List of female rock singers

A

Lee Aaron

Pearl Aday

Sharon Den Adel (Within Temptation)

Sade Adu

Amy Lee

Laurie Anderson

Agent M (Tsunami Bomb)

Dot Allison

Zayra Alvarez

Amber

Tori Amos

Vanessa Amorosi

Christina Amphlett (Divinyls)

Emma Anderson (Lush)

Signe Toly Anderson (Jefferson Airplane)

Andrea Echeverri (Aterciopelados)

Anouk

Sarah Anthony (The Letter Black)

Fiona Apple

Tasmin Archer

Joan Armatrading

Stephanie Ashworth (Something for Kate)

Aylin Aslim

Nicole Atkins

Melissa Auf der Maur (Auf der Maur, Hole)

Caroline Azar (Fifth Column)

B

Joan Baez

Alice Bag (Bags, Castration Squad)

Jessica Bailiff

Honey Bane

Niki Barr

Courtney Barnett

Edyta Bartosiewicz

Becca (Stars in Stereo)

Robin Beck

Pat Benatar

Miki Berenyi (Lush)

Cia Berg (Whale)

Elizabeth "Z" Berg (The Like)

Sarah Bettens (K's Choice)

Bif Naked

Christina Billotte (Autoclave, Slant 6)

Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland, Crunt, Katastrophy Wife)

Björk (The Sugarcubes)

Pauline Black (The Selecter)

Porcelain Black (Porcelain and the Tramps)

Jody Bleyle (Team Dresch)

Beki Bondage (Vice Squad)

Tracy Bonham

Christina Booth (Magenta)

Marie-Mai Bouchard

Patti Boulaye

Crystal Bowersox

Carla Bozulich (Ethyl Meatplow, Geraldine Fibbers)

Dale Bozzio (Missing Persons)

Bonnie Bramlett

Michelle Branch

Laura Branigan

Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8)

Edie Brickell (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians)

Eva Briegel (Juli)

Bette Bright (Deaf School)

Maria Brink (In This Moment)

Elkie Brooks

Charmaine Brooks

Meredith Brooks

Pip Brown (Ladyhawke)

Ruth Brown

V V Brown

Terri Brosius (Tribe)

Carrie Brownstein (Excuse 17, Sleater-Kinney)

Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (Of Monsters and Men)

Tahita Bulmer (New Young Pony Club)

Anna Burley (The Killjoys)

Megan Burns (Betty Curse)

Shauna Burns

Kate Bush

Bilinda Butcher (My Bloody Valentine)

C

Kathryn Calder (Immaculate Machine, The New Pornographers)

Alexx Calise

Lydia Canaan

Dinah Cancer (45 Grave, Dinah Cancer and the Grave Robbers)

Belinda Carlisle (The Go-Go's)

Kim Carnes

Rachel Carns (The Need, King Cobra)

Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters)

Lisa Crystal Carver (Suckdog)

Neko Case (The New Pornographers, Maow)

Cassidy (Antigone Rising)

Exene Cervenka (X, Original Sinners)

Tracy Chapman

Toni Childs

Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields)

Carah Faye Charnow (Shiny Toy Guns)

Régine Chassagne (Arcade Fire)

Alisa Childers (ZOEgirl)

Melanie Chisholm (Melanie C)

Agnieszka Chylińska (O.N.A.)

Chantal Claret (Morningwood)

Annie Clark (St. Vincent)

Daisy Coburn (Daisy Dares You)

Chi Coltrane

Korey Cooper (Skillet)

Andrea Corr (The Corrs)

Sharon Corr (The Corrs)

Nikka Costa

Josie Cotton

Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne)

Melora Creager (Rasputina)

Sheryl Crow

Allison Crowe

Cherie Currie (The Runaways, Cherie & Marie Currie)

Marie Currie (Cherie & Marie Currie)

D

Lisa Dalbello

Brody Dalle (The Distillers)

Danielle Dax

Kim Deal (Pixies, The Breeders)

Joanna Dean

Lezlie Deane

Carol Decker (T'Pau)

Maria del Mar (National Velvet)

Suze DeMarchi (Baby Animals)

Tatiana DeMaria (TAT)

Marina Diamandis (Marina and the Diamonds)

Ani DiFranco

Dilana

Beth Ditto (The Gossip)

Melanie Doane

Julie Doiron

Corinne Drewery (Swing Out Sister)

Julie Driscoll

Heather Duby

Sherri DuPree (Eisley)

E

Tammy Ealom (Dressy Bessy, The Minders)

Sheena Easton

Aimee Echo (TheStart, Human Waste Project)

