List of women in the Heritage Floor

This list documents all 999 mythical, historical and notable women who are displayed on the tiles of the Heritage Floor as part of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party art installation. The names appear as they are spelled on the floor.

Name	Birthdate	Location	Group	Notes
Abella of Salerno	Flourished c. 1350	Salerno, Italy	Trotula	Taught medicine at Schola Medica Salernitana, focusing on embryology, and published two treatises.
Abigail	Flourished c. 965 BC	Israel	Judith	Earliest female pacifist in biblical record. Her husband defied King David and to avoid war, she went behind her husband's back and prepared food for David, in order to keep the peace. Her husband died from the shock of her actions, and she would go on to become the third wife of David.
Abigail Adams	1744	Massachusetts, United States	Anne Hutchinson	abolitionist, women's education advocate, wife of John Adams.
Adela of Blois	c. 1067	France	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Filled as regent while her husband, Stephen Henry, participated in the First Crusade.
Adela Zamudio-Ribero	1854	Cochabamba, Bolivia	Virginia Woolf	Poet, intellectual and founder of the Bolivian feminist movement.
Adelaide	931	France	Theodora	Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
Adelaide Labille-Guiard	1749	France	Artemisia Gentileschi	Portrait painter, member of the Académie Royale, women's education advocate.
Adelaide of Susa	c. 1016	Italy	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Philanthropist, heiress, countess of Savoy. She also led an army to defend Turin.
Adelberger	8th century	Italy	Trotula	Physician, member of the Guild of Lay Healers. Possibly Adelperga, daughter of Desiderius, who fought against Charlemagne. Little to no information is easily available about the lay healer, Adelberger.
Adelheid Popp	1869	Vienna, Austria	Susan B. Anthony	Leader of the Austrian Socialist Women's Movement, served in Austrian government.
Eudocia	c. 400	Athens; Jerusalem	Theodora	Philanthropist, politician, poet, was an Orthodox Christian who fought for the protection of Jews and pagans
Eudoxia	380	Constantinople	Theodora	Empress of Byzantium; wife of Arcadius whose political work she criticized and heavily influenced.
Aemilia	c. 300	Gaul	Hypatia	Poet and physician, rejected marriage as it was a hindrance to her career. Wrote books about gynecology and obstetrics.
Æthelburg	c. 673	England	Theodora	Queen of Wessex alongside husband King Ine of Wessex. Fought battles alongside Ine. In 728 they relinquished the crown to her brother and lived amongst the poor in Rome.
Ethelberga	c. 614	England	Hrosvitha	Daughter of Æthelberht of Kent and Bertha of Kent. After her husband, King Edwin of Northumbria, died, she founded the first Benedictine nunnery in England.
Æthelflæd	869	England	Theodora	Daughter of Alfred the Great, she led troops against the Vikings. After her husband, Æthelred died, she became the sole ruler of Mercia.
Agatha	c. 235	Sicily	Hypatia	Rejected the advances of Roman military officials and was tortured by having her breasts cut off, then, she was sentenced to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake. She died in prison and became a saint in the Catholic faith. She is the patron saint of breast cancer patients.
Aglaonice	Between 2nd and 4th century BC	Greece	Aspasia	Believed to be the first woman astronomer. She could predict lunar eclipses and was accused of sorcery; as people believed her ability to predict was actually the ability to create the eclipses.
Agnes d'Harcourt	13th century	France	Hildegarde of Bingen	Abbess of the Abbey of Longchamp and author. She wrote the first biography about Saint Isabel, whom she also served as personal assistant to.
Agnes	Flourished c. 1184	Germany	Hrosvitha	Abbess of St. Mary's in Quedlinburg, where fine needlework and weavings were created, as well as manuscript illustrations. Agnes encouraged artistic creation and supported a healthy art industry with her nuns' creations.
Agnes	1211	Bohemia	Hildegarde of Bingen	Former Bohemian princess who founded the Poor Clares religious order, an abbey, and a hospital. Canonized in 1989, she is the patron saint of Bohemia.
Agnes of Poitou	c. 1024	France	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Second wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor; she governed the empire until her son, Henry IV came of age to rule. She opposed Pope Gregory VII and helped to elect Cadalus, her son, to throne. He was kidnapped, and as ransom to save his life, she resigned as regent and remained the rest of her life in a convent.
Agnes of Dunbar	1312	Scotland	Christine de Pisan	Known as "Black Agnes," she successfully defended her family's castle while her husband, Patrick V, Earl of March, was at war, in 1337.
Agnes Sampson	16th century	Scotland	Petronilla de Meath	A healer, she was a chief witness at the North Berwick witch trials. She was tortured, and forced to confess to conspiring with 200 other women to work with the devil to try to kill King James VI. She was found guilty and executed in 1591.
Agnes Smedley	1892	United States	Virginia Woolf	Journalist, who traveled to Berlin in 1920 and helped opened Germany's first birth control clinic. She continued to travel the world, seeing human and political rights violations first hand. She wrote numerous books, including an autobiography and coverage on China during World War II.
Agnès Sorel	c. 1422	France	Isabella d'Este	Mistress of King Charles VII of France and the first to be publicly acknowledged. All four of their children were also acknowledged and she died of dysentery at age 28, but some believe she was poisoned.
Agnes Waterhouse	c 1503	England	Petronilla de Meath	She was the first woman executed for witchcraft in England.
Agnodice	c 505	Greece	Aspasia	The first female gynecologist. She disguised herself as a man in order to go to medical school. She became a gynecologist, and when male doctors realized women preferred her services, they charged her with malpractice. She outed herself, and they tried to pass a law prohibiting women to practice medicine. The law was eventually changed, due to women speaking out, until the 12th century AD.
Agrippina I	c 14 BC	Rome	Marcella	Married Germanicus and accompanied him into battle during wartime. After his death, she became a voice representing the political struggle of Rome, and her and her two teenage sons were accused of trying to over throw Tiberius and they were eventually exiled.
Agrippina II	15 AD	Rome	Marcella	Julia Agrippina, Roman noble women, the wife of the emperor Claudius and mother of Nero, who effectively ruled the empire for two decades through her influence over both her husband and son.
Aisha	12th century	Spain	Hrosvitha	Spanish poet whom presented her work at the Royal Academy of Córdoba, Andalusia.
Ajysyt	Mythical	Siberia	Primordial Goddess	The Siberian goddess of birth.
Albertine Necker de Saussure	1766	France	Emily Dickinson	The cousin of writer Germaine de Staël, whom she collaborated frequently with and wrote about. Women's rights advocate and supporter of physical education for girls.
