100 women who helped to change the world..
POLITICS FIGHTER FEMINISM
39 Nellie Bly 1864-1922 US reporter on cruel mental hospitals. 40 Lise Meitner 1878-1968 Physicist mother of the atom bomb. 41 Catherine de Medici 1519-1589 Powerful in 16th century France. 42 Isabella Bird 1831-1904 Victorian travel writer. 43 Bessie Coleman 1892-1926 Frst black female pilot in the US. 44 Aphra Behn 1640-1689 First woman writer in England. 45 Coco Chanel 1883-1971 Established fashion house. 46 Artemisia Gentileschi 15931653 Italian Baroque painter. 47 Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 American black writer. 48 Katharine Graham 1917-2001 Washington Post publisher. 49 Indira Ghandi 1917-1984 India’s only female Prime Minister. 50 Gabriela Mistral 1889-1957 Chilean poet and Nobel laureate. NURSING FAMILIES
51 Clara Barton 1821-1912 Civil War nurse, founder of US Red Cross. 52 Anna Akhmatova 1889-1966 Rated Russia’s best female writer. 53 Sirimavo Bandaranaike 19162000 Sri Lankan and world’s first female head of government. 54 Maryam Mirzakhani 1977-2017 Iranian mathematician. 55 Marie van Brittan Brown 1922-1999 Home security inventor. 56 Laura Bassi 1711-1778 First female physics professor. 57 Junko Tabei 1939-2016 First woman to climb Everest. 58 Gertrude Ederle 1905–2003 First woman to swim Channel. 59 Ethel Smyth 1858-1944 British composer and Suffragette. 60 Emily Hobhouse 1860-1926 Social worker in South African War. 61 Suzanne Lenglen 1899-1938 French tennis superstar. 62 Sarah Breedlove 1867-1919 SCIENCES Ada Lovelace & Franklin
US beauty products millionaire. 63 Rachael Heyhoe Flint 19392017 Cricket captain, 1966 to 1978. 64 Prophet Deborah Catholic saint and biblical prophet. 65 Mary Somerville 1780-1872 Scottish astronomer. 66 Martina Bergman-Österberg 1849-1915 Swedish PE pioneer. 67 Marie Marvingt 1875-1963 First female air ambulance pilot. 68 Maria Merian 1647-1717 German naturalist, botanical artist. 69 Lottie Dod 1871-1960 Youngest Wimbledon singles winner. 70 Joan Robinson 1903-1983 Queen Mother of British economics. 71 George Eliot 1819-1880 Celebrated author of Middlemarch. 72 Dowager Empress Cixi 18351908 Ran China for 50 years. 73 Andrea Dworkin 1946-2005 Radical US feminist and activist. 74 Alice Milliat 1884-1957 Fought for women at Olympics. 75 Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994 US Olympic sprinter. 76 Sonja Henie 1912-1969 Norway figure skater and film star. 77 Sarojini Naidu 1879-1949 India independence activist and poet. 78 Ruth Handler 1916-2002 US businesswoman, invented Barbie. 79 Murasaki Shikibu c978-c1014 Japanese, world’s first novelist. 80 Maria Bochkareva 1890-1920 Executed Russian army officer. 81 Lily Parr 1905-1978 Pioneer English woman footballer. 82 Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 18791967 Transformed British army. 83 Gwen John 1876-1939 Welsh artist who struggled for recognition. 84 Fanny Burney 1752-1840 Satirical novelist. 85 Fanny Blankers-Koen 19182004 Winner of four Olympic golds. 86 Estée Lauder 1908-2004 Cosmetics tycoon. 87 Elinor Ostrom 1933–2012 Won Nobel Prize for economics. 88 Clara Schumann 1819-1896 German pianist and composer. 89 Beulah Louise Henry 1887 1973 Inventor called “Lady Edison”. 90 Anna Jacobson Schwartz 1915-2012 Economics scholar. 91 Aisha 613-678 Wife of Muhammad, “Mother of Believers”. 92 Yeshe Tsogyal 757-817 “Mother of Tibetan Buddhism”. 93 Susan Sontag 1933 - 2004 US writer, critic and political activist. 94 Sophie Blanchard 1778 - 1819 First female professional balloonist. 95 Katia Krafft 1942-1991 Volcanologist who died in lava flow. 96 Fanny Mendelssohn 18051847 German pianist and composer. 97 Emilie du Châtelet 1706-1749 Philosopher and mathematician. 98 Buchi Emecheta 1944-2017 Early black UK female writer. 99 Annette Kellermann 18871975 Australian swimmer and actress and one of first women to go nude in Hollywood. 100 Amrita Pritam 1919-2005 Leading Punjabi poet.
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