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image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Maria Gaetana Agnesi philosopher
mathematician
philanthropist
theologian
pedagogue
polyglot
1718-05-16 1799-01-09
Mary Prince writer
enslaved person
1788-10-01 1833
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff writer
poet
composer
novelist
playwright
1797-01-12 1848-05-24
Fanny Eaton art model
domestic worker
Charwoman
1835-06-23 1924-03-04
Mekatilili wa Menza 1840 1925
Cecilia Grierson physician
university teacher
suffragette
1859-11-22 1934-04-10
Manlee Khongprapath dancer 1885-01-20 1971-11-05
Marie Thomas physician 1896-02-17 1966-10-10
Saniya Habboub physician 1901 1986-09
Asmahan actor
film producer
singer
film score composer
1912-11-25 1944-07-14
Martha E. Bernal clinical psychologist
psychologist
university teacher
1931-04-13 2001
Bunpheng Faiphiuchai singer 1932-09-22 2008
St. Martin's Day
Lucy
Bécassine
Hamida Banu professional wrestler
Lizzie Emeh singer
disability rights activist
2021-11-05


Algeria

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Baya painter Algeria
France
1931-12-12 1998-11-09
Miriam Makeba singer
actor
recording artist
composer
Algeria
South Africa
1932-03-04 2008-11-09
Warda El- Djazairia singer
actor
artist
Algeria
France
Egypt
Jordan
1939-07-22 2012-05-17


Argentina

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Mariquita Sánchez salonnière
chronicler
politician
society hostess
correspondent
Argentina 1786-11-01 1868-10-23
Juana Paula Manso writer
journalist
Argentina 1819-06-26 1875-04-24
Petrona Eyle physician Argentina 1866-01-18 1945-04-12
Lola Mora sculptor
painter
Argentina 1866-11-17 1936-06-07
Elvira Rawson politician
physician
professor
suffragist
Argentina 1867-04-19 1954-06-04
Victoria Ocampo writer
translator
publisher
critic
public figure
Argentina 1890-04-07 1979-01-27
Alfonsina Storni diarist
poet
journalist
writer
teacher
sociologist
Argentina 1892-05-29 1938-10-25
Irene María Bernasconi biologist
zoologist
teacher
Argentina 1896-09-25 1989-07-07
Olga Cossettini teacher Argentina 1898-08-18
1898-08-09
1987-05-24
Olga Orozco writer
poet
journalist
translator
screenwriter
Argentina 1920-03-17 1999-08-15
Olga Ferri choreographer
ballet dancer
Argentina 1928-09-20 2012-09-15
María Elena Walsh writer
screenwriter
journalist
singer
novelist
composer
children's writer
film score composer
singer-songwriter
poet
Argentina 1930-02-01 2011-01-10
Mercedes Sosa singer
recording artist
Argentina 1935-07-09 2009-10-04
Aimé Painé singer Argentina 1943-08-23 1987-09-10


Australia

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Henrietta Dugdale suffragette
suffragist
Australia 1827-05-14 1918-06-17
Nellie Melba opera singer
autobiographer
Australia 1861-05-19 1931-02-23
Lily Poulett-Harris cricketer Australia 1873-09-02 1897-08-15
May Gibbs writer
children's writer
illustrator
cartoonist
comics artist
Australia 1877-01-17 1969-11-27
Miles Franklin non-fiction writer
novelist
writer
women's rights activist
Australia 1879-10-14 1954-09-19
Elizabeth Kenny nurse Australia 1880-09-20 1952-11-30
Dorothea Mackellar poet
writer
Australia 1885-07-01 1968-01-14
Fanny Durack swimmer
competitive diver
Australia 1889-10-27 1956-03-20
Mina Wylie swimmer Australia 1891-06-27 1984-07-06
Grace Cossington Smith painter
artist
Australia 1892-04-22 1984-12-20
Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer librarian
botanist
researcher
botanical collector
Australia 1893-11-13 1979-05-03
Maude Bonney aircraft pilot Australia 1897-11-20 1994-02-24
Jean Macnamara physician
medical researcher
orthopedic surgeon
Australia 1899-04-01 1968-10-13
Pearl Gibbs human rights activist
linguist
translator
Australia 1901-07-18 1983-04-28
Gladys Elphick Australia 1904-08-27 1988-01-19
Dorothy Hill geologist
paleontologist
Australia 1907-09-10 1997-04-23
Fearless Nadia actor
stunt performer
Australia
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1908-01-08 1996-01-09
Ruby Payne-Scott physicist
astronomer
university teacher
Australia 1912-05-28 1981-05-25
Oodgeroo Noonuccal poet
human rights activist
writer
philosopher
Australia 1920-11-03 1993-09-16
Mum Shirl activist
social worker
political activist
Australia 1921-11-22 1998-04-28
Margaret Fulton cook
writer
journalist
television presenter
celebrity chef
Australia
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1924-10-10 2019-07-24
Maureen Watson activist Australia 1931-11-09 2009-01-04
Evelyn Scott activist
politician
Australia 1935 2017-09-21
Doris Pilkington Garimara writer
nurse
Australia 1937-07-14 2014-04-10
Elizabeth Hastings disability rights activist
psychologist
civil servant
Australia 1949-01-01 1998-12-31


Bangladesh

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Sufia Kamal poet
writer
journalist
Bangladesh
British Raj
Pakistan
1911-06-20 1999-11-20
Zohra Begum Kazi physician Bangladesh
British Raj
Pakistan
1912-10-15 2007-11-07
Firoza Begum singer Bangladesh
British Raj
Pakistan
1930-07-28 2014-09-09
Novera Ahmed sculptor Bangladesh
British Raj
Pakistan
1939-03-29 2015-05-05
Rosy Afsari actor
film actor
Bangladesh
British Raj
Pakistan
1940s
1946-04-23
2007-03-09


Belgium

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Isala Van Diest physician
women's rights activist
Belgium 1842-05-07 1916-02-06
Marie Popelin lawyer
women's rights activist
Belgium 1846-12-16
1846-09-17
1913-06-05
Jacqueline Harpman psychologist
writer
Belgium 1929-07-05
1929-07-29
2012-05-24
Chantal Akerman film director
actor
screenwriter
film producer
university teacher
visual artist
photographer
performing artist
cinematographer
video installation artist
director
artist
filmmaker
writer
Belgium
France
1950-06-06 2015-10-05


Brazil

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Maria Firmina dos Reis writer
poet
novelist
teacher
Brazil 1825-10-11 1917-11-11
Chiquinha Gonzaga composer
conductor
pianist
activist
Brazil 1847-10-17 1935-02-28
Rita Lobato writer
physician
Brazil 1866-06-07 1954-01-06
Tarsila do Amaral painter
sculptor
drawer
artist
Brazil 1886-09-01 1973-01-17
Cora Coralina poet
writer
sociologist
children's writer
Brazil 1889-08-20 1985-04-10
Cecília Meireles journalist
poet
translator
writer
novelist
university teacher
Brazil 1901-11-07 1964-11-09
Laudelina de Campos Melo domestic worker
activist
Brazil 1904-10-12 1991-05-12
Nise da Silveira psychologist
psychiatrist
artist
physician writer
Brazil 1905-02-15 1999-10-30
Dercy Gonçalves comedian
actor
stage actor
Brazil 1907-06-23 2008-07-19
Lota de Macedo Soares architect Brazil 1910-03-16 1967-09-25
Rachel de Queiroz journalist
translator
playwright
novelist
writer
politician
Brazil 1910-11-17 2003-11-04
Virgínia Leone Bicudo psychoanalyst
sociologist
Brazil 1910-11-21 2003
Enedina Alves Marques civil engineer
teacher
Brazil 1913-01-13 1981-08
Tomie Ohtake artist
painter
sculptor
Brazil 1913-11-21 2015-02-12
Carolina Maria de Jesus writer
autobiographer
poet
waste picker
maid
Brazil 1914-03-14 1977-02-13
Lina Bo Bardi architect
drawer
illustrator
exhibition curator
writer
scenographer
designer
university teacher
Brazil
Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1914-12-05 1992-03-20
Cármen Costa composer Brazil 1920-01-05 2007-04-25
Elizete Cardoso singer
jazz musician
actor
Brazil 1920-07-07 1990-05-07
Lygia Clark painter
sculptor
university teacher
performance artist
installation artist
artist
Brazil 1920-10-23
1920-09-23
1988-04-25
1988-04-26
Ruth de Souza actor Brazil 1921-05-12 2019-07-28
Zuzu Angel fashion designer Brazil 1921-06-05 1976-04-14
Bibi Ferreira stage actor
film actor
theatrical director
film director
Brazil 1922-06-01
1922-06-10
2019-02-13
Dona Militana singer Brazil 1925-03-19 2010-06-19
Lélia Gonzalez anthropologist
professor
politician
human rights activist
philosopher
Brazil 1935-02-01 1994-07-10
Chu Ming Silveira architect
designer
Brazil 1941-04-04 1997-06-18
Jovelina Pérola Negra singer-songwriter
singer
author
songwriter
Brazil 1944-07-21 1998-11-02
Cássia Eller guitarist
singer
Brazil 1962-12-10 2001-12-29
Dina Di rapper Brazil 1976-02-19 2010-03-20
Rosane Kaingang activist
social activist
Brazil 2016-10-16