Aleksandra Kollantay	1872	Russia	Margaret Sanger	Her surname is commonly spelled Kollontai. Women's rights activist, and socialist. She fled Russia in 1905 and lived in Germany, advocating women's issues. After the 1917 Revolution she returned to Russia and was elected Commissar of Social Welfare.
Alessandra Giliani	1307	Italy	Isabella d'Este	She invented a way to draw blood from veins and arteries of cadavers, and then replaced the blood with fluid dyes. These dyes allowed the veins to remain marked for students to study. She died suddenly at age 19. to make them more visible. She was a medical illustrator and assistant to Mondino de Liuzzi.
Aletta Jacobs	1854	Netherlands	Susan B. Anthony	The first woman to graduate from a Dutch university and the first female physician in the Netherlands. She was also a women's rights advocate and translated Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics into Dutch, helping spread feminist ideals through the country. After World War I she created the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Alexandra of Jerusalem	139 BC	Judea	Boadaceia	Took over the throne of Judea after the death of her husband, Alexander Jannaeus, in 76 BC. She was a peacekeeper in the region and led Judea into a prosperous period during her rule. Upon her death in 67 BC, civil war began immediately as her son came to the throne.
Alexandra van Grippenberg	c. 1857	Finland	Susan B. Anthony	An early advocate for temperance and women's rights. Established a branch of the International Council of Women in Finland.
Alfonsina Storni	1892	Argentina	Virginia Woolf	Storni was a poet, actress, educator and feminist. She founded the Argentine Society of Writers. She had breast cancer, which moved to her throat. Failed treatments curbed her interest in further treatment, and she went to the ocean and killed herself by walking into the water.
Alice Kyteler	c. 1324	Ireland	Petronilla de Meath	She was called the Witch of Kilkenny, and was one of the earliest women in Ireland to be accused of witchcraft. All of her husbands died during marriage, leaving her wealthy, and she was accused of murdering them. She was able to escape further accusations of witchcraft due to her aristocratic connections and escaped to England in 1325.
Alice Milliat	1884	France	Elizabeth Blackwell	She founded the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale and launched the Women's World Games, also called the Women's Olympics. The WWG led to the Olympic Committee to open up track-and-field events at the 1928 games to women.
Alice Paul	1885	United States	Susan B. Anthony	One of the most important leaders in the American suffragist movement, she wrote the Equal Rights Amendment and founded the National Woman's Party in the United States.
Alice Pike Barney	1857	United States	Natalie Barney	The mother of Natalie Barney, she was an advocate for the arts, an artist, and a philanthropist. She hosted salon evenings, with the who's who of Washington, D.C.'s society. She gave her home, fully intact, to the Smithsonian Institution, who proceeded to sell it and its contents.
Alice Samuel	16th century	England	Petronilla de Meath	As an elderly woman, she was accused of being a witch by the children of her employer. Her trial was held in 1593, and she was hung, along with two relatives, as the results of the children's testimony.
Alice Stone Blackwell	1857	United States	Susan B. Anthony	Daughter of Lucy Stone, she edited the Woman's Journal and assisted with the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Aliénor de Poitiers	Flourished late 15th century	France	Christine de Pisan	An author, she wrote Les honneurs de la cour, a book about court ritual and etiquette for all social classes. She was described as the Emily Post of the 15th century.
Alison Rutherford	1712	Scotland	Mary Wollstonecraft	A lyricist, Rutherford moved to Edinburgh in 1753 after becoming a widow and hung out in circles of Scotland's literary elite. She wrote a version of the Scottish folk song Flowers of the Forest.
Almucs de Castelnau	c. 1140	France	Eleanor of Aquitaine	She was a French troubadour.
Aloara	10th century	Italy	Trotula	After the death of her husband, Pandolf, in 981, she ruled Capua until her death in 992.
Alpis de Cudot	c. 1156	France	Hildegarde of Bingen	Cudot, who suffered from leprosy, had visions incited by her illness. Often religious in nature, one vision led her to believe that the earth was flat. As she promoted the concept, people did not believe her. She was canonized in the 19th century.
Althea Gibson	1927	United States	Elizabeth Blackwell	The first African American woman to compete in the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open. She went on to play golf, and became the first African American woman to participate in the Ladies Professional Golf Association.
Alukah	Mythical	Canaan	Kali	A succubus or vampire, Alukah may be associated with Lilith.
Amat-Mamu	Flourished c. 1750 BC	Babylonia	Ishtar	She was a priestess and temple scribe in Sippar.
Amelia Earhart	1897	United States	Elizabeth Blackwell	Aviator and women's rights activist.
Amelia Holst	1758	Germany	Susan B. Anthony	Her name is actually spelled Amalia Holst. The German counterpart of Mary Wollstonecraft, she was an outspoken feminist and educator. She wrote the first book in German arguing for women's educational opportunities.
Amelia Villa	1900	Bolivia	Elizabeth Blackwell	The first female physician from Bolivia.
Amy Beach	1867	United States	Ethel Smyth	American pianist and first female composer in the United States.
Ana Betancourt	1832	Cuba	Sacajawea	She was a mambisa, and was one of the first generation Cuban feminists.
Anaconda	1474	Haiti	Sacajawea	The correct spelling of her name is Anacaona. She was a Taino chief, a poet and a songwriter.
Anahita	Mythical	Persia	Ishtar	Virgin goddess of fertility, love and war.
Anaïs Nin	1903	Europe, United States	Virginia Woolf	Author and diarist. One of the first female authors to write erotica.
Anastasia	Flourished c. 1400	France	Christine de Pisan	Manuscript illumination artist.
Anastasia	Flourished early 4th century AD	Rome	Marcella	She was arrested and prosecuted in the last wave of Christian persecutions, dying in 304. She was sainted in the 5th century.
Anath	Mythical	Canaan	Ishtar	Goddess of love and warfare.
Anasandra	Flourished 3rd century BC	Greece	Sappho	The correct spelling of her name is Anaxandra. She was a painter.
Andrea Villarreal	1881	Mexico; United States	Sacajawea	Teacher, poet, labor organizer and feminist who co-published La Mujer Moderna (English: The Modern Woman), with her sister.
Angela Merici	c. 1474	Italy	Christine de Pisan	Founded the Ursulines. She was canonized in 1807.
Angelberga	Flourished in 9th century	Italy	Trotula	Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, co-ruled with her husband, Louis II of Italy. In 869 became abbess of San Sisto in Piacenza, which she had founded.
Angéle de la Barthe	c. 1230	France	Petronilla de Meath	A noblewoman, she was accused of witchcraft and under torture she confessed. She was convicted and burned alive. The city of Toulouse has no records of her trial and historians question the validity of the story.
