100 women who made history: remarkable women who shaped our world

CLUED-UP CREATIVES: Sappho

Mira Bai

Emily Dickinson

SCREEN STARS: Marlene Dietrich ; Marilyn Monroe ; Kathryn Bigelow

Madhuri Dixit ; Jennifer Lawrence

Josephine Baker

Edith Piaf

Maria Callas

Frida Kahlo

WOMEN WRITERS: Murasaki Shikibu ; Shin Saimdang ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Jane Austen ; Maya Angelou

Anne Frank

Joni Mitchell

J. K. Rowling

SUPER SCIENTISTS: Hypatia

Émilie du Châtelet

Ada Lovelace

Mary Anning

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Lise Meitner

Marie Curie

HEALTHCARE HEROES: Mary Seacole ; Florence Nightingale ; Edith Cavell ; Agnes Hunt ; Averil Mansfield

Chien-Shung Wu

Dian Fossey

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Rosalind Franklin

INSPIRING CAMPAIGNERS: Olympe de Gouges

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Harriet Tubman

Louise Michel

Bertha von Suttner

LANDMARK MOMENTS: Princess Isabel of Brazil ; Helen Keller ; Rachel Carson ; Wangari Maathai ; Margaret Chan

Emmeline Pankhurst

Rosa Luxemburg

Sophie Scholl

Rosa Parks

Aung San Suu Kyi

Malala Yousafzai

LEADING LADIES

Joan of Arc

COOL QUEENS: Hatshepsut ; Cleopatra ; Eleanor of Aquitaine ; Razia Sultana ; Queen Victoria

Catherine the Great

Wu Zeitan

Taytu Betul

Queen Elizabeth I

Sacagawea

Maria Quitéria de Jesus

Dolores Ibárruri

Eleanor Roosevelt

Indira Gandhi

Margaret Thatcher

Angela Merkel

POLITICAL PIONEERS: Golda Meir ; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ; Graça Machel

Shirin Ebadi

Benazir Bhutto

INTREPID ENTREPRENEURS: Bertha Benz

Sarah Breedlove

Coco Chanel

Indra Nooyi

Peggy Guggenheim

Oprah Winfrey

INTERNET IMPACT: Carol Bartz ; Radia Perlman ; Sheryl Sandberg ; Martha Lane Fox ; Juliana Rotich

AMAZING ACHIEVERS: Althea Gibson

Nellie Bly

HIGH FLIERS: Harriet Quimby ; Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya ; Amelia Earhart ; Amy Johnson ; Valentina Tereshkova

Gertrude Bell

Junko Tabei

Wilma Rudolph

Nova Peris

Serena Williams

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Marta

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