Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Sofka Skipwith
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
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.
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst who later practiced in the United States. Her pioneering theories challenged traditional Freudian beliefs, especially in the realms of sexuality and psychoanalysis’s instinctual emphasis.
Laudelina de Campos Melo
Afro-Brazilian activist and labor organizer.
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Geeta Dutt
Celebrated Indian playback singer who gained prominence for her exceptional contributions to Hindi and Bengali classical music.
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg
American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research on globular clusters and variable stars.
Hazrat Mahal
Begum of Awadh, regent 1857–1858, known for leading a rebellion against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Mary Burke
Committed supporter of Queen Elizabeth who fought for her sons