British Raj

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Savitribai Phule poet
writer
British Raj 1831-01-03 1897-03-10
Kadambini Ganguly physician
politician
British Raj 1862-07-18 1923-10-03
Kamini Roy writer
professor
British Raj 1864-10-12 1933-09-27
Anandi Gopal Joshi physician British Raj 1865-03-31 1887-02-26
Cornelia Dorabuji lawyer British Raj
India
Dominion of India
1866-11-15 1954-07-06
Gauhar Jaan singer
dancer
British Raj 1873-06-26 1930-01-17
Sarojini Naidu poet
politician
independence activist
freedom fighter
British Raj
India
1879-02-13 1949-03-02
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain writer
science fiction writer
social reformer
British Raj 1880-12-09 1932-12-09
Mahadevi Varma poet
writer
prose writer
British Raj
India
Dominion of India
1907-03-26 1987-09-11
Zohra Sehgal dancer
choreographer
stage actor
film actor
television actor
British Raj
India
1912-04-27 2014-07-10
Amrita Sher-Gil painter British Raj 1913-01-30 1941-12-05
M. S. Subbulakshmi singer
film actor
British Raj
India
Dominion of India
1916-09-16 2004-12-11
Asima Chatterjee chemist
botanist
university teacher
British Raj
Dominion of India
India
1917-09-23 2006-11-22
Anna Mani physicist
meteorologist
British Raj
India
1918-08-23 2001-08-16
Amrita Pritam politician
autobiographer
poet
writer
journalist
novelist
British Raj
India
1919-08-31 2005-10-31
Sitara Devi choreographer
actor
British Raj
India
Dominion of India
1920-11-08 2014-11-25
Mahasweta Devi human rights activist
writer
poet
novelist
educator
short story writer
British Raj
India
1926-01-14 2016-07-28
Iqbal Bano singer British Raj
India
Dominion of India
Pakistan
1928-08-27 2009-04-21
Bano Qudsia writer
novelist
British Raj
Pakistan
1928-11-28
1928
2017-02-04
Nargis film actor
screenwriter
politician
actor
British Raj
India
1929-06-01 1981-05-03
Madhubala film actor British Raj
India
1933-02-14 1969-02-23
Meena Kumari actor
poet
costume designer
singer
British Raj
India
1933-08-01 1972-03-31


Canada

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Laura Secord Canada 1775-09-13 1868-10-17
Jennie Kidd Trout physician
teacher
philanthropist
Canada 1841-04-21 1921-11-10
Henrietta Edwards women's rights activist Canada 1849-12-18 1931-11-10
Carrie Matilda Derick botanist
geneticist
university teacher
Canada 1862-01-14 1941-11-10
Emily Carr painter
autobiographer
writer
ceramicist
artist
Canada 1871-12-13 1945-03-02
Lucy Maud Montgomery writer
novelist
children's writer
poet
diarist
biographer
short story writer
journalist
teacher
Canada 1874-11-30 1942-04-24
Mary Pickford film producer
film actor
film director
screenwriter
writer
stage actor
actor
producer
Canada 1892-04-08
1893-04-08
1979-05-29
Carrie Best journalist
autobiographer
Canada 1903-03-04 2001-07-24
Bobbie Rosenfeld athletics competitor
sprinter
Canada 1904-12-28 1969-11-14
Mary Two-Axe Earley activist Canada 1911-10-04 1996-08-21
Agnes Martin painter
drawer
printmaker
artist
Canada
United States of America
1912-03-22 2004-12-16
Viola Desmond business executive
cosmetologist
civil rights advocate
Canada 1914-07-06 1964-02-07
Jane Jacobs journalist
urban planner
writer
sociologist
author
economist
Canada
United States of America
1916-05-04 2006-04-25
Marcelle Ferron painter
university teacher
glass artist
Canada 1924-01-29 2001-11-19
Kenojuak Ashevak sculptor
printmaker
drawer
Canada 1927-10-03 2013-01-08
Violet King Henry lawyer Canada 1929-10-18 1982-03-30
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk writer
teacher
sculptor
translator
Canada 1931 2007-04-30


Chile

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Aurélia de Souza painter Chile
Portugal
Kingdom of Portugal
1866-06-13 1922-05-26
Eloísa Díaz physician
surgeon
Chile 1866-06-25 1950-11-01
Gabriela Mistral poet
diplomat
teacher
writer
Chile 1889-04-07 1957-01-10
Justicia Acuña civil engineer Chile 1893-01-14 1980-08-16
Marcela Paz writer
novelist
poet
Chile 1902-02-28 1985-06-12
Elena Caffarena politician
lawyer
suffragette
organizational founder
president of a non-profit organisation
Chile 1903-03-23 2003-07-19
Lenka Franulic journalist
translator
Chile 1908 1961
Matilde Pérez sculptor
painter
visual artist
Chile 1916-12-07 2014-10-01
Violeta Parra singer-songwriter
poet
painter
sculptor
embroiderer
ceramicist
writer
recording artist
Chile 1917-10-04 1967-02-05
Adelina Gutiérrez astrophysicist
academic
Chile 1925-05-27 2015-04-11
Marlene Ahrens javelin thrower
athletics competitor
Chile 1933-07-27 2020-06-17


Colombia

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Soledad Acosta journalist
writer
historian
poet
editor
translator
playwright
literary scholar
man of letters
novelist
Colombia 1833-05-05 1913-03-17
Débora Arango painter Colombia 1907-11-11 2005-12-04
Emma Reyes painter
writer
Colombia 1919-07-09 2003-07-12
Lucy Tejada artist Colombia 1920-10-09 2011-11-02
Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda anthropologist
sociologist
Colombia 1921-11-04 1999-09-02
Feliza Bursztyn sculptor
painter
Colombia 1933-09-08 1982-01-08
Ana Mercedes Hoyos painter
visual artist
Colombia 1942-09-29 2014-09-05


Czech Republic

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Eliška Junková racing automobile driver
memoirist
writer
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
Austria-Hungary
1900-11-16 1994-01-05
Dana Zátopková javelin thrower
athletics competitor
track and field coach
athlete
Olympic competitor
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
1922-09-19 2020-03-13
Helena Zmatlíková illustrator
painter
Czech Republic 1923-11-19 2005-04-04


Dutch East Indies

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Kartini women's rights activist
textile artist
Dutch East Indies 1879-04-21 1904-09-17
Rohana Kudus journalist Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
1884-12-20 1972-08-17
Sariamin Ismail teacher
writer
journalist
Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
1909-07-31 1995-12-15


Ecuador

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Dolores Cacuango activist Ecuador 1881-10-26 1971-04-23
Matilde Hidalgo physician
poet
politician
suffragette
activist
Ecuador 1889-09-29 1974-02-20
Carlota Jaramillo singer Ecuador 1904-07-09 1987-12-10
Tránsito Amaguaña political activist Ecuador 1909-09-10 2009-05-10


Egypt

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Marie Monib actor Egypt 1902-02-11 1969-01-21
Gamila El Alaily poet
writer
novelist
Egypt 1907-03-20 1991-04-11
Lotfia Elnadi aircraft pilot Egypt 1907-10-29 2002
Bahiga Hafez actor
composer
screenwriter
writer
film director
Egypt 1908-08-04 1983-12-13
Doria Shafik translator
editor
journalist
women's rights activist
philosopher
writer
Egypt 1908-12-14 1975-09-20
Suhayr al-Qalamawi translator
writer
novelist
Egypt 1911-07-20 1997-05-04
Mufidah Abdul Rahman lawyer Egypt 1914-01-20 2002-09-03
Tahia Halim painter Egypt 1919-09-09 2003-05-24
Latifa al-Zayyat translator
university teacher
writer
novelist
activist
Egypt 1923-08-08 1996-09-11
1996-09-10
Inji Aflatoun painter
women's rights activist
activist
Egypt 1924-04-16 1989-04-17
Samia Gamal actor
dancer
Egypt 1924-08-22
1924-03-05
1994-12-01
Alifa Rifaat poet
writer
novelist
Egypt 1930-06-05 1996-01-01
Shadia singer
actor
Egypt 1931-02-08
1929-02-08
2017-11-28
Faten Hamama actor
film actor
film producer
screenwriter
Egypt 1931-05-27 2015-01-17
Hend Rostom actor
film actor
Egypt 1931-11-12
1926-11-11
2011-08-08
Ratiba El-Hefny opera singer
singer
Egypt 1931-12-02 2013-09-16
Notaila Rashed writer Egypt 1934-09-19 2012-05-26
Soad Hosni actor
singer
film actor
Egypt 1943-01-26 2001-06-21
Radwa Ashour writer
literary critic
university teacher
novelist
Egypt 1946-05-26 2014-11-30
Madiha Kamel actor Egypt 1948-08-03 1997-01-13


France

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Christine de Pizan writer
poet
translator
philosopher
women letter writer
France 1364-09-11 1431
Émilie du Châtelet mathematician
physicist
philosopher of language
essayist
salonnière
translator
philosopher
France 1706-12-17 1749-09-10
Jeanne Baret botanist
explorer
naturalist
housekeeper
France 1740-07-27 1807-08-05
Olympe de Gouges playwright
journalist
philosopher
writer
politician
author
France 1748-05-07 1793-11-03
Marie Harel farmer France 1761-04-28 1844-11-09
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur children's writer
writer
France 1799-08-01 1874-02-09
Rosa Bonheur painter
sculptor
drawer
artist
head teacher
France 1822-03-16 1899-05-25
Julie-Victoire Daubié women's rights activist
economist
columnist
conferencier
France 1824-03-26 1874-08-26
Isabelle Gatti de Gamond women's rights activist
editor
France 1839-07-28 1905-10-11
Madeleine Brès physician France 1849-11-25 1921-11-30
Camille Claudel painter
art model
sculptor
architectural draftsperson
graphic artist
artist
France 1864-12-08 1943-10-19
Marie Curie physicist
chemist
university teacher
France
Russian Empire
Second Polish Republic
1867-11-07 1934-07-04
Eugénie Brazier chef France 1895-06-12 1977-03-02
Paulette Nardal journalist
women's rights activist
writer
France 1896-10-12 1985-02-16
Anita Conti oceanographer
photographer
explorer
writer
journalist
France 1899-05-17 1997-12-25
Suzanne Lenglen tennis player France 1899-05-24 1938-07-04
Marguerite Yourcenar novelist
poet
essayist
translator
university teacher
writer
playwright
literary critic
France
United States of America
Belgium
1903-06-08 1987-12-17
Simone de Beauvoir political philosopher
journalist
novelist
autobiographer
essayist
political activist
diarist
women letter writer
philosopher
literary critic
writer
author
feminist
philosophy teacher
France 1908-01-09 1986-04-14
Hélène Boucher aircraft pilot France 1908-05-23 1934-11-30
Simone Louise des Forest racing automobile driver France 1910-03-07 2004-11-15
Taos Amrouche singer
novelist
poet
France
Algeria
1913-03-04 1976-04-02
Édith Piaf singer
actor
recording artist
chansonnier
street artist
songwriter
France 1915-12-19 1963-10-10
Agnès Varda photographer
screenwriter
documentarian
plastic artist
film director
France
Belgium
1928-05-30 2019-03-29
Niki de Saint Phalle model
painter
visual artist
sculptor
illustrator
jewelry designer
conceptual artist
watercolorist
installation artist
performance artist
scenographer
filmmaker
printmaker
architectural draftsperson
graphic artist
artist
film director
France
Switzerland
United States of America
1930-10-29 2002-05-21
Dalida film actor
singer
model
dancer
France 1933-01-17 1987-05-03
Assia Djebar linguist
film director
professor
translator
writer
historian
France
Algeria
1936-06-30 2015-02-06
Romy Schneider film actor
stage actor
France
Germany
Austria
1938-09-23 1982-05-29
France Gall singer France 1947-10-09 2018-01-07


