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Famous Maryland Women

• Barton, Clara (1821-1912) (founder, American Red Cross)
• Clara Barton
  Clara Barton served as one of the greatest humanitarians this country has ever known. After a life of helping people in need and founding the American Red Cross, she lived out her years inGlen Echo, MD.
• Brent, Margaret(ca. 1601-ca. 1671) (the first feminist and lawyer)
• Margaret Brent (ca. 1601-ca. 1671)
  On January 21, 1648, Margaret Brent appeared before the assembly and requested two votes. She asked for one for herself as a landowner and one as Lord Baltimore's attorney.
• Margaret Brent: A Woman of Property
  Margaret Brent is often hailed as an early feminist and woman lawyer.
• Carroll, Anna Ella (1815 - 1894) (politician, writer)
• Anna Ella Carroll
  Anna Ella Carroll was an intriguing and atypical 19th Century woman who emerged from the male-dominated realm of war, politics, and diplomacy.
• Anna Ella Carroll
  Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series.
• Carson, Rachel (1907-1964)(writer, scientist, ecologist)
• Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
  Carson was born in Pennsylvania and lived much of her life in Maryland. Her 1962 book Silent Spring, about the long term effects of pesticides, helped launch the modern environmental movement.
• Rachel Carson
  She was the most eloquent spokesperson for conservation of our time.
• Clark, Eugenie (1922 - )
• Dr. Eugenie Clark
  Dr. Eugenie Clark is known as "The Shark Lady" because she studies sharks. She teaches in the Department of Zoology at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.
• Clifton, Lucille (1936 - ) (Maryland Poet Laureate)
• Lucille Clifton
  Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York, in 1936. She has published nine books of poetry. She has served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland and is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• Dominique Dawes (1976 - ) (1996 Olympic Gold and Bronze Medalist in gymnastic)
• Dominique Dawes
  After the 1996 Olympics, Dawes decided to attend the University of Maryland. She is also pursuing a career in acting, modeling and television production.
• Frietschie, Barbara Haver (1766 -- 1862)
• Frietschie or Fritchie, Barbara (b. Haver)
  According to legend, on September 6, 1862, at the age of 95, she boldly displayed the Union flag as Confederate soldiers passed by her home in Frederick, Maryland.
• Barbara Frietschie (1766-1862)
  Beside her biography, one can find a picture of her as well.
• Gaddy, Bea (director/humanitarian)
• Beatrice Frankie Gaddy
  Bea Gaddy, rose from a life of poverty to become Baltimore's leading advocate for the homeless and poor.
• Gifford, Kathie Lee (1953 - )  (actor, musician, TV/radio host)
• Kathie Lee Gifford
  She attended the Bowie High School, Bowie, Maryland and graduated from the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; studied communications and theater.
• Goddard, Mary Katherine (1738 - 1816) (newspaper editor and women right activist)
• Mary Katherine Goddard and Freedom of the Press
  M ary Katherine Goddard was a pioneer among women in Baltimore town in the era of the American Revolution. She started the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, Baltimore's first newspaper.
• Holiday, Billie (musician)
• The Official Site of Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl.
• Billie Holiday
  One of the world's most acclaimed blues singers, Billie Holiday was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was given the name Eleanor Fagan Gough at birth, but changed her name when she started to develop a singing career.
• Jackson Coppin, Fanny (1837 - )  (black educator)
• Fanny Jackson Coppin
  She was born a slave in the District of Columbia in 1837. She was one of the first Black women to earn a degree from a major U.S. college.
• Kennedy Townsend, Kathleen (1951 - )  (Lt. Governor, politician)
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Lt. Governor
  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is Maryland's first woman lieutenant governor. She is the oldest child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy.
• Mikulski, Barbara (1936- )  (senator)
• Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
  She was born and raised in historic and ethnically rich East Baltimore where her parents ran a neighborhood grocery store across the street from their Highlandtown home.
• Rosa Ponselle (opera singer)
• Rosa Ponselle
  Born Rosa Melba Ponzilla in Meriden, CT, Rosa Ponselle began her singing career at an early age singing in the cafes and cinemas in both Meriden and New Haven.She died on 1981 in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Oakley, Annie (champion shooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
• Annie Oakley
  A champion shooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, who is remembered as a western folk hero and American legend, retired in Cambridge, Maryland.
• Reese, Lizette (1856-1935)  (Poet, Lyricist, & Public School Teacher)
• Lizette Reese
  She was a professional, independent woman from the time she left high school in 1873. She published her first poem in Baltimore's Southern Magazine in 1874. She taught for 45 years in the public schools of Baltimore.
• Seton, Elizabeth Bayley (1774-1821)
• Elizabeth Bayley Seton
  Mother Seton was the founder of the Sisters of Charity. She is the first American-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Shriver, Pam (1962 - )  (tennis legend)
• Pam Shriver
  Pam Shriver is a powerful doubles player with 22 career Grand Slam championships to prove it.
• Tubman, Harriet (1820(?)-l913)  (abolitionist)
• Harriet Tubman
  One of the most remarkable abolitionists, Harriet Tubman, was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in the early 1820's.
• Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
  Harriet Tubman became a conductor for the Underground Railroad. It was an intricate system used by slaves to escape from the south to Ohio, New England, or Canada.
• Taussig, Helen Brooke (1898-1986) (cardialogist)
• Helen B. Taussig, M.D. - Pediatric Cardiologist
  Dr. Taussig was a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University. Working with a heart surgeon, she developed the Blalock-Taussig operation that cured heart problems in "blue babies."
• Tyler, Anne (1941- ) (writer)
• Anne Tyler
  This Pulitzer prize winning, American novelist, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in North Carolina. She has lived in Baltimore, Maryland since 1965.

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