Danielle Egnew

Ella

Mama Cass Elliot (The Mamas & the Papas)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Theaudience)

Elizabeth Elmore (The Reputation, Sarge)

Liz Enthusiasm (Freezepop)

Melissa Etheridge

F

Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama, Shakespears Sister)

Marianne Faithfull

Etty Lau Farrell (Satellite Party)

Leslie Feist (Broken Social Scene)

Şebnem Ferah

Sky Ferreira

Melissa Ferrick

Jennifer Finch (The Pandoras, L7, The Shocker)

Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Now It's Overhead, Art in Manila)

Colleen Fitzpatrick (Eve's Plum)

Flor

Ellen Foley

Cassandra Ford (The Vincent Black Shadow)

Lita Ford (The Runaways, Lita Ford)

Dia Frampton (Meg & Dia)

Meg Frampton (Meg & Dia)

Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)

Marie Fredriksson (Roxette)

Eleanor Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces)

Justine Frischmann (Elastica)

Dana Fuchs

G

Suzi Gardner (L7)

KatieJane Garside (Daisy Chainsaw, Queenadreena)

Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes)

Anna Gerasimova

Lisa Germano (Eels)

Beth Gibbons (Portishead)

Debbie Gibson

Anneke van Giersbergen

Donna Godchaux

Goldy Locks

Holly Golightly (Thee Headcoatees)

Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, Harry Crews)

Lesley Gore

Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt)

Rachel Goswell (Slowdive, Mojave 3)

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!)

Wynne Greenwood (Tracy + the Plastics)

Jemma Griffiths (Jem)

Clare Grogan (Altered Images)

Lyndsey Gunnulfsen (Pvris)

H

Nina Hagen (The Nina Hagen Band)

Emily Haines (Broken Social Scene, Metric)

Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)

Toni Halliday (Curve)

Ayumi Hamasaki

Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo)

Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin)

Lisa Hannigan

Annie Hardy (Giant Drag)

Sarah Harmer (The Saddletramps, Weeping Tile)

Pearl Harbor (Pearl Harbor and the Explosions)

Emmylou Harris

Deborah Harry (Blondie)

Beth Hart

PJ Harvey

Annie Haslam (Reinassance)

Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies, The Lemonheads)

Charlotte Hatherley (Ash)

Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto)

Imogen Heap (Frou Frou)

Christy Hemme (TNA Knockout Music)

Nona Hendryx

Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux)

Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave)

Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles)

Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi)

Horse

Penelope Houston (The Avengers)

Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata)

Laura Hubert (Leslie Spit Treeo)

Anne-Marie Hurst (Skeletal Family, Ghost Dance)

Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)

I

Maja Ivarsson (The Sounds)

Debora Iyall (Romeo Void)

Laura Imbruglia

Allison Iraheta

Izïa

J

Cindy Jackson (The Dollz)

Kate Jackson (The Long Blondes)

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Mickie Laree James (TNA Knockout Music)

Wendy James (Transvision Vamp)

Taylor Jardine (We Are The In Crowd)

Jane Jensen

Jessicka (Jack Off Jill, Scarling.)

Joan Jett (The Runaways, The Blackhearts, Evil Stig)

Natalia Jiménez (La Quinta Estación)

Martha Johnson (Martha and the Muffins)

Marta Jandova (Die Happy)

Molly Johnson (Alta Moda, Infidels)

Taborah Johnson

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Norah Jones

Rickie Lee Jones

Janis Joplin (Big Brother and the Holding Company, Kozmic Blues Band)

Sass Jordan

Milla Jovovich

K. Juno

Josie Cotton

K

Kaliopi

Tomoko Kawase (Tommy Heavenly6)

Lisa Kekaula (The Bellrays)

Rose Kemp

Kerri Kenney-Silver (Cake Like)

Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes)

Carole King

Stefanie Kloß (Silbermond)

Chrissi Klug (Luttenberger*Klug)

Jennifer Knapp

Gladys Knight

Theo Kogan (Theo & the Skyscrapers, Lunachicks)

Ash Koley

Alexis Krauss (Sleigh Bells)

Chantal Kreviazuk

Sonja Kristina (Curved Air)

Sierra Kusterbeck (VersaEmerge)

L

Lachi

Martha Ladly (Martha and the Muffins, The Associates)

Natalia Lafourcade

LaFee

Shona Laing

Nomy Lamm

Anita Lane

Lana Lane

Storm Large

Liz Larin

Cyndi Lauper

Dyanna Lauren (Thousand Year Itch)

Lauren Laverne (Kenickie)

Avril Lavigne

Jen Ledger (Skillet (band))