German Empire

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Helene Stöcker journalist
writer
activist
philosopher
editor
LGBTQ rights activist
abortion rights activist
women's rights activist
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
1869-11-13 1943-02-24
Paula Modersohn-Becker painter
printmaker
drawer
artist
German Empire 1876-02-08 1907-11-20
Marlene Dietrich film actor
singer
autobiographer
entertainer
violinist
stage actor
actor
television actor
resistance fighter
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
United States of America
German Reich
1901-12-27 1992-05-06


Germany

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Dorothea Erxleben physician Germany
Holy Roman Empire
1715-11-13 1762-06-13
Hedwig Dohm writer
women's rights activist
opinion journalist
playwright
Germany 1831-09-20 1919-06-01
Sidonie Werner women's rights activist
school teacher
Germany 1860-03-16 1932-12-27
Else Lasker-Schüler poet
writer
salonnière
playwright
Germany
statelessness
1869-02-11 1945-01-22
Alice Salomon social reformer
university teacher
writer
social pedagogue
women's rights activist
economist
Germany
United States of America
1872-04-19 1948-08-30
Gabriele Münter painter
drawer
printmaker
artist
Germany 1877-02-19 1962-05-19
Emmy Noether mathematician
physicist
university teacher
Germany
Kingdom of Bavaria
1882-03-23 1935-04-14
Hedwig Kohn physicist
university teacher
Germany
United States of America
1887-04-05 1964-03-26
Nelly Sachs poet
playwright
translator
writer
Germany
Sweden
1891-12-10 1970-05-12
Mina Witkojc journalist
poet
translator
writer
Germany 1893-05-28 1975-11-11
Lotte Reiniger film director
animator
silhouette artist
screenwriter
director
Germany 1899-06-02 1981-06-19
Anni Albers designer
university teacher
textile artist
lithographer
textile designer
jewelry designer
painter
author
artist
Germany
United States of America
1899-06-12 1994-05-09
Maria Reich archaeologist
mathematician
language teacher
Germany
Peru
1903-05-15 1998-06-08
Herta Heuwer chef Germany 1913-06-30 1999-07-13
Meret Oppenheim photographer
lyricist
painter
model
visual artist
sculptor
illustrator
jewelry designer
drawer
artist
Germany
Switzerland
1913-10-06 1985-11-15
Marga Faulstich chemist Germany 1915-06-16 1998-02-01
Ellis Kaut actor
audio drama actor
radio personality
sculptor
painter
writer
photographer
screenwriter
children's writer
Germany 1920-11-17 2015-09-24
Fasia Jansen Liedermacher
peace activist
Germany 1929-06-06 1997-12-26
Ruth Pfau physician
nun
Germany
Pakistan
British Raj
1929-09-09 2017-08-10
Aiga Rasch illustrator
graphic designer
photographer
Germany 1941-07-09 2009-12-24
Renate Krößner actor
film actor
Germany 1945-05-17 2020-05-25
May Ayim poet
writer
pedagogue
activist
speech and language therapist
Germany 1960-05-03 1996-08-09


Ghana

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Esther Afua Ocloo entrepreneur Ghana 1919-04-18 2002-02-08
Theodosia Okoh artist Ghana 1922-06-14 2015-04-19
Efua Theodora Sutherland poet
writer
playwright
educator
children's writer
Ghana 1924-06-27 1996-01-02


India

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Fatima Sheikh social worker
school teacher
India 1831-01-09 1900-10-09
Rukhmabai physician India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1864-11-22 1955-09-25
1955-12-25
Anasuya Sarabhai activist
politician
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1885-11-11 1972
Muthulakshmi Reddy politician
physician
autobiographer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1886-07-30 1968-07-22
P K Rosy actor
film actor
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1903-02-10 1975
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay political activist
freedom fighter
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1903-04-03 1988-10-29
Rukmini Devi Arundale politician
dancer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1904-02-29 1986-02-24
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan poet
writer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1904-08-16 1948-02-15
Balamani Amma poet
writer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1909-07-19 2004-09-29
Kamala Sohonie biochemist
researcher
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1911-06-18
1912
1998-06-28
Ismat Chughtai writer
screenwriter
film director
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1911-08-21
1915-08-15
1911-08-15
1915-08-21
1991-10-24
Venu Chitale writer
announcer
secretary
India 1912 1995
Homai Vyarawalla photographer
journalist
photojournalist
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1913-12-09 2012-01-15
Sarla Thakral painter
aircraft pilot
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1914 2008-03-15
Begum Akhtar actor
singer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1914-10-07 1974-10-30
Kamal Ranadive medical researcher
biologist
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1917-11-08 2001-04-11
Mrinalini Sarabhai dancer
choreographer
teacher
writer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1918-05-11
1918
1928
1918-05-18
2016-01-21
Shakuntala Devi mathematician
astrologer
writer
mental calculator
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1929-11-04 2013-04-21
Kamala Surayya poet
short story writer
autobiographer
writer
India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1934-03-31 2009-05-31
Nutan film actor
beauty pageant contestant
actor
India 1936-06-04 1991-02-21
Zarina printmaker
sculptor
painter
graphic artist
drawer
India
British Raj
United States of America
Dominion of India
1937-07-16 2020-04-25
Arati Saha swimmer India
British Raj
Dominion of India
1940-09-24 1994-08-23
Sridevi film actor
film producer
India 1963-08-13 2018-02-24


Indonesia

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Lasminingrat writer Indonesia 1854-03-29 1948-04-10
Maria Walanda Maramis warrior Indonesia 1872-12-01 1924-04-22
Dewi Sartika women's rights activist Indonesia 1884-12-04 1947-09-11
Ibu Sud artist
batikontwerper
Indonesia 1908-03-26 1993
1993-05-26
Rasuna Said politician Indonesia 1910-09-14 1965-11-02
Herawati Diah journalist Indonesia 1917-04-03 2016-09-30
Julie Sulianti Saroso physician Indonesia 1917-05-10 1991-04-29
Ani Idrus journalist Indonesia 1918-11-25 1999-01-09
Ibu Kasur songwriter
television presenter
Indonesia 1926-01-16 2002-10-22
Nh. Dini writer
women's rights activist
novelist
Indonesia
Dutch East Indies
1936-02-29 2018-12-04
Aminah Cendrakasih actor Indonesia 1938-01-29 2022-12-21
Minarni badminton player Indonesia 1944-05-10 2003-05-14
Ellya Khadam actor
singer
Indonesia 2009-11-02


Iraq

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Afifa Eskandar singer
writer
Iraq 1921-12-10 2012-10-21
Nazik Al-Malaika poet
writer
university teacher
literary critic
critic
Iraq 1922-08-23
1923
2007-06-20
Naziha Salim painter
art historian
Iraq 1927 2008-02-15


Israel

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Mascha Kaléko poet
writer
Israel
United States of America
1907-06-07
1907-06-17
1912-06-07
1975-01-21
Miriam Roth writer
educator
children's writer
Israel 1910-02-16 2005-11-13
Leah Goldberg poet
pedagogue
translator
playwright
literary critic
literary editor
children's writer
literary theorist
opinion journalist
writer
Israel 1911-05-29 1970-01-15
Shoshana Damari singer
stage actor
film actor
actor
performing artist
artist
music artist
visual artist
Israel 1923-03-31 2006-02-14
Naomi Shemer composer
singer
songwriter
Israel 1930-07-13 2004-06-26
Ofra Haza singer-songwriter
voice actor
composer
journalist
pianist
film actor
stage actor
singer
Israel 1957-11-19 2000-02-23
Ronit Elkabetz film director
screenwriter
singer
film actor
stage actor
actor
director
Israel 1964-11-27 2016-04-19


Italy

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Artemisia Gentileschi painter
artist
Italy 1593-07-08 1653
Maria Montessori physician
pedagogue
essayist
Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1870-08-31 1952-05-06
Anna Castelli Ferrieri designer
architect
Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1918-08-06 2006-06-22
Margherita Hack astrophysicist
astronomer
non-fiction writer
researcher
university teacher
science communicator
athletics competitor
secularist
Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1922-06-12 2013-06-29
Alda Merini poet
writer
Italy
Kingdom of Italy
1931-03-21 2009-11-01


