Rank Nominee Votes

1 Francesca Xavier Cabrini 219

2 Jane Jacobs 93

3 Shirley Anita Chisholm 91

4 Janet Schenck 88

5 Katherine Walker 68

6 Emily Warren Roebling 67

7 Marsha P. Johnson 65

8 Dorothy Day 61

9 Bella Abzug 42

10 Lillian Wald 40

11 Grace Hopper 37

12 Nellie Bly 33

13 Margaret Sanger 33

14 Augusta Savage 31

15 Eleanor Roosevelt 27

16 Frances Perkins 26

17 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 26

18 Emma Lazarus 25

19 Sylvia Rivera 21

20 Clara Lemlich Shavelson 20

21 Marianne Moore 19

22 Elizabeth Jennings Graham 17

She Built NYC Public Nominations

23 Audre Lorde 17

24 Billie Holiday 16

25 Emma Goldman 13

26 Zora Neale Hurston 13

27 Jacques Marchais 13

28 Lady Deborah Moody 13

29 Alice Austen 12

30 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 12

31 Martha Graham 11

32 Ayn Rand 10

33 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 9

34 Edith Wharton 9

35 Dr. Sara Josephine Baker 8

36 Margaret Corbin 8

37 Immigrant Women 8

38 Elizabeth Blackwell 7

39 Antonia Pantoja 7

40 Rose Schneiderman 7

41 Betty Blayton Taylor 7

42 Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias 7

43 Sojourner Truth 7

44 Suffragettes 7

45 Victoria Woodhull 7

46 Red Burns 6

47 Miriam Colón 6

48 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton 6

49 Mary Lindley Murray 6

50 Dorothy Parker 6

51 Madam C.J. Walker 6

52 Pura Belpré 5

53 Bonnie Cashin 5

54 Lorraine Hansberry 5

55 Juliette Gordon Low 5

56 Constance Baker Motley 5

57 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 5

58 Susan Maria McKinney Steward 5

59 Stonewall Riots 5

60 Betty Smith 5

61 Ida B Wells 5

62 Virginia Apgar 4

63 Susan B Anthony 4

64 Inez Milholland Boissevain 4

65 Geraldine Ferraro 4

66 Harriet Tubman 4

67 Elizabeth Gloucester 4

68 Grete Waitz 4

69 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 4

70 Evelina Lopez Antonetty 3

71 Ella Josephine Baker 3

72 The Black Angels 3

73 Emily Dunning Barringer 3

74 Liz Christy 3

75 Domestic Workers 3

76 Dr. Yvette Fay Francis 3

77 Margaret Fuller 3

78 Hetty Green 3

79 Guerrilla Girls 3

80 Indigenous Women 3

81 Pauli Murray 3

82 Dr. Mina S Rees 3

83 Elizabeth Ann Seton 3

84 Ellen Stewart 3

85 Edie Windsor 3

86 Women of World War II 3

87 Maya Angelou 2

88 Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton 2

89 Lucy Burns 2

90 Eunice Carter 2

91 Jayne Cortez 2

92 Stormé DeLarverie 2

93 Genevieve Beavers Earle 2

94 Crystal Eastman 2

95 Catherine "Katie" Ferguson 2

96 Ella Jane Fitzgerald 2

97 Margaret Fuller 2

98 NYC Women Firefighters 2

99 Rose Gruening 2

100 Peggy Guggenheim 2

101 Mary Harriman 2

102 Lena Horne 2

103 Ada Louise Huxtable 2

104 Elisabeth Irwin 2

105 Helen Keller 2

106 Frida Khalo 2

107 Mathilde Krim 2

108 Irma Lozada 2

109 Jean McFaddin 2

110 Florence Mills 2

111 Anne Carroll Moore 2

112 Audrey Munson 2

113 Linda Nochlin 2

114 Molly Picon 2

115 Gilda Radner 2

116 Joan Rivers 2

117 Myrtle E Ross 2

118 Beverly Sills 2

119 Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch 2

120 Single Mothers 2

121 Sisters of Charity of New York 2