Angelica Balabanoff	1878	Ukraine	Margaret Sanger	Russian socialist writer. She moved to Italy and became a leading member of the Italian Socialist Party then moved back to Russia to become active in the Bolshevik Party and worked with Emma Goldman, Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Angelica Kauffman	1741	Switzerland-Italy	Artemisia Gentileschi	Italian painter and co-founder of the Royal Academy of Art.
Angelina Grimké	1805	United States	Sojourner Truth	Christian women's rights activist and abolitionist. Wrote the first tract in the United States about women's rights.
Angelique du Coudray	1712	France	Caroline Herschel	Court midwife to Louis XV of France who trained around 4,000 poor French women as midwives.
Ageltrude Benevento	9th century	Italy	Trotula	Holy Roman Empress. Her name was actually just Ageltrude; Benevento is a province in Italy.
Ann Lee	1736	United States	Anne Hutchinson	Joined the Shakers and moved to America after being placed in an English prison for a vision which influenced the Shaker belief system about celibacy. She went to jail again in New York for treason after refusing to pledge allegiance. She was called "Mother Ann" and preached New England. Her work inspired her followers to found the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.
Anna Dalassena Comnena	1025	Byzantine	Theodora	Byzantine noblewoman and mother to emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Ruled as empress during her son's absence in military campaigns.
Anna Karsch	1722	Germany
Anna Comnena	1083	Byzantine		Wrote the Alexiad, which recounts the political and military history of the Byzantine empire under her father, Alexios I Komnenos
Anna Maria Schwagel	1729	Bavaria	Petronilla de Meath	Schwägel or Schwegelin was an alleged German (Bavarian) witch, who was long considered the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Germany. It is now believed she died forgotten in prison.
Anna Manzolini	1714	Italy	Caroline Herschel	Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler
Anna Pavlova
Anna Schabanoff
Anna Sophia
Annabella Drummond
Anne Askew
Anne Bacon
Anne Baynard
Anne Bonney
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Clough
Anne Dacier
Anne Ella Carroll	1815	United States	Sojourner Truth	American politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist who served as an advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Anne Halkett
Anne of Beaujeu
Anna
Anne of Brittany
Anne Redfearne
Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Kenney
Annie Smith Peck
Annie Wood Besant
Antigone	Legendary	Greece		Character in play by Sophocles
Antiope	13th century BC	Scythia		Amazon warrior queen
Antonia Brico
Antonia Padoani Bembo
Anyte
Aphra Behn
Aphrodite	Mythical	Greece		Goddess of love and beauty
Arachne	Legendary	Greece		inventor of woven cloth and net making
Aretaphila of Cyrene
Arete of Cyrene
Ariadne	Mythical	Crete		Helped Theseus overthrow Minos and married him.
Arianrhod	Mythical	Wales		Death goddess
Arinitti	Mythical	Anatolia		Main deity, queen of Hatti, Heaven and earth. Also known as Arinna.
Aristoclea
Arsinoe II
Artemis	Mythical	Greece		agricultural deity, moon goddess, watcher of forests ... many meanings in many cultures
Artemisia I
Artemisia II
Asherah	Mythical	Canaan		Goddess of sexuality and procreation
Ashtoreth	Mythical	Hebrew		Goddess of fertility and reproduction
Aspasia of Athens
Astarte	Mythical	Phoenicia		fertility goddess
Atalanta	Legendary	Greece		hunter, warrior, sportswoman
Athaliah
Athanarsa
Athene	Mythical	Greece		virgin goddess, warrior and patron of culture, deity of artists and architects, weavers, protector of Athens
Atira	Mythical	North America		Goddess of the Earth in Pawnee mythology
Augusta Fickert
Augusta Savage
Augusta Schmidt
Augustina Saragossa
Awashonks
Axiothea
Baba Petkova	1826	Bulgaria		Pioneer of women's education. Founded the first girls' schools in Bulgaria.
Babe Didrikson	June 26, 1911	United States		Excelled at multiple sports in the early-to-mid twentieth century. Olympic gold medalist; in the top ten of multiple "Greatest Athlete" lists.
Baptista Malatesta
Baranamtarra	c. 2500 BC	Sumer		Co-ruled w/husband city of Lagash, early philanthropist
Barbara Bodichon
Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Uttman
Barbe de Verrue
Baroness de Beausoleil
Basilea	Mythical	Ancient Greece	Boadaceia	The first queen of the legendary Kingdom of Atlantis in ancient Greek folk tradition.
Basine
Bathilde
Bathsua Makin
Baudonivia
Beatrice de Die
Beatrice Webb
Beatrix Galindo
Begga
Bel-Shalti-Narrar	c. 540 BC	Babylonia		high priestess
Belva Lockwood
Berenguela
Berengaria
Bernarda de la Cerda
Bertha Lutz
Bertha of England
Bertha of Sulzbach
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha of France
Berthe Morisot
Berthildis
Bertille
Bertha
Elizabeth Talbot
Bessie Smith
Betsy Kjelsberg
Bettina von Arnim
Bettisia Gozzadini
Blanche of Castile
Blandina
Blodeuwedd	Mythical	Wales		Goddess of the white flower
Bona-Dea	Mythical	Rome		"Good Goddess", procreation, agriculture
Bourgot
Bridget Bevan
Birgitta
Bridget Tott	1610	Denmark		Produced the first translations of Roman Classical literature into Danish.
Brigh Brigaid
Brigid	Mythical	Celtic Ireland		Fertility goddess
Britomartis	Mythical	Crete		Moon goddess, huntress, ruler of women's societies
Brunhilde
Beruiah	2nd century	Palestine	Judith	Mentioned in the Talmud as a sage with extensive knowledge of Jewish rabbinical law. Typically spelled Bruriah.
Brynhild
Buto	Mythical	Egypt	Snake Goddess	Also called Wadjet. The patron and protector of Lower Egypt.
