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Who is Marie Curie?
The first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Physics in 1903, for her study in spontaneous radiation
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Who is Frida Kahlo?
The Mexican surrealist painter best known for her self portraits
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Who is Hillary Clinton?
The first woman to be a major party's nominee for president
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Who is Marilyn Monroe?
The female actress who became one of the most iconic sex symbols of the 1950s and by her death in 1962 had grossed nearly $200 million from her films?
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Who is Agatha Christie?
The best selling British female author best known for her mystery novels, such as And Then There None.
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Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The British biophysicist known for her revolutionary work in discovering DNA
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Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
The American artist best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers and is referred to as the mother of American modernist
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Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
The first woman to be elected to the Supreme Court
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Who is Sandra Oh?
The first Asian woman to be nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the Emmys in 2018 for her role in Killing Eve
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The African American author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin which is credited to fueling the abolitionist movement in the North before the Civil War.
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Who is Adriana Ocampo?
The Colombian planetary scientist who helped discover the impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula, which is believed to have been the asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago
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Who is Mary Cassatt?
The American impressionist painter mainly known for painting women, children, and motherhood?
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Who is Margaret Thatcher?
The first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom
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Who is Laverne Cox?
The first openly transgender actress to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role on Orange is the New Black as Sophia Burset
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Who is Emily Bronte?
The British author of the novel Wuthering Heights who wrote under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell.
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Who is Sau Lan Wu?
The Chinese American particle physicist who discovered quarks, gluons and eventually the Higgs Boson particle
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Who is Harriet Powers?
The African American artist who used quilt making to tell local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events
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Who is Jeannette Rankin?
The first woman elected to Congress and the only congressperson to vote against US entry to both world wars
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Who is America Ferrera?
The first Latina to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2007 for her role as Betty Suarez in Ugly Betty
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Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
The first African American to win a Pulizter Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her book Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Who is Jane Cooke Wright?
The first female doctor to be elected president of the New York Cancer Society and is widely regarded as the mother of chemotherapy
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Who is Yayoi Kusama?
The Japanese contemporary artist best known for her sculpture and installations
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Who is Indira Gandhi?
The first and only female Prime Minister of India
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Who is Katharine Hepburn?
The record holder for the most Academy Awards among actors and actresses
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Who is Murasaki Shikibu?
The Japanese author of the first modern novel, the Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.
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