Women
|
Year
|
Notable for
|
Isabella I of Castile
|
1893
|
Queen of Spain and patron of
Christopher Columbus
|
Martha Washington
|
1902, 1923, 1938
|
First First Lady of the United States
|
Pocahontas
|
1907
|
The Powhatan princess who saved the life of Captain
John Smith
|
Molly Pitcher
|
1928
|
The nickname of a woman, whose identity is not definitively known, who is said to have fought in the
American Revolutionary War
|
Susan B. Anthony
|
1936, 1955
|
American feminist, social reformer, and civil rights activist
|
Virginia Dare
|
1937
|
First European child born on American soil
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
1940
|
American author, best known for writing
Little Women
and
Little Men
|
Frances Willard
|
1940
|
American educator, reformer, lecturer, and women's suffrage supporter
|
Jane Addams
|
1940
|
American social worker and reformer, the founder of
Hull House
in
Chicago
, a social welfare center
|
Clara Barton
|
1948, 1995
|
Founder of the
American Red Cross
|
Juliette Gordon Low
|
1948
|
Founder of the
Girl Scouts of the USA
|
Moina Michael
|
1948
|
Initiated the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
fundraising drive selling red poppies in 1915
|
Betsy Ross
|
1952
|
American upholsterer credited with creating the first official
flag of the United States
|
Sacagawea
|
1954, 1994
|
Shoshone guide who assisted the
Lewis and Clark Expedition
of 1804
|
Amelia Earhart
|
1963
|
American pilot, first woman to fly solo nonstop across the
Atlantic Ocean
|
Eleanor Roosevelt
|
1963, 1984, 1998
|
American diplomat, writer, social reformer, and First Lady of the United States
|
Mary Cassatt
|
1966, 1988, 1998
|
American painter best known for her works of mothers and children
|
Lucy Stone
|
1968
|
Nineteenth century abolitionist and women's rights leader
|
Grandma Moses
|
1969
|
American painter who took up painting at the age of 76
|
Emily Dickinson
|
1971
|
American poet who wrote more than 1,700 poems
|
Willa Cather
|
1973
|
American novelist
|
Elizabeth Blackwell
|
1973
|
American physician, the first female physician in the U.S.
|
Sybil Ludington
|
1975
|
American-born heroine of the
American Revolutionary War
|
Clara Maass
|
1976
|
American nurse best known for having died as a volunteer for
yellow fever
medical experiments
|
Harriet Tubman
|
1978, 1995
|
American
abolitionist
and
social activist
who was part of the
Underground Railroad
|
Emily Bissell
|
1980
|
American
social worker
and
activist
best known for introducing
Christmas Seals
to the United States
|
Helen Keller
|
1980
|
American author and disability rights advocate
|
Anne Sullivan
|
1980
|
American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller
|
Dolley Madison
|
1980
|
First Lady of the United States
|
Frances Perkins
|
1980
|
American workers-rights advocate and fourth
United States Secretary of Labor
, the first female to hold a cabinet-level position in the United States government
|
Edith Wharton
|
1980
|
American novelist best known for her novels
Ethan Frome
and
The Age of Innocence
|
Rachel Carson
|
1981
|
American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist, best known for writing
Silent Spring
in advance of the environmental movement
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay
|
1981
|
American poet
|
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
|
1981
|
American multi-sport athlete
|
Mary Walker
|
1982
|
American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war, and surgeon, the only woman to receive the
Medal of Honor
|
Dorothea Dix
|
1983
|
American advocate for the
indigent
mentally ill
|
Pearl S. Buck
|
1983
|
American writer and novelist, best known for the novel,
The Good Earth
|
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
|
1984
|
American psychologist and industrial engineer, a pioneer in the field of
time-and-motion studies
|
Abigail Adams
|
1985
|
First Lady of the United States
|
Mary McLeod Bethune
|
1985
|
American educator, social activist, and founder of the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now known as
Bethune-Cookman College
|
Belva Ann Lockwood
|
1986
|
American politician, the first female candidate for
President of the United States
|
Margaret Mitchell
|
1986
|
American novelist and journalist, best known for the novel
Gone with the Wind
|
Sojourner Truth
|
1986
|
Born Isabella Baumfree, she was the first black woman to speak publicly against slavery.
