30 of the Most Influential Women of the Millennium
A Women's History Month 2001 Celebration by Sunshine for Women [1]
this is a complete list
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu aka Mary Pierrepont (1689 - ca.1762) -- Smallpox Vaccine
- Isabella of Castile aka Isabella of Spain (1451-1504) -- Queen
- Clara Barton (1821-1912) -- Founder of the American Red Cross
- Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614 - 1702) -- "Mother of Quakerism"
- Martha Griffiths (1912-) -- Politician, US House of Representatives
- Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992) -- Computers
- Madame du Chatelet (1706-1749) -- Scientist
- Emma Willard -- Educator
- Josephine Butler -- Reformer
- Maria Theresa of Austria (1717-1780) -- Queen
- Aphra Behn (1640-1689) -- Writer
- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Environmentalist
- Bertha Suttner (1843-1914) -- Nobel Peace Prize 1905
- Huda Shaarawi (1882-1947) -- Egyptian Nationalist and Feminist
- Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929) -- Physician
- Laura Bassi (1711-1778) -- Scientist
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) -- Philosopher and Writer
- Lucretia Mott -- Abolitionist and Reformer
- Sarah and Angelina Grimke -- Abolitionists and Woman's Rights Advocates
- Beate Sirota Gordon -- Translator, Artist
- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Frances Power Cobbe -- Anti-vivisection and Woman's Rights Activist
- Matilda Joslyn Gage -- Reformer
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Woman's Rights Activist
- Susan B. Anthony -- Suffragist
- Women in Philanthropy -- Philanthropy
- Ida B. Wells -- Civil Rights Activist
- Sarah Weddington -- Lawyer (Roe v. Wade)
- Pauli Murray , Dorothy Kenyon , Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Lawyers
- Christine de Pizan (c. 1365- 1430) -- Woman of the Millennium
