Film/TV
This actress plays Diana Prince in the 2017 Wonder Woman movie
Gal Gadot
This woman was the founder of radioactive science
Marie Curie
Known for hits such as Jolene and 9 to 5, this singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, is known primarily for her work in country music.
Dolly Parton
This woman was the first black female Vice President
Kamala Harris
This woman challenged racial segregation in the US by refusing to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down.
Rosa Parks
This Star Trek show features the series first black female lead character as well as the series first openly gay couple
Star Trek Discovery; Sonequa Martin-Green; Michael Burnham
Who was the first black woman to travel to space?
Mae Jemison
This singer was certified as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records and is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide.
Whitney Houston
This woman was the first Latina US Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Sotomayor
This American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
Marsha P. Johnson
This actress, married to Alexandra Hedison, has starred in films such as Contact and The Accused
Jodie Foster
This mathematician has been referred to as the world’s first computer programmer
Ada Lovelace
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," this woman was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century
Ella Fitzgerald
A key author for Title IX, this woman became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964
Patsy Mink
These three women are the founders of BLM
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
Who was considered to be the first female director, and one of the first to make a narrative fiction film?
Alice Guy-Blaché
Conducting research on Earth’s ozone layer, this woman became the first Hispanic woman to go to space on April 8th, 1993
Ellen Ochoa
Who was the first identifiable woman composer in the history of Western Music?
Hildegard of Bingen
This was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin
Often credited as the one to “put the t in LGBT activism”, this woman worked with Marsha P Johnson to form the STAR organization which helped house homeless trans people in 1970s New York
Sylvia Rivera
Disillusioned by police negligence, in 1966 she filed a patent for a movable camera that could display images on a TV screen monitor of whoever was at the front door, the first CCTV camera.
Marie Van Brittan Brown
In 1932 she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
This Syrian American poet and rapper is best known for her first music video, "Hijabi" (2017), which responds to questions and comments frequently received by women who cover their heads
Mona Haydar
This woman was India’s first and, to date, only female Prime Minister.
Indira Gandhi
Who became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, peace and democracy?
Wangari Maathai