978
- Malvina Hoffman 1885–1966
- Anna Hyatt Huntington 1876–1973
- Lotte Jacobi 1896–1990
- Jessie Marion King 1875–1949
- Marucha 1944–1991
- May Massee 1881–1966
- Emily Arnold McCully 1939—
- Neysa McMein 1888–1949
- Mary Nimmo Moran 1842–1899
- Barbara Morgan 1900–1992
- Vera Mukhina 1889–1953
- Rose Cecil O'Neill 1874–1944
- Agnes Miller Parker 1895–1980
- Pitseolak c. 1900–1983
- Margaret Rose Preston c. 1875–1963
- Henriëtte Roland Holst 1869–1952
- Stella Ross-Craig 1906—
- Celia E. Rosser 1930—
- Renée Sintenis 1888–1965
- Varvara Stepanova 1894–1958
- Dorothea Tanning b. 1910
- Remedios Varo 1906–1963
- Edith von Haynau 1884–1978
- Hilda Alexandra Wiseman 1894–1982
- Mariana Yampolsky 1925–2002
Grocer
- Mary Ann Lake Wallis 1821–1910
Guitarist
- Viv Albertine 1955—
- Irmgard Aluli c. 1912–2001
- Joan Armatrading 1947—
- Liona Boyd 1950—
- Carrie Brownstein 1974—
- Maybelle Carter 1909–1978
- Elizabeth Cotten c. 1893–1987
- Ana Da Silva 1949—
- Iris DeMent 1961—
- Lizzie Douglas 1897–1973
- Exene 1956—
- Jennifer Finch 1966—
- Janet Gardner 1962—
- Suzi Gardner 1960—
- Ronnie Gilbert 1926—
- Kim Gordon 1953—
- P.J. Harvey 1969—
- Chrissie Hynde 1951—
- Cordell Jackson 1923–2004
- Jo Ann Kelly 1944–1990
- Jan Kuehnemund 1961—
- Barbara Lynn 1942—
- Maria McKee 1964—
- Lydia Mendoza 1916—
- Jean Millington 1949—
- June Millington 1950—
- Alice K. Namakelua 1892–1987
- Juice Newton 1952—
- Mary Osborne 1921–1992
- Ida Presti 1924–1967
- Bonnie Raitt 1949—
- Emily Remler 1957–1990
- Maggie Roche 1951—
- Suzzy Roche 1956—
- Terre Roche 1953—
- Teresa de Rogatis 1893–1979
- Donita Sparks 1963—
- Rosetta Tharpe 1915–1973
- Corin Tucker 1972—
- Sylvia Vanderpool 1936—
- Sandy West 1960—
- Lucinda Williams 1953—
- Kate Wolf 1942–1986
Gymnast
- Irene Abel 1953—
- Elena Abrashitova 1974—
- Carmen Acedo 1975—
- Lavinia Agache 1966—
- Estella Agsteribbe 1909–1943
- Toshiko Aihara 1939—
- Eirini Aindili 1983—
- Monique Allen 1971—
- Simona Amanar 1979—
- Bianca Ambrosetti 1914–1929
- Tatyana Ananko 1984—
- Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (1859/64–1933)
- Jeanette Antolin 1981—
- Mary Beth Arnold 1981—
- Tatiana Arzhannikova 1964—
- Polina Astakhova 1936—
- Vanessa Atler 1982—
- Oksana Averkova 1970—
- Helge Backander 1891–1958
- Svetlana Baitova 1972—
- Ladislava Bakanic 1924—
- Erzsebet Balazs 1920—
- Marta Baldo
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- Oana Ban 1986—
- Irina Baraksanova 1969—
- Marian E. Barone 1924–1996
- Yulia Barsukova 1978—
- Anita Barwirth 1918—
- Jana Batyrchina 1979—
- Laetitia Begue 1980—
- Ilona Bekesi 1953—
- Tatyana Belan 1982—
- Galina Beloglazova 1967—
- Irina Belova 1980—
- Olesia Beluguina 1984—
- Senda Berenson 1868–1954
- Jacomina van den Berg 1909—
- Evy Berggren 1934—
- Anna Bessonova 1984—
- Mohini Bhardwaj 1978—
- Olga Bicherova 1966—
- Pamela Bileck 1968—
- Bi Wenjing 1981—
- Bonnie Blair 1964—
- Elisa Blanchi 1987—
- Vanja Blomberg 1929—
- Hana Bobkova 1929—
- Loredana Boboc 1984—
- Natalia Bobrova 1978—
- Nina Bocharova 1924—
- Svetlana Boginskaya 1973—
- Cristina Bontas 1973—
- Amanda Borden 1977—
- Alida van den Bos 1902—
- Eva Bosakova-Vechtova 1931–1991
- Evguenia Botchkareva
- Leah Brown 1975—
- Wendy Bruce 1973—
- Erna Buerger 1909–1958
- Tamara Bunke 1937–1967
- Lyubov Burda 1953—
- Nuria Cabanillas 1980—
- Christa Canary 1962—
- Ann Carr 1958—
- Vera Caslavska 1942—
- Alena Chadimova 1931—
- Merilyn Chapman 1962—
- Chen Cuiting 1971—
- Chen Yongyan 1962—
- Anna Chepeleva 1984—
- Ginko Chiba 1938—
- Amy Chow 1978—
- Evangelia Christodoulou
- Olga Chtyrenko
- Oksana Chusovitina 1975—
- Harriet Clisby 1830–1931
- Linda Cochran 1953—
- Nadia Comaneci 1961—
- Mariana Constantin 1960—
- Monika Csaszar 1954—
- Margit Csillik b. 1914
- Zsuzsa Csisztu 1970—
- Laura Cutina 1968—
- Dorothy Dalton 1922–1973
- Suzanne Dando 1961—
- Pelageya Danilova 1918—
- Jamie Dantzscher 1982—
- Jessica Davis 1978—
- Yelena Davydova 1961—
- Dominique Dawes 1976—
- Vlasta Dekanova 1909–1974
- Elka de Levie 1905–1979
- Ina Deltcheva 1977–
- Bojanka Demireva 1969—
- Lucy Desmond b. 1889
- Eileen Diaz 1979—
- Bozena Dobesova 1914—
- Aurelia Dobre 1972—
- Elena Dolgopolova 1980—
- Carola Dombeck 1960—
- Dong Fangxiao 1983—
- Frazia D'Ottavio 1985—
- Alena Drevjana 1969—
- Nina Dronova
- Diana Dudeva 1968—
- Olesia Dudnik 1974—
- Adriana Dunavska 1970—
- Diane Dunbar
- Rodica Dunca 1965—
- Dianne Durham 1968—
- Michelle Dusserre 1968—
- Medeya Dzhugeli 1925—
- Irina Dziouba
- Emilia Eberle 1964—
- Márti Egervári 1956—
- Meta Elste 1921—
- Alexandra Eremia 1987—
- Gitta Escher 1957—
- Irina Evdokimova 1978—
- Ljudmilla Ezhova 1982—
- Gabriele Fahnrich 1968—
- Marinella Falca 1986—
- Anna Feher 1921—
- Maria Filatova 1961—
- Vlasta Foltova 1913—
- Marcia Frederick 1963—
- Anni Friesinger 1977—
- Isolde Froelian 1908–1957
- Tatiana Frolova 1967—
- Lori Fung 1963—
- Georgeta Gabor 1962—
- Roza Galieva 1977—
- Maria Georgatou c. 1983—
- Kerstin Gerschau 1958—
- Lavinia Gianoni 1911—
- Luigina Giavotti 1916–1976
- Estela Gimenez
- Virginia Giorgi 1914—
- Olga Glatskikh 1989—
- Anna Glazkova 1981—
- Maxi Gnauck 1964—
- Monica Goermann 1964—
- Gina Gogean 1977—
- Eugenia Golea 1969—
- Elena Gomez 1985—
- Michelle Goodwin 1966—
- Mariya Gorokhovskaya 1921—
- Zoya Grancharova 1966—
- Anca Grigoras 1957—
- Cristina Grigoras 1966—
- Angelina Weld Grimké 1880–1958
- Lyudmila Gromova 1942—
- Yelena Grosheva 1979—
- Tatiana Groshkova 1973—
- Muriel Davis Grossfeld 1941—
- Svetlana Grozdeva 1959—
- Yelena Grudneva 1974—
- Diliana Gueorguieva 1965—
- Maria Guigova 1947—
- Erzsebet Gulyasne-Koeteles 1924—
- Lorena Gurendez 1981—
- Elena Gurina
- Elena Gurova 1972—
- Tatyana Gutsu 1976—
- Vanda Hadarean 1976—
- Margaret Hartley
- Miho Hashiguchi 1977—
- Annia Hatch 1978—
- Sherry Hawco d. 1991
- Doris Hedberg 1936—
- Katie Heenan 1985—
- Angelika Hellmann 1954—
- Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway 1820–1894
- Christy Henrich 1973–1994
- Silvia Hindorff 1961—
- Zdeka Honsova 1927–1994
- Marleen Houter 1961—
- Jessica Howard 1984—
- Kathy Howard c. 1961—
- Anna Hrebrinova 1908—
- Huang Mandan 1983—
- Huang Qun 1969—
- Robin Huebner 1961—
- Joanna Hughes 1977—
- Terin Humphrey 1986—
- Georgeta Hurmuzachi 1936—
- Lilia Ignatova 1965—
- Hiroko Ikeda
- Keiko Ikeda 1933—
- Natalia Ilienko 1967—
- Zhaneta Ilieva 1984—
- Irina Ilyenkova 1980—
- Niddy Impekoven 1904—
- Atanasia Ionescu 1935—
- Angelina Iouchkova
- Sonia Iovan 1935—
- Andreea Isarescu 1984—
- Ioulia Ivanova
- Svetlana Ivanova 1974—
- Lidiya Ivanova-Kalinina 1937—
- Amy Jagger
- Aniko Janosine-Ducza 1942—
- Karen Janz 1952—
- Martina Jentsch 1968—
- Ji Liya 1981—
- Brandy Johnson 1973—
- Kathy Johnson 1959—
- Carol Johnston 1958—
- Dorota Jokielowa 1934–1993
- Isabel Judd
- Alina Kabaeva 1983—
- Yekaterina Kalinchuk 1922—
- Natalia Kalinina 1973—
- Margit Kalocsai b. 1909
- Olga Karasyova 1949—
- Maud Karlen 1932—
- Iren Karpati-Karcsics 1927—
- Viktoria Karpenko 1984—
- Zacharoula Karyami 1983—
- Marta Kelemen 1954—
- Ágnes Keleti 1921—
- Karen Kelsall 1962—
- Dagmar Kersten 1970—
- Aliz Kertesz 1935—
- Aniko Kery 1956—
- Romi Kessler 1963—
- Valentina Kevlian 1980—
- Eleonora Kezhova 1985—
- Svetlana Khorkina 1979—
- Nelli Kim 1957—
- Kim Gwang Suk c. 1976—
- Marion Kische 1958—
- Jessie Kite
- Ulrike Klotz 1970—
- Dina Kochetkova 1977—
- Anastasia Kolesnikova 1984—
- Vera Kolesnikova 1968—
- Elizabeth Koleva 1972—
- Maria Koleva
- Olga Korbut 1955—
- Antonina Koshel 1954—
- Oksana Kostina 1972–1993
- Mari Kosuge 1975—
- Natalia Kotowna-Walowa 1938—
- Marie Kovalova 1927—
- Anna Kovalyova 1983—
- Maria Krajcirova 1948—
- Steffi Kraker 1960—
- Elena Krivochei
- Maria Kryuchkova 1988—
- Jana Kubickova-Posnerova 1945—
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- Natalia Kuchinskaya 1949—
- Kui Yuanyuan 1981—
- Theresa Kulikowski 1980—
- Courtney Kupets 1986—
- Tatiana Kurbakova 1986—
- Dalia Kutkaite 1965—
- Evgenia Kuznetsova 1980—
- Jana Labakova 1966—
- Natalie Lacuesta 1981—
- Tania Lamarca 1980—
- Natalia Laschenova 1973—
- Larissa Latynina 1934—
- Natalia Lavrova 1984—
- Tamara Lazakovich 1954—
- Maria Lazuk 1983—
- Lillian Leitzel 1892–1931
- Olga Lemhenyine-Tass 1929—
- Avril Lennox 1956—
- Consetta Lenz 1918–1980
- Florica Leonida 1987—
- Emilie Lepennec 1987—
- Elena Leusteanu 1935—
- Tamara Levinson 1976—
- Karin Lindberg 1929—
- Ling Jie 1982—
- Natalia Lipkovskay 1979—
- Hana Liskova 1952—
- Emilia Lita-Vatasoiu 1933—
- Liu Xuan 1979—
- Maria Isabel Lloret 1971—
- Ionela Loaies 1979—
- Marina Lobatch 1970—
- Ekaterina Lobazniuk 1983—
- Belva Ann Lockwood 1830–1917
- Lu Li 1976—
- Elodie Lussac 1979—
- Oksana Lyapina 1980—
- Tatiana Lysenko 1975—
- Tamara Lyukhina 1939—
- Ilona Madary 1916—
- Katalin Makray 1945—
- Germana Malabarba 1913–2002
- Kristen Maloney 1981—
- Tamara Manina 1934—
- Sabrina Mar 1970—
- Clara Marangoni 1915—
- Eva Mareckova 1964—
- Alexandra Marinescu 1981—
- Mila Marinova 1974—
- Zornitsa Marinova 1987—
- Missy Marlowe 1971—
- Camille Martens 1976—
- Estibaliz Martinez
- Lisa Mason 1982—
- Daniela Masseroni 1985—
- Matylda Matouskova-Sinova 1933—
- Ma Yanhong 1963—
- Courtney McCool 1988—
- Julianne McNamara 1966—
- Krisztina Medveczky 1958—
- Chellsie Memmel 1988—
- Karine Mermet 1974—
- Gabriella Meszaros b. 1913
- Linda Metheny 1948—
- Gertrud Meyer 1914—
- Shannon Miller 1977—
- Phoebe Mills 1972—
- Lavinia Milosovici 1976—
- Galina Minaicheva 1929—
- Miloslava Misakova 1922—
- Alla Misnik 1967—
- Silvia Mitova 1976—
- Hanako Miura 1975—
- Dominique Moceanu 1981—
- Noriko Mochizuki 1967—
- Mo Huilan 1979—
- Andrea Molnar 1975—
- Andrea Molnarne-Bodo 1934—
- Marjorie Moreman
- Patricia Moreno 1988—
- Maiko Morio 1967—
- Olga Mostepanova 1968—
- Milena Muellerova 1923—
- Elena Mukhina 1960—
- Sofiya Muratova 1929—
- Elena Murzina 1984—
- Zsuzsanna Nagy 1951—
- Elena Naimushina 1964—
- Taniko Nakamura 1943—
- Maria Neculita 1974—
- Maria Netessova 1983—
- Elena Niculescu-Margarit 1936—
- Margarita Nikolayeva 1935—
- Marianne Noack 1951—
- Helena Nordheim 1903–1943
- Hjoerdis Nordin 1932—
- Cheko Oda
- Betty Okino 1975—
- Maria Olaru 1982—
- Oksana Omelianchik 1970—
- Kiyoko Ono 1936—
- Henrietta Onodi 1974—
- Lenka Oulehlova 1973—
- Eva Ovari 1961—
- Matylda Palfyova 1912–1944
- Bianca Panova 1970—
- Charikleia Pantazi 1985—
- Mirela Pasca 1975—
- Carolina Pascual 1976—
- Carly Patterson 1988—
- Simona Pauca 1969—
- Yevgenia Pavlina 1979—
- Anna Pavlova 1987—
- Luigina Perversi 1914–1983
- Larissa Petrik 1949—
- Maria Petrova 1975—
- Oana Petrovschi 1986—
- Ann-Sofi Pettersson 1932—
- Goeta Pettersson 1926—
- Jaycie Phelps 1979—
- Kristie Phillips 1972—
- Edith Carrie Pickles
- Bohumila Pimnacova 1947—
- Elena Piskun 1978—
- Diana Pizzavini 1911–1989
- Margit Plachyne-Korondi 1932—
- Lilia Podkopayeva 1978—
- Paula Poehlsen 1913—
- Anna Polak 1906–1943
- Anna Pollatou 1983—
- Iveta Polokova 1970—
- Alëna Polozkova 1979—
- Catalina Ponor 1987—
- Celestina Popa 1970—
- Eugenia Popa 1973—
- Diana Popova 1976—
- Uta Poreceanu 1936—
- Elena Posevina 1986—
- Ashley Postell 1986—
- Gabriela Potorac 1973—
- Kristy Powell 1980—
- Claudia Presacan 1979—
- Hayley Price
- Elena Produnova 1980—
- Olga Puzhevich 1983—
- Jana Rabasova 1933—
- Birgit Radochla 1945—
- Andreea Raducan 1983—
- Iliana Raeva 1963—
- Helena Rakoczy 1921—
- Anelia Ralenkova 1963—
- Kristina Ranguelova 1985—
- Yulia Raskina 1982—
- Elise Ray 1982—
- Alena Reichova 1933—
- Milena Reljin 1967—
- Katharina Rensch 1964—
- Mary Lou Retton 1968—
- Hana Ricna 1968—
- Cathy Rigby 1952—
- Eva Roenstroem 1932—
- Gun Roering 1930—
- Monica Rosu 1987—
- Eva Rueda 1971—
- Melita Ruehn 1965—
- Ernestine Russell 1938—
- Hana Ruzickova 1941–1981
- Vera Ruzickova 1928—
- Elvira Saadi 1952—
- Elena Sacalici 1937—
- Stella Salapatyska 1979—
- Ingrid Sandahl 1924—
- Margit Sandorne-Nagy 1921—
- Sang Lan 1981—
- Elisa Santoni 1987—
- Elena Sazonenkova 1973—
- Angelika Schennikova 1969—
- Bettina Schieferdecker 1968—
- Helen Schifano 1922—
- Elfi Schlegel 1964—
- Richarda Schmeisser 1954—
- Magdalena Schmidt 1949—
- Christine Schmitt 1953—
- Julie Schmitt b. 1913
- Clara Schroth 1920—
- Rhonda Schwandt 1963—
- Tasha Schwikert 1984—
- Jaroslava Sedlackova 1946—
- Yekaterina Serebrianskaya 1977—
- Jennifer Sey 1969—
- Ethel Seymour 1881–1963
- Elena Shalamova 1982—
- Galina Shamray-Rudko 1931—
- Natalia Shaposhnikova 1961—
- Liubov Sheremeta 1980—
- Elena Shevchenko 1971—
- Vera Shimanskaya 1981—
- Miho Shinoda 1972—
- Albina Shishova 1966—
- Elena Shushunova 1969—
- Olga Silhanova 1920–1986
- Daniela Silivas 1970—
- Anita Simonis 1926—
- Andrea Sinko 1967—
- Oksana Skaldina 1972—
- Miroslava Sklenickova 1951—
- Barbara Slizowska 1938—
- Ada Smith
- Hilda Smith
- Daniela Sofronie 1988—
- Kate Sohnemann 1913—
- Elena Sokolova
- Bozena Srncova 1925—
- Danuta Stachow 1934—
- Chelle Stack 1973—
- Brenann Stacker 1987—
- Doina Staiculescu 1967—
- Mihaela Stanulet 1966—
- Ute Starke 1939—
- Jacoba Stelma 1907—
- Beata Storczer 1969—
- Ludmila Stovbchataya 1974—
- Boriana Stoyanova 1968—
- Olga Strazheva 1972—
- Silvia Stroescu 1985—
- Lori Strong 1972—
- Kerri Strug 1977—
- Karola Sube 1964—
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- Birgit Suess 1962—
- Risa Sugawara 1977—
- Lydmila Svedova-Schoenova 1936—
- Ecaterina Szabo 1966—
- Violette Szabo 1921–1945
- Lidia Szczerbinska-Krolowa 1935—
- Maja Tabakova 1978—
- Tracee Talavera 1966—
- Ivelina Taleva 1979—
- Galina Tancheva 1987—
- Vladislava Tancheva 1987—
- Luisa Tanzini b. 1914
- Irina Tchachina 1982—
- Olga Teslenko 1981—
- Judikje Themans-Simons 1904–1943
- Donielle Thompson 1981—
- Jennie Thompson 1981—
- Doerte Thuemmler-Pawlak 1971—
- Rachel Tidd 1984—
- Alexandra Timochenko 1972—
- Adolfina Tkacikova-Tacova 1939—
- Judit Toth b. 1906
- Ludmila Tourischeva 1952—
- Yvonne Tousek 1980—
- Olga Troes 1914—
- Carolina Tronconi b. 1913
- Gabriela Trusca 1957—
- Mirela Tugurlan 1980—
- Dumitrita Turner 1964—
- Stella Umeh 1975—
- Corina Ungureanu 1980—
- Teodora Ungureanu 1960—
- Galina Urbanovich 1917—
- Vera Vancurova 1932—
- Anna van der Vegt 1903–1983
- Petronella Van Randwijk 1905–1978
- Hendrika van Rumt b. 1897
- Edit Vasarhelyi Weckinger 1923—
- Vjara Vatachka 1980—
- Ines Vercesi 1916–1997
- Zdena Vermirovska 1913—
- Laura Vernizzi 1985—
- Marie Vetrovska 1912–1987
- Hollie Vise 1987—
- Elena Vitrichenko 1976—
- Rita Vittadini 1914–2000
- Franka Voigt 1963—
- Camelia Voinea 1970—
- Eszter Voit 1916—
- Yelena Volchetskaya 1943—
- Giulia Volpi 1970—
- Regina Weber 1963—
- Morgan White 1983—
- Jane Whiteside 1855–1875
- Anja Wilhelm 1968—
- Doris Woods
- Wu Jiani 1966—
- Xiaojiao Sun 1984—
- Yang Bo 1973—
- Yang Yun c. 1984—
- Lyudmila Yegorova 1931—
- Natalia Yurchenko 1965—
- Olga Yurkina 1976—
- Stella Zakharova 1963—
- Maria Zalaine-Koevi 1923—
- Elena Zamolodchikova 1982—
- Amina Zaripova 1976—
- Maria Zasipkina 1985—
- Svetlana Zelepukina 1980—
- Zhang Nan 1986—
- Zhou Ping 1968—
- Zhou Qiurui 1967—
- Natalia Ziganshina 1985—
- Irina Zilber c. 1980—
- Kim Zmeskal 1976—
- Erika Zuchold 1947—
Gynecological Surgeon
- Mary Ann Scharlieb 1845–1930
Gynecologist
- Fae Margaret Adams 1918—
- Josephine Barnes 1912–1999
- Emily Dunning Barringer 1876–1961
- Phyllis Cilento 1894–1987
- Emeline Horton Cleveland 1829–1878
- Gao Yaojie c. 1927—
- Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead 1867–1941
- Elizabeth Hurdon 1868–1941
- Sophia Kleegman 1901–1971
- Lena Levine 1903–1965
- Lin Qiaozhi 1901–1983
- Helen MacMurchy 1862–1953
- Helen Putnam 1857–1951
- Elizabeth M. Ramsey 1906–1993
- Hannah Stone 1893–1941
- Hanna Sulner 1917–1999
- Marie Vögtlin 1845–1916
- Rosalie Wijnberg 1887–1973
- Helena Wright 1887–1982
Handball Player
- Svetlana Anastasovski 1961—
- Anja Jul Andersen 1969—
- Camilla Andersen 1973—
- Kjerstin Andersen 1958—
- Kristine Andersen 1976—
- Eva Angyal 1955—
- Natalya Anisimova 1960—
- Heidi Astrup 1972—
- Gabriele Badorek 1952—
- Beatrix Balogh 1974—
- Marina Bazanova 1962—
- Susann Goksoer Bjerkrheim 1970—
- Svetlana Bogdanova 1964—
- Nataliya Borysenko 1975—
- Galina Borzenkova 1964—
- Tina Bottzau 1971—
- Karen Brodsgaard 1978—
- Agota Bujdoso 1943—
- Ganna Burmystrova 1977—
- Hannelore Burosch 1947—
- Cha Jae-Kyung 1971—
- Chen Zhen 1963—
- Cho Eun-Hee 1972—
- Choi Im-Jeong 1981—
- Klara Csikne-Horvath 1947—
- Alenka Cuderman 1961—
- Mona Dahle 1970—
- Svetlana Dasic-Kitic 1960—
- Line Daugaard 1978—
- Rita Deli c. 1972—
- Natalya Deryugina 1971—
- Berit Digre 1967—
- Slavic Djukica 1960—
- Mirjana Djurica 1961—
- Radmila Drljaca 1959—
- Kristine Duvholt 1974—
- Tatyana Dzhandzhgava 1964—
- Siri Eftedal 1966—
- Marthe Eliasson 1969—
- Emilija Ercic 1962—
- Eva Erdos
- Ann Eriksen 1971—
- Agnes Farkas 1973—
- Andrea Farkas c. 1969—
- Marianne Florman 1964—
- Hege Froeseth 1969—
- Katrine Fruelund 1978—
- Gao Xiumin 1963—
- Tatyana Glushchenko 1956—
- Susann Goksoer 1970—
- Tatyana Gorb 1965—
- Kjersti Grini 1971—
- Maja Gronbek 1971—
- Lyudmila Gudz 1969—
- Elina Guseva 1964—
- Trine Haltvik 1965—
- Conny Hamann 1969—
- Han Hwa-Soo 1963—
- Han Hyun-Sook 1970—
- Anja Hansen 1973—
- Christina Roslyng Hansen 1978—
- Han Sun-Hee 1973—
- Hanne Hegh 1960—
- Birgit Heinecke 1957—
- He Jianping 1963—
- Henriette Henriksen 1970—
- Elisabeth Hilmo 1976—
- Anette Hoffman 1971—
- Beata Hoffmann
- Hanne Hogness 1967—
- Iryna Honcharova 1974—
- Hong Jeong-Ho 1974—
- Huh Soon-Young 1975—
- Huh Young-Sook 1975—
- Mia Hundvin 1977—
- Katica Iles 1946—
- Jang Ri-Ra 1969—
- Jang So-Hee 1978—
- Ljubinka Jankovic 1958—
- Trine Jensen 1980—
- Jeong Hyoi-Soon 1964—
- Slavica Jeremic 1957—
- Jeung Soon-Bok 1960—
- Vibeke Johnsen 1968—
- Rikke Horlykke Jorgensen 1976—
- Kang Jae-Won 1965—
- Aniko Kantor
- Larisa Karlova 1958—
- Zsuzsanna Kezine-Pethoe 1945—
- Lotte Kiaerskou 1975—
- Kim Cha-Youn 1981—
- Kim Cheong-Shim 1976—
- Kim Choon-Rye 1966—
- Kim Eun-Mi 1975—
- Kim Hwa-Sook 1971—
- Kim Hyun-Mi 1967—
- Kim Hyun-Ok 1974—
- Ki Mi-Sook 1967—
- Kim Jeong-Mi 1975—
- Kim Kyung-Soon 1965—
- Kim Mi-Sim 1970—
- Kim Mi-Sook 1962—
- Kim Myong-Soon 1964—
- Kim Ok-Hwa 1958—
- Kim Rang 1974—
- Larisa Kiselyova 1970—
- Tonje Kjaergaard 1975—
- Tatyana Kochergina-Makarets 1956—
- Erzsebet Kocsis
- Beatrix Kokeny
- Jasna Kolar-Merdan 1956—
- Janne Kolling 1968—
- Roswitha Krause 1949—
- Waltraud Kretzschmar 1948—
- Katrin Krueger 1959—
- Anita Kulcsar 1976—
- Kornelia Kunisch 1959—
- Kwag Hye-Jeong 1975—
- Katalin Lakine-Toth Harsanyi 1948—
- Natalya Lapitskaya 1962—
- Tonje Larsen 1975—
- Susanne Lauritsen 1967—
- Lee Gong-Joo 1980—
- Lee Ho-Youn 1971—
- Lee Ki-Soon 1966—
- Lee Mi-Young 1969—
- Lee Sang-Eun 1975—
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- Lee Soon-Ei 1965—
- Lee Young-Ja 1964—
- Cecilie Leganger 1975—
- Rozalia Lelkesne-Tomann 1950—
- Lim Mi-Kyung 1967—
- Lim O-Kyung 1971—
- Mariya Litoshenko 1949—
- Liu Liping 1958—
- Liu Yumei 1961—
- Nina Lobova 1957—
- Dora Lowy 1977—
- Valentina Lutayeva-Berzina 1956—
- Nataliya Lyapina 1976—
- Gitte Madsen 1969—
- Svetlana Mankova 1962—
- Galyna Markushevska 1976—
- Eszter Matefi
- Auguszta Matyas
- Evelyn Matz 1955—
- Marta Megyerine-Pacsai 1952—
- Aniko Meksz 1965—
- Liane Michaelis 1953—
- Kristin Midthun 1961—
- Henriette Roende Mikkelsen 1980—
- Vesna Milolevic 1955—
- Min Hye-Sook 1970—
- Natalya Mitryuk 1959—
- Moon Hyang-Ja 1972—
- Moon Kyeong-Ha 1980—
- Moon Pil-Hee 1982—
- Natalya Morskova 1966—
- Karin Mortensen 1977—
- Ljiljana Mugosa 1962—
- Svetlana Mugosa 1964—
- Myoung Bok-Hee 1979—
- Aniko Nagy
- Ilona Nagy 1951—
- Marianna Nagy 1957—
- Nam Eun-Young 1970—
- Yelena Nemashkalo 1963—
- Erzsebet Nemeth 1953—
- Helga Nemeth 1973—
- Aldona Neneniene-Casaitite 1949—
- Anja Nielsen 1975—
- Jeanette Nilsen 1972—
- Louise Bager Noergaard 1982—
- Lyubov Odinokova-Berezhnaya 1955—
- Mirjana Ognjenovic 1953—
- Oh Sung-Ok 1972—
- Oh Yong-Ran 1972—
- Galina Onoprienko 1963—
- Ildiko Padar 1970—
- Irina Palchikova 1959—
- Katalin Palinger 1978—
- Lyudmila Panchuk 1956—
- Park Jeong-Lim 1970—
- Park Kap-Sook 1970—
- Eva Paskuy 1948—
- Zorica Pavicevic 1956—
- Karin Pettersen 1964—
- Krisztina Pigniczki 1975—
- Lyudmila Poradnik-Bobrus 1946—
- Svetlana Pryakhina 1970—
- Jasna Ptujec 1959—
- Olena Radchenko 1973—
- Vesna Radovic 1950—
- Bojana Radulovic c. 1973—
- Lene Rantala 1968—
- Oxana Rayhel 1977—
- Kristina Richter 1946—
- Sabine Roether 1957—
- Marianne Rokne 1978—
- Christina Rost 1952—
- Renate Rudolph 1949—
- Natalya Rusnachenko 1969—
- Birgitte Saettem 1978—
- Yuliya Safina 1950—
- Tonje Sagstuen 1971—
- Monica Sandve 1973—
- Rada Savic 1961—
- Larisa Savkina 1955—
- Rikke Schmidt 1975—
- Olga Semyonova 1964—
- Rafiga Shabanova 1943—
- Lyudmyla Shevchenko 1975—
- Shon Mi-Na 1964—
- Lyudmila Shubina 1948—
- Tetyana Shynkarenko 1978—
- Silvia Siefert 1953—
- Karin Singstad 1958—
- Beata Siti c. 1974—
- Ganna Siukalo 1976—
- Annette Skotvoll 1968—
- Rikke Skov 1980—
- Song Ji-Hyun 1969—
- Else-Marthe Sørlie 1978—
- Amalia Sterbinszky 1950—
- Stephane Stoecklin 1969—
- Sigita Strecen-Maseikaite 1958—
- Suk Min-Hee 1968—
- Heidi Sundal 1962—
- Gitte Sunesen 1971—
- Sung Kyung-Hwa 1965—
- Sun Xiulan 1961—
- Cathrine Svendsen 1967—
- Anna Szanto
- Katalin Szilagyi
- Anne Dorthe Tanderup 1972—
- Camilla Ingemann Thomsen 1974—
- Marion Tietz 1952—
- Natalya Timoshkina-Sherstyuk 1952—
- Ana Titlic 1952—
- Heidi Tjugum 1973—
- Beatrix Toth
- Borbala Toth Harsanyi 1946—
- Josephine Touray 1979—
- Yevgeniya Tovstogan 1965—
- Olena Tsygitsa 1975—
- Zinaida Turchina 1946—
- Petra Uhlig 1954—
- Maria Vadaszne-Vanya 1950—
- Maryna Vergelyuk 1978—
- Mette Vestergaard 1975—
- Biserka Visnjic 1953—
- Zorica Vojinovic 1958—
- Christina Voss 1952—
- Wang Linwei 1956—
- Wang Mingxing 1961—
- Woo Sun-Hee 1978—
- Claudia Wunderlich 1956—
- Wu Xingjiang 1957—
- Olena Yatsenko 1977—
- Yoon Byung-Soon 1963—
- Yoon Soo-Kyung 1964—
- Dragica Yuric 1963—
- Galina Zakharova 1947—
- Larysa Zaspa 1971—
- Zhang Meihong 1963—
- Zhang Peijun 1958—
- Zhu Juefeng 1964—
- Hannelore Zober 1946—
- Tamasne Zsembery 1967—
- Olga Zubareva 1958—
Harness Racer
- Pearl Kelly 1894–1983
- Anne, Duchesse d' Uzès 1847–1933
Harpist
- Alice Coltrane 1937—
- Marie Goossens 1894–1991
- Sidonie Goossens 1899–2004
- Maria Korchinska 1895–1979
- Lily Laskine 1893–1988
- Bertha Honoré Palmer 1849–1918
- Valentina Visconti 1366–1408
Harpsichordist
- Maria Teresa Agnesi 1720–1795
- Raffaella Aleotti c. 1570–c. 1646
- Vittoria Aleotti c. 1573–c. 1620
- Amalie of Saxony 1794–1870
- Anna Amalia of Prussia 1723–1787
- Anna Magdalena Bach 1701–1760
- Francesca Caccini 1587–c. 1626
- Ann Carr-Boyd 1938—
- Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre c. 1666– 1729
- Martha Jefferson 1748–1782
- Eileen Joyce 1912—
- Clotilde Kleeberg 1866–1909
- Greta Kraus 1907–1998
- Wanda Landowska 1877–1959
- Marie Lavoisier 1758–1836
- Maria Antonia of Austria 1724–1780
- Mariana Victoria 1768–1788
- Marianne Martinez 1744–1812
- Joyce Mekeel 1931—
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney 1722–1793
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Pompadour
- Duchesse de 1721–1764
- Sara Coppia Sullam 1590–1641
- Lucille Wallace 1898–1977
Hawaiian Dancer
- Carole Landis 1919–1948
- Princess Lei Lokelani c. 1898–1921
- Kini Wilson 1872–1962
Headmistress
Health-center Founder
Health Educator
Heiress
- Alexandra of Denmark 1844–1925
- Anne of Brittany c. 1477–1514
- Anne of Warwick 1456–1485
- Margaret Beaufort 1443–1509
- Bethoc fl. 1000
- Romaine Brooks 1874–1970
- Angela Burdett-Coutts 1814–1906
- Jane Welsh Carlyle 1801–1866
- Charlotte of Lusignan 1442–1487
- Lucia Chase 1897–1986
- Elizabeth de Clare 1295–1360
- Constance Drexel 1894–1956
- Doris Duke 1912–1993
- Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122–1204
- Elizabeth of Luxemburg 1409–1442
- Ermengarde of Narbonne c. 1120–c. 1194
- Margaret Gomez-Acebo fl. 20th c.
