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Mary Gannon

Co-founder of the U.S.’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.

Margaret Phelan

20th century Irish local historian

Flora Mitchell

20th century Irish painter

Marion Donovan

Inventor of the disposable diaper

María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías

María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Mexican woman to receive a degree in architecture, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Academia de San Carlos (the National School of Architecture) in 1937.

Eulie Chowdhury

Indian architect

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

American architect and urban planner, dean of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, where she has taught since 1979, and a founding principal of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ).

Esther Pariseau

Known as “the Builder,” Mother Joseph designed and/or supervised construction of 29 schools and hospitals, one of which was Seattle’s first hospital. She is recognized as one of the first architects in Washington Territory.