The Women of Wikipedia

Maria Manakova

2010-04-24T16:26:00.000-07:00

Maria Manakova (b. 1974), Chess Genius. First board reserve on the silver medal winning Yugoslav team at the European Team Championship in Batumi. Her Elo rating is 2344. She posed nude for the Russian men's magazine Speed in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Manakova

Tamsen Fadal

2009-09-02T11:50:00.000-07:00

Tamsen Fadal is an Emmy Award-winning television reporter for WPIX in New York City, for the morning news, where she hosts WPIX Totally Tamsen segments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamsen_Fadal

Marissa Ann Mayer

2009-07-21T19:13:00.000-07:00

Marissa Ann Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. Vogue magazine calls her "the 34-year-old megamillionaire, Oscar de la Renta–obsessed, computer-programming Google executive who lives in a penthouse atop the Four Seasons, San Francisco." She received her B.S. in Symbolic systems, graduating with honors, and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer

Nell Freudenberger

2009-06-11T07:08:00.000-07:00

Harvard-educated Nell Freudenberger is a New Yorker who has taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi. Among her many works, she is the author of The Dissident, in which a Chinese painter is the guest of a dysfunctional family in Beverly Hills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Freudenberger

Masha Bruskina

2009-05-24T17:32:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: acubene

Masha Bruskina (1924-1941), 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Bruskina

Crystal McCahill

2009-04-26T17:22:00.000-07:00

Crystal McCahill (born December 18, 1983 in River Forest, Illinois, U.S.) is an American model and will be featured as Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_McCahill

Frances E. Allen

2009-03-19T17:00:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Gary Mazo, http://www.mazo.us/

Frances E. Allen (1932- ), computer scientist, first woman to receivet he Turing Award

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Allen

Hildegard of Bingen

2009-02-21T10:51:00.000-08:00

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179), German abbess, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, visionary and composer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Submitted by: Kurt Vega, http://twitter.com/kdragon87

Four Beauties

2009-01-17T17:09:00.000-08:00

The Four Beauties or Four Great Beauties are four ancient Chinese women, renowned for their beauty. Three of these women were genuine historical figures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Beauties

Maja Einstein

2008-12-16T07:54:00.001-08:00

Maja Einstein (1881-1951) is the younger sister of great scientist Albert Einstein. Maja was the only friend of Albert during his childhood. When little Albert saw his sister for the first time he thought she was a kind of toy and asked: “Yes, but where does it have its small wheels?”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Einstein

2008-11-10T13:44:00.000-08:00

Rose Tremain CBE (born August 2, 1943) is an English author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tremain

Dana Randall

2008-10-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

Dana Randall is a professor of theoretical computer science at Georgia Tech. Her sister is physicist Lisa Randall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Randall

Olivia Judson

2008-09-12T18:55:00.000-07:00

Olivia Judson (born 1970) is an evolutionary biologist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Judson

Margaret Turnbull

2008-08-15T13:40:00.000-07:00

Margaret Carol Turnbull is an American astronomer. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004. Turnbull is an authority on "Habstars," solar twins and planetary habitability.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Turnbull

Melissa Lafsky

2008-07-14T17:41:00.000-07:00

Melissa Lafsky is an American writer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Lafsky

Michele Greene

2008-06-16T06:42:00.000-07:00

Michele Greene (b. February 3, 1962 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter, perhaps most well-known for her role as Abigail "Abbie" Perkins in L.A. Law from 1986 - 1991. Author of the book "Chasing the Jaguar."

