1760s
Queen Kaʻahumanu (17 mar 1768 – 05 jun 1832 | Maui HI – Mānoa Valley HI) aka The Feathered Mantle, Kingdom of Hawai’i regent / queen consort
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s
1820s
Lucy Goodale Thurston (25 apr 1821 – 24 feb 1841 | Honolulu HI – New York NY) member of missionary family, buried Marlborough MA, died aged 17 and 2o days after returning to mainland
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (28 sep 1821 – 21 apr 1906 | Kailua-Kona HI – Honolulu HI) painter, sketch artist, member of missionary family
Jane Loeau (05 dec 1828 – 30 jul 1873 | Waimea HI – Puunui HI) Chiefess of Kingdom of Hawaii, controversial royal Hawaiian family member
1830s
Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Pratt (11 sep 1834 – 20 dec 1928 | Waialua HI – Honolulu HI) author, biographer, High Chiefess, full name Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Kekaikuihala Laʻanui Pratt
Queen Kapi’olani Napelakapuokakaʻe (31 dec 1834 – 24 jun 1899 | Hilo HI – Waikiki HI) Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, medical / educational philanthropist, founded Kapi’olani Maternity Home and Kapi’olani Home for Girls
Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke of Hawaiʻi (02 jan 1836 – 25 apr 1885 | Honolulu or Kawaihae, Sandwich Islands – Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) Queen monarch, social activist, hospital founder, advocated Hawaii’s independence
Lili’uokalani (02 sep 1838 – 11 nov 1917 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) author, songwriter, queen regnant, last ruling Hawaiian monarch, founded bank for women named Liliuokalani’s Savings Bank
1840s
Emma Kaʻilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina (05 mar 1847 – 27 apr 1929 | Kaua’ala, Oahu – Hawaii) author, cultural / historical writer, one of first female judges in Hawaii, curator of Hawaiian National Museum
1850s
Miriam Likelike Kekāuluohi Keahelapalapa Kapili (13 jan 1851 – 02 feb 1887 | Honolulu, O’ahu – Honolulu HI) songwriter, aka Princess Likelike, Governor of the Island, Princess of the Kingdom of Hawai’i
Anna Rice Cooke (05 sep 1853 – 08 aug 1934 | Oahu HI – Honolulu HI) art collector, patron of arts, founded Honolulu Museum of Art
1860s
Laura Read Wilder Wight (17 oct 1861 – 13 nov 1954 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) heiress, family member of Hawaiian railway magnate
Almeda Eliza Hitchcock (05 dec 1863 – 09 may 1895 | Hilo HI – Hilo HI) first female lawyer and notary public in Kingdom of Hawaii
Annie Montague Alexander (29 dec 1867 – 10 dec 1950 | Honolulu HI – Oakland CA) explorer, paleontologist, philanthropist, museum founder, fossil hunter / collector
Anne Brigman (03 dec 1869 – 08 feb 1950 | Honolulu HI – El Monte CA) photographer, original member US Photo-Secession movement, focus on nude women in nature
1870s
Ana [Kini] Kuululani Wilson (04 mar 1872 – 23 jul 1962 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) singer, dancer, musician, aka Hawaii’s Honorary First Lady
Agnes Baldwin Alexander (21 jul 1875 – 01 jan 1971 | Hawaii – Honolulu HI) author, Bahá’i leader
Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn (16 oct 1875 – 06 mar 1899 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) artist, princess, cultural ambassador, aka Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn
Elsie Hart Wilcox (22 mar 1879 – 30 jun 1954 | Hanalei HI – Hawaii) community activist, first woman to serve in Territory of Hawaii Senate
1880s
Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell Kawānanakoa (01 jan 1882 – 12 apr 1945 | Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii – Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii) politician, Princess of Hawaii, aka Princess Abigail
Mabel Isabel Wilcox (04 nov 1882 – 28 dec 1978 | Kauai, Kingdom of Hawaii – Kuaia HI) nurse, nursing educator, WWI nurse in Europe, civic / social activist, first Hawaiian to graduate Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, established public nursing services on Kauai
