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 discovered radium. She was a scientist. She was from Poland and studied in France.
Marie Curie
She is a teenager. She is from Sweden. She fights for the environment.
Greta Thunberg
She lived in Amsterdam. She wrote a famous diary.
Anne Frank
She is an activist for girls' right to education. She won the Peace Nobel Prize.
Malala Yousafzai
She was a famous painter. She was Mexican.
Frida Kahlo
She was a warrior. She was from France.
Juana de Arco
She wrote and sang about an upside world and a famous tortoise from Pehuajó.
María Elena Walsh
She is an English actress, model and activist. She was born on April 15, 1990. She gained prominence playing "The brightest witch of her age", in a series of films based on a successful series of books about a wizard boy.
Emma Watson
She loved flying. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
She wrote many books about romantic fiction in England. Her female characters are famous for defying the traditional role of women in that time.
Jane Austen
She was the first to vote. She was an Italian Argentine doctor. She was an activist for women's rights in Argentina
Julieta Lanteri
