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List of the most influential female people in Engineering,

#1301

Lara Jackson

#96689

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Lara Marie Jackson is a retired American competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle. She swam for the University of Arizona from 2005 to 2009 where she was a 9-time NCAA champion. She is the former American record-holder in both the 50-yard freestyle, and the long course 50-meter freestyle.

#1302

Sarah F Clatterbuck Soper

#192301

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#1303

Anahera Morehu

#189305

Overall Influence

Anahera Morehu is a New Zealand public servant. As at 2023, she is the Chief Archivist of New Zealand and general manager of Archives New Zealand. She was appointed on 14 June 2023. She had previously been appointed as acting Chief Archivist from November 2022.

#1304

Christine Webster

#181589

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Christine Webster is a New Zealand visual artist and photographer. Background Webster was born in 1958 in Pukekohe, Auckland. She currently lives in the United Kingdom. Webster has a Diploma in Photography from Massey University and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art.

#1305

Sarah Haffner

#79199

Overall Influence

1940 - 2018 (78 years)

Sarah Haffner was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first women's shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.

#1306

Antonia Papandreou

#128547

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Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola from the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to applications of time-frequency signal processing.

#1307

Giulia

#177378

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1994 - Present (30 years)

Giulia is an English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current Artist of Stardom Champion in her second reign and is the leader of Donna Del Mondo. She also makes appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where she is the current Strong Women's Champion in her first reign.

#1308

Helen O'Toole

#186994

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1963 - Present (61 years)

Helen O'Toole is an Irish-born painter based in the United States, who is known for abstract paintings suggestive of landscape. She has exhibited throughout Ireland and the United States, in Singapore, and at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Portland Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Tacoma Art Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Her work has been featured in the journals Artforum, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, and Zyzzyva, as well as the Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and National Public Radio. Art writers frequen...

#1309

Christine Salmon

1916 - 1985 (69 years)

Christine Salmon was an American architect and educator, originally from Pennsylvania. After teaching at Pennsylvania State University for a decade, she moved to Oklahoma in the late-1950s and taught at Oklahoma State University. She and her husband founded the architectural firm Salmon and Salmon, which focused primarily on housing and designs which accommodated people with disabilities. At the national level, she served on the National Housing Commission of the American Institute of Architects from 1969 to 1985 and was a Fellow of the AIA. She was the first woman elected as mayor of Stillwater, Oklahoma and had previously served on the Stillwater City Commission.

#1310

Elizabeth Wood

1899 - 1993 (94 years)

Elizabeth Wood was the first Executive Director of the Chicago Housing Authority from 1937 until 1954. Born to missionary parents in Japan, Elizabeth Wood was educated at Illinois Wesleyan University and at the University of Michigan where she received both bachelor's and master's degrees in rhetoric. In 1928, after teaching English at Vassar College for four years, Wood moved to Chicago and found a job with the Home Modernizing Bureau, a trade organization. This organization collapsed with the stock market, however, and soon after Wood began her career as a housing advocate and planner. Wood...

#1311

Marília Chaves Peixoto

1921 - 1961 (40 years)

Marília Chaves Peixoto was a Brazilian mathematician and engineer who worked in dynamical systems. Peixoto was the first Brazilian woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics and the first Brazilian woman to join the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

#1312

Lotte Reiniger

1899 - 1981 (82 years)

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno . Reiniger is also noted for having devised, from 1923 to 1926, the first form of a multiplane camera. Reiniger worked on more than 40 films throughout her career.

#1313

Katharine Cornell

Katharine Cornell

1893 - 1974 (81 years)

Katharine Cornell was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York. Dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic Alexander Woollcott, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for Romeo and Juliet in 1935. Cornell is noted for her major Broadway roles in serious dramas, often directed by her husband, Guthrie McClintic. The couple formed C. & M.C. Productions, Inc., a company that gave them complete artistic freedom in choosing and producing plays. Their production company ...

