Notable Female Saints and Sinners
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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- Addams, Jane, social worker
- Ayres, Anne, Protestant nun
- Barton, Clara, founder of American Red Cross
- Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, first ordained minister in U.S.
- Blavatsky, Madame, spiritualist
- Booth, Evangeline Cory, Salvation Army general
- Booth, Maud Ballington, cofounder, Volunteers of America
- Borden, Lizzie Andrew, accused murderer
- Borgia, Lucrezia, alleged poisoner and libertine
- Brown, Olympia, minister, social reformer
- Cabrini, Frances Xavier, founder of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
- Calamity Jane, frontier woman
- Carr, Marjorie Harris, conservationist
- Corday, Charlotte, assassin of Marat
- de Medici, Catherine queen of France
- Dix, Dorothea, social reformer
- Doss, Nannie, murderer
- Drexel, Katharine, Roman Catholic nun and saint
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- Eddy, Mary Morse Baker, Christian Science founder
- Fulton, Mary Hannah, physician and missionary
- Lady Godiva, protesting equestrian
- Goldman, Emma, anarchist
- Goodnight, Mary Ann Dyer, philanthropist
- Guggenheim, Peggy (Marguerite Guggenheim), philanthropist, modern art patron and collector
- Hamilton, Emma, mistress of Lord Nelson
- Harding, Tonya, figure skater
- Hutchinson, Anne, colonial religious leader
- Joan of Arc, French saint, patriot
- Jumper, Betty Mae, Seminole Indian tribal leader and publisher
- Keller, Helen, advocate for blind
- Kelly, Leontine, African American bishop
- King, Henrietta Chamberlain, philanthropist, rancher
- Lee, Ann, founder of Shakers
- Lewinsky, Monica, White House intern
- Lincoln, Sarah Bush, Lincoln's stepmother
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- Macy, Anne Sullivan, teacher of the blind
- Mata Hari, spy
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, evangelist
- Messalina, Roman empress
- Montez, Lola, dancer, mistress
- Nightingale, Florence, nursing reformer
- Parker, Bonnie, Clyde's criminous partner
- Perón, Eva Duarte de, Argentine political leader
- Seton, Elizabeth Ann Bayley first native-born American saint
- Shaw, Anna Howard, minister, doctor, feminist
- Smith, Anna Nicole, model, reality TV star
- Soubirous, Bernadette, saint
- Starr, Belle, outlaw
- Szold, Henrietta, American Zionist leader
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- Tekakwitha, Kateri, Native American religious
- Teresa, Mother, Roman Catholic nun
- Truth, Sojourner, abolitionist
- Tubman, Harriet, abolitionist
- Wald, Lillian D., social worker, health services reformer
- Walker, Mary Edwards, physician, reformer
- Ward, Nancy (Nanye-hi), Cherokee leader and "Beloved Woman"
- Wells, Emmeline Blanche Woodward, Mormon community leader and suffragist
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., activist, journalist
- White, Ellen G., religious figure
- Woodhull, Victoria Claflin, candidate for U.S. president
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