1870s
Florence Rena Sabin (09 nov 1871 – 03 oct 1953 | Central City CO – Denver CO) author, lecturer, pioneer medical scientist, public health activist
Edwina Hume Fallis (15 nov 1876 – 14 sep 1947 | Denver CO – Denver CO) poet, writer, memoirist, educator, toy designer
Ann Bassett (12 may 1878 – 08 may 1956 | Moffat County CO – Leeds UT) folk figure, rancher, cattle rustler, Sundance Kid cohort, Wild Bunch member, alias Etta Place aka Queen Ann
1880s
Josephine Dillon Gable (26 jan 1884 – 11 nov 1971 | Denver CO – Glendale CA) author, acting teacher, film / stage actress, unpublished autobiographical author
Mabel Landrum Torrey (23 jun 1886 – 01 apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor
Evalyn Walsh McLean (01 aug 1886 – 26 apr 1947 | Leadville CO – Washington DC) heiress, memoirist, folk figure, last private owner of the Hope Diamond
Nell Brinkley (05 sep 1886 – 21 oct 1944 | Denver CO – New Rochelle NY) comics artist, illustrator, aka Queen of Comics
Mary Antoinette Frueauff Perry (27 jun 1888 – 28 jun 1946 | Denver CO – New York NY) theater actress / director, Tony Awards namesake, co-founded American Theatre Wing
Anne Parrish (12 nov 1888 – 05 sep 1957 | Colorado Springs CO – Danbury CT) novelist, children’s book author
Claribel Kendall (23 jan 1889 – 17 apr 1965 | Denver CO – Boulder CO) author, professor, mathematician, Christian Scientist
June Beulah Hughes Mathis (30 jun 1889 – 26 jul 1927 | Leadville CO – New York NY) screenwriter, first female executive for Metro / MGM, highest-paid Hollywood executive [1920s]
1890s
Laura Gilpin (22 apr 1891 – 30 nov 1979 | Austin Bluffs CO – Santa Fe NM) Pictorialist, photographer, focus on Native American images
Ruth Stonehouse (28 sep 1892 – 12 may 1941 | Denver CO – Los Angeles CA) silent film actress / director
Edith Banfield Jackson (02 jan 1895 – 05 jun 1977 | Colorado Spring CO – Denver CO) author, child psychologist, pediatric psychology professor, infants’ rooming-in activist / innovator
Anna Elizabeth Keener (16 oct 1895 – 22 jun 1982 | Flagler CO – Santa Fe NM) artist, painter, author, WWI Navy yeoman
Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (24 mar 1897 – 04 jul 1979 | Denver CO – Berkeley CA) author, fiction writer, biographer, anthropologist, Native Californian historian
Wanda Tuchok (20 mar 1898 – 10 feb 1985 | Pueblo CO – Woodland Hills CA) film director, screenwriter
Gladys Bagg Taber (12 apr 1899 – 11 mar 1980 | Colorado Springs CO – Hyannis MA) author, columnist, professor
Margaret Van Vechten Saunders (05 mar 1899 – 04 feb 1963 | Denver CO – New York NY) author, biographer, ghostwriter, Guggenheim Fellow, aka Rackham Holt
Dorothy Mackaye (08 may 1899 – 05 jan 1940 | Denver CO – Los Angeles CA) actress, playwright, auto accident victim
1900s
Ina Rains Souez (03 jun 1903 – 07 dec 1992 | Windsor CO – Santa Monica CA) operatic lyric soprano, jazz singer
Mary Coyle Chase (25 feb 1906 – 20 oct 1981 | Denver CO – Denver CO) journalist, playwright, screenwriter, children’s novelist
Miriam Gideon (23 oct 1906 – 18 jun 1996 | Greeley CO – New York NY) composer, music professor
Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden (17 sep 1907 – 04 jan 2007 | Denver CO – Boulder CO) writer, teacher, botanical artist
Josephine Antoine (27 oct 1907 – 30 oct 1971| Denver CO | Jamestown NY) voice teacher, operatic coloratura soprano, aka Chautauqua’s Sweetheart
Ann Elizabeth Campbell Bard [Betty] MacDonald (26 mar 1908 – 07 feb 1958 | Boulder CO – Seattle WA) children’s book writer, autobiographical author
1910s
Hannah Marie Wormington (05 sep 1914 – 31 may 1994 | Denver CO – Denver CO) author, archeologist
Ruth Mosko Handler (04 nov 1916 – 27 apr 2002 | Denver CO – Los Angeles CA) Barbie doll inventor, Mattel toy company president
Eudorah Moore (15 jun 1918 – 20 apr 2013 | Denver CO – Pasadena CA) curator, patron of arts, craft-as-art advocate, revolutionized California design
Frances Wessells (08 aug 1919 – Colorado US) dancer, dance critic, choreographer, founder / professor emerita of Dance Department at Virginia Commonwealth University
