notable women
Remarkable female figures
Notable women is a phrase used to categorize accomplished or historically significant women, typically in encyclopedias, awards, and commemorative lists.
The modifier notable signals that these women merit special recognition—implying, perhaps unintentionally, that women's achievements require separate acknowledgment from a default male standard.
The museum's notable women exhibit runs through March.
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- first ladyPreeminent woman somewhere
- Joan of ArcMedieval French military saint
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- unsung heroesPeople deserving unrecognized praise
Ada Lovelace · Agatha Christie · Angela Merkel · Serena Williams · Harriet Tubman · Marie Curie · Eleanor Roosevelt · Frida Kahlo · Gloria Steinem · Maria Montessori · Maya Angelou · Jane Goodall · Rosalind Franklin · Rachel Carson · Audrey Hepburn · Emma Goldman · Sojourner Truth · founding mothers
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's historyherstory, suffrage movement, heroines, suffragettes, Susan B. Anthony
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- Russian WomenAnna Pavlova, Catherine the Great, empresses, tsarinas, czarinas
- women's history medalscommemorative coins, achievement awards