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May 16, 2023 · Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Michelle Obama are just some of the women who have become famous for shaping history as we know it.
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F amous female authors – Authors and poets including Sappho, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Gabriela Mistral and J.K. Rowling. Women’s rights activists – Prominent women who helped promote women’s and civil rights. Including Margaret Fuller, Susan Anthony, Millicent Fawcett and Malala Yousafzai.
Mar 22, 2024 · This collection presents biographies of 21 famous women from world history but those included represent only a small fraction of the many women, from ancient times to the present, who have made a lasting impression on the people of their time and altered the course of their nation’s narrative.
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Feb 20, 2015 · A list of the most famous women from around the world. 1. Princess Diana (1961–1997) Princess of Wales, married to Prince Charles. Later divorced. Known for her humanitarian and charity work. 2. Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) Third Prime Minister of India, 1966-77 and 1980-84.
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- Madonna. Madonna: Which one? The singer and sometimes-actress—and very successful self-promoter and businesswoman? The mother of Jesus? The image of Mary and other saintly mothers in medieval paintings?
- Marilyn Monroe. Actress and icon Marilyn Monroe was discovered while working in a World War II defense plant. She was considered an icon and epitomized a certain image for women in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Cleopatra. Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, had infamous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony while trying to keep Egypt out of Rome's clutches.
- Anne Frank. Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl in the Netherlands, kept a diary during the time she and her family were hiding from the Nazis. She did not survive her time in a concentration camp, but her diary still speaks of hope in the midst of war and persecution.
Dr. Regina Benjamin is a family physician who served as the 18th US Surgeon General during the Obama Administration, and was the youngest person and first African American admitted to the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees. Women have always played an active role in history. Explore some of the historical pioneers and ...
Aug 11, 2019 · Emmeline Pankhurst: key British woman suffrage radical; Founder, Women's Social and Political Union, 1903. Simone de Beauvoir: 20th-century feminist theorist. Americans. Judith Sargent Murray: American writer who wrote early feminist essay. Margaret Fuller: Transcendentalist writer.
