- Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose landmark book, "Silent Spring", is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. "Silent Spring" had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. - Anna Moffo
The American soprano Anna Moffo (born on June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an opera soprano primarily active in the 1960s. During her heyday, Moffo was much admired for the purity of her voice and her great physical beauty. Moffo was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Radnor High School, she was offered the opportunity to go to Hollywood to make films, but turned that down because of her intention to become a nun. - Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas. - Mary Maxwell Gates
Mary Maxwell Gates served 18 years (1975-1993) on the University of Washington board of regents. She was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM's CEO, John Akers, and the first woman on the First Interstate Bank of Washington's board of directors. Mary's son Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft. - June Jordan
June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants. - Audre Lorde
Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - November 17, 1992) was a writer, poet and activist. - Belinda Emmett
Belinda 'Belle' Jane Emmett was an Australian actress and singer. She was married to television personality Rove McManus and was known for her roles in the TV drama series "Home and Away" and "All Saints". - Helen Gahagan
Helen Gahagan was an American actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) a politician. She was of Scottish and Irish descent. Gahagan was born in Boonton, New Jersey and raised Roman Catholic. Graduating from Barnard College in 1924, she became a well-known star on Broadway in the 1920s. In 1931, she married actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan starred in only one Hollywood movie, "She" in 1935, playing the immortal Hash-a-Motep, … - Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. Although at first she was best known for her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, she was later the author of several vegetarian cookbooks, a business entrepreneur, and professional photographer whose book "Linda McCartney's Sixties", written in association with poet and author Steve Turner, … - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity. - Minnie Riperton
Minnie Julia Riperton was an American soul singer from Chicago, Illinois, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single "Lovin' You". Possessing a rare five-octave vocal range, she displayed the ability to imitate instrumentation and even birds. - Judi Bari
Judi Bari (November 7, 1949 - March 2, 1997) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California as well as efforts through Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 to bring timber workers and environmentalists together in common cause. - Rose Bird
Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936-December 4, 1999) served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice (and first female Chief Justice) of the California Supreme Court until removed from that office by the voters. - Anne Hyde
Lady Anne Hyde (March 1637 - 31 March 1671), daughter of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife, Frances Aylesbury, became the first wife of James, Duke of York (the future King James II of England and VII of Scotland), and the mother of two queens, Mary II of England and Anne of Great Britain. She was born, on either 12 March or 22 March 1637, at Windsor, Berkshire, to Frances (daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, … - Gretchen Wyler
Gretchen Wyler (February 16, 1932 - May 27, 2007), was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as Gretchen Patricia Wienecke. She was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where her father was an engineer. She opened her own dancing school there before heading east to New York to pursue a professional career as an actress and dancer. - Betty Berzon
Betty Berzon (January 18, 1928- January 24, 2006) was an American author and psychotherapist known for her work with the gay and lesbian communities. Berzon was among the first psychotherapists to assist gay and lesbian clients. After coming out as a lesbian in 1968, she began providing therapy to gays and lesbians, and in 1971, … - Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 - August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. - Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April, 1939 - 2 March, 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. She achieved her most notable success during the 1960s, with a successful comeback in the late 1980s. - Florence Halop
Florence Halop was a diminutive, mostly comic actress and the sister of Billy Halop, one of the original Dead End/East Side Kids. Born at Queens, New York, Halop had a long career on radio and got her start at age 4 when she appeared on Orson Welles' "Mercury Theatre. Between 1976 - 1982, she played 6 different characters on the TV series "Barney Miller". Her character in "St. Elsewhere", Mrs. Hufnagel, was only supposed to be in one episode, … - Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (June 29 1929 - September 15 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she died in her native Florence, Italy, at age 77. She was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the newspaper "Corriere della Sera". - Rell Sunn
Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn was an American world surfing champion. Known as "Queen of Makaha" and "Aunty Rell," she was a pioneer in the world of women's surfing. - Nettie Stevens
Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7,1861 - May 4,1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex. An outstanding student, Nettie Stevens completed in two years the four-year course at Westfield Normal School (now Westfield State College) in Massachusetts. She graduated at the top of her class. At Stanford, she received her B.A. in 1899 and her M.A. in 1900, … - Kay Francis
Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 - August 26, 1968) was an American actress who, after a brief beginning on Broadway in the 1920s, moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936. - Joi Lansing
Joi Lansing was a film and television actress (b. Joyce Wassmansdorff, Salt Lake City, Utah April 6, 1929 - d. Santa Monica, California August 7, 1972). - Sylvia Millecam
Sylvia Millecam was a Dutch actor and comedian. Millecam was born in The Hague and later moved to Boxmeer. Millecam became famous after appearing in popular television shows like "Ook Dat Nog" (based on "That's Life!" on the BBC) and "Buitenlandse Zaken", a show with sketches and political satire. - Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - September 21, 1974, New York City) was an American author known for her mass-appeal novels. Her most notable work was "Valley of the Dolls", a book that broke sales records and spawned a movie and a TV series. - Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low (October 31, 1860 - January 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912. - Mary-Ellis Bunim
Mary-Ellis Bunim (July 9, 1946 - January 29, 2004) was a producer and co-creator of MTV's "The Real World" and "Road Rules". A native of Massachusetts, Bunim enjoyed a successful early career in daytime dramas. She oversaw more than 2,500 hours of programming as executive producer of "Search for Tomorrow" (1974-1981), "As the World Turns" (1981-1984), "Santa Barbara" (1985-1987) and "Loving" (1989-1990). - Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday. She is the actress (tied with Meryl Streep) with the most Golden Globe Awards (for films) wins, with five. - Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes, born Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser was an American film and television actress. Wickes was born in St. Louis, Missouri of German and Irish Protestant extraction in 1915. She began acting in films in the late 1930s, and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama "Mercury Theatre of the Air". One of her earliest significant film appearances was in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942), … - Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes was a Scottish author, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning. Stopes edited the journal "Birth Control News" which gave anatomically explicit advice, and in addition to her enthusiasm for protests at places of worship this provoked protest from both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Her sex manual "Married Love", which was written while she was still a virgin, … - Jill Ireland
Jill Ireland (April 24, 1936 - May 18, 1990) was an English actress. - Sara Henderson
Sara Henderson (September 15, 1936 Cooinda Private Hospital, Mosman - April 29, 2005) was an Australian pastoralist and author. She was named Businesswoman of the Year in 1991 for managing the Bullo River cattle station, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory. In 1993 she published her autobiography "From Strength to Strength" which focused on her family's efforts to manage Bullo River after her husband died in 1985. - Barbara Gittings
Barbara Gittings was a prominent American LGBT activist. - Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel "Strange Fruit" (1944). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions almost guaranteed social ostracism. - May Sarton
May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist born in Wondelgem, Belgium. Many of her novels and poems are pellucid reflections of the lesbian experience. - Roxie Roker
Roxie Roker (August 28, 1929 - December 2, 1995) was an American actress of Bahamian heritage who was best known for her groundbreaking role as Helen Willis on the sitcom "The Jeffersons", one half of one of the first interracial couples to be shown on regular prime-time TV. She also had a small role in the television miniseries "Roots". Roxie Roker was born in The Bahamas, but grew up in Brooklyn, New York, she attended Howard University, … - Wendie Jo Sperber
Wendie Jo Sperber (September 15, 1958 - November 29 ,2005) was an American actress, best known for her performances in the films "Back to the Future" and "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and the television sitcom "Bosom Buddies". - Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (10 March, 1861 - 7 March, 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer. She was born in Chiefswood, the family home built by her father on the Six Nations Indian Reserve outside of Brantford, Ontario and died in Vancouver, British Columbia. Pauline Johnson was the youngest of four children born to George Henry Martin Johnson (1816-1884), … - Barbara Pym
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist.
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