Biographies of Notable Women
An index to biographies of notable women on this site
An ever-expanding list of biographies of notable women, both those who are famous and those who should be more well known. New indicates biographies added within about a month (visible if your browser has javascript activated). Written by Jone Johnson Lewis or submitted by readers of this site.
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• Magdalena Abakanowicz
• Diane Abbott
• Bella Abzug
• Abigail Adams
• Louisa Adams
• Jane Addams
• Adelaide
• Aelfgifu
• Aelfled
• Aelfthryth
• Aethelflaed
• Maria Agnesi
• Agnodice
• Tenley Albright
• Louisa May Alcott
• Francesca Alexander
• Florence Ellinwood Allen
• Isabel Allende
• Amalasuntha
• Amina, Queen of Zazzua
• Andal
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
• Mary Anderson
• Regina M. Anderson
• Margaret of Anjou
• Anna
• Anna Comnena
• Anne Neville
• Anne of Cleves
• Anne of Hanover
• Andromache
• Andromeda
• Susan B. Anthony
• Marie Antoinette
• Virginia Apgar
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Elizabeth Arden
• Artemisia (5th century B.C.E.)
• Nancy Astor
• Augusta (title)
• Anne Ayres
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B
• Michelle Bachelet
• Delia Bacon
• Joan Baez
• Pearl Bailey
• Oksana Baiul
• Josephine Baker
• Tallulah Bankhead
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Daisy Bates
• Daisy Mae Bates
• Katharine Bates
• Sylvia Woodbridge Beach
• Ethel Lynn Beers (Ethelinda Eliot Beers)
• Berengaria
• St. Bernadette (Bernadette Soubirous)
• Annie Besant
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Maeve Binchy
• Helen Blackburn
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Bonnie Blair
• Harriot Stanton Blatch
• Boadicea
• Nicole Bobek
• Barbara Bodichon
• Erma Bombeck
• Bona Dea
• Marita Bonner
• Anne Bonny
• Lizzie Borden
• Boudicca
• Belle Boyd
• Anne Bradstreet
• Sophonisba Preston Breckenridge
• Fredrika Bremer
• Elizabeth Britton
• Anne Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Brontë
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Hallie Quinn Brown
• Molly Brown
• Olympia Brown
• Brunhilde
• Martha Cannary Burke
• Barbara Bush
• Marie Joseph Butler
• Ada Augusta Byron, Lady Lovelace
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• Calamity Jane
• Hattie Caraway
• Rachel Carson
• Rosalynn Carter
• Cartimandua
• Willa Cather
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Empress Carlota, Mexico
• Catherine the Great of Russia
• Catherine of Siena
• Catherine of Valois
• Elena Ceausescu
• Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
• Coco Chanel
• Lydia Maria Child
• Shirley Chisholm
• Christina of Sweden
• Cixi or Tz'u-hsi
• Clare of Assisi
• Sarah N. Cleghorn
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (Cleopatra VII)
• Cleopatra Thea
• Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)
• Judy Collins
• Anna Comnena
• Cordelia
• Elena Cornaro-Priscopia
• Mary Crisp
• Marie Curie
• Pauline Cushman
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• Emily Davies
• Angela Davis
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose")
• Olympe de Gouges
• Dehgewanus
• Henriette Delille
• Bernadette Devlin
• Diana, Princess of Wales
• Abby Morton Diaz
• Emily Dickinson
• Catriona Le May Doan
• Julia Domna
• Margaret Douglas
• Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin Dudevant
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Isadora Duncan
• Marguerite Duras
• Mary Dyer
• Esther Dyson
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E
• Eadgyth of England
• Alice Morse Earle
• Mary Baker Eddy
• Marian Wright Edelman
• Edith of England
• Edith of Polesworth
• Edith of Wilton
• Sarah Emma Edmonds
• Katherine Philips Edson
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Elen Luyddog
• Elfreda
• Elfrida
• Elfthryth
• Elgiva
• Elizabeth ("Old Elizabeth")
• Elizabeth I of England
• Elizabeth Woodville
• Elizabeth of York
• Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother
• Fanny Elssler
• Ellen Russell Emerson
• Emma, Queen of Franks
• Enheduanna
• Ethelfleda
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• Fannie Farmer
• Jessie Redmon Fauset
• Millicent Garrett Fawcett
• Rebecca Ann Felton
• Peggy Fleming
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Mary Parker Follett
• Antonia Ford
• Dian Fossey
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
• Rosalind Franklin
• Fredegund
• Betty Friedan
• Elizabeth Fry
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• Beatriz Galindo
• Sophie Germain
• Althea Gibson
• Alessandra Giliani
• Emma Goldman
• Winifred Goldring
• Jane Goodall
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Ekaterina Gordeeva
• Katharine Graham
• Martha Graham
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow
• Lady Jane Grey
• Valentina Grizodubova
• Louise Guiney
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• Fannie Lou Hamer
• Dorothy Hamill
• Lorraine Hansberry
• Mata Hari
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Nancy Hart
• Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt
• Dorothy Height
• Carol Heiss
• Lillian Hellman
• Sally Hemings
• Sonja Henie
• Katharine Hepburn
• Caroline Herschel
• Carla Hills
• Hannah Höch
• Ariel Williams Holloway
• Isabella Beecher Hooker
• Lena Horne
• Julia Ward Howe
• Hrotsvitha
