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Alphabet run: A & B edit‑a‑thon
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Billie Burke, American stage and film actress (1884–1970)
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Alphabet run: A & B
January 2025

Recently completed:	Indigenous women Alphabet run: Countries starting with N and O Women born before 1900
New this month:	Writers & their works Alphabet run: Countries starting with P, Q & R Labour activists
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Women in STEM Alphabet run: Countries starting with S Ideas

Welcome!

From January to December 2025, Women in Red is embarking on our third collective "alphabet run", where editors work consecutively through the letters of the English alphabet. The first two letters are A and B, and can be applied to any first, middle or last name of a subject e.g. Anni Albers, or individuals named like Ella Graham Agnew or Betty Parsons would both be appropriate.

• January 2025 – A & B
• February 2025 – C & D
• March 2025 – E & F
• April 2025 – G & H
• May 2025 – I & J
• June 2025 – K & L
• July 2025 – M & N
• August 2025 – O & P
• September 2025 – Q & R
• October 2025 – S & T
• November 2025 – U, V, W
• December 2025 – X, Y & Z

Again this year we have lists of the most frequently redlisted women. Based on database searches, these are listed under the first name in the article title. As the searches take account of women's given names, you will discover quite a number that are inappropriate, for example, Andrea or Auguste which are also used for men. If you write a biography from these lists, please mention "most frequent" when you add it as a New or upgraded article.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever you may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are, of course, also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, under our year-long initiative Music, other topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman event.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Any of these lists can be used to find subjects who may have a first, middle or last name, beginning with A or B. Editors can click the column header to rearrange names into alphabetical order.

There are a wide variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are: Wikidata generated lists American National Biography (WD) Australian Dictionary of Biography (WD) Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (WD) Dictionary of Canadian Biography (WD) Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (WD) Glimpses into Pacific Lives: Some Outstanding Women (CS) Native American Women (WD) Notable American Women, 1607–1950 (WD) Notable Women of Hawaii (WD) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (WD) Dictionary of Welsh Biography (WD) Dictionaries with fewer than 20 women to go South Asian Novelists (WD) - 1 Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) - 4 Dictionary of Ulster Biography (WD) - 3 Dictionary of Irish Biography (WD)- 1 (more not on Wikidata!) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) - 7 Western Canadian women (CS) - 7 Dictionary of African Biography (WD) - 2 Onze Musici (WD) - 11 Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism (WD) - 17 Latin America in the Communist International (WD) - 11 American Women Historians (WD) - 6 Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (WD) - 8 Most frequently redlisted women The three lists below cover the first names of women beginning with A or B: A1: first names from Aa to Am A2: first names from An to Az B: first names beginning with B

Participants

• Gab Brasseur (talk) 06:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 17:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
• --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
• Spiderpig662 (talk) 17:58, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
• Grnrchst (talk) 14:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 00:20, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• Gamaliel (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• MumphingSquirrel (talk) 18:49, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
• PigeonChickenFish (talk) 05:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 03:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
• Ajeeshkumar4u (talk) 13:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
• SDBG1217 (talk) 21:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
• Semampunya (talk) 13:50, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
• SarahTHunter (talk) SarahTHunter (talk) 17:51, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
• RevelationDirect (talk) 05:54, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
• Nayyn (talk) 22:53, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 18:10, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
• TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 19:43, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk) 00:32, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
• DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:25, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Promote our work

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky
• Add THR after the article if you post it on Threads

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

1. Sarah Baxendale (also 346 and 350)
2. Amy Cudden (also 330 and 346)
3. Tabitha Byron (also 346 and 350)
4. Alison Burrows (also 327 and 346)
5. Zima Anderson (also 327)
6. Annelie Ahrenstrand
7. Mary Therese Austin
8. Marléen Bengtsson-Kovacs
9. "Bibbidiba" (also 326/329)
10. Amelie Beese upgraded
11. Anna Paaske (also 326)
12. Nancy Brown (also 326)
13. Agnieszka Bartczak
14. Beris Cox (also 327)
15. Putri Ayudya
16. Ada Elizabeth Corder (also 326)
17. Gabrielle Jeffery
18. Florence Barry (also 327)
19. Martina Apostolova
20. Alina Tomnikov
21. Alice Babidge (most linked)
22. Beth Martinez Humenik (improved)
23. Bhagwati Bhola Nauth (also 327)
24. Selma Alaoui
25. Alema Alema
26. Lily Banda update
27. Soheir Bakhoum
28. Batool Begam (Upgraded, also 326)
29. Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi (also 326)
30. Margit Anna - upgraded
31. Anne-Eléonore de Béthune d'Orval
32. Audrey Peart Dickman
33. Marguerite-Antoinette Madame Saqui significant upgrade - Bsky,
34. Caridad Rives Arcayna (also 327)
35. Ada Santana Aguilera (also 327)
36. Nina Behrendt (also 327)
37. Asta Kamma August
38. Patricia Alessandrini (rescued; also 326)
39. Allison V. Harding
40. Anke Wirsing (also 327)
41. Asimenye Simwaka update
42. Gladys Athena Sperling
43. Barbara White (composer) (also 326)
44. Kathleen M. Butler - upgraded Bsky
45. Alethea Stiles
46. Anna Fuller
47. Jacqueline Blanc
48. Alice Rast
49. Ify Alyssa (also 326)
50. Mary Lathrop Benton
51. Nan Bagby Stephens
52. Nokukhanya Bhengu (also 327)
53. Katie Booth (scientist) (also 327)
54. Minerva Allen
55. Margaret Atack
56. Bessie Leach Priddy (also 327)
57. Mylapore Gowri Ammal
58. Louise Beach (also 326)
59. Anna Weesner (rescued; also 326)
60. Betty Manyolo - upgraded Bsky
61. Sabah al-Alwani
62. Annie Bartlett Shepard
63. Kristin Bervig Valentine
64. Anita Sharma (dancer)
65. Angie Reano Owen (also 327)
66. Nalani Buob
67. Peggy Batchelor (upg during AfD)
68. Charlotte Barker (upg during AfD)
69. Amunda Kolderup (also 326)
70. Agnes Hope Pillsbury
71. Pratibha Agrawal (also 326)
72. Saudade Braga (also 324, 327)
73. Taonere Banda add pics
74. Adeline Frances Fitz
75. Bunbury Women's Club
76. Anupama Hoskere (also 326)
77. Jane Ansah upgrade
78. Brianna Vidé
79. Alexandra Saint-Pierre
80. Anne-Sophie Centis
81. Ângela Viegas Santiago RoundtheWorld
82. Andreia Pinto Correia (also 326)
83. Benedicte Bemet (upg fr declined AfC)
84. Anne Sofie Madsen (upg during AfD)
85. Annette Persis Ward
86. Agatha Pricilla (also 326)
87. Anna Beecroft Briggs
88. Sivia Azizah (also 326)
89. Anna Laura Force
90. Susan Botti (rescued; also 326)
91. Rebecca Bradley (bandit)
92. Shakuntala Baliarsingh (also 327)
93. Kumudini Basu (also 327)
94. Annedore Leber
95. Bessie Bown Ricker
96. Annie Florence Brown
97. Amy Lynn Wlodarski (also 326)
98. Anne C. Shreffler (also 326)
99. Deborah Ferris Bringhurst
100. Radie Britain add img,
101. Anna Dondon
102. Barbe Le Clerch
103. Elsie West Baker
104. Nellie Burget Miller
105. Alekhya Punjala
106. Lillian Pringle Baldauf
107. Alice Kingsbury Cooley
108. Emmy Brady Rogers
109. Abigail McGrath
110. Alamelu Mani
111. Lola Amaria
112. Aline Jusria
113. Sophie Burdet
114. Muhsina al-Mahithawi
115. Asri Welas
116. Jessica Beshir
117. Jo Ann Walters
118. Lois Albright
119. Daisy Radcliffe Beresford
120. Srebra Apostolova
121. Sarvenaz Ahmadi
122. Blanche Slocum
123. Berta Persson - upgraded. Bsky
124. Ana Garbín
125. Edna Bruner Bulkley
126. Tomoko Aran (also 326)
127. Catherine Arnott
128. Mary Cummings Browne Hatch
129. Edna P. Bruner
130. Astrid Sommer - added image,
131. Edna Baxter Bruner
132. Agnes Lake
133. Dora Brilliant
134. Aethel Tollemache
135. Marie-Térèse Baird (upg fr declined AfC)
136. Ann Hand
137. Madalyn Akers Phillips
138. Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache
139. Alice Henley
140. Jeanne Boyd
141. Anne Walters Robertson (also 326)
142. Ann McMillan (also 326)
143. Alice Maria Warren - has been flagged as not notable
144. Bridget Trench
145. Denise Louis-Bar
146. Adea Danielle
147. Anna Hamlin
148. Simona Brambilla - added image
149. Manjiri Asanare–Kelkar
150. Anna Nellens
151. Augusta Lenska
152. Sophie Areshian
153. Brooke Eby (also 329)
154. Ayla Holdom (also 327)
155. Anna Harris Stein
156. Ana María Ochoa (also 326)
157. Barbara Lull
158. Johanne Bruhn
159. Annie Livshis
160. Aleksandra Izmailovich
161. Carolyn Adams (dancer)
162. Alma Mehus
163. Antoinette Lubaki
164. Alicia Porro Freire
165. Anna Brueghel (also 327)
166. Mary Park Seavey Benton
167. Rae Bernstein
168. Veronica Adhiambo Oluoch
169. Maria Bellett Browne
170. Aygün Beyler (also 324, 326)
171. Alice Schofield upgrade
172. Ann English
173. Arlene Agus (also 324)
174. Stéphanie Bodet (also 329)
175. Bianka Blume (also 326)
176. Agnes Leist Beebe
177. Agnes Nkusa Nkhoma
178. Abigail Shariff
179. Aisha Adams
180. Amalie Andersen (actress)
181. Laurilla Aleroyla Smith
182. Mary B. Tucker
183. Michaela Bergman
184. Yaumil Agoes Achir
185. Lamtiur Andaliah Panggabean
186. Aunt Susan - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
187. Shirley Osborn Bellmon - Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame
188. Amy Arnold Holloway
189. Grayce Breene Kerr
190. Janna Lou Little Boren
191. Molly Shi Boren - Oklahoma Hall of Fame

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025

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  Nancy Brown
• 
  Nancy Brown
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  Ada Elizabeth Corder
• 
  Ada Elizabeth Corder
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  Alema Alema
• 
  Amyjo Doh
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  Anne-Eléonore-Marie de Béthune d'Orval
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  Mary Louise Ainsworth
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  Gladys Athena Sperling
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  Jennie Boynton
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  Reclining Shepherdess - Alethea Stiles
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  Nan Bagby Stephens
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  Amunda Kolderup
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  Agnes Hope Pillsbury
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  Jane Ansah is right
• 
  Beatice Saunders
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  Anna Laura Force
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  Marie Bashkirtseff
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  Emma Gillingham Bostwick
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  Deborah Ferris Bringhurst
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  Radie Britain
• 
  Elsie West Baker
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  Lillian Pringle Baldauf
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  Emmy Brady Rogers
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  Sarah Wales Jones Burton
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  Lois Albright
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  Anna Harris Stein
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  Blanche Slocum
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  Woman Sweeping by Mary Cummings Browne Hatch
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  Edna P. Bruner
• 
  Astrid Sommer
• 
  Astrid Sommer
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  Edna Baxter Bruner
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  Madalyn Akers Phillips
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  Jeanne Boyd
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  Anna Hamlin
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  Simona Brambilla
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  Augusta Lenska
• 
  Augusta Lenska
• 
  Brooke Eby
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  Barbara Lull
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  Johanne Bruhn
• 
  Johanne Bruhn
• 
  Johanne Bruhn
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  Alma Mehus
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  A View of Yosemite Valley by Mary Park Seavey Benton
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  Rae Bernstein
• 
  Maria Bellett Browne
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  Jane Eliza Sherwood Russell by Maria Bellett Browne
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  Veronica Adhiambo Oluoch
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  Bianka Blume
• 
  Bianka Blume
• 
  Agnes Leist Beebe

Did You Know features

• ... that Dora Brilliant built bombs to assassinate Russian officials, despite being personally uncomfortable with violence? (2026-08-19)
• ... that in 2002, Sarah Baxendale broke the Guinness World Record for the longest kiss featured on screen? (2026-02-07)
• ... that Amy Cudden was credited as "Daniel Radcliffe's mum" on Am I Being Unreasonable? due to apparently looking like Harry Potter? (2026-01-24)
• ... that the ending of the music video for Hoshimachi Suisei's "Bibbidiba" was called inspiring to struggling women? (2025-03-08)
• ... that 19th-century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies? (2025-03-02)
• ... that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola? (2025-02-26)
• ... that opera singer Susan Botti performed an Olympic jingle for Kodak to pay for graduate school? (2025-02-12)
• ... that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight? (2025-02-12)
• ... that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career? (2025-02-02)
• ... that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse? (2025-01-31)
• ... that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? (2025-01-22)
• ... that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"? (2025-01-11)

Event templates

• Invitation: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2025
• Editathon banner for talk pages: {{WIR|328}}