#1314

Elsa Rehmann

1886 - 1946 (60 years)

Elsa Rehmann was an American landscape architect best known for her pioneering ecological approach to garden design. She and Edith A. Roberts promoted seeking inspiration in plant communities, which Rehmann considered to be the basis for design criteria and translated them into artistic composition.

#1315

May Hollinworth

May Hollinworth

1895 - 1968 (73 years)

May Hollinworth was an Australian theatre producer and director, former radio actress, and founder of the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney. The daughter of a theatrical producer, she was introduced to the theatre at a young age. She graduated with a science degree, and worked in the chemistry department of the University of Sydney, before being appointed as director of the Sydney University Dramatic Society, a post she held from 1929 until 1943

#1316

Janet Parker

1938 - 1978 (40 years)

#1317

Jane Teller

1911 - 1990 (79 years)

Jane Teller was an American printmaker and sculptor. Early life and education Jane Simon was born in 1911, in Rochester, New York. Simon attended Rochester Institute of Technology and Skidmore College, and earned a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1933. She pursued further art studies through Works Project Administration classes in New York City, and in classes with Aaron Goodelman, Karl Nielson, and Ibram Lassaw.

#1318

Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge

1922 - 1965 (43 years)

Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones . Dandridge also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.

#1319

Caroline Durieux

1886 - 1989 (103 years)

Caroline Wogan Durieux was an American printmaker, painter, and educator. She was a Professor Emeritus at both Louisiana State University, where she worked from 1943 to 1964 and at Newcomb College of Tulane University

#1320

Regina Gerlecka

1913 - 1983 (70 years)

Regina Gerlecka was a Polish chess player. In January 1935, she won the Warsaw championships. In June, Gerlecka won the inaugural Polish women's championship, which took place in Warsaw. Two months later, she finished second, behind Vera Menchik, in the 5th Women's World Chess Championship, held alongside the 6th Chess Olympiad , also held in Warsaw.

#1321

Mária Telkes

1900 - 1995 (95 years)

Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. She moved to the United States in 1925 to work as a biophysicist. She became an American citizen in 1937 and started work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create practical uses of solar energy in 1939.

#1322

Edith Clarke

1883 - 1959 (76 years)

Edith Clarke was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. She was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the first female engineer whose professional standing was recognized by Tau Beta Pi, and the first woman named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems.

#1323

Julia Morgan

1872 - 1957 (85 years)

Julia Morgan was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.

#1324

Helena Syrkus

1900 - 1982 (82 years)

Helena Syrkus was a Polish architect, urban planner and educator. She was born Helena Eliasberg in Warsaw and studied architecture at the Warsaw Technical Academy from 1918 to 1923. In 1922, she changed her last name to Niemirowska. Syrkus also studied drawing with Roman Kramsztyk and philosophy at the University of Warsaw. She was a co-founder of the avant-garde Praesens group. She was also a member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne and served as vice-chairperson from 1945 to 1954. In 1950, she began lecturing on architecture at the Polish Technical Academy.

#1325

Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham

1883 - 1976 (93 years)

Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

#1326

Edith Hughes

1888 - 1971 (83 years)

Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes HonFRIAS was a Scottish architect, and is considered Britain's first practising female architect, having established her own architecture firm in 1920. Early life Edith Mary Burnet was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of May Crudelius and George Wardlaw Burnet, an advocate. The family lived at 6 West Circus Place in the Stockbridge district. The family moved to 59 Queens Road in Aberdeen when her father was created Sheriff Substitute for Aberdeenshire around 1890.

#1327

Mabel Keyes Babcock

1862 - 1931 (69 years)

Mabel Keyes Babcock was one of America's early women landscape architects. She taught at Wellesley College and the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture before going on to become Dean of Women Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#1328

Theodate Pope Riddle

Theodate Pope Riddle

1867 - 1946 (79 years)

Theodate Pope Riddle was an American architect and philanthropist. She was one of the first American women architects and a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Life Born Effie Brooks Pope in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the only child of industrialist and art collector Alfred Atmore Pope and his wife Ada Lunette Brooks and was a first cousin to Louisa Pope, the future mother of architect Philip Johnson.