- Rebekah Harkness 1915–1982
- Barbara Hutton 1912–1979
- Isabel de Warrenne c. 1137–1203
- Isabella de Redvers 1237–1293
- Isabel of Brazil 1846–1921
- Jacqueline of Hainault 1401–1436
- Bertha Krupp 1886–1957
- Katherine Mansfield 1888–1923
- Marie Feodorovna 1847–1928
- Mary of Burgundy 1457–1482
- Matilda de Dammartin d. 1258
- Edith Rockefeller McCormick 1872–1932
- Evalyn Walsh McLean 1886–1947
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- Melisande fl. 1100
- Mary Russell Mitford 1787–1855
- Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Montpensier
- Duchesse de 1627–1693
- Florence Nightingale 1820–1910
- Christina Onassis 1950–1988
- Kay Sage 1898–1963
- George Sand 1804–1876
- Germaine de Staël 1766–1817
- Marietta Palla Strozzi fl. 1468
- Alexandrine Tinné 1839–1869
- Anne, Duchesse d' Uzès 1847–1933
- Consuelo Vanderbilt 1877–1964
- Gloria Vanderbilt 1924—
- Leona Vicario 1789–1842
- Dorothy Payne Whitney 1887–1968
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1875–1942
Heptathlete
- Anke Behmer-Vater 1961—
- Irina Belova 1968—
- Sabine Braun 1965—
- Sabine Everts 1961—
- Sabine John-Paetz-Moebius 1957—
- Florence Griffith Joyner 1959–1998
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1962—
- Carolina Kluft 1983—
- Denise Lewis 1972—
- Glynis Nunn 1960—
- Yelena Prokhorova 1978—
- Tessa Sanderson 1956—
- Natalya Sazanovich 1973—
- Ghada Shouaa 1972—
- Austra Skujyte 1979—
- Kelly Sotherton 1976—
Herbalist
- Mary Joseph Aubert 1835–1926
- Ann Boyce c. 1827–1914
Heretic (accused)
- Anne Askew c. 1521–1546
- Elizabeth I of England 1533–1603
- Furneria of Mirepoix fl. 13th c.
- Zinaida Gippius 1869–1945
- Guglielma of Milan d. 1282
- Jeanne Marie Bouviéres de la Mothe Guyon
(1648–1717)
- Anne Hutchinson 1591–1643
- Jeanne d'Albret 1528–1572
- Joan of Arc c. 1412–1431
- Julian of Norwich c. 1342–c. 1416
- Anne Line d. 1601
- Lombarda b. 1190
- Margaret of Angouleˆme 1492–1549
- Mayfreda de Pirovano d. 1300
- Marina Mniszek c. 1588–1614
- Philippa of Foix fl. 13th c.
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Pompadour
- Duchesse de 1721–1764
- Katharina Schütz Zell c. 1497–1562
Heroine
- Sarah Aaronsohn 1890–1917
- Adela of Blois 1062–c. 1137
- Agostina 1788–1857
- Alice of Battenberg 1885–1969
- Brites de Almeida fl. 1385
- Melchora Aquino 1812–1919
- Fanny von Arnstein 1758–1818
- Anne Askew c. 1521–1546
- Nora Astorga 1949–1988
- Juana Azurduy de Padilla 1781–1862
- Anna Warner Bailey 1758–1851
- Clara Barton 1821–1912
- Ba Trieu 225–248
- Manuela Béltran fl. 18th c.
- Annie Besant 1847–1933
- Maria Botchkareva 1889–?
- Laskarina Bouboulina 1771–1825
- Djamila Bouhired 1937—
- Belle Boyd 1844–1900
- Elsa Brandstrom 1888–1948
- Amy Brousse 1910–1963
- Kady Brownell b. 1842
- Angélique Bruˆlon 1772–1859
- Anne Brusselsmans
- Mary Bryant 1765–?
- Maria Bueno 1939—
- Marija Bursac 1921–1943
- Martha Jane Cannary 1852–1903
- Mathilde Carré 1908–c. 1970
- Danielle Casanova 1909–1943
- Catherine de Clermont fl. 16th c.
- Edith Cavell 1865–1915
- Elizabeth Choy b. 1910
- Cloelia c. 508 BCE
- Marianne Cohn 1921–1944
- Margaret Cochran Corbin 1751–c. 1800
- Mary Cornish c. 1899–?
- Grace Darling 1815–1842
- Lydia Barrington Darragh 1729–1789
- Alexandra David-Neel 1868–1969
- Geneviève de Galard 1925—
- Marguerite Delaye fl. 1569
- Ellen Curtis Demorest 1824–1898
- Uli Derickson 1944–2005
- Jimena Diaz fl. 1074–1100
- Blaga Dimitrova 1922—
- Katica Dobo fl. 1552
- Marie Dorion c. 1790–1850
- Agnes Dunbar 1312–1369
- Hannah Dustin 1657–c. 1736
- Amelia Earhart 1897–1937
- Elizabeth of Bavaria 1876–1965
- Greta Fischer 1909–1988
- Milly Francis c. 1802–1848
- Elma Francois 1897–1944
- Eliza Fraser c. 1798–1858
- Barbara Frietschie 1766–1862
- Anita Garibaldi c. 1821–1849
- Polina Gelman 1919—
- Miep Gies b. 1909
- Godiva c. 1040–1080
- Haika Grossman 1919–1996
- Gwenllian of Wales fl. 1137
- Jeanne Hachette c. 1454–?
- Clara Hale 1905–1992
- Nancy Hart c. 1735–1830
- Nancy Hart c. 1846–1902
- Liselotte Herrmann 1909–1938
- Myra Hess 1890–1965
- Maryse Hilsz 1903–1946
- Jozka Jaburkova d. 1944
- Aletta Jacobs 1854–1929
- Jadwiga 1374–1399
- Appolonia Jagiello 1825–1866
- Gregoria de Jesus 1875–1943
- Joan of Arc c. 1412–1431
- Judith fl. early 6th c. BCE
- Noor Inayat Khan 1914–1944
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya 1923–1941
- Claire Lacombe 1765–?
- Lakshmibai c. 1835–1858
- Jane Lane d. 1689
- Ida Lewis 1842–1911
- Lidiya Litvyak 1921–1943
- Sybil Ludington 1761–1839
- Flora Macdonald 1722–1790
- Marie of Rumania 1875–1938
- Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley 1754–1832
- Messene fl. early 12th c. BCE
- Louise Michel 1830–1905
- Paule Mink 1839–1901
- Patria Mirabal de González 1924–1960
- María Teresa Mirabal de Guzmán 1936–1960
- Mirabal Sisters
- Sally Mugabe 1932–1992
- Yvonne Nevejean 1900–1987
- Matilda Newport c. 1795–1837
- Käte Niederkirchner 1909–1944
- Florence Nightingale 1820–1910
- Romola Nijinska 1891–1978
- Lina Odena 1911–1936
- Irene Opdyke 1918–2003
- Maria Paasche 1909–2000
- Eleonora Pimentel c. 1768–1799
- Qiu Jin c. 1875–1907
- Alma Reed 1889–1966
- Lola Rodríguez de Tió 1843–1924
- Pola Salavarrieta 1795–1817
- Flora Sandes 1876–1956
- Odette Sansom 1912–1995
- Laura Secord 1775–1868
- Irena Sendler b. 1910
- Hannah Senesh 1921–1944
- Shizuka Gozen fl. 12th c.
- Caterina Sigurana fl. 1543
- Ona Simaite 1899–1970
- Maria Spiridonova 1884–1941
- Charlotte Stanley 1599–1664
- Trinidad Tescon 1848–1928
- Truganini 1812–1876
- Moscho Tzavella 1760–1803
- Madeleine de Vercheres 1678–1747
- Lise Villameur 1905–2004
- Helen Walker 1710–1791
- Mathilda Wrede 1864–1928
- Yaa Asantewaa c. 1850–1921
- Betty Zane c. 1766–c. 1831
- Ilona Zrinyi 1643–1703
High Jumper
Historian
- Evelyn Abbott 1843–1901
- Annie Heloise Abel 1873–1947
- Patsy Adam-Smith 1924–2001
- Hélène Ahrweiler 1916—
- Lucy Aikin 1781–1864
- Octavia V.R. Albert 1853–c. 1899
- Vera Aleksandrovna 1895–1966
- Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo 1936—
- Félicité Angers 1845–1924
- Anna Comnena 1083–1153/55
- Monica E. Baly 1914–1998
- Nina Bang 1866–1928
- Ban Zhao c. 45–c. 120
- Anna Letitia Barbauld 1743–1825
- Pilar Barbosa 1898–1997
- Arvède Barine 1840–1908
- Margaret Scolari Barr 1901–1987
- Iris Barry 1895–1969
- Mary Ritter Beard 1876–1958
- Jillian Becker 1932—
- Gertrude Bell 1868–1926
- Mary Benson 1919–2000
- Mary Berenson 1864–1944
- Agustina Bessa-Luís 1922—
- Margaret Bonds 1913–1972
- Dorothy Borg 1901–1993
- Jeanne Bourin 1922–2004
- Julie Braun-Vogelstein 1883–1971
- Renate Burgess 1910–1988
- Mabel Burkholder 1881–1973
- Helen May Butler 1867–1957
- Helen M. Cam 1885–1968
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- Toni Carabillo 1926–1997
- Elizabeth Carter 1717–1806
- Julia Cartwright 1851–1924
- Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson 1897–1977
- Gertrude Caton-Thompson 1888–1985
- Frances Manwaring Caulkins 1795–1869
- Rafaela Chacón Nardi 1926–2001
- Iris Chang 1968–2004
- Christine de Pizan c. 1363–c. 1431
- Margaret Clapp 1910–1974
- Clarisse Coignet 1823–?
- Joanna Carver Colcord 1882–1960
- Helena Concannon 1878–1952
- Catherine Holway Cruft 1927—
- Lucy Dawidowicz 1915–1990
- Angie Debo 1890–1988
- Emily Dilke 1840–1904
- Henrietta Drake-Brockman 1901–1968
- Ariel Durant 1898–1981
- Dorothy Eady 1904–1981
- Françoise d' Eaubonne 1920–2005
- Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm 1865–1946
- Amelia B. Edwards 1831–1892
- Lotte Eisner 1896–1983
- Elizabeth Ellet c. 1812–1877
- Maud Howe Elliott 1854–1948
- Florence Hawley Ellis 1906–1991
- Gabrielle Enthoven 1868–1950
- Joan M. Eyles 1907–1986
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879–1958
- Esther Forbes 1891–1967
- Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
- Frances D. Gage 1808–1884
- Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa 1926—
- Doris Kearns Goodwin 1943—
- Margaret Gowing 1921–1998
- Nicolete Gray 1911–1997
- Alice Stopford Green 1847–1929
- Constance McLaughlin Green 1897–1975
- Mary Anne Everett Green 1818–1895
- Gulbadan c. 1522–1603
- Agnes Gund 1938—
- Liubov Gurevich 1866–1940
- Edith Hamilton 1867–1963
- Jane Ellen Harrison 1850–1928
- Harriet Boyd Hawes 1871–1945
- Jacquetta Hawkes 1910–1996
- Mary Hayden 1862–1942
- Abby Hemenway 1828–1890
- Mary St. Domitille Hickey 1882–1958
- Mary Howitt 1799–1888
- Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim c. 935–1001
- Beatrice Fry Hyslop 1899–1973
- Anne-Stine Ingstad c. 1918–1997
- Julia Kavanagh 1824–1877
- Louise Phelps Kellogg 1862–1942
- Margaret Kiddle 1914–1958
- Grace Elizabeth King c. 1852–1932
- Vera Krasovskaya d. 1999
- Maria Kuncewicz 1899–1989
- Martha J.R. Lamb 1826–1893
- Abby Leach 1855–1918
- Ida Lee 1865–1943
- Margaret Leech 1893–1974
- Rosamond Lehmann 1901–1990
- Gerda Lerner 1920—
- Vera Lesik 1910–1975
- Meridel Le Sueur 1900–1996
- Pauline de Lézardière 1754–1835
- Jessie Litchfield 1883–1956
- Deborah Norris Logan 1761–1839
- Elizabeth Longford 1906—
- Dorothy Lowry-Corry 1885–1967
- Dorothy Macardle 1889–1958
- Catharine Macaulay 1731–1791
- Rose Macaulay 1881–1958
- Grace Harriet Macurdy 1866–1946
- Carmen Martín Gaite 1925—
- Constantia Maxwell 1886–1962
- May McKisack 1900–1981
- Hélène Metzger 1889–1944
- Susanne Miller 1915—
- Dorothy Miner 1904–1973
- Lucy Mitchell 1845–1888
- Rosalind Mitchison 1919–2002
- Tamae Mizuta 1929—
- Sibyl Moholy-Nagy 1903–1971
- Jan Morris 1926—
- Vera P. Mutafchieva 1929—
- Nellie Neilson 1873–1947
- Joan Nestle 1940—
- Kate Norgate 1853–1935
- Zelia Nuttall 1857–1933
- Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven 1909–1989
- Pamphila fl. 1st c.
