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County: Dane

Best known for her work on gender, race, and class, University of Wisconsin graduate bell hooks was a prolific writer, speaker, and scholar.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

Anne Nicol Gaylor was an activist who worked to make abortion legal for Wisconsin women and to protect the separation of church and state.

Carie Graves was a three-time Olympian and a medal winner for the U.S. women's rowing team.

Categories: Sports

Nellie Y. McKay was one of the first scholars to bring attention to the writing of African American women authors.