|
Julia Ward Howe
|
1987
|
Composer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
|
Mary Lyon
|
1987
|
Education pioneer who founded Mount Holyoke College.
|
Evelyn Nesbit
|
1989
|
American chorus girl, artists' model, actress and controversial historical figure.
|
Helene Madison
|
1990
|
A gold medalist in the 1932 Olympic Games in swimming.
|
Marianne Moore
|
1990
|
Poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for her Collected Poems.
|
Ida B. Wells
|
1990
|
Civil rights activist who cofounded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
|
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
|
1990
|
Olympic gold medalist credited with doing more to build American and international women's tennis than any other player.
|
Fanny Brice
|
1991
|
Singer and comedian who created the "Baby Snooks" radio character.
|
Harriet Quimby
|
1991
|
First American woman pilot to fly the English Channel.
|
Dorothy Parker
|
1992
|
Poet and short story writer
|
Patsy Cline
|
1993
|
Popular American country singer
|
Sara Carter
and
Maybelle Carter
of the
Carter Family
|
1993
|
Pioneers of American country music
|
Grace Kelly
|
1993
|
American film actress
|
Dinah Washington
|
1993
|
"Queen of the Blues"
|
Clara Bow
|
1994
|
Silent film actress
|
ZaSu Pitts
|
1994
|
Silent film actress
|
Theda Bara
|
1994
|
Silent film actresse
|
Nellie Cashman
|
1994
|
The "Angel of Tombstone", an anti-violence advocate who raised orphans and campaigned against public hanging
|
Ethel Waters
|
1994
|
American jazz, swing, and pop singer and actress
|
Bessie Smith
|
1994
|
American blues singer
|
Billie Holiday
|
1994
|
American jazz and swing singer
|
Mildred Bailey
|
1994
|
Native American jazz singer
|
Ethel Merman
|
1994
|
American actress and singer of musical comedy
|
Annie Oakley
|
1994
|
American sharpshooter
|
Virginia Apgar
|
1994
|
Doctor who developed a newborn assessment method
|
Ruth Benedict
|
1995
|
American anthropologist
|
Mary Boykin Chesnut
|
1995
|
American Civil War author
|
Phoebe Pember
|
1995
|
American nurse and hospital administrator for Confederate States military hospital
|
Bessie Coleman
|
1995
|
First woman to earn an international pilot's license
|
Alice Hamilton
|
1995
|
Pioneer in industrial medicine
|
Marilyn Monroe
|
1995
|
American film actor
|
Alice Paul
|
1995
|
Founder of National Women's Party and author of the Equal Rights Amendment
|
Jacqueline Cochran
|
1996
|
Pioneer pilot who had more than 200 aviation records, firsts, and awards. She was the first woman to break the sound barrier
|
Georgia O'Keeffe
|
1996, 2013
|
American-born abstract painter
|
Dorothy Fields
|
1996
|
Popular songwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. She wrote the words for "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
|
Lily Pons
|
1997
|
French-American operatic soprano and actress
|
Rosa Ponselle
|
1997
|
American operatic soprano
|
Women in the military
|
1997
|
This stamp honored the nearly 2 million women have served and are serving in the U.S. armed forces
|
Mary Breckinridge
|
1998
|
Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
|
Mahalia Jackson
|
1998
|
American gospel singer
|
Roberta Martin
|
1998
|
American gospel composer, singer, pianist, arranger, and choral organizer
|
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
|
1998
|
American singer and guitarist
|
Clara Ward
|
1998
|
American gospel singers
|
Margaret Mead
|
1998
|
Famous anthropologist who studied child rearing, personality, and culture, mainly in the South Pacific
|
Madam C. J. Walker
|
1998
|
