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The tennis player who won 23 Grand Slam titles
Serena Williams
The physicist and chemist who discovered radium and polonium along with being the only person to win a Noble Prize in two different scientific fields
Marie Curie
The woman who in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat fueling the civil rights movement
Rosa Parks
She wrote the book Frankenstein and with it creating the science fiction genre
Mary Shelly
She was on a bus when she got into a terrible accident but became a visionary who explored pain, identity and culture through surreal self-portraits
Frida Kahlo
The Olympian has won 11 Olympic medals with 7 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals for team USA in gymnastics
Simone Biles
The primatologist and anthropologist who worked on her groundbreaking study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania
Jane Goodall
She survived a Taliban assassination attempt at 15 and won the Noble Peace Prize for advocating girls’ right to education
Malala Yousafzai
The writer who wrote social comedies such as her book Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The “Mother of American Modernism” known for her magnified and striking flower paintings and desert landscapes
Georgia O’Keeffe
The WNBA player who holds the all-time NCAA Division I scoring record form most career points
Caitlin Clark
The woman who captured the X-ray diffraction images of DNA
Rosalind Franklin
She led the 19th-century women’s suffrage movement in the US to secure the right to vote
Susan B. Anthony
She wrote 66 detective novels, 6 romance novels and 15 short stories with some of her being made into movies such as Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
The founder of Abstract art that instructed to keep her work hidden away for decades
Hilma af Klint
The 2024 bronze medal winning team USA player in rugby who promotes body positivity
Ilona Maher
The woman who calculated orbital mechanics for NASA and is the real person of one of the main characters from the movie Hidden Figures
Katherine Johnson
She Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association to fight for labor rights
Dolores Huerta
She tackled racial injustice with her book To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The contemporary creator famous for immersive infinity rooms and vivid pika-dot patterns
Yayoi Kusama
The soccer player who has won 2 FIFA Women’s World Cups, 2 FIFA World Player of the Year awards and 2 Olympic gold medals
Mia Hamm
The woman who confirmed the existence of dark matter using galaxy rotation rates
Vera Rubin
She survived ISIS captivity and advocates for women affected by conflict earning her a Noble Peace Prize
Nadia Murad
The sisters who wrote dark passionate Victorian novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights under male pseudonyms
The Brontë Sisters
She captured the tender, unromanticized realities of mother-and-child bonds
Mary Cassatt