The hundred women meme

[gridlore]

ganked from seawasp A list of 100 famous women from the last hundred years or so. Bold those you know of without having to Google them...

1.Melanie Klein
2.Muriel F. Siebert
3.Julia Child
4.Valentina Tereshkova
5.Nadia Comaneci
6.Virginia Woolf
7.Carrie Chapman Catt
8.Barbara Walters
9.Ella Fitzgerald
10.Simone de Beauvoir
11.Harper Lee
12.Eleanor Roosevelt
13.Jiang Qing
14.Rigoberta Menchu
15.LaDonna Harris
16.Estee Lauder
17.Betty Friedan
18.Elsie de Wolfe
19.Dolores Huerta
20.Margaret Sanger
21.Elllen Ochoa
22.Emily Davison
23.Hannah Arendt
24.Alice Paul
25.Jody Williams
26.Mary McLeod Bethune
27.Ann Landers
28.Gertrude Stein
29.Mother Theresa
30.Benazir Bhutto
31.Hillary Rodham Clinton
32.Dr. Sally Ride
33.Phyllis Schlafly
34.Billie Jean King
35.Golda Meir
36.Toni Morrison
37.Rosalind Franklin
38.Grace Hopper
39.Lillian Smith
40.Betty Williams
41.Shirley Jackson
42.Gloria Steinem
43.Amy Klobuchar
44.Margaret Mitchell
45.Wilma Rudolph
46.Gwendolyn Brooks
47.Babe Didrikson
48.Jane Addams
49.Eve Ensler
50.Laura Ashley
51.Maggie Kuhn
52.Sandra Day O'Connor
53.Coco Chanel
54.Rosa Parks
55.Elvia Alvarado
56.Margaret Mead
57.Victoria Woodhull
58.Ruth Bader Ginsburg
59.Martha Stewart
60.Jane Roe
61.Linda Ellerbee
62.Rachel Carson
63.Daisy Bates
64.Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
65.Angela Merkel
66.Virginia Apgar
67.Agatha Christie
68.Barbara McClintock
69.Marian Wright Edelman
70.Maya Angelou
71.Laura Ingalls Wilder
72.Suzanne Lenglen
73.Esther Peterson
74.Sonja Henie
75.Marie Curie
76.Anne Frank
77.Jackie Joyner-Kersee
78.Maria Montessori
79.Dorothy Parker
80.Helen Keller
81.Nancy Brinker
82.Anita Hill
83.Frances Perkins
84.Condoleezza Rice
85.Lise Meitner
86.Pearl S. Buck
87.Mary Leakey
88.Madeleine Albright
89.Mary Quant
90.Jane Goodall
91.Ruth Handler
92.Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
93.Sylvia Plath
94.Gertrude Ederle
95.Jean Nidetch
96.Helen Gurley Brown
97.Emmeline Pankhurst
98.Emma Goldman
99.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
100. Madeleine L'Engle

55 out of 100 on first glance. There were a couple where the name rang a bell, but I couldn't place how I knew it.

Comments

[capplor.livejournal.com]

You didn't recognize Rachel Carson? (62) Author of "Silent Spring"
or Pearl Buck? (86) Novelist, most of her stories are set in China.
Or Maria Montessori? (78) There's a bunch of pre & elementary schools which use her techniques.

Or were those among the bells you couldn't touch?

I think that Pankhurst (97) was a suffragette who then turned to prohibition when she got the vote.

Yeah, there's a whole slew of names that I recognize but can't say why.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Carson was one of the ones I really should have remembered. Montessori was one where I knew the schools, but wasn't sure of her connection with them so I didn't mark it. Not familiar with Pearl Buck's work.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

I got 10, none of them anything you didn't get. I suck at names and celebrities.

[kshandra]

You weren't subjected to The Good Earth in school?

There were a bunch you got that I never would've placed, but these are the ones I knew that you didn't:

Toni Morrison - Pulitzer-winning author (Beloved)
Wilma Rudolph - First American woman to win 3 gold medals in the same Olympics (I only get partial credit for this one, as I could only get as far as "black athlete")
Eve Ensler - author of The Vagina Monologues
Laura Ashley - designer, known predominantly for her home furnishings
Mary Quant - creator of the miniskirt
Emma Goldman - "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." Noted anarchist.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

Ruth Handler created Barbie and Ken
Jean Nidetch founded Weight Watchers
Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel
Angela Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany
Virginia Apgar created the Apgar Scale - for rating the responsiveness of newborns (I'd better know that one...)

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Hannah Arendt is a philosopher and/or political theorist. I think the phrase "the banality of evil" was her's.

Rosalind Franklin was a scientist, did lots of good work but famous for gathering the data for DNA then being left out of the credits.

Rachel Carson was another scientist. Wrote "The Silent Spring", which you've probably heard of.

Maria Montessori was an educator. Invented the Montessori system for deprived kids, which is rather interesting given that now only relatively well-off folks can afford to use it.

Lise Meitner was another scientist: a physicist who co-discovered fission but didn't get the Nobel for it.

Angela Merkel is the chancellor of Germany.

Pearl S. Buck was an author. Lots of novels set in China.

Mary Quant was a fashion designer. Big in the Sixties.

Emmeline Pankhurst was a suffragette.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

A comment about Rosalind Franklin: she died of cancer before she could be recognised for her part in discovering the structure of DNA. There is some minutiae in the Nobel nominating rules that only living people can be nominated - and she died in 1958, while the award was given in 1962.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

And why isn't Janet Reno on this list? I mean, yeah, 100 women, but still...

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

Wow only 36. I hang my head in shame.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

To correct from my post below: Goldman makes it one I know that Doug doesn't. Didn't notice her on my first pass.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

55 for me, also with a few "familiar but can't place" names, but not congruent with your 55.

Melanie Klein was a child psychoanalyst, who I know because a character in Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels is a disciple of her. Well, a few are, but one major, and some others she associates with.

Gwendolyn Brooks was a poet.

Jane Addams was best known for the Settlement Houses, and largely founded modern social work, as I understand it.

The others I know have been covered already.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Having now googled the ones I didn't know, I think I need to read more about the suffragettes and about Nobel Peace prize winners. Also, i think we'd all know #92 if she were listed under her stage name.