- Alexandra Papariga 1945—
- Annie Smith Peck 1850–1935
- Lillian Margery Penson 1896–1963
- Eulalia Arrila de Pérez c. 1773–c. 1878
- Maude Petre 1863–1942
- Hariata Whakatau Pitini-Morera (1871/72?–1938)
- Eileen Power 1889–1940
- Bertha Haven Putnam 1872–1960
- Louise Robert-Kéralio 1758–1821
- Anna Rochester 1880–1966
- Annie Romein-Verschoor 1895–1978
- Natalia Roslavleva 1907–1977
- Constance Rover 1910–2005
- Sheila Rowbotham 1943—
- Mariam Rozhanskaya 1928—
- Mildred Rutherford 1851–1928
- Lucy Maynard Salmon 1853–1927
- Mari Sandoz 1896–1966
- Zinaida Shakhovskaya 1906–2001
- Constance Lindsay Skinner 1877–1939
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
- Dale Spender 1943—
- Hilde Spiel 1911–1990
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902
- Sara Yorke Stevenson 1847–1921
- Alice Stopford Green 1847–1929
- Agnes Strickland 1796–1874
- Lucy Stuart Sutherland 1903–1980
- Eva Taylor 1879–1966
- Rose Tremain 1943—
- Barbara Tuchman 1912–1989
- Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho 1847–1921
- Frances Victor 1826–1902
- Marina Warner 1946—
- Mercy Otis Warren 1728–1814
- C.V. Wedgwood 1910–1997
- Ann Welch 1917–2002
- Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1845–1928
- Mabel Whitaker 1884–1976
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams 1878–1944
- Ola Elizabeth Winslow c. 1885–1977
- Elizabeth Meta Wiskemann 1899–1971
- Helen Sumner Woodbury 1876–1933
- Cecil Woodham-Smith 1896–1977
- Dorothy Wordsworth 1771–1855
- Mary Clabaugh Wright 1917–1970
- Muriel Hazel Wright 1889–1975
- Tomoko Yamazaki 1931—
- Frances Amelia Yates 1899–1981
Historical-fiction Writer
- Mary Raymond Andrews 1860–1936
- Gertrude Atherton 1857–1948
- Marie Catherine, Countess d' (c. 1650– Aulnoy
1705)
- Amelia Huddleston Barr 1831–1919
- Marthe Lucie Bibesco 1887–1973
- María Luisa Bombal 1910–1980
- Jeanne Bourin 1922–2004
- Isabel Colegate 1931—
- Eleanor Dark 1901–1985
- Dorothy Dunnett 1923–2001
- Mignon G. Eberhart 1899–1996
- Mary Anne Evans 1819–1880
- Margita Figuli 1909–1995
- Esther Forbes 1891–1967
- Elizabeth Gaskell 1810–1865
- Elizabeth Goudge 1900–1984
- Anne Hébert 1916—
- Ricarda Huch 1864–1947
- Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse 1888–1958
- Mary Johnston 1870–1936
- Margit Kaffka 1880–1918
- Zofia Kossak 1890–1968
- Maud Hart Lovelace 1892–1980
- Rose Macaulay 1881–1958
- Moa Martinson 1890–1964
- Iola Fuller McCoy 1906–1993
- Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue 1902–1993
- Naomi Mitchison 1897–1999
- Klara Müller Mundt 1814–1873
- Mary N. Murfree 1850–1922
- Vera P. Mutafchieva 1929—
- Shelley Mydans 1915–2002
- Charlotte Niese 1854–1935
- Violet Paget 1856–1935
- Julia Pardoe 1804–1862
- Edith Pargeter c. 1913–1995
- Jane Porter 1776–1850
- Hannah Mary Rathbone 1798–1878
- Mary Renault 1905–1983
- Laura Riding 1901–1991
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts 1881–1941
- Vita Sackville-West 1892–1962
- Mary Shelley 1797–1851
- Christina Stead 1902–1983
- Lulu von Strauss und Torney 1873–1956
- Rosemary Sutcliff 1920–1992
- Gladys Taber 1899–1980
- Josephine Tey 1896–1952
- Margaret Maria Verney 1844–1930
- Elizabeth Gray Vining 1902–1999
- Margaret Walker 1915–1998
- Jane West 1758–1852
- Iris Wilkinson 1906–1939
- Ann Yearsley 1752–1806
- Charlotte Mary Yonge 1823–1901
Holocaust Rescuer
- Gertruda Babilenska 1902–1997
- Sofija Binkiene 1902–1984
- Yvonne Nevejean 1900–1987
- Emilie Schindler 1909–2001
- Corrie ten Boom 1892–1983
- Magda Trocmé 1901–1996
- Bep Voskuijl d. 1983
Holocaust Victim
- Ilse Brüll 1925–1942
- Adelaide Hautval 1906–1988
- Emilie Schindler 1909–2001
- Mala Zimetbaum 1920–1944
Home Economist
- Helen Atwater 1876–1947
- Isabella Mary Beeton 1836–1865
- Isabel Bevier 1860–1942
- Katharine Blunt 1876–1954
- Helen Stuart Campbell 1839–1918
- Alice Coachman 1923—
- Sarah Louise Delany 1889–1999
- Sheena Duncan 1932—
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- Gladys Anderson Emerson 1903–1984
- Christine Frederick 1883–1970
- Kerstin Hesselgren 1872–1962
- Marjorie Child Husted c. 1892–1986
- Lucy Jarvis 1919—
- Flemmie Kittrell 1904–1980
- Hazel Kyrk 1886–1957
- Abby L. Marlatt 1869–1943
- Dorothy Maynor 1910–1996
- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall 1874–1964
- Agnes Fay Morgan 1884–1968
- Mary Adelaide Nutting 1858–1948
- Maria Parloa 1843–1909
- Marguerite Patten 1915—
- Mary Engle Pennington 1872–1952
- Ellen Swallow Richards 1842–1911
- Lydia Roberts 1879–1965
- Brenda May Robertson 1929—
- Louise Stanley 1883–1954
- Frances Stern 1873–1947
- Ruth Strang 1895–1971
- Ann Monroe Gilchrist Strong 1875–1957
- Marion Talbot 1858–1948
- Mary Virginia Terhune 1830–1922
- Aline Valette 1850–1899
- Martha Van Rensselaer 1864–1932
- Ruth Wheeler 1877–1948
- Edna Noble White 1879–1954
- Margaret Chase Going Woodhouse 1890–1984
- Mary Schenck Woolman 1860–1940
Homemaker
- Elizabeth Mackay c. 1845–1897
- Margaret McKenzie c. 1837–1925
- Nielsine Paget 1858–1932
Homesteader
Horror-fiction Writer
- Shirley Jackson 1916–1965
- Anne Rice 1941—
Horse Breeder
- Cynisca fl. 396–392 BCE
- Euryleonis fl. 368 BCE
- Mary Hirsch c. 1913—
- Dorothy Paget 1905–1960
- Jenny Pitman 1946—
- Eleanora Sears 1881–1968
Horse Driver
- Isabel Button 1863–1921
Horse Racer
- Laurel Campbell 1902–1971
- Hedwick Wilhelmina McDonald 1893–1959
- Dorothy Paget 1905–1960
- Eleanora Sears 1881–1968
- Bill Smith 1886–1975
- Robyn Smith 1942—
Horse Thief (accused)
- Belle Starr 1848–1889
Horse Trainer
- Isabel Button 1863–1921
- Laurel Campbell 1902–1971
- Jenny Pitman 1946—
Horticulturist
- Katharine Burr Blodgett 1898–1979
- Sophia Brahe 1556–1643
- Anna Botsford Comstock 1854–1930
- Thalassa Cruso 1908–1997
- Carrie Dormon 1888–1971
- Alice Eastwood 1859–1953
- Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872–1959
- Nancy Fleming c. 1941—
- C.Z. Guest 1920–2003
- Gertrude Jekyll 1843–1932
- Louisa Yeomans King 1863–1948
- Elizabeth Lawrence 1904–1985
- Martha Logan 1704–1779
- Jane Webb Loudon 1807–1858
- Marion Mahony 1871–1961
- Georgiana Molloy 1805–1842
- Dorothy Fanny Nevill 1826–1913
- Eleanor A. Ormerod 1828–1901
- Frances Perry 1907–1993
- Vita Sackville-West 1892–1962
- Kate O. Sessions 1857–1940
- Rosemary Verey 1918–2001
- Ellen Willmott c. 1859–1934
Hospital/health-center Founder
- Alice Mabel Bacon 1858–1918
- Isabella Bishop 1831–1904
- Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910
- Elizabeth of Hungary 1207–1231
- Sister Elizabeth Fedde 1850–1921
- Elizabeth Catherine Gunn 1879–1963
- Rosetta Sherwood Hall 1865–1951
- Eliza Parks Hegan 1861–1917
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 1889–1964
- Anna Sarah Kugler 1856–1930
- Elise Strang L'Esperance c. 1879–1959
- Mahaut c. 1270–1329
- Jeanne Mance 1606–1673
- Mother Mary Martin 1892–1975
- Elizabeth Jennet McMaster 1847–1903
- Françoise, Marquise de Montespan (1640–1707)
- Pauline Newman 1887–1986
- Lucy Osburn 1835–1891
- Lizzie Merrill Palmer 1838–1916
- Kalliroe Parren 1861–1940
- Dolly Parton 1946—
- Joan Whitney Payson 1903–1975
- Ann Preston 1813–1872
- Mamphela Ramphele 1947—
- Linda Richards 1841–1930
- Martha Rogers Ripley 1843–1912
- Mother Mary Baptist Russell 1829–1898
- Ida Scudder 1870–1960
- Carolina Ada Seville 1874–1955
- Ellin Prince Speyer 1849–1921
- Constance Stone 1856–1902
- Thérésa Tallien 1773–1835
- Gertrude Hickman Thompson 1877–1950
- Mary Harris Thompson 1829–1895
- Alexandra Tolstoy 1884–1979
- Louise Weiss 1893–1983
- Ellen Gould White 1827–1915
- Cora Wilding 1888–1982
- Marie Zakrzewska 1829–1902
Hospital Administrator
- Mother Abbott 1846–1934
- Amelia Bagley 1870–1956
- Jessie Bicknell 1871–1956
- Evelyn Gertrude Brooke 1879–1962
- Pansy Chapman 1892–1973
- Sylvia Chapman 1896–1995
- Ednah Dow Cheney 1824–1904
- Mother Marianne Cope 1838–1918
- Kate Cumming c. 1828–1909
- Patience Darton 1911–1996
- Sister Mary Joseph Dempsey 1856–1939
- Susan Dimock 1847–1875
- Ellen Dougherty c. 1843–1919
- Matilda Arabella Evans 1872–1935
- Anne Walter Fearn 1865–1939
- Elizabeth Fergusson 1867–1930
- Hanorah Philomena FitzGibbon 1889–1979
- Isabella Fraser 1857–1932
- Eliza Parks Hegan 1861–1917
- Alice Hannah Holford 1867–1966
- Juliet Hopkins 1818–1890
- Helen Clyde Inglis 1867–1945
- Sara Murray Jordan 1884–1959
- Mary Gonzaga Leahy 1870–1958
- Hester Maclean 1859–1932
- Vida MacLean 1881–1970
- Jeanne Mance 1606–1673
- Sibylla Emily Maude 1862–1935
- Elizabeth Grace Neill 1846–1926
- Ella King Newsom 1838–1919
- Florence Nightingale 1820–1910
- Mary O'Connell 1814–1897
- Lucy Osburn 1835–1891
- Sophia French Palmer 1853–1920
- Emily Elizabeth Parsons 1824–1880
- Dorothy W. Pattison 1832–1878
- Edith Pechey-Phipson 1845–1908
- Phoebe Yates Pember 1823–1913
- Edna Pengelly 1874–1959
- Jane Preshaw 1839–1926
- Jessie Ann Scott 1883–1959
- Emily Hancock Siedeberg 1873–1968
- Emily Anne Smythe c. 1845–1887
- Mabel Thurston 1869–1960
- Anna Tomaszewicz-Dobrska 1854–1918
- Sally Louisa Tompkins 1833–1916
- Adeline Blanchard Tyler 1805–1875
- Fanny Wilson 1874–1958
- Yoshioka Yayoi 1871–1959
Hospital Matron
- Harriet Maria Ritchie 1818–1907
- Carolina Ada Seville 1874–1955
Hostess
Hotel Administrator
- Jennie Grossinger 1892–1972
- Alice Sheets Marriott 1907–2000
- Blanche Rubenstein c. 1897–1969
- Anna Sacher 1859–1930
Housing Reformer
- Albion Fellows Bacon 1865–1933
- Catherine Krouse Bauer 1905–1964
- Emma Cons 1838–1912
- Emily Dinwiddie 1879–1949
- Cornelia Hancock 1840–1927
- Octavia Hill 1838–1912
- Mary Simkhovitch 1867–1951
- Edith Elmer Wood 1871–1945
Humanitarian/human-rights Activist
- Susanna Agnelli 1922—
- Florence Ellinwood Allen 1884–1966
- Marian Anderson 1897–1993
- Regina M. Anderson 1900–1993
- Peggy Ashcroft 1907–1991
- Aung San Suu Kyi 1945—
- Gertruda Babilenska 1902–1997
- Madeleine Barot 1909–1995
- Clara Barton 1821–1912
- Josephine Perfect Bay 1900–1962
- Bodil Begtrup 1903–1987
- Patty Berg 1918—
- Clara Bohm-Schuch 1879–1936
- Emmi Bonhoeffer 1905–1991
- Rosemary Brown 1930—
- Pearl S. Buck 1892–1973
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- Charlotte Bühler 1893–1974
- Margarethe Cammermeyer 1942—
- Emilie Carles 1900–1979
- Sheila Cassidy 1937—
- Ling Chai 1966—
- Mary Coyle Chase 1907–1981
- Septima Poinsette Clark 1898–1987
- Arbella Denny 1707–1792
- Tamara Deutscher 1913–1990
- Mary F. Diaz c. 1962–2004
- Hedwig Dohm 1831–1919
- Sheena Duncan 1932—
- Abigail Scott Duniway 1834–1915
- Tilla Durieux 1880–1971
- Shirin Ebadi 1947—
- Joycelyn Elders 1933—
- Elizabeth of Bavaria 1876–1965
- Gabrielle Enthoven 1868–1950
- Matilda Arabella Evans 1872–1935
- Elizabeth Evatt 1933—
- Denise Tourover Ezekiel 1903–1980
- Alys Faiz 1914–2003
- Millicent Fenwick 1910–1992
- Geraldine Ferraro 1935—
- Ana Figueroa 1907–1970
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879–1958
- Amalia Fleming 1912–1986
- Margaretta Forten 1808–1875
- Jane Franklin 1792–1875
- Heather French 1974—
- Phyllis Frost 1917–2004
- Fu Yuehua c. 1947—
- Indira Gandhi 1917–1984
- Pearl Gibbs 1901–1983
- Whoopi Goldberg 1949—
- Hetty Goldman 1881–1972
- Angelina E. Grimké 1805–1879
- Marianne Hainisch 1839–1936
- Fannie Lou Hamer 1917–1977
- Patricia Roberts Harris 1924–1985
- Adelaide Hautval 1906–1988
- Laura S. Haviland 1808–1898
- Dorothy Height 1912—
- Lillian Hellman 1905–1984
- Audrey Hepburn 1929–1993
- Emily Hobhouse 1860–1926
- Edith B. Holden 1871–1920
- Dolores Ibárruri 1895–1989
- Irene Lascaris fl. 1222–1235
- Rosamund Jacob 1888–1960
- Annie Jiagge 1918–1996
- Helen Lake Kanahele 1916–1976
- Petra Kelly 1947–1992
- Ethel Kennedy 1928—
- Anna Kéthly 1889–1976
- Begum Liaquat Ali Khan 1905–1990
- Diana Kilmury 1948—
- Carol Weiss King 1895–1952
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 1926–2004
- Maggie Kuhn 1905–1995
- Ellen Kuzwayo 1914–2006
- André Léo 1832–1900
- Graceanna Lewis 1821–1912
- Astrid Lindgren 1907–2002
- Viola Liuzzo 1925–1965
- Kathleen Lonsdale 1903–1971
- Helga Maria zu Löwenstein 1910–2004
- Shannon Lowney 1969–1994
- Enid Lyons 1897–1981
- Catharine Macaulay 1731–1791
- Agnes Macphail 1890–1954
- Karen Malpede 1945—
- Alice Garrigue Masaryk 1879–1966
- Lucy Randolph Mason 1882–1959
- Helene Mayer 1910–1953
- Nellie L. McClung 1873–1951
- Mary Eliza McDowell 1854–1936
- Rigoberta Menchu ́ 1959—
- Roma Mitchell 1913–2000
- Danielle Mitterrand 1924—
- Susanna Moodie 1803–1885
- Edwina Ashley Mountbatten 1901–1960
- Sally Mugabe 1932–1992
- Sheelagh Murnaghan 1924–1993
- Judith Sargent Murray 1751–1820
- Pauli Murray 1910–1985
- Jane Myddelton 1645–1692
- Lilian Ngoyi 1911–1980
- Caroline O'Day 1869–1943
- Elizabeth Odio Benito 1939—
- Ashraf Pahlavi 1919—
- Isabel de Palencia 1878–c. 1950
- Josephine Preston Peabody 1874–1922
- Helga Pedersen 1911–1980
- Madeleine Pelletier 1874–1939
- Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich 1911–1958
- Eugénie Potonié-Pierre 1844–1898
- Georgia Davis Powers 1923—
- Nancy Gardner Prince 1799–?
- Nicole Questiaux 1931—
- Anahita Ratebzad 1931—
- Martha Raye 1916–1994
- Elisabeth Rehn 1935—
- Sarah Parker Remond 1826–1894
- Annemarie Renger 1919—
- Martha Rogers Ripley 1843–1912
- Mary Robinson 1944—
- Ruby Doris Smith Robinson 1942–1967
- Anita Roddick 1942—
- Henriëtte Roland Holst 1869–1952
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
- Ernestine Rose 1810–1892
- A. Maude Royden 1876–1956
- Rosalind Russell 1908–1976
- Ginetta Sagan 1923–2000
- Edith S. Sampson 1901–1979
- Louise Schroeder 1887–1957
- Séverine 1855–1929
- Amalie Sieveking 1794–1859
- Helvi Sipilä 1915—
- Sirikit 1932—
- Sophia of Greece 1938—
- Hester Stanhope 1776–1839
- Sarah Hackett Stevenson 1841–1909
- Helene Stoecker 1869–1943
- Sharon Stone 1958—
- Helen Suzman 1917—
- Helen Brooke Taussig 1898–1986
- Mother Teresa 1910–1997
- Germaine Tillion b. 1907
- Alexandra Tolstoy 1884–1979
- Annalena Tonelli 1943–2003
- Laura Matilda Towne 1825–1901
- Marta Traba 1930–1983
- Marietta Tree 1917–1991
- Aline Valette 1850–1899
- Simone Veil 1927—
- Pierra Vejjabul b. 1909
- Charleszetta Waddles 1912–2001
- Dionne Warwick 1940—
- Phillis Wheatley c. 1752–1784
- Jody Williams 1950—
- Cairine Wilson 1885–1962
- Nancy Wilson 1937—
- Christa Wolf 1929—
- Victoria Woodhull 1838–1927
- Mitsuye Yamada 1923—
- Peg Yorkin 1927—
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1911–1956
Humorist
- Molly Ivins c. 1944—
Hurdler
Hymn Writer
- Sarah Flower Adams 1805–1848
- Cecil Frances Alexander 1818–1895
- Dorothy Blomfield 1858–1932
- Fanny Crosby 1820–1915
- Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871
- Dorothe Engelbretsdatter 1634–1716
- Marianne Farningham 1834–1909
- Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson 1737–1801
- Frances Ridley Havergal 1836–1879
- Julia Ward Howe 1819–1910
- Kassia c. 800/810–before 867
- Jemima Luke 1813–1906
- Penina Möıse 1797–1880
- Anne Steele 1717–1778
- Anna Letitia Waring 1823–1910
- Anna Bartlett Warner 1827–1915
- Annie Turner Wittenmyer 1827–1900
Ice Dancer
- Xue Shen 1978—
Ice-hockey Coach
- Lisa Brown-Miller b. 1966
Ice-hockey Player
- Dana Antal 1977—
- Chris Bailey 1972—
- Laurie Baker 1976—
- Kelly Bechard 1978—
- Alana Blahoski 1974—
- Jennifer Botterill 1979—
- Therese Brisson 1966—
- Lisa Brown-Miller 1966—
- Cassie Campbell 1973—
- Canadian Women's National Ice Hockey Team (1998)
- Isabelle Chartrand 1978—
- Julie Chu 1982—
- Colleen Coyne 1971—
- Natalie Darwitz 1982—
- Sara DeCosta 1977—
- Judy Diduck 1966—
- Nancy Drolet 1973—
- Tricia Dunn 1974—
- Lori Dupuis 1972—
- Sari Fisk
- Danielle Goyette 1966—
- Cammi Granato 1971—
- Geraldine Heaney 1967—
- Jayna Hefford 1977—
- Becky Kellar 1975—
- Courtney Kennedy 1979—
- Andrea Kilbourne 1980—
- Katie King 1975—
- Shelley Looney 1972—
- Katheryn McCormack 1974—
- Sue Merz 1972—
- A.J. Mleczko 1975—
- Tara Mounsey 1978—
- Vicki Movsessian 1972—
- Karen Nystrom 1969—
- Caroline Ouellette 1979—
- Cherie Piper 1981—
- Cheryl Pounder 1976—
- Lesley Reddon 1970—
- Manon Rheaume 1972—
- Angela Ruggiero 1980—
- Laura Schuler 1970—
- Tammy Lee Shewchuk 1977—
- Sami Jo Small 1976—
- Fiona Smith 1973—
- Colleen Sostorics 1979—
- France St. Louis 1959—
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- Kim St. Pierre 1978—
- Vicky Sunohara 1970—
- Sarah Team USA: Women's Ice Hockey at Nagano Tueting 1976—
- Gretchen Ulion 1972—
- Lyndsay Wall 1985—
- Krissy Wendell 1981—
- Sandra Whyte 1970—
- Hayley Wickenheiser 1978—
- Stacy Wilson 1965—
Ice Skater
- Sylvia Albrecht 1962—
- Tenley Albright 1935—
- Yulia Allagulova
- Jeanette Altwegg 1930—
- Marina Anissina 1975—
- Jeanne Ashworth 1938—
- Donna Atwood c. 1923—
- Tatiana Averina 1951—
- Christina Baas-Kaiser 1938—
- Tai Babilonia 1959—
- Oksana Baiul 1977—
- Elena Bechke 1966—
- Sabine Becker 1959—
- Belita 1923–2005
- Elena Berezhnaya 1977—
- Patty Berg 1918—
- Natalia Bestemianova 1960—
- Bonnie Blair 1964—
- Theresa Weld Blanchard 1893–1978
- Surya Bonaly 1973—
- Annie Borckink 1951—
- Isabelle Brasseur 1970—
- Lela Brooks b. 1908
- Melitta Brunner 1907—
- Alexia Bryn 1889–1983
- Fritzi Burger
- Ellen Petra Burka 1921—
- Petra Burka 1946—
- Sylvia Burka 1954—
- Maria Butyrskaya 1972—
- Connie Carpenter-Phinney 1957—
- Kitty Carruthers 1962—
- Karen Cashman
- Vera Caslavska 1942—
- Isabelle Charest 1971—
- Lu Chen 1976—
- Marina Cherkasova
- Choi Eun-Kyung 1984—
- Choi Min-Kyung
- Chun Lee-Kyung c. 1976—
- Cecilia Colledge 1920—
- Angela Cutrone
- Frances Dafoe 1929—
- Sylvie Daigle 1962—
- Atje Deelstra 1938—
- Dianne de Leeuw
- Sjoukje Dijkstra 1942—
- Charlotte Dod 1871–1960
- Darcie Dohnal
- Natalya Donchenko 1932—
- Marie-Eve Drolet 1982—
- Jacqueline du Bief
- Isabelle Duchesnay 1973—
- Sonya Klopfer Dunfield c. 1936—
- Helene Engelmann
- Christine Errath 1956—
- Ria Falk
- Svetlana Fedotkina 1967—
- Jennifer Fish 1949—
- Peggy Fleming 1948—
- Linda Fratianne 1960—
- Barbara Fusar-Poli 1972—
- Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt 1968—
- Carolina Geijssen 1947—
- Margot Glockshuber
- Ekaterina Gordeeva 1971—
- Amelie Goulet-Nadon 1983—
- Dorothy Greenhough 1875–1965
- Pasha Grishuk 1972—
- Renate Groenewold 1976—
- Klara Guseva 1937—
- Helga Haase 1934–1989
- Dorothy Hamill 1956—
- Han Pil-Hwa 1942—
- Tonya Harding 1970—
- Ingrid Haringa 1964—
- Seiko Hashimoto 1964—
- Beth Heiden 1959—
- Carol Heiss-Jenkins 1940—
- Regine Heitzer fl. 1960s
- Sonja Henie 1912–1969
- Anne Henning 1955—
- Maxi Herber 1920—
- Dianne Holum 1951—
- Kirsten Holum c. 1981—
- Anna Huebler 1885–1976
- Clara Hughes 1972—
- Sarah Hughes 1985—
- Vivi-Anne Hulten 1911–2003
- Emese Hunyady 1966—
- Emese Hunyady 1967—
- Eevi Huttunen 1922—
- Hwang Ok-Sil c. 1972—
- Maria Isakova 1918—
- Natalia Issakova
- Midori Ito 1969—
- Kira Ivanova c. 1963–2001
- Ludowika Jakobsson 1884–1968
- Bjorg Eva Jensen 1960—
- Phyllis Johnson 1886–1967
- Andrée Joly 1901–1993
- Joo Min-Jin 1983—
- Magda Julin-Mauroy 1894–1990
- Karin Kania-Enke 1961—
- Oksana Kazakova 1975—
- Andrea Kékessy
- Karol Kennedy 1932–2004
- Romy Kermer 1956—
- Nancy Kerrigan 1969—
- Marika Kilius 1943—
- Kim Ryang-Hee
- Kim So-Hee
- Kim Yun-Mi
- Cindy Klassen 1979—
- Marina Klimova 1966—
- Ko Gi-Hyun 1986—
- Berta Kolokoltseva 1937—
- Lisbeth Korsmo 1948—
- Vera Krasnova 1950—
- Alanna Kraus 1977—
- Lily Kronberger
- Anjelika Krylova 1973—
- Michelle Kwan 1980—
- Nathalie Lambert 1963—
- Micheline Lannoy
- Catriona Le May Doan 1970—
- Natalia Linichuk
- Tara Lipinski 1982—
- Li Yan
- Irina Lobacheva 1973—
- Beatrix Loughran 1896–1975
- Nancy Ludington
- Dagmar Lurz 1959—
- Janet Lynn 1953—
- Manuela Mager 1962—
- Karen Magnussen 1952—
- Elizabeth Manley 1965—
- Olga Markova 1974—
- Hana Maskova 1949–1972
- Margo McLennan 1938–2004
- Mary Merrell 1938—
- Gretchen Merrill 1925–1965
- Mary Meyers 1946—
- Natalia Mishkutenok 1970—
- Irina Moiseeva 1955—
- Suzanne Morrow
- Ethel Muckelt c. 1900—
- Leah Poulos Mueller 1951—
- Kaija Mustonen 1941—
- Marianna Nagy
- Gunda Niemann 1966—
- Svea Noren 1895–1985
- Colleen O'Connor
- Charlotte Oelschlagel c. 1899–after 1948
- Tomomi Okazaki 1971—
- Jeanne Omelenchuk 1931—
- Laurence Owen 1945–1961
- Maribel Owen 1941–1961
- Maribel Vinson Owen 1911–1961
- Ludmila Pakhomova d. 1986
- Connie Paraskevin-Young 1961—
- Park Hye-Won 1983—
- Ilse Pausin 1919—
- Eva Pawlik 1927–1983
- Claudia Pechstein 1972—
- Annie Perreault 1971—
- Amy Peterson 1971—
- Natalia Petruseva 1955—
- Monika Pflug 1954—
- Helena Pilejczyk 1931—
- Herma Planck-Szabó 1902–1986
- Anett Pö tzsch 1961—
- Louise Pound 1872–1958
- Cathy Priestner 1958—
- Ludmila Protopopov 1935—
- Evgenia Radanova 1977—
- Vera Hruba Ralston 1921–2003
- Krisztina Regoczy
- Elsa Rendschmidt 1886–1969
- Irina Rodnina 1949—
- Jennifer Rodriguez 1976—
- Barbara Roles
- Christa Rothenburger-Luding 1959—
- Emilia Rotter
- Tamara Rylova 1931—
- Jamie Sale 1977—
- Yuka Sato 1973—
- Franziska Schenk 1974—
- Lilly Scholz
- Andrea Mitscherlich Schö ne 1961—
- Laila Schou Nilsen 1919–1998
- Beatrix Schuba 1951—
- Johanna Schut 1944—
- Elisabeth Schwarz 1936—
- Barbara Ann Scott 1929—
- Larisa Selezneva 1963—
- Elwira Seroczynska 1931—
- Gabriele Seyfert 1948—
- Yvonne Sherman 1930–2005
- Natalya Shive 1963—
- Tatyana Sidorova 1936—
- Lydia Skoblikova 1939—
- Irina Slutskaya 1979—
- Ludmila Smirnova 1949—
- Gretha Smit 1976—
- Elena Sokolova 1980—
- Valentina Stenina 1936—
- Galina Stepanskaya 1949—
- Rosalynn Sumners 1964—
- Sun Dandan
- Becky Sundstrom 1976—
- Shana Sundstrom 1973—
- Madge Cave Syers 1881–1917
- Viktoria Taranina
- Megan Taylor 1920–1993
- Debi Thomas 1967—
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- Marianne Timmer 1974—
- Ludmila Titova 1962—
- Jayne Torvill 1957—
- Cathy Turner 1962—
- Maia Usova 1964—
- Elena Valova 1963—
- Yvonne Van Gennip 1964—
- Tania Vicent 1976—
- Adriana Visser 1961—
- Yulia Vlasova
- Sabine Voelker 1973—
- Barbara Wagner 1938—
- Wang Chunlu 1978—
- Heike Warnicke 1966—
- Jill Watson 1963—
- Ingrid Wendl 1940—
- Debbi Wilkes c. 1947—
- Jean Wilson 1910–1933
- Tracy Wilson
- Katarina Witt 1965—
- Chris Witty 1975—
- Mandy Woetzel 1973—
- Won Hye-Kyung
- Kristi Yamaguchi 1971—
- Hiromi Yamamoto 1970—
- Yang Yang 1976—
- Yang Yang 1977—
- Irina Yegorova 1940—
- Ye Qiaobo 1964—
- Sheila Young 1950—
- Gabi Schönbrunn Zange-Schönbrunn, Gabi Zange 1961—
- Elaine Zayak 1965—
- Zhang Yanmei
- Tatiana Zhuk
- Svetlana Zhurova 1972—
- Nikki Ziegelmeyer c. 1975—
Ice-skating Coach
- Ellen Petra Burka 1921—
- Linda Fratianne 1960—
- Maribel Vinson Owen 1911–1961
- Irina Rodnina 1949—
Illuminator
Illustrator
- Kathryn Abbe 1919—
- Berenice Abbott 1898–1991
- Elenore Plaisted Abbott 1873–1935
- Nancy M. Adams 1926—
- Joy Adamson 1910–1980
- Laure Albin-Guillot c. 1880–1962
- Helen Patterson Allingham 1848–1926
- Blanche Ames 1878–1969
- Anne Anderson 1874–1930
- Laura Adams Armer 1874–1963
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner 1908–1984
- Anna Atkins 1797–1871
- Mabel Lucie Attwell 1879–1964
- Winifred Austen 1876–1964
- Peggy Bacon 1895–1987
- Barbara Vernon Bailey 1910–2003
- Cicely Mary Barker 1895–1973
- Djuna Barnes 1892–1982
- Cornelia Baxter Barns 1888–1941
- Pauline Baynes 1922—
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Stella Benson 1892–1933
- Elsa Beskow 1874–1953
- Pamela Bianco 1906–1994
- Isabel Bishop 1902–1988
- Thérèse Bonney 1894–1978
- Winifred Lily Boys-Smith 1865–1939
- Marcia Brown 1918—
- Virginia Lee Burton 1909–1968
- Frances Mary Buss 1827–1894
- Elizabeth Thompson Butler 1846–1933
- Claude Cahun 1894–1954
- Julia Margaret Cameron 1815–1879
- Kate Cameron 1874–1965
- Edith Cavell 1865–1915
- Agnes Meara Chase 1869–1963
- Marchette Chute 1909–1994
- Anna Botsford Comstock 1854–1930
- Marguerite Davis b. 1889
- Sonia Delaunay 1885–1979
- Ellen Curtis Demorest 1824–1898
- Donatella fl. 1271
- Grace Gebbie Drayton 1877–1936
- Edwina Dumm 1893–1990
- Mary Edith Durham 1863–1944
- Alice Morse Earle 1851–1911
- Amelia B. Edwards 1831–1892
- Elizabeth Enright 1909–1968
- Angna Enters 1907–1989
- Alexandra Exter 1882–1949
- Leonor Fini 1908–1996
- Louise Fitzhugh 1928–1974
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher 1838–1923
- Mary Hallock Foote 1847–1938
- Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale 1872–1945
- Annie French 1872–1965
- Elisabeth Frink 1930–1993
- Toni Frissell 1907–1988
- Meta Warrick Fuller 1877–1968
- Kate Furbish 1834–1931
- Wanda Gág 1893–1946
- Margaret Gatty 1809–1873
- Wilhelmina Geddes 1887–1955
- May Gibbs 1877–1969
- Françoise Gilot 1922—
- Laura Gilpin 1891–1979
- Natalia Goncharova 1881–1962
- Niki Goulandris 1925—
- Elizabeth Shippen Green 1871–1954
- Kate Greenaway 1846–1901
- Mary Grierson 1912—
- Beatrice Grimshaw c. 1870–1953
- Lady Charlotte Guest 1812–1895
- Sarah Josepha Hale 1788–1879
- Augusta Hall 1802–1896
- Nina Hamnett 1890–1956
- Adelaide Hanscom 1876–1932
- Grace Hartigan 1922—
- Joan Hassall 1906–1988
- Caroline Lee Hentz 1800–1856
- Elisabet Hermine Hermodsson 1927—
- Fanny Angelina Hesse 1850–1934
- Evelyn Hofer
- Malvina Hoffman 1885–1966
- Edith B. Holden 1871–1920
- Evelyn Holden 1877–c. 1969
- Violet Holden b. 1873
- Berta Hummel 1909–1946
- Anna Hyatt Huntington 1876–1973
- Ida of Nivelles d. 1232
- Tove Jansson 1914–2001
- Gertrude Jekyll 1843–1932
- Frances Benjamin Johnston 1864–1952
- Noor Inayat Khan 1914–1944
- Jessie Marion King 1875–1949
- Susette La Flesche 1854–1902
- Dorothea Lange 1895–1965
- Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1851–1926
- Marie Laurencin 1883–1956
- Mary Nicol Leakey 1913–1996
- Sarah Lee 1791–1856
- Clare Leighton 1899–1989
- H. Willebeek Le Mair 1889–1966
- Lois Lenski 1893–1974
- Graceanna Lewis 1821–1912
- Judith Leyster 1609–1660
- Alice Liddell 1852–1934
- Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852)
- Frances MacDonald 1874–1921
- Margaret Mackintosh 1865–1933
- Margrethe II of Denmark 1940—
- Norah McGuinness 1901–1980
- Neysa McMein 1888–1949
- Louisa Anne Meredith 1812–1895
- Maria Sybilla Merian 1647–1717
- Lisette Model 1901–1983
- Montanaria fl. 1272
- Barbara Nessim 1939—
- Maurine B. Neuberger 1906–2000
- Rhoda Holmes Nicholls 1854–1930
- Violet Oakley 1874–1961
- Caroline O'Day 1869–1943
- Elizabeth Olds 1896–1991
- Rose Cecil O'Neill 1874–1944
- Emma Orczy 1865–1947
- Ruth Orkin 1921–1985
- Maria Ormani fl. 1453
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 1888–1960
- Mary Parke 1908–1989
- Anne Parrish 1888–1957
- Annie Smith Peck 1850–1935
- Lucy Fitch Perkins 1865–1937
- Mary Petty 1899–1976
- Beatrix Potter 1866–1943
- Sophia Rosamund Praeger 1867–1954
- Anne Pratt 1806–1893
- May Wilson Preston 1873–1949
- Agnes Middleton Raeburn 1872–1955
- Natacha Rambova 1897–1966
- Hannah Mary Rathbone 1798–1878
- Gwen Raverat 1885–1957
- Paula Rego 1935—
- Lola Ridge 1873–1941
- Ellis Rowan 1848–1922
- Olga Rozanova 1886–1918
- Berta Ruck 1878–1978
- Margaret Sangster 1838–1912
- Lucy Sistare Say 1801–1885
- Elizabeth Scepens fl. 1476
- Sophie Scholl 1921–1943
- Elsie Wilkins Sexton 1868–1959
- Irene Sharaff 1910–1993
- Elizabeth Shaw 1920–1992
- Mary Shepard 1909–2000
- Jessie Willcox Smith 1863–1935
- Stevie Smith 1902–1971
- Lilian Snelling 1879–1972
- E. Somerville 1858–1949
- Millicent Sowerby 1878–1967
- Lilly Martin Spencer 1822–1902
- Varvara Stepanova 1894–1958
- Alice Barber Stephens 1858–1932
- Olga Margaret Stewart 1920–1998
- Margaret Stones 1920—
- Helen Stratton fl. 1891–1925
- Agnes Tait c. 1897–1981
- Margaret Tarrant 1888–1959
- Ann Taylor 1782–1866
- Jane Taylor 1783–1824
- Thomasse fl. 1292
- Mary Tourtel 1874–1948
- Toyen 1902–1980
- Dea Trier Mørch 1941—
- Sarah Trimmer 1741–1810
- Yoshiko Uchida 1921–1992
- Hilda van Stockum b. 1908
- Pablita Velarde 1918—
- Edith von Haynau 1884–1978
- Mary Morris Walcott 1860–1940
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- A'Lelia Walker 1885–1931
- Mary Ward 1827–1869
- Simone Weil 1909–1943
- Winifred West 1881–1971
- Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher 1811–1852
- Anne Whitney 1821–1915
- Bayard Wootten 1875–1959
- Maginel Wright 1881–1966
- Mariana Yampolsky 1925–2002
Immunologist
- Linda B. Buck 1947—
- Rebecca Craighill Lancefield 1895–1981
- Julia Levy 1934—
- Philippa Marrack 1945—
- Polly Matzinger 1947—
- Margaret Turner-Warwick 1924—
Impersonator
- Anna Anderson 1902–1984
- Stormé Delarverié 1922—
- Florence Desmond 1905–1993
- Gracie Fields 1898–1979
- Jeanne de Sarmaize fl. 1456
- Cissie Loftus 1876–1943
- Miranda Stuart c. 1795–1865
- Sarah Wilson 1750–?