122 The Blessed “Virgin Mary” 2

123 Charlotte Spiegel 2

124 Florine Stettheimer 2

125 Mae West 2

126 Rosalyn Yalow 2

127 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller 1

128 Abigail Hopper Gibbons 1

129 Adelaide L. Sanford 1

130 Adele Katz Goldstine 1

131 Agnes de Mille 1

132 Agnes Gund 1

133 Aileen Ryan 1

134 Alice Neel 1

135 Alice Paul 1

136 Andrea Dworkin 1

137 Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo 1

138 Ann Lohman 1

139 Anne Devenney 1

140 Anne Morgan 1

141 Antonia Yuille Williams 1

142 Arvelia Myers 1

143 Audley Moore 1

144 Barbara M. Clark 1

145 Beate Sirota Gordon 1

146 Beatrice Arthur 1

147 Belle Moskowitz 1

148 Berenice Abbott 1

149 Betty Friedan 1

150 Betty Parsons 1

151 Betty Shabazz 1

152 Carol Robles-Roman 1

153 Caroline Ferriday 1

154 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt 1

155 Cathay Williams 1

156 Cathleen Synge Morawetz 1

157 Cecilia Benattar 1

158 Celia Cruz 1

159 Charlotte Ray 1

160 Clara Hale 1

161 Clare Boothe-Luce 1

162 Connie Kurtz 1

163 Cynthia Leonard 1

164 Diane Arbus 1

165 Djuna Barnes 1

166 Doris Rosenblum 1

167 Dorothy Fields 1

168 Dorothy Height 1

169 Dr. Alice Hamilton 1

170 Dr. Barbara Ann Teer 1

171 Dr. Joan E. Morgenthau 1

172 Dr. Josephine English 1

173 Dr. Leona Baumgartner 1

174 Eleanor Anderson Campbell 1

175 Edna St. Vincent Millay 1

176 Elisabeth Bing 1

177 Elizabeth Burgin 1

178 Elizabeth Coit 1

179 Elizabeth Curtis Burrell 1

180 Ellen Lurie 1

181 Emily Blackwell 1

182 Emma Stebbins 1

183 Ethel Merman 1

184 Ethel Rosenberg 1

185 F.A. Hayek 1

186 Fannie Lou Hamer 1

187 Fannie Schwedler Barnes 1

188 Fanny Wright 1

189 Fay Kellogg 1

190 Frannie Fredericka Dyckman Welch 1

191 Frieda Zames 1

192 Ganga Stone 1

193 Gertrude B. Elion 1

194 Gertrude Berg 1

195 Gertrude Schimmel 1

196 Gertrude Stein 1

197 Gretta Moulton 1

198 Gwendolyn Braxton 1

199 Hannah Arendt 1

200 Hanna Mayer Stone 1

201 Hettie Anderson 1

202 Hildegard E. Peplau 1

203 Hildreth Meiere 1

204 Ida Van Smith 1

205 Ilonka Karasz 1

206 Isabel González 1

207 Isabella Goodwin 1

208 Jane Addams 1

209 Jane Colden 1

210 Jane Shaw 1

211 Jeanne Manford 1

212 Jessie Redmon Fauset 1

213 Joan Mitchell 1

214 Joan Whitney Payson 1

215 Judith Kaye 1

216 Julia Montgomery Walsh 1

217 Kate Spade 1

218 Katherine Cornell 1

219 Kiki Smith 1

220 Kitty Carlisle Hart 1

221 Lillian Lopez 1

222 Lillie P. Bliss 1

223 Lina Rogers Struthers 1

224 Lola Ridge 1

225 Lorraine Monroe 1

226 Lorraine Montenegro 1

227 Margaret Bourke-White 1

228 Margaret Brown 1

229 Margaret Mead 1

230 Margaret Wise Brown 1

231 Margot Gayle 1

232 Maria TallChief 1

233 Marian MacDowell 1

234 Martha Washington 1

235 Mary Adele Logan 1

236 Mary Alice Dyckman Dean 1

237 Mary Ann Kelly 1

238 Mary Ewing Outerbridge 1

239 Mary Garret Hay 1

240 Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston 1

241 Mary Louise Booth 1

242 Mary Putman Jacobi 1

243 Mary Quinn Sullivan 1

244 Mary Sansone 1

245 Maud Ballington Booth 1

246 Melba Liston 1

247 Miriam "Mimi" Schapiro 1

248 Moira Smith 1

249 Monique Massy 1

250 Muriel Siebert 1

251 Nancy Hicks Maynard 1

