Famous WOMEN in History!

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, first female professor at the University of Paris, and the first person – note the use of person there, not woman – to win a second Nobel Prize. She founded the new science of radioactivity – even the word was invented by her – and her discoveries launched effective cures for cancer.

• Marie Antoinette

• Michelle Obama

• Marie Curie

• Mrs. Lowen

She refused to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down. Her protest was supported by many other African Americans and sparked the civil rights movement which, in the 1960s, eventually won equal rights.

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Rosa Parks

• Correta Scott King

• Maya Angelou

A gifted mathematician, she is considered to be the first computer programmer, an industry that has since transformed business, our lives and the world.

• Ada Lovlace

• Roni Savage

• Ann Carins

• Rosalind Franklin

Britain’s first female prime minister came to power at an unsettled time in the country’s history, as it faced political disharmony and economic recession.

• Queen Elizabeth

• Mary Tyler Moore

• Emma Stone

• Margaret Thatcher

First Hispanic woman in space on board the shuttle Discovery for nine days.

• Eva Mendez

• Ellen Ochoa

• Eva Flores

• Joan Baez

In 1964, she became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Her Congressional career spanned decades (1964–1977; 1990–2002). She was a key author for Title IX, a law that advanced gender equity within federal funding policies for education.

• Christine Sun Kim

• Muna Tseng

• Patsy Mink

• Lucy Liu

She was an Omaha Native American doctor and reformer in the late 19th century. She is widely acknowledged as the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe.

• Annie Dodge Wauneka

• Mary Golda Ross

• Susan LaFlesche Picotte

• Maria Tallchief

She was one of the greatest artists of the XX century. She was the first Italian to win an Academy Award for best actress (1955) and one of the few Italian personalities to have a dedicated star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.

• Mother Superior

• Anna Magnani

• Anna Paquinn

• Sofia Vergara

An advocate for women’s suffrage, she toured the country collecting signatures to present legislation that would grant women the right to vote. Congress approved the bill in 1954, with women exercising their newly won right three years later.

• Esmeralda Arboleda

• Betsabé Espinal

• Maria Espinoza

• Juania Escobar

First woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

• Jane Wisdom

• Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Verchères

• Charlotte Small

• Bertha Wilson