FAMOUS WOMEN👸
Who was famous for refusing to give up her bus seat?
Rosa Parks
Who had a wartime diary while hiding from the Nazis?
Anne Frank
This gymnast became famous for winning multiple Olympic gold medals and performing incredible flips.
Simone Biles
This Pakistani activist became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating for girls education.
Malala Yousafzai
This women invented the dishwasher.
Josephine Cochran
Known as the "Moses of her people," she made 13 trips along the Underground Railroad to lead dozens of enslaved people to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
Who was an American poet who wrote over 1,800 poems including, “Hope is the thing with feathers.”
Emily Dickinson
This tennis star has won 23 Grand Slam single titles.
Serena Williams
This woman founded a school for formerly enslaved African American girls and later became an important educator and leader.
Mary McLeod Bethune
This woman invented the windshield wiper.
Mary Anderson
Who was the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
A Mexican painter who paints self portraits which explores pain, Mexican culture, and pain.
Frida Kahlo
This soccer star played for U.S. Women’s National Team and helped win World Cups.
Megan Rapinoe
This educator created a teaching method that lets young children learn through hands-on activities and independence.
Maria Montessori
This woman created the tech that made WiFi and Bluetooth.
Hedy Lamarr
This English-born doctor became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Published in 1818, this 19-year-old author's gothic masterpiece gave birth to modern science fiction through the story of a scientist and his monstrous creation
Mary Shelley
This track and field athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.
Wilma Rudolph
This famous woman became a teacher despite being blind and deaf and wrote books about her experiences.
Helen Keller
This woman invented flat bottomed paper bags.
Margaret Knight
Who was a famous civil rights leader who gave speeches about equality?
Coretta Scott King
Her 1911 novel Ethan Frome brought critical acclaim, but she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a decade later for The Age of Innocence.
Edith Waroth
This woman became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon officially.
Kathrine Switzer
This woman was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University.
Helen Octavia Dickens
This woman incited Kevlar (the strong material used in bullet resistant body armor)
Stephanie Kwolek