#1329

Hertha Ayrton

1854 - 1923 (69 years)

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water.

#1330

Rachel Shalon

1904 - 1988 (84 years)

Rachel Shalon was the first woman engineer in Israel and a professor of structural engineering. Shalon was first of all Technion graduates, male and female, to reach the rank of full professor. Early life and education Rachel Znanmirow was born in Kalush, Poland on the eve of Passover 1904 to Gittel and Hanoch Znanmirow, a Hassidic family. Her father was a lumber merchant, and she grew up in Kalisz.

#1331

Franca Helg

1920 - 1989 (69 years)

Franca Helg was an Italian designer and architect. She also had a career teaching at Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia and Polytechnic of Milan. She collaborated with Franco Albini from 1945 through 1977.

#1332

Barbara Brukalska

Barbara Brukalska

1899 - 1980 (81 years)

Barbara Brukalska was a Polish architect, an architectural theorist, a prominent exponent of Functionalism, a member of the Praesens group, and a professor at Warsaw Polytechnic. She was also the wife of architect Stanisław Brukalski.

#1333

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

1904 - 1971 (67 years)

Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She was arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan, as the first American female war photojournalist, and for taking the photograph that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.

#1334

Diane Arbus

1923 - 1971 (48 years)

Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. "She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity...

#1335

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt

1905 - 1983 (78 years)

Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt was a British town planner, journalist, editor and educator. She was at the centre of the transnational network of theoreticians and practitioners who shaped the post-war Modern Movement in decentralized community design, residential architecture and social reform. She contributed in developing methods for the application of the ideas of Patrick Geddes, as well as publicizing them. Even Tyrwhitt had never met Geddes, she was able to extract from his many writings key ideas and concepts to disseminate among her colleagues and injected Geddesian thinking into conferences...

#1336

Lee Miller

1907 - 1977 (70 years)

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose , was an American photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

#1337

Elizabeth Greenleaf Pattee

Elizabeth Greenleaf Pattee

1893 - 1991 (98 years)

Elizabeth Greenleaf Pattee was an American architect, landscape architect, and architecture professor in the Northeast whose career spanned a half century. About Pattee was born in 1893 in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was descended from an old New England family; portraits of several of her Greenleaf ancestors were painted by the Colonial-era painter Joseph Blackburn, and she would in later life donate a Christian Gullager portrait of her great-great-granduncle Daniel Greenleaf to the National Portrait Gallery.

#1338

Juana Pereyra

1897 - 1976 (79 years)

Juana Pereyra was a Uruguayan civil engineer, and one of the first women to graduate from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de la República. Early life and education Juana Pereyra was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 8 November 1897. At school she excelled at mathematics. After the initial opposition of her family and having to overcome the difficulties that women had to face in the professional fields of the time, she enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de la República, graduating with high marks with the title of Ingeniera de Puentes y Caminos in November 19...

#1339

Gertrude Sawyer

1895 - 1996 (101 years)

Gertrude Sawyer was one of the earliest American women architects to practice in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area. Early life and education Sawyer was born April 2, 1895, in Tuscola, Illinois. She knew she wanted to be an architect from an early age. Sawyer graduated high school in Norborne, Missouri in 1913 and graduated from Tudor Hall School in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1914. She received a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture from the University of Illinois in 1918 and went on to become one of the first students at the Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women, where she met landscape architect Rose Greely.

#1340

Florence Bell Robinson

1885 - 1973 (88 years)

Florence Bell Robinson was a prominent American educator in landscape architecture and a pioneer in introducing women into the field. Life Born in Lapeer, Michigan, Robinson received her undergraduate degree in science from Kalamazoo College in 1908, and the BArch and MID in 1924 from the University of Michigan. She ran her own landscape firm from 1916 to 1926 and worked as a draftsperson for J.W. Case in Detroit.

