Notable Women in Business

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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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