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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.
Madeleine Albright
United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
Nora Ephron
American film director and writer (1941–2012)
Annie Jump Cannonn
American astronomer (1863-1941)
Sòng Měilíng
Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China (1898–2003)
Ali MacGraw
American actress
Anne Revere
American actress (1903-1990)
Pamela Melroy
American astronaut
Diane Sawyer
American journalist
Judith Krantz
American writer (1928–2019)
Bing Xin
Chinese writer,poet (1900-1999)
Nayantara Sahgal
Indian writer (born 1927)
Laura Allen
American actress (born 1974)
Onyeka Onwenu
Nigerian actress, singer and politician
Blanche Baker
American actress
Katharine Lee Bates
American poet and songwriter (1859-1929)
Janet Asimov
author, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (1926–2019)
Nergis Mavalvala
Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist
Suzanne Ciani
American musician, sound designer, composer
Erna Schneider Hoover
American mathematician
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American activist, journalist and writer (1890–1998)
Martha P. Haynes
American astronomer
Ira Trivedi
Indian novelist, yogini, entrepreneur, speaker and globe trotter
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
American anthropologist and primatologist
Rosalind E. Krauss
American art historian
Nancy Friday
American author (1933–2017)
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist and botanical collector (1863-1951)
Ayesha Jalal
Pakistani historian
Rebecca Lancefield
American microbiologist (1895–1981)
Mary Rodgers
American composer, screenwriter, children's writer (1931–2014)
Harriet Creighton
American geneticist (1909-2004)
Bina Shah
Journalist & writer
Marjorie Grene
American philosopher (1910–2009)
Michelle Ye
Chinese actress
Clara Eaton Cummings
American cryptogamic botanist and university teacher (1855-1906)
Ruth Rowland Nichols
American aviator (1901–1960)
Winifred Edgerton Merrill
American mathematician (1862–1951)
Sophonisba Breckinridge
American lawyer, social reformer, social scientist and civil rights activist (1866-1948)
Angelina Weld Grimké
American poet, playwright, and journalist (1880–1958)
Jane Bolin
American judge (1908–2007)
Santha Rama Rau
American writer (1923-2009)
Cokie Roberts
American journalist (1943–2019)
Rosario Ferré
Puerto Rican writer (1938–2016)
Phyllis Fox
American mathematician and computer scientist (1923-2017)
Anne W. Patterson
United States Department of State official and diplomat
Mary Allen Wilkes
American computer scientist
Abigail Thompson
American mathematician
Marcia Davenport
American author and music critic
Carolina Barco
Colombian diplomat
Sharmila Bhattacharya
Indian-American scientist
Betsy Ancker-Johnson
American physicist (1927-2020)
Anna Marguerite McCann
American art historian and archaeologist (1933–2017)
Rini Mariani Soemarno Soewandi
Indonesian politician and economist
Leticia Ramos-Shahani
Filipino politician (1929-2017)
Leah B. Allen
American astronomer
Lisa Alther
American novelist
Jo Duffy
writer
Jean Kilbourne
American writer (born 1943)
Mary Jeanne Kreek
American neurobiologist (1937–2021)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
novelist (1926-2003)