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<html> <head> <title>National Women's Hall of Fame</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> National Women's Hall of Fame HONOR Official Website: <a href="http://www.greatwomen.org/">http://www.greatwomen.org/</a><table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000024529/">Bella Abzug</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1998</tt></td> <td>Feminist and former Congresswoman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000026291/">Abigail Adams</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1744</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1818</tt></td> <td>Wife of US President John Adams</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/495/000082249/">Jane Addams</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1935</tt></td> <td>Founder of Hull House</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000023911/">Madeleine Albright</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bill Clinton's Secretary of State</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000031514/">Louisa May Alcott</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1832</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1888</tt></td> <td>Little Women</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/014/000127630/">Linda G. Alvarado</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Alvarado Construction, Inc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000023196/">Maya Angelou</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000026288/">Susan B. Anthony</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1906</tt></td> <td>Women's rights advocate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/754/000205139/">Virginia Apgar</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/558/000024486/">Lucille Ball</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1989</tt></td> <td>I Love Lucy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000023370/">Anne Bancroft</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-2005</tt></td> <td>Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000055817/">Clara Barton</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1912</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of the American Red Cross</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000170400/">Eleanor Baum</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/786/000097495/">Ruth Benedict</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1948</tt></td> <td>Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000207661/">Mary McLeod Bethune</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1955</tt></td> <td>Black activist and educator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000162461/">Elizabeth Blackwell</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1910</tt></td> <td>America's first woman doctor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000178462/">Amelia Jenks Bloomer</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1894</tt></td> <td>Bloomers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/754/000141331/">Nellie Bly</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1922</tt></td> <td>Ten Days in a Mad-House</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000029626/">Pearl S. Buck</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1973</tt></td> <td>The Good Earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000168360/">Mary Calderone</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1998</tt></td> <td>Questions and Answers about Love and Sex</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000031750/">Rachel Carson</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td>Mother of the environmental movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000023149/">Rosalynn Carter</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Aug-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wife of US President Jimmy Carter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/283/000073064/">Willa Cather</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1947</tt></td> <td>O Pioneers!</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/436/000032340/">Shirley Chisholm</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-2005</tt></td> <td>First black woman elected to US House</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000025944/">Hillary Clinton</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/094/000172575/">Jackie Cochran</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1980</tt></td> <td>First woman to break the sound barrier</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000046533/">Joan Ganz Cooney</a></td> <td><center>Film/TV Producer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Producer of Sesame Street</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/495/000048351/">Dorothy Day</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1980</tt></td> <td>Founder of the Catholic Worker movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/442/000026364/">Emily Dickinson</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1830</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1886</tt></td> <td>Perplexing American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/912/000023843/">Elizabeth Dole</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from North Carolina, 2003-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000026865/">Amelia Earhart</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td>Misplaced aviatrix</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000031721/">Mary Baker Eddy</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1910</tt></td> <td>Founded Christian Science movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000132700/">Gertrude B. Elion</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000023795/">Geraldine Ferraro</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-2011</tt></td> <td>Walter Mondale's VP candidate in 1984</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/122/000023053/">Ella Fitzgerald</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1996</tt></td> <td>The First Lady of Jazz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000022799/">Betty Friedan</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-2006</tt></td> <td>Rights for women spokesperson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/275/000115927/">Charlotte Perkins Gilman</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1935</tt></td> <td>Women and Economics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000023610/">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000051380/">Katharine Graham</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-2001</tt></td> <td>Washington Post publisher, 1966-79</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000177370/">Fannie Lou Hamer</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1977</tt></td> <td>Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/908/000031815/">Helen Hayes</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1993</tt></td> <td>First Lady of the Theater</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/153/000220490/">Dorothy Height</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-2010</tt></td> <td>National Council of Negro Women</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000344076/">Swanee Hunt</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Austria, 1993-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000084967/">Zora Neale Hurston</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1960</tt></td> <td>Their Eyes Were Watching God</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000061485/">Shirley A. Jackson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NRC Chairman, 1995-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/690/000046552/">Barbara Jordan</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1996</tt></td> <td>Gave 1976 Democratic keynote speech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000046933/">Helen Keller</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1968</tt></td> <td>Deaf and blind activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000136363/">Nan Keohane</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Political scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/230/000023161/">Billie Jean King</a></td> <td><center>Tennis</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Defeated Bobby Riggs in '73 Battle of the Sexes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000165352/">Stephanie Kwolek</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Invented Kevlar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/647/000025572/">Maya Lin</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000047963/">Anne Morrow Lindbergh</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-2001</tt></td> <td>Wife of Charles Lindbergh</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/879/000161396/">Belva Lockwood</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1830</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1917</tt></td> <td>Feminist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/924/000160444/">Juliette Gordon Low</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1927</tt></td> <td>Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000055488/">Shannon Lucid</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Five space shuttle flights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000083759/">Barbara McClintock</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1992</tt></td> <td>Discovered transposable genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/017/000029927/">Margaret Mead</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1978</tt></td> <td>Coming of Age in Samoa</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/676/000165181/">Maria Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1889</tt></td> <td>First American female astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000180162/">Antonia C. Novello</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Surgeon General, 1990-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000023257/">Sandra Day O'Connor</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000084475/">Georgia O'Keeffe</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1986</tt></td> <td>American abstract and landscape painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/651/000022585/">Rosa Parks</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-2005</tt></td> <td>Wouldn't sit in the back of the bus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000107467/">Alice Paul</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1977</tt></td> <td>Suffragette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000023970/">Janet Reno</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Clinton's US Attorney General</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000025090/">Sally Ride</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2012</tt></td> <td>First American woman in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/068/000057894/">Rozanne L. Ridgway</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Aug-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/176/000166675/">Edith Nourse Rogers</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1960</tt></td> <td>Congresswoman from Massachusetts, 1925-60</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/467/000022401/">Eleanor Roosevelt</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1962</tt></td> <td>First Lady under FDR</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/896/000031803/">Margaret Sanger</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Sep-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1966</tt></td> <td>Birth control advocate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/686/000056518/">Pat Schroeder</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congresswoman from Colorado, 1973-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/455/000172936/">Blanche Stuart Scott</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1970</tt></td> <td>Auto and air daredevil</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/705/000206087/">Anna Howard Shaw</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td>National American Women's Suffrage Association</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/421/000027340/">Eunice Kennedy Shriver</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Founder of the Special Olympics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/301/000023232/">Beverly Sills</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-2007</tt></td> <td>Soprano at the New York City Opera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/266/000032170/">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1815</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1902</tt></td> <td>National Woman Suffrage Association</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/576/000025501/">Gloria Steinem</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Founder, Ms. Magazine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/388/000160905/">Lucy Stone</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1893</tt></td> <td>American Women's Suffrage Association</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/451/000048307/">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1896</tt></td> <td>Uncle Tom's Cabin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/127/000048980/">Maria Tallchief</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>New York City Ballet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/485/000114143/">Ida M. Tarbell</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>History of the Standard Oil Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000206281/">Helen B. 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