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Susan Brownell Anthony
1820-1906
Mary Kay Ash
1915-2001
Ada Byron
(Lady Lovelace)
1815-1851
Linda Chavez-Thompson
1944 -
Shirley Chisholm
1924 -
Anna Comnena
1083-1153
Ellen Smith Craft
1826-1891
Angela Y. Davis
1944 -
Celine Dion
Amelia Earhart
1897-1937
Anne Frank
1929-1945
Fannie Lou Hamer
1917-1977
Clara Haskil
1895-1960
Laura S. Haviland
1808-1898
Bernadine Healy
1944 -
Mae Jemison
1956 -
Mary Harris
(Mother) Jones
1831-1931
Billie Jean King
1943 -
Aung San Suu Kyi
1945 -
Wilma P. Mankiller
1945 -
Dorothy Parker
1893-1967
Lucy Parsons
1853-1942
Harriet Quimby
1875-1912
Janet Reno
1938 -
Ann Richards
1933 -
Sally Ride
1951 -
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962
Wilma Rudolph
1940-1994
Sappho
circa 630 BC
Nina Simone
1933 - 2003
Bessie Smith
1894-1937
Mother Teresa
1910-1997
Margaret Thatcher
1925 -
Harriet Tubman
1820-1913
Madame C.J. Walker
1867-1919
Ida B. Wells-Bernett
1862-1931
Phillis Wheatley
1753-1784
Oprah Winfrey
1954 -
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1921 -
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1914-1956