Japan

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Kusunose Kita activist Japan 1836-10-18 1920-10-18
Ogino Ginko physician Japan 1851-04-04 1913-06-23
Tsuda Umeko women's rights activist
teacher
Japan 1864-12-31 1929-08-16
Ichiyō Higuchi novelist
writer
waka poet
Japan 1872-05-02 1896-11-23
Uemura Shōen Nihonga painter Japan
Empire of Japan
1875-04-23 1949-08-27
Akiko Yosano poet
translator
waka poet
essayist
writer
Japan 1878-12-07 1942-05-29
Tamaki Miura opera singer Japan 1884-02-22 1946-05-26
Raicho Hiratsuka journalist
novelist
writer
critic
anarchist
Japan
Empire of Japan
1886-02-10 1971-05-24
Michiyo Tsujimura agronomist
biochemist
Japan
Empire of Japan
1888-09-17 1969-06-01
Kimiko Tsumura actor
playwright
Japan
Empire of Japan
1902-08-16 1974-04-12
Misuzu Kaneko poet
writer
composer
Japan 1903-04-11 1930-03-10
Yukie Chiri poet
translator
writer
ethnographer
Japan 1903-06-08 1922-09-18
Aya Kōda novelist
essayist
writer
Japan
Empire of Japan
1904-09-01 1990-10-31
Fumiko Enchi writer
novelist
playwright
Japan
Empire of Japan
1905-10-02 1986-11-12
1986-11-14
Chihiro Iwasaki painter
illustrator
Japan
Empire of Japan
1918-12-15 1974-08-08
Katsuko Saruhashi chemist
geologist
geochemist
Japan 1920-03-22 2007-09-29
Mitsuko Mori actor
singer
seiyū
Japan
Empire of Japan
1920-05-09
1923-05-09
2012-11-10
Hibari Misora actor
singer
jazz musician
lyricist
impresario
child actor
Japan 1937-05-29 1989-06-24
Eiko Ishioka costume designer
graphic designer
designer
Japan
Empire of Japan
1938-07-12 2012-01-21
Junko Tabei explorer
mountaineer
Japan
Empire of Japan
1939-09-22 2016-10-20


Kingdom of Denmark

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Kamma Rahbek salonnière
writer
Kingdom of Denmark 1775-10-19 1829-01-21
Emma Gad writer
editor
Kingdom of Denmark 1852-01-21 1921-01-08
Anna Ancher painter
artist
Kingdom of Denmark 1859-08-18 1935-04-15
Karen Blixen short story writer Kingdom of Denmark 1885-04-17 1962-09-07
Inge Lehmann seismologist
geologist
surveyor
naturalist
geophysicist
Kingdom of Denmark 1888-05-13 1993-02-21


Kingdom of Italy

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Grazia Deledda writer
poet
novelist
playwright
prose writer
short story writer
Kingdom of Italy 1871-09-27
1871-11-11
1936-08-15
Julieta Lanteri physician
pharmacologist
politician
women's rights activist
suffragette
suffragist
Kingdom of Italy
Argentina
1873-03-22 1932-02-23
Tina Modotti photographer
activist
model
actor
film actor
stage actor
artist
Kingdom of Italy 1896-08-17 1942-01-05
Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona educator
women's rights activist
sports executive
resistance fighter
trade unionist
Kingdom of Italy
Italy
1901-09-24 1991-06-24
Gae Aulenti architect
scenographer
designer
costume designer
interior designer
furniture designer
Kingdom of Italy
Italy
1927-12-04 2012-11-01
2012-10-31


Kingdom of the Netherlands

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Aletta Jacobs physician
women's rights activist
peace activist
editor
suffragist
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1854-02-09 1929-08-10
Annie M.G. Schmidt playwright
writer
poet
children's writer
librarian
screenwriter
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1911-05-20 1995-05-21
Fanny Blankers-Koen sprinter
athletics competitor
long jumper
high jumper
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1918-04-26 2004-01-25


Lebanon

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Anbara Salam Khalidy translator
poet
writer
women's rights activist
Lebanon 1897-08-04 1986
Saloua Raouda Choucair painter
sculptor
artist
Lebanon 1916-06-24 2017-01-26
Etel Adnan painter
poet
essayist
drawer
teacher
writer
designer
Lebanon
United States of America
France
1925-02-24 2021-11-14
Sabah singer
actor
Lebanon
Egypt
1927-11-10 2014-11-26


Mexico

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Ángela Peralta opera singer
composer
Mexico 1845-07-06 1883-08-30
Matilde Montoya obstetrician Mexico 1857-03-14 1938-01-26
Elvia Carrillo politician Mexico 1878-12-06 1968-04-15
María Grever composer
songwriter
singer
conductor
businessperson
Mexico
United States of America
1885-09-14 1951-12-15
Hermila Galindo politician
journalist
women's rights activist
activist
writer
Mexico 1886-06-02 1954-08-19
Maria L. de Hernández activist Mexico 1896-07-29 1986-01-08
Luz Jiménez art model
Informant (linguistics)
narrator
research assistant
writer
Mexico 1897-01-28 1965-01-28
Lola Cueto painter
puppeteer
university teacher
printmaker
Mexico 1897-03-02 1978-01-24
Concha Michel singer-songwriter
playwright
writer
Mexico 1899 1990-12-27
Nellie Campobello writer
choreographer
poet
Mexico 1900-11-07 1986-07-09
Helia Bravo Hollis botanist
university teacher
botanical collector
director
Mexico 1901-09-30 2001-09-26
María Izquierdo painter Mexico 1902-10-30 1955-12-03
Lola Álvarez Bravo photographer Mexico 1903-04-03
1907
1993
Dolores del Rio actor
film actor
stage actor
television actor
Mexico 1904-08-03 1983-04-11
Esther Chapa writer
trade unionist
surgeon
suffragist
Mexico 1904-10-22 1970-12-14
Frida Kahlo painter
artist
Mexico 1907-07-06 1954-07-13
Dolores Olmedo musician
art collector
Mexico 1908-12-14 2002-07-26
Matilde Landeta filmmaker
screenwriter
film director
Mexico 1910-09-20 1999-01-30
María de los Angeles Felix Güereña film actor
model
singer
television actor
actor
Mexico 1914-04-08
1914-05-04
2002-04-08
Consuelo Velázquez composer
songwriter
lyricist
pianist
Mexico 1916-08-29 2005-01-22
Leonora Carrington painter
scenographer
novelist
drawer
sculptor
artist
Mexico
United Kingdom
1917-04-06 2011-05-25
Amalia Hernández Navarro teacher
ballet dancer
choreographer
dancer
Mexico 1917-09-19 2000-11-04
Emma Godoy writer
philosopher
psychologist
psychopedagogue
announcer
novelist
poet
short story writer
Mexico 1918-03-25 1989-07-30
Chavela Vargas street artist
singer
musician
film actor
recording artist
Mexico 1919-04-17 2012-08-05
Katy Jurado actor
journalist
critic
television actor
film actor
stage actor
Mexico 1924-01-16 2002-07-05
Rosario Castellanos poet
diplomat
writer
screenwriter
university teacher
playwright
journalist
literary scholar
Mexico 1925-05-25 1974-08-07
Evangelina Elizondo actor
singer
Mexico 1929-04-28 2017-10-02
Lola Beltrán actor
singer
television actor
film actor
presenter
Mexico 1935-03-07 1996-03-24
Gloria E. Anzaldúa writer
poet
literary critic
children's writer
journalist
novelist
philosopher
Mexico 1942-09-26 2004-05-15
Gabriela Brimmer writer
human rights activist
poet
Mexico 1947-09-12 2000-01-03
Soraya Jiménez weightlifter Mexico 1977-08-05 2013-03-28


New Zealand

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Katherine Mansfield writer
diarist
poet
prose writer
New Zealand 1888-10-14 1923-01-09
Ngaio Marsh writer
theatrical director
novelist
autobiographer
screenwriter
stage actor
film actor
playwright
New Zealand 1895-04-23 1982-02-18
Whina Cooper teacher
historian
activist
community leader
New Zealand 1895-12-09 1994-03-26
Jean Batten aircraft pilot
engineer
New Zealand 1909-09-15 1982-11-22


Nigeria

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti teacher
politician
activist
suffragette
Nigeria 1900-10-25 1978-04-13
Ladi Kwali ceramicist
pedagogue
Nigeria 1925-03-16
1925
1984-08-12
Flora Nwapa novelist
children's writer
writer
poet
Nigeria 1931-01-13 1993-10-16
Buchi Emecheta writer
novelist
sociologist
playwright
editor
children's writer
Nigeria 1944-07-21 2017-01-25
Ameyo Adadevoh physician
endocrinologist
Nigeria 1956-10-27 2014-08-19
Christy Essien-Igbokwe singer
actor
songwriter
Nigeria 1960-11-11 2011-06-30
Amaka Igwe film producer
film director
writer
Nigeria 1963-01-02 2014-04-28


Ottoman Empire

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Huda Sha'rawi politician
social activist
poet
journalist
Ottoman Empire
Sultanate of Egypt
Kingdom of Egypt
1879-06-23 1947-12-12
1947
May Ziadeh salonnière
poet
writer
novelist
translator
Ottoman Empire
Sultanate of Egypt
Kingdom of Egypt
1886-02-11
1886
1941-10-17
1941
Safiye Ali physician Ottoman Empire
Turkey
1891-02-02 1952-07-05
Karimeh Abbud photographer Ottoman Empire
Mandatory Palestine
1893-11-18 1940


Pakistan

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Anna Molka Ahmed painter
writer
Pakistan
British Raj
1917-08-13 1994-04-20
Noor Jehan film director
singer
film actor
actor
Pakistan
British Raj
1926-09-21 2000-12-23
2003
Fatima Surayya Bajia novelist
playwright
screenwriter
writer
Pakistan
British Raj
1930-09 2016-02-10
Parveen Shakir poet
writer
Pakistan 1952-11-24 1994-12-26
Perween Rahman architect
social worker
Pakistan 1957-01-22 2013-03-13
Nazia Hassan singer Pakistan
United Kingdom
1965-04-03 2000-08-13