Indian Captive
- Hannah Dustin 1657–c. 1736
- Mary Jemison 1742–1833
- Fanny Wiggins Kelly 1845–1904
- Olive Ann Oatman c. 1838–1903
- Cynthia Ann Parker c. 1827–c. 1864
- Mary Rowlandson c. 1635–after 1682
- Frances Slocum 1773–1847
- Kateri Tekakwitha 1656–1680
Industrial Designer
- Ray Eames 1912–1988
Industrial Engineer
- Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz 1937—
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1878–1972
- Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo 1930–2004
Industrialist
- Olive Ann Beech 1903–1993
- Cecilia Danieli 1943—
- Madeleine Dassault 1901–1992
- Amy Dillwyn 1845–1935
- Lady Charlotte Guest 1812–1895
- Rebecca Lukens 1794–1854
Industrial Toxicologist
- Alice Hamilton 1869–1970
Information-services Editor
- Evelyn N. Anderson 1909–1977
- Ingeborg Bachmann 1926–1973
- Rachel Carson 1907–1964
- Hedda Hopper 1885–1966
- Helen Levitt 1913—
- Catherine Dean May 1914–2004
- Inge Morath 1923–2002
- Grace Ogot 1930—
- Louella Parsons 1881–1972
- Josephine Roche 1886–1976
- Aline Saarinen 1914–1972
Inline Skater
- Theresa Cliff 1978—
- Jenny Curry 1984—
- Fabiola da Silva 1979—
- Cheryl Ezzell c. 1979—
- Julie Glass 1979—
- Fallon Heffernan 1986—
- Tasha Hodgson 1974—
- Ayumi Kawasaki 1984—
- Jenny Logue c. 1982—
- Kelly Matthews 1982—
- Jennifer Rodriguez 1976—
- Martina Svobodova 1983—
- Michele Taggart 1970—
- Gypsy Tidwell-Lucas c. 1975—
- Donna Vano c. 1955—
- Angie Walton 1966—
- Sayaka Yabe
Innkeeper
- Goody Armitage fl. 1643
- Hannah Ward Barron 1829–1898
- Georgina Jane Burgess c. 1839–1904
- Ann Diamond c. 1827–1881
- Margaret Forbes c. 1807–1877
- Matilda Furley 1813–1899
- Elizabeth George c. 1814–1902
- Helen Gibb 1838–1914
- Victorine Goddard 1844–1935
- Rose Graham 1879–1974
- Agnes Harrold c. 1830–1903
- Agnes McDonald 1829–1906
- Annie Cleland Millar 1855–1939
- Ann O'Donnell c. 1857–1934
- Margaret Ralph c. 1822–1913
- Ann Robertson 1825–1922
- Abigail Stoneman c. 1740–?
- Mary E. Surratt c. 1820–1865
- Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi ?–c. 1871
- Thomasse fl. 1292
Innovator
- Blanche Ames 1878–1969
- Peggy Ashcroft 1907–1991
- Ruth Benerito 1916—
- Katharine Burr Blodgett 1898–1979
- Jenny Rosenthal Bramley 1910–1997
- Rachel Fuller Brown 1898–1980
- Alice Gertrude Bryant c. 1862–1942
- Cecilia c. 154–c. 207
- Cecilia Colledge 1920—
- Caresse Crosby 1892–1970
- Ellen Curtis Demorest 1824–1898
- Lucia Dlugoszewski 1925–2000
- Mary Mapes Dodge 1831–1905
- Angélique Du Coudray 1712–1789
- Gertrude B. Elion 1918–1999
- Mary Field 1896–c. 1968
- Williamina Paton Fleming 1857–1911
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz 1903–1974
- Linda Gilbert 1847–1895
- Gluck 1895–1978
- Bette Nesmith Graham 1924–1980
- Catharine Littlefield Greene 1755–1814
- Marie Harel fl. 1790
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen 1883–1975
- Elinore Morehouse Herrick 1895–1964
- Grace Murray Hopper 1906–1992
- Doris Humphrey 1895–1958
- Ida Hyde 1857–1945
- Esther Marion Pretoria James 1900–1990
- Amanda Theodosia Jones 1835–1914
- Marjorie Stewart Joyner 1896–1994
- Mary Dixon Kies fl. 19th c.
- Maria Winkelmann Kirch 1670–1720
- Margaret Knight 1838–1914
- Hedy Lamarr 1913–2000
- Beatrice Lillie 1894–1989
- Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852)
- Elizabeth Ann Louisa Mackay 1843–1908
- Mary the Jewess fl. 1st, 2nd or 3rd c.
- Sybilla Masters d. 1720
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992
- Nettie Fowler McCormick 1835–1923
- Elizabeth McCoy 1903–1978
- Lise Meitner 1878–1968
- Maria Sybilla Merian 1647–1717
- Maria Mitchell 1818–1889
- Rosalie Slaughter Morton 1876–1968
- Clelia Duel Mosher 1863–1940
- Eliza Maria Mosher 1846–1928
- Gertrude Muller 1887–1954
- Charlotte Nicholas fl. 1915
- Ida Noddack 1896–1978
- Rose Cecil O'Neill 1874–1944
- Claire Parker 1906–1981
- Mary Engle Pennington 1872–1952
- Marguerite Perey 1909–1975
- Mary Florence Potts c. 1853–?
- Edith Quimby 1891–1982
- Gertrude Rand 1886–1970
- Rose Marie Reid 1906–1978
- Jean Rosenthal 1912–1969
- Catherine O'Connell Ryan 1865–1936
- Lina Shtern 1878–1968
- Naomi Sims 1948—
- Bella Spewack 1899–1990
- Margarete Steiff 1847–1909
- E.L. Todd fl. early 1900s
- Leonora Christina Ulfeldt 1621–1698
- Annettje Lockermans (c. 1620– Van Cortlandt
- after 1665)
- Henrietta Vansittart 1840–1883
- Madame C.J. Walker 1867–1919
- Vera Weizmann 1881–1966
- Candace Wheeler 1827–1923
- Cicely Williams 1893–1992
- Fiammetta Worthington Wilson (1864–1920)
Instrumentalist
- See also Cellist.
- See also Dombra player.
- See also Flutist.
- See also Guitarist.
- See also Harpist.
- See also Harpsichordist.
- See also Latva player.
- See also Oboist.
- See also Ondes Martenot player.
- See also Organist.
- See also Oud player.
- See also Pianist.
- See also Saxaphonist.
- See also Tanbur player.
- See also Theremin player.
- See also Trombonist.
- See also Trumpeter.
- See also Tunbur player.
- See also Ugubhu player.
- See also Violinist.
- Suzanne Bloch 1907–2002
- Agnes Cunningham 1909–2004
- Mary Davis
- Anne DeMarinis
- Gwen Farrar 1899–1944
- Jackie Fox 1959—
- Evelyn Glennie 1965—
- Joy Harjo 1951—
- Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer 1925–2001
- Marianne Kirchgessner 1769–1808
- Gina Lee 1943–2002
- Barbara K. MacDonald 1957—
- Palmolive 1955—
- Share Pedersen 1963—
- Roxy Petrucci 1962—
- Karen Riale c. 1949—
- Kendra Smith 1960—
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- Micki Steele 1954—
- Jean Sullivan 1923–2003
- Janet Weiss 1965—
- Sandy West 1960—
- Tina Weymouth 1950—
Interior Designer
- Fanny Brice 1891–1951
- Elsie de Wolfe 1865–1950
- Dorothy Draper 1888–1969
- Elisabeth Draper 1900–1993
- Christine Frederick 1883–1970
- Dorothy Hammerstein 1899–1987
- Eszter Haraszty c. 1910–1994
- Henrietta Howard 1688–1767
- Florence Schust Knoll 1917—
- Nancy Lancaster 1897–1994
- Sister Parish 1910–1994
- Charlotte Perriand 1903–1999
- Natacha Rambova 1897–1966
- Pipsan Saarinen Swanson 1905–1979
- Candace Wheeler 1827–1923
Interlocutor
Interpretative Dancer
- Maude Allan 1883–1956
- Alicia Alonso 1921—
- Janet Collins 1917–2003
- Agnes de Mille 1905–1993
- Maya Deren 1908–1961
- Isadora Duncan 1878–1927
- Martha Graham 1894–1991
- Hanya Holm 1888–1992
- Doris Humphrey 1895–1958
- Niddy Impekoven 1904—
- La Meri b. 1898
- Genevieve Lyon c. 1893–1916
- Margaret Morris 1890–1981
- Nadja c. 1900–1945
- Louise Nevelson 1899–1988
- Gret Palucca 1902–1993
- Pearl Primus 1919–1994
- Yvonne Rainer 1934—
- Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003
- Mia Slavenska 1914–2000
- Anna Sokolow 1910–2000
- Ruth St. Denis 1877–1968
- Helen Tamiris 1902–1966
- Margarethe Wallmann 1901–1922
- Mary Wigman 1886–1973
Interpreter
Inventor
Iron Manufacturer
- Rebecca Lukens 1794–1854
Javelin Thrower
Jazz Musician
- Toshiko Akiyoshi 1929—
- Lil Hardin Armstrong 1898–1971
- Ada Brown 1889–1950
- Cleo Brown 1905–1995
- Jutta Hipp 1925–2003
- Gina Lee 1943–2002
- Melba Liston 1926—
- Sara Martin 1884–1955
- Marian McPartland 1920—
- Mary Osborne 1921–1992
- Billy Tipton 1914–1989
- Mary Lou Williams 1910–1981
Jazz Pianist
- Dorothy Donegan 1922–1998
Jazz Singer
- Ernestine Anderson 1928—
- Ivie Anderson 1904–1949
- Leny Andrade 1943—
- Mildred Bailey 1903–1951
- Pearl Bailey 1918–1990
- Angela Bofill 1954—
- Connee Boswell 1907–1976
- Ada Brown 1889–1950
- Ruth Brown 1928—
- Thelma Carpenter 1922–1997
- Betty Carter 1929–1998
- June Christy 1925–1990
- Chris Connor 1927—
- Maxine Daniels 1930–2003
- Blossom Dearie 1926—
- Ella Fitzgerald 1917–1996
- Roberta Flack 1937—
- Sadie Goodson c. 1900—
- Annette Hanshaw 1910–1985
- Lucille Hegamin 1894–1970
- Billie Holiday c. 1915–1959
- Ella Johnson 1923–2004
- Etta Jones 1928–2001
- Sheila Jordan 1928—
- Jo Ann Kelly 1944–1990
- Diana Krall 1964—
- Cleo Laine 1927—
- Peggy Lee 1920—
- Peggy Lee 1920–2002
- Abbey Lincoln 1930—
- Julie London 1926–2000
- Carmen McRae 1920–1994
- Flora Molton 1908–1990
- Ella Mae Morse 1925–1999
- Nana Mouskouri 1934—
- Anita O'Day 1919—
- Freda Payne 1945—
- Dolly Rathebe 1928–2004
- Annie Ross 1930—
- Hazel Scott 1920–1981
- Sherry Scott c. 1948—
- Nina Simone 1933–2003
- Ada Smith 1894–1984
- Bessie Smith 1894–1937
- Keely Smith 1932—
- Valaida Snow c. 1903–1956
- Jeri Southern 1926–1991
- Sarah Vaughan 1924–1990
- Ethel Waters 1896–1977
- Lee Wiley 1915–1975
- Nancy Wilson 1937—
- Monica Zetterlund 1937–2005
Jeweler
- Elsie Reeve 1885–1927
Jewelry Designer
- Tina Chow 1950–1992
- Nana Ditzel 1923—
- May Morris 1862–1938
- Paloma Picasso 1949—
Jockey
- Mary Bacon 1948–1991
- Donna Barton c. 1967—
- Diane Crump 1949—
- Penny Ann Early c. 1946—
- Julie Krone 1963—
- Kathy Kusner 1940—
- Barbara Jo Rubin 1949—
- Bill Smith 1886–1975
- Robyn Smith 1942—
- Meriel Tufnell 1948–2002
Journalist
- Soledad Acosta de Samper 1833–1913
- Juliette la Messine Adam 1836–1936
- Harriet Chalmers Adams 1875–1937
- Mary Grace Adams 1898–1984
- Janet Adam Smith 1905–1999
- Renata Adler 1938—
- Cynthia Westover Alden 1862–1931
- Vera Aleksandrovna 1895–1966
- Margarita Iosifovna Aliger 1915–1992
- Sharifa Alkhateeb 1946–2004
- Stella Allan 1871–1962
- Maryon Allen 1925—
- Isabel Allende 1942—
- Ruth Almog 1936—
- Christiane Amanpour 1958—
- Mary Clemmer Ames 1831–1884
- Adibah Amin 1936—
- Karin Anckarsvard 1915–1969
- Doris Anderson 1921—
- Evelyn N. Anderson 1909–1977
- Julia Annenkova c. 1898–c. 1938
- Susan B., II Anthony 1916–1991
- Nezihe Araz 1922—
- Sigrid Arne 1894–1973
- Eve Arnold 1913—
- Christine Arnothy 1930—
- Rosa Maria Arquimbau 1910—
- Ludmilla Assing 1821–1880
- Ottilie Assing 1819–1884
- Constance Aubert 1803–?
- Hubertine Auclert 1848–1914
- Olympe Audouard 1830–1890
- Hannah Awolowo 1915—
- Harriet Hubbard Ayer 1849–1903
- Gertrude Bacon 1874–1949
- Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain 1848–1944
- Louisa Alice Baker 1856–1926
- Ruth Ann Baldwin fl. 1915–1921
- Mercedes Ballesteros 1913–1995
- Anna Aleksandrovna Barkova 1901–1976
- Djuna Barnes 1892–1982
- Constance Alice Barnicoat 1872–1922
- Cornelia Baxter Barns 1888–1941
- Rona Barrett 1934—
- Daisy Lee Bates 1914–1999
- Daisy May Bates 1859–1951
- Helene Bauer 1871–1942
- Jessie Tarbox Beals 1870–1942
- Bessie Beatty 1886–1947
- Madame de Beaumer d. 1766
- May Lamberton Becker 1873–1958
- Elly Beinhorn 1907—
- Sally Belfrage 1936–1994
- Marie Belloc-Lowndes 1868–1947
- Maria Bellonci 1902–1986
- Nora Beloff 1919–1997
- Mildred Benson 1905–2002
- Helen Delich Bentley 1923—
- Clara Beranger 1886–1956
- Nina Berberova 1901–1993
- Annie Besant 1847–1933
- Matilda Betham-Edwards 1836–1919
- Francis Marion Beynon 1884–1951
- Maeve Binchy 1940—
- Ilse Bing 1899–1998
- Patrícia Bins 1930—
- Winifred Sweet Black 1863–1936
- Marie-Thérèse Blanc 1840–1907
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- Rose Blaze de Bury ?–1894
- Ursula Bloom 1893–1984
- Ella Reeve Bloor 1862–1951
- Laudomia Bonanni 1907–2002
- Thérèse Bonney 1894–1978
- Mary Louise Booth 1831–1889
- Margaret Bourke-White 1904–1971
- Margret Boveri 1900–1975
- Anne Braden 1924–2006
- Mildred Edie Brady 1906–1965
- Mary Martin Breckinridge b. 1905
- Anne Hampton Brewster 1818–1892
- Emily Edson Briggs 1830–1910
- Janina Broniewska 1904–1981
- Christina Broom 1863–1939
- Margaret A. Brown 1867–?
- Tina Brown 1953—
- Augusta Browne 1820–1882
- Mary Grant Bruce 1878–1958
- Mary Edwards Bryan 1838–1913
- Louise Bryant 1885–1936
- Emma Bugbee 1888–1981
- Margaret Bullock 1845–1903
- Silvina Bullrich 1915–1990
- Mabel Burkholder 1881–1973
- Violet Alberta Jessie Burns 1893–1972
- Ita Buttrose 1942—
- Dolce Ann Cabot 1862–1943
- Taylor Caldwell 1900–1985
- June Callwood 1924—
- Lady Colin Campbell 1857–1911
- Lady Jeanne Campbell 1928—
- Estela Canto 1919–1994
- Iris Carpenter b. 1906
- María Mercedes Carranza 1945–2003
- Angela Carter 1940–1992
- María Isabel Carvajal 1888–1949
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary 1823–1893
- Barbara Castle 1910–2002
- Diná Silveira de Castro Alves 1911–1983
- Willa Cather 1873–1947
- Nancy Cato 1917–2000
- Jane McManus Cazneau 1807–1878
- Camilla Cederna 1921–1997
- Dickey Chapelle 1919–1972
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya 1903–1988
- Anna Chennault 1923—
- Phyllis Cilento 1894–1987
- Catherine Clément 1939—
- Charmian Clift 1923–1969
- Harriet Clisby 1830–1931
- Frances Power Cobbe 1822–1904
- Margaret L. Coit 1919–2003
- Kit Coleman 1864–1915
- Georgina Coleridge 1916–2003
- Louise Colet 1810–1876
- Colette 1873–1954
- Gail Collins 1945—
- Kathleen Commins 1909–2003
- Shirley Conran 1932—
- Freda Mary Cook 1896–1990
- Joan Ganz Cooney 1929—
- Yvette Cooper 1969—
- Sheila Copps 1952—
- Dorothy Cottrell 1902–1957
- Ruth Cowan 1901–1993
- Fleur Cowles 1910—
- Virginia Cowles 1912–1983
- May Craig 1888–1975
- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie 1867–1906
- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826–1887
- Caroline Bartlett Crane 1858–1935
- Margaret Craven 1901–1980
- Judith Crist 1922—
- Jane Cunningham Croly 1829–1901
- Zora Cross 1890–1964
- Nancy Cunard 1896–1965
- E ́ ve Curie b. 1904
- Charlotte Curtis 1928–1987
- Maria Dabrowska 1889–1965
- Dai Qing 1941—
- Jill Dando 1961–1999
- Kamala Das 1934—
- Rebecca Harding Davis 1831–1910
- Daw Khin Myo Chit 1915–2003
- Dorothy Day 1897–1980
- Dulcie Deamer 1890–1972
- Vera Micheles Dean 1903–1972
- Julia de Burgos 1914–1953
- Alba De Cespedes 1911–1997
- Dola de Jong 1911–2003
- Suat Dervis 1905–1972
- Noémia de Sousa 1926—
- Tamara Deutscher 1913–1990
- Inge Deutschkron 1922—
- Jean Devanny 1894–1962
- Nancy Dickerson 1927–1997
- Joan Didion 1934—
- Lady Florence Dixie 1857–1905
- Marion, Countess Dönhoff 1909–2002
- Carrie Donovan 1928–2001
- Rheta Childe Dorr 1866–1948
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1890–1998
- Constance Drexel 1894–1956
- Gertrude Duby-Blom 1901–1993
- Tessa Duder 1940—
- Lucy Duff Gordon 1862–1935
- Germaine Dulac 1882–1942
- Sara Jeanette Duncan 1861–1922
- Anne-Marguérite Petit du Noyer (1663–1719)
- Marguerite Durand 1864–1936
- Elizabeth Geertruida Dyson 1897–1951
- Edith Eaton 1865–1914
- Isabelle Eberhardt 1877–1904
- Clarissa Eden 1920—
- Henrietta Muir Edwards 1849–1933
- Marianne Ehrmann 1755–1795
- Dorothy-Grace Elder
- Linda Ellerbee 1944—
- Nawal El Saadawi 1931—
- Gloria Emerson 1929–2004
- Linda Evangelista 1965—
- Kathy Evans 1948–2003
- Dora Fabian 1901–1935
- Joyce Fairbairn 1939—
- Alys Faiz 1914–2003
- Oriana Fallaci 1930—
- Annabel Farjeon 1919—
- Marianne Farningham 1834–1909
- Rebecca Latimer Felton 1835–1930
- Nuala Fennell 1935—
- Edna Ferber 1885–1968
- Fanny Fern 1811–1872
- Kate Field 1838–1896
- Eva Figes 1932—
- Ruth First 1925–1982
- Ruth Fischer 1895–1961
- Janet Flanner 1892–1978
- Doris Fleeson 1901–1970
- Liz Forgan 1944—
- Anna Franchi 1866–1954
- Pamela Frankau 1908–1967
- Lucinda Franks 1946—
- Pauline Frederick 1908–1990
- Alice Freeman 1857–1936
- Lucy Freeman 1916–2004
- Anne Fremantle 1909–2002
- Gisèle Freund 1912–2000
- Betty Friedan 1921–2006
- Esther Pauline Friedman 1918–2002
- Pauline Esther Friedman 1918—
- Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
- Monica Furlong 1930–2003
- Bess Furman 1894–1969
- Betty Furness 1916–1994
- Zona Gale 1874–1938
- Hermila Galindo de Topete 1896–1954
- Patricia Galva ̃o 1910–1962
- Elena Garro 1916–1998
- Mary Gaunt 1861–1942
- Martha Gellhorn 1908–1998
- Ge Yang 1916—
- Stella Gibbons 1902–1989
- Jeannette Leonard Gilder 1849–1916
- Mary Gilmore 1865–1962
- Françoise Giroud 1916–2003
- Sólru ́n Gísladóttir
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks 1912–1990
- Susan Glaspell 1876–1948
- Esther Glen 1881–1940
- Elinor Glyn 1864–1943
- Lea Goldberg 1911–1970
- Sara Gomez 1943–1974
- Maud Gonne 1866–1953
- Ellen Goodman 1941—
- Caroline Gordon 1895–1981
- Hélène Gordon-Lazareff 1909–1988
- Beatrice Blackmar Gould c. 1899–1989
- Katharine Graham 1917–2001
- Maria Granata 1921—
- Shiela Grant Duff 1913–2004
- Nixola Greeley-Smith 1880–1919
- Grace Winifred Green 1907–1976
- Meg Greenfield 1930–1999
- Alice Gréville 1842–1903
- Beatrice Grimshaw c. 1870–1953
- Edith Searle Grossmann 1863–1931
- Ruth Gruber 1911—
- Veronica Guerin 1960–1996
- Amalia Guglielminetti 1881–1941
- Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (1875–1942)
- Eileen Haddon 1921–2003
- Ellen Hagan 1873–1958
- Charlotte Haldane 1894–1969
- Ruth Hale 1886–1934
- Sarah Josepha Hale 1788–1879
- Cara Vincent Hall 1922—
- Cicely Hamilton 1872–1952
- Mary Hamilton 1882–1966
- Margherita Hamm 1867–1907
- Motoko Hani 1873–1957
- Lorraine Hansberry 1930–1965
- Ida Husted Harper 1851–1931
- Marguerite Harrison 1879–1967
- Elizabeth Hawes 1903–1971
- Anna Margaret Haycraft 1932–2005
- Bessie Head 1937–1986
- Mary Henderson 1919–2004
- Alice Henry 1857–1943
- Josephine Herbst 1892–1969
- Robin Herman c. 1952—
- Elinore Morehouse Herrick 1895–1964
- Genevieve Forbes Herrick 1894–1962
- Lorena A. Hickok 1893–1968
- Marguerite Higgins 1920–1966
- Cora Hind 1861–1942
- Laura Z. Hobson 1900–1986
- Sarah Hogg 1946—
- Mary Holland 1935–2004
- Eleanor Holm 1913—
- Winifred Holtby 1898–1935
- Hedda Hopper 1885–1966
- Attia Hosain 1913–1998
- Norah Hoult 1898–1984
- Caroline Cadette Howard 1821–?
