Sojourner Truth lived in NYC
African American evangelist and reformer who ap...
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Mary Douglas Leakey worked here
Born Feb. 6, 1913, London, England. Died Dec. 9...
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela lives here
South African social worker and activist consid...
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Golda Meir helped found Isreal
A founder and fourth prime minister (1969-74) o...
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Hedy Lamarr was born here
glamorous Austrian film star who was often type...
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born here
American athlete, considered by many to be the ...
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Harriet Tubman lived here
American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in ...
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'A'ishah
born 614, Mecca, Arabia (now in Saudi Arabia); ...
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Jane Goodall works here
Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall. Goodall, who...
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Hypatia lived here
The first notable woman in mathematics. She sai...
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Umm Kulthum was born here
Born May 4, 1904?, Tummay al-Zahayrah, Egypt. ...
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Greta Garbo
one of the most glamorous and popular motion-pi...
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Aretha Louise Franklin
American singer who defined the golden age of s...
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Ella Fitzgerald was born here
American singer who became world famous for the...
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Amelia Earhart was born here
American aviator, one of the world's most celeb...
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Isadora Duncan
American dancer whose teaching and performances...
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Emily Dickinson lived here
American lyric poet who has been called "the Ne...
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Mary Cassatt was born here
American painter and printmaker who exhibited w...
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Hattie Ophelia Caraway, Arkansas Senator
In 1902 she married Thaddeus H. Caraway, who su...
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Hannah Arendt was born here
German-born American political scientist and ph...
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Diane Arbus lived here
American photographer, best known for her compe...
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Susan B. Anthony lived here
Pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movemen...
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Catharine A. MacKinnon was born here
American feminist and professor of law, a contr...
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Liliuokalani was Queen here
first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the ...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini lived here
Neurologist who, with biochemist Stanley Cohen,...
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born here
American astronomer known for her discovery of ...
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Helen Keller was born here
American author and educator who was blind and ...
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Oprah Winfrey was born here
American television personality, actress, and e...
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Bessie Smith was born here
American singer, one of the greatest of blues v...
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Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat
African American civil rights activist whose re...
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Toni Morrison was born here
American writer noted for her examination of bl...
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Madam C.J. Walker became the first african-American Millionairess here
Madam C.J. Walker - Sarah Breedlove - was a hig...
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Mary Edwards Walker was born here
Dr. Walker, in 1855, was one of the first women...
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Annie Dodge Wauneka fought tuberculosis here
Annie Dodge Wauneka, tribal leader of the Navaj...
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Amina reigned here from 1560-1610
Queen Amina headed the northern Nigerian Hausa ...
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Mbande Nzinga ruled here from 1582-1663
Nzinga (or Jinga) was the colorful queen of the...
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Zora Neale Hurston studied folklore here
American folklorist and writer associated with ...
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Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda lived and wrote here
Cuban playwright and poet who is considered one...
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Rigoberta Menchu seeks social justice he
Guatemalan Indian-rights activist, who was awar...
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Gabriela Mistral was born here
Gabriela Mistral pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alc...
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Eva Peron moved Argentine politics here
Second wife of Argentine president Juan Peron, ...
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Pocahantas was born here
Powhatan Indian woman who fostered peace betwee...
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Aung San Suu Ky remains under house arrest here
Myanmar opposition leader, daughter of Aung San...
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Mother Teresa helped the poor here
The daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer, she ...
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Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike was PM
Stateswoman who, upon her party's victory in th...
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Cixi was one of the most powerful women
consort of the Xianfeng emperor (reigned 1850-6...
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Abbie Goldbas-My Mom!
My mom helped change the world in many differen...
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Su Boliou (My Mom)

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Marie Laveau Priestess/Pharmacist
Born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Loui...
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Emma Goldman - Anarchist
was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known f...
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Dorothy Mary Allen was born here- My Mom
Dorothy died of breast cancer at the age of 43 ...
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Calamity Jane was born here in 1852
Daring female scout Calamaty Jane (Mary Burke) ...
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Birthplace of Joan of Arc
Birthplace of Joan of Arc
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Maya Angelou
This is where Maya Angelou was born.
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Kate Sheppard - SUFFRAGIST
The leader and main figurehead of the suffragis...
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Betty Roberts Maddux
My mother
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Ayn Rand was born here
St Petersburg, Russia
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
Egyptian queen famous in history and drama, lov...
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Frieda Kahlo lived here
exican painter noted for her intense, brilliant...
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Doi Takako was the first woman to lead a Japanese political party
Japanese politician, educator, and head (1986-9...
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Sally Morgan Indigenous author lived here
Professor Sally Morgan, indigenous author and...
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