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List of famous women in history

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This is a list of famous women in history. It consists of women who are considered famous or notable in a historical context.

Rulers, consorts, heads of state:


  • Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II, (Britain)

  • Hatshepsut of Egypt, (c. 1504 BC-1458 BC), (Egypt)

  • Margaret of Anjou

  • Arsinoe II of Egypt, (Egypt)

  • Cleopatra VII of Egypt, (69 BC-30 BC), (Egypt)

  • Boudica, (Britain)

  • Zenobia, (Palmyra, Syria|Palmyra)

  • Theodora (6th century)|Theodora, Byzantine Empire|Byzantine empress

  • Zoe (empress)|Zoe, Byzantine empress

  • Irene (empress)|Irene, Byzantine empress

  • Theodora (11th century)|Theodora, Byzantine empress

  • Eudocia Macrembolitissa, Byzantine empress

  • Maria of Antioch, Byzantine empress

  • Wu Zetian, Empress of China

  • Adela of Normandy, wife of crusader Stephen of Blois

  • Morphia of Melitene, Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem

  • Melisende of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem, and her sisters Alice of Antioch, Hodierna of Tripoli, and Ioveta of Bethany

  • Agnes of Courtenay, Queen of Jerusalem

  • Maria Comnena, Queen of Jerusalem

  • Sibylla of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem

  • Sorghaghtani Beki daughter-in-law of Jenghiz Khan

  • Isabella of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem

  • Yolande of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem

  • Constance of Antioch, Principality of Antioch|Princess of Antioch

  • Yolanda of Flanders, Latin Empire|Latin empress

  • Isabella of Castile|Isabella of Spain, (1451-1504)

  • Eleanor of Arborea, (Sardinia)

  • Margaret I of Denmark|Margaret I of Denmark and Norway, (1353-1412)

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine, (died 1204), (France)

  • Catherine de Medici, (1519-1589), (France)

  • Jeanne d'Albret, (1572-1572), (France)

  • Diane de Poitiers, (1499-1566), France

  • Gabrielle d'Estr??e, (1571-1599), (France)

  • Agn??s Sorel, (1421-1450), (France)

  • Anne of Austria, (France)

  • Marguerite de Valois (France)

  • Mary I of England, (1553-1558), (England) - (Bloody Mary)

  • Mary I of Scotland|Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542-1587), (Scotland)

  • Maria Theresa of Austria, (1717-1780), (Austria)

  • Anna I of Russia (Anna I) (Russia)

  • Catherine I of Russia, (1684-1727), (Russia)

  • Catherine II of Russia, (1729-1796), (Russia) - (Catherine the Great)

  • Elizabeth of Russia, (died 1762), (Russia)

  • Christina of Sweden, (died 1689), (Sweden)

  • Elizabeth I of England, (1558-1603), (Britain)

  • Anne I of the United Kingdom|Queen Anne, (1665-1714), (Britain)

  • Mary II of England|Mary II, (1662-1694), (Britain)

  • Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria, (Britain)

  • Anne Neville, (1456-1485), (England)

  • Catherine of Valois, (England)

  • Diana, Princess of Wales, (1961-1997), (Britain)

  • Elizabeth Woodville, (England)

  • Margaret of Anjou, (England)

  • Mary of Teck, (1867-1953), (Britain)

  • Aleksandra Lisowska, (Khourrem), (1510 - 1558), (Ottoman Empire/Poland)

  • Marie Antoinette, (1755-1793), (France)

Politics


  • Madeleine Albright, (born 1937), – United States

  • Maryam Rajavi, (born 1953), – Iran

  • Corazon Aquino, (born 1933), – Philippines

  • Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, (1879-1964), – Britain

  • Aung San Suu Kyi, (born 1945), – Myanmar

  • Cherie K. Berry, – United States

  • Benazir Bhutto, (born 1953), – Pakistan

  • Gro Harlem Brundtland, (born 1939), – Norway

  • Kim Campbell, (born 1947), 1st female prime minister of Canada

  • Maria Cantwell, (born 1958), – United States

  • Hattie Caraway, (1878-1950), 1st woman elected to US Senate

  • Sarah Churchill

  • Tansu ??iller, (born 1946), 1st female prime minister of Turkey

  • Helen Clark, (born 1950)current prime minister of New Zealand

  • Edith Cresson, 1st female Prime Minister of France

  • Elisabeth Domitien, (born 1926), 1st female prime minister of an African country

