Margaret Hamilton
American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner; director of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s Software Engineering Division, a crucial role in developing onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.
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Lydia Zvereva
Russian aviation pioneer, becoming the first woman in Russia to obtain a pilot’s license.
Hetty Green
America’s wealthiest woman during the Gilded Age. Known as the “Queen of Wall Street,” she lent money at reasonable rates during financial crises and amassed a substantial fortune in a male-dominated financial world.
Frances Hugle
American scientist, engineer, and inventor who significantly contributed to our understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of small-scale materials.
Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Te Whāiti
Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana
Amy Curtis
Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).
Annie Turner Malone
Businesswoman, inventor, and philanthropist who was one of the first African American women to become a millionaire.
Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi
Māori Te Āti Awa leader, trader, innkeeper
Annie Cleland Millar
New Zealand baker and businesswoman
Mildred Trent
Described as ‘one of the best known, most public-spirited, and most useful women in Canterbury’.