Sarah Bache – Only Daughter of Benjamin Franklin
Clara Barton – American Philanthropist, Founder of the American Red Cross
Elizabeth Blackwell – First Female Physician in the U.S.
Maud Ballington Booth – Leader of the Volunteers of America
Anne Boleyn – Queen of England
Queen Anne – Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Marie Anne Boivin – French Midwife
Laura Bridgman – Beyond the Silent Darkness
Charlotte Brontë – English Novelist
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts – Philanthropist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – One of the Great Poets of England
Catherine Breshkovsky – Russian Heroine
Mary Bowser – From Slave to Spy
Margaret Brown – The “Unsinkable” Survivor
Jane Welsh Carlyle – Wife of Essayist Thomas Carlyle
Catherine I – Empress of Russia
Edith Cavell – English War Nurse
Martha M. Caylus – Social Leader
Caroline Chisholm – English Philanthropist
Charlotte Corday – French Heroine
Agnes Mary Clerke – English Astronomer and Scientific Writer
Fanny Crosby – Blind Hymn Writer
Mary Crowley – Founder of Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc.
Countess of Albany – Wife of the Last of the Stuarts
Countess of Warwick – British Philanthropist and Social Leader
Ann Pamela Cunningham and the Preservation of Mount Vernon
Marie Curie – Polish-French Physicist and Chemist
Dat So La Lee – The Basket Maker
Emily Dickinson – American Poet
Amelia Earhart – First Lady of the Sky
Maria Edgeworth – Irish Novelist
Amelia B. Edwards – English Author, Traveller and Lecturer
Empress Amelia Eugenie Elizabeth – Empress-Queen of Austria-Hungary
Mina A. Ellis – Canadian Explorer and Author
Emily Faithfull – English Philanthropist
W.P. Fleming – American Astronomer
Selina Hastings – Countess of Huntington
Felicia D. Hemans – English Poet
Caroline Herschel – Astronomer and Scientist
E. Cora Hind – Female Journalist & Women’s Rights Advocate
Helen L. Grenfell – American Educator and Penologist
Jean Ingelow – English Poet and Novelist
Anna B. Jameson – English Writer
Sophia Jex-Blake – English Physician
Mrs. Kiyo Mini Jima – Japanese Business Woman and Philanthropist
Olivia Newton-John – Popular Singer-Actress and Cancer Survivor
Sofia Kovalevskaya – Mathematician
Nicole R. Lepautev – French Mathematician
Ida Lewis – Keeper of the Light
Ninon de L’Enclos – A Model of Refinement and Elegance
Julie de Lespinasse – French Lady Remarkable for her Intellectual Gifts and Accomplishments
Catherine McAuley – Irish Philanthropist, Founder and First Superior of the Sisters of Mercy
Anne Sullivan Macy – Helen Keller’s “Teacher”
Dorothy “Dolley” Madison – American Social Leader
Charlotte Mason – A Life Lived For Children
Helen Miller – Gould Philanthropist
Tarquinia Molza – Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar
Mary N. Murfree – American Novelist
Mary Russell Mitford – English Novelist and Dramatist
Florence Nightingale – English Philanthropist and Crimean Nurse
Christine Nilsson – Swedish Singer
Eleanor A. Ormerod – English Naturalist and Entomologist
Lady Arthur Paget – English-American Social Leader, Philanthropist and War Nurse
Dorothy W. Pattison – English Nurse
Ida Pfeiffer – Austrian Traveler
Princess Diana – The People’s Princess
Madame Recamier – Celebrated French Beauty
Madame Roland – French Patriot
Mrs. Frank Leslie (Miriam) – Successful Business Woman and Publisher
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary – Daughter of King Andrew II and Gertrude
Sarah Siddons – Greatest Actress of the English Stage
Sister Louise – Celebrated for her intimate relations with Louis XIV
Mary Somerville – British Physicist
Mrs. Leland Stanford – Co-Founder of Leland Stanford Jr. University
Lady Hester Stanhope – English Traveler
Sara Yorke Stevenson – American Archaeologist
Alexandrine Tinné – African Explorer
Lillian M. Treble – Canadian Philanthropist
Victoria – Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
Betty White Houston – The First Lady of Television
Women Who Survived – Cynthia Ann Parker and Mary Jemison
Katharine Prescott Wormeley – American Translator and Author