Caelia Macrina
Cambra
Camilla	Legendary	Rome		hunter, warrior, Diana avenged her death
Candelaria Figueredo
Capillana
Carcas
Cardea	Mythical	Rome		Goddess of changing seasons
Carlota Matienzo
Carlotta Ferrari
Carmenta
Caroline Norton
Caroline Schlegel
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Nation
Cartismandua
Cassandra Fidelis
Cassandra	Legendary	Greece		Apollo fell in love with her, among other tales
Caterina Cornaro
Caterina Sforzia
Caterina van Hemessen	1528	Antwerp, Southern Netherlands	Renaissance painter	She was a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke
Catharine Fisher
Catherine Beecher
Catherine de Rambouillet
Catherine Deshayes
Catherine Greene
Catherine
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine Adorni
Catherine of Siena
Catherine Pavlovna
Catherine II (The Great)
Celia Fiennes
Cerridwen	Mythical	Wales		barley and moon goddess/life/death
Charitas Pirckheimer
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Guest
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chicomecoatl	Mythical	Mesoamerica		maize goddess
Chiomara
Christabel Pankhurst
Christina of Sweden
Christina Rossetti
Circe	Legendary	Greece		Odyssey, turned men into swine, lived alone on her island
Clara Barton
Clara Hatzerlin
Clara Schumann
Clara Zetkin
Clare of Assisi
Claricia
Claudine de Tencin
Clémence Royer
Cleobuline
Cleopatra
Clodia
Clotilda
Clytemnestra	Legendary	Greece		Sister of Helen of Troy, killed family
Coatlicue	Mythical	Mesoamerica		Aztec earth goddess
Cobhlair Mor
Colette
Constance Lytton
Constantia
Corinna of Tanagra
Cornelia Scipio
Cornelia Gracchi
Cresilla
Cristina Trivulzio
Sibyl of Cumae	c. 500 BC	Rome		Prophet
Cunegund
Cybele	Mythical	Phrygia		Mountain mother, personification of earth
Cynane
Cynisca
Damelis
Damo
Danu (Irish goddess)	Mythical	Celtic Ireland		Goddess of plenty
Daphne	Legendary	Greece		Nymph, hunter
Deborah Sampson
Deborah
Demeter	Mythical	Greece		Goddess of agriculture
Dervorguilla
Dhuoda
Dido	c. 850 BC	North Africa		Phoenician princess, founded Carthage
Diemud
Diotima
Djuna Barnes
Dolores Ibárruri
Dorcas
Doris Lessing
Dorotea Bucca
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Leporin-Erxleben
Dorothea von Rodde
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Wordsworth
Douceline de Digne
Anna Amalia
Eachtach
Eadburga
Eanswith
Edith Cavell
Edith Evans
Edith
Edith Sitwell
Edith Wharton
Edmonia Lewis
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Egee	12th century BC	Libya		Leader of women's army
Ehyophsta
Eileen Gray
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleonora Duse
Elfrida Andree
Elin Kallio
Elisabeth de La Guerre
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Elisabetta Gonzaga
Elisabetta Sirani
Eliška Krásnohorská
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Bekker
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Carter
Elizabeth Cellier
Elizabeth Cheron
Elizabeth Danviers
Elizabeth Druzbacka
Elizabeth Farren
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Hamilton
Elizabeth Hoby
Jane Weston
Elizabeth Lucar
Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Ney
Elizabeth
Elizabeth of Schönau
Elizabeth Petrovna
Elizabeth Southern
Elizabeth Stagel
Elizabeth Vesey
Ellen Richards
Elpinice
Emilia Pardo-Bazán
Emilie du Chatelet
Emilie Snethlage
Emily Blackwell
Emily Brontë
Emily Carr
Emily Faithfull
Emma Goldman
Emma Paterson
Emma Willard
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emmy Noether
Matilda
Encheduanna	c. 2050 BC	Sumer		earliest recorded poet
Ende
Engleberga
Epicharis
Ereshkigal	Mythical	Sumer		Goddess of death
Erinna
Esther
Etheldreda
Ethylwyn
Eugenia
Europa	Mythical	Crete		Carried off to Crete by Zeus, married King of Crete, Minos.
Euryleon
Eurynome	Mythical	Greece		Goddess of all things
Eurypyle	c. 1760 BC	Near East		Leader of women's expedition against Babylon
Eustochium
Eve
Failge
Fanny Burney
Fanny Mendelssohn
Faustina Bordoni
Fede Galizia
Federica Montseny
Fibors
Finola O'Donnel
Flavia Julia Helena
Florence Nightingale
Fortuna	Mythical	Rome		Goddess of turning wheel, divination, fertility
Frances Brooke
Frances Harper
Frances Perkins
Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Willard
Frances Wright
Francesca Caccini
Francesca of Salerno
Francisca de Lebrija
Françoise de Maintenon
Frau Ava
Frau Cramer
Fredegund
Frederika Bremer
Freya	Mythical	Norway		Goddess of love, marriage, fertility
Frida Kahlo
Frija	Mythical	Germany		Goddess of marriage, love and home
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriele Münter
Gabrielle Petit
Gaia (mythology)	Mythical	Greece		Earth mother
Galla Placidia
Gaspara Stampa
Gebjon	Mythical	Sweden		Fertility goddess
Geillis Duncan
Genevieve d'Arconville
Genevieve
George Eliot	22 November 1819	England		Author, translator, journalist. Wrote Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda, Adam Bede, among other works.
George Sand
Georgiana Cavendish
Germaine de Staël
Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude of Hackeborn
Gertrude of Nivelles
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Svensen
Gertrude the Great
Gisela of Kerzenbroeck
Gisela
Giustina Renier Michiel
Glueckel von Hameln
Golda Meir
Goody Glover
Gormlaith
Grace O'Malley
Gracia Mendesa
Guda
Guillemine
Gunda Beeg
Hannah Adams
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Crocker
Hannah Höch
Hannah More
Hannah Senesh
Hannah Woolley
Hannahanna	Mythical	Hittite Empire		"grandmother" major deity
Harlind	d.750	Belgium		Saint and Benedictine abbess, created illuminated manuscript of the Christian Gospels with her sister Relindis of Maaseik
Reinhild	d.750	Belgium		Saint and Benedictine abbess, created illuminated manuscript of the Christian Gospels with her sister Herlindis of Maaseik
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Hosmer
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Tubman
Hartense Lepaute	1723–1788	France		Mathematician and astronomer. Full name is Nicole-Reine Lepaute, known as Hortense Lepaute.
Hashop	c. 2420 BC	Egypt		Queen
Hasta Hansteen
Hathor	Mythical	Egypt		mother of sun god
Hawisa
Hecate	Mythical	Greece		goddess of the moon and underworld
Hecuba	Legendary	Greece		In Iliad, Queen of Troy
Hedwig Nordenflycht
Hedwig
Hel (being)	Mythical	Norway		goddess of underworld
Helen Cornaro
Helen Diner
Helen Keller
Helen of Troy	Legendary	Greece		Husband's attempts to lure her back started Trojan War
Helena
Helena Blavatsky
Helene Kottauer
Héloïse
Henrietta Johnston
Henrietta Szold
Hera	Mythical	Greece		chief feminine deity, married to Zeus
Hermine Veres	1815–1895	Hungary		Educator and feminist, founded the first secondary school for girls in Hungary
Herrad of Landsberg
Hersend
Hersilia	c. 800 BC	Rome		Hero of the Rape of the Sabine Women
Hester Stanhope
Hestiaea		Alexandrea Troas near modern Turkey		Greek grammarian and Homeric scholar, influenced Strabo's Homeric scholarship
Hiera	Mythical	Asia Minor		General of army of Mysian women who fought in Trojan War
Hilda of Whitby
Hipparchia
Hippo
Hippolyte	13th century BC	Scythia		Co-ruler with sisters of Amazon capital of Themiscyra
Honorata Rodiana
Hortensia
Hortensia von Moos	1659	Switzerland	Anna van Schurman	Swiss scholar who had extensive knowledge of many subjects, including theology and medicine. Known for her writings on the status of women and is regarded as a precursor by the Swiss women's movement.