Nicole Lapin

2008-05-16T10:47:00.001-07:00

Nicole Lapin (1984- ) CNN Anchor, Creator of "Young People Who Rock,"

Global Charity Ambassador

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Lapin

Susan Greenfield

2008-04-09T18:48:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Jamie M. Forbes jmf - at - ix.netcom.com

Susan Greenfield [born 1950], futurist, baroness. Scientifically trendy and fashionably stolid -- and vice versa, as befits a scientific-political activist with clout in both the popular and power spheres -- Baroness Susan Adele Greenfield made seis-eable waves via research and theory of the brain via a vis Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, and has parlayed her expertise into contemporary geek-neurosex iconography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Greenfield

Miho Hatori & Deanna Favre

2008-03-07T06:54:00.000-08:00

Submitted by: Mike Cade, http://www.mikecade.com/

Miho Hatori (pictured here), musician (born 1970-)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miho_Hatori

Deanna Favre, activist (born 1968-)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanna_Favre

Hannah Glasse

2008-02-06T08:21:00.000-08:00

Submitted by Jamie M. Forbes, jmf -at- ix.netcom.com

Hannah Glasse (1708-1770), kitchen genius and proto-haute-bourgeois world-cuisine entrepreneur. Evident in retrospect, Hannah Glasse exhibits multiculti Brit-colonial spice range as well as anti-French invective -- that is, forerunner to Madhur Jaffrey, Martha Stewart, Alice Waters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Glasse

Helen Keller & Stevie Nicks

2008-01-06T07:28:00.000-08:00

Submitted by: Robert Homes, http://www.mississippi-law.com/

Helen Keller (1880-1968), writer, lecturer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Stevie Nicks (1948-), song writer, singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Nicks

Sappho

2007-12-09T17:11:00.000-08:00

Submitted by: Robert Homes, http://www.mississippi-law.com/

Sappho (630 BC - 570 BC, an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Shelley Batts

2007-11-11T05:58:00.000-08:00

Submitted by: Nick Hobson

Shelley Batts (b. 1979), Neuroscience PhD candidate. She is the author of Retrospectacle, a neuroscience blog that explores science from the perspective of an "upbeat savvy female scientist who wants world domination one first-author paper at a time".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Batts

Elizabeth Kucinich

2007-11-03T05:38:00.000-07:00

Elizabeth Jane Harper Kucinich (b, 1977) is the wife of American politician Dennis Kucinich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kucinich

Danica McKellar

2007-10-28T17:59:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Nick Hobson

Danica McKellar (b. 1975), Actress and mathematician

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_McKellar

Hedy Lamarr

2007-10-21T05:30:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Mike Versaci

Hedy Lamarr (1913 – 2000), Austrian-born American Jewish actress and communications technology innovator. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Laura Bush

2007-10-10T17:46:00.000-07:00

Laura Lane Welch Bush (b. 1946), the wife of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bush

Kiran Chetry

2007-10-04T08:05:00.000-07:00

Kiran Chetry (b. 1974 in Kathmandu, Nepal) is co-anchor of CNN's morning news program, American Morning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Chetry

Jennifer Morrison

2007-09-26T08:07:00.000-07:00

Jennifer Marie Morrison (b. 1979), American actress, model and film producer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Morrison

Marjorie Cameron

2007-09-17T19:01:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Teja K.

Marjorie Cameron (23 April 1922 - 24 July 1995) was an American writer, painter and occultist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Cameron

Barbara McClintock

2007-09-11T13:10:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Sanja:

Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American scientist and cytogeneticist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock

Grace Hopper

2007-09-06T19:40:00.001-07:00

Submitted by Sanja:

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Pope Joan

2007-09-01T06:06:00.001-07:00

Submitted by Sanja

Pope Joan is the name of a female pope (also La Papessa) who may have reigned in the 850s, based on a legend that circulated in the Middle Ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan

Tara C. Smith

2007-08-27T17:42:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Nick Hobson

Tara C. Smith (born c. 1977), Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_C._Smith

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

2007-08-22T17:49:00.000-07:00

Submitted by James K.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born 1947) , the junior United States Senator from New York, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

Heidi Cullen

2007-08-17T13:14:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Paul Moskowitz: http://www.geocities.com/spinorbit10598/

Heidi Cullen (c. 1970 - ) Climate Expert and Host of "Forecast Earth with Dr. Heidi Cullen"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Cullen

Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter

2007-08-12T14:31:00.000-07:00

Submited by : acubene

Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter (10 December 1913 – 30November 1988),British bebop jazz enthusiast and member of the prominent Rothschild international financial
dynasty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nica_de_Koenigswarter

Mary Bryant & Margaret Fuller

2007-08-08T14:25:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Craig Lee Burket, http://www.burket.net/craig

Mary Bryant (1765 - ?) – escapee from Australian penal colony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bryant

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- journalist, critic and women's rights activist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller

Delia Derbyshire

2007-08-04T06:24:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Robin G.

