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Famous Women in History
Women who led, discovered, created and changed the world.
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- HatshepsutWhoEgyptian woman who ruled as pharaoh and sent a great trading expedition to Punt
- Cleopatra VIIWhoLast active queen of Egypt, who ruled with great political skill
- BoudicaWhoQueen of the Iceni who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain around 60 CE
- Wu ZetianWhoOnly woman to rule China as emperor, in the 600s-700s
- HypatiaWhoMathematician, astronomer and teacher in Alexandria around 400 CE
- Murasaki ShikibuWhoJapanese author of The Tale of Genji, often called the first novel
- Eleanor of AquitaineWhoPowerful medieval queen of France and England
- Joan of ArcWhoFrench teenager who helped lead the army to victories in 1429
- Isabella I of CastileWhoSpanish queen who funded Columbus's voyage
- Elizabeth IWhoQueen of England, 1558-1603, during a time of great arts and exploration
- Queen NzingaWhoAfrican queen who defended her lands in Angola against the Portuguese
- PocahontasWhoPowhatan woman connected to Jamestown in the early 1600s
- SacagaweaWhoShoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition
- Catherine the GreatWhoRussian empress, 1762-1796, who expanded Russia
- Maria TheresaWhoAustrian ruler in the 1700s
- Marie CurieWhoWon Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry; discovered polonium and radium
- Florence NightingaleWhoFounder of modern nursing, who improved hospital care
- Clara BartonWhoCivil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
- Harriet TubmanWhoLed many people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
- Sojourner TruthWhoFormer slave and powerful speaker for abolition and women's rights
- Susan B. AnthonyWhoLeader of the US women's suffrage movement
- Elizabeth Cady StantonWhoOrganized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
- Harriet Beecher StoweWhoAuthor of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Dorothea DixWhoReformer who improved care for people with mental illness
- Emily DickinsonWhoAmerican poet of nearly 1,800 poems
- Jane AustenWhoEnglish novelist of Pride and Prejudice
- Mary ShelleyWhoAuthor of Frankenstein, written when she was 18-19
- Ada LovelaceWhoWrote the first computer program idea for Babbage's engine in the 1840s
- Queen VictoriaWhoBritish queen from 1837 to 1901, giving her name to an era
- Queen LiliuokalaniWhoLast queen of Hawaii
- Emmeline PankhurstWhoBritish leader of the movement for women's right to vote
- Jane AddamsWhoFounded Hull House; won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
- Ida B. WellsWhoJournalist and activist who exposed lynching and fought for justice
- Helen KellerWhoDeaf and blind author and activist who graduated from college
- Anne SullivanWhoHelen Keller's teacher
- Maria MontessoriWhoItalian educator who developed a child-centered teaching method
- Amelia EarhartWhoFirst woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, in 1932
- Bessie ColemanWhoFirst Black woman to earn a pilot's license, in 1921
- Eleanor RooseveltWhoFirst lady who worked for human rights
- Frances PerkinsWhoFirst woman in a US cabinet; helped create Social Security
- Mary McLeod BethuneWhoEducator who founded a school that became Bethune-Cookman University
- Zora Neale HurstonWhoHarlem Renaissance author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Frida KahloWhoMexican painter known for vivid self-portraits
- Georgia O'KeeffeWhoAmerican painter of flowers, desert scenes and skyscrapers
- Marian AndersonWhoOpera singer who performed at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939
- Rosa ParksWhoHer 1955 bus protest helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Anne FrankWhoWrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis
- Mother TeresaWhoNun who cared for the poor in Kolkata, India
- Indira GandhiWhoFirst woman prime minister of India
- Golda MeirWhoIsrael's first woman prime minister
- Margaret ThatcherWhoBritain's first woman prime minister
- Wangari MaathaiWhoKenyan environmentalist who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize
- Rachel CarsonWhoAuthor of Silent Spring (1962), which helped start the environmental movement
- Jane GoodallWhoStudied chimpanzees in Tanzania for decades
- Dian FosseyWhoStudied mountain gorillas in Rwanda
- Rosalind FranklinWhoHer X-ray images helped reveal the structure of DNA
- Barbara McClintockWhoWon a Nobel Prize for discovering jumping genes in corn
- Katherine JohnsonWhoNASA mathematician whose calculations helped astronauts reach orbit
- Dorothy VaughanWhoNASA mathematician and early computer programming leader
- Mary JacksonWhoFirst Black woman engineer at NASA
- Grace HopperWhoComputer scientist who helped create early programming languages
- Sally RideWhoFirst American woman in space
- Valentina TereshkovaWhoFirst woman to travel in space, in 1963
- Mae JemisonWhoFirst Black woman in space
- Ruth Bader GinsburgWhoSupreme Court justice who fought for equal treatment of women
- Sandra Day O'ConnorWhoFirst woman on the US Supreme Court
- Sonia SotomayorWhoFirst Latina on the Supreme Court
- Shirley ChisholmWhoFirst Black woman elected to the US Congress, in 1968
- Billie Jean KingWhoTennis champion who fought for equal pay for women athletes
- Wilma RudolphWhoOvercame polio to win three Olympic gold medals in 1960
- Malala YousafzaiWhoPakistani education activist, youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Greta ThunbergWhoSwedish climate activist who began protesting in 2018
- Maya AngelouWhoPoet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Toni MorrisonWhoNovelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993
- Dolores HuertaWhoCo-founded the United Farm Workers
- Fannie Lou HamerWhoVoting rights activist from Mississippi
- Temple GrandinWhoScientist who speaks about autism and designs humane animal facilities
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