1890s
Mabel Alvarez (28 nov 1891 – 13 mar 1985 | Oahu HI – Los Angeles CA) painter
Marguerite Kamehaokalani Ashford (09 dec 1891 – 03 mar 1970 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) first female attorney to practice in the Territory of Hawaii
1900s
Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (31 jan 1900 – 18 jan 2010 | Honolulu HI – Severna Park MD) American-Hawaiian painter
Lena Kaulumau Waialeale Machado Kaiwi (16 oct 1903 – 22 jan 1944 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) singer, composer, aka The Hawaiian Songbird
1910s
Anna Kuulei Furtado Kahanamoku (28 sep 1911 – 28 mar 1969 | Lahaina HI – Honolulu HI) educator, state politician, civic / social / cultural activist
Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona (19 may 1913 – 11 feb 1992 | Honolulu HI – Munich, Germany) author, lecturer, Hawaiian hoʻoponopono healing teacher / practitioner
Jean Erdman (20 feb 1916 – 04 may 2020 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) dancer, modern dance choreographer, avant-garde theater director
Helen Lake Kanahele (26 may 1916 – 1976 | Hawaii US – Hawaii US) author, labor organizer, death penalty opponent
Alice Louise Judd Simpich (01 mar 1918 – 21 jan 2006 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) sculptor, aka Awee, Maui Humane Society member / supporter
1920s
Toshiko Takaezu (17 jun 1922 – 09 mar 2011 | Pepeekeo HI – Honolulu HI) painter, ceramic artist
Edith Kawelohea Kapule McKinzie (22 oct 1925 – 21 oct 2014 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) author, educator, geneaologist, hula / Hawaiian chant expert, director of Hawaiian Language Newspaper
Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (23 apr 1926 – Honolulu HI) rancher, aka Kekau, lesbian, princess, equestrian, philanthropist, House of Kawānanakoa member
1930s
Bertha C. Kawakami (28 jul 1931 – 30 nov 2017 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) educator, state politician
Lois Ann Hammersburg Lowry (20 mar 1937 – Honolulu HI) children’s book writer, autobiographical author
Iris Green Falcam (25 aug 1938 – 19 feb 2010 | Honolulu HI – Pohnpei, Micronesia) American-born Micronesian librarian, researcher, public servant, former First Lady of Federated States of Micronesia
Evelyn Sakakida Rawski (02 feb 1939 – Honolulu HI) Japanese-American author, scholar, essayist, Distinguished University Professor, Chinese / Inner Asian history expert
1940s
Carole Shimizu Kai (28 oct 1944 – Honolulu HI) singer, pianist, philanthropist, recording artist, organizer / namesake of first bed race in Hawaii, co-founded / organized Great Aloha Run
Bette Midler (01 dec 1945 – Honolulu HI) actress, entrepreneur, film producer, singer-songwriter
Loretta Jean [Deliana] Fuddy (12 apr 1948 – 11 dec 2013 | Honolulu, Hawaii – off the north coast of Molokai HI) health official, social worker, director of Hawaii Department of Health, practitioner of Subud spiritualist movement
Lynne Olson (19 aug 1949 – Honolulu HI) author, historian, journalist
1950s
Erin Gray (07 jan 1950 – Honolulu HI) actress, casting agent, non-fiction author
Kellye Nakahara Wallett (10 dec 1950 – Oahu HI) watercolor artist, former actress, Nurse Kellye in 165 episodes of tv show M*A*S*H
Pamela [Pam] Arciero (08 may 1954 – Honolulu HI) puppeteer, voice-over artist
Keiko Cecelia Bonk (13 jul 1954 – Honolulu HI) artist, painter, musician, politician, co-founded Hawaii Green Party, first North American Green Party member elected to partisan office
Noenoe K. Silva (19 oct 1954 – Oahu HI) author, scholar, political science professor
Nola Ann Nāhulu (03 nov 1954 – Makaha HI) teacher, lecturer, dress manufacturer, choral conductor, Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus director
Helen Glover (28 apr 1955 – Honolulu HI) talk radio host