Brenda Lee

Rita Lee (Os Mutantes)

Sook-Yin Lee (Bob's Your Uncle)

Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)

Adrianne Leon

Katrina Leskanich (Katrina and the Waves)

Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins)

Juliette Lewis (Juliette and the Licks)

Susanne Lewis (Hail, Thinking Plague)

Sonja Kristina Linwood (Curved Air)

Little Annie

Little Eva

Cristina Llanos (Dover)

Lisa Lobsinger (Broken Social Scene, Reverie Sound Revue)

Lisa Loeb

Lora Logic (X-Ray Spex, Essential Logic, Red Krayola)

Mary Lou Lord

Ruth Lorenzo

Inger Lorre (The Nymphs)

Bonnie Lou

Sara Lov (Devics)

Courtney Love (Hole)

Darlene Love

Lovefoxxx (CSS)

Lene Lovich

Pearl Lowe (Powder)

Lulu

Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Beirut Slump, 8-Eyed Spy, Harry Crews)

Michelle Luttenberger (Luttenberger*Klug)

Annabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow)

M

Mariqueen Maandig (How To Destroy Angels)

Kirsty MacColl

Amy Macdonald

Maggie MacDonald (Republic of Safety, Kids on TV, Barcelona Pavilion)

Lois Maffeo

Leslie Mah (Anti-Scrunti Faction)

Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead)

Michelle Malone

Aimee Mann (Til Tuesday)

Barbara Manning

Shirley Manson (Garbage, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, Angelfish)

April March

Ida Maria

Marjo

Chan Marshall (Cat Power)

Janis Martin

Carolyne Mas

Ana Matronic (Scissor Sisters)

Cerys Matthews (Catatonia)

Denise McCann (Headpins)

Jenna McDougall (Tonight Alive)

Elizabeth McGrath (Miss Derringer)

Frances McKee

Maria McKee

Nikki McKibbin

Sarah McLeod (The Superjesus)

Sarah McLachlan

Holly McNarland

Sylvia McNeill

Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)

Fleming McWilliams (Fleming and John)

Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)

Olivia Merilahti (The Dø)

Tift Merritt

Riki Michele

Bette Midler

Amy Millan (Stars, Broken Social Scene)

June Millington (Fanny)

Darby Mills (Headpins)

Rachel Minton (Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer)

Holly Miranda (The Jealous Girlfriends)

Joni Mitchell

Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless)

Alecia Beth Moore (P!nk)

Rebecca Moore

Alanis Morissette

Patricia Morrison (Bags, Legal Weapon, The Gun Club, The Sisterhood, The Damned)

Lisa Moorish

Alison Mosshart (Discount, The Kills, The Dead Weather)

Alison Moyet (Yazoo)

Lennon Murphy

Pauline Murray (Penetration)

Billie Myers

Alannah Myles

N

Mika Nakashima

Michie Nakatani (Shonen Knife)

Terra Naomi

Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde)

Leigh Bingham Nash (Sixpence None the Richer)

Nena

Julia Neigel

Anastacia Newkirk (Anastacia)

Juice Newton

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)

Nico

Ninja (The Go! Team)

Sarah Nixey (Black Box Recorder)

Stina Nordenstam

Tone Norum

Kasia Nosowska (Hey)

Heather Nova

Terri Nunn (Berlin)

Laura Nyro

Sandra Nasic (Guano Apes)

O

Orianthi

Eva O (Christian Death)

Karen Orzolek (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Hazel O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor

Kaori Okui (Princess Princess)

Olivia

Yoko Ono (The Plastic Ono Band)

Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)

Joan Osborne

Amanda Overmyer

P

Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls)

Vanessa Paradis

Dolly Parton

Annette Peacock

Jemina Pearl (Be Your Own Pet)

Linda Perry (4 Non Blondes)

Nina Persson (The Cardigans, Sparklehorse, A Camp)

Vicki Peterson (The Bangles)

Vanessa Petruo

Kembra Pfahler (The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black)

Liz Phair

Michelle Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas)

Phranc (Nervous Gender, Catholic Discipline)

Kate Pierson (The B-52's)

Pitty

Poe

Tamala Poljak (Longstocking)

Carole Pope (Rough Trade)

Cassadee Pope (Hey Monday)

Louise Post (Veruca Salt)

Grace Potter (Grace Potter and the Nocturnals)

Britta Phillips (Luna)

Lisa Marie Presley

Anne Preven

Lindsay Price

Q

Suzi Quatro

Sara Quin (Tegan and Sara)

Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara)

Diana Quinn (Tru Fax and the Insaniacs, Honky Tonk Confidential, The Fabulettes)