  • Vigd??s Finnbogad??ttir, (born 1930), – 1st female President of Iceland; Worlds first elected female president (1980)

  • Indira Gandhi, (1917-1984), – India

  • Sonia Gandhi, – India

  • Tarja Halonen, (born 1943), – 1st Female President of Finland

  • Anneli J????tteenm??ki, (born 1955) 1st Female Prime Minister of Finland

  • Petra Kelly, (1947-1992), (Germany)

  • Alexandra Kollontai, – Soviet Union

  • Blanche Lambert Lincoln, (born 1960), – United States

  • Constance Markiewicz (n??e Gore-Booth), (1868-1927) - Ireland

  • Golda Meir, (1898-1978), – Israel

  • Angela Merkel, (born 1954) 1st female Chancellor of Germany

  • Eva Per??n, (1919-1952), – Argentina

  • Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo, (1930-2004), – Portugal

  • Janet Reno, (born 1938), – United States

  • Condoleezza Rice (born 1954), United States

  • Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Ireland

  • Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884-1962), United States

  • Susanna M. Salter, (1860-1961), Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, first woman mayor in the United States

  • Jenny Shipley, (born 1952), First female prime minister of New Zealand

  • Margaret Chase Smith, (1897-1995), – US congresswoman

  • Debbie Stabenow, (born 1950), – United States

  • Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), – Britain

  • Vaira V????e-Freiberga, (born 1937) 1st female President of Latvia

  • The Valiant Five, – Canada|Canadian politicians and activists

  • *Nellie McClung, Canadian feminist and activist

Activists and revolutionaries


  • Maryam Rajavi , (1965 up to today), – Irandirecting the Resistance's campaign on the international scene, leading a worldwide effort to expose human rights violations in Iran,known to be the most dagerous enemy to the iranian theocracy for her role in the leadership of the resistance and also her beliefs in essential freedoms, and anhiliation of sexual aparthied.known to have been propelling women to uphold leadership positions in the resistance.

  • Rani_Lakshmi_Bai,(1835 - 1858), India Killed in battle as she led an Indian mutiny against the British. She was 22 years old. http://www.ranijhansi.com to our rani

  • Susan B. Anthony, (1820-1906), – United States

  • Annie Besant, (1847-1933) – Britain

  • Marguerite Durand, (1864-1936) - France

  • Millicent Fawcett, (1847-1929) – Britain

  • Emma Goldman, (1869-1940)

  • Rosa Luxemburg, (1871-1919), – Germany

  • Rigoberta Mench??, (born 1959) - Guatemala

  • Louise Michel, 1830-1905 - France

  • Lucretia Mott, (1793-1880) – United States

  • Madalyn Murray O'Hair – United States

  • Christabel Pankhurst – Britain

  • Emmeline Pankhurst, (1858-1928), – Britain

  • Sylvia Pankhurst, (1882-1960), Britain

  • Rosa Parks, (1913-2005), – United States

  • Margaret Sanger, (1879-1966) – United States

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (1815-1902) – United States

  • Gloria Steinem, (born 1935) – United States

  • Jessie Street, (1889-1970) Australia Human rights campaigner.

  • Henrietta Szold, (1860-1945) – United States Zionist leader, social activist

  • Flora Tristan, (1803-1844)

  • Sojourner Truth, (1797?-1883) – United States

  • Toncka Cec|Tončka Čeč, (1896-1943), Slovenes|Slovene, national heroine

  • Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner, (1843-1914), first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Price (1905); Austria

  • Jane Addams, (1860-1935); United States

  • Emily Greene Balch, (1867-1961); United States

  • Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)|Betty Williams (1943-); Northern Ireland

