Women in Business
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Biographies of |
A-F
- Alvarado, Linda, American entrepreneur
- Anderson, Mary, American labor expert
- Arden, Elizabeth, cosmetics executive
- Ash, Mary Kay, business executive
- Ashley, Laura, fashion designer
- Bailey, Maria, entrepreneur
- Balch, Emily Greene, economist and sociologist
- Beers, Charlotte, advertising executive
- Black, Cathleen, publisher
- Cashin, Bonnie, fashion designer
- Chanel, Coco, French fashion designer
- Chen, Joyce, chef
- Claiborne, Liz, fashion designer, business executive
- Fiorina, Cara Carleton, business executive
- Frontiere, Georgia, owner of the Los Angeles Rams
G-L
- Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn, consulting engineer
- Graham, Katharine, publisher
- Green, Hetty, American financier
- Head, Edith, fashion designer
- Helmsley, Leona, hotelier
- Hughes, Catherine Elizabeth, radio personality, executive
- Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones), American labor agitator
- Jung, Andrea, business executive
- Karan, Donna, fashion designer, business executive
- Kingsley, Anna, plantation owner and former slave
- Knox, Rose Markward, food products manufacturer
- Lagarde, Christine, political figure, business personality
- Lanvin, Jeanne, fashion designer
- Lauder, Estée, beautician, business executive
- Lazarus, Shelly, advertising executive
M-W
- Macarthur, Mary Reid, British labor organizer
- Mayer, Marissa, business personality, computer scientist
- McCartney, Stella, fashion designer
- Natori, Josie, fashion designer
- Quant, Mary, fashion designer
- Regan, Judith, publisher
- Rubinstein, Helena, cosmetics executive
- Sandberg, Sheryl, business personality
- Scardino, Marjorie, business executive
- Schiaparelli, Elsa, fashion designer
- Siebert, Muriel, stockbroker
- Stewart, Martha, writer; television personality; entrepreneur
- Sui, Anna, fashion designer
- Tam, Vivienne, fashion designer
- Tussaud, Marie Gresholtz, wax modeler
- Von Furstenberg, Diane, fashion designer
- Wachner, Linda, apparel industry executive
- Walker, Maggie Lena (Mitchell), businesswoman
- Walker, Sarah "Madam C. J.", inventor, entrepreneur
- Wang, Vera, fashion designer
- Webb, Beatrice Potter, English socialist economist
- Whitman, Margaret C., business executive
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