Heroines Honored
The below shows the top 200 most inspirational heroines of innovation, as voted for by 3,000 Americans.
| Ranking | State | Heroine |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | South Dakota | Elizabeth Cook-Lynn |
| 12 | South Dakota | Mamie Shields Pyle |
| 13 | Louisiana | Mahalia Jackson |
| 14 | New York | Shirley Chisholm |
| 15 | Ohio | Annie Oakley |
| 16 | Vermont | Clarina Howard Nichols |
| 17 | Rhode Island | Julia Ward Howe |
| 18 | Alabama | Coretta Scott King |
| 19 | Kansas | Amelia Earhart |
| 20 | New Mexico | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| 21 | New York | Margaret Sanger |
| 22 | Michigan | Aretha Franklin |
| 23 | Massachusetts | Emily Dickinson |
| 24 | Maine | Margaret Chase Smith |
| 25 | West Virginia | Katherine Johnson |
| 26 | Oregon | Abigail Scott Duniway |
| 27 | Alabama | Helen Keller |
| 28 | Iowa | Arabella Mansfield |
| 29 | Louisiana | Clementine Hunter |
| 30 | Wisconsin | Ada Deer |
| 31 | Delaware | Annie Jump Cannon |
| 32 | California | Julia Morgan |
| 33 | South Carolina | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| 34 | West Virginia | Pearl S. Buck |
| 35 | New York | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 36 | Connecticut | Prudence Crandall |
| 37 | Georgia | Rosalynn Carter |
| 38 | Mississippi | Elizabeth H. West |
| 39 | Illinois | Frances Willard |
| 40 | Texas | Barbara Jordan |
| 41 | North Carolina | Gertrude Weil |
| 42 | Connecticut | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 43 | Arkansas | Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway |
| 44 | Georgia | Margaret Mitchell |
| 45 | Maryland | Clara Barton |
| 46 | Virginia | Elizabeth Keckley |
| 47 | New Hampshire | Harriet E. Wilson |
| 48 | Texas | Lady Bird Johnson |
| 49 | Montana | Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan |
| 50 | North Dakota | Peggy Lee |
| 51 | Michigan | Betty Ford |
| 52 | Colorado | Justina Ford |
| 53 | Kentucky | Sophie Kerr |
| 54 | New Jersey | Alice Paul |
| 55 | California | Gerty Cori |
| 56 | Connecticut | Katharine Hepburn |
| 57 | Illinois | Maria Goeppert Mayer |
| 58 | Alaska | Elizabeth Peratrovich |
| 59 | Vermont | Consuelo Northrop Bailey |
| 60 | Kansas | Hattie McDaniel |
| 61 | Maine | Dorothea Dix |
| 62 | Wisconsin | Golda Meir |
| 63 | Pennsylvania | Rachel Carson |
| 64 | Connecticut | Barbara McClintock |
| 65 | Oregon | Mercedes Deiz |
| 66 | Virginia | Patsy Cline |
| 67 | Hawaii | Queen Liliʻuokalani |
| 68 | Michigan | Gilda Radner |
| 69 | Rhode Island | Anne Hutchinson |
| 70 | Missouri | Bess Truman |
| 71 | Rhode Island | Elizabeth Buffum Chace |
| 72 | Maryland | Gladys Spellman |
| 73 | Utah | Maude Adams |
| 74 | Kansas | Susanna M. Salter |
| 75 | Iowa | Ada Hayden |
| 76 | Kentucky | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| 77 | Pennsylvania | Margaret Mead |
| 78 | Utah | Reva Beck Bosone |
| 79 | Missouri | Virginia Minor |
| 80 | North Carolina | Ava Gardner |
| 81 | Virginia | Grace Hopper |
| 82 | Oklahoma | Kate Barnard |
| 83 | Pennsylvania | Nellie Bly |
| 84 | New Mexico | Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren |
| 85 | New Hampshire | Christa McAuliffe |
| 86 | Massachusetts | Elizabeth Peabody |
| 87 | Colorado | Florence Rena Sabin |
| 88 | Wyoming | Louisa Swain |
| 89 | Utah | Martha Hughes Cannon |
| 90 | California | Sally Ride |
| 91 | Nebraska | Susette La Flesche Tibbles |
| 92 | Oregon | Beverly Cleary |
| 93 | Wyoming | Esther Hobart Morris |
| 94 | Louisiana | Kate Chopin |
| 95 | Kentucky | Madeline McDowell Breckinridge |
| 96 | Pennsylvania | Marian Anderson |
| 97 | Louisiana | Marie Laveau |
| 98 | Hawaii | Patsy Mink |
| 99 | South Carolina | Septima Poinsette Clark |
| 100 | Ohio | Toni Morrison |
| 101 | Tennessee | Wilma Rudolph |
| 102 | Washington | Frances Farmer |
