Notable Women Adventurers

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Louise Arner Boyd Quiz: Women Adventurers

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B-E

• Bishop, Isabella Lucy Bird, first woman elected to Royal Geographic Society
• Bly, Nellie, journalist
• Boyd, Louise Arner, Arctic explorer
• Burras, Anne, early American colonist
• Chawla, Kalpana, Indian-American astronaut
• Cochran, Jacqueline, aviator
• Coleman, Bessie, aviator
• Collins, Eileen, astronaut
• Dickinson, Susanna Wilkerson, Alamo survivor
• Dustin, Hannah, early American colonist
• Earhart, Amelia Mary, aviator

F-L

• Finch, Linda, aviator
• Guthrie, Janet, race car driver
• Holm, Jeanne, American air force general
• Jemison, Mae, astronaut
• Johnson, Osa, explorer, filmmaker
• de Jongh, Andree, war hero
• July, Johanna, cowgirl
• Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, explorer
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, aviator, author
• Long, Jane Herbert Wilkinson, early Texas settler
• Lucid, Shannon, astronaut
• Ludington, Sybil, war heroine

M-R

• Markham, Beryl, aviator
• McAuliffe, Christa, teacher, astronaut
• Moody, Deborah, American colonizer
• Ochoa, Ellen, American astronaut
• Paul, Caroline, firefighter, writer
• Peck, Annie Smith, mountain climber
• Quimby, Harriet, aviator
• Ride, Sally, astronaut

S-T

• Samson, Deborah, war heroine
• Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy, English traveler
• Stinson, Katherine, aviator
• Sacajawea, guide
• Slocum, Frances, Indian captive
• Smith, Elinor, aviator
• Tereshkova, Valentina, first woman in space
• Tuttle, Julia, Founder of Miami
• Thorbjarnardottir, Gudrid, Viking traveler

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