Music
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter she made a splash in the country music world in 2006 and has gone on to become one of the top acts in popular music.
Taylor Swift
She is a British author and her novels were brought to life on screen in eight blockbuster films and went on to inspire the Fantastic Beasts film series.
J. K. Rowling
She hid herself and her family in a secret annex during the Second World War. She was Jewish and she lived in Amsterdam. She is famous for her diary.
Anne Frank
Made famous by a Disney movie, she is one of China’s most famous warriors.
Mulan
She was the first female Prime Minister in Europe. Before politics, she worked on developing soft-scoop ice cream additives. Known as the "Iron Lady".
Margaret Thatcher
She was a French singer whose expressive interpretations of the chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous.
Edith Piaf
In 2012 this actress was entered into Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $56 million. In 2009 she won the award for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Academy Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the blockbuster hit The Blind Side.
Sandra Bullock
A peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War.
Joan of Arc
The first ever Disney Princess.
Snow White
This famous board game that can either lead to hours of fun or family arguments was invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904.
Monopoly
The Grammy-winning singer made her recording debut with Sony Music Colombia when she was 13. Her name is Arabic for graceful—a fit name for this powerhouse performer. Her music and dance is influenced by her Lebanese heritage.
Shakira
This American television host, philanthropist, entrepreneur and media personality was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her first movie debut in 1985 was in The Color Purple. At the end of the 20th century Life Magazine listed her as both the most influential woman and the most influential black person of her generation, and in a cover story profile the magazine called her "America's Most Powerful Woman”.
Oprah Winfrey
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honors twice.
Marie Curie-Sklodowska
Sleeping Beauty's actual name.
Aurora
The youngest person to be named Times person of the year.
Greta Thunberg
The artist that made these albums:
Art Pop, Dawn of Chromatica, Cheek to Cheek, and The Fame Monster
Lady Gaga
This singer-songwriter, actress, director, dancer, and entrepreneur was born in Bay City, Michigan in 1958. She released her self-titled one worded debut album in 1983 and has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time.
Madonna
Alhough not a historical person, this gilded statue on the Monument of Remembrance is an iconic national symbol representing, in part, the resilience of Luxembourgish women.
Gëlle Fra (Golden Lady)
The first Disney “Princess” to have a tattoo.
Pocahontas
Until 2025 she was the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.
Ana Wintour
This singer was known as the Queen of Soul, who sang the song "Respect".
Aretha Franklin
This is the first black woman to win best actress award. The movie was Monster's Ball.
Halle Berry
The only woman to have won the prestigious Bocuse d'Or gold medal, a major global cooking competition, in 1989. Her signature dish is saddle of lamb wrapped in a potato pancake crisp.
Léa Linster
Name of Ariel's daughter. We met her in the Little Mermaid 2.
Melody
The first African American woman to become U.S. Secretary of State, serving from 2005 to 2009 under President George W. Bush.
Condoleezza Rice