THE III WOMEN
Each of these 111 women listed has made great strides in her chosen field and left a big legacy to inspire women and girls to each reach out and fulfill their own dreams whatever those may be. (Click to learn more)
WOMEN IN MUSIC Nina Simone: American multi-style single, songwriter and piannist Eva Ayllon: Afro-Peruvian singer and composer of Criolla style and influence Lata Mangeshkar: Indian playback singer and composer Whitney Houston: American pop and ballad singer, and actress Madonna: American pop writer and singer, and actress Adele Adkins: British singer and songwriter Celine Dion: Canadian pop and ballad singer and songwriter Edith Piaf: French cabaret singer, songwriter, and actress Bjork Guomundsdottir: Icelandic alternative pop singer and songwriter Spice Girls: British musical female troupe of singers and songwriters WOMEN IN ACTING AND DIRECTING
Katharine Hepburn: American actress and feminist and Hollywood leading lady for 6 decades Salma Hayek: Mexican and American film actress and producer Mira Nair: Indo-American filmmaker of films that span extensive cultural spheres Julie Taymor: American academy director of theatre, film, and opera Nargis: Top Indian film actress of Hindi cinema Margaret Cho: Korean-American stand-up comedian, actress, and singer Audrey Hepburn: British actress, award winner and humanitarian Gong Li: Singaporean-Chinese film actress and winner of awards Zeba: Pakistani film actress and top star Carmen Miranda: Portuguese-Brazillian samba singer, dancer, and actress of screen and stage Brigitte Bardot: French actress, singer, dancer and model Lucille Ball: American actress and comedienne, and producer Brenda Chapman: American animator, and first female director of animation in the USA Lupita Nyong’o: Kenyan-Mexican film actress and award winner |
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND MATH Hypatia: Greek mathmatician, astronomer and inventor Ada Lovelace: British writer, mathematician, and coder Jane Goodall: British primatologist and anthropologist Wangari Maathai: Kenyan environmentalist & Nobel laureate Gertrude Bell: British acheologist, writer, traveller, and explorer Amelia Earhart: American aviation pioneer Coco Chanel: French fashion designer and business woman Annick Goutal: French perfumer and business woman Fay Kellogg: American architect and designer Lise Meitner: Austrian physicist Maryam Mirzakhani: Iranian mathematician, theorist, and professor Florence Nightingale: Italian “mother” of modern nursing Marie Curie: French and Polish physicist, chemist, & researcher Fe Del Mundo: Filipino pediatrician and scientist Evelyn Granville: American mathematician Elizabeth Blackwell: British physician & first woman to receive medical degree in the US. Dorothy Hodgkin: British chemist and Nobel prize winner WOMEN IN DANCE
Anna Pavlova: Russian prima ballerina of the 19th century Martha Graham: American modern dancer and choreographer Josephine Baker: French dancer and entertainer and activist Sylvie Guillem: French ballet and modern dancer Misty Copeland: First African American female principal dancer of the American Ballet Isadora Duncan: Acclaimed American dancer in France Samia Gamal: Acclaimed Egyptian belly dancer Natalia Makarova: Russian prima ballerina and choreographer Rukmini Arundale: Indian classical dancer and choreographer and theosophist Carmen Amaya: Acclaimed Romani Flamenco dancer |
WOMEN IN SPORTS Serena Williams: American top tennis champion Larisa Latynina: Ukranian artistic gymnast and Olympic medal winner Skylar Diggins: American top basketball player Marta Vieira da Silva: Top Brazillian footballer Ireen Wust: Dutch speed skater and Olympic medal winner Luciana Aymar: Top female feild hockey player of all time. From Argentina Valentina Vezzali: Italian fencer and 6-times gold Olympic medalist. Is also a politician. Lorena Ochoa: Top ranked Mexican professional golfer Dara Tores: American competitive swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist Lydia Ko: Korean born New Zealand golfer - currently a top world player Babe Didrickson Zaharias: American athlete successful in golf, basketball, and track WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
Oprah: Top American talk show host, philantropist, and producer Indira Gandhi: First and so far only female Indian Prime Minister Joan of Arc: French heroine and freedom fighter during the 100-year war Cleopatra: Last active ruler of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt Queen Victoria: British Queen of England and Ireland Eva Peron: Social leader and First Lady of Argentine president Juan Peron Margaret Thatcher: British Prime Minister of England Mandukhai Khatun: Mongolian empress Ci Xi: Chinese empress dowager and regent Buffalo Calf Road: Native warrior and rescuer Trieu Thi Trinh: Vietnamese Warrior in 3rd century Vietnam Sayyida al Hurra: Pirate queen in the early 16th century. Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona: Hawaiian preistess and healer Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Sri Lankan Stateswoman Ana Nzinga Mbande: 17th century queen of Ndongo and Matamba Sojourner Truth: African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist Simone du Beauvoir: French writer, intellectual, and philosopher Maria Montessori: Italian physician and educator and creator of educational philosophy Helen Keller: American author, political activist, and lecturer. First deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree Malala Yousafzai: Pakistani activist for female education and youngest Nobel laureate Anna Essinger: German Jewish educator with new educational philosophies |
WOMEN IN FINE ARTS Berthe Morisot: French painter Shirin Neshat: Iranian digital artist Kara Walker: American mixed media and silhouette artist Tracey Emin: British mixed media and sculpture artist Judy Chicago: American mixed media and sculpture artist Frida Kahlo: Mexican painter Georgia O’Keeffe: American painter Yayoi Kusama: Japanese multi-media and pattern artist Louise Bourgeois: American and French mixed media and sculpture artist Marina Abramovic: Yugoslavian performance artist Cindy Sherman: American performance and digital artist Guerilla Girls: American performance and political art group Emily Carr: Canadian painter Lotte Reiniger: German silhouette puppet creator and animator Mary Blair: American illustrator and imagineer WOMEN IN WRITING
Alice Walker: America author of The Color Purple Enid Blyton: British children’s book author of over 500 books including The Wishing Chair and Enchanted Tree series Jane Austen: British author of such books as Emma and other books revealing societal commentary Amrita Pritam: Indian writer and poet and essayist Ding Ling: Celebrated Chinese author and award winner JK Rowling: British author of the Harry Potter series Anne Frank: German journal writer of daily life as a Jewish girl during World War 2 Juana Ines de la Cruz: Mexican self taught scholar and student of scientific thoought. Also a composer and poet Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Nigerian short novel writer and award winner Virginia Woolf: British writer, modernist, & pioneer of language. Gertrude Stein: American novelist |