1900s

Madeline Gleason (26 jan 1903 – 22 apr 1979 | Fargo ND – San Francisco CA) poet, dramatist, San Francisco Poetry Guild founder, directed first US poetry festival

1910s

Coya Knutson (22 aug 1912 – 10 oct 1996 | Edmore ND – Edina MN) farmer, politician, music teacher, operatic singer, domestic violence survivor, née Cornelia Genevive Gjesdal, first Minnesota Congresswoman

Dale Burlison DeArmond (02 jul 1914 – 21 nov 2006 | Bismarck ND – Sitka AK) artist, printmaker, book illustrator

Mimi Weddell (15 feb 1915 – 24 sep 2009 | Williston ND – New York NY) actress, hat collector, assistant fashion editor, began career at age 65

1920s

Peggy Lee (26 may 1920 – 21 jan 2002 | Jamestown ND – Bel Air CA) singer, actress, composer, songwriter, autobiographical author, née Norma Dolores Egstrom

Mary Sherman Morgan (04 nov 1921 – 04 aug 2004 | Ray ND – Whittier CA) aka Rocket Girl, first US female rocket fuel scientist, invented liquid fuel Hydyne which powered Jupiter-C rocket that boosted first US satellite Explorer 1

Marilyn Hagerty (30 may 1926 – Grand Forks ND) author, newspaper columnist, restaurant reviewer

1930s

Judith Beckmann (10 may 1935 – Jamestown ND) American-born German soprano

1940s

1950s

Becky Fischer (31 may 1951 – Bismarck ND) author, Pentecostal children’s pastor, Kids in Ministry International founder

Margaret Priscilla Moss (20 apr 1957 – Fargo ND) nurse, editor, author, professor,  first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates, member of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations [Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota]

Jennie Shortridge (23 sep 1959 – Grand Forks ND) novelist, musician