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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.
John Quincy Adams
President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Harriet Tubman
African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has resided in London since 2002, after earlier years divided between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
Gloria Steinem
American activist and journalist (born 1934)
Betty Ford
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch-American political activist and author
Elizabeth Blackwell
American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910)
Henry George
American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
Andrea Dworkin
American feminist writer (1946–2005)
AnnaSophia Robb
American actress
Naya Rivera
American actress and singer (1987–2020)
Rosario Dawson
American actress (born 1979)
Bea Arthur
American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)
William Jennings Bryan
American politician (1860–1925)
Emile Berliner
German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)
Bella Abzug
American politician (1920-1998)
William Lloyd Garrison
American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)
Masih Alinejad
Iranian-born journalist
Padma Lakshmi
Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
Julie London
American actress and singer (1926-2000)
Amos Bronson Alcott
American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)
Robin Morgan
American feminist writer
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
Elizabeth Montgomery
American actress (1933–1995)
Catharine MacKinnon
American feminist and legal activist
Eve Ensler
American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist (born 1953)
Robert M. La Follette
American progressive politician from Wisconsin (1855–1925)
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist (1792–1873)
Zainab Salbi
Iraqi American author, women's rights activist
Dorothy Height
American activist (1912-2010)
Riane Eisler
Austrian-American sociologist
Sonita Alizadeh
Afghan rapper and activist
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
American minister (1825–1921)
Emma Willard
American educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870
Frances Wright
American activist (1795-1852)
Florynce Kennedy
American activist
Ti-Grace Atkinson
American feminist author
Pauli Murray
American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest (1910-1985)
Gloria Allred
American civil rights lawyer
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist and feminist
Jo Freeman
American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney
Grace Lee Boggs
American social activist and feminist (1915-2015)
Kitty Marion
actress and political activist, Militant Suffragette (1871-1944)
Judith Sargent Murray
American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)
Valerie Aurora
American computer scientist and activist
Sarah Weddington
Texas attorney, legislator, represented Roe in Roe vs. Wade
Selma James
American feminist
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
Biomathematician and public health scientist
Florence Earle Coates
American writer and poet (1850-1927)
Donna Edwards
American politician (born 1958)
Lucy R. Lippard
American art curator
Tammy Bruce
American conservative radio host, author, and political commentator