In 1955, this African American living in Montgomery, Alabama, challenged the race segregation that existed in parts of the US by refusing to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down.
Rosa Parks
This woman changed the world not once but twice. She founded the new science of radioactivity – even the word was invented by her – and her discoveries launched effective cures for cancer.
Marie Curie
She was a queen of Egypt and wife of King Akhenaton, who played a prominent role in changing Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion to one that was monotheistic, worshipping the sun god known as Aton.
Nefertiti
She is an expert on wild chimpanzees. Recognized for her ground breaking discoveries about their behavior. She completely transformed our understanding of our closest relative in the animal kingdom.
Jane Goodall
As a young girl, she defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head in 2012 but survived. In 2014, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai
She was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Frida Kahlo
She was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She challenged the dominant male writing industry.
Jane Austen
She was German-Dutch of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame with the publication of her diary.
Anne Frank
She was an English mathematician famous for being the first person ever to publish an algorithm intended for a computer, her genius being years ahead of her time.
Ada Lovelace
An American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the US, she was a pioneering aviator.
Amelia Earhart
She is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position.
Michelle Obama
