This is a list of prominent historical Pennsylvania women:
Mary Ambler (1805–1868) Marian Anderson (1897–1993)/ Nellie Bly (1864–1922) Pearl S. Buck Rachel Carson (1907–1964) Margaret Corbin (1754–1800) Henrietta Crosman Isabel Darlington (1865–1950) Lydia Darragh (1728–1789) Saint Katherine Drexel Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster Hannah Freeman Martha Glaser Elsie Hillman Emma Hunter Rebecca Lukens (1794–1854) Sophie Masloff Sybilla Masters (1676–1720) Lucy Kennedy Miller (1880-1962) Evelyn Foster Morneweck Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952) Ann Preston (1813–1872) Jennie Bradley Roessing Betsy Ross Marion Margery Scranton (1884–1960) Florence Seibert (1897–1991) Frances Slocum (1773–1847) Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915) Anna Bustill Smith (1862-1945) Eliza Kennedy Smith (1889-1964) Ida Tarbell (1857–1944) Martha Gibbons Thomas (1869–1942) Elizabeth Thorn (1832–1907) Laurie Trok Marion Foster Welch Jane McDowell Foster Wiley