Nancy Lopez
The youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame, Albany resident Nancy Lopez won forty-eight tournaments and earned more than $5 million in prize money during her career.
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Cheryl Haworth
Often called “the strongest woman in the United States,” Cheryl Haworth is a competitive weight lifter who emerged in the late 1990s as a popular icon for women in sports. While still a teenager, she became national champion, junior world champion, and an Olympic medalist.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
In the early 1970s, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley was the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in world tennis and compete at Wimbledon.
Helen Bage
One of the first women in the United States to own and operate a lighting fixture manufacturing company.
Mary Kendall Browne
Championship golfer and tennis player
Jean Murrell Capers
In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.
Stella Walsh
Polish-American runner named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the Helm Athletic Foundation (1951)
Marge Wood
Renowned softball pitcher who was inducted into the first class of the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
Florence Bundy Fairfax
A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”
Adele von Ohl Parker
American equestrienne, daredevil rider, vaudeville performer, and from 1929 to 1966 the owner and operator of Parker’s Ranch in Ohio