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Most famous historical figures named Emily
A guide to the most popular name for girls
"Emily" was the most popular baby name for girls in the U.S. for 12 straight years until it dropped to third in 2008. It's at or near the top of the list in England, Canada and Australia. This Knol is one of a series about famous people, places and things named Emily.
-- Emilie Dionne, born in 1934 in Canada, was one of the first group of quintuplets to live more than a few hours. They were wildly famous in their childhood. Emilie died in 1954.
-- Emilie Pelzl Schindlerand her husband, Oskar Schindler, saved more than 1, 000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Her role was pretty minor in the movie Schindlers List, although in 1993, the same year the movie came out, she was given Israels Righteous Among the Nations award. Impoverished, she and Oskar moved to Argentina in 1949 and were estranged in 1957 when he returned to Germany. Her memoir is Where Light and Shadow Meet. She was born in 1907 and died in 2001. Final note: Pelzl means fur in German.
-- Emily Greene Balchwon the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, along with John R. Mott. She was a sociologist, economist and peace activist who opposed Americas participation in World War I. She founded the Womens International Committee for Permanent Peace, later named the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom and served the Geneva-based group for many years. She was 79 when she won the Nobel prize and lived to 94. -- Emily Dunning Barringer. A horse-drawn ambulance carried Dr. Barringer on her first emergency call in 1903. She was the first woman ambulance surgeon in New York City, working out of Gouveneur Hospital on the Lower East Side. Shed applied for a job there the year before, upon her graduation from Cornell University Medical School. Women at that time were not permitted to be residents at general hospitals, but Barringer took the test anyway She was turned down even though she received either the first or second highest score on the exam (sources vary). She reapplied the next year and was admitted over the objections of a petition campaign by the citys male interns. Barringer, who was born in 1876, was a pioneer in other ways. She helped organize a campaign to send ambulances to Europe during World War I. During the next world war, she lobbied Congress to permit women doctors to serve as commissioned officers. It passed the Sparkman Act in 1943, which made it possible for women to be appointed to the army, navy and public health service with the same benefits as men. She wrote her autobiography, Bowery to Bellevue: The Story of New Yorks First Woman Ambulance Driver, at age 74. She died in 1961. Final note: The 1952 movie The Girl in White, starring June Allyson, is based on Barringers life.
-- Social worker Emily Bisselldesigned the Christmas Seal to raise money for tuberculosis. A U.S. postage stamp of her was issued in 1986. She lived from 1861 to 1948. -- Emily Daviesfounded Girton College, the first residential institution for women at either Cambridge or Oxford. She raised the money to open the College for Women at Hitchin in 1869. It was renamed Girton College in 1872 and moved the next year to buildings two miles north of Cambridge. Davis hope that the women would eventually be awarded degrees by the University of Cambridge was a long time in coming. Girton was recognized as a college of the university and women were given full membership in 1948. Girton itself began admitting men in 1979. Davies was born in 1830, the daughter of an evangelical clergyman, and was a pioneer in womens rights all of her adult life. Also known as Sarah Emily Davies, she died in 1921. -- Emily Wilding Davisonwas a British suffragette, 1872-1913. Imprisoned several times, she allegedly finally decided only loss of life would end the torture of women. She threw herself in front of the kings horse at the Derby of 1913 and died. Her suicide is recounted in a 1974 TV mini-series, Shoulder to Shoulder, that describes the famous Pankhurst suffragette family and the womens movement in England. Historians now question whether she intended to commit suicide or was the victim of accident.
-- Emily Taft Douglaswas an Illinois Democrat who served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945 to 1947. She was against isolationism and supported the United Nations relief efforts in Europe. Her husband, Paul H. Douglas, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1949 and served until 1967. She died in 1994. Final note: She was also an actress and author whose books include Remember the Ladies: The Story of Great Women Who Helped Shape America and Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future.
-- Englishwoman Emily Faithfullstarted her own publishing house, Victoria Press, in 1860 to give opportunities to women trades workers. Her employment of women as compositors drew strong opposition from all-male unions and even sabotage. Victoria Press was in business for 20 years. Faithfull also wrote widely in England and America. Born 1835, died 1895.