Huldah
Hygeburg
Ida B. Wells
Ida Kaminska
Ida Pfeiffer
Ilmatar	Mythical	Finland		Virgin daughter of air
Iltani	c. 1685 BC	Babylonia		wealthy priestess
Ima Shalom
Imogen Cunningham
Inanna	Mythical	Sumer		Queen of heaven
Inessa Armand
Ingrida
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irene
Irkalla	Mythical	Babylonia		Babylonian goddess of the Underworld
Isabel de Guevara
Isabel of France
Isabel Pinochet
Isabela Czartoryska
Isabella Andreini
Isabella Bird Bishop
Isabella Cortese
Isabella de Forz
Isabella de Joya Roseres
Isabella Losa
Isabella I of Castile
Isabella of Lorraine
Isadora Duncan
Isak Dinesen
Isis	Mythical	Egypt		Mother of Heaven/Queen of all Gods
Isotta Nogarola
Jacobe Felicie
Jadwiga
Jane Addams
Jane Anger
Jane Austen
Jane Harrison
Jane of Sutherland
Jane Weir
Jeanne Campan
Jeanne d'Albret
Jeanne de Montfort
Jeanne de Pompadour
Jeanne Dumée
Jeanne Louise Farrenc
Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Manon Roland
Jeanne Marie Guyon
Jeanne Recamier
Jeannette Rankin
Jenny Lind
Jezebel
Jeanne of Navarre
Joan of Arc
Joanna Baillie
Joanna Koerton
Joanna
Josefa Amar
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
Josephine Baker
Josephine Kablick
Jovita Idar
Judith Leyster	1609	Haarlem, Northern Netherlands	Dutch Golden Age painter	She was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Judith Murray
Julia Domma
Julia Maesa
Julia Mamaea
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Morgan
Juliana Bernes
Juliana of Norwich
Julie de Lespinasse
Juno	Mythical	Rome		Moon goddess
Justina Dietrich
Jutta
Kaahumanu
Kallirhoe Parren
Karen Horney
Karoline Pichler
Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
Katharine Hepburn
Käthe Kollwitz
Kathe Schirmacher
Katherine Bethlen
Katherine Sheppard
Katti Moeler
Kenau Hasselaer
Khuwyt	c. 1950 BC	Egypt		One of first female musicians recorded in history
Kora	Flourished circa 650 B.C.	Sicyon, ancient Greece		Credited , along with her father, with the invention of modeling in relief in the seventh century B.C.
Kubaba	c. 2573 BC	Sumer		former innkeeper and beer seller, came to throne, founded 3rd dynasty, queen
La Malinche
Eleanor Butler
Sarah Ponsonby
Lady Beatrix
Lady Godiva
Margaret Beaufort
Lady Uallach
Lalla
Lamia
Lampedo	13th century BC	Greece		Daughters of Mars with sister, Amazon queens
Las Huelgas
Laura Bassi
Laura Battiferri Ammanati
Laura Cereta
Laura Torres
Lavinia Fontana
Laya
Leah
Leonor d'Almeida
Leela of Granada
Leonora Baroni
Leontium
Leoparda	late 4th–early 5th century,	Rome		Physician
Levina Teerling
Liadain
Libana
Lili Boulanger
Lilith
Lilliard
Lioba
Livia Drusilla
Loretta
Lorraine Hansberry
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Louise Labé
Louise Le Gras
Louise Michel
Louise Nevelson
Louyse Bourgeois
Lucretia Marinelli
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia	c. 600 BC	Etruria		Killed herself after being raped due to fear of being accused as an adulteress
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Lucy Stone
Luisa de Carvajal
Luisa Moreno
Luisa Roldan
Luise Gottsched
Luise Otto-Peter
Luiza Todi
Lydia
Lysistrata	Legendary	Greece		Heroine of the play
Maacah
Mabel
Macha of the Red Tresses
Macha	Mythical	Celtic Ireland		Fertility goddess
Macrina
Maddalena Buonsignori
Madderakka	Mythical	Lapland		Goddess of childbirth
Madeleine de Demandolx
Madeleine de Sable
Madeleine de Scudéry
Magda Portal
Mahaut of Artois
Makeda	b. 1020 BC	North Africa		Queen of Sheba
Mama Oclo	c. 12th century	Peru		Co-founder of Inca Dynasty
Manto
Margaret Brent
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret of Lincoln
Margaret Fell Fox
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Jones
Margaret Mead
Margaret Murray Washington
Margaret Murray
Margaret O'Connor
Margaret of Austria
Marguerite of Bourgogne
Margaret of Desmond
Margaret of Porète
Margaret of Scandinavia
Margaret Paston
Margaret Philipse
Margaret Roper
Margareta Karthauserin
Margarete Forchhammer
Margarethe Dessoff
Margery Jourdemain
Margery Kempe
Marguerita-Louise Couperin
Margaret of Navarre
Marguerite Gerard
Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin
Maria Agnesi
Maria Alphaizuli
Maria Antonia Walpurgis
Maria Bartola
Maria Christine de Lalaing
Maria Cunitz
Maria de Abarca
Maria de Agreda
Maria de Coste Blanche
María del Refugio García
Maria de Ventadorn
Maria de Zozoya
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Kirch
Maria Luisa Sanchez
Maria Mitchell
Maria Montessori
Maria Montoya Martinez
Maria Salvatori
Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Stewart
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresia von Paradis
Marian Anderson
Marianna Alcoforado
Marianne Beth
Marie Bashkirtsev
Marie Bovin
Marie Champmeslé
Marie Colinet
Marie Curie
Marie de France
Marie de l'Incarnation
Marie de Lafayette
Marie de Miramion
Marie de Sévigné
Marie de' Medici
Marie du Deffand
Marie Dugès
Marie Durocher
Marie Geoffrin
Marie Heim-Vögtlin
Marie Iowa
Marie LaChapelle
Marie Laurencin
Marie Lavoisier
Maria Le Jars de Gournay
Marie of Champagne
Marie Popelin
Marie Sallé
Marie Stopes
Marie Tussaud
Marie Vernier
Martesia	13th century BC	Greece		co-ruled with sister Lampedo
Martha Baretskaya
Martha Graham
Martha Mears
Martha of Bethany
Martia Proba
Mary "Mother" Jones
Mary Alexander
Mary Müller
Mary Radcliffe
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Astell
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Bonaventure
Mary Cassatt
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Dyer
Mary Walker
Mary Esther Harding
Mary Goddard
Mary Hays
Mary Lamb
Mary Lee
Mary Livermore
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Louise McLaughlin
