20th-century American women

American astronaut

Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.

American author and global health advocate

First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961

First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953

Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic

First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909

American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)

NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist (1961-2003)

First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897

First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921

American model (1960–1986)

German-American sex therapist

First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877

American actress (1925–2016)

First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923

American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies

American racecar driver (born 1982)

American pin-up model (1923–2008)

First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861

First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913

First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914

Lucretia Garfield was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.

American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut

Marjorie Taylor Greene, also known by her initials MTG, is an American politician, businesswoman, and conspiracy theorist who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district from 2021 until her resignation in 2026. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to Congress in 2020 following the retirement of Republican incumbent Tom Graves and was reelected in 2022 and 2024. Greene is widely considered to be a populist and far-right politician.

American murder victim (1924-1947)

American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite (1898–1979)

First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901

American supercentenarian (1880–1999)

American film and television costumer (1897-1981)

Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and NASA astronaut

American astronaut

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder

American business executive and electrical engineer

American engineer and astronaut

American actress

Vietnamese American astronomer

Israeli-American computer scientist

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.

Canadian philosopher

First Lady of the United States (1841-1917)

American computer programmer and mathematician

daughter of President Benjamin Harrison (1858-1930)

Mother of Donald Trump (1912–2000)

German American psychologist (1893–1974)

programmer for the ENIAC computer

Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was an American fashion publicist. She worked for Calvin Klein until her 1996 marriage to attorney and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. Her life and fashion sense became the subjects of intense media scrutiny afterwards. The couple, along with her older sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in 1999.

American architect and engineer (1872-1957)

last speaker of the Eyak language (1918–2008)

American economist (1915–2012)

American socialite and Titanic survivor (1893-1940)

American philosopher (1929-2020)

abused child studied by linguists after spending most of early life locked in a room and tied to a chair

American architect (born 1931)

American artist and activist

Rebecca Michelle "Mikie" Sherrill is an American politician, former naval officer, and former federal prosecutor serving since 2026 as the 57th governor of New Jersey. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

American journalist, author, and television personality

American disability rights activist (1947–2023)

person of interest in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy

American singer, songwriter and actress