-- Emily Clara Jordan Folgerwas a Shakespeare scholar who along with her husband, Henry Clay Folger, chairman of Standard Oil, collected 100, 000 books and manuscripts. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., built in 1932, is named for the couple. The library says it has almost half of all the printed works published in England or in English before 1640.
-- Newsday reporter Emily Genauerwon a 1974 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for writing about art and artists. She died in 2002. -- Angelina Emily Grimkeand her older sister, Sarah, grew up in a slave-owning family in South Carolina. Each moved North and in the 1830s they became abolitionists, speaking widely before thousands about the evils of slavery. They also were early public proponents of womens rights, although they died before women won the right to vote in America. -- Emily Montague Schwartz Harriskilled one woman and kidnapped another as a member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army she helped found in the 1970s in California. Harris fired the shot that killed Myrna Opsahl during the groups robbery of a bank. The self-styled revolutionaries also kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. -- Emily Hobhousecampaigned against the terrible conditions for Boer women and children in British concentration camps during the South African War that started in 1899. A middle-aged spinster, she went to South Africa to assess the situation, then reported back to the English in articles and speeches. What she said outraged the public and led to change. She opposed British involvement in World War I and provided humanitarian help to people in central Europe during that war. She was born in 1860 and died in 1926. -- Emily Lennoxwas one of four sisters who lived between the 1720s and 1820s and whose stories are told in Aristocrats, by Stella K. Tillyard. (1994) They were the great-granddaughters of King Charles II and the daughters of a duke. They wrote thousands of letters, which became the basis for much of this book. Emily, the beauty of the family, married the Earl of Kildare, James Fitzgerald, who later became the 1st Duke of Leinster. They had 19 children. After he died, she married William Ogilvie, with whom she had three children. The Lennox sisters stories were made into a 1999 TV mini-series, Aristocrats. -- Emily Hartshorne Muddwas a pioneer in family planning and marriage counseling. She and her husband, Stuart Mudd, were among a small group that founded Pennsylvanias first birth-control facility in 1927. Six years later they helped found the Marriage Council of Philadelphia. She was its director from 1936 to 1967. She taught at the University of Pennsylvania and created the first med school course on sexuality. Mudd was a founding member of the American Association of Marriage Counselors. She died in 1998 at the age of 99.
-- Emily Ferguson Murphy, a well-educated Canadian, moved to Alberta with her minister husband and was surprised to find that rural women had few rights. In 1911 she pressured the government to pass the Dower Act, giving women a one-third share of their husbands property. She became the first woman judge in the British Empire in 1916 when she was sworn in as police magistrate for the city of Edmonton. She and four other women took the Persons case all the way to the highest court in Canada, which in 1929 ruled that women were persons eligible to serve in the Senate. She lived from 1868 to 1933. -- Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeulewas a classicist, archaeologist, art historian and poet. She was a popular lecturer at colleges around the U.S. and wrote several books, including Greece in the Bronze Age, (1964) which is often used in university courses. Vermeule, who died in 2001, was named for her grandmother, a relative of the poet Emily Dickinson. Vermeule taught at Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Boston University and Harvard. Experts in Homeric studies published a collection of articles in her honor, The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule, in 1998. -- Emily Browning Visher, along with her husband, John, founded the Stepfamily Association of America in 1977. She was a psychologist and he a psychiatrist, but they came to their interest in stepfamilies when they married in 1959. Each had four children from a prior marriage. Emily Visher died in 2001.
-- Emily Howell Warnerwas hired by Frontier Airlines in 1973 as the first woman pilot for a regularly scheduled U.S. commercial airline. She also became the first woman captain and was the first female member of the Airline Pilots Association. -- Emmeline Pankhurstfought for the voting rights of women in England from the late 1800s until her death in 1928 the very year that women were given the full voting privileges of men. She was a fiery speaker and was arrested for encouraging suffragettes to break the law. She stopped her campaign during World War I and urged women to take the place of fighting men in the domestic workforce. -- Emmy Freundlich was an Austrian socialist and in 1921 became the first president of the International Co-operative Womens Guild, a position she held until her death in 1948. The group advocated for economic freedom and social justice.
Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Nobelprize.org, The New York Academy of Medicine, distinguishedwomen.com, The New York Times, infoplease.com, Girton College, The Pulitzer Prizes, Biographies of Special South Africans, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Library and Archives of Canada, National Women's Hall of Fame, Harvard University.
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