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Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
Kay Ivey
Governor of Alabama since 2017
Barbara Morgan
astronaut
Brenda Strong
American actress (born 1960)
Elizabeth Ann Seton
first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)
Jessica Jaymes
American pornographic actress (1979–2019)
Fanny Crosby
19th century Christian hymnist
Michelle McCool
American professional wrestler
Cindy McCain
community organizer
Marian Seldes
American stage, film, radio, and television actress (1928–2014)
Annie Sprinkle
American sex educator and artist (born 1954)
Jenna Bush Hager
American journalist, author, and television personality
Annie Edson Taylor
American schoolteacher and daredevil; first person to successfully go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1838–1921)
Hattie Caraway
United States Senator from Arkansas and first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, first woman to preside over the senate, first woman to chair a senate committee, and first woman to preside over a senate hearing (1878–1950)
Martha Layne Collins
American businesswoman and politician (1936–2025)
Belva Ann Lockwood
Suffragist (1830–1917)
Rosalyn Tureck
American pianist and harpsichordist (1914–2003)
Ellen Geer
American actress and director
Vicky Hartzler
U.S. Representative from Missouri
Jane Elliott
American schoolteacher known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise
Rose Philippine Duchesne
French Catholic Religious Sister and missionary in the United States
Kate Douglas Wiggin
American writer (1856-1923)
Nancy Friday
American author (1933–2017)
Avital Ronell
American philosopher
Rangina Hamidi
afghan-American activist, writer and politician
Vicky Bullett
basketball player
Kay Ryan
American poet
Caroline Ingalls
wife of Charles Ingalls
Judith Roitman
American mathematician
Theresa Malkiel
American labor activist, suffragist, and educator
Ruth Elizabeth Becker
American Titanic survivor (1899–1990)
Calli Cox
American pornographic actress & former schoolteacher
Josanne Lucas
athletics competitor
Sharon Draper
American children's writer
Pegi Young
American singer (1952–2019)
Pat Saiki
American politician
Sharon Isbin
American guitarist
Marsha Norman
American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Emily Howland
American philanthropist
Brittany Maynard
American activist
Maya Soetoro-Ng
teacher and half-sister of Barack Obama
Kami Cotler
American actress
Lillian Rosanoff Lieber
American mathematician (1886-1996)
Diane Nash
American businesswoman known for civil rights activism
Donna Lynne Champlin
American actress
Wendy Kopp
American nonprofit executive
Lu Parker
American beauty pageant contestant and speaker
Sharron Angle
former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007
Norma Paulus
American politician
Nica Noelle
American pornographic actress, film director and producer
Marge Roukema
American politician (1929-2014)
Marion Walter
German-born mathematics educator (1928-2021)
Kim Weaver
American astrophysicist astronomer
Aisha Bowe
Bahamian-American aerospace engineer
Margaret Murray Washington
American academic and founder of schools
Julia Lester Dillon
Landscape architect and teacher (1871-1959)
Susie Taylor
African American nurse & writer (1848-1912)
Laci Green
American YouTuber, video blogger, sex educator, and activist.
Jane McNeill
American actress