American educator and advocate for the deaf community, became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904.
Helen Keller
In 1955, this African American 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 Polish 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 is an expert on wild chimpanzees, widely recognized for her groundbreaking discoveries about their behavior. She completely transformed our understanding of our closest relative in the animal kingdom.
Jane Goodall
She is an African American educator, political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is an activist for civil rights, gender equity and other social issues.
Angela Davis
African American scholar and activist whose work examined the connections between race, gender, and class. She often explored the varied perceptions of Black women and Black women writers and the development of feminist identities.
Bell Hooks
She was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered a radio technology that was originally designed to defeat the German Nazis, and would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.
Hedy Lamarr
English mathematician and the daughter of poet Lord Byron, she is known as "the first computer programmer" for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the mid-1800s.
Ada Lovelace
She was a chemist who developed the first successful treatment for Hansen’s disease (leprosy).She was also the first woman and the first African-American to earn a master’s degree in chemistry from the College of Hawaii.
Alice Ball
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
African Brazilian author. She became known when, in 1958, pieces of her journal were discovered and transformed into her first book “Quarto de Despejo”, which has since been translated into 13 different languages.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Brazilian athlete who is widely considered the greatest female football player of all time. She was a six-time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year award. She holds the record of the all-time top World Cup goal scorer in both men’s a
Marta
