Gladys Pyle

female, deceased (1989)
Gladys Pyle (October 4, 1890 - March 14, 1989) was a South Dakota politician and the first woman elected to the United States Senate without having...

Lourdes Mendoza

female
Zoila Lourdes Carmen Sandra Mendoza del Solar is a Peruvian businesswoman and politician with the Peruvian Aprista Party. She is the first woman in...

Lorraine Rodgers

female, 88 years old
Lorraine Zilner Rodgers (born 1921) is a former Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot for the United States Air Force. She saw action during...

Barbara Dulinsky

female
Master Sergeant Barbara Jean Dulinsky was a member of the United States Marine Corps who, in 1967, became the first woman United States Marine to...

Lakshmi N. Menon

female
Lakshmi N. Menon was the first woman Foreign Minister of India.

Julie Hosler

female, 37 years old
Julie Hosler (born c. 1972) is a woman from Delaware, Ohio who became infamous for being convicted, along with her mother and sister, of raping her...

Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed

female, deceased (1934)
Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed was a British pioneer of mountaineering in a time when it was almost unheard of for a woman to climb mountains. She was...

Susan McKinney Stewart

female
Dr. Susan McKinney Steward (1847-1918) was a pioneer in medicine, a physician, and one of the first Black women to earn a medical degree, and the...

Manuela Santiago Collazo

female, 71 years old
Manuela Santiago Collazo (born c. 1938) is a Puerto Rican politician who was the mayor of the city of Vieques. Santiago Collazo became Vieques'...

Elisa Ochoa

female, deceased (1978)
Elisa Rosales Ochoa (December 3, 1897 - September 20, 1978) was the first woman elected to the Philippine Congress.