Abigail Adams – First Lady & Patriot
Mary Kay Ash – Entrepreneur of Beauty
Harriet Stratemeyer Adams – Syndicate Publisher—Later Author of Nancy Drew Books
Aspasia – First Woman of Athens
Lady Nancy Astor – First Woman to Sit in the English House of Commons
Simone Biles – Olympic Gymnastic Champion
Antoinette Brown Blackwell – First Ordained Woman Minister in America
Elizabeth Blackwell – First Female Physician in the U.S.
Rosa Bonheur – French Artist and the First Woman to Earn the Legion of Honor in Paris
Margaret Brent – First Woman to Request the Vote
Barbara Bush – First Lady and Mother of George W. Bush
Laura Welch Bush – First Lady and Wife of George W. Bush
Annie Jump Cannon – The Lady Who Counted the Stars
Shirley Chisholm – American Woman of Firsts
Laura Clay – Kentuckian for Women’s Suffrage
Frances Folsom Cleveland – Wife of President Grover Cleveland
Bessie Coleman – American Aviator
Coralie Franklin Cook – Educator and Activist
Sarah Crosby – First Methodist Female Preacher
Minnie Fisher Cunningham – Suffrage Advocate, Political Activist and Candidate
Marie Sklodowska Curie Polish – Born Chemist & Physicist
Amelia Earhart – The First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
Mamie Eisenhower – Military Wife and First Lady
Fabiola – Founder of the First Hospital in Rome
Miriam Ferguson – First Female Governor of Texas
Abigail Powers Fillmore – The Literary First Lady
Cornelia Fort – First Woman to Die in Active Military Duty
Lucretia Garfield – Five Month First Lady
Hypatia – First Woman to Make a Substantial Contribution to the Development of Mathematics
Josephine – Empress of France, First Wife of Napoleon Bonaparte
Julia Dent Grant – The General’s Lady
Lucy Webb Hayes – Legendary First Lady
Caroline Harrison – First Lady and Domestic Activist
Anna Symmes Harrison – Wife of President William Harrison
Lou Henry Hoover – Wife of Henry Hoover
Vinnie Ream Hoxie – Sculptor and the First Woman to Receive an Order from the United States Government for a Statue
Rachel Jackson – The General’s Lady
Claudia Johnson – The First Lady Called “Lady Bird”
Eliza McCardle Johnson – First Lady From Tennessee
Carrie B. Kilgore – First Woman Admitted to Practice Law in the United States
Harriet Lane – First Lady to a Bachelor President
Mary Todd Lincoln – The Emancipator’s Lady
Belva A. Lockwood – First Woman Admitted to Bar of U.S. Supreme Court
Ada Byron Lovelace – The First Computer Programmer
Mary Lyon – Noted Educator of Women
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy – Devout Mother of a President
Dolley Madison – American Icon
Hattie McDaniel – Oscar Winning Pioneer Actress
Ida Saxton McKinley – Invalid of the White House
Annie Turnbo Malone – Woman Entrepreneur
Susan Shelby Magoffin – The First American Woman to Travel the Santa Fe Trail
Wilma ManKiller – First Woman Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Mileva Maric – Mother of the Theory of Relativity
Bridgett “Biddy” Mason – From Slavery to Landowner Philanthropist
Golda Meir – First Woman Prime Minister of Israel
Maria Mitchell – Pioneer Scientist
Patsy Takemoto Mink – A Trailblazer in American Politics
Jerrie Mock – First Woman to Fly Solo Around the World
Elizabeth Monroe – Elegance in the White House
Maria Montessori – Italian Physician and Educator
Nichelle Nichols – Actress with an Unexpected Influence
Sandra Day O’Connor – First Female Supreme Court Associate Justice
Annie Oakley – Little Sure Shot
Catherine Parr – The Reluctant Tudor Queen
Jane Appleton Pierce – Shadow of the White House
Eliza Lucas Pinckney – Colonial Entrepreneur
Sarah Polk – First Lady & Wife of James K. Polk
Princess Diana – The People’s Princess
Jeannette Rankin – The Legislator Who Voted Against War – Twice
Ola Mildred Rexroat – Unique WASP Pilot
Edith Carow Roosevelt – Calm Among the Storm
Blanche Stuart Scott – First Female American Aviator
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton – First American to be Canonized as a Saint
Valentina Tereshkova – The First Woman in Space
Katherine Johnson – Pioneering Mathematician and NASA Trailblazer
Ida Tarbell – Pioneer Investigating Journalist
Letitia Christian Tyler – The Invisible First Lady
Julia Gardner Tyler – The Rode of Long Island
Madam C.J. Walker – First African-American Female Millionaire
Barbara Walters – Renowned American Journalist And Interviewer
Martha Washington – The “First” First Lady
Emma Hart Willard – Founded the First Permanent Female Seminary in America