Rulers and Political Leaders: Catherine the Great, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbara Jordan, Golda Meir, Patsy Mink, Felisa Rincon DeGautier, Margaret Thatcher, Victoria

Scientists, Physicians and Nurses: Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Annie Jump Cannon, Rachel Carson, Marie Curie, Dian Fossey, Grace Hopper, Barbara McClintock, Margaret Mead, Florence Nightingale, Rosalyn Yalow

Educators: Catherine Beecher, Mary McLeod Bethune, Prudence Crandall, Mary Lyon, Christa McAuliffe, Maria Montessori

Risk Takers: Nellie Bly, Amelia Earhart, Janet Guthrie, Annie Oakley, Pocahontas, Judith Resnick, Sally Ride, Sacajawea

Influencers of History: Abigail Adams, Princess Diana, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa

Athletes: Chris Evert, Florence Griffith Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Billie Jean King, Wilma Rudolph, Kristi Yamaguchi

Artists and Photographers: Rosa Bonheur, Margaret Bourke-White, Mary Cassatt, Dorothea Lange, Maya Lin, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O?Keeffe

Authors: Louisa May Alcott, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Amy Tan, Phyllis Wheatley

Reformers: Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Lucretia Mott, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Performers: Marian Anderson, Joan Baez, Maria Tallchief, Oprah Winfrey

Copyright 2002 School Librarian's Workshop. For-profit use prohibited. From March 1998 issue, ?Dining With Greatness?