1920s
Mary Babnik Brown (22 nov 1907 – 14 apr 1991 | Pueblo CO – Pueblo CO) Slovenian-American labor leader, donated long floor-length hair to US military for WWII meteorological use / used as bomber aircraft crosshairs [received no compensation for her donation]
Mary Jane Osborn (24 sep 1927 – 17 jan 2019 | Colorado Springs CO – Farmington CT) professor, research biochemist, journal editor, molecular biologist, focus on mechanisms of bacterial cell division, one of first women faculty at University of Connecticut Health Center
Joan Packard Birkland (17 nov 1928 – 15 jun 2019 | Denver CO – Denver CO) athlete, women’s sports advocate, sports instructor for disabled youth, one of greatest all-around athletes in Colorado’s history because awards in golf / tennis / basketball
Shirley [Sheri] Stewart Douglas Tepper (16 jul 1929 – 22 oct 2016 | near Littleton CO – Santa Fe NM) ecofeminist sci-fi / horror / mystery novelist, pen names: A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, B. J. Oliphant, Sheri S. Eberhart
1930s
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (16 feb 1933 – Sterling CO) artist, children’s book illustrator, museum catalogue co-author
Cynthia Irwin-Williams (14 apr 1936 – 15 jun 1990 | Denver CO – Reno NV) author, archaeologist
Reta F. Beebe (10 oct 1936 – Baca County CO) author, astronomer, astronomy populizer / advocate, professor emerita of astronomy, former NASA missions planner / manager, planetary data archival expert, NASA’s Planetary Data System / Atmospheres Discipline Node director
Joy Davidson (18 aug 1937 – Fort Collins CO) actress, pedagogue, operatic mezzo-soprano
Margaret Coel (11 oct 1937 – Denver CO) historian, mystery series author
Emily Howell Warner (30 oct 1939 – 03 jul 2020 | Denver CO – Littleton CO) author, airline pilot, first US female scheduled airline captain
1940s
Nancy Crane Conrad (25 sep 1942 – Denver CO) author, teacher, publisher, public speaker, entrepreneur, founder and chair of Conrad Foundation
Donna Haraway (06 sep 1944 – Denver CO) author, feminist, essayist, Distinguished Professor Emerita in history of consciousness
Virginia Hinckley Pearce (08 feb 1945 – Denver CO) Latter-Day Saints leader, adult / children’s author
Constance Elaine Trimmer [Connie] Willis (31 dec 1945 – Denver CO) sci-fi / comic sci-fi / social satire / comedy of manners author
Monica Johnson (21 feb 1946 – 01 nov 2010 | Colorado US – Los Angeles CA) screenwriter
Linda Hogan (16 jul 1947 – Denver CO) poet, novelist, academic, storyteller, playwright, short fiction writer, environmentalist, Chickasaw Nation’s Writer in Residence
Jane Lubchenco (04 dec 1947 – Denver CO) author, marine ecologist, environmental scientist
Cleo Parker Robinson (17 jul 1948 – Denver CO) dancer, choreographer, founder / namesake / executive creative director Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Katherine Ann Power (25 jan 1949 – Denver CO) poet, author, professor, AIDS activist, former ex-convict / long-time fugitive, born Alice Louise Metzinger
Mary Ann Casey (11 nov 1949 – Boulder CO) former US Ambassador, retired Foreign Service Officer
1950s
Linda Smith (16 jul 1950 – La Junta CO) author, former politician, founded Shared Hope International, women and children’s advocate, anti-child sex trafficking activist
Holly Roberts (22 dec 1951 – Boulder CO) author, curator, illustrator, visual artist, known for fusing painting and photography
Jane Rosenthal (21 sep 1956 – Denver CO) film producer, co-founder / CEO / executive chair of Tribeca Film Studio and Tribeca Film Institute
Gayle Haggard (08 apr 1957 – Colorado Springs CO) author, speaker, evangelical church co-founder
Renee Yvette Chenault-Fattah (12 oct 1957 – Littleton CO) news anchor / broadcast journalist
Francesca Stern Woodman (03 apr 1958 – 19 jan 1981 | Boulder CO – New York NY) photographer
Jennifer Steinkamp (22 dec 1958 – Denver CO) installation artist, uses video and new media to explore ideas about motion / perception / architectural space