African American who became one of the wealthiest women in the 1910s by developing and selling hair care products
|
Ayn Rand
|
1999
|
Author of the novels
The Fountainhead
and
Atlas Shrugged
|
Patricia Roberts Harris
|
2000
|
Lawyer and political adviser; in 1977 she became the first African American woman named to a presidential cabinet
|
Louise Nevelson
|
2000
|
Twentieth-century American sculptor who worked with wood, metals, and found objects
|
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
|
2001
|
First woman elected to U.S. Senate
|
Rose O'Neill
|
2001
|
American illustrator
|
Lucille Ball
|
1999, 2001, 2009
|
American comedian and actress
|
Frida Kahlo
|
2001
|
Mexican artist
|
Nellie Bly
|
2002
|
American journalist best known for her 72-day trip around the globe
|
Marguerite Higgins
|
2002
|
American reporter and war correspondent
|
Ethel L. Payne
|
2002
|
American journalist, editor, and foreign correspondent
|
Ida Tarbell
|
2002
|
American writer, journalist, and lecturer, famous as a
muckraking
reporter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
|
Zora Neale Hurston
|
2003
|
African American novelist in the Harlem Renaissance
|
Audrey Hepburn
|
2003
|
Film actress and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF
|
Mary Cassatt
|
1988, 2003
|
American artist known for her portraits of motherhood
|
Agnes Lee
and her daughter Peggy
|
2002
|
American author and, with her daughter, the subject of a photograph by American photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
featured on a US postage stamp
|
Florence Owens Thompson
|
1998
|
American depression-era woman who was the subject of a photograph by American photographer
Dorothea Lange
entitled "
Migrant Mother
" which was featured on a US postage stamp
|
Ida Pabst
|
2002
|
Daughter-in-law of
Frederick Pabst
(the German-American brewer for whom
Pabst Brewing Company
was named) and the subject of a portrait by American photographer
Imogen Cunningham
which was featured on a US postage stamp
|
Agnes de Mille
|
2004
|
American dancer and choreographer
|
Martha Graham
|
2004
|
American modern dancer and choreographer
|
Wilma Rudolph
|
2004
|
Track and field star
|
Marian Anderson
|
2005
|
Opera singer who was the first African-American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera
|
Greta Garbo
|
2005
|
Actress of the silver screen
|
Hattie McDaniel
|
2006
|
Singer and actress who was the first African-American to win an Oscar
|
Frances E. Willis
|
2006
|
Diplomat
|
Judy Garland
|
2006
|
Actress and singer, star of
The Wizard of Oz
|
Ella Fitzgerald
|
2007
|
Jazz singer
|
Gerty Cori
|
2008
|
Biochemist
|
Maria Goeppert Mayer
|
2008
|
Nuclear physicist
|
Bette Davis
|
2008
|
American actress
|
Martha Gellhorn
|
2008
|
Journalist who covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War
|
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
|
2008
|
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Yearling
|
Mary Church Terrell
|
2009
|
Civil rights and women's rights activist
|
Mary White Ovington
|
2009
|
Civil rights activist
|
Daisy Bates
|
2009
|
Civil rights activist
|
Fannie Lou Hamer
|
2009
|
Civil rights activist
|
Ella Baker
|
2009
|
Civil rights activist
|
Ruby Hurley
|
2009
|
Civil rights activist
|
Mary Lasker
|
2009
|
Health activist and philanthropist
|
Anna J. Cooper
|
2009
|
African-American scholar
|
Vivian Vance
|
2009
|
American actress and singer
|
Dinah Shore
|
2009
|
American singer, actress, and television personality
|
Fran Allison
|
2009
|
American comedian, singer, and TV and radio personality
|
Gracie Allen
|
2009
|
American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian
|
Harriet Nelson
|
2009
|
American singer and actress
|
Katharine Hepburn
|
2010
|
American actress
|
Kate Smith
|
2010
|
American contralto singer
|
Mother Teresa
|
2010
|
Albanian-born Indian Catholic nun canonized as a Catholic saint in 2016, best known for her life devoted to charitable work
|
Julia de Burgos
|
2010
|
Puerto Rican pro-independence poet
|
Carmen Miranda
|
2011
|
Portuguese-born Brazilian-American samba singer, dancer, and actress
|
Selena
|
2011
|
American
Tejano
singer
|
Celia Cruz
|
2011
|
Cuban-American singer
|
Oveta Culp Hobby
|
2011
|
First secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps
|
Helen Hayes
|
2011
|
American actress
|
Maria Goeppert Mayer
|
2011
|
German-born American theoretical physicist
|
Greta von Nessen
|
2011
|
Swedish-born American industrial designer
|
Barbara Jordan
|
2011
|
American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights Movement
|
Elizabeth Bishop
|
2012
|
American poet and short-story author
|
Gwendolyn Brooks
|
2012
|
American poet, author, and teacher
|
Denise Levertov
|
2012
|
British-born American poet
|
Sylvia Plath
|
2012
|
American poet and author
|
Edith Piaf
|
2012
|
French singer
|
Isadora Duncan
|
2012
|
American dancer and choreographer
|
Katherine Dunham
|
2012
|
American dancer and choreographer
|
Lady Bird Johnson
|
2012
|
First Lady of the United States
|
Rosa Parks
|
2013
|
Civil rights activist
|
Lydia Mendoza
|
2013
|
Latin music legend
|
Althea Gibson
|
2013
|
Tennis player
|
Shirley Chisholm
|
2014
|
Politician - first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress
|
Janis Joplin
|
2014
|
Singer and songwriter
|
Julia Child
|
2014
|
Chef, author, television personality
|
Joyce Chen
|
2014
|
Chef, author, television personality
|
Edna Lewis
|
2014
|
Chef, author
|
Maya Angelou
|
2015
|
Poet, author and civil rights activist
|
Flannery O'Connor
|
2015
|
Writer
|
Ingrid Bergman
|
2015
|
Actress
|
Sarah Vaughan
|
2016
|
Singer
|
Shirley Temple
|
2016
|
Actress, later businesswoman and diplomat
|
Dorothy Height
|
2017
|
Civil rights and women's rights activist
|
Lena Horne
|
2018
|
Singer, dancer, actress and civil rights activist
|
Sally Ride
|
2018
|
Astronaut, engineer, physicist
|
Gwen Ifill
|
2020
|
Journalist; first African-American woman to host a major political talk show: PBS's "Washington Week in Review" in 1999
[13]
|
Chien-Shiung Wu
|
2021
|
Nuclear physicist
|
Edmonia Lewis
|
2022
|
Sculptor; first African-American and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition
[14]
|
Eugenie Clark
|
2022
|
American ichthyologist
|
Nancy Reagan
|
2022
|
First Lady of the United States
|
Anna McNeill Whistler
|
1934
|
Mother of American-born painter
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
|
Blanche Scott
|
1980
|
Inventor and pioneering aviator
|
Ethel Barrymore
|
1982
|
American film actress
|
Lila Acheson Wallace
|
1998
|
American magazine publisher and philanthropist; co-founder of
Reader's Digest
|
Lynn Fontanne
|
1999
|
English actress
|
Neysa McMein
|
2001
|
American illustrator and portrait painter
|
Enda Ferber
|
2002
|
American author of novels, short stories, and plays
|
Barbara McClintock
|
2005
|
American genetecist
|
Katherine Anne Porter
|
2006
|
American author and journalist
|
Margaret Chase Smith
|
2007
|
American Congresswoman and Senator from Maine, the first woman to serve in both houses of the US Congress
|
Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
2007
|
American author and abolitionist, best known for writing
Uncle Tom's Cabin
|
Josephine Baker
|
2008
|
American-born French dancer, singer, and actress
|