  • Mairead Corrigan, (1944-); Northern Ireland

  • Alva Myrdal, (1902-1986); Sweden

  • Aung San Suu Kyi, (1945-); Myanmar

  • Jody Williams, (1950-); United States

  • Shirin Ebadi, (1947-); Iran

  • Wangari Maathai, (1940-); Kenya

Arts


  • Emma Abbott, (1849-1891)

  • Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966), (poet)

  • Isabel Allende, (born 1942), (writer)

  • Jane Austen, (1775-1817), (writer)

  • Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), (writer)

  • Mary Cassatt, (1844-1926), (painter)

  • Anna Comnena, (writer)

  • Alexandra David-N??el, (1868-1969)

  • R??gine Deforges (writer, 1st woman in France to own a publishing company)

  • Grazia Deledda, (1871-1936), (writer, Nobel prize winner)

  • Isak Dinesen|Karen Blixen, (1885-1962), (writer)

  • Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)

  • George Eliot, (1819-1880), (writer)

  • Ninon de lEnclos

  • Marie de France, (troubador)

  • Veronica Franco, (1546-1591), (poet)

  • Artemisia Gentileschi, (1593-1651), (painter)

  • Nina Hamnett, (1890-1956), painter, designer

  • Zora Neale Hurston, (1891-1960), (writer)

  • Elfriede Jelinek, (born 1946) (writer, Nobel Prize)

  • Clarice Lispector, (1920-1977), (writer)

  • Toni Morrison, (born 1931), (writer, Nobel prize)

  • Ouida, (1839-1908), (writer; a.k.a. Marie Louise de la Ramee)

  • Georgia O'Keeffe,(1887-1986), (painter)

  • Mary Pickford, (1892-1979), actress, co-founder of United Artists

  • Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), (writer)

  • Ayn Rand, (1905-1982), (writer)

  • Sappho (poet)

  • Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999), writer

  • Murasaki Shikibu, (973?-1025?), (writer)

  • Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), (writer)

  • Theano (writer, philosopher)

  • Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941),(poet)

  • Suzanne Valadon, (1865-1938), painter

  • Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, (1755-1842), painter

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)

  • Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784), (poet)

  • Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), (author)

  • Kat?? Lomb, (1909-2003), (language genius)

  • Evelyn Glennie, (1965- ), (percussionist)

Philosophy


  • Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607 - 1678)

  • GEM Anscombe, (1919-2001), (analytic philosopher)

  • Philippa Foot, (1920- ), (virtue ethicist)

  • Simone de Beauvoir, (1908-1986), (existentialist)

  • Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)

  • Margaret Fuller, (1810-1850), (transcendentalist)

Aerospace


  • Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq (born 1976)

  • Jackie Cochran (1906-1980)

  • Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)

  • Suzanne Upjohn DeLano

  • Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

  • Sabiha G??k??en, (1913-2001) (1st female aviator of Turkey and 1st female combat pilot of the world)

  • Nancy Harkness Love, (1914-1976)

  • Amy Johnson (1903-1941)

  • Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979)

  • Sally Ride (born 1951)

  • Mae Jemison

  • Svetlana Savitskaya (born 1948)

  • Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937)

  • Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)

Science and mathematics


  • Hypatia of Alexandria, (died 415), (mathematician)

  • Ruth Benedict, (anthropologist)

  • Ada Byron, (1815-1852), Countess Lovelace

  • Emilie du Chatelet, (1706-1749), studied with Voltaire

  • Marie Curie (Nobel prize winner)

  • Irene Joliot-Curie, (1897-1956), (physicist)

  • Dian Fossey, (1932-1985), (biology)

  • Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), (DNA)

  • Sophie Germain, (1776-1831), (mathematician)

  • Dorothy Hodgkin (chemist)

  • Grace Hopper, (1906-1992), (computer programmer)

  • Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya - (1850-1891), (mathematician)

  • Barbara McClintock, (1902-1992), (geneticist)

  • Margaret Mead, (1901-1978), (anthropologist)

  • Lise Meitner, (1878-1968), (physicist)

  • Emmy Noether, (1882-1935), (mathematician)

  • Helen Sawyer Hogg

  • Linda Schele, (1942-1998), (epigrapher and Mayanist)

  • Zs??fia Torma, (1840-1899), (archeologist)

