Notable Female Saints and Sinners

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A-D

• 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

E-L

• 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

M-S

• 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

T-W

• 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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