The aim of this page is to find notable women who do not have a Wikipedia article -- therefore Wikipedia's various category lists of women are not included here.
Resources:
- Women's History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.asp
- WWWomen Search Directory http://www.wwwomen.com/category/histor1.html
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html
- Creative Women by Profession and Last Name http://creativequotations.com/women-az.html
- Timeline of Famous Women http://www.pocanticohills.org/womenenc/timeline.htm
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
- Women's Legal History http://wlh.law.stanford.edu/
- Women in History http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/index.html
- Famous Women Pirates http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-women-pirates.htm
- Women’s International Center Biography Index http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm
- Women Warriors from 3500BC to the 20th Century http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/women.html
- National Women's History Museum http://www.nwhm.org/
- National Women's Hall of Fame http://www.greatwomen.org/
- Places Where Women Made History http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
- Victorian Women Writers Project http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do
- Biographies: Famous Women http://womenshistory.about.com/od/biographiesmore/More_Biographies_Famous_Women.htm
- The World's 100 Most Powerful Women http://www.forbes.com/wealth/power-women
- Women State Leaders http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/women_state_leaders.htm
General lists of people, to be filtered by gender
- Dictionary of National Biography Index (lists mostly men, but huge numbers of women listed here too) http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/ -- see the web for public domain text of pre-1923 editions of the DNB
- All women listed in the Wikiquote List of people by name http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_name
- Women listed in User:Skysmith/Missing miscellaneous biographies
- Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people: now see User:The Anome/Find-A-Grave famous people filtered by gender
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