Athletics
When she was just 13 years old, a tiger shark bit off her arm, but she did not let that stop her from competing in competitive and professional surfing.
Who is Bethany Hamilton?
She was one of the most decorated soldiers in the Soviet Union to serve in WWII fighting in both the Siege of Odessa and Siege of Sevastopol. After her service, she received the highest distinction and medal as Hero of the Soviet Union.
Who is Lyudmila Pavlichenko?
She has become a break through pop “feninomomenon” who is known for her visual performances and stage persona. Off the stage, she has been an activist for the Queer Community and open about having Bipolar Disorder.
Who Is Chappell Roan?
She coined the term “radioactivity” and discovered the elements polonium and radium. She also received Nobel prizes in both chemistry and physics.
Who is Marie Curie?
While the word “transgender” did not exist at the time and she mostly identified as a Drag Queen, friends state this is how she would identify if the term existed then. She and close friend Silvia Rivera were known for being very visible in their fight for gay rights in New York and even started a shelter for homeless gay and trans youth.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This Japanese-Haitian-American tennis player has won 4 grand slam titles and represented Japan in both the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Who is Naomi Osaka?
During the Mexican Revolution, she dressed as a man she joined the military and after being ousted for being a women, she lead a brigade of over 400 women into battle.
Who is Petra Herrera?
This German-born singer was the first trans woman to have a single reach the Billboard Hot 100 and was the first trans artist to win a major category grammy.
Who is Kim Petras?
She was one of the first African American women to work at NASA and with her help, she calculated trajectories, launch windows and emergency return path for the Project Mercury space flights. Her story was told in the film "Hidden Figures."
Who is Katherine Johnson?
She is mostly known internationally for being the wife of an A-list actor but continues to be a human rights attorney. She has represented many high-profile clients, many of them journalists who’s native countries government didn’t want to hear what they had to say.
Who is Amal Allamudin-Clooney?
Despite a very unstable upbringing, she made history as the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.
Who is Misty Copeland?
She became a Folk Hero after her death, which helped lead to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty. She is also known as the first Chinese Feminist with speaking out against foot binding and women being “illiterate slaves” to their husbands.
Who is Qui Jin?
Her character of Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek series was the first black women to be seen in a command position on cable TV and was one part of the first interracial kiss on network television.
Who is Nichelle Nichols?
She started out as an actress/singer on Disney Channel before getting dual degrees from MIT and Harvard and now is the CEO of a satellite company.
Who is Bridget Mendler?
Her activism career started with raising bail money for civil rights protesters, organizing a community childcare center and later on worked with Gloria Steinem with the Women’s Action Alliance.
Who is Dorothy Pittman Hughes?
Despite contracting polio in her childhood, she overcame it and became an Olympic track and field athlete, at the end of her career, she had 3 gold medals and 1 bronze.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
She was the first women to become a navigator in the Soviet Air Force in 1933, set a large number of long-distance records and later used her connections to start three combat regiments of combat women who later became known as the Night Witches.
Who Is Marina Raskova?
She is the first women to create three drama series that reached the hundred episode milestone and was the creator, head writer and executive producer for Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal.
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
Her cells have been memorialized for instead of dying, doubling in 20 hours. They were used to study effects of toxin, drugs, hormones and viruses on growth of cancer cells. To this day, her cells are still used and have played a manor role in both polio and COVID 19 Vaccines.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
After turning down the advances of Dominican Dictator Rafeal Leonidas Trujillo, she and her family became a target, but instead of hiding or giving in, she and her sisters fought back and helped topple his dictatorship.
Who is Minerva Mirabal?
After a career playing competitive hockey from a young age and representing Canada internationally, she recently made her debut as the first women to be an assistant coach in the National Hockey League for the Seattle Kraken.
Who is Jessica Campbell?
First women to earn a rank in the Syrian Army and worked her way up to a general. Besides work in the military, she she didn’t wear a veil and was a women’s rights activist as well.
Who is Naziq al-Abid?
She was one of the first woman to not only wear pants on network television, but also be pregnant as well.
Who is Lucille Ball?
Despite being an award-winning actress forced out of her native Austria due to Nazis, she also had an interest in inventing and later co-invented a radio guidance system for torpedoes that resulting in what we now call Wi-Fi.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
After witnessing elephants being abused in the tourist industry of her native Thailand, she decided to make a change and what started out as medical aid turned into a sanctuary.
Who is Lek Chailart?