Literature

• Sappho - Ancient Greek Poet
• Anais Nin - French/Cuban Author
• Toni Morrison - American novelist, editor, professor, and Nobel Prize winner in literature
• Emily Dickinson - American Poet
• Elizabeth Browning - British Poet
• Mary Shelly - English novelist
• Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte - Poets and Novelists
• Virginia Woolf - English writer
• Eliza Haywood - English writer, actress, and publisher

Science

• Marie Curie - French/Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize winner in physics and in chemistry
• Grace Hopper - Computer scientist
• Elizabeth Lee Hazen (microbiologist) and Rachel Fuller Brown (chemist) - collaborated together to develop the first useful anti-fungal antibiotic Nystatin.
• Stephanie Kwolek - American chemist who invented Kevlan
• Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and x-ray crystallographer
• Maria Goeppert Mayer - German/American theoretical physicist, nobel prize winner for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - British chemist credited with the development of protein crystallography
• Getty Theresa Cori - American biochemist who identified the cyclical process that muscle cells use to make and store energy
• Rosalyn Yalow - American medical physicist who developed the radioimmunoassay technique

Music

• Billie Holiday - American jazz singer, had seminal influence on jazz and pop singing
• Nina Simone - American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
• Janis Joplin - American singer and songwriter
• Tina Turner - American singer and actress
• Amy Beach - American composer and pianist
• Laurie Anderson - American experimental performance artist, composer, and musician

Other

• Dorothea Lange - American documentary photographer and photojournalist
• Julia Child - American chef, author, and television personality
• Ada Lovelace - English Mathematician, first computer programmer
• Amelia Earhart - American aviation pioneer
• Mary Wollstonecraft - British writer, philosopher, and advocate for women's rights
• Frida Kahlo - Mexican painter
• Florence Nightingale - English nurse, writer, statistician
• Catharine Trotter Cockburn - Novelist, dramatist, philosopher