Dames of Malta

Dames of Malta are female members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Their male counterparts are the Knights of Malta.

Prominent living Dames of Malta include:

• Anne M. Burke
• Bernadette Castro
• Marie Isobel, Countess Cathcart
• Mary Higgins Clark
• Janne Haaland Matláry
• Freda Payne
• Sharon Rich
• Karen Garver Santorum
• Marianna, Dowager Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley, served as High Sheriff of Kent (1981–82); widow of Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
• Patricia Mary, Lady Talbot of Malahide (née Riddell)
• Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
• Princess Michael of Kent

Deceased Dames of Malta

• Lady Jean Bertie (née Crichton-Stuart), mother of Fra' Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, first Grand Master of the Order of Malta since 1258 to hail from the English-speaking world
• Csilla von Boeselager, Hungarian philanthropist; founded the Hungarian Maltese Charity Organisation (Ungarischer Malteser Caritas Dienst)
• Genevieve Garvan Brady, Papal duchess, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, founder of the Carroll Club (“for Catholic business girls”), philanthropist; Board Chairman Girl Scouts of the USA; Vice-President of the Welfare Council of New York
• Virginia A. Dwyer (1921-1997), Director/Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester; and a Board member of Eaton Corporation, Schering-Plough, Borden, Southern Company, the Atlantic Companies, and Georgia Power
• Clare Ann Kalkwarf, Vice-President, Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard, the South African Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta; first South African woman to be invested as a Dame of Malta
• Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright and political activist
• Dorothea Angela McElduff (1926–2013), Member of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Dame of Malta
• Mary McShain (née Mary J. Horstmann), great-niece of Bishop Ignatius F. Horstmann (the third Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland); widow of John McShain
• Regina A Quick, American philanthropist
• Phyllis Schlafly, American constitutional lawyer and conservative activist
• Lady Hilda Susan Northcote Swan, late wife of Sir Conrad Swan
• Princess Urraca of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
• Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria