Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowskap, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Her discovery of radioactivity led to successful treatments for cancer.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Famously refused to give up her seat on a bus during a time of racial segregation to promote Black rights.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. Although her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, in Üsküb—now Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After... read more She was a great woman who cared deeply for those in need.
Helped the less fortunate and destitute in the streets of Calcutta, answering Christ's call "to be His light."
A Roman Catholic nun.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans", is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint... read more Was highly influential in saving France from the onslaught of conquering British soldiers.
K. S. Chithra
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer from Kerala. She also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. K.S. Chithra loves her fans, supports charities, and visits her supporters.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII Philopator, known to history simply as Cleopatra, was the last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt. After her reign, Egypt became a province of the recently established Roman Empire.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Campaigned for women's right to vote in the UK in the early 1900s.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad... read more
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (born May 12, 1820 - died August 13, 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, where she organized care for wounded soldiers in Constantinople... read more Became known as the Lady with the Lamp. She revolutionized medicine during the Crimean War, making wartime hospitals much cleaner and safer.
A nurse who played a tremendous role in caring for the sick during the Crimean War.
Mary, mother of Jesus
Her simple "yes" to God brought salvation to the entire world.
Jesus' mother.
The Newcomers
? Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech.
? Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six AACTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The Contenders
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era... read more
Elizabeth I of England
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She has also been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress... read more
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson. June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962) was an American actress, singer, and model. Decades after her unexpected death, she has remained one of Hollywood's greatest sex symbols with her eye-catching style, champagne blonde hair, and breathless manner of speaking. She... read more
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist known principally for her five major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. A famous writer who wrote novels from the late 1700s through the early 1800s.
Augusta Ada Lovelace
A talented mathematician considered to be the first computer programmer.
Catherine II
Catherine II, born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst on May 2, 1729, is most commonly known as Catherine the Great. She reigned as the Empress of Russia from 1762 until her death on November 17, 1796. Catherine came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III.
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and music director. She was one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was an American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, actress, and fashion designer.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. Became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She went missing during her attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
Rosalind Franklin
Her work was central to the understanding of the structures of DNA and RNA.
Simone de Beauvoir
Pocahontas