Hannah Tomiko Holmes
Educator and disability rights activist
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Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
Gertrude Ederle
Olympic champion, world record holder and the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Elizabeth Matilda Taylor
Blind/Deaf activist and Braille magazine editor
Connie Birchfield
New Zealand communist activist
Alexandra of Denmark
Queen of England
Harriet Martineau
English author
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. This was a vital step in measuring the distance to remote galaxies.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Identity has always been at the center of composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s music.
Helen Keller
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer. She advocated for the blind and for women’s suffrage and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.