Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize
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Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist who made extensive studies in antiquities, history and languages, and was a leading authority on Mexican archaeology and ancient picture writing.
Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Boudica
Briton queen who fought the Romans
George Sand
French novelist
Williamina Paton Fleming
American astronomer; in 1879 she became an assistant at the Harvard College Observatory, and later was appointed curator of the astronomical photographs.
Cixi
Empress Dowager, the most famous woman in Chinese history
Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke
Caring for soldiers, she declared that the officers were sufficiently looked after, and she would work where most needed. And they were ardently devoted to “Mother” Bickerdyke.
Irene of Athens
Famed Byzantine empress
Hatshepsut
Celebrated queen of Egypt