  • R??zsa P??ter, (1905-1977), (mathematician)

  • Maria Mayer

Medicine


  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (physician)

  • Virginia Apgar, (1909-1974), (physician)

  • Clara Barton, (1821-1912), (nurse, activist)

  • Elizabeth Blackwell, (1821-1910), (physician)

  • Jane Delano (1862-1919), founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service

  • Dorothea Dix, (1802-1887)

  • Shirley Ann Jackson, (physicist)

  • Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), (physician)

  • Anna Maxwell, (1851-1929), (nurse, author)

  • Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910), (nurse)

  • Sally Louisa Tompkins, (nurse)

  • Jennie Kidd Trout, (1841-1921), first licensed woman physician in Canada in 1875.

  • Mary Edwards Walker, (1832-1919), (1st female U.S Army surgeon, only female ever awarded the Medal of Honor, activist)

Music


  • Martha Argerich, *1941

  • Josephine Baker, (1906-1975)

  • Cecilia Bartoli, (born 1966)

  • Maria Callas, (1923-1977)

  • Ella Fitzgerald, (1918-1996)

  • Aretha Franklin, (born 1942)

  • Sofia Gubaidulina, *1931

  • Billie Holiday, (1915-1959)

  • Mahalia Jackson, (1911-1972)

  • Joan Jett

  • Janis Joplin, (1943-1970)

  • Miriam Makeba

  • Fanny Mendelssohn, (1805-1847)

  • Joni Mitchell, (born 1943)

  • Alanis Morissette, (born 1974)

  • Edith Piaf, (1915-1963)

  • Clara Schumann, (1819-1896)

  • Bessie Smith, (1894-1937)

  • Patti Smith

  • Lucinda Williams

  • Sheryl Crow (born 1962)

  • Tori Amos

  • Bj??rk (born 1965)

  • Christina Aguilera (born 1980)

  • Beyonce Knowles

  • Alicia Keyes

  • Ciara, (Born 1985)

Outlaws, pirates and criminals


  • Phoolan Devi (1963-2001), the Bandit Queen

  • Karla Homolka (born 1970), killer, kidnapper, and rapist

  • Louise Lanct??t (born 1947), FLQ terrorist

  • Grace O'Malley (a.k.a. Grainne Ni Mhaille) (1530-1603) (Ireland)

  • Ulrike Meinhof, (1934-1976)

  • Mary Read (168?-1721), pirate

  • Anne Bonny (1697?-1720?), pirate

  • Ching Shih|Cheng I Sao

  • Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002), serial killer

  • Bonnie Parker (1910-1934)

Religion


  • The Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus

  • Esther

  • Ruth

  • Adam and Eve|Eve

  • Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891)

  • Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist

  • Ann Lee (1736-1784), leader of the Shakers

  • ??lise Rivet, French nun executed by the Nazis

  • Mary Magdalene

  • Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), writer, philosopher

  • Guan Yin

  • Julian of Norwich (writer)

  • Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

  • T??hirih (died 1852), Bah??'?? Faith|Bah??'?? heroine

  • Ellen G. White (1827-1915)

  • Regina Jonas (1902-1944) the first woman rabbi

  • St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Soldiers, agents and spies


  • Sikelgaita (1040-1090), wife of Robert Guiscard

  • Joan of Arc (1412-1431), Hundred Years' War heroine

  • Denise Bloch (1915-1945), Special Operations Executive|SOE agent

  • Edith Cavell (1865-1915), World War I heroine

  • Nadezhda Durova (1783 - 1866), first female officer in the Russia|Russian military.

