Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Kentucky women


 * Activists
 * Henrietta Bada, Pediatrician, advocate for neonates and for people addicted to drugs, Filipino immigrant, and pioneer in her field: CV, Research Gate, physician profile, Linkedin, news 1, news 2, news 3, news 4, news 5, news 6, and news 7
 * Janey Fair, advocate for drunk driving laws
 * Nelle Pitcock Horlander, women’s rights and union activist
 * Judy Martin (activist), feminist and Appalachian activist
 * Belinda Mason, co-founder of the Kentuckiana People with AIDS Coalition
 * Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer, Jewish Rights Activist and Holocaust Survivor
 * Linda Neville, (1873-1961) philanthropist and medical activist
 * Deanna Shobe Tinsley (1944) civil rights activist
 * Marie Roberts Turner, (1900-1984) activist and educator
 * Corinne Ramey Whitehead, (1923) land conservationist
 * Evelyn Williams (activist), (1915) civil rights activist
 * Artists
 * Painters
 * Joan Dance, painter
 * Sculptors
 * Susan Pfeiffer, (1958-) woodwork artist
 * Charlotte Richardson (artist), (1938-) Native American artist
 * Susan Sternberg Proskauer, (1918-1991) sculptor and architect
 * Cartoonists
 * Linda Boileau, editorial cartoonist
 * Fashion Designers
 * Caroline Burnam Taylor, (1855-1917) clothing designer
 * Musicians
 * Florida Slone Lovely, songwriter
 * Mary Wheeler (musician), (1892-1979) musician and appalachian folk music documentor
 * Athletes
 * Terri Cecil-Ramsey, Paralympian
 * Audrey Whitlock Peterson, (1903-1978) basketball coach for high school
 * Culturalists
 * Sarah Gertrude Knott, creator and director of National Folk Festival
 * Helen Lew Lang, founder of Crane House in Louisville
 * Educators
 * Julia Frances Allen, (1896-1974), Assistant Dean of Women, and later Dean of Women at Berea College
 * Ruth Mae Geiger, first licensed female commercial and fishing guide in Kentucky
 * Rosalind Hurley Richards, (1947-) pioneer educator
 * Alice Slone, (1904-1994) Founder of Lotts Creek Community School
 * Mary Levi Smith, Previous President of Kentucky State University
 * Jane Stephenson, (1938) activist and founder of Jane Stephenson’s New Opportunity School for Women
 * Julia Ann Hieronymous Tevis, (1799-1880) Founder of Science Hill Female Academy
 * Entrepreneurs
 * Bill Atkins (farmer), produce farmer
 * Ruth Hanley Booe, entrepreneur and bourbon candy maker
 * Laura Freeman, farmer, journalist, and entrepreneur
 * Elizabeth Kizito, entrepreneur and creator of Kizito Cookies
 * Medical Pioneers
 * Wanda Gonsalves, oral and public health physician, activist for underserved communitites in health 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
 * Ora Porter, (1880-1970) Bowling Green’s first registered nurse
 * Pilots
 * Mary Edith Engle, pilot
 * Politicians
 * Nelda Barton-Collins, First Kentucky Republican Party Committee Member
 * Sharon Fields, politician and activist
 * Betty Howard, Kentucky politician
 * Eleanor Jordan, Kentucky Politician
 * Religious Leaders
 * Gaylia Rooks, (1957) Rabbi
 * Writers
 * Journalists
 * Betty Winston Bayé, Newspaper Columnist
 * Mary Caperton Bingham, Newspaper Columnist
 * Martha Purdon Comer, journalist
 * Authors
 * Pauline Autenreith Tafel (1832-1913) author
 * Poets
 * Amelia Welby (1819-1852), poet
 * Other
 * Nancy Moore, (1807-1889) writer
 * Elizabeth Cox Underwood, (1817-1886) wrote culturally informative letters to husband, Congressman Joseph Underwood