Mary Lyon
Mary Magdalene
Mary Manley
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Monckton
Mary Musgrove
Mary of Bethany
Mary of Hungary
Mary Read
Mary Shelley	1797	London	Mary Wollstonecraft	Author of Frankenstein and daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Sidney
Mary Somerville
Mary Wortley Montagu
Maryann
Mata Hari
Mathilda of Germany
Mathilde of Tuscany
Matilda of Flanders
Mathilda
Maude	877–968	Germany		Saint Matilda, Duchess Consort of Saxony and German Queen, founded several convents and a canonry
Maximilla	2nd century	Phrygia	Saint Bridget	One of the founders and prophets of Montanism, an early Christian movement
Maya Deren
Meave
Mechthild of Hackeborn
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Medb
Medusa	c. 1290 BC	Greece		Leader of Gorgons, Amazon
Megalostrata
Melisande
Mentuhetop	c. 2300 BC	Egypt		Queen of 11th Dynasty at Thebes
Mercy Otis Warren
Metrodora
Milla Granson
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Minna Canth
Minna Cauer
Miranda Stuart
Miriam
Modesta Pozzo
Moero
Molly Pitcher
Morrigan	Mythical	Celtic Ireland		great queen
Mother Hutton
Muirgel
Myrine	Mythical	Libya	Amazon	Led 30,000 Libyan women to battle against Gorgons, another Amazon tribe
Myrtis
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Nadia Boulanger
Nammu	Mythical	Sumer		"Controller of Primeval Waters"
Nancy Ward
Nanno
Naomi
Naqi'a				Could be Naqi'a-Zakutu, Assyrian queen c. 704-626
Natalia Goncharova
Nathalie Zand
Nefertiti	c. 1300 BC	Egypt		Queen, wife of Akhenaten
Neith	Mythical	Egypt		Wove the world on her loom, virgin goddess
Nell Gwyn
Nelly Sachs
Neobule
Nephthys	Mythical	Egypt		goddess of death
Nerthus	Mythical	Britain/Germany		Earth mother
Nicaula	c. 980 BC	Ethiopia		Scholar, queen
Nicobule
Aruru	Mythical	Babylonia		Helped create humans out of clay
Ninhursaga	Mythical	Sumer		Mother of the Land
Ninon de l'Enclos
Ninti	Mythical	Sumer		healing deity, cured Enkin's rib, related to myth of Adam's rib
Nitocris	6th century BC	Assyria		(mythical?) Queen of Babylon
Nofret	c. 1900 BC	Egypt		Queen, wife of Sesostris II, "ruler of all women", progressive leader of Egyptian women's rights
Nossis
Novella d'Andrea
Nut (goddess)	Mythical	Egypt		Goddess of the sky
Octavia
Odilla
Ofelia Uribe de Acosta
Olga
Oliva Sabuco
Olive Schreiner
Olympe de Gouges
Olympia Morata
Olympia
Olympias
Omeciuatl	Mythical	Mesoamerica		Creator of spirit of human life
Orithya	13th century BC	Scythia		co-ruled with sisters Antiope and Hippolyte
Phamphile
Pandora	Legendary	Greece		Pandora's box
Pasiphae	Mythical	Crete		Moon goddess
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Penelope Barker
Penthelia	Exact date uncertain,	Memphis, ancient Egypt	Sappho	an Egyptian priestess-musician who served the creator god Ptah, the god of fire, in the temple of Memphis Ancient Egypt. Some sources ascribe to her the true authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Penthesilea	d. 1187 BC	North Africa		last Amazon queen
Perictyone
Pernette Du Guillet
Kore	Mythical	Greece		Persephone, raped by Zeus, many stories
Phantasia	12th century BC	Egypt		storyteller, musician, poet
Phile
Philippa of Hainault
Phillipe Auguste
Phillis Wheatley
Philotis
Phoebe
Pierrone
Plotina
Pocahontas
Pope Joan
Porcia
Praxagora	Legendary	Greece		Leader of group of cross dressing women in play by Aristophanes
Praxilla
Ebba
Wanda
Priscilla
Properzia de' Rossi
Prudence Crandall
Puduchepa	c. 1280–1250 BC	Hittite Empire		Queen, priestess
Pulcheria
Pythia	Legendary	Greece		Consulted by psychics in temple named after her
Python (mythology)	Mythical	Greece		Female serpent lived near temple of Delphi
Rachel Carson
Rachel Katznelson
Rachel Ruysch	1664	The Hague, Northern Netherlands	17th-century and 18th-century flower painter	She is recorded as earning well from her paintings and lived to a great age
Rachel Varnhagen
Rachel
Radclyffe Hall
Radegund
Rahonem	Old Kingdom	Egypt		Queen, priestess, music leader
Rachel
Rebecca Lee
Rebecca West
Rebekah
Renée Vivien
Rhea (mythology)	Mythical	Crete		earth mother
Rhea Silva	Legendary	Rome		priestess, mother of Romulus and Remus
Rhiannon	Mythical	Wales		Great queen
Romaine Brooks
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosalba Carriera
Rosalia of Palermo
Rosana Chouteau
Rose de Burford
Rose Mooney
Ruth
Ruth Benedict
Saaredra Villanueva
Sabina von Steinbach
Barbara
Fabiola
Lucy
Marcellina
Margaret
Margaret
Paula
Walpurgis
Salomée Halpir
Salpe
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Grimké
Sarah Jennings
Sarah of St. Gilles
Sarah Peale
Sarah Siddons
Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah
Scholastica
Selina Hastings
Selma Lagerlöf
Semiramis	9th century BCE	Assyria	Hatshepsut	Queen, one of two women to lead Babylon
Shibtu	c. 1700 BCE	Babylonia	Ishtar	Queen of Mari
Shub-Ad of Ur	c. 2500 BCE	Sumer	Ishtar	Queen of 1st Dynasty of Ur
Sigrid Undset
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Weil
Sobeya
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sonia Delaunay
Sonja Henie
Sophia Haydn
Sophia Heath
Sophia Perovskaya
Sophie Adlersparre
Sophie Blanchard
Sophie de Condorcet
Sophie Drinker
Sophie Germain
Sophia of Mecklenburg
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophonisba Angussola
Sor Juana de la Cruz
Stephanie de Genlis
Stephanie de Montaneis
Sulpicia
Susan la Flesche Piccotte
Susanna Lorantffy	1602	Hungary	Anna van Schurman.	Assisted her husband a Prince of Transylvania. in his successful struggle to introduce Protestant reforms in the Transylvanian church. Under her influence, John Amos Comenius, a prominent Calvinist teacher, took up residence in Sárospatak.
Susanna Rowson	1762	British-American	Emily Dickinson	Author of the 1791 novel Charlotte Temple, the most popular best-seller in American literature up to 1852.
Susanna Wesley	1669	England	Anne Hutchinson	Known as the Mother of Methodism because of her inlfuence on her two sons, John Wesley and Charles Wesley who founded it.
Susanne Langer	1895	USA	Virginia Woolf	American philosopher of mind and of art . She was one of the first women to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher.
Suzanne Necker	1737	Switzerland	Mary Wollstonecraft	A salonist and writer. She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime.
Suzanne Valadon	1865	France	Georgia O'Keeffe	A French artist who became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner	1908	New Zealand	Margaret Sanger	Writer, novelist, educator, theorist, painter, and memoirist.
Sylvia	Mid fourth century	Aquitaine, France	Saint Bridget	Saint Sylvia of Aquitaine, an abbess, is known for her journal describing her travels to holy sites in the Near East between 385 and 388AD. It is considered to be one of the earliest travel books ever written.
Sylvia Pankhurst	1882	England	Susan B. Anthony	A campaigner for the suffragist and working class movements in the United Kingdom.
Tanaquil	c. 570 BC	Etruria	Hatshepsut	Roman queen, prophet, artist and politician. The wife of Lucomo Tarquinius, the fifth king of Rome.
Tanith	Mythical	Carthage	Ishtar	Goddess of heaven and the moon. Also spelled Tanit.
Tarquinia Molza	1542	Italy	Isabella d'Este	A celebrated Italian singer, poet, and natural philosopher.
Tefnut	Mythical	Egypt	Primordial Goddess	Goddess of dew and rain . Tefnut is often depicted as a cat, a symbol of war, relating to a myth in which she fought with Shu and fled Egypt.
Telesilla	fl. 510 BC	Argos , Ancient Greece	Aspasia	A poet who led the women and slaves of Argos to defend the city against the Spartans who had killed all its men.
Tellus Mater	Mythical	Rome	Fertile Goddess	Roman goddess of fecundity. Her festival, held annually on April 15, was called the Fordicia and required the sacrifice of pregnant cows.
Teresa de Cartagena	1425	Spain	Christine de Pisan	A nun who authored The Admiraçión operum Dey (Wonder at the Works of God) considered as the first feminist tract written by a Spanish woman.
Teresa Villarreal	born 1883, date of death unkown	Mexico and Texas	Sacajawea	Revolutionary labor and feminist organizer, who supported the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1917
Tetisheri	c. 1650 BC	Egypt	Hatshepsut	Mother of the New Kingdom
Thalestris	c. 325 BC	Asia Minor	Amazon	Amazon queen
The Furies	Mythical	Greece	Kali	The Roman goddesses of vengeance who killed Clytemnestra, among other tales
The Norns	Mythical	Norway	Kali	The Norse goddesses of fate
Theano	Flourished circa 550 B.C.	Ancient Greece	Aspasia	The pupil, and daughter or wife of Pythagoras. She directed Pythagoras's school after his death and is credited with writing the treatise on the Golden Mean.
Thecla	2nd century AD	Turkey	Saint Bridget	A saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle.
Theoclea	flourished 6th century BC	Delphi in Ancient Greece	Aspasia	A Greek priestess, she was a tutor of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras.
Theodelinda	c. 570	Lombardy	Theodora	Queen of the Lombards she played a major role in establishing Nicene Christianity in Lombardy and Tuscany.
Theodora III	980	Byzantine Empire	Theodora	A Byzantine Empress who was the last of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled the Byzantine Empire for almost two hundred years, she was co-empress with her sister Zoe and then sole empress.
Theodora the Senatrix	c 870	Rome	Trotula	Theodora was a powerful Roman senatrix (female senator) during a period labeled the Pornocracy, or Rule of the Harlots (circa 904–963), by some later Roman Catholic scholars.
Theodora II	c. 815	Byzantine empire	Theodora	Theodora was the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilus (ruled 829–842). She was canonized after her death for reversing the policy of Iconoclasm (prohibition on the worship of icons).
Theresa of Avila	1515	Ávila, Spain	Hildegarde of Bingen	A mystic and a major figure in the Catholic Church, she is credited as a leader of the Counter Reformation and with reviving religious spirit in Spain .
Theroigne de Mericourt	1762	France	Mary Wollstonecraft	A French woman who was a predominant figure in the French Revolution. An eloquent speaker, she delivered fiery orations in clubs, before the National Assembly, and in the streets.
Thoma	d 1127	Spain	Hrosvitha	Legal scholar and author of books on grammar.
Tiamat	Mythical	Babylonia	Primordial Goddess	The Chaos goddess in Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the salt water ocean, who mated with Abzû, the god of fresh water, to produce the first generation of deities.
Timarete	5th century BC	Ancient Greece	Sappho	An ancient Greek painter, the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens. According to Pliny the Elder, she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's art." She is best known for a panel painting of the goddess of Diana that was kept at Ephesus.
Tituba	circa 1650	Massachusetts	Petronilla de Meath	Tituba was a 17th-century Carib Indian slave from Barbados or Guiana, belonging to Samuel Parris of Salem, Massachusetts. Tituba was one of the first three people accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials which took place in 1692. Tituba confessed and implicated other women in the colony in order to save herself from execution. She was later sold by Parris and relocated outside of Salem.
Tiy	c. 1398 BC	Egypt	Hatshepsut	Queen of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Her mummy was identified as The Elder Lady found in the Tomb of Amenhotep II. Amenhotep III seems to have relied on Tiy's political advice, being more interested in sports and the outdoors than in his pharaonic duties.
Tomyris	circa 530 BC	Central Asia	Boadaceia	A queen who reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea. She defeated the Persian king Cyrus II in war.
Tuchulcha	Mythical	Etruria	Kali	A half human, half donkey, daemon of the Etruscan underworld. She had a vulture's beak, wings, and hair made of serpents.