Peru

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Juana Alarco de Dammert educator
philanthropist
Peru 1842-05-27 1932-08-02
Laura Esther Rodriguez Dulanto physician
professor
Peru 1872-10-18 1919-07-06
Eloísa Angulo singer Peru 1919-10-31 1991-10-30
Chabuca Granda lyricist Peru 1920-09-03 1983-03-08
Lucha Reyes musician
singer
Peru 1936-07-19 1973-10-31
María Luisa Aguilar astronomer Peru 1938-06-20 2015-10-29


Philippines

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Rosa L. Sevilla ni Alvero writer
educator
suffragist
Philippines 1879-03-04 1954-05-11
Maria Orosa chemist
food scientist
Philippines 1893-11-29 1945-02-13
Paz Márquez-Benítez writer Philippines 1894-03-03 1983-11-10
Josefa Llanes Escoda suffragist Philippines 1898-09-20 1945-01-06
Francisca Reyes-Aquino dancer Philippines 1899-03-09 1983-11-21
Fe del Mundo pediatrician
scientist
Philippines 1900-11-27 2011-08-06
Genoveva Matute writer Philippines 1915-01-03 2009-03-21
Pacita Abad painter Philippines 1946-10-05 2004-12-07


Poland

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Zofia Stryjeńska painter
graphic designer
illustrator
graphic artist
scenographer
visual artist
Poland 1891-05-13 1976-02-28
Irena Sendler clinical nurse specialist
resistance fighter
Poland 1910-02-15 2008-05-12
Irena Kwiatkowska stage actor
film actor
actor
radio personality
Poland 1912-09-17 2011-03-03
Wisława Szymborska poet
writer
translator
essayist
mechanic
literary critic
critic
Poland 1923-07-02 2012-02-01
Magdalena Abakanowicz sculptor
textile artist
athletics competitor
university teacher
designer
architectural draftsperson
painter
performance artist
artist
Poland 1930-06-20 2017-04-20
Agnieszka Osiecka poet
writer
journalist
songwriter
lyricist
Poland 1936-10-09 1997-03-07
Zofia Nasierowska photographer
writer
Poland 1938-04-24 2011-10-03
Wanda Rutkiewicz mountaineer Poland 1943-02-04 1992-05-13


Portugal

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Adelaide Cabete gynecologist
obstetrician
editor
suffragist
Portugal
Kingdom of Portugal
1867-01-25 1935-09-14
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo surgeon
gynecologist
physician
suffragist
Portugal
Kingdom of Portugal
1878-04-16 1911-10-03
Carmen Miranda actor
singer
dancer
Portugal
Brazil
1909-02-09 1955-08-05
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen poet
translator
children's writer
writer
politician
Portugal 1919-11-06
1919
2004-07-02
Amália Rodrigues actor
singer
musician
recording artist
fado singer
Portugal 1920-07-23 1999-10-06


Romania

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Ștefania Mărăcineanu physicist
chemist
teacher
Romania 1882-06-18 1944-08-15
Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu aircraft pilot Romania 1887-05-13 1929-03-29
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu engineer
teacher
inventor
Romania 1887-11-10 1973-11-25
Maria Tănase singer
actor
recording artist
Romania 1913-09-25 1963-06-22
1963-07-22
Geta Brătescu painter
lithographer
graphic artist
conceptual artist
photographer
collagist
visual artist
Romania 1926-05-04 2018-09-19


Russian Empire

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Marko Vovchok translator
writer
children's writer
editor
short story writer
Russian Empire
Ukraine
1833-12-10 1907-07-28
Maria Konopnicka poet
writer
essayist
children's writer
literary critic
translator
children's rights activist
editor
Russian Empire 1842-05-23 1910-10-08
Sofia Kovalevskaya mathematician
physicist
novelist
university teacher
communard
writer
Russian Empire
Sweden
1850-01-03 1899-02-10
Zinaida Gippius poet
writer
playwright
literary critic
prose writer
Russian Empire
France
1869-11-08 1945-09-09
Vera Gedroits physician
surgeon
poet
physician writer
writer
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1870-04-07 1932-03
Anna Pavlova ballet dancer
choreographer
editor
silent film actor
Russian Empire 1881-02-12
1882-02-16
1881-01-31
1931-01-23
Natalia Goncharova painter
scenographer
costume designer
illustrator
drawer
fashion designer
writer
artist
Russian Empire
France
Russia
1881-06-21 1962-10-17
Zofia Nałkowska writer
playwright
journalist
poet
essayist
politician
prose writer
Russian Empire
Poland
1884-11-10 1954-12-17
Zinaida Serebryakova painter
artist
Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
France
1884-11-28 1967-09-19
Marina Tsvetaeva poet
writer
diarist
prose writer
translator
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1892-10-08 1941-08-31
Varvara Stepanova painter
designer
poet
illustrator
textile artist
scenographer
graphic artist
performance artist
artist
Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
Russia
1894-11-05
1894-10-28
1894-11-09
1894-10-09
1958-05-20
Faina Ranevskaya stage actor
film actor
actor
Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
Russian Republic
1896-08-15
1896-08-27
1984-07-19
Katarzyna Kobro painter
sculptor
art theorist
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Poland
1898-01-26 1951-02-21
Tamara de Lempicka painter
artist
Russian Empire
Poland
1898-05-16 1980-03-18
Zinaida Yermolyeva physician
virologist
microbiologist
epidemiologist
university teacher
Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
1898-10-15
1899
1974-12-02
Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur painter
visual artist
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1900-11-25 1961-06-10
Natalya Sats theatrical director
writer
music director
opera director
opinion journalist
playwright
drama teacher
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russia
1903-08-14
1903-08-27
1993-12-18
Clara Rockmore violinist
composer
musician
Russian Empire
United States of America
1911-03-09 1998-05-10
Olga Skorokhodova writer
research fellow
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
1911-06-11
1914-07-11
1911
1911-05-11
1914-07-24
1982-05-07


Singapore

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Georgette Chen painter Singapore
Republic of China (1912–1949)
1906
1907
1906-10-23
1993-03-15
Che Zahara binte Noor Mohamed activist Singapore 1907 1962
Maggie Lim physician
teacher
civil servant
Singapore 1913-01-05 1995
Azah Aziz journalist
writer
Singapore
Malaysia
1928-08-21 2012-07-09


South Africa

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Charlotte Maxeke politician
social activist
missionary
South Africa 1871-04-07 1939-10-16
Helen Joseph politician
trade unionist
South Africa 1905-04-08 1992-12-25
Nadine Gordimer poet
writer
novelist
playwright
short story writer
scientific editor
prose writer
film director
South Africa 1923-11-20 2014-07-13
Fatima Meer writer
university teacher
politician
South Africa 1928-08-12 2010-03-12
2010-03-13
Miriam Tlali writer
novelist
journalist
South Africa 1933-11-11 2017-02-24
Nomhle Nkonyeni actor South Africa 1942-04-09 2019-07-10


South Korea

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Esther Park physician South Korea 1877-03-16
1876-03-16
1879
1910-04-13
Na Hye-sok poet
journalist
philosopher
painter
writer
politician
printmaker
sculptor
activist
South Korea 1896-04-18 1948-12-10
Lee Tai-young lawyer
judge
South Korea 1914-08-10 1998-12-16
Seund Ja Rhee painter
ceramicist
graphic artist
printmaker
South Korea
Korea
1918-06-03
1918
2009-03-08
2009
Hwang Hye-seong writer South Korea 1920-07-05 2006-12-14
Park Kyung-ni poet
writer
South Korea 1926-10-28 2008-05-05
Park Wan-suh writer South Korea 1931-10-20 2011-01-22
Ji Hyeon-Ok mountaineer South Korea 1959 1999


Soviet Union

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Agniya Barto poet
translator
children's writer
screenwriter
writer
radio personality
ballet dancer
turner
Soviet Union
Russian Empire
1901-02-04
1906-02-04
1906-11-17
1981-04-01
1981-01-01
Sophia Mogilevskaya children's writer
writer
Soviet Union 1903-04-03 1981
Lyudmila Rudenko chess player Soviet Union 1904-07-27 1986-03-04
Veronika Dudarova conductor
pianist
music educator
Soviet Union
Russia
1916-12-05 2009-01-15
Olga Ladyzhenskaya mathematician
university teacher
Soviet Union
Russia
1922-03-07 2004-01-12
Natalia Bekhtereva neuroscientist
psychologist
politician
physician
neurophysiologist
university teacher
Soviet Union
Russia
1924-07-07 2008-06-22
Tatyana Lioznova film director
screenwriter
drama teacher
theatrical director
Soviet Union
Russia
1924-07-20 2011-09-29
Galina Vishnevskaya actor
opera singer
music educator
biographer
diarist
theatrical director
opera director
Soviet Union
Russia
1926-10-25 2012-12-11
Lyudmila Gurchenko singer
film actor
film score composer
film director
screenwriter
actor
memoirist
stage actor
Soviet Union
Russia
1935-11-12 2011-03-30
Bella Akhmadulina poet
translator
writer
playwright
screenwriter
actor
Soviet Union
Russia
1937-04-10 2010-11-29