- Huang Zongying 1925—
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- Karen Hughes 1956—
- Eleanor Henrietta Hull 1860–1935
- Peggy Hull 1889–1967
- Kathryn Hulme 1900–1981
- Anne Hummert 1905–1996
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault 1942—
- Qurratulain Hyder 1927—
- Ichikawa Fusae 1893–1981
- Jovita Idar 1885–1946
- Gwen Ifill 1955—
- Vera Inber 1890–1972
- Jozka Jaburkova d. 1944
- Alice Jackson 1887–1974
- Rosamund Jacob 1888–1960
- Ethel May Jacobson 1877–1965
- Janet Jagan 1920—
- Alice Lee Jemison 1901–1964
- Andrea Jenner 1891–1985
- Anne Elisabet Jensen 1951—
- Milena Jesenská 1896–1945
- Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse 1888–1958
- Eva Jessye 1895–1992
- Jill Johnston 1929—
- Isobel Johnstone 1781–1857
- Maria Jolas 1893–1987
- Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1865–1947
- Dorothy Misener Jurney 1909–2002
- Consuelo Kanaga 1894–1978
- Amy Grace Kane 1879–1979
- Eva Kantuˆrkova 1930—
- Ida Kar 1908–1970
- Rachel Katznelson-Shazar 1888–1975
- Luise Kautsky 1864–1944
- Eleni Kazantzaki 1903–2004
- Elizabeth Kee 1895–1975
- Sally Keeble 1951—
- Florence Finch Kelly 1858–1939
- Elizabeth Kelso 1889–1967
- Geraldine Kennedy 1951—
- Jacqueline Kennedy 1929–1994
- Anna Kéthly 1889–1976
- Begum Liaquat Ali Khan 1905–1990
- Dorothy Kilgallen 1913–1965
- Jamaica Kincaid 1949—
- Barbara Kingsolver 1955—
- Freda Kirchwey 1893–1976
- Julie Kirkbride 1960—
- Helen Kirkpatrick 1909–1997
- Shonagh Koea 1939—
- Hanna Krall 1937—
- Germaine Krull 1897–1985
- Irene Corbally Kuhn 1898–1995
- Susette La Flesche 1854–1902
- Rose Wilder Lane 1886–1968
- Marghanita Laski 1915–1988
- Margaret Laurence 1926–1987
- Marju Lauristin 1940—
- Louisa Lawson 1848–1920
- Jennie Lee 1904–1988
- Evelyne Le Garrec
- André Léo 1832–1900
- Vera Lesik 1910–1975
- Sonya Levien 1888–1960
- Fanny Lewald 1811–1889
- Flora Lewis 1922–2002
- Helen Liddell 1950—
- Sara Lidman 1923–2004
- Muthoni Likimani c. 1940—
- Estelle Lawton Lindsey 1868–1955
- Pia Lindstrom 1938—
- Eliza Lynn Linton 1822–1898
- Sara Clarke Lippincott 1823–1904
- Clarice Lispector 1920–1977
- Clara Littledale 1891–1956
- Mary A. Livermore 1820–1905
- Maleeha Lodhi c. 1953—
- Sophie Irene Loeb 1876–1929
- Tania Long 1913–1998
- Clare Boothe Luce 1903–1987
- Rosa Luxemburg 1870–1919
- Nola Luxford 1895–1994
- Rose Macaulay 1881–1958
- Helen Gregory MacGill 1871–1947
- Luz Machado 1916–1999
- Louise Mack 1874–1935
- Catherine Julia Mackay 1864–1944
- Catherine Mackin 1939–1982
- Marjory MacMurchy 1869–1938
- Margaret Louisa Macpherson 1895–1974
- Naomi Long Madgett 1923—
- Rehutai Maihi 1895–1967
- Ella Maillart 1903–1997
- Maud Worcester Makemson 1891–1977
- Jane Mander 1877–1949
- Mary de la Rivière Manley 1663–1724
- Erika Mann 1905–1969
- Marya Mannes 1904–1990
- Ethel Mannin 1900–1984
- Marie Manning c. 1873–1945
- Gianna Manzini 1896–1974
- Queena Mario 1896–1951
- Frances Marion 1888–1973
- C.E.M. Martin 1847–1937
- Olga Masters 1919–1986
- Vera Laughton Mathews 1888–1959
- Yayori Matsui 1934–2002
- Victoria Earle Matthews 1861–1907
- Mary Margaret McBride 1899–1976
- Mary McCarthy 1912–1989
- Sarah McClendon 1910–2003
- Anne O'Hare McCormick 1880–1954
- Val McDermid 1955—
- Mary McGrory 1918–2004
- Ruth McKenney 1911–1972
- Florence Marian McNeill 1885–1973
- Marianne Means 1934—
- Ulrike Meinhof 1934–1972
- Melissanthi c. 1907–c. 1991
- Marie Meloney 1878–1943
- Fayvelle Mermey 1916–1977
- Agnes Meyer 1887–1970
- Cheryl Miller 1964—
- Florence Fenwick Miller 1854–1935
- Lee Miller 1907–1977
- Paule Mink 1839–1901
- Comtesse de Mirabeau 1827–1914
- Jane Misme 1865–1935
- Lisette Model 1901–1983
- Tina Modotti 1896–1942
- Susan Molinari 1958—
- Marie-Emilie Maryon de (1736– Montanclos
1812)
- Hilda Monte 1914–1945
- Peggy Montgomery 1917—
- Lorna Moon 1886–1930
- Inge Morath 1923–2002
- Luisa Moreno 1906–1992
- Jane Morrice 1954—
- Katherine E. Morton 1885–1968
- Florabel Muir 1889–1970
- Nina Murdoch 1890–1976
- Anna Muria 1904–2002
- Vera P. Mutafchieva 1929—
- Shelley Mydans 1915–2002
- Kishwar Naheed 1940—
- Hind Nawfal fl. 1890s
- Genevieve Naylor 1915–1989
- Elizabeth Grace Neill 1846–1926
- Elizabeth Neuffer 1956–2003
- Eugénie Niboyet 1797–1883
- Clarina Nichols 1810–1885
- Eliza Jane Nicholson 1849–1896
- Janine Niepce 1921—
- Sister Nivedita 1867–1911
- Teresa Noce 1900–1980
- Peggy Noonan 1950—
- Marsha Norman 1947—
- Joana de Noronha fl. c. 1850
- Kathleen Norris 1880–1966
- Lina Odena 1911–1936
- Oda Olberg 1872–1955
- Ruth Orkin 1921–1985
- Anna Maria Ortese 1914–1998
- Maria Osten 1908–1942
- Martha Ostenso 1900–1963
- Elise Ottesen-Jensen 1886–1973
- Luise Otto-Peters 1819–1895
- Helene Overlach 1894–1983
- Nettie Palmer 1885–1964
- Vera Panova 1905–1973
- Mollie Panter-Downes 1906–1997
- Betty Paoli 1814–1894
- Kalliroe Parren 1861–1940
- Louella Parsons 1881–1972
- Françoise Parturier 1919—
- Alicia Patterson 1906–1963
- Ethel Payne 1911–1991
- Isabel Maud Peacocke 1881–1973
- Madeleine Pelletier 1874–1939
- Cristina Peri Rossi 1941—
- Maude Petre 1863–1942
- Ann Petry 1908–1997
- Josefina Plá 1909–1999
- Marie-Elizabeth Polier 1742–1817
- Marjorie Pollard 1899–1982
- Elena Poniatowska 1932—
- Adelheid Popp 1869–1939
- Marta Portal 1930—
- Katherine Anne Porter 1890–1980
- Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969
- Harriet Quimby 1875–1912
- Anna Quindlen 1953—
- Jane Bryant Quinn 1939—
- Sara Estela Ramirez 1881–1910
- Lizzie Frost Rattray 1855–1931
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896–1953
- Alma Reed 1889–1966
- Helen Rogers Reid 1882–1970
- Haru Reischauer c. 1915–1998
- Larissa Reisner 1895–1926
- Margret Rey 1906–1996
- Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876–1958
- Jane Deeter Rippin 1882–1953
- Kate Roberts 1891–1985
- Heather Robertson 1942—
- Betty Roland 1903–1996
- Madame Roland 1754–1793
- Pauline Roland 1805–1852
- Hilda Rollett 1873–1970
- Edith Ronne 1919—
- Daphne Rooke 1914—
- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
- Forrestina Elizabeth Ross 1860–1936
- Ishbel Ross 1895–1975
- Lillian Ross 1926—
- Martha Rountree 1911–1999
- Ettie Annie Rout 1877–1936
- Lillian Roxon 1932–1973
- Gabrielle Roy 1909–1983
- Anne Royall 1769–1854
- Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith c. 1880–1964
- Olga Rudel-Zeynek 1871–1948
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 1842–1924
- Muriel Rukeyser 1913–1980
- Mercedes Saenz-Alonso 1916–2000
- Nayantara Sahgal 1927—
- Gabrielle de Saint Mars 1804–1872
- Marlene Sanders 1931—
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- Galina Sankova b. 1904
- Francesca Sanvitale 1928—
- Cristina Saralegui 1948—
- Margherita Sarfatti 1880–1961
- Albertine Sarrazin 1937–1967
- Doris Saunders 1921—
- Jeanne Sauvé 1922–1993
- Olga Savary 1933—
- Jessica Savitch 1947–1983
- Nelle Scanlan 1882–1968
- Käthe Schirmacher 1859–1930
- Therese Schlesinger 1863–1940
- Mary Teresa Schmich 1954—
- Adele Schreiber 1872–1957
- Sigrid Schultz 1893–1980
- Libertas Schulze-Boysen 1913–1942
- Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman 1864–1922
- Elisabeth Selbert 1896–1986
- Toni Sender 1888–1964
- Matilde Serao 1856–1927
- Eugenia Serrano 1918—
- Séverine 1855–1929
- Anne Sexton 1928–1974
- Mary F. Seymour 1846–1893
- Marietta Shaginian 1888–1982
- Flora Shaw 1852–1929
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington 1877–1946
- Clare Sheridan 1885–1970
- Shahla Sherkat c. 1956—
- Katharine Margaret Sherwood 1841–1914
- Mariia Shkapskaia 1891–1952
- Joyce Nomafa Sikakane 1943—
- Miina Sillanpää 1866–1952
- Edith Simcox 1844–1901
- Carole Simpson 1940—
- Constance Lindsay Skinner 1877–1939
- Agnes Smedley 1892–1950
- Hazel Brannon Smith 1914–1994
- Margaret Bayard Smith 1778–1844
- Solita Solano 1888–1975
- Miriam Bridelia Soljak 1879–1971
- Eileen Louise Soper 1900–1989
- Dido Sotiriou 1909–2004
- Maria Luisa Spaziani 1924—
- Catherine Spence 1825–1910
- Elizabeth Spencer 1921—
- Bella Spewack 1899–1990
- Hilde Spiel 1911–1990
- Adela Rogers St. Johns 1894–1988
- Jean Stafford 1915–1979
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902
- Christina Stead 1902–1983
- Gloria Steinem 1934—
- Ursula Stenzel 1945—
- Alzina Stevens 1849–1900
- Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 1823–1902
- Alfonsina Storni 1892–1938
- Mabel Strickland 1899–1988
- Anna Louise Strong 1885–1970
- Bathia Howie Stuart 1893–1987
- Laura Jane Suisted 1840–1903
- Evelyne Sullerot 1924—
- Carol Sutton 1933–1985
- Jane Grey Swisshelm 1815–1884
- Gladys Taber 1899–1980
- Geneviève Tabouis 1892–1985
- Ida Tarbell 1857–1944
- Gerda Taro 1910–1937
- Ellen Tarry b. 1906
- Kamala Taylor 1924–2004
- Kylie Tennant 1912–1988
- Gabrielle Tergit 1894–1982
- Mme Thant 1900–1989
- Helen Thomas 1920—
- Dorothy Thompson 1893–1961
- Eloise Bibb Thompson 1878–1928
- Era Bell Thompson 1906–1986
- Eunice Tietjens 1884–1944
- Marcelle Tinayre c. 1870–1948
- Isabella Tod 1836–1896
- Mona Innis Tracy 1892–1959
- Diana Trilling 1905–1996
- Augusta Lewis Troup c. 1848–1920
- Barbara Tuchman 1912–1989
- Esther Van Wagoner Tufty 1896–1986
- Jill Tweedie 1936–1993
- Katharine Tynan 1861–1931
- Kathleen Tynan 1937–1995
- Frida Uhl 1872–1943
- Adaora Lily Ulasi 1932—
- Marie Ulyanova 1878–1937
- Agness Wilson Underwood 1902–1984
- Freda Utley 1898–1977
- Marguerite Vallette 1860–1953
- Maria Vérone 1874–1938
- Leona Vicario 1789–1842
- Renata Vigano` 1900–1976
- Helen Vlachos 1911–1995
- Charmion von Wiegand 1899–1993
- Mary Heaton Vorse 1874–1966
- Beb Vuyk 1905–1991
- Elin Wägner 1882–1949
- Nora Waln 1895–1964
- Cornelia Wells Walter 1813–1898
- Barbara Walters 1929—
- Barbara Ward 1914–1981
- Hortense Ward 1872–1944
- Mrs. Humphry Ward 1851–1920
- Ethel Weed 1906–1975
- Louise Weiss 1893–1983
- Fay Gillis Wells 1908–2002
- Rebecca West 1892–1983
- Ethelwyn Wetherald 1857–1940
- Anne Wheaton 1892–1977
- Sue Shelton White 1887–1943
- Lilian Whiting 1847–1942
- Sarah Helen Whitman 1803–1878
- Ruth Whitney 1928–1999
- Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey 1788–1858
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850–1919
- Iris Wilkinson 1906–1939
- Shirley Williams 1930—
- Oprah Winfrey 1954—
- Kathleen Winsor 1919–2003
- John Strange Winter 1856–1911
- Elizabeth Meta Wiskemann 1899–1971
- L.R. Wright 1939–2001
- Zagorka 1873–1957
- Giselda Zani 1909–1975
- Gabriela Zapolska 1857–1921
- Clara Zetkin 1857–1933
- Hedda Zinner 1902–1990
Judge
- Annette Adams 1877–1956
- Florence Ellinwood Allen 1884–1966
- Helen Ashton 1891–1958
- Jennie Loitman Barron 1891–1969
- Mary Bartelme 1866–1954
- Hilde Benjamin 1902–1989
- Cherie Blair 1954—
- Reva Beck Bosone 1895–1983
- Elizabeth Butler-Sloss 1933—
- Lombe Phyllis Chibesakunda 1944—
- Genevieve Cline 1879–1959
- Mary Coleman 1914–2001
- Deborah fl. 12th c. BCE
- Mary H. Donlon 1894–1977
- Shirin Ebadi 1947—
- Ermengarde of Narbonne c. 1120–c. 1194
- Elizabeth Evatt 1933—
- Mary Genevieve Gaudron 1943—
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933—
- Maud Gonne 1866–1953
- Martha Wright Griffiths 1912–2003
- Adeline Hazan 1956—
- Rose Heilbron 1914—
- Rosalyn Higgins 1937—
- Shirley Mount Hufstedler 1925—
- Sarah T. Hughes 1896–1985
- Annie Jiagge 1918–1996
- Dorothy Kenyon 1888–1972
- Elizabeth Lane 1905—
- Helen Gregory MacGill 1871–1947
- Burnita S. Matthews 1894–1988
- Gabrielle Kirk McDonald 1942—
- Catherine McGuinness 1934—
- Roma Mitchell 1913–2000
- Constance Baker Motley 1921–2005
- Emily Murphy 1868–1933
- Sandra Day O'Connor 1930—
- Elizabeth Odio Benito 1939—
- Elena Ornella Paciotti 1941—
- Béatrice Patrie 1957—
- Helga Pedersen 1911–1980
- Ruth Perry 1939—
- Edith S. Sampson 1901–1979
- Mary Ann Scharlieb 1845–1930
- Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt 1901–1986
- Kathryn Sellers 1870–1939
- Susie M. Sharp 1907–1996
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington 1877–1946
- Helvi Sipilä 1915—
- Juanita Kidd Stout 1919–1998
- Jessie Sumner 1898–1994
- Ruth Thompson 1887–1970
- Simone Veil 1927—
- Patricia McGowan Wald 1928—
- Hortense Ward 1872–1944
- Bertha Wilson 1923—
- Frieda Wunderlich 1884–1965
Judoist
- Noriko Anno 1976—
- Yael Arad 1967—
- Daima Beltran 1972—
- Ingrid Berghmans 1961—
- Miriam Blasco Soto 1963—
- Annett Boehm 1980—
- Yvonne Boenisch 1980—
- Edith Bosch 1980—
- Karen Briggs 1963—
- Lioubov Brouletova
- Cho Min-Sun
- Christine Cicot 1964—
- Irene de Kok 1963—
- Tea Donguzashvili 1976—
- Yuko Emoto 1972—
- Nicola Fairbrother 1970—
- Isabel Fernandez 1972—
- Catherine Fleury 1966—
- Jenny Gal 1969—
- Jessica Gal 1971—
- Gao Feng 1982—
- Driulys Gonzalez Morales 1973—
- Anna-Maria Gradante 1976—
- Deborah Gravenstijn 1974—
- Johanna Hagn
- Claudia Heill 1982—
- Ilse Heylen 1977—
- Kate Louise Howey 1973—
- Hyun Sook-Hee
- Frederique Jossinet 1975—
- Jung Sung-Sook
- Jung Sun Yong
- Kim Mi-Jung 1971—
- Kie Kusakabe
- Kye Sun-Hui 1979—
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- Yurisel Laborde Duanes (1979—)
- Céline Lebrun (1976—)
- Li Shufang (1979—)
- Liu Xia (1979—)
- Liu Yuxiang (1975—)
- Li Zhongyun (1967—)
- Marisabel Lomba
- Diadenis Luna Castellano
- Yurieleidys Lupetey Cobas (1981—)
- Natalina Lupino (1963—)
- Felice Mariani (1954—)
- Julia Matijass (1973—)
- Laetitia Meignan (1960—)
- Noriko Mizoguchi (1971—)
- Lucia Morico (1975—)
- Almudena Munoz Martinez (1968—)
- Cecile Nowak (1967—)
- Maria Pekli (1972—)
- Yelena Petrova (1966—)
- Emanuela Pierantozzi (1968—)
- Qin Dongya (1978—)
- Heidi Rakels (1968—)
- Sharon Rendle (1966—)
- Marie-Claire Restoux (1968—)
- Odalis Reve Jimenez (1970—)
- Simona Marcela Richter (1972—)
- Estela Rodriguez Villanueva (1967—)
- Yoko Sakaue (1968—)
- Amarilys Savon Carmenate (1974—)
- Ylenia Scapin (1975—)
- Hulya Senyurt (1973—)
- Ann Simons (1980—)
- Yolanda Soler
- Noriko Sugawara (1972—)
- Sun Fuming (1974—)
- Aneta Szczepanska (1972—)
- Ryoko Tamura (1975—)
- Yoko Tanabe (1966—)
- Tang Lin (1975—)
- Ayumi Tanimoto (1981—)
- Chiyori Tateno (1970—)
- Maki Tsukada (1982—)
- Masae Ueno (1979—)
- Gella Vandecaveye (1973—)
- Severine Vandenhende (1974—)
- Sibelis Veranes (1974—)
- Legna Verdecia (1972—)
- Wang Xianbo
- Ulla Werbrouck (1972—)
- Xian Dongmei (1975—)
- Yuki Yokosawa (1980—)
- Yuan Hua (1974—)
- Zhang Di (1968—)
- Zhuang Xiaoyan (1969—)
- Urska Zolner (1982—)
- Claudia Zwiers
Justice, Canadian Supreme Court
- Beverley McLachlin (1943—)
- Bertha Wilson (1923—)
Justice, U.s. Supreme Court
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933—)
- Sandra Day O'Connor (1930—)
Justice Of The Peace
- Lizzie Ahern (1877–1969)
- Daisy May Bates (1859–1951)
- Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509)
- Elizabeth Couchman (1876–1982)
- Edith Cowan (1861–1932)
- Elizabeth S. Haldane (1862–1937)
- Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997)
- Jessie Litchfield (1883–1956)
- Catharine McCulloch (1862–1945)
- Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902)
- Edith Onians (1866–1955)
- Margaret Montgomery Pirrie (1857–1935)
- Gertrude Tuckwell (1861–1951)
Kidnapper (accused)
- Bella Anderson (1864–?)
- Ma Barker (1872–1935)
- Helen McDermott Bogle (1871–?)
- Ann Carson (d. 1824)
- Ruth Eisemann-Schier (c. 1942—)
- Bonnie Heady (1912–1953)
- Kathryn Thorne Kelly (1904–1998?)
- Bonnie Parker (1910–1934)
Labor Activist
- Jessie Aitken (1867–1934)
- Mary Anderson (1872–1964)
- Mary Patricia Anderson (1887–1966)
- Tina Anselmi (1927—)
- Francina Baard (1901–1997)
- Sarah Bagley (b. 1806)
- Angelica Balabanoff (1878–1965)
- Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961)
- Angela Bambace (1898–1975)
- M.C. Barker (1879–1963)
- Kate Barnard (1875–1930)
- Gertrude Barnum (1866–1948)
- Domitila Barrios de Chu ́ngara (1937—)
- Leonora M. Barry (1849–1930)
- Doris Beeby (1894–1948)
- Dorothy Bellanca (1894–1946)
- Louie Bennett (1870–1956)
- Annie Besant (1847–1933)
- Constance Alice Birchfield (1898–1994)
- Clementina Black (1854–1922)
- Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856–1940)
- Rhoda Alice Bloodworth (1889–1980)
- Ella Reeve Bloor (1862–1951)
- Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953)
- Selma Munter Borchardt (1895–1968)
- Anna Boschek (1874–1957)
- Jeanne Bouvier (1865–1964)
- Hélène Brion (1882–1962)
- Annie Buller (1896–1973)
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (c. 1885–1911)
- Winifred Carney (1887–1943)
- Mel Cashman (1891–1979)
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)
- Linda Chavez-Thompson (1944—)
- Helen Chevenix (1886–1963)
- Elisabeth Christman (1881–1975)
- Fannia Cohn (c. 1885–1962)
- Jennie Collins (1828–1887)
- Sara McLaughlin Conboy (1870–1928)
- Alice Eleanor Cossey (1879–1970)
- Brenda Dean (1943—)
- Clare De Graffenried (1849–1921)
- Deng Yuzhi (1900–1996)
- Gladys Dickason (1903–1971)
- Emily Dilke (1840–1904)
- Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952)
- Mary Elisabeth Dreier (1875–1963)
- Gabrielle Ducheˆne (1870–1954)
- Marguerite Durand (1864–1936)
- Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933)
- Maria Emhart (1901–1981)
- Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937)
- Dora Fabian (1901–1935)
- Ruth First (1925–1982)
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964)
- Elma Francois (1897–1944)
- Emmy Freundlich (1878–1948)
- Aileen Garmson (c. 1861–1951)
- Mabel Gillespie (1877–1923)
- Mary Gilmore (1865–1962)
- Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
- Josephine Goldmark (1877–1950)
- Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926)
- Helena Rose Gutteridge (1879–1960)
- Maria Selina Hale (1864–1951)
- Alice Hamilton (1869–1970)
- Florence Hancock (1893–1974)
- Elizabeth Hawes (1903–1971)
- Margaret Jane Scott Hawthorne (1869–1958)
- Elizabeth Ross Haynes (1883–1953)
- Ellen Martin Henrotin (1847–1922)
- Alice Henry (1857–1943)
- Amie Hicks (c. 1839–1917)
- Bessie Hillman (1889–1970)
- Dolores Huerta (1930—)
- Grace Hutchins (1885–1969)
- Ichikawa Fusae (1893–1981)
- Anna Thompson Ickes (1873–1935)
- Emma Ihrer (1857–1911)
- Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929)
- Ira Jarrell (1896–1973)
- Mildred Jeffrey (1910–2004)
- Rosa Jochmann (1901–1994)
- Mary Harris Jones (1830–1930)
- Helen Lake Kanahele (1916–1976)
- Rachel Katznelson-Shazar (1888–1975)
- Mary Morton Kehew (1859–1918)
- Aoua Kéita (1912–1979)
- Helen Keller (1880–1968)
- Florence Kelley (1859–1932)
- Annie Kenney (1879–1953)
- Anna Kéthly (1889–1976)
- Diana Kilmury (1948—)
- Carol Weiss King (1895–1952)
- Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)
- Elizaveta Kovalskaia (1851–1943)
- Delia Larkin (1878–1949)
- Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853–1933)
- Jennie Lee (1904–1988)
- Mary Lee (1821–1909)
- Clara Lemlich (1888–1982)
- Anne Loughlin (1894–1979)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870–1919)
- Mary Reid Macarthur (1880–1921)
- Agnes Macphail (1890–1954)
- Olga Madar (1915–1996)
- Leah Manning (1886–1977)
- Constance Markievicz (1868–1927)
- Helen Marot (1865–1940)
- Moa Martinson (1890–1964)
- Eleanor Marx-Aveling (1855–1898)
- Lucy Randolph Mason (1882–1959)
- Mary Maynard (c. 1938—)
- Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955)
- Maria McCreery (1883–1938)
- Mary Eliza McDowell (1854–1936)
- Louise Leonard McLaren (1885–1968)
- Louise Michel (1830–1905)
- Frieda S. Miller (1889–1973)
- Joyce D. Miller (1928—)
- Helena Molony (1884–1967)
- Luisa Moreno (1906–1992)
- Harriet Morison (1862–1925)
- Kate Mullany (1845–1906)
- Pauli Murray (1910–1985)
- Zofia Nalkowska (1884–1954)
- Agnes Nestor (1880–1948)
- Pauline Newman (1887–1986)
- Teresa Noce (1900–1980)
- Karen Nussbaum (1950—)
- Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948)
- Tillie Olsen (c. 1912—)
- Leonora O'Reilly (1870–1927)
- Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (1864–1943)
- Alice May Palmer (1886–1977)
- Julia O'Connor Parker (1890–1972)
- Emma Paterson (1848–1886)
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- Marie Patterson (1934—)
- Rose Pesotta (1896–1965)
- Esther Peterson (1906–1997)
- Marion Phillips (1881–1932)
- Alina Pienkowska (1952–2002)
- Adelheid Popp (1869–1939)
- Hortense Powdermaker (1896–1970)
- Samuelene Purcell (1898–1982)
- Grete Rehor (1910–1987)
- Margaret Dreier Robins (1868–1945)
- Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825–1911)
- Josephine Roche (1886–1976)
- Elizabeth Flynn Rodgers (1847–1939)
- Florence Rood (1873–1944)
- Jane Elizabeth Runciman (1873–1950)
- Nibuya Sabalsajaray (1951–1974)
- Margaret Sanger (1879–1966)
- Anusyabehn Sarabhai (1885–1972)
- Jeanne Sauvé (1922–1993)
- Therese Schlesinger (1863–1940)
- Rose Schneiderman (1882–1972)
- Olive Schreiner (1855–1920)
- Vida Scudder (1861–1954)
- Amalie Seidel (1876–1952)
- Manya Shochat (1878–1961)
- Edith Simcox (1844–1901)
- Florence Simms (1873–1923)
- Helen Foster Snow (1907–1997)
- Anna Spencer (1851–1931)
- Steffie Spira (1908–1995)
- Ellen Gates Starr (1859–1940)
- Alzina Stevens (1849–1900)
- Pippa Strachey (1872–1968)
- Ray Strachey (1887–1940)
- Hanna Suchocka (1946—)
- Maud O'Farrell Swartz (1879–1937)
- Marianne Allen Tasker (1852–1911)
- Rini Templeton (1935–1986)
- Louise Thompson (1901–1999)
- Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)
- Florence Thorne (1877–1973)
- Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
- Augusta Lewis Troup (c. 1848–1920)
- Gertrude Tuckwell (1861–1951)
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck (1883–1972)
- Marie Louise Van Vorst (1867–1936)
- Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
- Lillian D. Wald (1867–1940)
- Anna Walentynowicz (1929—)
- Irene Ward (1895–1980)
- Beatrice Webb (1858–1943)
- Simone Weil (1909–1943)
- Charlotte Anita Whitney (1867–1955)
- May Whitty (1865–1948)
- Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947)
- Frances E. Willard (1839–1898)
- Helen Mary Wilson (1869–1957)
- Carola Woerishoffer (1885–1911)
- Theresa Wolfson (1897–1972)
- Helen Sumner Woodbury (1876–1933)
- Margaret Chase Going Woodhouse (1890–1984)
- Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927)
- Barbara Wootton (1897–1988)
- Xiang Jingyu (1895–1928)
- Molly Yard (1912–2005)
- Maud Younger (1870–1936)
- Clara Zetkin (1857–1933)
Labor-relations Expert
- Elinore Morehouse Herrick (1895–1964)
- Juanita Kreps (1921—)
- Anna M. Rosenberg (1902–1983)
Lacrosse Coach
- Diane Geppi-Aikens (c. 1963–2003)
Lacrosse Player
- Judy Hashman (1935—)
Lady-in-waiting
- Laure d' Abrantès (1784–1838)
- Anastasia the Patrician (d. 567)
- Madeleine de l' Aubespine (1546–1596)
- Anne Boleyn (c. 1507–1536)
- Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373)
- Inez de Castro (c. 1320–1355)
- Meg Colville (1918–2004)
- Gertrude Courtenay (c. 1504–1558)
- Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566)
- Alexandra Dolgorukaia (1836–c. 1914)
- Stéphanie-Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis (1746– 1830)
- Anne Hamilton (1766–1846)
- Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695)
- Kishida Toshiko (1863–1901)
- Helene Kottanner (fl. 1440)
- Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette (1634–1693)
- Henriette de La Tour du Pin (1770–1853)
- Leonor López de Córdoba (1362–1412)
- Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)
- Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621–1689)
- Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973–c. 1015)
- Anne Parr (d. 1552)
- Claire, comtesse de Rémusat (1780–1821)
- Sei Shonagon (c. 965–?)
