Women’s Suffrage Activists
She organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This author of Pride and Prejudice explored love, class, and marriage in Regency England.
Jane Austen
This physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two different sciences.
Marie Curie
She became the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
Margaret Thatcher
This pop superstar behind songs like Shake It Off and Anti-Hero became the first artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammys four times.
Taylor Swift
This activist was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election.
Susan B. Anthony
She wrote Little Women, a coming-of-age novel inspired by her own family.
Louisa May Alcott
This chemist’s crucial work on X-ray diffraction helped reveal the structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin
This German leader served as Chancellor from 2005 to 2021, becoming one of Europe’s longest-serving leaders.
Angela Merkel
Known as the “Queen of Pop,” this singer released hits like Like a Virgin and Vogue.
Madonna
She was an abolitionist who later advocated for women’s voting rights.
Harriet Tubman
This author wrote Frankenstein when she was just 18 years old.
Mary Shelley
This mathematician calculated flight trajectories for NASA and was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.
Katherine Johnson
In 2016, she became the first woman nominated for U.S. president by a major political party.
Hillary Clinton
This powerhouse vocalist sang the iconic song Respect.
Aretha Franklin
This formerly enslaved woman delivered the famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in 1851.
Sojourner Truth
The author of Beloved, she became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison
This primatologist is famous for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Jane Goodall
This Liberian president became Africa’s first elected female head of state in 2006
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
This singer of Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) is often called “Queen Bey.”
Beyoncé
She founded the National Woman’s Party and played a key role in pushing for the 19th Amendment.
Alice Paul
This dystopian novelist wrote The Handmaid’s Tale.
Margaret Atwood
This Italian physicist won the Nobel Prize in 2020 for her work on black holes.
Andrea Ghez
She became India’s first and only female Prime Minister in 1966.
Indira Gandhi
This British singer behind the album 21 won six Grammys in one night in 2012.
Adele