Delia Derbyshire (1937 - 2001) musician and composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire

Maria Montessori & Moana Pozzi

2007-07-30T13:15:00.000-07:00

From Ick:

Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952), physician, educator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori

Moana Pozzi (1961 - 1994), pornstar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moana_Pozzi

Tori Amos

2007-07-24T06:38:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Traixa Jabbafractal

Tori Amos (b. 1963), Musician and Performer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tori_Amos

Françoise Hardy

2007-07-20T12:46:00.000-07:00

Submited by Mac Tonnies, http://www.mactonnies.com/

Françoise Hardy, (b. 1944), French singer, actress, astrologer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Hardy

Terri Clark

2007-07-17T19:26:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Jeanne Veltri

Terri Clark (1968- ), country singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Clark

Ellen Ripley

2007-07-15T10:12:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Craig Lee Burket, http://www.burket.net/craig

Ellen Ripley (2092-2179, see http://time.absoluteavp.com/index.html),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ripley

and her clone (2380-2381): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ripley_clone

Gemma Galgani & Sri Anandamoyi Ma

2007-07-13T13:56:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: acubene

Gemma Galgani (1878-1903), catholic saint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Galgani

Sri Anandamoyi Ma (1896-1982), spiritual teacher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Anandamoyi_Ma

Susan Blackmore & Wendy Carlos

2007-07-11T09:06:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Craig Lee Burket, http://www.burket.net/craig

Susan Blackmore (1951-), author of "The Meme Machine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blackmore

Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos (1939-), composer, electronic musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos

Flannery O'Connor,

2007-07-09T12:27:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: DF, http://but-seriously-folks.blogspot.com/

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), American author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Conner

Emma Goldman & Mata Hari

2007-07-07T19:10:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Graham McNallie, http://www.myspace.com/AquaDub

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) Anarchist, author

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman

Mata Hari (1876-1917) Exotic dancer, spy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari

Eleanor Roosevelt

2007-07-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Dave Glass:

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), UN Commissioner, Diplomat,First lady:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_roosevelt

Lou Andreas-Salomé

2007-07-04T06:36:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Christopher Helms:

Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) Russian-born intellectual, author, psychoanalyst; Spiritual companion of male & female artists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Andreas-Salom%C3%A9

Hypatia of Alexandria

2007-07-01T06:09:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Teja K.

Hypatia of Alexandria (between 350 and 370 AD – 415 AD ), Greek scholar who taught in the fields of mathematics, astronomy and astrology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

Anna Politkovskaya

2007-07-01T06:07:00.000-07:00

Anna Politkovskaya (1958 - 2006) Journalist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya

Maria Spiropulu

2007-06-29T10:20:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Rader in Wisconsin:

Maria Spiropulu (1970 - ) experimental physicist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Spiropulu

Arbus, Tymoshenko, O'Keeffe

2007-06-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Mike Cade, http://www.mikecade.com/

Diane Arbus (1923-1971), American photographer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus

Yulia Tymoshenko (1960-), Ukraine's first female Prime Minister

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American artist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O

Keira Knightley

2007-06-27T07:04:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Sanja Smith:

Keira Christina Knightley (1985- ), film and television actress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keira_Knightley

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

2007-06-27T06:55:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Marcelo from Brazil

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), mystic and writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Petrovna_Blavatsky

Wikiwomen Eye Contest

2007-06-26T07:30:00.001-07:00

This woman and her photo appear somewhere in the Wikipedia, and she has a substantially sized entry. Can you guess who she is? I would like to offer a gift to the first person who correctly identifies her.