- Agnes Sorel (1422–1450)
- Charlotte von Stein (1742–1827)
- Frances Stuart (1647–1702)
- Elizabeth Talbot (1518–1608)
- Barbara Villiers (c. 1641–1709)
Lakota
- Zintkala Nuni (c. 1890–c. 1919)
Landgravine
- Alexandra Nikolaevna (1825–1844)
- Anna of Saxony (1420–1462)
- Caroline of Birkenfeld-Zweibrucken (1721–1774)
- Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (1746–1821)
- Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (1762–1823)
- Charlotte of Hesse (1627–1687)
- Charlotte Oldenburg (1789–1864)
- Christine of Saxony (1505–1549)
- Elizabeth (1770–1840)
- Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231)
- Eva Hesse (1936–1970)
- Jolanthe of Lorraine (d. 1500)
- Louise Dorothea of Brandenburg (1680–1705)
- Mafalda of Hesse (1902–1944)
- Magdalene of Brandenburg (1582–1616)
- Margaret Beatrice (1872–1954)
- Margaret of Germany (1237–1270)
- Marie Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Heidesheim (1729–1818)
- Mary of Hesse-Cassel (1723–1772)
- Sophia (fl. 1211)
- Sophia (1957—)
- Sophia of Sweden (1801–1875)
- Sophia of Thuringia (1224–1284)
Landowner
- Jeanie Collier (c. 1791–1861)
- Mary Elizabeth Dawson (1833–1924)
- Ruawahine Irihapeti Faulkner (?–1855)
- Margaret Gardner (1844–1929)
- Te Aitu-o-te-rangi Jury (c. 1820–1854)
- Huria Matenga (1840/42–1909)
- Douglas Mary McKain (1789–1873)
- Sarah O'Connell (c. 1822–1870)
- Emma Brignell Ostler (c. 1848–1922)
- Margaret Ralph (c. 1822–1913)
- Amelia Mary Randall (1844–1930)
- Effie Newbigging Richardson (1849/50?–1928)
- Mary Ann Sutherland (1864–1948)
- Sophia Louisa Taylor (1847–1903)
- Ngawini Yates (1852/53?–1910)
Landscape Architect/designer
- Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879–1969)
- Eulie Chowdhury (1923—)
- Brenda Colvin (1897–1981)
- Sylvia Crowe (1901–1997)
- Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872–1959)
- Genevieve Gillette (1898–1986)
- Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973)
- Alice Ireys (1911–2000)
- Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932)
- Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985)
- Eleanor Raymond (1887–1989)
Landscape Painter
- Peggy Bacon (1895–1987)
- Fanny Brice (1891–1951)
- Emma Bugbee (1888–1981)
- Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
- Marjorie Content (1895–1984)
- Ekaterina Dashkova (1744–1810)
- Fede Galizia (1578–1630)
- Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c. 1653)
- Gluck (1895–1978)
- Nancy Graves (1940–1995)
- Eliza Greatorex (1820–1897)
- Guan Daosheng (1262–1319)
- Nina Hamnett (1890–1956)
- Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947)
- Löıs Mailou Jones (1905–1998)
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942)
- Laura Knight (1877–1970)
- Jessica Landseer (1810–1880)
- Marie Laurencin (1883–1956)
- Mary Fairchild Low (1858–1946)
- Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999)
- Loren MacIver (1909–1998)
- Agnes Martin (1912–2004)
- Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938)
- Norah McGuinness (1901–1980)
- Joan Mitchell (1926–1992)
- Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907)
- Clara Montalba (1842–1929)
- Barbara Morgan (1900–1992)
- Gabriele Münter (1877–1962)
- Alice Neel (1900–1984)
- Elizabeth Nourse (1859–1938)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)
- Emily Mary Osborn (1834–c. 1885)
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888–1960)
- Lilla Cabot Perry (c. 1848–1933)
- Mary Pike (1824–1908)
- Eunice Griswold Pinney (1770–1849)
- Alice Rahon (1904–1987)
- Anne Redpath (1895–1965)
- Judith Rothschild (1921–1993)
- Olga Rozanova (1886–1918)
- Cora Sandel (1880–1974)
- Anna Sewell (1820–1878)
- Henrietta Shore (1880–1963)
- Antonina Sofronova (1892–1966)
- Alice Barber Stephens (1858–1932)
- Margaret Tarrant (1888–1959)
- Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885–1961)
- Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938)
- Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (1755–1842)
- Mary Morris Walcott (1860–1940)
- Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948)
- Irene Weir (1862–1944)
- Maria Yakunchikova (1870–1901)
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Lavta Player
- Gevheri Osmanoglu (1904–1980)
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- Josepha Abiertas (1894–1929)
- Bella Abzug (1920–1998)
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- Aduke Alakija (1921—)
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- Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884–1966)
- Gloria Allred (1941—)
- Teresa Almeida Garrett (1953—)
- Nora Astorga (1949–1988)
- Jennie Loitman Barron (1891–1969)
- Mary Bartelme (1866–1954)
- Regina Bastos (1960—)
- Florence Bates (1888–1954)
- Ethel Rebecca Benjamin (1875–1943)
- Hilde Benjamin (1902–1989)
- Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817–1901)
- Ada Matilda Bittenbender (1848–1925)
- Cherie Blair (1954—)
- Inez M. Boissevain (1886–1916)
- Selma Munter Borchardt (1895–1968)
- Myra Bradwell (1831–1894)
- Anna Teresa Brennan (1879–1962)
- Angie Brooks (1928—)
- Louise Brooks (1906–1985)
- Virginia Mae Brown (1923–1991)
- Carol M. Browner (1956—)
- Emilie Bullowa (1869–1942)
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1932—)
- Clara Campoamor (1888–1972)
- Eunice Hunton Carter (1899–1970)
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893)
- Carmen Cerdeira Morterero (1958—)
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- Vera Chirwa (1933—)
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- Novella d'Andrea (d. 1333)
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- Mary H. Donlon (1894–1977)
- Shirin Ebadi (1947—)
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- Elizabeth Evatt (1933—)
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- Roma Mitchell (1913–2000)
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- Margaret Bush Wilson (1919—)
- Jill Wine-Banks (1943—)
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- BeBe Shopp (1930—)
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- Barbara Castle (1910–2002)
- Pu ́blia Horteˆnsia de Castro (1548–1595)
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- Mary Edwards Walker (1832–1919)
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- Karen Ann Quinlan (1954–1985)
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- Jean Hutson (1914–1998)
- Mary Frances Isom (1865–1920)
- Alice Annie Kenny (1875–1960)
- Alice Kroeger (1864–1909)
- Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918—)
- Helvi Lemmiki Leviska (1902–1982)
- Jessie Litchfield (1883–1956)
- Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
- Helen MacInnes (1907–1985)
- Marie de Bourbon (1606–1627)
- Helen Marot (1865–1940)
- May Massee (1881–1966)
- Gisela Mauermayer (b. 1913)
- Alice Ethel Minchin (1889–1966)
- Dorothy Miner (1904–1973)
- Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)
- Anne Carroll Moore (1871–1961)
- Isadore Mudge (1875–1957)
- Frances Newman (1883–1928)
- Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)
- Kathleen Norris (1880–1966)
- Kathleen Mary Nunneley (1872–1956)
- Yvonne Oddon (1902–1982)
- Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922)
- Mary Wright Plummer (1856–1916)
- Josephine Adams Rathbone (1864–1941)
- Stella Rimington (1935—)
- Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952)
- Charlemae Hill Rollins (1897–1979)
- Doris Saunders (1921—)
- Katharine Lucinda Sharp (1865–1914)
- Moira Shearer (1926—)
- Anne Spencer (1882–1975)
- Lutie Stearns (1866–1943)
- Nettie Maria Stevens (1861–1912)
- Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975)
- Alice S. Tyler (1859–1944)
- Dorothy Vogel (1935—)
- Althea Warren (1886–1958)
- Beatrice Winser (1869–1947)
- Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861–1931)
Library/museum Founder
- Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1949)
- Emily Folger (1858–1936)
- Margaret Formby (1929–2003)
- Elida Rumsey Fowle (1842–1919)
- Elizabeth S. Haldane (1862–1937)
- Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (1922—)
- Jadwiga (1374–1399)
- Alice Lewisohn (1883–1972)
- Irene Lewisohn (1892–1944)
- Marie-Amelie of Orleans (1865–1951)
- Helen Marot (1865–1940)
- Anne E. McDowell (1826–1901)
- Gloria Vanderbilt (1924—)
- Victoria Adelaide (1840–1901)
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942)
- Beatrice Winser (1869–1947)
Librettist
- Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720–1795)
- Helmina von Chézy (1783–1856)
- Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913–2005)
- Kazuko Hara (1935—)
- Eliska Krasnohorska (1847–1926)
- Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938)
- Myfanwy Piper (1911–1997)
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
- Rida Johnson Young (1869–1926)
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Lighthouse Keeper
- Mary Jane Bennett (c. 1816–1885)
- Ida Lewis (1842–1911)
Lighting Designer
- Maude Adams (1872–1953)
- Peggy Clark (c. 1916–1996)
- Jean Eckart (1921–1993)
- Arden Fingerhut (1945–1994)
- Natalie Kalmus (1878–1965)
- Tharon Musser (1925—)
- Jean Rosenthal (1912–1969)
Linguist
- Helen Adolf (b. 1895)
- Fatima Aliye (1862–1936)
- Anna Aníchkova (1868–1935)
- G.E.M. Anscombe (1919–2001)
- Olga Nikolaevna Anstei (1912–1985)
- Penelope Aubin (c. 1685–1731)
- Florence Ayscough (1875/78–1942)
- Marianna Bacinetti-Florenzi (1802–1870)
- Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
- Mary Roper Basset (fl. 1544–1572)
- Margaret Bayne (1798–1835)
- Margery Williams Bianco (1881–1944)
- Mary Louise Booth (1831–1889)
- Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1629–1671)
- Moura Budberg (1892–1974)
- Marguerite Buffet (d. 1680)
- Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)
- Nina Cassian (1924—)
- Ellen Mary Clerke (1840–1906)
- Anne Dacier (1654–1720)
- Ingerid Dal (1895–1985)
- Geneviève d'Arconville (1720–1805)
- Ella Deloria (1888–1971)
- Lucie Duff-Gordon (1821–1869)
- Toru Dutt (1856–1877)
- Elizabeth of Wied (1843–1916)
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958)
- Lea Goldberg (1911–1970)
- Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565–1645)
- Julia Hartwig (1921—)
- Clara Holst (1868–1935)
- Mary Howitt (1799–1888)
- Maria Jolas (1893–1987)
- Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943)
- Julia Kristeva (1941—)
- Carobeth Laird (1895–1983)
- Elizabeth W. Latimer (1822–1904)
- Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990)
- Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
- Agnes Smith Lewis (1843–1926)
- Lucia Lopresti Longhi (1895–1985)
- Malinche (c. 1500–1531)
- Clara Malraux (c. 1897–1982)
- Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995)
- Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
- Siobhan McKenna (1922–1986)
- Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861–1934)
- Pamela Morris (1906–2002)
- Margaret Murray (1863–1963)
- Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)
- Louise Pound (1872–1958)
- Mary Kawena Pukui (1895–1986)
- Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith (c. 1880–1964)
- Clémence Royer (1830–1902)
- Elizabeth Russell (1540–1609)
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
- Beate Sirota (1923—)
- Solita Solano (1888–1975)
- Sara Coppia Sullam (1590–1641)
- Anna Swanwick (1813–1899)
- Wislawa Szymborska (1923—)
- Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925)
- Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907–1995)
- Ethel Voynich (1864–1960)
- Ida Caroline Ward (1880–1949)
- Antonia White (1899–1980)
- Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878)
- Susanna Winkworth (1820–1884)
- Katharine Prescott Wormeley (1830–1908)
- Laura Maria Wright (1809–1886)
- Yamada Waka (1879–1956)
- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)
- Ana Katarina Zrinska (1625–1673)
Literacy Activist
- Barbara Bush (1924—)
- Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987)
- Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
- Ana Gasteazoro (1950–1993)
- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
- Addie D. Waites Hunton (1875–1943)
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978)
- Larissa Reisner (1895–1926)
- Margo Rose (1903–1997)
- Elizabeth Putnam Sohier (1847–1926)
- Cora Wilson Stewart (1875–1958)
- Khaleda Zia (1946—)
Literary Agent
- Jenny Bradley
- Moura Budberg (1892–1974)
- Joan Daves (1919–1997)
- Anita Diamant (1917–1996)
- Candida Donadio (1929–2001)
- Sylvia Herscher (1913–2004)
- Adrienne Morrison (1889–1940)
- Hertha Pauli (1909–1973)
- Gloria Safier (d. 1985)
- Audrey Wood (1905–1985)
Literary/artistic Inspiration
- Beatrice Portinari (c. 1265–1290)
- Harriet Bosse (1878–1961)
- Laure de Chevigné (1860–1936)
- Camille Claudel (1864–1943)
- Vivienne Eliot (1889–1947)
- Arabella Fermor (d. 1738)
- Maud Gonne (1866–1953)
- Beryl Graves (1915–2003)
- Marie-Louise Habets (1905–1986)
- Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812–1890)
- Sophie, Comtesse d' Houdetot (1730–1813)
- Louie Jermy (1864–1934)
- Esther Johnson (1681–1728)
- Lucia Joyce (1907–1982)
- Nora Joyce (1884–1951)
- Laura Kieler (1849–1932)
- Marie Laurencin (1883–1956)
- Catherine Lefebvre (c. 1764–after 1820)
- Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)
- Jane Lewson (c. 1700–1816)
- Alice Liddell (1852–1934)
- Maata Mahupuku (1890–1952)
- Maria Manning (c. 1821–1849)
- Sara Murphy (1883–1975)
- Laure de Noves (1308–1348)
- Virginia O'Hanlon (c. 1899–1971)
- Alphonsine Plessis (1824–1847)
- Virginia Clemm Poe (1822–1847)
- Penelope Rich (c. 1562–1607)
- Mary Robinson (d. 1837)
- Clotilde de Vaux (1815–1846)
- Maria Von Trapp (1905–1987)
- Cvijeta Zuzoric (c. 1555–1600)
Literary Critic
- Aisha Abdel Rahman (1913–1998)
- Liubo Akselrod (1868–1946)
- Vera Aleksandrovna (1895–1966)
- Paula Gunn Allen (1939—)
- Margaret Carolyn Anderson (1886–1973)
- Yayoi Aoki (1927—)
- May Hill Arbuthnot (1884–1969)
- Margaret Atwood (1939—)
- Patricia Beer (1919–1999)
- Kersti Bergroth (1886–1975)
- Angela Bianchini (1921—)
- Margery Williams Bianco (1881–1944)
- Marie-Thérèse Blanc (1840–1907)
- Maud Bodkin (1875–1967)
- Louise Bogan (1897–1970)
- Christine Brooke-Rose (1923—)
- Brigid Brophy (1929–1995)
- A.S. Byatt (1936—)
- Yvette Centeno (1940—)
- Ana Cristina César (1952–1983)
- Lidiya Davydovna Chervinskaya (1907–1988)
- Lidiya Chukovskaya (1907–1996)
- Hélène Cixous (1938—)
- Branca de Gonta Colaço (1880–1944)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
- Mary Gunning Colum (1884–1957)
- Maryse Condé (1937—)
- Elizabeth Cooper (fl. 1737)
- Maria Corti (1915–2002)
- Jane Cunningham Croly (1829–1901)
- Margaretta D'Arcy (1934—)
- Jean D'Costa (1937—)
- Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
- Tamara Deutscher (1913–1990)
- Margaret Drabble (1939—)
- Agnes Mary F. Duclaux (1856–1944)
- Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956)
- Una Mary Ellis-Fermor (1894–1958)
- Feng Yuanjun (1900–1974)
- Lucette Finas (1921—)
- Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
- Helen Louise Gardner (1908–1986)
- Adelaida Gertsyk (1874–1925)
- Sandra M. Gilbert (1936—)
- Lidiia Ginzburg (1902–1990)
- Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945)
- Margo Glantz (1930—)
- Lea Goldberg (1911–1970)
- Caroline Gordon (1895–1981)
- Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565–1645)
- Dorothy Green (1915–1991)
- Germaine Greer (1939—)
- Armanda Guiducci (1923–1992)
- Liubov Gurevich (1866–1940)
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
- Elizabeth Hardwick (1916—)
- Barbara Hardy (1924—)
- Ana Maria Hatherly (1929—)
- Anne Hébert (1916—)
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926–2003)
- Daniela Hodrova (1946—)
- Susan Howe (1937—)
- Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003)
- Storm Jameson (1891–1986)
- Elizabeth Janeway (1913–2005)
- Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912–1981)
- Maria Jolas (1893–1987)
- Nancy Keesing (1923–1993)
- Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967)
- Ellen Key (1849–1926)
- Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia (1824–1889)
- Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980)
- Julia Kristeva (1941—)
- Asja Lacis (1891–1979)
- Marghanita Laski (1915–1988)
- Q.D. Leavis (1906–1981)
- Eugénie Lemoine-Luccioni (1912—)
- Nienling Liu (1934—)
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- Amy Loveman (1881–1955)
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
- Lia Luft (1938—)
- Alison Lurie (1926—)
- Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)
- Nazik al- Malaika (1923–1992)
- Clara Malraux (c. 1897–1982)
- Olivia Manning (1908–1980)
- Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
- Elena Marothy-Soltesova (1855–1939)
- Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
- Jean Newton McIlwraith (1859–1938)
- Dolores Medio (1914–1996)
- Giuliana Morandini (1938—)
- Wendy Mulford (1941—)
- Torborg Nedreaas (1906–1987)
- Joana de Noronha (fl. c. 1850)
- Nettie Palmer (1885–1964)
- Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
- Isabel Paterson (c. 1886–1961)
- Alicia Patterson (1906–1963)
- Josefina Plá (1909–1999)
- Velma Pollard (1937—)
- María Xosé Queizán (1938—)
- Kathleen Raine (1908–2003)
- Laura Riding (1901–1991)
- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1869–1948)
- Christiane Rochefort (1917–1998)
- Annie Romein-Verschoor (1895–1978)
- Mercedes Saenz-Alonso (1916–2000)
- Elizaveta Salhias de Tournemire (1815–1892)
- Isadora Sekulic ́ (1877–1958)
- Marietta Shaginian (1888–1982)
- Carol Shields (1935–2003)
- Ann Allen Shockley (1925—)
- Elaine Showalter (1941—)
- May Sinclair (1863–1946)
- Muriel Spark (1918—)
- Catherine Spence (1825–1910)
- Dale Spender (1943—)
- Hilde Spiel (1911–1990)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942—)
- Enid Starkie (1897–1970)
- Ginka Steinwachs (1942—)
- Jennifer Strauss (1933—)
- Su Hsueh-lin (1897–1999)
- Amable Tastu (1798–1885)
- France Théoret (1942—)
- Clara Thomas (1919—)
- Marta Traba (1930–1983)
- P.L. Travers (1906–1996)
- Diana Trilling (1905–1996)
- Birgitta Trotzig (1929—)
- M.K. Tsebrikova (1835–1917)
- Marguerite Vallette (1860–1953)
- Tamara Antonovna Velichkovskaia (1908–1990)
- Zinaida Vengerova (1867–1941)
- Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851–1920)
- Marina Warner (1946—)
- Rebecca West (1892–1983)
- Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999)
- Judith Wright (1915–2000)
- Ye Jiayin (1924—)
- Concha Zardoya (1914–2004)
- Fay Zwicky (1933—)
Literary Figure
- Elisabeth Jungmann (d. 1959)
Literary Hostess
Literary Inspiration
- Nola Luxford (1895–1994)
- Magdalene Stuart Reeves (1865–1953)
Lithographer
- Anni Albers (1899–1994)
- Peggy Bacon (1895–1987)
- Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909)
- Mary Bonner (1885–1935)
- Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911)
- Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1915)
- Ethel Leontine Gabain (1883–1950)
- Anne Wilson Goldthwaite (1869–1944)
- Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)
- Marion Greenwood (1909–1980)
- Lea Grundig (1906–1977)
- Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940)
- Elizabeth Olds (1896–1991)
- Frances Flora Palmer (1812–1876)
- Pitseolak (c. 1900–1983)
- Margaret Rose Preston (c. 1875–1963)
- Anne Ryan (1889–1954)
- Agnes Tait (c. 1897–1981)
- Wanda Telalkowska (1905–1986)
- Rini Templeton (1935–1986)
- Anna Ticho (1894–1980)
- Toyen (1902–1980)
Logician
- Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930)
- Julia B. Robinson (1919–1985)
Long Jumper
Luge Athlete
- Ingrida Amantova
- Elisabeth Demleitner
- Angelika Dünhaupt
- Ortrun Enderlein (1943–)
- Susi-Lisa Erdmann (1968—)
- Ilse Geisler
- Silke Kraushaar (1970—)
- Erica Lechner
- Anna-Maria Müller (1949—)
- Angelika Neuner (1969—)
- Doris Neuner (1970—)
- Barbara Niedernhuber (1974—)
- Ute Oberhoffner
- Sylke Otto (1969—)
- Ute Rührold
- Cerstin Schmidt
- Christa Schmuck
- Margit Schumann (1952—)
- Melitta Sollmann
- Andrea Tagwerker
- Erica Terwillegar (1963—)
- Helene Thurner
- Steffi Walter-Martin (1962—)
- Bonny Warner (1962—)
- Gerda Weissensteiner (1969—)
- Vera Zozula
Lyricist
- Marilyn Bergman (1929—)
- Anne Caldwell (1876–1936)
- Betty Comden (1915—)
- Gretchen Cryer (1935—)
- Dorothy Donnelly (1880–1928)
- Rita Dove (1952—)
- Dorothy Fields (1904–1974)
- Sylvia Fine (1913–1991)
- Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913–2005)
- Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879)
- Nancy Hamilton (1908–1985)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966)
- Peggy Lee (1920—)
- Carolyn Leigh (1926–1983)
- Carolina Nairne (1766–1845)
- Isobel Pagan (c. 1742–1821)
- Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978)
- Susanna Rowson (1762–1824)
- Rida Johnson Young (1869–1926)
Magician
- Jane Whiteside (1855–1875)
Mammologist
- Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1949)
Management Theorist
- Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933)
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878–1972)
Manufacturer
- Mary Beale (1632–1699)
- Olive Ann Beech (1903–1993)
- Hazel Bishop (1906–1998)
- Elizabeth Eaton Boit (1849–1932)
- Kate Gleason (1865–1933)
- Hilda Beatrice Hewlett (1864–1943)
- Enid Justin (1894–1990)
- Rose Markward Knox (1857–1950)
- Rebecca Lukens (1794–1854)
- Maria Sybilla Merian (1647–1717)
- Rose Marie Reid (1906–1978)
- Hope Skillman Schary (1908–1981)
- Helen Hay Smith (1873–1918)
- Jayne Spain (1927—)
Manuscript Illuminator
- Anastaise (fl. 1400)
- Claricia of Augsburg (fl. 1220)
- Donatella (fl. 1271)
- Leodegundia (fl. 10th c.)
- Montanaria (fl. 1272)
- Maria Ormani (fl. 1453)
- Thomasse (fl. 1292)
Mapmaker
Marchioness
- Marquesa de Alorna (1750–c. 1839)
- Barbara of Brandenburg (1422–1481)
- Beatrice of Lorraine (c. 1020–1076)
- Hariot Blackwood (c. 1845–1891)
- Marie Boufflers (1706–1747)
- Marie de Brinvilliers (1630–1676)
- Frances Calderó n de la Barca (1804–1882)
- Mary Gwendolin Caldwell (1863–1909)
- Elizabeth Cavendish-Bentinck (1735–1825)
- Marthe M. Caylus (1673–1729)
- E ́milie du Chaˆtelet (1706–1749)
- Vittoria Colonna (c. 1490–1547)
- Sophie Marie Louise, Marquise de Condorcet (1764–1822)
- Gertrude Courtenay (c. 1504–1558)
- Renée Caroline de Froulay, Marquise de Crequy (1714–1803)
- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Deffand
- Marquise du (1697–1780)
- Marie du Deffand (1697–1780)
- Emma (fl. 1080s)
- Henriette d' Entragues (1579–1633)
- Cunegunda d' Este (c. 1012–1055)
- Gigliola d' Este
- Isabella d' Este (1474–1539)
- Parisina d' Este (fl. 1400)
- Ricciarda d' Este
- Gabrielle d' Estrées (1573–1599)
- Isabel Fitzroy (1726–1782)
- Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
- Margherita Gonzaga (1418–1439)
- Paola Gonzaga (1393–1453)
- Griselda (fl. 11th c.)
- Anne Holland (d. 1474)
- Stella Isaacs (1894–1971)
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- Isabelle of Cornwall (fl. 14th c.)
- Julie (fl. 1770)
- Kathleen Kennedy (1920–1948)
- Marie Adrienne de Lafayette (1760–1807)
- Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Lambert
- Courcelles (1647–1733)
- Marie Louise Victoire, La Rochejacquelein
- marquise de (1772–1857)
- Henriette de La Tour du Pin (1770–1853)
- Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)
- Margaret of Bavaria (1445–1479)
- Maria of Aragon (fl. 1440)
- Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663–1726)
- Sybilla Masters (1720–?)
