Rosa Parks (1913-2005) challenged the race segragation in the USA in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down. Her protest was supported by many other African Americans and sparked the civil rights movement which, in the 1960s, eventually won equal rights.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) An English writer and philosopher who championed education and liberation for women. Her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was published in 1792 and is seen as one of the foundational texts of modern feminism.
Coco Chanel (1883-1981) from a difficult childhood in France she became an internationally famous designer whose brands spans fashion, jewellery and perfume. Her importance and contributions to female fashion is complicated by her suspected collaboration with German intelligence operations during the Second World War.
Marie Curie (1867-1934) founded the new science of radioactivity and her discoveries launched effective cures for cancer.She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, first female professor at the University of Paris, and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize.”
Rosalind Franklin, in full Rosalind Elsie Franklin, (1920-1958), British scientist best known for her contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a constituent of chromosomes that serves to encode genetic information.
Hedy Lamarr (1914-200) Austrian actress became a pioneer in the field of wireless communications following her emigration to the United States. The international beauty icon, along with co-inventor George Anthiel, developed a "Secret Communications System" to help combat the Nazis in World War II.
Ada Lovelace (181 5-52)was a gifted mathematician considered to be the first computer programmer, an industry that has since transformed business, our lives and the world.
Hypatya (c355 o 70-415AD) An Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher murder in AD 415. She is the first female mathematician of whose life and work we have reasonably detailed knowledge.