Women in STEM
The only woman to win two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry.
Marie Curie
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
The most decorated gymnast in Olympic history with a total of 11 medals.
Simone Biles!
At age 17, this Pakistani activist became the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala
She famously refused to give up her bus seat in Alabama, an act that helped launch the Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa Parks!
A "human computer", she calculated the flight paths for NASA’s first manned space missions.
Rosalind Franklin
In 2021, she made history by becoming the first female Vice President of the United States.
Kamala Harris
Along with her sister Venus, this athlete dominated professional tennis for over two decades.
Serena Williams
She was the Queen of the United Kingdom for 70 years, the longest reign of any British monarch.
Queen Elizabeth II
This First Lady of the U.S. was a champion for human rights and helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Credited as the world's first computer programmer!
Ada Lovelace
She was the first African American woman to serve as the First Lady of the United States.
Michelle Obama
She won 39 Grand Slam titles and famously defeated Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match
Billie Jean King
This singer’s massive "Eras Tour" became the first in history to surpass $2 billion in ticket sales by the end of 2024.
Taylor Swift
This 19th-century activist was a key leader in the women's suffrage movement, and her face is now on the U.S. silver dollar coin.
Susan B. Anthony
In 1992, this physician and engineer became the first African American woman to travel into space.
Mae Jemison
The first woman to ever serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor
The first U.S. woman to win figure skating singles gold since 2002 with her triumph at Milano Cortina 2026.
Alysa Liu!!
Her diary remains one of the most famous primary sources about the Holocaust.
Anne Frank
This teenage activist from Sweden is world-famous for her work fighting climate change.
Greta Thunberg
This primatologist is world-famous for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.
Jane Goodall
The first woman ever in space.
Valentina Tereshkova
She is the most decorated freestyle skier in Olympic history with six medals.
Eileen Gu
She wrote the 1969 memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
She became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work of planting millions of trees in Kenya.
Wangari Maathai