Famous Women

refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested because of it

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Rosa Parks

• Oprah Winfrey

• Helen Keller

first woman to hold the office of Vice President of the United States

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Wilma Rudolph

• Nancy Reagan

• Kamala Harris

a Jewish girl who hid in a secret Annex for two years during the Holocaust

• Marie Curie

• Anne Frank

• Florence Nightingale

• Simone Biles

first woman to serve on the Supreme Court

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Ruth Bader Ginsberg

• Judith Heumann

• Jackie Joyner-Kersee

remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Clara Barton

• Marie Curie

• Mother Teresa

• Dolly Parton

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Diana, Princess of Wales

an American author, poet and civil rights activist, rose to prominence with the publication of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1969

• Maya Angelou

• J.K. Rowling

• Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

• Sally Ride

one of the first computer programmers to work on the Harvard Mark I

• Dolly Parton

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Serena Williams

• Grace Hopper

an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

• Rosa Parks

• Jane Goodall

• Mary Shelley

• Harriet Tubman

is a British author and philanthropist, she wrote a seven-volume children's fantasy series, Harry Potter, published from 1997 to 2007.

• Kamala Harris

• Sally Ride

• J. K. Rowling

• Maria Beasley