Tullia d'Aragona	c. 1510	Renaissance Italy	Isabella d'Este	An upper-class courtesan, author and philosopher, she published a Neoplatonic essay on the nature of love in which she insists on women's autonomy in romantic relationships.
Urraca	1151	Portugal	Trotula	A Portuguese infanta (princess), daughter of Afonso I, 1st King of Portugal and his wife Maud of Savoy. She married Ferdinand II of León. The marriage did not stop her father declaring war on her husband and this eventually led to the annulment of the marriage in 1175.
Ursley Kempe	c. 1525	England	Petronilla de Meath	An English woman accused of causing the death of three people and hung for witchcraft.
Valada	1001	Córdoba, Spain	Hrosvitha	A poet during Córdoba's golden age under Islamic rule, she hosted a vibrant literary salon. Her father's death when she was at the age of thirty gave her a rich legacy which allowed her to live independently and flout many of the conventions imposed on women of her time. She composed satirical, often caustic verse, much of it dedicated to her lover, the poet Ibn Zaydún.
The Valkyries	Mythical	Germany	Kali	Minor female deities, dressed as warriors, who conducted the souls of the most heroic German warriors after their deaths, to join Odin's army.
Vashti	Biblical, flourished c 450 BCE	Persia	Judith	Vashti is mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Esther as the wife of King Ahasuerus of Persia. The king boasted to other men that his wife was the most beautiful and he ordered her to appear naked before them. Vashti refused and was consequently banished from his household and possibly beheaded. The king took Esther as his wife in her place.
Veleda	Flourished circa A.D. 50	North Germany	Boadaceia	A celebrated virgin prophet of the Bructeri, a tribe from northern Germany. In A.D. 69/70, she correctly prophesied the initial successes of the Batavian Rebellion against Roman rule.
Vera Figner	1852	Russia	Margaret Sanger	Russian revolutionary and narodnik born in Kazan. She was leader of Narodnaya Volya (the People's Will), a revolutionary socialist organization which aimed to depose the state regime through terrorism and was involved in the planning of several terrorist acts, including the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881.
Vera Zasulich	1849	Russia	Margaret Sanger	Russian Marxist writer and revolutionary. In 1883, she helped found the Liberation of Labor, the first Russian Marxist group. Later, she served on the editorial board of Iskra, a revolutionary Marxist newspaper. After the Russian Social Democratic Party split in 1903, Zasulich became a leader of the Menshevik faction.
Veronica Gambara	1485	Italy	Isabella d'Este	Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader. Married to the lord of Correggio, after his death in 1518 she took charge of the state as well as the education of her two children.
Vesta	Mythical	Rome circa 753 B.C.– A.D. 476	Sophia	The virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion.
Victoria Woodhull	1838	USA	Susan B. Anthony	American leader of the woman's suffrage movement. She was a radical who advocated the eight-hour day, a progressive income tax, profit sharing, and social welfare programs. In 1872, she ran for president of the United States.
Vida Goldstein	1869	Australia	Susan B. Anthony	A pioneering Australian feminist politician who campaigned for women's suffrage and social reform. She stood for parliament five times, was a vocal opponent of capitalism and the White Australia policy, and a staunch pacifist, campaigning for peace during World War I.
Violante	c1365	France	Eleanor of Aquitaine	French noblewoman who married John I of Aragon and became queen of the medieval Iberian kingdom of Aragon. John's ill-health, meant she wielded considerable power on his behalf. She transformed the Aragonese court into a center of culture, especially cultivating Provençal troubadours.
Virgin Mary	Biblical, New Testament	Galilee	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Identified in the New Testament and in the Quran as the mother of Jesus who conceived through divine intervention. Revered for centuries as the feminine aspect of the divine.
Virginia	c465 BCE	Rome	Sophia	Commonly known as Verginia, her honor killing by her father inspired political revolt in Rome which overthrew the decemviri ruling council and restored the republic.
Vita Sackville-West	1892	England	Virginia Woolf	Author, poet and gardener whose successful 50-year bisexual open marriage scandalised society.
Vittoria Colonna	1490	Italy	Isabella d'Este	Italian noblewoman and poet, considered the most influential woman of the Italian Renaissance and friend and muse to Michelangelo.
Wanda Landowska	1879	Polish, later naturalized French	Ethyl Smyth	Musical prodigy who's harpsichordist performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.
Wetamoo	c. 1635	Wampanoag people, Rhode Island	Sacajawea	Native American noblewoman whose life was recorded in the 1653 children's historical novel The Royal Diaries'
Willa Cather	1873	United States	Virginia Woolf	American author who famous for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains.
Witch of Endor	c 1000 BCE	Kingdom of Israel	Judith	A woman seer who called up the ghost of the recently deceased prophet Samuel, at the demand of King Saul.
Xochitl	c. 11th century AD	Mesoamerica	Sacajawea	Wife of Tecpancaltzin, Toltec King from 990 to 1040. She helped him forge the Toltec state and legend says she died in battle.
Yekaterina Breshkovskaya	1844	Russia	Margaret Sanger	Russian socialist revolutionary nicknamed The "Babushka" (Little Grandmother) of the Russian Revolution.
Yekaterina Dashkova	1743	Russia	Mary Wollstonecraft	The closest female friend of Empress Catherine the Great and a major figure of the Russian Enlightenment. One of the best educated women of her time.
Yolanda of Aragon (sic)	1384	France	Isabella d'Este	Chicago's description fits Yolande of Aragon, an important figure in French history who supported Joan of Arc's army financially.
Yvette	1158	Belgium	Hildegarde of Bingen	A religious figure and prophet in the town of Huy, Belgium
Zenobia	240	Palmyrene Empire	Boadaceia	Queen of the breakaway Palmyrene Empire in Roman Syria. She led a revolt against Rome expanding her empire, by conquering Egypt and expelling the Roman prefect. She ruled over Egypt until 274, when she was defeated and taken as a hostage to Rome by the Emperor Aurelian.
Zipporah	c. 1500 BCE	Hebrew	Judith	Zipporah or Tzipora is described in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses. She is described as dark skinned, possibly African. She came to Moses' aid by speedily circumcising their son at a critical juncture.
Siva	Mythical	Russia	Primordial Goddess	Slavic goddess of life, love, and fertility. Commonly spelled Živa.
Zoe	c. 978	Constantinople	Theodora	Reigned as co-empress of the Byzantine Empire with her sister Theodora from April 19 to June 11, 1042
Zora Neale Hurston	1891	United States	Sojourner Truth	Harlem Renaissance writer

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