252 Normandía Maldonado 1

253 Ona Judge 1

254 Pauline Newman 1

255 Phyllis Harrison-Ross 1

256 Priscilla Morgan 1

257 Queen Victoria Spivey 1

258 Rachel Carson 1

259 Rachel Corrie 1

260 Rosalie Jones 1

261 Rose Cecil O'Neill 1

262 Ruby Dee 1

263 Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet 1

264 Sarah Kiersted 1

265 Sarah Powell Huntington 1

266 Sarah Scott 1

267 Shulamith Firestone 1

268 Simone Weil 1

269 Sylvia P. Woods 1

270 Thelma Ritter 1

271 Ursula Nordstrom 1

272 Vicky Gholson 1

273 Willa Cather 1

274 Yuri Kochiyama 1

275 6 Enslaved women who were experimented on by James Marion Sims

1

276 Alicia White- Project Petals 1

277 Armenians 1

278 Columba Services 1

279 Domestic Violence Women 1

280 Domestic Violence Women 1

281 Eliza Stebbins "Lize the Bowery Gal" 1

282 First Sexual Harrassment Fight in NYC history 1981-85 1

283 Girl Scouts 1

284 Harlem Show Girls 1

285 International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) 1

286 League of Women Voters of the City of New York 1

287 McSorley’s Ale House Anti-Discrimation Activists 1

288 Mujeres of the Young Lords 1

289 NYC Missions/Settlement Houses (1893-1908) 1

290 NYC Tradeswomen + Judith Vladeck 1

291 Pioneers of Voguing / Ballroom Scene 1

292 Radio City Music Hall's First African American Rockette 1

293 Roman Catholic “Nuns” 1

294 Settlement Workers 1

295 Sisters of Mercy 1

296 Spence-Chapin 1

297 Teachers 1

298 The Black singers who integrated opera in NYC and America: Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price

1

299 The Founders of The New York Women's Foundation 1

300 The Junior League 1

301 The nuns and nurses of St. Vincent's Hospital 1

302 The Shapiro Sisters 1

303 The Unknown Woman 1

304 The women buried in the Slave Burial Ground in upper Mahattan 1

305 The Women of the La Guardia Administration 1

306 The Women of the United States Supreme Court 1

307 Women and Children 1

308 Women of NYC Jazz 1

309 Women of the National Arts Club 1

310 Women Pioneers of Modern Dance Movement 1

311 Women who Helped Build the Empire State Building 1

312 Women who Ride Bicycles 1

313 Woman Who Swam Around the Island of Manhattan 1

314 Largest IT Transformation In NYC - Epic Software 1

315 Nation's First Suffrage Parade/Nation's First Women's March (Woman's Progressive Suffrage Union)

1

316 Installation of "The Harp" by artist Augusta Savage for the 1939 Worlds Fair, Flushing Queens

1

317 The Monument Project 1

318 Redstockings Abortion Speakout at Washington Square Methodist Church

1

319 Elizabeth Jennings Graham and the streetcar of the Third Avenue Railroad Company

1

320 TB-AIDS Diary Exhibition 1

321 Publication of a “Tree Grows in Brooklyn” 1

322 Hiring for first uniformed female Sanitation Workers 1

323 Wonderful Wall Street Wednesday's (originally lunch hour of power @ Mariner's Temple)

1

324 Heumann v. Board of Education of New York City 1

325 Rosalie Gardiner Jones's flight as the first suffrage activist to fly for the cause

1

326 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1

327 NYC Pooper Scooper Law passed, championed by Fran Lee, consumer