• Hsiao-ch'in or Cixi or Tz'u-hsi
• Dolores Huerta
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Hypatia
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• Isabella I of Castile and Aragon (Isabella of Spain)
• Isabella II of Spain
• Isabella of France
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J
• Mary Jemison
• Carol Heiss Jenkins
• Lydia Jenkins
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Helen Kendrick Johnson
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
• Barbara Jordan
• Julia Domna
• Julia Maesa
• Julia Mamaea
• Julia Soaemias
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• Pauline Kael
• Katherine of Valois
• Helen Keller
• Florence Kelley
• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
• Nancy Kerrigan
• Sofia Kovalevskaya
• Michelle Kwan
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• Lady Li
• Selma Lagerlöf
• La Latina: Beatriz Galindo
• Nella Larsen
• Catriona Le May Doan
• Mary Custis Lee
• Muna Lee
• Anna Leonowens
• Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
• Lotte Lenya (Weill)
• Doris Lessing
• Mary Edmonia Lewis
• Lady Li
• Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii
• Tara Lipinski
• Louise of Savoy
• Ada Lovelace
• Amy Lowell
• Christa Luding-Rothenburger
• Sybil Ludington
• Ludmilla
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M
• Wangari Maathai
• Julia Maesa
• Julia Mamaea
• Margaret of Anjou
• Margaret of Scotland (Saint Margaret)
• Margaret Tudor
• Marguerite of Navarre (Marguerite of Angoulême)
• Marie Antoinette
• Helen Marot
• Marozia
• Mary I of England
• Mary of Guise
• Mary Queen of Scots - Mary Stuart
• Mata Hari
• Saint Matilda of Saxony
• Empress Matilda, Lady of the English
• Empress Maud
• Christa McAuliffe
• Mary McDowell
• Aimee Semple McPherson
• Jacqueline Means
• Golda Meir
• Melania the Elder
• Melania the Younger
• Meryt-Neith
• Michitsuna no haha
• Alice Duer Miller
• Mirabai
• Maria Mitchell
• Toni Morrison
• Maria Montessori
• Lucretia Mott
• Thea Musgrave
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• Sarojini Naidu
• Nefertiti
• Agnes Nestor
• Anne Neville
• Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
• Ruth Nichols
• Florence Nightingale
• Anaïs Nin
• Emmy Noether
• Anna Nzinga
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O
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
• Marita Bonner Occomy
• Olga of Kiev
• Olympias
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
• Mary White Ovington
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• Elaine Pagels
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Rosa Parks
• Catherine Parr
• Lucy Parsons
• Alice Paul
• Anna Pavlova
• Claudia Pechstein
• Nancy Pelosi
• Katherine Pettit
• Pherenice
• Pocahontas
• Emily Post
• Leontyne Price
• Elena Cornaro Priscopia
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Q
• Eve Queler
• Harriet Quimby
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• Ayn Rand
• Jeannette Rankin
• Laura Ratcliffe
• Charlotte Ray
• Janet Reno
• Mary Lou Retton
• Sally Ride
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Irina Rodnina
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Betsy Ross
• Mary White Rowlandson
• Helena Rubinstein
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• Sacagawea
• Salome
• George Sand
• Margaret Sanger
• Sappho of Lesbos
• Augusta Savage
• Louise of Savoy
• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
• Charlotte Angas Scott
• Barbara Ann Scott
• Semiramis
• Caroline Severance
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Sarah Siddons
• Sigrid the Haughty
• Nina Simone
• May Sinclair
• Hannah Snell
• Julia Soaemias
• Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
• Mary Somerville
• Diana, Princess of Wales (nee Lady Diana Spencer)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Edith Stein
• Gertrude Stein
• Lillian M. N. Stevens
• Sarah Hackett Stevenson
• Lucy Stone
• Alicia Boole Stott
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Empress Suiko
• Maud O'Farrell Swartz
• (Florence) Madge Syers
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T
• Maria Tallchief
• Ida Tarbell
• Saint Teresa of Avila
• Saint Térèse of Lisieux
• Margaret Thatcher
• Cleopatra Thea
• Theodora - 6th century
• Theodora - 10th century
• Theophano - 943?-after 969
• Theophano - 956-991
• Debi Thomas
• M. Carey Thomas
• Iva Toguri d'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose")
• Jayne Torvill
• Trota or Trotula
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Sophie Tucker
• Margaret Tudor
• Wyomia Tyus
• Tz'u-hsi or Cixi
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• Catherine of Valois
• Elizabeth Van Lew
• Loreta Janeta Velazquez
• Veleda
• Queen Victoria
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• Alice Walker
• Maggie Lena Walker
• Mary Edwards Walker
• Barbara Walters
• Martha Washington
• Faye Wattleton
• Lois Weber
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Eudora Welty
• Phillis Wheatley
• Lucy Wheelock
• Sarah Helen Power Whitman
• Oprah Winfrey
• Katarina Witt
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Elizabeth Woodville
• Fanny Bullock Workman
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Y
• Kristi Yamaguchi
• Maud Younger
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• Zenobia
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