- Françoise, Marquise de Montespan (1640–1707)
- Charlotte Jeanne Béraud de la Haye Montesson
- marquise de de Riou (1737–1805)
- Irene Mountbatten (1890–1956)
- Adelina Patti (1843–1919)
- Eleonora Pimentel (c. 1768–1799)
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Pompadour
- Duchesse de (1721–1764)
- Jeanne Agnes Berthelot de Pléneuf, Prie
- Marquise de (1698–1727)
- Catherine de Vivonne, Marquise de Rambouillet (1588–1665)
- Jacqueline de Rohan, Marquise de Rothelin (c. 1520–1587)
- Madeleine de Souvré, Marquise de Sablé (c. 1599–1678)
- Gabrielle de Saint Mars (1804–1872)
- Marie de Sévigné (1626–1696)
- Adéläıde Filleul, marquise of Souza-Botelho (1761–1836)
- Thérésa Tallien (1773–1835)
- Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (1685–1749)
- Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest (d. 1865)
- Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1878–1949)
- Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (1863–1950)
- Pauline Félicité, Marquise de Vintimille (1712–1741)
- Margaret Wotton (fl. 16th c.)
Margravine
- Augusta Maria of Holstein-Gottorp (1649– 1728)
- Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg (c. 1405–1465)
- Christina Casimir (fl. 1640–1660)
- Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828)
- Eleanor of Saxe-Eisenach (1662–1696)
- Frederica Louise (1715–1784)
- Hedwig of Habsburg (d. 1286)
- Ida of Austria (d. 1101?)
- Irmingard of Zelle (c. 1200–1260)
- Johanna Elizabeth of Baden-Durlach (1651–1680)
- Jutta of Saxony (d. around 1267)
- Margarethe (1370–c. 1400)
- Marie Louise (1879–1948)
- Sophia of Denmark (1217–1248)
- Sophie Caroline (1737–1817)
- Sophie of Poland (1464–1512)
- Sophie of Solms-Laubach (1594–1651)
- Suzanne of Bavaria (1502–1543)
- Theodora Oldenburg (1906–1969)
- Wilhelmina (1709–1758)
Marine Biologist
- Isobel Bennett (b. 1909)
- Anna McClean Bidder (1903–2001)
- Rachel Carson (1907–1964)
- Eugenie Clark (1922—)
- Marie Lebour (1877–1971)
- Sheina Marshall (1896–1977)
- Annie Massy (1867–1931)
- Sylvia Earle Mead (1935—)
- Audrey Mestre (1974–2002)
- Mary Parke (1908–1989)
- Mary Jane Rathbun (1860–1943)
- Molly Spooner (1914–1997)
- Cindy Van Dover (1954—)
Market Produce Gardener
- Mary Elizabeth Small (1812/13–1908)
Marquise/marquesa
Martyr
- See also Political martyr.
- See also Religious martyr. Barbara (fl. 3rd c.)
- Bibiana (d. 363)
- Joan Bocher (d. 1550)
- Constance (d. 305)
- Eusebia of Bergamo (fl. 3rd c.)
- Flora of Cordova (d. 851)
- Maria of Cordova (d. 851)
Masseuse
- Mary Louise Roberts (1886–1968)
Mathematical Physicist
- Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780–1872)
Mathematician
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799)
- Nina K. Bari (1901–1961)
- Mary L. Cartwright (1900–1998)
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923—)
- Ingrid Daubechies (1954—)
- Mileva Einstein-Maríc (1875–1948)
- Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948)
- Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973)
- Sophie Germain (1776–1831)
- Margaret Greig (1922–1999)
- Olive C. Hazlett (1890–1974)
- E. Dorrit Hoffleit (1907—)
- Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992)
- Hypatia (c. 375–415)
- Helga Königsdorf (1938—)
- Sophia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
- Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930)
- Giulia Lama (c. 1685–c. 1753)
- Inge Lehmann (1888–1993)
- Hortense Lepaute (1723–1788)
- Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852)
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923—)
- Hanna Neumann (1914–1971)
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- Iva Toguri (1916—)
- Van Chu-Lin (1893/94?–1946)
- Louisa Wade Wetherill (1877–1945)
- Cecilie Wollerin (d. 1341)
- Ngawini Yates (1852/53?–1910)
Metallurgist
- Constance Tipper (1894–1995)
Meteorologist
- Margaret White (c. 1888–1977)
Microbiologist
- Hattie Alexander (1901–1968)
- Sara Elizabeth Branham (1888–1962)
- Rita R. Colwell (1934—)
- Gladys Dick (1881–1963)
- Bernice Eddy (b. 1903)
- Zinaida Ermoleva (1898–1974)
- Alice Catherine Evans (1881–1975)
- Amalia Fleming (1912–1986)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)
- Charlotte Friend (1921–1987)
- Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910–1993)
- Pearl L. Kendrick (1890–1980)
- Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (1895–1981)
- Julia Levy (1934—)
- Lynn Margulis (1938—)
- Elizabeth McCoy (1903–1978)
- Nancy Millis (1922—)
- Angeliki Panagiotatou (1878–1954)
- Sarah Stewart (1906–1976)
- Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
Microscopist
- Mary Ward (1827–1869)
Midwife
- Agnodice (fl. 4th c. BCE)
- Jesusita Aragon (1908—)
- Penny Armstrong (1946—)
- Amelia Bagley (1870–1956)
- Martha Moore Ballard (1735–1812)
- Ruth Coates Beeman (1925—)
- Agnes Muir Bettjeman (1885–1964)
- Marie Anne Boivin (1773–1847)
- Louise Bourgeois (1563–1636)
- Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965)
- Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720–1767)
- Georgina Jane Burgess (c. 1839–1904)
- Renate Burgess (1910–1988)
- Pearlie Burton (1904–1993)
- Maude Callen (1899–1990)
- Catherine Carran (1842–1935)
- Margaret Catchpole (1762–1819)
- Elizabeth Cellier (fl. 1679)
- Sarah Ann Cripps (c. 1821–1892)
- Mary Cuddie (1823–1889)
- Lydia Barrington Darragh (1729–1789)
- Patience Darton (1911–1996)
- Ann Diamond (c. 1827–1881)
- Angélique Du Coudray (1712–1789)
- Hilda Erickson (1859–1968)
- Kitty Ernst (1926—)
- Ann Evans (c. 1836–1916)
- Margaret Farrer (1914–1997)
- Elizabeth Fergusson (1867–1930)
- Vera Figner (1852–1942)
- Lydia Folger Fowler (1822–1879)
- Charlotte Fü hrer (1834–1907)
- Ina May Gaskin (1940—)
- Lalla Goggans (1906–1987)
- Eliza Gordon (1877–1938)
- Mamie O. Hale (1911–c. 1968)
- Elizabeth Jane Hamilton (1805–1897)
- Agnes Harrold (c. 1830–1903)
- Akenehi Hei (1877/78?–1910)
- Jenny Poinsard d' Héricourt (1809–1875)
- Hersende of France (fl. 1250)
- Adelaide Hicks (1845–1930)
- Sarah Higgins (1830–1923)
- Grace Hirst (1805–1901)
- Aileen I. Hogan (1899–1981)
- Alice Hannah Holford (1867–1966)
- Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643)
- Helen Clyde Inglis (1867–1945)
- Inger Kathrine Jacobsen (1867–1939)
- Susan Gail James (1953—)
- Aoua Kéita (1912–1979)
- Lais (fl. 1st c. BCE)
- Raven Lang (1942—)
- Carol L. Leonard (1950—)
- Onnie Lee Logan (c. 1910–1995)
- Ruth Watson Lubic (1927—)
- Maria Jane Mackay (1844–1933)
- Georgia Lathouris Mageras (1867–1950)
- Jacqueline Manicom (1938–1976)
- Mother Mary Martin (1892–1975)
- Biddy Mason (1818–1891)
- Adelaide McDougall (1909–2000)
- Fanny McHugh (1861–1943)
- Douglas Mary McKain (1789–1873)
- Rose McNaught (1893–1978)
- Gladys Milton (1924–1999)
- Angela Murdaugh (1940—)
- Etta Grigsby Nichols (1897–1994)
- Elizabeth Nihell (1723–after 1772)
- Lucy Osburn (1835–1891)
- Nielsine Paget (1858–1932)
- Rosalind Paget (1855–1948)
- Henriette Pelletier (c. 1864–1961)
- Eulalia Arrila de Pérez (c. 1773–c. 1878)
- Mary Peterson (1927—)
- Mary Josephine Player (c. 1857–1924)
- Hanna Porn (1860–1913)
- Jane Preshaw (1839–1926)
- Agnes Reinders (1913–1993)
- Hannah Retter (1839–1940)
- Luba Lyons Richardson (1949—)
- Marie-Henriette LeJeune Ross (1762–1860)
- Jeanne Schmahl (1846–1916)
- Catharina Geertuida Schrader (1656–1745)
- Patty Bartlett Sessions (1795–1892)
- Margaret Charles Smith (b. 1906)
- Elsie Stephenson (1916–1967)
- Trotula (c. 1040s–1097)
- Carolyn Van Blarcom (1879–1960)
- Fran Ventre (1941—)
- Suzanne Voilquin (1801–1877)
- Faye Wattleton (1943—)
- Mary B. Willeford (1900–1941)
- Sigbrit Willums (fl. 1507–1523)
- Audrey Wood (1908–1998)
- Marie Zakrzewska (1829–1902)
Military Engineer
- Valentina Tereshkova (1937—)
Military Leader
- Faye Glenn Abdellah (1919—)
- Charity Adams (1917–2002)
- Aldrude (fl. 1172)
- Brites de Almeida (fl. 1385)
- Mary Ambree (fl. 1584)
- Valerie André (1922—)
- Juanita Ashcraft (1921—2000)
- Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1781–1862)
- Maria Botchkareva (1889–?)
- Laskarina Bouboulina (1771–1825)
- Margaret A. Brewer (1930—)
- Kady Brownell (b. 1842)
- Angélique Brûlon (1772–1859)
- Bui Thi Xuan (d. 1771)
- Catherine de Clermont (fl. 16th c.)
- Cloelia (c. 508 BCE)
- Constance de Cezelli (d. 1617)
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- Dorothy Hilliard Davis (1917–1994)
- Alene B. Duerk (1920—)
- Nadezhda Durova (1783–1866)
- Catalina de Erauso (1592–1635)
- Evelyn J. Fields
- Julia Otteson Flikke (1879–1965)
- Fu Hao (fl. 1040 BCE)
- Katharine Furse (1875–1952)
- Juliane Gallina (1970—)
- Veronica Gambara (1485–1550)
- Mary A. Hallaren (1907–2005)
- Hermione Ruth Herrick (1889–1983)
- Hetha (fl. 10th c.)
- Oveta Culp Hobby (1905–1995)
- Hojo Masako (1157–1225)
- Jeanne Holm (1921—)
- Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992)
- Mildred McAfee Horton (1900–1994)
- Isabelle of Lorraine (1410–1453)
- Jacqueline of Hainault (1401–1436)
- Jeanne des Armoises (fl. 1438)
- Jingu (c. 201–269)
- Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431)
- Beverly Gwinn Kelley (c. 1952—)
- Ruth Kuczinski (1907–2000)
- Bona Longabarba (fl. 15th c.)
- Margaret of Attenduli (1375–?)
- Marzia (fl. 1357)
- Vera Laughton Mathews (1888–1959)
- Geraldine May (1895–1997)
- Nur Jahan (1577–1645)
- Felicity Peake (1913–2002)
- Deborah Read (1707–1774)
- Gail Reals (c. 1937—)
- Onorata Rodiani (d. 1452)
- Julia Stimson (1881–1948)
- Dorothy Stratton (b. 1899)
- Ruth Cheney Streeter (1895–1990)
- Tamara (1160–1212)
- Katherine Towle (1898–1986)
- Valasca (fl. 738)
- Harriet Waddy (1904–1999)
- Wa Shi (1498–1560)
- Ethel Weed (1906–1975)
- Sheila Widnall (1938—)
Military Strategist
Milliner
- Sarah Bagley (b. 1806)
- Hattie Carnegie (1886–1956)
- Mary Chandler (1687–1745)
- Coco Chanel (1883–1971)
- Myra Cohen (1892–1959)
- Lilly Daché (1898–1989)
- Ellen Curtis Demorest (1824–1898)
- Abigail Scott Duniway (1834–1915)
- Emma Edmonds (1841–1898)
- Edith Evans (1888–1976)
- Ida Hyde (1857–1945)
- Emma Ihrer (1857–1911)
- Effa Manley (1900–1981)
- Arabella Mansfield (1846–1911)
- Mary Ann McCracken (1770–1866)
- Neysa McMein (1888–1949)
- Mary Jane Milne (1840–1921)
- Carmen Miranda (1909–1955)
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
- Amanda M. Way (1828–1914)
Millowner
- Margaret Gardner (1844–1929)
Millworker
- Jacqueline Cochran (1906–1980)
- Sara McLaughlin Conboy (1870–1928)
- Mother Marianne Cope (1838–1918)
- Mairead Corrigan (b. 1944)
- Maria Emhart (1901–1981)
- Harriet Farley (1813–1907)
- Gracie Fields (1898–1979)
- Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914)
- Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
- Ann Lee (1736–1784)
- Lizzie Murphy (1894–1964)
- Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825–1911)
- Marie Louise Van Vorst (1867–1936)
Mime
- Colette (1873–1954)
- Angna Enters (1907–1989)
- Adeline Genée (1878–1970)
- Lotte Goslar (1907–1997)
- Henriette Hendel (1772–1849)
- Matilda Kshesinskaia (1872–1971)
- Encarnación Lopez (1898–1945)
- Pauline Markham (d. 1919)
- Giulietta Masina (1920–1994)
- Asta Nielsen (1881–1972)
- Camilia Pagliero (1859–1925)
- Molly Picon (1898–1992)
- Elis Regina (1945–1982)
- Florence E. Turner (c. 1888–1946)
- Galina Ulanova (1910–1998)
Miniaturist
- Mary Beale (1632–1699)
- Gabrielle Capet (1761–1817)
- Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757)
- Maria Cosway (1759–1838)
- Donatella (fl. 1271)
- Henrietta Muir Edwards (1849–1933)
- Francesca da Firenze (fl. 15th c.)
- Marie Anne Fragonard (1745–c. 1823)
- Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1870–1224)
- Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853)
- Anne Hall (1792–1863)
- Jeanne Mathilde Herbelin (1820–1904)
- Jessica Landseer (1810–1880)
- Anna Claypoole Peale (1791–1878)
- Margaretta Angelica Peale (1795–1882)
- Sarah Miriam Peale (1800–1885)
- Levina Teerlinc (c. 1520–1576)
- Florence Vandamm (1883–1966)
Mining Engineer
- Emily Hahn (1905–1997)
- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
Mining Entrepreneur
- Margaret Ralph (c. 1822–1913)
Miss America
- Kimberly Aiken (c. 1975—)
- Susan Akin (c. 1964—)
- Donna Axum (c. 1924—)
- Evelyn Ay (c. 1934—)
- Angela Perez Baraquio (1976—)
- Kylene Barker (c. 1956—)
- Debra Dene Barnes (c. 1947—)
- Jean Bartel (c. 1924—)
- Dorothy Benham (c. 1956—)
- Marian Bergeron (1918–2002)
- Yolande Betbeze (1930—)
- Deborah Bryant (c. 1946—)
- Marilyn Buferd (1925–1990)
- Frances Burke (c. 1921—)
- Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990)
- Gretchen Carlson (c. 1966—)
- Kellye Cash (c. 1965—)
- Suzette Charles (1963—)
- Bette Cooper (c. 1920—)
- Leanza Cornett (1971—)
- Shirley Cothran (c. 1953—)
- Rose Coyle (1914–1988)
- Lois Delander (1911–1985)
- Jo-Carroll Dennison (c. 1924—)
- Patricia Donnelly (c. 1920—)
- Deirdre Downs (c. 1980—)
- Ericka Dunlap (1982—)
- Pam Eldred (c. 1948—)
- Nancy Fleming (c. 1941—)
- Maria Fletcher (c. 1942—)
- Judith Ford (c. 1950—)
- Heather French (1974—)
- Phyllis George (1949—)
- Margaret Gorman (1905–1995)
- Elizabeth Gracen (1960—)
- Katie Marie Harman (c. 1980—)
- Erika Harold (c. 1980—)
- Sharlene Hawkes (c. 1964—)
- Tara Dawn Holland (c. 1972—)
- Colleen Kay Hutchins (c. 1927—)
- Nicole Johnson (c. 1974—)
- Rebecca King (c. 1950—)
- Neva Langley (c. 1934—)
- Fay Lanphier (1906–1959)
- Rosemary LaPlanche (1923–1979)
- Henrietta Leaver (c. 1916–1993)
- Tawny Little (c. 1957—)
- Debra Sue Maffett (c. 1957—)
- Ruth Malcomson (1906–1988)
- Jacquelyn Mayer (c. 1942—)
- Marian McKnight (c. 1937—)
- Lynda Lee Mead (c. 1939—)
- Terry Meeuwsen (1949—)
- Jacque Mercer (1931–1982)
- Lee Ann Meriwether (1935—)
- Marilyn Meseke (1916–2001)
- Mary Ann Mobley (1939—)
- Susan Perkins (c. 1954—)
- Susan Powell (c. 1959—)
- Cheryl Prewitt (c. 1957—)
- Kaye Lani Rafko (c. 1963—)
- Venus Ramey (c. 1925—)
- Sharon Kay Ritchie (c. 1937—)
- Carolyn Sapp (1967—)
- Laurel Lea Schaefer (c. 1949—)
- Kate Shindle (1979—)
- BeBe Shopp (1930—)
- Norma Smallwood (c. 1908–1966)
- Shawntel Smith (1971—)
- Debbye Turner (1966—)
- Marilyn Van Derbur (c. 1937—)
- Vonda Kay Van Dyke (c. 1944—)
- Marjorie Vincent (c. 1965—)
- Barbara Jo Walker (1926–2000)
- Heather Whitestone (c. 1973—)
- Vanessa Williams (1963—)
Missionary
- Jessie Alexander (1876–1962)
- Martha Avery (1851–1929)
- Gladys Aylward (1902–1970)
- Hannah Johnston Bailey (1839–1923)
- Charlotte Fowler Baldwin (1805–1873)
- Margaret Bayne (1798–1835)
- Harriet M. Bedell (1875–1969)
- Laura Bell (1829–1894)
- Elizabeth Bellamy (1845–1940)
- Berthgyth (fl. 8th c.)
- Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)
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- Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817–1901)
- Sybil Moseley Bingham (1792–1848)
- Harriet E. Bishop (1817–1883)
- Mary Lucinda Bonney (1816–1900)
- Emma Moss Booth-Tucker (1860–1903)
- Eliza Jane Bridgman (1805–1871)
- Emily Mary Bulstrode (1867–1959)
- Jane Helena Bulstrode (1862–1946)
- Mildred Cable (1878–1952)
- Donaldina Cameron (1869–1968)
- Amy Carmichael (1867–1971)
- Luisa de Carvajal (1568–1614)
- Anne Maria Chapman (1791–1855)
- Elizabeth Colenso (1821–1904)
- Mother Marianne Cope (1838–1918)
- Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837–1913)
- Jennie Dean (1852–1913)
- Mary Florence Denton (1857–1947)
- Sarah Platt Doremus (1802–1877)
- Margaret Dryburgh (1890–1945)
- Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769–1852)
- Cynthia Farrar (1795–1862)
- Mary Fisher (c. 1623–1698)
- Fidelia Fiske (1816–1864)
- Alice Frame (1878–1941)
- Evangeline French (1869–1960)
- Francesca French (1871–1960)
- Mary Hannah Fulton (1854–1927)
- Marianne Gittos (1830–1908)
- Alice Gordon Gulick (1847–1903)
- Rosetta Sherwood Hall (1865–1951)
- Mother Mary Bridget Hayden (1814–1890)
- Laura Askew Haygood (1845–1900)
- Annie Henry (1879–1971)
- Frances Mulligan Hill (1799–1884)
- Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926)
- Annie Isabella James (1884–1965)
- Sybil Jones (1808–1873)
- Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789–1826)
- Emily Chubbuck Judson (1817–1854)
- Sarah Boardman Judson (1803–1845)
- Charlotte Kemp (1790–1860)
- Margaret Kissling (1808–1891)
- Julie de Krüdener (1764–1824)
- Anna Sarah Kugler (1856–1930)
- Mary Leavitt (1830–1912)
- Ann Lee (1736–1784)
- Lioba (700–779)
- Mary Moffatt Livingstone (1820–1862)
- Jean Kenyon Mackenzie (1874–1936)
- Jeanne Mance (1606–1673)
- Mother Mary Martin (1892–1975)
- Susan Law McBeth (1830–1893)
- Susan Tolman Mills (1825–1912)
- Sarah Luella Miner (1861–1935)
- Mary Smith Moffatt (1795–1870)
- Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861–1934)
- Lottie Moon (1840–1912)
- Mary Emelia Moore (1869–1951)
- Nano Nagle (1718–1784)
- Harriet Atwood Newell (1793–1812)
- Angelia L. Newman (1837–1910)
- Mehetabel Newman (c. 1822–1908)
- Mary Mills Patrick (1850–1940)
- Lucy Peabody (1861–1949)
- Ellen Albertina Polyblank (1840–1930)
- Priscilla (fl. 1st c.)
- Gertrud Rask (fl. 1721)
- Mary Reed (1854–1943)
- Ann Worcester Robertson (1826–1905)
- Elizabeth Ann Rogers (1829–1921)
- Mary Ann Rymill (c. 1817–1897)
- Annie Jane Schnackenberg (1835–1905)
- Philippa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967)
- Ida Scudder (1870–1960)
- Mary Slessor (1848–1915)
- Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915)
- Frances Hagell Smith (1877–1948)
- Caroline White Soule (1824–1903)
- Eliza Spalding (1807–1851)
- Betsey Stockton (c. 1798–1865)
- Clara A. Swain (1834–1910)
- Eliza Talcott (1836–1911)
- Annie Royle Taylor (1855–c. 1920)
- Mother Teresa (1910–1997)
- Isabella Thoburn (1840–1901)
- Lucy Thurston (1795–1876)
- Matilda Thurston (1875–1958)
- Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821–1893)
- Lillias Underwood (1851–1921)
- Minnie Vautrin (1886–1941)
- Mother Vincent (1819–1892)
- Maria Von Trapp (1905–1987)
- Walpurgis (c. 710–777)
- Narcissa Whitman (1808–1847)
- Jane Williams (c. 1801–1896)
- Marianne Williams (1793–1879)
- Margaret Bush Wilson (1919—)
- Eliza Wohlers (c. 1812–1891)
- Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861–1931)
- Helena Wright (1887–1982)
- Laura Maria Wright (1809–1886)
Model
- Jane Adams (1921—)
- Arletty (1898–1992)
- Romaine Brooks (1874–1970)
- Liz Calder (1938—)
- Naomi Campbell (1970—)
- Constance Collier (1878–1955)
- Cindy Crawford (1966—)
- Gala Dali (1894–1982)
- Lisa del Giocondo (1474–?)
- Waris Dirie (1967—)
- Dolores (c. 1890–1975)
- Doris Doscher (1882–1970)
- Billie Dove (1900–1997)
- Ernesta Drinker (1852–1939)
- Nusch Eluard (1906–1946)
- Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858–1937)
- Linda Evangelista (1965—)
- Millicent Fenwick (1910–1992)
- Alina Fernandez (1956—)
- Emilie Flöge (1874–1952)
- Mary Elizabeth Forbes (1879–1964)
- Betty Ford (1918—)
- Irene Langhorne Gibson (1873–1956)
- Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883)
- La Goulue (1869–1929)
- Angela Greene (1921–1978)
- Catherine Hessling (1899–1979)
- Shere Hite (1943—)
- Grace Jones (1952—)
- Dottie King (c. 1896–1923)
- Lisa Leslie (1972—)
- Dora Maar (1907–1997)
- Jeanette MacDonald (1903–1965)
- Maggie McNamara (1928–1978)
- Una Merkel (1903–1986)
- Lee Miller (1907–1977)
- Monica (1980—)
- Wilma Montesi (1932–1953)
- Jane Burden Morris (1839–1914)
- Audrey Munson (1891–1996)
- Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967)
- Nico (1938–1988)
- Anais Nin (1903–1977)
- Kim Novak (1933—)
- Fernande Olivier (1884–1966)
- Suzy Parker (1932–1932)
- Phryne (c. 365–c. 295 BCE)
- Ana Quirot (1963—)
- Jean Rhys (1890–1979)
- Claudia Schiffer (1970—)
- Misia Sert (1872–1950)
- Jean Shrimpton (1942—)
- Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862)
- Simone Simon (1910–2005)
- Naomi Sims (1948—)
- Twiggy (1946—)
- Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938)
- Simonetta Vespucci (d. 1476)
- Patience Lovell Wright (1725–1786)
Mosaic Artist
- Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)
- Evie Hone (1894–1955)
- Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999)
- Violet Oakley (1874–1961)
- Ethel Rhind (c. 1879–1952)
Motorcyclist
- Margaret Halliday (1956—)
- Avis Hotchkiss (fl. 1915)
- Effie Hotchkiss (fl. 1915)
- Kitty O'Neil (1947—)
- Dot Robinson (1912–1999)
- Bessie B. Stringfield (1912–1993)
- Adeline Van Buren (1894–1949)
- Augusta Van Buren
Mountain Biker
- Elke Brutsaert (1968—)
- Anne-Caroline Chausson (1977—)
- Aleisha Cline (1970—)
- Kim Csizmazia (c. 1968—)
- Cheri Elliott (1970—)
- Missy Giove (1972—)
- Tara Llanes (1976—)
- Katrina Miller (1975—)
- Lisa Sher (1969—)
- Marla Streb (1965—)
Mountaineer
- Tori Allen (1988—)
- Constance Alice Barnicoat (1872–1922)
- Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)
- Gertrude Benham (1867–1938)
- Livia Bertolini (fl. 1920s–1930s)
- Arlene Blum (1945—)
- Stéphanie Bodet (1976—)
- Loulou Boulaz (1912—)
- Tina Bozzino (fl. 1920s–30s)
- Lily Bristow (fl. 1890s)
- Matilda M. Brooks (1888–1981)
- Felicite Carrel (fl. 1860s)
- Henriette d'Angeville (1795–1871)
- Yvonne de Gaulle (1900–1979)
- Catherine Destivelle (1960—)
- Emmeline Freda Du Faur (1882–1935)
- Kate Gardiner (1885–1974)
- Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973)
- Alison Hargreaves (1962–1995)
- Julia Archibald Holmes (1838–1887)
- Dora Keen (1871–1963)
- Emily Kelly (d. 1922)
- Claude Kogan (1919–1959)
- Elizabeth Le Blond (1861–1934)
- Inge Lehmann (1888–1993)
- Kristen Lignell (c. 1965—)
- Herta Lindner (1920–1943)
- Margaret Lorimer (1866–1954)
- Helen MacInnes (1907–1985)
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- Gwen Moffat (1924—)
- Micheline Morin (fl. 1930s)
- Nea Morin (1906–1986)
- Yasuko Namba (1949–1996)
- Miriam O'Brien (1898–1976)
- Marie Paradis (fl. 1808)
- Annie Smith Peck (1850–1935)
- Mary Petherick (fl. 1887)
- Anna Pigeon (fl. 1860s)
- Ellen Pigeon (fl. 1860s)
- Dorothy Pilley (1893–1986)
- Katy Richardson (1864–1927)
- Mary Louise Roberts (1886–1968)
- Forrestina Elizabeth Ross (1860–1936)
- Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943—)
- Greta Barbara Stevenson (1911–1990)
- Junko Tabei (1939—)
- Jane Thomson (1858–1944)
- Julie Tullis (1939–1986)
- Yvette Vaucher (1929—)
- Lucy Walker (1836–1916)
- Fanny Workman (1859–1925)
Movement Founder
- Josephine Abaijah (1942—)
- Angela of Brescia (1474–1540)
- Angelica Balabanoff (1878–1965)
- Rachel Yanait Ben Zvi (1886–1979)
- Learmonth White Dalrymple (1827–1906)
- Flora Darling (1840–1910)
- Caroline Edgeworth David (1856–1951)
- Mary Ware Dennett (1872–1947)
- Hedwig Dransfeld (1871–1925)
- Emma Curtis Hopkins (1853–1925)
- Li Qingzhao (1083–c. 1151)
- Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927)
- Cicely Saunders (1918–2005)
Muralist
- Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)
- Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
- Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979)
- Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954)
- Anne Wilson Goldthwaite (1869–1944)
- Marion Greenwood (1909–1980)
- Lee Krasner (1908–1984)
- Mary Fairchild Low (1858–1946)
- Ethel Magafan (1916–1993)
- Jenne Magafan (1916–1952)
- Violet Oakley (1874–1961)
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)
- Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865–1937)
- Henrietta Shore (1880–1963)
- Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935)
- Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902)
- Agnes Tait (c. 1897–1981)
- Pablita Velarde (1918—)
- Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992)
- Irene Weir (1862–1944)
- Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887–1968)
Murderer (accused)
- Millicent Adams (1942—)
- Lydia Adler (1704–?)
