Some Famous, Historical,
and Noteworthy Mothers
There are all kinds of mothers. Here's a quick look at a
variety of noteworthy mothers:
Barbara Bush (traditional mother of President George W.
Bush, former American First Lady)
Virginia Cassidy Clinton (colorful mother of President
Bill Clinton)
Rose Kennedy (strong mother of President John F. Kennedy)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (mother, lawyer, former American
First Lady, US Senator)
Indira Gandhi (mother, first woman Prime Minister of India)
Margaret Thatcher (mother, first woman Prime Minister of
Britain)
Carol Brady (fictional, ideal mom and step mom)
Marion Cunningham (fictional, traditional mother)
Murphy Brown (fictional, controversial single mom)
Marge Simpson (cartoon mom)
Reese Witherspoon (young mom, movie star)
Geena Davis (older mom, movie star)
Madonna (hip mom, singer, actor)
Cher (outrageous mom, singer, Academy Award-winning actor)
Celine Dion ("test tube" mom, music star)
Barbra Streisand (mother, singer, actor, director, producer)
Marie Osmond (biological and adoptive mother of 7, singer)
Bobbi McCaughey (mother of sextuplets)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (mother of 6, writer, wife of aviator
Charles Lindbergh)
Whoopi Goldberg (mother, grandmother, actor, comedian)
Rosie O'Donnell (gay, adoptive mom, talk show host, comedian)
Marlo Thomas (stepmother to Phil Donahue's children, actor)
Calista Flockhart (single, adoptive mom, actor)
Jodie Foster (single, biological mother, Academy Award-winning
actor)
Barbara Walters (adoptive mother, TV journalist)
Faith Popcorn (adoptive mom, futurist)
Lucille Ball (funny mom, TV star and business woman)
Chris Evert (athlete mom, three-time Wimbledon champ)
Florence Griffith Joyner (athlete mom, triple Olympic gold
medallist)
Cindy Crawford (supermodel mom)
Marie Curie (mother, Nobel Prize-winning scientist)
Mother Teresa (caring "mother" to thousands,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient)
Queen Mother (royal mother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth
II)
Rosa Parks (the "Mother of Montgomery" who launched
the civil rights movement)
Toni Morrison (mother, writer, first African American to
win the Nobel Prize in literature)
Sandra Day O'Connor (mother, first woman appointed to the
Supreme Court)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (mother, Supreme Court Justice)
Victoria Woodhull (mother, first woman to run for American
President)
Wilma Mankiller (mother, first woman Chief of the Cherokee
Nation)
Marian Wright Edelman (mother, lawyer, writer, and Founder
of the Children's Defense Fund)
Mary Kay Ash (mother, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
"Mother" (Mary Harris) Jones (mother, labor leader)
Emma Willard (mother, pioneer in education who campaigned
for higher education for women in math, science, and social
studies)
Clara Barton (founder of the Red Cross and "mother"
to thousands of wounded soldiers)
"Mother" (Clara McBride) Hale (mother, started
Hale House in Harlem to care for infants born to drug-addicted
mothers)
Candy Lightner (after her 13-year-old daughter was killed
by a drunk driver, she founded MADD -- Mothers Against Drunk
Driving)
Joan Ganz Cooney (the "mother" of Sesame Street)
Grandma Moses (mother and grandmother, and a famous painter
who started painting in her 70s)
Whistler's Mother (famous painting)
Your Mother (after all, where would you be without her?)
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