Barbarella

2007-06-26T06:15:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Peter A. Gersten, http://www.pagenews.info/

Barbarella (1968- ), Queen of the Galaxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_%28film%29

Siouxsie Sioux

2007-06-26T06:12:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Nick Hobson

Siouxsie Sioux (1957- ), punk rock musician

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_Sioux

Lucy (Australopithecus)

2007-06-25T07:08:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Craig Lee Burket, http://www.burket.net/craig

Lucy (~3.2 mya), hominid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29

Angie Harmon & Marie Curie

2007-06-25T07:06:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Sheila Allen:

Angie Harmon (1972- ), actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Harmon

Marie Curie (1867-1934), physicist and chemist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Grace O'Malley

2007-06-24T09:49:00.002-07:00

Submitted by: Valerie Dooley, http://abnegation-ambr.livejournal.com/

Grace O'Malley (1530 - 1603, Pirate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_O%27Malley

Lise Meitner

2007-06-24T09:49:00.001-07:00

Submitted by: Shirley Ackerman

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), atomic physicist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

Cleopatra

2007-06-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Sanja Smith:

Cleopatra (69-30 BC), supreme ruler of Egypt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra

Rosalind Franklin

2007-06-23T05:56:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Shirley Ackerman

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), physical chemist & crystallographer. Co-discoverer DNA double helix structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Lisa Marie Simpson

2007-06-23T05:55:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Paul Moskowitz: http://www.geocities.com/spinorbit10598/

Lisa Marie Simpson (1987 - ) character in animated series The Simpsons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Simpson

Tahirih Qurratu'l-Ayn

2007-06-23T05:52:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Mina:

Tahirih Qurratu'l-Ayn (1814-1852) Iranian poet, theologian, early feminist; fought for women's rights.Gave her life for her convictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1hirih

Valentina Tereshkova

2007-06-22T13:16:00.001-07:00

Submitted by: Teja K.

Valentina Tereshkova (1937 - ), Soviet cosmonaut, first woman to fly in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tereshkova

Zora Neale Hurston

2007-06-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

Submitted by: Greg, http://intentionalmispurpousing.blogspot.com/

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), American folklorist and author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston

Sophie Germain & Sofia Kovalevskaya

2007-06-22T13:12:00.002-07:00

From Karin:

Sophie Germain (1776-1831), mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya

Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

2007-06-22T13:12:00.001-07:00

Submitted by Karin:

Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross (1926-2004), psychiatrist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Kuebler-Ross

Ada Lovelace

2007-06-21T10:02:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Paul Moskowitz - http://www.geocities.com/spinorbit10598/

Ada Lovelace, (1815 - 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, wrote the first computer program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace

Countess Elizabeth Bathory

2007-06-21T09:52:00.000-07:00

From Zarja McCarthy:

Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560 - 1614), Hungarian countess, serial killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Elizabeth_Bathory

Janna Levin

2007-06-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

From Martin G:

Janna Levin (1967- ) theoretical cosmologist, author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janna_levin

Courteney Cox Arquette

2007-06-21T09:44:00.001-07:00

Submitted by Brane Mintzer:

Courteney Cox Arquette (1964 - ) American actress from TV show "Friends" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courteney_Cox

"Amy Lee" and Rosa Parks

2007-06-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

From Nina Jones:

Amy Lynn Hartzler (1981 - ) American singer for "Evanescence" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Lee

Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) was an African American civil rights activist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_parks

Sylvia Nasar and St. Elisabeth of Aragon

2007-06-21T07:25:00.000-07:00

From Sanja Smith:

Sylvia Nasar (1947 - ), author of "A Beautiful Mind"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar

St. Elisabeth of Aragon (1271-1336), queen consort of Portugal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Aragon

How to Submit

2007-06-21T07:07:00.000-07:00

Here's your opportunity to submit an entry that will be considered for inclusion in the “The Women of Wikipedia.”

Mail your entries to wikiwomen -at- gmail.com.

For rapid inclusion, you must use the format below. (The first line is optional and may include your name and/or web page URL.)

Example:

Submitted by: John Doe, http://www.pickover.com/

Lisa Randall (1962- ), physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Randall

Margaret Thatcher (1925- ), former UK Prime Minister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

Emmy Noether (1882-1935), mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether