Mademoiselle Award Winners

Awarded annually by Mademoiselle magazine.

• Ali MacGraw (born 1938)

  American actress.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Althea Gibson (born 1927)

  American tennis player. The first black tennis player to achieve worldwide prominence.

  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Tyler (born 1941)

  American novelist.

  • 1965 winner of the Mademoiselle Award
• Debbie Meyer

  American swimmer.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Donna de Varona

  American swimmer.

  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elizabeth Montgomery (born 1933, died 1995)

  American actress.

  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Florence M. Kelley

  American judge.

  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Frances FitzGerald (born 1940)

  American journalist and historian.

  • 1967 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Addams (born 1860, died 1935)

  American social reformer and peace advocate. Ran Hull House, 1889-1935.

  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)

  American novelist and short-story writer.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Louise Suggs
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Louise Gluck (born 1943)

  American poet.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Margaret Smith Court (born 1942)

  Australian tennis player.

  • 1962 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marguerite Higgins

  American journalist.

  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Maureen ''Little Mo'' Connolly

  American tennis player. The first woman to get a Grand Slam, winning all four major tennis tournaments (U.S. Open, Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon) in the same year.

  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Melissa Hayden (born 1923)

  American actress.

  • 1952 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Pat McCormick

  American diver.

  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Rosalind Cash (born 1938, died 1995)

  American actress.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Shirley Fry

  American tennis player.

  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Tenley Albright

  American figure skater.

  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Wilma Rudolph (born 1940, died 1994)

  American athlete.

  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Barbra Streisand (born 1942)

  American singer, actress, director and producer. Original name: Barbara Joan Streisand.

  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bobbie Gentry (born 1942)

  American singer and songwriter.

  • 1967 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Cooke Wright (born 1919)

  American physician.

  • 1952 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Betsey Lee Johnson (born 1942)

  American fashion designer.

  • 1966 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Donna Faske Karan
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Klein

  American fashion designer.

  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marilyn Horne (born 1934)

  American opera singer.

  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Valentina V. Tereshkova

  Soviet cosmonaut. The first woman in space.

  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Eva Marie Saint (born 1924)

  American actress.

  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Audrey Hepburn (born 1929, died 1993)

  Belgian-born American actress and activist for famine relief in Africa.

  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Shelley Winters (born 1922)

  American actress. Original name: Shirley Schrift.

  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Maria Callas (born 1923, died 1977)

  Greek-born American opera singer. Original name: Maria Kalogeropoulos.

  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carol Lawrence (born 1935)

  American singer and actress.

  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Liza Minnelli (born 1946)

  American singer and actress.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ingrid Thulin (born 1929)

  Swedish actress, writer and director.

  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Bancroft (born 1931)

  American actress. Original name: Anna Maria Italiano.

  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Meryl Streep (born 1949)

  American actress.

  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Edna O'Brien (born 1931)

  Irish novelist.

  • 1962 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Grace Hartigan (born 1922)

  American Abstract Expressionist painter.

  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lee Bontecou (born 1931)

  American sculptor.

  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Judy Chicago (born 1939)

  American artist and feminist.

  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Phoebe M. Bailey
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Hortense Williams
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jade Snow Wong
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Barbara Ward
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Dorris Varnum
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Dorothy Noyes
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Valerie Bettis
  • 1948 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Chee Armstrong
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Frances Bible
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• O. Louise Replogle
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Felice Schwartz
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Honore Sharrer
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Margot Fonteyn (born 1919, died 1991)

  English ballet dancer.

  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Geraldine Funk
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Noble
  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Gladys Hobby
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Emma Gamboa
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Janet Collins
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Florence Chadwick
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Patricia Neway
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Dorothy Friendly
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Fogarty
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Belva Jane Barnes
  • 1950 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Helen Imrie
  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elsie Frankfurt
  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Maureen Stapleton (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Maria Tallchief (born 1925)

  American ballet dancer.

  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jeanne Campbell
  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ilse Lisle Novak
  • 1951 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Andrea Mead Lawrence

  American skier.

  • 1952 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Geraldine Page (born 1924, died 1987)

  American actress.

  • 1952 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Helen Cacheris
  • 1952 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lotte Werner
  • 1952 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carmel Carrington
  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Eugenie Clark (born 1922)

  American zoologist and educator.

  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lorraine Budny
  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Rosalind Wiener
  • 1953 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ilona Karmel
  • Won the Mademoiselle Award in 1953
• Carol Haney
  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Diana Adams
  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Geneviève de Galard-Terraube
  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Irene Osborne
  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marilyn Bell
  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sally Liberman
  • 1954 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kim Stanley (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Prizant Gilman
  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Dorris Zeller
  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jeanne Carr
  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Francoise Sagan (born 1935)

  French novelist.

  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Liane Brauch Russell (born 1923)

  American geneticist.

  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Gloria Lockerman
  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jacqueline Hawkins
  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Barbara Lekberg
  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Diana Chang
  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Blanche Lemco
  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Mary Douglass
  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Dorothy Lundquist
  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Barbara Romney
  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Charlotte Friend
  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jeanne Essig
  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929)

  American jazz composer and pianist.

  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Judy Szekeres
  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Pat Farrar
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bianca Van Orden
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Rosalind Elias (born 1931)

  American opera singer.

  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marcia Rogers
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Betty Carol
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Natalie Carbone Mangini
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Violette Verdy
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jessie Angelina Evans
  • 1958 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Teresa Borganza
  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Maya Plisetskaya (born 1925)

  Russian ballet dancer.

  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Shirley O'Neill
  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lorraine Hansberry (born 1930, died 1965)

  American playwright.

  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Gael Greene
  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Penny Pitou
  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Mona Roset
  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elizabeth Roemer (born 1929)

  American astronomer and educator.

  • 1959 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Powell Rosenthal
  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elaine May (born 1932)

  American actress, comedian, director and playwright.

  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elizabeth Seal (born 1933)

  Italian actress.

  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Susan Greenburg
  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lynn Seymour

  Canadian dancer.

  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Patricia Bath
  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Julie Isles
  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Helen Jean Rogers
  • 1960 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Monica Vitti (Maria Ceciarelli) (born 1931)

  Italian actress.

  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Grace Bumbry (born 1937)

  American opera singer.

  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carole Eisner
  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Nanette Edmonds Wachter
  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jean Alice Szymanski
  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Laura Roth (born 1930)

  American physicist.

  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Hope Murrow
  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carla Fracci
  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Regina Safaty
  • 1962 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Maggy Reese
  • 1962 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ann Eckels Bailie
  • 1962 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Joan Brown
  • 1962 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Deanna Littell
  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Janet Newton
  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Nancy Brown
  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Leela Naidu
  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Muriel Grossfeld
  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anna Maria Rappaport
  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Renata Adler (born 1938)

  American writer, journalist and critic.

  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Patricia McBride

  American dancer.

  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Shirley Knight (born 1936)

  American actress.

  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lois Sherr
  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Pyne
  • 1964 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Suzanne Farrell

  American dancer.

  • 1965 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939)

  American lawyer and civil-rights activist. President of the Children's Defense Fund.

  • 1965 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946)

  American actress and dancer.

  • 1965 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Marsh
  • 1966 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sylvia Wilkinson
  • 1966 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Ellen Brody (born 1941)

  American journalist.

  • 1966 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Cecelia Holland
  • 1967 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kathleen Linane
  • 1967 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carolyn Adams
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Alexander (born 1939)

  American actress.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Patti Cappalli
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Valerie Dickerson
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jacqueline Du Pre
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Susan Epperson
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ann Hart
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Catherine Jermany
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Kramer (born 1938)

  American journalist.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kathy Kusner
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sondra Locke (born 1947)

  American actress.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Gail McHenry
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sheila Murphy
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Laura Nyro (born 1947, died 1997)

  American singer and songwriter.

  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Beverly Rich
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jane Marla Robbins
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lynda Sinay
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Trinette Singleton
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sara Smith
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Francine Stein
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Pamela Weir
  • 1969 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Alison Bernstein
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Cathy Burns
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marla Canino
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Judi Cornelius
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bernadette Devlin (born 1947)

  Irish nationalist leader.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sylvia Drew
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marsha Fox
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Robin Foote
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elsa Garmire
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marcia Haydee
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kay Mazzo (born 1946)

  American ballet dancer and teacher.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Stephanie Mills (born 1957)

  American actress and singer.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Moody
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Joan Murray
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Poppy Northcutt
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ellen Proctor
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Gloria Rojas
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lucy Warner
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ruth White
  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Mary Breasted
  • 1971 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Peggy Cooper
  • 1971 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marion Edey
  • 1971 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Eva Jefferson
  • 1971 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bonnie Sherk
  • 1971 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Alice Tepper
  • 1971 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Alicia Bay Laurel (born 1949)

  American children's writer and illustrator.

  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Glenda Copes
  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Marjorie Crow
  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Susan Davis
  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Pamela Gentry
  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)

  American poet.

  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sherri Winter Kaplan
  • 1972 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Cindi Buchanan
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Micki Grant
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Barbara Haskell
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Elizabeth Holtzman (born 1941)

  American lawyer and politician.

  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Brenda Itta
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bobbie Green Kilberg
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lesley Oelsner
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Amalie Rothschild
  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kathryn Burkhart
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lisa Connolly
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sharon Curtin
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Mary Emmons
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Anne Grant
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Karol Hope
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kathy Kahn
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carol Ruckdeschel
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Mary Beth Shea
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Claudia Weill
  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Rachel Scott
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Leslie Crocker Snyder
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Thea Lammers
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Francine Prose
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Sylvia Law (born 1942)

  American lawyer and professor.

  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Karen Petersen
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Jill Godmilow
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Judy Collins (born 1939)

  American singer and songwriter.

  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Colleen Myers
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Carol Vittert
  • 1975 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Ruth Welting
  • 1976 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Twyla Tharp (born 1941)

  American dancer and choreographer.

  • 1976 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Susan Brownmiller (born 1935)

  American feminist scholar and writer. Author of Against Our Will, a famous work on rape.

  • 1976 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Louise McAllister
  • 1976 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Diana Nyad
  • 1976 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Pamela Zekman (born 1944)

  American investigative journalist.

  • 1976 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lynn Sherr
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Lynn Jordan
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kristina Mailliard
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Barbara Kopple
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Leah Laiman
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Kristina Nordstrom
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Martha Coolidge
  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Eve Sonneman (born 1946)

  American artist, photographer and writer.

  • 1977 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Joan Baez (born 1941)

  American singer and political activist.

  • 1961 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Gisele MacKenzie (born 1926)

  Canadian singer and actress. Original name: Marie Marguerite La Fleche.

  • 1957 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Faye Dunaway (born 1940)

  American actress.

  • 1967 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Susan Sontag (born 1933)

  American novelist, essayist and critic.

  • 1963 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Blythe Danner (born 1942)

  American actress.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Leontyne Price (born 1927)

  American opera singer.

  • 1955 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bernadette Peters (born 1948)

  American singer and actress.

  • 1970 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Doris Day (born 1924)

  American actress and singer. Original name: Doris von Kappelhoff.

  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Julie Andrews (born 1935)

  British actress and singer. Original name: Julia Wells.

  • 1956 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Suzy Chaffee (born 1946)

  American athlete.

  • 1973 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Bette Midler (born 1945)

  American actress, singer and comedian.

  • 1974 Mademoiselle Award winner
• Julie Harris (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • 1949 Mademoiselle Award winner