| 103 | New Mexico | Gladys Anderson Emerson |
| 104 | Illinois | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| 105 | Hawaii | Harriet Bouslog |
| 106 | Indiana | Madam C.J. Walker |
| 107 | Maine | Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby |
| 108 | Minneosta | Coya Knutson |
| 109 | West Virginia | Elizabeth Simpson Drewry |
| 110 | Mississippi | Fannie Lou Hamer |
| 111 | Minneosta | Frances Densmore |
| 112 | South Dakota | Gladys Pyle |
| 113 | Nebraska | Grace Abbott |
| 114 | Ohio | Judith Resnik |
| 115 | Massachusetts | Lucy Stone |
| 116 | Kentucky | Mary Breckinridge |
| 117 | Montana | Mary Fields |
| 118 | Alabama | Zelda Fitzgerald |
| 119 | Delaware | Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
| 120 | Tennessee | Anne Dallas Dudley |
| 121 | Virginia | Anne Spencer |
| 122 | North Carolina | Charlotte Hawkins Brown |
| 123 | Utah | Emmeline B. Wells |
| 124 | Mississippi | Eudora Welty |
| 125 | Colorado | Fannie Mae Duncan |
| 126 | Washington | Hazel Wolf |
| 127 | Illinois | Ida B. Wells |
| 128 | Rhode Island | Ida Lewis |
| 129 | Florida | Jacqueline Cochran |
| 130 | Arizona | Lydia Moss Bradley |
| 131 | Oklahoma | Maria Tallchief |
| 132 | Alabama | Mary Anderson |
| 133 | Hawaii | Mary Kawena Pukui |
| 134 | Tennessee | Pat Head Summitt |
| 135 | Idaho | Sacagawea |
| 136 | Oklahoma | Wilma Mankiller |
| 137 | New Mexico | Agnes Martin |
| 138 | Wyoming | Amalia Post |
| 139 | Washington | Bertha Knight Landes |
| 140 | Texas | Bessie Coleman |
| 141 | Minneosta | Brenda Ueland |
| 142 | Oregon | Edith Green |
| 143 | Arkansas | Florence Price |
| 144 | Georgia | Grace Towns Hamilton |
| 145 | Idaho | Gracie Bowers Pfost |
| 146 | Colorado | Hazel Schmoll |
| 147 | Louisiana | Lillian Hellman |
| 148 | Virginia | Maggie L. Walker |
| 149 | Nebraska | Mari Sandoz |
| 150 | Florida | Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
| 151 | New Hampshire | Mary Baker Eddy |
| 152 | Colorado | Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias |
| 153 | Nebraska | Mildred Brown |
| 154 | Arizona | Sharlot Hall |
| 155 | Minneosta | Toni Stone |
| 156 | Indiana | Vivian Carter |
| 157 | Florida | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 158 | New Hampshire | Amy Beach |
| 159 | Oklahoma | Angie Debo |
| 160 | North Dakota | Ann Nicole Nelson |
| 161 | West Virginia | Anna Jarvis |
| 162 | Nevada | Anne Henrietta Martin |
| 163 | Nevada | Bertha Raffetto |
| 164 | Maryland | Billie Holiday |
| 165 | Washington | Dixy Lee Ray |
| 166 | California | Dorothea Lange |
| 167 | Ohio | Dorothy Dandridge |
| 168 | Nevada | Felice Cohn |
| 169 | Illinois | Jane Addams |
| 170 | Texas | Molly Ivins |
| 171 | Wyoming | Nellie Tayloe Ross |
| 172 | California | Ray Eames |
| 173 | Iowa | Susan Glaspell |
| 174 | Washington | Vi Hilbert |
| 175 | Nebraska | Willa Cather |
| 176 | Florida | Betty Skelton |
| 177 | Iowa | Carrie Chapman Catt |
| 178 | Arkansas | Daisy Bates |
| 179 | Montana | Dorothy M. Johnson |
| 180 | Vermont | Edna Beard |
| 181 | North Dakota | Elizabeth Bodine |
| 182 | Wyoming | Grace Raymond Hebard |
| 183 | Arizona | Isabella Greenway |
| 184 | Kentucky | Jean Ritchie |
| 185 | Montana | Jeannette Rankin |
| 186 | Missouri | Josephine Baker |
| 187 | Maine | Louise Helen Coburn |
| 188 | Indiana | Mari Evans |
| 189 | Nevada | Patricia Nixon |
| 190 | Nevada | Sarah Winnemucca |
| 191 | Texas | Selena Quintanilla-Pérez |
| 192 | South Dakota | Zitkala-Ša |
| 193 | Vermont | Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| 194 | Hawaii | Isabella Aiona Abbott |
| 195 | Wisconsin | Jeanne Bice |
| 196 | Delaware | Louise du Pont Crowninshield |
| 197 | Montana | Mildred Walker |
| 198 | New Mexico | Pablita Velarde |
| 199 | Florida | Roxcy Bolton |
| 200 | New Hampshire | Sarah Josepha Hale |
