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- Joan of Arc : 1412-1431 Patron saint of France who turned the Hundred Years' War in France's favor.
- Queen Isabella I: 1451-1504 Created a united kingdom of Spain and financed Columbus' voyage.
- Mary Wollstonecraft : 1759-1797 English feminist who advocated equality of education between sexes.
- Jane Austen : 1775-1817 English novelist, wrote "Pride and Prejudice."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton : 1815-1902 Chief political strategist and theorist of the U.S. women's rights movement.
- Florence Nightingale : 1820-1910 English nurse who is considered the founder of modern nursing.
- Susan B. Anthony : 1820-1906 Activist in temperance, abolition and women's suffrage movements.
- Elizabeth Blackwell : 1821-1910 First U.S. woman doctor.
- Clara Barton : 1821-1912 American humanitarian, nurse, and founder of the American Red Cross.
- Harriet Tubman : 1821-1913 Leader of the Underground Railroad.
- Carry Nation : 1846-1911 American temperance leader.
- Marie Curie : 1867-1934 Discovered and isolated radium.
- Margaret Sanger : 1879-1966 Pioneer birth control advocate and founder of Planned Parenthood.
- Helen Keller : 1880-1968 Blind and deaf author, lecturer and pacifist.
- Virginia Woolf : 1882-1941 English author and feminist.
- Eleanor Roosevelt : 1884-1962 Crusader for human rights and civil rights, served as the first U.S. delegate to the U.N.
- Georgia O'Keeffe : 1887-1986 American artist and one of the founders of Modernism.
- Martha Graham : 1893-1997 Choreographer and dancer.
- Amelia Earhart : 1898-1937 American aviator.
- Marian Anderson : 1897-1993 First black opera singer to perform at the Met.
- Golda Meir : 1898-1978 Israeli premier and one of the founders of the state of Israel.
- Ginger Rogers : 1911-1995 American dancer and actress.
- Zora Neale Hurston : 1901-1960 African-American anthropologist and writer.
- Rachel Carson : 1907-1964 American ecologist who drew public attention to environmental issues.
- Margaret Mead : 1907-1978 American anthropologist.
- Bette Davis : 1908-1989 American film actress.
- Simone de Beauvoir : 1908-1986 French writer and feminist theorist.
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta : 1910-1998 Nobel Prize winning Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
- Lucille Ball : 1911-1989 American comic actress.
- Rosa Parks : 1913- Pioneering civil rights leader.
- Indira Gandhi : 1917-1948 Indian prime minister.
- Ella Fitzgerald : 1918-1996 American jazz singer.
- Betty Friedan : 1921- Feminist leader, author of "The Feminine Mystique" and founder of NOW.
- Marilyn Monroe : 1926-1962 Actress and sex symbol.
- Maya Angelou : 1928- Poet-Laureate of the U.S., playwright and novelist.
- Anne Frank : 1929-1945 German diarist, symbol of the Holocaust.
- Sandra Day O'Connor : 1930- First woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
- Toni Morrison : 1931- Nobel Prize-winning novelist, composed "Song of Solomon."
- Corazon Aquino : 1933- First woman president of the Philippines.
- Gloria Steinem : 1934- American feminist, activist, author, and founder of "Ms." magazine.
- Alice Walker : 1944- Pulitzer prize winning author of, among other works, "The Color Purple."
- Sally Ride : 1951- First American woman in space.
- Benazir Bhutto : 1953- Pakistani prime minister.
- Oprah Winfrey : 1954- American TV talk show host and actress.
- Madonna : 1959- Singer, songwriter, actress, and performer.
- Lady Diana Princess of Wales : 1961-1997 Princess of Wales and humanitarian.
- Louise Brown : 1978- The first test tube baby.
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