The following is a list of social work pioneers.
- Grace Abbot
- Edith Abbot
- Jane Addams
- Lillian Wald
- Florence Kelley
- Julia Lathrop
- Dorothea Dix
- Mary Richmond
- Jeanette Rankin
- Harry Hopkins
- Francis Perkins
- Bertha Capen Reynolds
- Mary Mcleod Bethune
- Whitney Moore Young Jr.
- Edmund Franklin Frazier
- George Alvin Wiley
- Barbara Ann Mikulski
- Elizabeth Peratrovich
- Fannie Lou Hammer
- Ida B. Wells
- Rose Pesott
- Josephine Shaw Lowell
- Mary Jones
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Frances Willard
- Charles Loring Brace
- Alice Paul
- Maggie Kuhn