Sports Legends
his tennis player won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams?
This physicist won two Nobel Prizes for her work in radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
She was the first female Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This First Lady championed human rights and was the longest-serving First Lady of the U.S.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The first woman to run the Boston Marathon with an official race number in 1967.
Who is Kathrine Switzer?
This African American mathematician’s calculations helped NASA send astronauts into orbit.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This woman was the first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
The only woman to have ruled England twice, known as the "Virgin Queen."
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
With a record-breaking number of World Championship medals, this gymnast is widely considered the greatest of all time.
Who is Simone Biles?
The first American woman in space, who flew aboard the Challenger in 1983.
Who is Sally Ride?
This former Secretary of State ran as the first female presidential nominee for a major U.S. party.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
In 1932, this woman became the first female U.S. senator elected in her own right.
Who is Hattie Caraway?
The first woman to rule China in her own right.
Who is Empress Wu Zetian?
This soccer star won two FIFA Women’s World Cups and co-founded the NWSL.
Who is Mia Hamm?
This computer scientist developed the first compiler and was a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
Who is Grace Hopper?
She was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
This suffragist and abolitionist co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This empress was the only female ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and the mother of Marie Antoinette, ruling for 40 years despite challenges to her reign.
Who is Maria Theresa?
The first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.
Who is Alice Coachman?
A 20th-century chemist, she discovered the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The longest-serving female Prime Minister of the UK, known as the "Iron Lady."
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
The first female Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority nation.
Who is Benazir Bhutto?
This First Lady was the first to hold press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, and advocate for human rights on a global scale as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?