- Margaret Allen (1906–1949)
- Beverley Gail Allitt (1969—)
- Mary Ansell (1877–1899)
- Theresa Antonini (1785–1809)
- Amy Archer-Gilligan (1869–1928)
- Alice Arden (1516–1551)
- Susan Atkins (1948—)
- Gertrude Wright Baniszewski (1929–1990)
- Fanny Barber (c. 1864–1952)
- Maria Barberi (1880–?)
- Elvira Dolores Barney (c. 1905–c. 1936)
- Mary Ann Barry (1855–1874)
- Adelaide Bartlett (c. 1856–?)
- Mary Bateman (1768–1809)
- Elizabeth Bathory (1560–1614)
- Martha Beck (c. 1921–1951)
- Marie Alexander Becker (1877–194?)
- Ann Beddingfield (1742–1763)
- Mary Bell (c. 1957—)
- Kate Bender (1849–?)
- Ann Bilansky (1820–1860)
- Penny Bjorkland (1941—)
- Mary Blandy (1719–1752)
- Mildred Mary Bolton (1886–1943)
- Gabrielle Bompard (1869–?)
- Linda Bonmartini (1873–?)
- Lizzie Borden (1860–1927)
- LaVerne Borelli (1909—)
- Cordelia Botkin (c. 1854–1910)
- Léone Bouvier (c. 1929—)
- Elizabeth Branch (1673–1740)
- Florence Bravo (1845–1878)
- Marie de Brinvilliers (1630–1676)
- Elizabeth Broadingham (d. 1776)
- Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720–1767)
- Vera Brühne (1910—)
- Charlotte Bryant (c. 1902–1936)
- Mary Ann Burdock (1805–1835)
- Elizabeth Butchill (1758–1780)
- Kitty Byron (c. 1879–?)
- Mamie Cadden (c. 1894–1959)
- Henriette Caillaux (?–1943)
- Louie Calvert (c. 1893–1926)
- Edith Mary Carew (1868–?)
- Lindy Chamberlain (1948—)
- Rebekah Chamblit (d. 1733)
- Ada Chard-Williams (c. 1876–1900)
- Joanne Chesimard (1948—)
- Elizabeth Chivers (1682–1712)
- Pearl Choate (1907–1983)
- Susan Christie (c. 1969—)
- Styllou Christofi (c. 1900–1954)
- Martha Clift (fl. 1930s)
- Mary Cole (c. 1913—)
- Patricia Columbo (1957—)
- Eva Coo (d. 1935)
- Charlotte Corday (1768–1793)
- Mary Ann Cotton (1822–1873)
- Mary Frances Creighton (1899–1936)
- Alice Crimmins (1941—)
- Mary Daly (c. 1861–1901)
- Mary Agnes Daly
- Williamina Dean (1844–1895)
- Daisy Louisa De Melker (1886–1932)
- Evelyn Dick (1922—)
- Margaret Dixon (1670–1753)
- Nannie Doss (1905–1965)
- Célestine Doudet (b. 1817)
- Roxana Druse (1846–1889)
- Pauline Dubuisson (1926—)
- Marie Dumolard (1816–?)
- Bridget Durgan (c. 1845–1867)
- Amelia Elizabeth Dyer (1839–1896)
- Christiana Edmunds (1835–1907)
- Ruth Ellis (1927–1955)
- Marguérite Laurent Fahmy (b. around 1900)
- Mrs. Julius Fazekas (d. 1929)
- Gabrielle Fenayrou (b. 1850)
- Julia Force (1860–?)
- Henriette Francey (b. around 1859)
- Lynette Fromme (1948—)
- Augusta Fairfield Fullam (1876–1914)
- Sheila Garvie (fl. 1960s)
- Christina Gilmour (c. 1824–c. 1911)
- Madame Giriat (b. 1866)
- Karen Glabe (1942—)
- Maria Vere Goold (1877–1908)
- Gesina Margaretha Gottfried (d. 1828)
- Barbara Wood Graham (1923–1955)
- Debora Green (c. 1951—)
- Christina Gregg (c. 1814–1882)
- Jane Griffin (1680–1720)
- Martha Grinder (1815–1866)
- Maria Groesbeek (1937–1970)
- Belle Gunness (1860–c. 1908)
- Anna Marie Hahn (1906–1938)
- Charlotte Harris (1819–?)
- Catherine Hayes (1690–1726)
- Myra Hindley (1942–2002)
- Jane Housden (d. 1714)
- Nina Housden (1916—)
- Frances Howard (1593–1632)
- Juliet Marion Hulme (1938—)
- Agnes Hungerford (d. 1524)
- Amy Hutchinson (1733–1750)
- Nicole Ily (1932—)
- Mary Jane Jackson (b. 1836)
- Marie Jeanneret (d. 1884)
- Elizabeth Jeffries (d. 1752)
- Doreen Jeffs (d. 1965)
- Hélène Jegado (1803–1851)
- Elizabeth Marina Jones (1926—)
- Winnie Ruth Judd (1905–1998)
- Linda Kasabian (1949—)
- Constance Kent (1844–?)
- Jean Kincaid (1579–1600)
- Tillie Klimek (1865–1936)
- Mary Knight (1749–1788)
- Frances Knorr (1868–1894)
- Patricia Krenwinkel (1947—)
- Denise Labbé (1926—)
- Catherine Lacoste
- Marie Lafarge (1816–1852)
- Delphine Lalaurie (c. 1790–?)
- Christa Lehmann (1922—)
- Angélina Lemoine (1843–?)
- Juliane Lipka (c. 1860–c. 1929)
- Grace Lusk (1878–1938)
- Anjette Lyles (1917–1977)
- Ethel Lillie Major (1890–1934)
- Sarah Malcolm (c. 1710–1733)
- Maria Manning (c. 1821–1849)
- Martha Lowenstein Marek (1904–1938)
- Elizabeth Mason (d. 1712)
- Louise Masset (c. 1863–1900)
- Florence Elizabeth Maybrick (c. 1853–1941)
- Ruby McCollum (1915—)
- Euphrasie Mercier (1823–?)
- Lucille Miller (1930—)
- Ljubinka Milosavljeric (1917—)
- Jessie M'Lachlan (c. 1834–1899)
- Mary Moynihan (c. 1903–?)
- Hera Myrtel (b. 1868)
- Cathy Nathaniel (1949—)
- Susan Newell (1893–1923)
- Violette Noziere (1915–1966)
- Catherine Ogilvie (1746–?)
- Susanna Olah (d. around 1929)
- Pauline Yvonne Parker (1938—)
- Alice May Parkinson (1889–1949)
- Nan Patterson (c. 1882–?)
- Mary Eleanor Pearcey (1866–1890)
- Louise Peete (1883–1947)
- Clara Phillips (1899Place, Martha (1848–1899)
- Sarah Pledge (d. 1752)
- Eva Rablen (1905—)
- Alma Rattenbury (c. 1904–1935)
- Martha Rendall (d. 1909)
- Claire Reymond (c. 1868–?)
- Jane Reynolds (c. 1897—)
- Henrietta Robinson (1816–1905)
- Sarah Jane Robinson (d. 1905)
- Freda Rumbold (1913—)
- Amelia Sach (1873–1902)
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- Susan Saxe (1947—)
- Antoinette Scieri (fl. 1920s)
- Lydia Sherman (d. 1878)
- Pamela Wojas Smart (1967—)
- Madeleine Hamilton Smith (1835–1928)
- Ruth Snyder (1893–1928)
- Evelita Juanita Spinelli (1889–1941)
- Wanda Stopa (1899–1925)
- Jane Swett (b. 1805)
- Delia Swift (fl. 1850s)
- Maria Tarnowska (1878–1923)
- Louisa Jane Taylor (1846–1883)
- Edith Thompson (c. 1894–1923)
- Tofana (1653–1723)
- Jane Toppan (1854–1938)
- Grace Tripp (1691–1710)
- Anne Turner (1576–1615)
- Sophie Ursinus (1760–1836)
- Leslie Van Houten (1949—)
- Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh (1799–1846)
- Ginette Vidal (b. 1931)
- Dorothea Waddingham (1899–1936)
- Carolyn Warmus (1964—)
- Jeanne Weber (1875–1910)
- Kate Webster (1849–1879)
- Jeanne Daniloff Weiss (1868–1891)
- Rosemary West (1953—)
- Ann Williams (d. 1753)
- Catherine Wilson (1842–1862)
- Elizabeth Wilson (d. 1786)
- Pamela Lee Worms (d. 1852)
- Aileen Wuornos (1956–2002)
- Alice Wynekoop (1870–1952)
- Bertha Zillman (d. 1893)
Murder Victim (known As)
- Sophie Chotek (1868–1914)
- Addie Mae Collins (d. 1963)
- Pamela Coventry (d. 1939)
- Kitty Genovese (1935–1964)
- Dottie King (c. 1896–1923)
- Viola Liuzzo (1925–1965)
- Eleanor Mills (1888–1922)
- Wilma Montesi (1932–1953)
- Montreal Massacre (1989)
- Mary Phagan (c. 1899–1913)
- Sylvia Rafael (1938–2005)
- Elizabeth Short (1925–1947)
- Nicole Brown Simpson (1959–1994)
- Sharon Tate (1943–1969)
Museum Administrator
- Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1949)
- Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (1938—)
- Juliana Force (1876–1948)
- Dorothy Canning Miller (1904–2003)
- Dorothy Miner (1904–1973)
- Cornelia B. Sage Quinton (1876–1936)
- Hilla Rebay (1890–1967)
- Beatrice Winser (1869–1947)
Museum Founder
Music Arranger
- Lovie Austin (1887–1972)
- Ruth Crawford (1901–1953)
- Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser (1857–1930)
- Anita Kerr (1927—)
- Melba Liston (1926—)
- Dana Suesse (1909–1987)
- Kay Thompson (1908–1998)
- Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990)
- Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981)
Music Composer
- See also Hymn writer.
- See also Librettist.
- See also Lyricist.
- See also Music composer.
- See also Songwriter.
- Harriett Abrams (c. 1758–c. 1822)
- Toshiko Akiyoshi (1929—)
- Marie-Claire Alain (1926—)
- Raffaella Aleotti (c. 1570–c. 1646)
- Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1573–c. 1620)
- Leni Alexander (1924—)
- Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947—)
- Amalie of Saxony (1794–1870)
- Merekotia Amohau (1898–1978)
- Beth Anderson (1950—)
- Laurie Anderson (1947—)
- Elfrida Andree (1841–1929)
- Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787)
- Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar (1739–1807)
- Violet Balestreri Archer (1913–2000)
- Isabel Aretz (1909—)
- Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898–1971)
- Caterina Assandra (fl. 1580–1609)
- Azza al-Maila (fl. c. 707)
- Grazyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
- Maria Bach (1896–1978)
- Agathe Backer-Grondahl (1847–1907)
- Tekla Badarzewski-Baranowska (1834–1861)
- Esther Williamson Ballou (1915–1973)
- Elsa Barraine (1910—)
- Elsa Barraine (1910–1999)
- Ann Sheppard Bartholomew (1811–1891)
- Marion Bauer (1887–1955)
- Alison Bauld (1944—)
- Amy Cheney Beach (1867–1944)
- Janet Eveline Beat (1937—)
- Betty Beath (1932—)
- Anna Caroline de Belleville-Oury (1808–1880)
- Antonia Bembo (1643–1715)
- Cathy Berberian (1925–1983)
- Marilyn Bergman (1929—)
- Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890–2002)
- Louise Angélique Bertin (1805–1877)
- Bid'a (856–915)
- Marie Leopoldine Blahetka (1811–1887)
- Carla Bley (1938—)
- Carrie Jacobs Bond (1862–1946)
- Victoria Bond (1950—)
- Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)
- Karla Bonoff (1952—)
- Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
- Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
- Anne Boyd (1946—)
- Liona Boyd (1950—)
- JoAnne Brackeen (1938—)
- Gena Branscombe (1881–1977)
- Sophie Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1613–1676)
- Dora Estella Bright (1863–1951)
- Radie Britain (1897–1994)
- Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840–1913)
- Augusta Browne (1820–1882)
- Helen May Butler (1867–1957)
- Francesca Caccini (1587–c. 1626)
- Cai Yan (c. 162–239)
- Anne Caldwell (1876–1936)
- Marguerite Canal (1890–1978)
- Julie Candeille (1767–1834)
- Ann Carr-Boyd (1938—)
- Dinora de Carvalho (1905—)
- Nina Cassian (1924—)
- Maddalena Casulana (c. 1540–1583)
- Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
- Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979)
- Gloria Coates (1938—)
- Alicia Cockburn (1713–1794)
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998)
- Elizabeth Cotten (c. 1893–1987)
- Ruth Crawford (1901–1953)
- Marilyn Crispell (1947—)
- Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1878–1971)
- Maria Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800)
- Vaughan De Leath (1900–1943)
- Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
- Emmy Destinn (1878–1930)
- Hilda Dianda (1925—)
- Emma Lou Diemer (1927—)
- Violeta Dinescu (1953—)
- Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925—)
- Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848)
- S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899–1974)
- Judith Eisenstein (1909–1996)
- Erinna (fl. 7th c. BCE)
- Pozzi Escot (1933—)
- Eugenie (1830–1889)
- Fadl (d. ca. 870)
- Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
- Carlotta Ferrari (1837–1907)
- Gabrielle Ferrari (1851–1921)
- Sylvia Fine (1913–1991)
- Vivian Fine (1913–2000)
- Elena Olegovna Firsova (1950—)
- Eliza Flower (1803–1846)
- Jacqueline Fontyn (1930—)
- Varvara Andrianovna Gaigerova (1903–1944)
- Kay Gardner (1941–2002)
- Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)
- Ruth Gipps (1921—)
- Barbara Giuranna (1902–1998)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
- Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847–1935)
- Shirley Graham (1896–1977)
- Marie Felicia Grandval (1830–1907)
- Lucile Grétry (1772–1790)
- Sofia Gubaidulina (1931—)
- Rosa Guraieb Kuri (1931—)
- Elizabeth Gyring (1906–1970)
- Monique Haas (1906–1987)
- Elsie Hall (1877–1976)
- Catherine Hamilton (1738–1782)
- Leyla Hanim (1850–1936)
- Kazuko Hara (1935—)
- Rebekah Harkness (1915–1982)
- Elisabet Hermine Hermodsson (1927—)
- Ethel Glenn Hier (1889–1971)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
- Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895)
- Dulcie Sybil Holland (1913—)
- Augusta Holmès (1847–1903)
- Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
- Katherine Hoover (1937—)
- Helen Hopekirk (1856–1945)
- Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837)
- Katherina von Hoya (d. around 1470)
- Miriam Beatrice Hyde (1913—)
- Miriam Beatrice Hyde (1913–2005)
- Inan (fl. c. 800)
- Inanna (fl. c. 3000 BCE)
- Irfan (fl. mid-800s)
- Jean Eichelberger Ivey (1923—)
- Elisabeth-Claude (c. 1666– Jacquet de la Guerre
1729)
- Elsie Janis (1889–1956)
- Eva Jessye (1895–1992)
- Betsy Jolas (1926—)
- Edith K. Kanakaole (1913–1979)
- Vitezslava Kapralova (1915–1940)
- Lucrecia R. Kasilag (1918—)
- Carole King (1942—)
- Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858)
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- Barbara Kolb (1939—)
- Yuksel Koptagel (1931—)
- Felicitas Kukuck (1914–2001)
- Joan La Barbara (1947—)
- Louise La Hye (1810–1838)
- Wanda Landowska (1877–1959)
- Josephine Lang (1815–1880)
- Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972)
- Alicia de Larrocha (1923—)
- Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927)
- Franziska Lebrun (1756–1791)
- Nicola Lefanu (1947—)
- Ethel Leginska (1886–1970)
- Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
- Carolyn Leigh (1926–1983)
- Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
- Natalia Levi (1901–1972)
- Helvi Lemmiki Leviska (1902–1982)
- Annea F. Lockwood (1939—)
- Ivana Loudov (1941—)
- Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)
- Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
- Macrina (327–379)
- Alma Mahler (1879–1964)
- Ursula Mamlok (1928—)
- Mana-Zucca (1887–1981)
- Maria Antonia of Austria (1724–1780)
- Ljubica Maric (1909–2003)
- Marianne Martinez (1744–1812)
- Emilie Mayer (1821–1883)
- Joyce Mekeel (1931—)
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805–1847)
- Sophie Menter (1846–1918)
- Mihi-ki-te-kapua (?–1872/80)
- Freda Miller (c. 1910–1960)
- Mireille (1906–1996)
- Tarquinia Molza (1542–1617)
- Meredith Monk (1942—)
- Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar (1924—)
- Thea Musgrave (1928—)
- Alice K. Namakelua (1892–1987)
- Dika Newlin (1923—)
- Camille Nickerson (1884–1982)
- Stevie Nicks (1948—)
- Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
- Dina Nurpeissova (1861–1955)
- Pauline Oliveros (1932—)
- Gevheri Osmanoglu (1904–1980)
- Alexandra Pakhmutova (1929—)
- Elizabeth Mary Palmer (1832–1897)
- Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759–1824)
- Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923)
- Barbara Pentland (1912–2000)
- Maria Perez (fl. 13th c.)
- Julia Perry (1924–1979)
- Genevieve Pitot (c. 1920—)
- Elise Popovici (1921—)
- Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)
- Florence B. Price (1888–1953)
- Rihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea (d. 1906)
- Mary Kawena Pukui (1895–1986)
- Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986)
- Shulamit Ran (1949—)
- Louise Reichardt (1779–1826)
- Elsa Respighi (1894–1996)
- Sylvia Rexach (1922–1961)
- Marga Richter (1926—)
- Julie Rivé-King (1854–1937)
- Teresa de Rogatis (1893–1979)
- Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844–1931)
- Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (1836–1911)
- Kaija Saariaho (1952—)
- Tona Scherchen (1938—)
- Ruth Schonthal (1924—)
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
- Philippa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967)
- Carly Simon (1945—)
- Julia Frances Smith (1911–1989)
- Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
- Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (1810–1900)
- Barbara Strozzi (1619–1664)
- Dana Suesse (1909–1987)
- Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)
- Erzsebet Szönyi (1924—)
- Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789–1831)
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
- Louise Talma (1906–1996)
- Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
- Alicia Terzian (1938—)
- Theano (fl. 6th c. BCE)
- Kay Thompson (1908–1998)
- Rangi Kuini Wikitoria Topeora (?–1865/73)
- Joan Tower (1938—)
- Galina Ustvolskaya (1919—)
- Nancy Van de Vate (1930—)
- Consuelo Velazquez (1916–2005)
- Yuliya Veysberg (1878–1942)
- Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
- Jorunn Vidar (1918—)
- Slavka Vorlova (1894–1973)
- Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991)
- Gladys Elinor Watkins (1884–1939)
- Vally Weigl (1889–1982)
- Judith Weir (1954—)
- Maude Valerie White (1855–1937)
- Irene Regine Wieniawska (1880–1932)
- Grace Williams (1906–1977)
- Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981)
- Betty Ann Wong (1938—)
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939—)
Music Critic
- Marcia Davenport (1903–1996)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
- Helvi Lemmiki Leviska (1902–1982)
- Dika Newlin (1923—)
- Lillian Roxon (1932–1973)
- Olga Samaroff (1882–1948)
- Constance Lindsay Skinner (1877–1939)
- Grace Harriet Spofford (1887–1974)
Music Director
- Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944)
- Debra Dene Barnes (c. 1947—)
- Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)
- Helen May Butler (1867–1957)
- Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1878–1971)
- Vivian Fine (1913–2000)
- E. Azalia Smith Hackley (1867–1922)
- Eva Jessye (1895–1992)
- Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915—)
- Clara Mae Ward (1924–1973)
Musician
Musicologist
- Isabel Aretz (1909—)
- Natalie Curtis Burlin (1875–1921)
- Gloria Coates (1938—)
- Frances Densmore (1867–1957)
- Hilda Dianda (1925—)
- Judith Eisenstein (1909–1996)
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838–1923)
- Lucy McKim Garrison (1842–1877)
- Zelma Watson George (1904–1994)
- Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser (1857–1930)
- Wanda Landowska (1877–1959)
- Aubertine Woodward Moore (1841–1929)
- Dika Newlin (1923—)
- Dorothy Scarborough (1878–1935)
- Eileen Jackson Southern (1920–2002)
- Alicia Terzian (1938—)
- Rosalyn Tureck (1914–2003)
Music Producer
- Lillian Shedd McMurry (1921–1999)
- Genya Ravan (1942—)
- Sylvia Vanderpool (1936—)
Music Satirist
- Anna Russell (b. 1911)
Music Teacher
- Oyinkansola Abayomi (1897–1990)
- Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898–1971)
- Amelia Huddleston Barr (1831–1919)
- Beatrice Mary Barth (1877–1966)
- Clara Baur (1835–1912)
- Suzanne Bloch (1907–2002)
- Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
- Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
- Marguerite Canal (1890–1978)
- Catharine Crozier (1914–2003)
- Dorothy Ida Davies (1899–1987)
- Cécile de Brunhoff (1903–2003)
- Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)
- Dorothy DeLay (1917–2002)
- Joan Dickson (1921–1994)
- Angela Diller (1877–1968)
- Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000)
- Pauline Donalda (1882–1970)
- Maria Donska (1912–1996)
- Annette Essipova (1851–1914)
- Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
- Mildred E. Gillars (1900–1988)
- Marianne Gittos (1830–1908)
- Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (c. 1819–1876)
- Rosa Guraieb Kuri (1931—)
- Hidari Sachiko (1930—)
- Ethel Glenn Hier (1889–1971)
- Malvina Hoffman (1885–1966)
- Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
- Miriam Beatrice Hyde (1913—)
- Amparo Iturbi (1898–1969)
- Natalia Janotha (1856–1932)
- Hedwig Kanner-Rosenthal (1882–1959)
- Lucrecia R. Kasilag (1918—)
- Constance Keene (1921–2005)
- Maria Korchinska (1895–1979)
- Felicitas Kukuck (1914–2001)
- Wanda Landowska (1877–1959)
- Eleanor Lawrence (1936–2001)
- Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)
- Rosina Lhevinne (1880–1976)
- Jennie Macandrew (1866–1949)
- Macrina (327–379)
- Adele Marcus (1905–1995)
- Marianne Martinez (1744–1812)
- Sarah Millin (1888–1968)
- Clara Meleka Nelson (1901–1979)
- Camille Nickerson (1884–1982)
- Erika Nissen (1845–1903)
- Elizabeth Mary Palmer (1832–1897)
- Nadia Reisenberg (1904–1983)
- Terre Roche (1953—)
- Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844–1931)
- Olga Samaroff (1882–1948)
- Bernardina Adriana Schramm (1900–1987)
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
- Beate Sirota (1923—)
- Claudette Sorel (1930—)
- Grace Harriet Spofford (1887–1974)
- Erzsebet Szönyi (1924—)
- Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789–1831)
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- Blanche Edith Thompson (1874–1963)
- Galina Ustvolskaya (1919—)
- Isabelle Vengerova (1877–1956)
- Jorunn Vidar (1918—)
- Slavka Vorlova (1894–1973)
- Edyth Walker (1867–1950)
- Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948)
- Fiammetta Worthington Wilson (1864–1920)
- Betty Ann Wong (1938—)
Mycologist
- Margery Allingham (1904–1966)
- Peggy Bacon (1895–1987)
- Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
- Charlotte C. Campbell (1914–1993)
- Hilda M. Canter-Lund (1922—)
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976)
- Kathleen Maisey Curtis (1892–1994)
- Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989)
- Mignon G. Eberhart (1899–1996)
- Lilian E. Hawker (1908–1991)
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1883–1975)
- Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995)
- P.D. James (1920—)
- Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982)
- Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue (1902–1993)
- Edith Pargeter (c. 1913–1995)
- Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
- Kathleen Sampson (1892–1980)
- Eva Sansome (1906–?)
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
- Helen Simpson (1897–1940)
- Greta Barbara Stevenson (1911–1990)
- Josephine Tey (1896–1952)
- Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
- Phyllis A. Whitney (b. 1903)
Mystery/suspense-fiction Writer
- Vera Caspary (1899–1987)
- Mary Higgins Clark (1929—)
- Judith Cook (1933–2004)
- Dola de Jong (1911–2003)
- Lois Duncan (1934—)
- Antonia Fraser (1932—)
- Juliet Marion Hulme (1938—)
- Joan Lowery Nixon (1927–2003)
- Ruth Rendell (1930—)
- Kate Wilhelm (1928—)
- L.R. Wright (1939–2001)
Mystic (religious)
- Barbe Acarie (1566–1618)
- Angela of Brescia (1474–1540)
- Margaret Fairless Barber (1869–1901)
- Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200–1268)
- Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891)
- Prous Boneta
- Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680)
- Francisca Josefa del Castillo y Guevara (1671–1742)
- Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510)
- Catherine of La Rochelle (fl. 1429)
- Catherine of Siena (1347–1380)
- Catherine of Sweden (c. 1330–1381)
- Claude des Armoises
- Columba of Rieti (1467–1501)
- Constance of Rabastens (fl. 1384)
- Jeanne or Peronne Daubenton (d. 1372)
- Delphine of Puimichel (1284–1360)
- Christine Ebner (1277–1355)
- Sarah Pierpont Edwards (1710–1758)
- Elizabeth of Schönau (c. 1129–1164)
- Anna Katharina Emmerich (1774–1824)
- Maria Esperanza (1928–2004)
- Gertrude of Hackeborne (1232–1292)
- Gertrude of Ostend (d. 1358)
- Gertrude the Great (1256–1302)
- Ann Griffiths (1776–1805)
- Guglielma of Milan (d. 1282)
- Jeanne Marie Bouviéres de la Mothe Guyon (1648–1717)
- Hadewijch (fl. 13th c.)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
- Inanna (fl. c. 3000 BCE)
- Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795–1871)
- Jeanne-Marie de Maillé
- Jingu (c. 201–269)
- Julian of Norwich (c. 1342–c. 1416)
- Jutta of Sponheim (d. 1136)
- Margery Kempe (c. 1373–after 1438)
- Julie de Krüdener (1764–1824)
- Lal Ded (b. 1355)
- Catherine La Rochelle
- Jane Ward Lead (1623–1704)
- Lidwina of Schiedam (1380–1433)
- Lutgard (1182–1246)
- Jeanne-Marie de Maillé (1331–1414)
- Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270)
- Marie de l'Incarnation (1599–1672)
- Mary of Oignies (1177–1213)
- Mechtild of Hackeborne (1241–1298)
- Mechtild of Magdeburg (c. 1207–c. 1282)
- Marguerite d' Oignt (d. 1310)
- Marguerite Porete (d. 1310)
- Rabi'a (c. 714–801)
- Marie Robine (d. 1399)
- Rose of Lima (1586–1617)
- Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857)
- Teresa de Cartagena (fl. 1400)
- Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)
- Viborada (d. 925)
- Simone Weil (1909–1943)
Mythologist
- Ella Young (1867–1951)