Spain

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Luisa de Medrano university teacher
intellectual
writer
poet
Spain 1484-08-09 1543
Concepción writer
editor
social worker
novelist
journalist
poet
Spain 1820-01-31 1893-02-04
Rosalía de Castro writer
poet
novelist
short story writer
Spain 1837-02-23 1885-07-22
Emilia Pardo Bazán essayist
literary critic
novelist
journalist
salonnière
writer
poet
editor
gastronomist
short story writer
Spain 1851-09-16 1921-05-12
Clara Campoamor politician
lawyer
writer
jurist
suffragist
Spain 1888-02-12 1972-04-30
Ángela Ruiz Robles teacher
inventor
Spain 1895-03-28 1975-10-27
María Moliner lexicographer
linguist
archivist
Spain 1900-03-30 1981-01-22
María Zambrano philosopher
writer
poet
Spain 1904-04-22 1991-02-06
Carmen Conde poet
writer
literary critic
teacher
Spain 1907-08-15 1996-01-08
Remedios Varo painter
sculptor
drawer
artist
Spain 1908-12-16 1963-10-08
María de los Ángeles Alvariño González biologist
oceanographer
professor
Spain 1916-10-03 2005-05-29
Gloria Fuertes writer
poet
children's writer
Spain 1917-07-28 1999-11-27
Carmen Amaya singer
bailadora flamenca
actor
Spain 1918-11-02 1963-11-19
Carmen Laforet writer
novelist
Spain 1921-09-06 2004-02-28
Lola Flores singer
bailadora flamenca
actor
film actor
television actor
Spain 1923-01-21 1995-05-16
Montserrat Caballé opera singer
recording artist
Spain 1933-04-12 2018-10-06


Sweden

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Eva Ekeblad salonnière
land owner
botanist
chemist
agronomist
Sweden 1724-07-10 1786-05-15
Amalia Eriksson merchant
inventor
Sweden 1824-11-18 1923-01-25
Selma Lagerlöf novelist
children's writer
biographer
teacher
poet
writer
prose writer
translator
autobiographer
author
Sweden 1858-11-20 1940-03-16
Erika Aittamaa fashion designer Sweden 1866-02-22 1952-12-15
Elsa Beskow writer
illustrator
children's writer
artist
painter
graphic artist
art educator
Sweden 1874-02-11 1953-06-30
Margit Nordin cross-country skier Sweden 1897-08-10 1982-05-03
Karin Boye translator
poet
novelist
literary critic
science fiction writer
writer
critic
Sweden 1900-10-26 1941-04-24
Birgit Cullberg choreographer
dancer
ballet master
ballet dancer
theatre manager
film director
Sweden 1908-08-03 1999-09-08


Taiwan

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Chen Jin painter Taiwan
Empire of Japan
1907-11-02 1998-03-27
Sanmao writer
novelist
translator
screenwriter
lyricist
Taiwan
Spain
1943-03-26 1991-01-04
Teresa Teng singer
actor
film actor
television actor
recording artist
Taiwan 1953-01-29 1995-05-08
Feng Fei-fei singer
actor
film actor
recording artist
Taiwan 1953-08-20 2012-01-03
Lo Man-fei choreographer Taiwan 1955-09-16 2006-03-24


Thailand

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Margaret Lin Xavier physician Thailand 1898-05-29 1932-12-06
Payom Sinawat textile artist Thailand 1909-02-03 2008-10-25
Puangroi Abhayavongsa composer Thailand 1915-03-28 2000-08-17
Nilawan Pintong writer Thailand 1916-12-06 2017-02-07
Saeng-da Bunsiddhi artist
weaver
artisan
Thailand 1919-04-14 1993-01-11
Penpan Sittitrai teacher
artist
Thailand 1926-01-28 2015-08-03
Ratchanee Sripraiwan writer Thailand 1931-03-11 2014-04-15
Prayoon Yomyiam artist Thailand 1933-11-30 2010-11-20
Kaimook Chuto sculptor Thailand 1938-04-19 1996-10-31
Pumpuang Duangjan singer
actor
Thailand 1961-08-04 1992-06-13
Lamun Yamakhup artist Thailand 1982


Turkey

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Mihri Müşfik Hanım painter Turkey
Ottoman Empire
United States of America
1886-02-26 1954
Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid painter
stained-glass artist
mosaicist
lithographer
printmaker
collagist
Turkey
Jordan
1901-01-07 1991-09-05
Remziye Hisar chemist Turkey 1902 1992-06-13
Aliye Berger painter Turkey
Ottoman Empire
1903-12-24 1974-08-10
Safiye Ayla singer
songwriter
recording artist
actor
Turkey 1907-09-13 1998-01-14
Sabire Aydemir civil servant
veterinarian
Turkey 1910-02-01 1991-07-04
Semiha Berksoy opera singer Turkey 1910-05-24 2004-08-15
Füreya Koral ceramicist Turkey 1910-06-12 1997-08-25
Nüzhet Gökdoğan astronomer Turkey
Ottoman Empire
1910-08-14 2003-04-24
Sabiha Gökçen aircraft pilot
military personnel
Turkey
Montenegro
1913-03-22 2001-03-22
Jale İnan archaeological monument keeper
classical archaeologist
university teacher
archaeologist
Turkey 1914-02-01 2001-02-26
Halet Çambel anthropologist
archaeologist
fencer
university teacher
Hittitologist
Turkey 1916-08-27 2014-01-12
Müzeyyen Senar singer
film actor
recording artist
Turkey 1918-07-16 2015-02-08
Dilhan Eryurt astrophysicist
professor
Turkey 1926-11-29 2012-09-13
Leyla Gencer opera singer Turkey 1928-10-10
1924-10-10
2008-05-10
2008-05-09
Aysel Gürel lyricist Turkey 1929-02-07 2008-02-17
Adile Naşit stage actor
film actor
voice actor
narrator
Turkey 1930-06-17 1987-12-11
Türkan Saylan writer
teacher
physician
activist
Turkey 1935-12-13 2009-05-18
Tomris Uyar journalist
translator
writer
Turkey 1941-03-15 2003-07-04
Duygu Asena writer
journalist
actor
activist
pedagogue
presenter
Turkey 1946-04-19 2006-07-30


United Kingdom

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Gertrude Jekyll horticulturist
painter
gardener
non-fiction writer
botanist
architect
landscape architect
garden designer
photographer
editor
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1843-11-29 1932-12-08
Louisa Aldrich-Blake physician
surgeon
United Kingdom 1865-08-15 1925-12-28
Amanda Aldridge opera singer
music educator
composer
United Kingdom 1866-03-10 1956-03-09
Beatrix Potter writer
illustrator
painter
children's writer
mycologist
scientific illustrator
botanist
novelist
conservationist
artist
United Kingdom 1866-07-28 1943-12-22
Virginia Woolf novelist
essayist
autobiographer
short story writer
diarist
literary critic
publisher
writer
women's rights activist
author
United Kingdom 1882-01-25 1941-03-28
Lucy Wills physician
hematologist
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1888-05-10 1964-04-26
Agatha Christie writer
novelist
crime fiction writer
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1890-09-15 1976-01-12
Gluck painter
artist
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1895-08-13 1978-01-10
Anna Freud psychoanalyst
non-fiction writer
United Kingdom
Austria
1895-12-03
1896
1982-10-09
Evelyn Dove actor
cabaret performer
jazz singer
United Kingdom 1902-01-11 1987-03-07
Barbara Hepworth sculptor
painter
drawer
photographer
artist
visual artist
United Kingdom 1903-01-10 1975-05-20
Dorothy Hodgkin biologist
chemist
physicist
biochemist
crystallographer
biophysicist
United Kingdom 1910-05-12 1994-07-29
Mary Leakey anthropologist
archaeologist
prehistorian
paleoanthropologist
biologist
paleontologist
United Kingdom 1913-02-06 1996-12-09
Cicely Saunders physician
nurse
writer
United Kingdom 1918-06-22 2005-07-14
Joan Aiken writer
novelist
children's writer
science fiction writer
editor
United Kingdom 1924-09-04 2004-01-04
Jackie Forster television presenter
activist
actor
film actor
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1926-11-06 1998-10-10
Anne McLaren developmental biologist
geneticist
zoologist
United Kingdom 1927-04-26 2007-07-07
Audrey Hepburn stage actor
model
film actor
philanthropist
dancer
ballet dancer
actor
humanitarian
United Kingdom 1929-05-04 1993-01-20
Dorothy Miles poet
writer
United Kingdom 1931-08-19 1993-01-30
Diana Wynne Jones writer
children's writer
novelist
science fiction writer
poet
United Kingdom 1934-08-16 2011-03-26
Dusty Springfield singer
recording artist
television presenter
United Kingdom 1939-04-16 1999-03-02
Zaha Hadid architect
designer
university teacher
jewelry designer
artist
sculptor
painter
United Kingdom
Iraq
1950-10-31 2016-03-31
Olive Morris women's rights activist United Kingdom 1952-06-26 1979-07-12


United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Joanna Baillie poet
writer
playwright
tragedy writer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1762-09-11 1851-02-23
Jane Austen writer
short story writer
novelist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
1775-12-16 1817-07-18
Mary Somerville mathematician
writer
scientist
physicist
geologist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1780-12-26 1872-11-28
Mary Shelley travel writer
novelist
essayist
playwright
biographer
writer
science fiction writer
poet
short story writer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom
1797-08-30 1851-02-01
Anna Atkins photographer
illustrator
botanist
writer
botanical collector
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1799-03-16 1871-06-09
Mary Anning paleontologist
dealer of naturalia
fossil collector
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1799-05-21
1799
1847-03-12
Mary Seacole nurse
autobiographer
writer
traditional healer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1805 1881-05-14
Elizabeth Barrett Browning poet
screenwriter
essayist
pamphleteer
translator
writer
abolitionist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1806-03-06 1861-06-29
Ada Lovelace mathematician
programmer
poet
computer scientist
inventor
translator
writer
engineer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1815-12-10 1852-11-27
Charlotte Brontë poet
novelist
writer
governess
teacher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1816-04-21 1855-03-31
Florence Nightingale nurse
statistician
writer
politician
teacher
sociologist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1820-05-12 1910-08-13
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson politician
physician
suffragist
writer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1836-06-09 1917-12-17
Millicent Garrett Fawcett politician
women's rights activist
writer
economist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1847-06-11 1929-08-05
Annie Besant essayist
writer
orator
journalist
editor
politician
feminist
theosophist
suffragist
women's rights activist
civil rights advocate
freedom fighter
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1847-10-01 1933-09-20
Hertha Ayrton mathematician
electrical engineer
physicist
inventor
women's rights activist
suffragette
suffragist
writer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1854-04-28 1923-08-23
Emmeline Pankhurst suffragette
politician
women's rights activist
human rights activist
writer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1858-07-15 1928-06-14
Edith Nesbit writer
children's writer
poet
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1858-08-15 1924-05-04
Edith Cavell nurse
matron
governess
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1865-12-04 1915-10-12
Alicia Moreau de Justo politician
university teacher
journalist
physician
suffragette
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Argentina
United Kingdom
1885-10-11 1986-05-12
Amy Johnson aircraft pilot United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1903-07-01 1941-01-05
Rosalind Franklin chemist
molecular biologist
physicist
biochemist
biophysicist
crystallographer
university teacher
geneticist
biologist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
1920-07-25 1958-04-16
Connie Mark activist
medical secretary
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Jamaica
1923-12-21 2007-06-03


