Throughout history, there have been many American women activists who have made significant contribution to the field. The list includes many familiar and great American female activists such as Angelina Jolie, Betty White, Hillary Clinton, Rosa Parks, Shailene Woodley.
Doris Day03 April 1922, American
Film actress
Angelina Jolie04 June 1975, American
Actress, Filmmaker, Activist
Rashida Jones25 February 1976, American
Actress
Betty White17 January 1922, American
Actress, Writer, Comedienne
Shailene Woodley15 November 1991, American
Actress, Activist
Margaret Sanger14 September 1879, American
Birth Control Activist
Hillary Clinton26 October 1947, American
Former First Lady, Political Leader
Harriet Tubman1820 AD, American
Rosa Parks04 February 1913, American
Civil Rights Activist
Bea Arthur13 May 1922, American
Actress
Alicia Silverstone04 October 1976, American
Maya Angelou04 April 1928, American
Author
Geena Davis21 January 1956, American
Actress, Producer, Model
Pauley Perrette27 March 1969, American
Television Actress, Activist, Singer
Ali MacGraw01 April 1939, American
Actress
Linda McCartney24 September 1941, American
Photographer, Musician
Martina Navratilova18 October 1956, American
Former Tennis Champion
Erin Brockovich22 June 1960, American
Environmental Activist
Maryse Ouellet21 January 1983, Canadian, American
Wrestler
Lena Horne30 June 1917, American
Singer
Torrey DeVitto08 June 1984, American
Actress
Afeni Shakur10 January 1947, American
Activist
Eartha Kitt17 January 1927, American
Singer
Angela Davis26 January 1944, American
Political Activist
Alfre Woodard08 November 1952, American
Actress
Susan B. Anthony15 February 1820, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Temple Grandin29 August 1947, American
Professor
Mika Camarena1948 AD, American
Activist, wife of late DEA agent Kiki Camarena
Jazz Jennings06 October 2000, American
LGBTQ Rights Activist, Internet Personality,
Sojourner Truth01 December 1797, American
American women's rights activist
Susan Sontag16 January 1933, American
Emma Goldman27 June 1869, American
Writer
Valerie Harper22 August 1939, American
Actress
Delta Burke30 July 1956, American
Actress
Ruby Bridges08 September 1954, American
Philanthropist
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Coretta Scott King27 April 1927, American
Civil Rights Activist, Author
Alice Walker09 February 1944, American
Author
Essence Atkins07 February 1972, American
Actress
Viola Desmond06 July 1914, Canadian, American
Businesswoman
Laurie Holden17 December 1969, American
Actress
Mariette Hartley21 June 1940, American
Actress
Ida B. Wells16 July 1862, American
Journalist
Anne-Marie Johnson18 July 1960, American
Actress
Ayaan Hirsi Ali13 November 1969, American
Writer, Politician, Activist, Feminist
Elizabeth Jagger02 March 1984, American
Model
Alyssa Diaz07 September 1985, American
Actress
Joanna Cassidy02 August 1945, American
Actress
Alexandra Paul29 July 1963, American
Actress
Jane Addams06 September 1860, American
Elizabeth Cady Stanton12 November 1815, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Ally Walker25 August 1961, American
Actress
Jorja Fox07 July 1968, American
Actress
Audre Lorde18 February 1934, American
Writer
Katie Pavlich10 July 1988, American
Commentator
Betty Friedan04 February 1921, American
Feminist, Writer
Laurie David22 March 1958, American
Environmental Activist
Abigail Folger11 August 1943, American
Business Women
Claudette Colvin05 September 1939, American
Civil Rights Activist
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Dorothy Day08 November 1897, American
Annie Starke26 April 1988, American
Actor
Alice Paul11 January 1885, American
Suffragist and Feminist
Barbara Jordan21 February 1936, American
Lawyer
Nancy Kwan19 May 1939, Hong Konger, American
Actress
Jeannette Rankin11 June 1880, American
First Woman Elected to U.S Congress
Columba Bush17 August 1953, Mexican, American
Philanthropist
Mary Edwards Walker26 November 1832, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
Viola Liuzzo11 April 1925, American
Civil Rights Activist
Mary Frann27 February 1943, American
Actress
Mary Harris Jones01 August 1837, American
Labor and Community Organizer
Pamelyn Ferdin04 February 1959, American
Actress, Animal Rights Activist
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810, American
Katherine Dunham22 June 1909, American
Dancer, Choreographer, Social Activist, Author
Lucretia Mott03 January 1793, American
Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist, Social
Barbara Ehrenreich26 August 1941, American
Writer & Activist
Ingrid Newkirk11 June 1949, British, American
President of People for the Ethical Treatment of
Lucy Stone13 August 1818, American
Women's Rights Activist
Carrie Chapman Catt09 January 1859, American
Women’s Rights Activists
Emma Gonzalez1999 AD, American
Gun Control Activists
Lillian Wald10 March 1867, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Mary Church Terrell23 September 1863, American
Civil Rights Activist
Matilda Joslyn Gage24 March 1826, American
Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author
Jody Williams09 October 1950, American
Political & Peace Activist
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Prudence Crandall03 September 1803, American
Connecticut's official State Heroine
Emily Greene Balch08 January 1867, American
Social Activist
Kate Walsh13 October 1967, American
Actress
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones09 February 1993, American
Quincy Jones' Daughter
Pearl Buck26 June 1892, American
American writer
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney30 September 1883, American
Civil Engineer, Architect, Women’s Rights
Angelina Grimke20 February 1805, American
Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist
Rosalie Edge03 November 1877, American
Women’s Right Activist & Environmentalist
ElloSteph05 January 1993, American
LGBT Rights Activist
Joan Chandos Baez09 January 1941, American
Singer
Lauren Parsekian08 December 1986, American
Director, Activist, Actress