Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
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Anne Lister
English diarist known for being recognized as “the first modern lesbian.”
Justine Siegemund
Silesian midwife who wrote “The Court Midwife,” the first German medical text authored by a woman, in 1690
Kateryna Yushchenko
Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.
Nelly Sachs
Poet and playwright whose life was profoundly shaped by the horrors of World War II and the ascent of the Nazis in Europe, leading her to become a powerful voice representing the sorrows and aspirations of her fellow Jews.
Ava
The first poetess to write in German
Serena Papp-Vary
Hungarian poet
Francesca Caccini
Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher in the early Baroque period.
Fukuda Chiyo-ni
Prominent Japanese poet during the Edo period and a Buddhist nun.
Rachel Bluwstein
Hebrew poet