United States of America

[edit]
image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Sojourner Truth human rights activist
writer
abolitionist
women's rights activist
suffragist
United States of America 1797 1883-11-26
Maria Mitchell astronomer
librarian
university teacher
writer
naturalist
United States of America 1818-08-01 1889-06-29
Eunice Newton Foote physicist
climatologist
inventor
women's rights activist
United States of America 1819-07-17 1888-09-30
Susan B. Anthony women's rights activist
human rights activist
abolitionist
writer
civil rights advocate
feminist
suffragist
United States of America 1820-02-15 1906-03-13
Elizabeth Blackwell physician
medical writer
essayist
women's rights activist
human rights activist
writer
United States of America
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1821-02-03 1910-05-31
Harriet Tubman writer
nurse
human rights activist
abolitionist
political activist
spy
suffragist
feminist
United States of America 1822-03-06 1913-03-10
Mary Ann Shadd journalist
civil rights advocate
newspaper proprietor
suffragist
lawyer
United States of America 1823-10-09 1893-06-05
Louisa May Alcott writer
nurse
poet
novelist
children's writer
teacher
domestic worker
suffragist
United States of America 1832-11-29 1888-03-06
Helena Modjeska actor
stage actor
United States of America
Poland
Russian Empire
1840-10-12 1909-04-08
Ida Lewis lighthouse keeper United States of America 1842-02-25 1911-10-24
Mary Cassatt painter
printmaker
graphic artist
photographer
etcher
United States of America 1844-05-22 1926-06-14
Edmonia Lewis sculptor
artist
United States of America 1844-07-04 1907-09-17
Jane Addams journalist
philosopher
writer
women's rights activist
autobiographer
social reformer
social critic
suffragette
peace activist
human rights activist
political theorist
sociologist
United States of America 1860-09-06 1935-05-22
Nettie Stevens biologist
geneticist
zoologist
librarian
United States of America 1861-07-07 1912-05-04
Ida B. Wells journalist
sociologist
suffragist
writer
human rights activist
United States of America 1862-07-16 1931-03-25
Annie Jump Cannon astronomer
physicist
university teacher
astrophysicist
United States of America 1863-12-11 1941-04-13
Nellie Bly writer
journalist
novelist
traveler
inventor
suffragist
entrepreneur
United States of America 1864-05-05
1867
1922-01-27
Susan La Flesche Picotte physician
teacher
United States of America 1865-06-17 1915-09-18
Laura Ingalls Wilder writer
novelist
teacher
reporter
journalist
children's writer
autobiographer
United States of America 1867-02-07 1957-02-10
Marie Dressler film actor
film producer
stage actor
screenwriter
film director
United States of America
Canada
1868-11-09 1934-07-28
Ynes Mexia botanist
botanical collector
lecturer
social worker
photographer
United States of America
Mexico
1870-05-24 1938-07-12
Zitkala-Sa writer
poet
violinist
human rights activist
United States of America 1876-02-22 1938-01-28
Alice Paul jurist
women's rights activist
suffragette
United States of America 1885-01-11 1977-07-09
Jovita Idár journalist
activist
United States of America 1885-09-07 1946-06-15
Zora Neale Hurston anthropologist
historian
novelist
writer
journalist
folklorist
civil rights advocate
playwright
film director
United States of America 1891-01-07 1960-01-28
Myrtle Gonzalez actor
stage actor
film actor
United States of America 1891-09-28 1918-10-22
Bessie Coleman aircraft pilot
human rights activist
stunt pilot
United States of America 1892-01-26 1926-04-30
Martha Graham ballet dancer
choreographer
music educator
ballet master
costume designer
dancer
film director
United States of America 1894-05-11 1991-04-01
Amelia Earhart aircraft pilot
memoirist
travel writer
journalist
women's rights activist
aviation writer
United States of America 1897-07-24 1939-01-05
Edith Head costume designer
fashion designer
United States of America 1897-10-28 1981-10-24
Adelaide Hall singer
jazz musician
stage actor
United States of America 1901-10-20
1904-10-20
1993-11-07
Anna May Wong film actor
stage actor
television actor
singer
writer
United States of America 1905-01-03
1904-01-03
1961-02-03
1961-02-02
Josephine Baker singer
vedette
film actor
street artist
dancer
jazz musician
model
actor
military officer
intelligence officer
writer
civil rights advocate
United States of America
France
1906-06-03 1975-04-12
Grace Hopper mathematician
naval officer
computer scientist
university teacher
programmer
physicist
United States of America 1906-12-09 1992-01-01
Rachel Carson marine biologist
environmentalist
zoologist
essayist
author
conservationist
non-fiction writer
writer
whistleblower
United States of America 1907-05-27 1964-04-14
Altina Schinasi film producer
film director
sculptor
United States of America 1907-08-04 1999-08-19
Luisa Moreno trade unionist
activist
United States of America 1907-08-30 1992-11-04
Mary Golda Ross mathematician
military flight engineer
United States of America 1908-08-09 2008-04-29
Virginia Apgar pediatrician
physician
university teacher
anesthesiologist
United States of America 1909-06-07 1974-08-07
Elizabeth Peratrovich civil rights advocate United States of America 1911-07-04 1958-12-01
Jackie Ormes cartoonist
comics artist
activist
journalist
United States of America 1911-08-01 1985-12-26
1985
Lucille Ball television actor
film actor
comedian
television producer
film studio executive
actor
film director
director
producer
United States of America 1911-08-06 1989-04-26
Mary Blair illustrator
painter
concept artist
United States of America 1911-10-21 1978-07-26
Dorthy Hieghts educator
journalist
social worker
politician
human rights activist
pedagogue
political activist
United States of America 1912-03-24 2010-04-20
Julia Child writer
cook
television presenter
copywriter
typist
research assistant
administrative assistant
clerk
United States of America 1912-08-15 2004-08-13
Masako Katsura carom billiards player United States of America 1913 1995
Rosa Parks autobiographer
human rights activist
civil rights advocate
public figure
political activist
United States of America 1913-02-04 2005-10-24
Felicitas Mendez activist United States of America 1916-02-05 1998-04-12
Ella Fitzgerald singer-songwriter
composer
conductor
bandleader
film actor
recording artist
jazz musician
singer
United States of America 1917-04-25
1918-04-25
1996-06-15
1996-08-15
Corita Kent graphic designer
printmaker
postage stamp designer
artist
United States of America 1918-11-20 1986-09-18
Marie Tharp cartographer
oceanographer
geologist
United States of America 1920-07-30 2006-08-23
Eileen Chang screenwriter
journalist
translator
writer
novelist
United States of America
Taiwan
People's Republic of China
1920-09-30
1920-09-20
1995-09-08
Yuri Kochiyama human rights activist United States of America 1921-05-19 2014-06-01
2014-06-02
Marcenia Lyle Stone "Toni" baseball player United States of America 1921-07-17 1996-11-02
Hisaye Yamamoto short story writer
writer
United States of America 1921-08-23 2011-01-30
Yma Sumac singer
model
actor
composer
record producer
United States of America
Peru
1922-09-13 2008-11-01
Vicki Draves competitive diver United States of America 1924-12-31 2010-04-11
Maria Tallchief ballet dancer United States of America 1925-01-24 2013-04-11
Celia Cruz singer
actor
United States of America
Cuba
1925-10-21 2003-07-16
Ruth Asawa sculptor
artist
lithographer
graphic artist
textile artist
United States of America 1926-01-24 2013-08-06
Althea Gibson tennis player
tennis coach
autobiographer
golfer
United States of America 1927-08-25 2003-09-28
Maya Angelou politician
comedian
dancer
film producer
television producer
playwright
film director
professor
screenwriter
writer
essayist
songwriter
autobiographer
singer
television actor
stage actor
journalist
novelist
human rights activist
United States of America 1928-04-04 2014-05-28
Shirley Temple actor
film actor
singer
diplomat
child actor
dancer
television actor
politician
United States of America 1928-04-23 2014-02-10
Amanda Crowe wood carver
sculptor
United States of America
Mexico
1928-07-16 2004-09-27
Helen Rodríguez Trías scientist United States of America 1929-07-07 2001-12-27
Phoebe Snetsinger zoologist
ornithologist
United States of America 1931-06-09 1999-11-23
Dian Fossey anthropologist
primatologist
ethologist
zoologist
biologist
academic
writer
ecologist
United States of America 1932-01-16 1985-12-26
1985-12-27
Sylvia Plath poet
writer
novelist
essayist
autobiographer
diarist
children's writer
United States of America 1932-10-27 1963-02-11
Audre Lorde librarian
poet
novelist
writer
women's rights activist
essayist
university teacher
teacher
feminist
philosopher
United States of America 1934-02-18 1992-11-17
Beatrice Tinsley astronomer
university teacher
United States of America 1941-01-27 1981-03-23
Kitty O'Neil engineer
racing automobile driver
stunt performer
competitive diver
United States of America 1946-03-24 2018-11-02
Octavia E. Butler science fiction writer
novelist
writer
United States of America 1947-06-22 2006-02-24
Jeanne Córdova journalist United States of America 1948-07-18 2016-01-10
Meena Alexander novelist
poet
writer
university teacher
United States of America
India
1951-02-17 2018-11-21
Sally Ride physicist
astronaut
astrophysicist
writer
university teacher
children's writer
United States of America 1951-05-26 2012-07-23
Barbara May Cameron activist
human rights activist
United States of America 1954-05-22 2002-02-12
Selena singer
spokesperson
actor
television actor
film actor
fashion designer
United States of America 1971-04-16 1995-03-31
Stacey Milbern disability rights activist
poet
blogger
United States of America 1987-05-19 2020-05-19
Mama Cax model
disability rights activist
United States of America
Haiti
1989-11-20 2019-12-16
Sophie Araque-Liu United States of America


