List of women in the Women Film Pioneers project:
- Isabel Acuña
- Maude Adams
- Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
- Muriel Alleyne
- Audrie Alspaugh
- Tsuru Aoki
- Teresita Arce
- Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña
- Dorothy Arzner
- Gertrude Atherton
- Leah Baird
- Dorothea Baird
- Hettie Gray Baker
- Aloha Wanderwell Baker
- Natalia Bakhareva
- Ruth Ann Baldwin
- Adelina Barrasa
- Bessie Barriscale
- Iris Barry
- Anne Bauchens
- Laura Bayley
- Gemma Bellincioni
- Clara Beranger
- Ouida Bergère
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Francesca Bertini
- Marguerite Bertsch
- Cora Johnstone Best
- Marian Constance Blackton
- Paula Blackton
- Harriet Bloch
- Anita Maris Boggs
- Cube Bonifant
- Margaret Booth
- Jessica Elvira Borthwick
- Bertha Muzzy Bower
- Madeline Brandeis
- Marvin Breckinridge
- Beta Breuil
- Zinaida Brumberg
- Valentina Brumberg
- Adele S. Buffington
- Betty Burbridge
- Hazel Burnett
- Bianca Virginia Camagni
- Carmen Cartellieri
- Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
- Virgínia de Castro e Almeida
- Thea Červenková
- Elsa Chauvel
- Mrs. George Randolph Chester
- Haydée Chikly
- May Clark
- Josephine Clement
- Lenore Coffee
- Mabel Condon
- Kate Corbaley
- Helena Cortesina
- Sada Cowan
- Grace Cunard
- Berthe Dagmar
- Virginia Dale
- Helena Smith Dayton
- Marie de Kerstrat
- Renée Deliot
- Beatrice deMille
- Lucie Derain
- Mimí Derba
- Beulah Marie Dix
- Ruth Gould Dolesé
- Mona Donaldson
- Dorothea Donn-Byrne
- Gurly Drangsholt
- Marie Dressler
- Mrs. Sidney Drew
- Lillian Ducey
- Lucy Duff-Gordon
- Winifred Dunn
- Winnifred Eaton
- Gerd Egede-Nissen
- Ada Egede-Nissen
- Aud Egede-Nissen
- Adriana Ehlers
- Dolores Ehlers
- Nell Emerald
- Esther Eng
- Fabienne Fabrèges
- Marion Fairfax
- Fan Xuepeng
- Dot Farley
- Dorothy Farnum
- Frances Baker Farrell
- Sabahat Filmer
- Flora Finch
- Cissy Fitzgerald
- Marie Louise Gagner
- Helen Gardner
- Gene Gauntier
- Agnes Gavin
- Emma Gendron
- Elvira Giallanella
- Angela Murray Gibson
- Jenny Gilbertson
- Lillian Gish
- Eloyce King Patrick Gist
- Elinor Glyn
- María Luz Morales Godoy
- Ruth Goetz
- Dorothy Gordon
- Dorothy Gottlieb
- Ethel Grandin
- Corinne Griffith
- Elizabeth B. Grimball
- Texas Guinan
- Alice Guy Blaché
- Greta Håkansson
- Gladys Hall
- Genevieve Harris
- Máirín Hayes
- Lydia Hayward
- Gale Henry
- Margaret Hepworth
- Katharine Hilliker
- Gerda Hintze
- Anna Hofman-Uddgren
- Helen Holmes
- Drusilla Dunjee Houston
- Kate Howarde
- Alice Howell
- Hu Ping
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Pearl Ing
- Eugenie Magnus Ingleton
- Julia Crawford Ivers
- Alice Smythe Jay
- Ida Jenbach
- Osa Johnson
- Agnes Christine Johnston
- Flossie A. Jones
- Maibelle Heikes Justice
- Diana Karenne
- Aili Kari
- Helen Keller
- Annette Kellerman
- Aleksandra Khokhlova
- Bradley King
- Louise Kolm-Fleck
- Florence Lawrence
- Viola Lawrence
- Caroline Lejeune
- Marion Leonard
- Sonya Levien
- Ray Lewis
- Leila Lewis
- Beulah Livingstone
- Anita Loos
- Enid Lorimer
- Hope Loring
- Jane Loring
- Ruth Harriet Louise