#1341

Ruth Maxon Adams

1883 - 1970 (87 years)

Ruth Maxon Adams was an American architect. Biography Adams grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, the only child of Yale professor George Burton Adams. As a child, she visited England with her father, where she was first exposed to William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. She graduated from Vassar College in 1904, with no intention of practicing architecture.

#1342

Edith Schryver

1901 - 1984 (83 years)

Edith Eleanor Schryver was a founding partner of Lord & Schryver, the first female owned and operated landscape architecture firm in the Pacific Northwest from 1929 to 1969. Early years Edith Schryver was born on March 20, 1901, in Kingston, New York. She grew up in an apartment over the Kingston railroad station where her father, George Schryver, managed the restaurant and her mother Eleanor Young was a homemaker. In 1903, her brother Harry Schryver was born.

#1343

Annie Rockfellow

Annie Rockfellow

1866 - 1954 (88 years)

Annie Graham Rockfellow was an influential and prolific architect active in Tucson, Arizona during the first half of the 20th century. Life and work Born in Mount Morris, New York on March 12, 1866, Annie was the daughter of Samuel L. and Julia Lucinda Rockfellow. She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology receiving a special certificate in 1887. In 1905, she moved to Tombstone, Arizona to care for her father, Samuel, then living with his son, John A. Rockfellow. By 1916, she had moved to Tucson and worked for the firm of architect Henry O. Jaastad from 1916 to 1938 as chief designer.

#1344

Eliza Newkirk Rogers

Eliza Newkirk Rogers

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

Eliza Newkirk Rogers was an architect and a professor at Wellesley College. Biography Eliza Newkirk grew up in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, and pursued undergraduate degrees in art and math at Wellesley College, beginning in 1896 and graduating in 1900. She garnered a fellowship in architecture and attended classes from 1902-4 at MIT and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Subsequently, she spent 15 months in Italy researching her thesis "Domes of Renaissance Italy", which was completed in 1906; she received a master's degree from Wellesley in 1907.

#1345

Vera Prasilova Scott

1899 - 1996 (97 years)

Vera Prasilova Scott was a Czech-American photographer and sculptor. Her main work, which consisted of shadowed, gelatin silver photographs of Houstonian upper class society and intellectuals, has been preserved at the Rice University Woodson Research Center, the Museum of Czech Literature, and the Portland Museum of Art.

#1346

Florence Ward Stiles

Florence Ward Stiles

1897 - 1981 (84 years)

Florence Ward Stiles was an American architect and librarian who in 1939 was appointed the first advisor to women students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She was awarded an architecture degree as a member of MIT's class of 1923. After graduating, she joined the all-woman firm of Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. Her career included working at the firm of Stone & Webster. Later she established a private practice with a focus on small dwellings and remodeling historic houses. In 1931 she became the librarian at MIT's Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning. She joined the American Institute of Architects in 1943.

#1347

Hallie Flanagan

Hallie Flanagan

1890 - 1969 (79 years)

Hallie Flanagan Davis was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration . Background Hallie Flanagan was born in Redfield, South Dakota. When she was around 10, her family moved to Grinnell, Iowa. She attended Grinnell College where she majored in Philosophy and German, and was an active member in the Literary and Dramatic Clubs. During her time at Grinnell she became friends with Harry Hopkins, who had also grown up in Grinnell and was a year behind her at Grinnell College.

#1348

Kate Cory

1861 - 1958 (97 years)

Kate Cory was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi for several years, recording their lives in about 600 photographs.

#1349

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

1878 - 1972 (94 years)

Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living." Gilbreth, one of the first female engineers to earn a Ph.D., is considered to be the first industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, were efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering, especially in the areas of motion study and human factors. Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their ...

#1350

Catherine Bauer Wurster

1905 - 1964 (59 years)

Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for low-income families, she dramatically changed social housing practice and law in the United States. Wurster's influential book Modern Housing was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1934 and is regarded as a classic in the field.

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