Misc

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image label occupation country of citizenship date of birth date of death
Shin Saimdang painter
poet
writer
Joseon 1504-10-29 1551-05-17
Judith Leyster painter
artist
Dutch Republic 1609 1660-02-10
Michaelina Wautier painter Spanish Netherlands 1614
1604
1689
Justine Siegemund midwife
writer
gynecologist
Duchies of Silesia 1636-12-26 1705-11-10
Elena Cornaro Piscopia mathematician
philosopher
theologian
university teacher
medic
Republic of Venice 1646-06-05 1684-07-26
Maria Sibylla Merian entomologist
lepidopterist
botanist
naturalist
painter
illustrator
scientific illustrator
botanical illustrator
graphic artist
artist
Dutch Republic
Germany
Kingdom of the Netherlands
1647-04-02 1717-01-13
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz poet
religious sister
writer
mathematician
philosopher
composer
playwright
cloistered nun
nun
Spanish Empire 1651-11-12 1695-04-17
Hannah Glasse author
cookbook writer
Kingdom of Great Britain 1708-03 1770-09-01
Laura Bassi physicist
university teacher
mathematician
anatomist
professor of philosophy
philosopher
biologist
Papal States 1711-10-29 1778-02-20
Francesca Sanna Sulis businessperson
benefactor
sericulturist
Kingdom of Sardinia 1716-06-11 1810-02-04
Caroline Herschel astronomer
mathematician
singer
violinist
Kingdom of Hanover 1750-03-16 1848-01-09
Fanny Mendelssohn composer
pianist
university teacher
Hamburg 1805-11-14 1847-05-14
Josephine Lang composer
pianist
music teacher
Kingdom of Bavaria 1815-03-14 1880-12-02
Clara Schumann pianist
composer
music educator
Kingdom of Saxony 1819-09-13 1896-05-20
Maria Severa Onofriana singer Kingdom of Portugal 1820 1846-11-30
Božena Němcová writer
poet
children's writer
collector of fairy tales
editor
national revival activist
opinion journalist
novelist
Austrian Empire 1820-02-04 1862-01-21
1862-04-21
Bertha von Suttner writer
novelist
translator
journalist
pacifist
science fiction writer
editor
Austrian Empire
Cisleithania
1843-06-09 1914-06-21
Minna Canth writer
journalist
playwright
businessperson
editor
short story writer
Grand Principality of Finland 1844-03-19 1897-05-12
Žemaitė writer Lithuania 1845-06-04 1921-12-07
Teresa Carreño composer
conductor
pianist
opera singer
Venezuela 1853-12-22 1917-06-12
Maria Zankovetska stage actor
film actor
actor
Ukrainian People's Republic
Russian Empire
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
1854-07-23
1854-08-04
1854
1934-10-04
1934
Draga Ljocic-Milosevic physician
activist
military personnel
suffragist
Principality of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
1855-02-22 1926-11-05
Emma Ihrer politician
trade unionist
editor
Kingdom of Prussia 1857-01-03 1911-01-08
Lou Andreas-Salomé writer
psychoanalyst
essayist
autobiographer
philosopher
German Reich 1861-02-12 1937-02-05
Sương Nguyệt Anh journalist
poet
physician
teacher
Vietnam 1864-03-08 1921-01-20
Käthe Kollwitz printmaker
drawer
lithographer
poster artist
illustrator
sculptor
autobiographer
designer
graphic artist
painter
architectural draftsperson
artist
Weimar Republic
German Empire
1867-07-08 1945-04-22
Lesya Ukrainka poet
translator
writer
playwright
Ukraine 1871-02-13 1913-08-01
Solomea Krushelnytska opera singer
music educator
Austria-Hungary
Kingdom of Italy
Soviet Union
1872-09-23 1952-11-16
Marija Jurić Zagorka journalist
playwright
writer
novelist
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Independent State of Croatia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1873-03-02 1957-11-30
Nadežda Petrović art critic
painter
visual artist
Principality of Serbia
Kingdom of Serbia
1873-10-12 1915-04-03
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić poet
writer
children's writer
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1874-04-18 1938-09-21
Františka Plamínková writer
journalist
politician
suffragette
Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovakia
1875-02-05 1942-06-30
Sophie Taeuber-Arp painter
sculptor
architect
dancer
teacher
illustrator
textile artist
artist
Switzerland 1889-01-19 1943-01-13
Hannah Höch photographer
painter
drawer
graphic artist
collagist
artist
West Germany
German Reich
1889-11-01 1978-05-31
Rachel Bluwstein poet
writer
translator
Mandatory Palestine 1890-10-03 1931-04-16
María Teresa Vera singer
composer
guitarist
songwriter
Cuba 1895-02-06 1965-12-17
Omm Kalthum singer
actor
film actor
Kingdom of Egypt
Republic of Egypt
United Arab Republic
1898-12-31 1975-02-03
Sybil Kathigasu nurse British Malaya 1899-09-03 1948-06-12
Mária Telkes chemist
biophysicist
inventor
Hungary
United States of America
1900-12-12 1995-12-02
Lyubov Orlova actor
singer
pianist
film actor
dancer
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Soviet Union
1902-01-29 1975-01-26
Una Marson poet
broadcaster
journalist
writer
playwright
tvůrce rozhlasových pořadů
political activist
feminist
Jamaica 1905-02-06 1965-05-06
Klavdiya Shulzhenko actor
singer
Ukrainian People's Republic
Soviet Union
1906-03-11 1984-06-17
Hannah Arendt philosopher
historian
writer
political scientist
essayist
university teacher
sociologist
political theorist
author
resistance fighter
Prussia
statelessness
United States of America
1906-10-14 1975-12-04
Tewhida Belshikh physician
politician
Tunisia 1909-01-02 2010-12-06
Gerda Taro war photographer
photojournalist
photographer
Weimar Republic 1910-08-01 1937-07-26
Clare Hollingworth journalist
war correspondent
writer
England
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1911-10-10 2017-01-10
Yam Kim-fai opera singer
actor
Hong Kong 1913-02-04
1912-12-29
1989-11-29
Hedy Lamarr actor
inventor
autobiographer
screenwriter
film actor
film producer
musician
model
entertainer
Austria
United States of America
1914-11-09 2000-01-19
Claudia Jones journalist
political activist
Trinidad and Tobago 1915-02-15 1964-12-24
1964-12-25
Magda Szabó translator
screenwriter
poet
children's writer
prose writer
writer
short story writer
Hungary 1917-10-05 2007-11-19
Dorina Nowil educator
philanthropist
Bolivia 1919-05-28 2010-08-29
Louise Bennett-Coverley actor
poet
singer
television presenter
radio personality
folklorist
writer
Jamaica 1919-09-07 2006-07-26
Ousha The Poet poet
writer
United Arab Emirates 1920-01-01 2018-07-27
Anne-Cath. Vestly actor
writer
translator
children's writer
Norway 1920-02-15 2008-12-15
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde nurse Panama 1920-09-06 2010-09-05
Melina Mercouri actor
singer
politician
writer
stage actor
film actor
Greece 1920-10-18 1994-03-06
Clarice Lispector screenwriter
translator
journalist
novelist
painter
writer
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Brazil
1920-12-10 1977-12-09
Elena Lacková poet
writer
playwright
Slovakia 1921-03-22 2003-01-01
Sophie Scholl university student
resistance fighter
German Reich 1921-05-09 1943-02-22
Maria Callas opera singer
singer
actor
Greece
United States of America
1923-12-02 1977-09-16
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye writer
poet
essayist
Kenya 1928-10-21 2015-12-01
Anne Frank diarist
writer
Nazi Germany
Kingdom of the Netherlands
statelessness
Weimar Republic
1929-06-12 1945-02
Haja El Hamdaouia singer Morocco 1930 2021-04-05
Fu Pei-mei television presenter
chef
Republic of China (1912–1949)
Taiwan
1931-10-01 2004-09-16
Sunčana Škrinjarić poet
writer
journalist
screenwriter
children's writer
Croatia 1931-12-11 2004-04-21
Salmah Ismail singer
actor
Malaysia 1935-01-22 1983-04-25
Maliheh Afnan artist Iran 1935-03-24 2016-01-06
Asma Hamza composer Sudan 1936 2018-05-21
Wangari Muta Maathai biologist
teacher
veterinarian
politician
environmentalist
activist
Kenya Colony
Kenya
1940-04-01 2011-09-25
Cesária Évora singer Cape Verde 1941-08-27 2011-12-17
Xuân Quỳnh poet
writer
journalist
dancer
Vietnam 1942-10-06 1988-08-29
Lydia Shum actor
comedian
television presenter
singer
film director
Hong Kong
Canada
1945-06-01 2008-02-19
Etab singer Saudi Arabia
Egypt
1947-12-30 2006-08-19
Grete Waitz athletics competitor
teacher
Norway 1953-10-01 2011-04-19
Yasmin Ahmad screenwriter
film director
film producer
actor
Malaysia 1958-01-07 2009-07-25
Margaret Ogola physician writer
pediatrician
Kenya 1958-06-02 2011-09-22

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