From the Book - First edition.
Aisholpan Nurgaiv, eagle huntress
Andrée Peel, French Resistance fighter
Anita Garibaldi, revolutionary
Beatrix Potter, writer and illustrator
Beyoncé, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman
Billie Jean King, tennis player
The Black Mambas, rangers
Brenda Milner, neuropsychologist
Buffalo Calf Road Woman, warrior
Madam C. J. Walker, businesswoman;
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, writer
Christina of Sweden, Queen
Clara Schumann, pianist and composer
Clemantine Wamariya, storyteller and activist
Corrie Ten Boom, watchmaker
Eleanor Roosevelt, politician
Ellen Degeneres, comedian and TV host
Florence Chadwick, swimmer
Gae Aulenti, architect and designer
Georgia O'Keeffe, painter
Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor
Jeanne Baret, housekeeper and explorer
Joan Beauchamp Procter, zoologist
Johanna Nordblad, ice diver
Katherine Johnson, Doroty Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, computer scientists
Katia Krafft, volcanologist
Leymah Gbowee, peace activist
Lowri Morgan, ultramarathon runner
Luo Dengping, extreme rock climber
Madonna, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman
Marina Abramović, performance artist
Marta Vieira da Silva, soccer player
Mary Fields, mail carrier
Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician
Matilda of Canossa, feudal ruler
Merrritt Moore, quantum physicist and ballerina
Molly Kelly, Daisy Kadibill, and Gracie Fields, freedom Fighters
Nadia Murad, human rights activist
Madine Gordimer, writer and activist
Oprah Winfrey, TV host, actress, and businesswoman
Pauline Léon, revolutionary
Peggy Guggenheim, art collector
Poorna Malavath, mountaineer;
Rachel Carson, environmentalist
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, political activist
Rosalind Franklin, chemist and x-ray crystallographer
Ruby Nell Bridges, activist
Samantha Cristoforetti, astronaut
Sara Seager, astrophysicist
Sarinya Srisakul, firefighter
Selda Bağcan, singer and songwriter
Serafina Battaglia, anti-mafia witness
Shamsia Hassani, graffiti artist
Sofia Ionescu, neurosurgeon
Sojourner Truth, activist
Sonia Sotomayor, Justice of the Supreme Court
Steffi Graf, tennis player
Temple Grandin, professor of animal sciences
Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
Valerie Thomas, astronomer
Violeta Parra, composer and musician
Vivian Maier, photographer