  • Tomoe Gozen, (original, not fictitious)

  • Mata Hari (1876-1917), (spy)

  • Marina Raskova (1912-1943), Russian aviator in World War II

  • Odette Sansom (1912-1995), Special Operations Executive|SOE agent

  • Hannah Szenes (1921-1944), Special Operations Executive|SOE agent

  • Krystyna Skarbek|Countess Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), Special Operations Executive|SOE agent

  • Violette Szabo (1921-1945), Special Operations Executive|SOE agent

  • Harriet Tubman, (1820-1913), rebel, spy, activist

  • Nancy Wake, (born 1912), most decorated Allied servicewoman of WW II

Movie directors


  • Dorothy Arzner

  • Maya Deren

  • Safi Faye, * 1943

  • Ida Lupino (1914 - 1995)

  • Leni Riefenstahl, (1902-2003)

  • Penny Marshall

  • Sophia Coppola

  • Nikki Caro

  • Jane Campion

Acting


  • Myrna Loy, (1905-1993)

  • Lucille Ball, (1911-1989)

  • Tallulah Bankhead, (1902-1968)

  • Ingrid Bergman, (1915-1982)

  • Sarah Bernhardt, (1844-1923)

  • Bette Davis, (1908-1989)

  • Judi Dench|Judy Dench (born 1934)

  • Catherine Deneuve (born 1943)

  • Mia Farrow, (1945-1963)

  • Jodie Foster, (born 1962)

  • Greta Garbo, (1905-1990)

  • Ava Gardner, (1922-1990)

  • Katharine Hepburn, (born 1907)

  • Helen Hunt, (born 1963)

  • May Irwin (1862-1938)

  • Grace Kelly, (1929-1982)

  • Nicole Kidman, (born 1967)

  • Vivien Leigh, (1913-1967)

  • Sophia Loren, (born 1934)

  • Marilyn Monroe, (1926-1962)

  • Mary Pickford, (1892-1979)

  • Isabella Rossellini, (born 1952)

  • Lillian Russell (1861-1922)

  • Meryl Streep, (born 1949)

  • Julie Andrews

  • Reese Witherspoon, (born 1976)

See list List of female actors

Sports


  • Maria Sharapova, (Born 1987)

  • Laila Ali, (born 1977)

  • Fanny Blankers-Koen, (1918-2004)

  • Nadia Comaneci, (born 1961)

  • Dawn Fraser, (born 1937)

  • Delia Gonzalez, (born 1970)

  • Steffi Graf, (born 1969)

  • Dorothy Hamill, (born 1956)

  • Mia Hamm, (born 1972)

  • Sonja Henie, (1912-1969)

  • Eliska Junkova, (1900-1994)

  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee, (born 1962)

  • Billie Jean King, (born 1943)

  • Larissa Latynina, (born 1934)

  • Suzanne Lenglen, (1899-1938)

  • Rebecca Lobo, (born 1973)

  • Jeannie Longo, (born 1958)

  • Ellen MacArthur,(born 1976)

  • Christy Martin, (born 1968)

  • Shirley Muldowney, (born 1940)

  • Martina Navratilova, (born 1956)

  • Hell?? Nice, (1900-1984)

  • Rebecca Rodriguez

  • Laura Serrano, (born 1967)

  • Katarina Witt, (born 1965)

  • Babe Zaharias|Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (died 1956)

Other


  • Gladys Aylward (missionary)

  • Olave Baden-Powell, (1889-1977), Chief Girl Guide of the World

  • James Barry (surgeon)|James Barry, (1795?-1865), Victorian lady who worked as a male physician

  • Dorothea Beale (pioneer of women's education)

  • Margaret Bourke-White, (born 1906)

  • Frances Buss (pioneer of women's education)

  • Gabrielle Chanel|Coco Chanel, (1883-1971), (fashion designer)

  • Elfi von Dassanowsky, (born 1924), (film studio founder, producer, musician)

  • Lillian Hellman, (1905-1984)

  • Helen Keller, (1880-1968)

  • Melanie Klein, (1882-1960), (psychoanalyst)

  • Kathleen Kenyon, (1906-1978), (archaeologist)

  • Maria Montessori, (1870-1952)

  • Julia Morgan, (architect)

  • Emily Warren Roebling (engineer)

  • Billy Tipton, (1914-1989), (musician)

  • Margaret Mead, (1901-1978) (anthropologist)

See also


  • List of female mystics

  • :Category:British queen consorts

  • :Category:English queen consorts

  • :Category:Feminists

  • List of Female Presidents

External links


  • http://www.fembio.org/default.shtml FemBio - Notable Women International

  • http://www.famouspeopleontheweb.com/famous-women/ Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton


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