D.C. Street Names Project: List of Women
This is a work in progress; we are continuing to research and compile data on women who have lived in Washington D.C., or who have notable connections with the city. Most of the addresses listed were residences of the women in question, though exceptions are noted. If you can help us fill in any of these blanks, or if you would like to suggest women to add to this list, please contact us at dc@equalvisibilityeverywhere.org. (Current addresses of living women are confidential.)
| First Name | Last Name | Accomplishment | Address |
| Bella | Abzug | Congresswoman from NY 1970-1977 | 800 4th Street SW |
| Madeline | Albright | First Female Secretary of State | |
| Madeline | Albright | First Female Secretary of State | |
| Susan B. | Anthony | Suffragist | |
| Pearl | Bailey | Entertainer | Performed at Howard Theatre 620 T Street NW |
| Pearl | Bailey | Entertainer | Performed at Republic Gardens 1355 U Street NW |
| Pearl | Bailey | Entertainer | Performed at Crystal Bohemian Gardens 11 and U Street NW |
| Alice Pike | Barney | Painter (mother of Natalie Barney) | 2306 Massachussets Avenue NW (Embassy of Latvia) |
| Clara | Barton | Founder, American Red Cross | Missing Soldiers Office during Civil War, 437 7th Street NW |
| Clara | Barton | Founder, American Red Cross | 737 7th Street NW |
| Mary McLeod | Bethune | Founder, National Council of Negro Women | 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW |
| Shirley Temple | Black | ||
| Lindy | Boggs | First woman elected to Congress from Louisiana | |
| Josephine Beall | Bruce (1st) | Co-founded National Association of Colored Women | 909 M Street, NW |
| Josephine Beall | Bruce (2nd) | Co-founded National Association of Colored Women | 2010 R Street, NW |
| Nannie Helen | Burroughs | Educator, orator, religious leader, businesswoman | There is already a street named after her. |
| Josephine | Butler | Civil Rights & Municipal Leader, Head of Washington Parks | 2437 15th Street, NW |
| Hattie | Caraway | Senator from Arkansas | 1427 Whittier Street NW |
| Mary Chapin | Carpenter | Singer/Songwriter | 1530 29th Street NW |
| Shirley | Chisholm | First African American Elected to Congress 1969 -1983 | |
| Elizabeth | Dole | Senator from North Carolina 2003 -2009 | |
| Maureen Brigid | Dowd | New York Times Columnist | |
| Marion Wright | Edelman | Founder, Children’s Defense Fund | 25 E Street NW (CDF) |
| Lydia | English | Started Miss English School for Young Ladies | Georgetown |
| Geraldine | Ferraro | First Female Vice-Presidential Candidate | |
| Roberta | Flack | Singer, songwriter, musician | Launched Career at Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Avenue SE |
| Betty Goldstein | Friedan | Founder of NOW and First President | 2022 Columbia Road, NW |
| Matilda Joslyn | Gage | Suffragist/Abolitionist | |
| Ruth Bader | Ginsburg | Supreme Court Justice | |
| Katharine | Graham | Board Chair and CEO of Washington Post | |
| Charlotte Forten | Grimke | anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator | 1608 R Street NW |
| Elizabeth | Haines | Built Deparment Store at 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue SE | 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue SE |
| Barbara C. | Harris | World’s first female Anglican bishop | Served as assisting bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Mount St. Alban, Washington, D.C. |
| Patrica Roberts | Harris | First African American Woman in the Cabinet (1977 -1979) | There is already a street named after her. |
| Goldie Jeanne | Hawn | Actress Born in DC | |
| Helen | Hayes | “First Lady of American Theatre” | Attended Holy Cross School 1312 Massachusetts Ave NW |
| Dorothy | Height | Head, National Council Negro Women | 700 7th Street SW |
| Mary Foote | Henderson | Developed Meridian Hill Neighborhood | 16th Street and Florida, NW |
| Lena | Horne | Entertainer | 2029 Conneticut Ave, NW |
| Julia Ward | Howe | wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” | she wrote the famous hymn at the Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW |
| Lady Bird | Johnson | First Lady | Nannie Helen Burroughs and Minnesota Avenue NE |
| Lois Mailou | Jones | Artist | 1220 Quincy Street NE |
| Barbara | Jordon | Congresswoman from Texas | 905 6th Street SW |
| Kitty | Kelley | Biographer | |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | First Lady | (first residence) 3321 Dent Place NW (Georgetown) |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | First Lady | (second residence) 2808 P Street NW |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | First Lady | (third residence) 3307 N Street NW |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | First Lady | (fourth residence) 3038 N Street NW |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | First Lady | (fifth residence) 3017 N Street NW |
| Jacqueline | Kennedy | First Lady | as First Lady, helped preserve Lafayette Square (Jackson Place and H Street NW) |
| Jean | Kerr | Author of Please Don’t Eat The Daisies | Brookland; street address? |
| Mary Todd | Lincoln | First Lady | Lincoln Cottage, Soldier’s Home, Rock Creek Park Road |
| Myrna | Loy | Actress | 3522 P Street NW |
| Dolley | Madison | First Lady | 1520 H Street NW |
| Dolley | Madison | First Lady | Octagon House 18th and New York Avenue NW |
| Patsy | Mink | Congresswoman, Hawaii | 611 6th Place SW |
| Andrea | Mitchell | Washington correspondent for NBC | 2710 Chain Bridge Road NW |
| Carol | Mosley-Braun | First African-American Women Elected to Senate | |
| Eleanor Holmes | Norton | Congresswoman from DC | |
| Eleanor Holmes | Norton | Congresswoman from DC | |
| Mary Teresa | Norton | Representative from New Jersey 1925 – 1951 | |
| Sandra Day | O’Connor | First Female Supreme Court Justice 1981 -2006 | |
| Cissy | Patterson | Editor/Publisher Washington Times-Herald | 15 Dupont Circle |
| Alice | Paul | Suffrage, ERA, National Women’s Party | Sewell-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue NE |
| Nancy | Pelosi | First Female Speaker of the House | |
| Francis | Perkins | First Women to Hold a Cabinet Post 1943 – 1945 | |
| Marjorie Merriweather | Post | Founder of General Foods | 4155 Linnean Avenue NW |
| Sharon | Pratt | First Female Mayor of Washington, DC | |
| Sally | Quinn | Journalist | |
| Jeannette | Rankin | First Woman Elected to Congress | |
| Marjorie Kinnan | Rawlings | Wrote The Yearling | Brookland; street address? |
| Janet | Reno | First Woman Attorney General | |
| Chita | Rivera | Entertainer | Attended the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet (now Dance), 1200 Delafield Place NW |
| Cokie | Roberts | Journalist | |
| Edith Nourse | Rogers | Congresswoman from Massachusetts 1925-1960 | 1155 16th Street NW |
| Eleanor | Roosevelt | First Lady, US Delegate to the United Nations | (first residence) 1733 N Street NW |
| Eleanor | Roosevelt | First Lady, US Delegate to the United Nations | (second residence) 2131 R Street NW |
| Margaret Chase | Smith | Senator from Maine | 305 C Street SE |
| Chloethiel Woodward | Smith | Designer of Capitol Park at 4th and G Street SW | 4th and G Street SW (park) |
| Olympia | Snowe | Senator from Maine | |
| Elizabeth | Taylor | Actress | 3240 S Street NW |
| Mary Church | Terrell | Civil rights, suffragist, educator, integrated D.C. restaurants | 326 T Street NW |
| Elizabeth Proctor | Thomas | Farmer/free woman of color, owned land Fort Stevens built on | 13th and Quackenbos Streets NW |
| Helen | Thomas | White House Reporter | |
| Helen | Thomas | White House Reporter | |
| Sojourner | Truth | Suffragist/Abolitionist | Worked at Freedman’s Hospital (1865), between 12th and 13th and R Street NW |
| Sarah | Vaughn | Jazz Singer | performed at Club Bali at 14th and T St NW |
| Sarah | Vaughn | Jazz Singer | performed at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW |
| Phillis | Wheatley | first African poet in America (lived in Boston) | 901 Rhode Island Avenue NW (YWCA named after Wheatley) |
| Nancy | Wilson | Jazz and popular singer | performed at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW |
| Molly | Yard | President of NOW | 610 7th Street SW |