Creative Arts
Judy Baca (b.1946)
social muralist
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
author
Mary Jane Colter (1869-1958)
architect
Maria Martinez (c.1881-1980)
potter
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
artist
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
author of Little House on
the Prairie Series
Entertainment
Lotta Crabtree (1847-1924)
child actress
Annie Oakley (1860-1926)
sharpshooter, star of
Wild West show
Selena (1972-1995)
Grammy®-winning singer
Environment
Juana Briones (1803-1889)
rancher
Virginia McClurg (c.1850-1931)
advocate for Mesa Verde National Park
Mardy Murie (b.1902)
conservationist |
Science & Medicine
Justina Ford (1871-1952)
doctor
Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915)
doctor
Florence Sabin (1871-1953)
scientist and public health advocate
Flossie Wong-Staal (b.1947)
medical researcher
Sports & Adventure
Susan Butcher (b.1954)
four-time time winner of the Iditarod
Florence Griffith Joyner (1959-1998)
Olympic track & field star
Picabo Street (b.1971)
Olympic ski champion
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956)
all-around athlete, professional golfer
Social Justice
Clara Brown (1803-1885)
philantropist
Wilma Mankiller (b.1945)
former principal chief of
the Cherokee Nation
Mariagnes Medrud (b.1925)
teacher
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904)
civil rights leader
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)
first woman in U.S. Congress
Emmeline Wells (1828-1921)
suffragist and newspaper editor |