- Louise Lovely
- Josephine Lovett
- Christabel Lowndes-Yates
- Alva Lundin
- Lottie Lyell
- Frederica Sagor Maas
- Blanche MacIntosh
- Mary MacLane
- Jeanie Macpherson
- Cleo Madison
- Mary Manning
- Anna Mar
- Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend
- Frances Marion
- Suzanne Marwille
- Sarah Y. Mason
- June Mathis
- Margaret Mayo
- Vera McCord
- Isabel McDonagh
- Paulette McDonagh
- Phyllis McDonagh
- Elizabeth McGaffey
- Abby Meehan
- Jackeydawra Melford
- Georgette Méliès
- Christiane Mendelys
- Bess Meredyth
- Mary Lawton Metcalfe
- Beatriz Michelena
- Dorothea Mitchell
- Lorna Moon
- Irene Morra
- Jane Murfin
- Mary Murillo
- Mae Murray
- Musidora
- Bedia Muvahhit
- Nancy Naumburg
- Alla Nazimova
- Neyyire Neyir
- Asta Nielsen
- Eva Nil
- Nina Niovilla
- Fernanda Nissen
- Mabel Normand
- Elvira Notari
- Mary O'Connor
- Ellen O'Mara Sullivan
- Ruth Bryan Owen
- Ida May Park
- Harriet Parsons
- Louella Parsons
- Frances Taylor Patterson
- Frances Peck
- Mrs. M.T. Pender
- Olga Petrova
- Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett
- Mary Pickford
- Rosa Porten
- Gertrude Price
- Olga Printzlau
- Pu Shunqing
- Caroline Frances Pugliese
- Ol’ga Rakhmanova
- Natacha Rambova
- Ángela Ramos de Rotalde
- Lettice Ramsey
- Josephine Rector
- Dorothy Davenport Reid
- Lotte Reiniger
- Cándida Beltrán Rendón
- Marguerite Renoir
- Alma Reville
- Eslanda Robeson
- Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
- Kathleen Romoli
- Alice Rosenthal
- Gladys Rosson
- Fanchon Royer
- Juliet Barrett Rublee
- Alice B. Russell
- Lillian Case Russell
- Tazuko Sakane
- Emilia Saleny
- Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú
- Emilie Sannom
- Carmen Santos
- Henderina Victoria Scott
- Encarnacion Rosa Scott
- Adela Sequeyro
- Matilde Serao
- Blanche Sewell
- Nell Shipman
- Audrey Forfar Shippam
- Esfir Shub
- Stella F. Simon
- Rose Smith
- Stefanía Socha
- Adriënne Solser
- Tressie Souders
- Señora Spencer
- Anita Stewart
- Ruth Stonehouse
- Marie Stopes
- Jenny Strömberg
- Elizaveta Svilova
- Gloria Swanson
- Daisy Sylvan
- Constance Talmadge
- Norma Talmadge
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Eliane Tayar
- Alice Terry
- Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
- Elizaveta Thiemann
- Élisabeth Thuillier
- Berthe Thuillier
- Beatrice Maude Tildesley
- Fay Tincher
- Carmen Toscano
- Wanda Tuchock
- Margaret Turnbull
- Florence Turner
- Madge Tyrone
- Harriette Underhill
- Eve Unsell
- Ada Aline Urban
- Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
- Valda Valkyrien
- Caroline van Dommelen
- Cleo de Verberena
- Marguerite Viel
- Katri Viita
- Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
- Thea von Harbou
- Helen Wang
- Lule Warrenton
- May Watkis
- Lois Weber
- Clare West
- Pearl White
- Kathlyn Williams
- Maria P. Williams
- Edna Williams
- Elsie Jane Wilson
- Margery Wilson
- Margaret J. Winkler
- Marion E. Wong
- Xie Caizhen
- Yan Shanshan
- Yang Naimei
- Anzia Yezierska
- Dorothy Yost
- Clara Kimball Young
- Marija Jurić Zagorka
- Stefania Zahorska
- Esterina Zuccarone