R

Stefy Rae (Stefy)

Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Mary Ramsey (10,000 Maniacs, John & Mary)

Genya Ravan (The Escorts, Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)

Marion Raven

Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)

Julianne Regan (All About Eve)

Jane Relf (Renaissance)

Manda Rin (Bis)

Janet Robin

The Roches

Patti Rothberg

Linda Ronstadt

Tina Root (Switchblade Symphony, Tre Lux)

Holly Ross (Angelica)

Ellie Rowsell (Wolf Alice)

Serena Ryder

S

Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab)

Santi White (Stage name Santigold)

Saffron (Republica)

Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)

Svetlana Surganova

Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)

Greta Salpeter (The Hush Sound)

Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)

Ximena Sariñana

Simi Sernaker (Suffrajett)

Moon Shadow (as Goldy Locks of TNA Knockout Music)

Sarah Shannon (Velocity Girl)

Kim Shattuck (The Muffs, The Pandoras)

Davetta Sherwood

Shery

Madigan Shive (Tattle Tale, Bonfire Madigan)

Ana da Silva (The Raincoats)

Jenny Simmons (Addison Road)

Simone Simons

Juliet Simms (Automatic Loveletter)

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures)

Skin (Skunk Anansie)

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship)

Tara Slone (Joydrop)

Jen Smith (Dub Narcotic Sound System)

Patti Smith

Shawnee Smith

Carly Smithson (We Are the Fallen)

Patty Smyth (Scandal)

Azalia Snail

Marla Sokoloff (Smitten)

Pepper Somerset (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult)

Louisa Rachel Solomon (The Shondes)

Donita Sparks (L7)

Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes)

Regina Spektor

Pamela Spence

Sharleen Spiteri (Texas)

Adalita Srsen (Magic Dirt)

Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond)

Ryan Starr

Alison Statton (Young Marble Giants, Weekend)

Gwen Stefani (No Doubt)

Juanita Stein (Howling Bells)

Marnie Stern

Linda Strawberry

Laura Stoica

Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)

Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy)

Donna Summer

Lacey Sturm (Flyleaf)

Rachel Sweet

Skye Sweetnam

T

Koko Taylor

Maria Taylor (Azure Ray, Now It's Overhead)

Susan Tedeschi

Özlem Tekin

Keiko Terada (Show-Ya)

Texas Terri

Tikaram Tanita

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Kristy Thirsk (Delerium, Rose Chronicles)

Sandi Thom

Irma Thomas

Linda Thompson

Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl)

Tiffany

Mary Timony (Helium, Autoclave, Wild Flag)

Martina Topley-Bird

Beth Torbert (Bif Naked)

Emilíana Torrini

Rachel Trachtenburg (Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players)

Sisely Treasure (Shiny Toy Guns)

Jen Trynin

Anna Tsuchiya

Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney)

KT Tunstall

Tina Turner

Tarja Turunen

Bonnie Tyler

Judie Tzuke

U

Ari Up (The Slits, New Age Steppers)

V

Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill)

Tomiko Van (Do As Infinity)

Marijne van der Vlugt (Salad, Cowboy Racer)

Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering)

Tara Vanflower (Lycia)

Cherry Vanilla

Suzanne Vega

Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue)

Holly Beth Vincent (Holly and the Italians)

W

Dionne Warwick

Lyn-Z Way (Mindless Self Indulgence)

Mary Weiss (The Shangri-Las)

Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine)

Louise Wener (Sleeper)

Silje Wergeland (The Gathering, Octavia Sperati)

Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)

Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays)

Emily Jane White

Katie White (The Ting Tings)

Meg White (The White Stripes)

Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go's)

Toyah Willcox

Kim Wilde

Tess Wiley (Sixpence None the Richer)

Hayley Williams (Paramore)

Lucinda Williams

Wendy O. Williams (Plasmatics)

Ann Wilson (Heart)

Cindy Wilson (The B-52's)

Kaia Wilson (Adickdid, Team Dresch, The Butchies)

Nancy Wilson (Heart)

Amy Winehouse

Whitney Wolanin

Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Partyline)

Jen Wood (The Postal Service, Tattle Tale)

Holly Woods (Toronto)

D'arcy Wretzky (The Smashing Pumpkins)

Shannon Wright

Y

Naoko Yamano (Shonen Knife)

Ella Yelich-O'Connor (Lorde)

Z

Pia Zadora

Mary Lu Zahalan

Mia Zapata (The Gits)

Thalia Zedek (Live Skull)

Zemfira

Annette Zilinskas (The Bangles)

Zola Jesus