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English mathematician and writer whose work on the Analytical Engine anticipated general-purpose computing.

Record-setting aviator and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Jewish diarist whose account of hiding during the Holocaust became one of the world's most widely read books.

Myanmar political leader and Nobel laureate whose democratic resistance and later record in government form a complex and contested legacy.

Pakistani stateswoman who became the first woman elected to lead a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.

Champion tennis player and lifelong advocate for gender equality and social justice.

Chinese American experimental physicist whose landmark experiment demonstrated that parity is not conserved in weak interactions.

Pioneering nurse, humanitarian, educator, and founder of the American Red Cross.

Diplomat, political scientist, professor, and the first Black woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.

Labor leader and community organizer who co-founded the organization that became the United Farm Workers.

British chemist who used X-ray crystallography to reveal the structures of vital biochemical substances.

Diplomat, activist, and longest-serving First Lady of the United States.

American lyric poet whose compressed, unconventional verse profoundly influenced modern poetry.

British suffrage leader who founded the Women's Social and Political Union and made militant direct action central to the campaign for women's votes.

First Lady of Argentina who championed labor rights, social welfare, and women's suffrage.

Social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern professional nursing.

Mexican painter whose vivid self-portraits explored identity, culture, gender, and chronic pain.

Journalist, author, and organizer who became a leading voice of the modern American women's-rights movement.

Israeli stateswoman, independence declaration signatory, and Israel's first woman prime minister.

Computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral who pioneered machine-independent programming.

Swedish climate activist whose school strike inspired the international Fridays for Future movement.

Abolitionist who escaped slavery and repeatedly returned to guide others to freedom.

Actor and inventor who co-developed an early frequency-hopping communication system.

Author and disability rights advocate who became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

India's first woman prime minister and a dominant, consequential, and controversial figure in its post-independence politics.

Former New Zealand prime minister recognized for crisis leadership and reforms following the Christchurch terrorist attacks.

Primatologist whose long-term study transformed scientific understanding of wild chimpanzees.

NASA mathematician whose orbital calculations helped make early American human spaceflight and the Moon landing possible.

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist who built a major hair-care business for Black women.

Diplomat and scholar who became the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.

Pakistani education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.

South American revolutionary who supported independence and advocated for women's rights.

Computer scientist who led development of the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program.

First woman to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Physicist and chemist whose pioneering research transformed the study of radioactivity.

Business leader, philanthropist, and owner of General Foods.

Surgeon, abolitionist, prisoner of war, and the only woman awarded the Medal of Honor.

Novelist whose Frankenstein became a foundational work of modern science fiction.

American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist whose writing transformed modern autobiographical literature.

Media entrepreneur, interviewer, actress and philanthropist who transformed American daytime television.

Marine biologist and author whose scientific writing helped launch the modern environmental movement.

K'iche' Maya activist and Nobel laureate who brought international attention to Indigenous rights and Guatemala's civil conflict.

Civil rights activist whose resistance helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott.

Chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to understanding DNA's structure.

Jurist and equality advocate who served on the United States Supreme Court for 27 years.

Lemhi Shoshone woman whose knowledge and diplomacy supported the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

American tennis champion whose 23 major singles titles are the most won by a woman in the Open Era.

French existentialist writer, philosopher, and feminist theorist whose work transformed modern understandings of women's oppression.

Abolitionist and women's-rights advocate who transformed her experience of enslavement into a powerful campaign for freedom and equality.

United States Supreme Court justice and the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Court.

Social reformer, abolitionist, and central organizer of the American women's suffrage movement.

Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and editor whose lyrical fiction illuminated Black history, memory, and identity.

English modernist whose innovative novels and feminist essays reshaped twentieth-century literature.

Kenyan environmentalist, democracy advocate, Green Belt Movement founder, and first African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist who documented and celebrated Black Southern culture.