- Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, … - Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Buffalo Calf Road Woman was a Northern Cheyenne woman who was the sister of a male Native American fighter who was involved in the Battle of Rosebud. The battle had been going poorly, and the Cheyenne and Sioux, who were allied under the leadership of Crazy Horse, had been retreating, leaving her wounded brother, Chief Comes in Sight, on the battlefield, when she suddenly rode out into the battlefield at full speed and grabbed her brother, carrying him to safety. - Mountain Wolf Woman
Mountain Wolf Woman, or <b>Kéhachiwinga</b>;, was a Native American woman of the Ho-Chunk tribe. She was born in April 1884 into the Thunder Clan in East Fork River, Wisconsin. Her parents were Charles Blowsnake and Lucy Goodvillage. She was forced by her brothers to marry a man she did not care for. Though she eventually left him, she was forced into a second marriage. In 1958, an autobiography was written about her by Nancy Lurie. - Black Buffalo Woman
Black Buffalo Woman was Crazy Horse's love interest, whom she had known since childhood. She was the daughter of Red Cloud's brother, and was the first cousin of He Dog and Red Heart Bull. Though she was married to a man named No Water, she married Crazy Horse in 1870 anyway as Lakota were allowed to divorce their husbands at any time for any reason. Despite this, No Water was enraged by his wife's elopement. - Buffalo Bird Woman
Buffalo Bird Woman was a Hidatsa Native American who recounted her culture in numerous books. Edward Lone Fight is descended from Buffalo Bird Woman. - Hate Woman
- Haraldskær Woman
The Haraldskær Woman is an Iron Age bog body naturally preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark. Labourers discovered the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate. Disputes regarding the age and identity of this well preserved body were settled in 1977, when radiocarbon dating determined conclusively that her death occurred around 500 BC. This archaeological find was one of the earliest bog bodies discovered, … - Chief Earth Woman
Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth century Ojibwa. She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath. - Elizabeth Green The Stork Woman
Elizabeth Green, also known as Betty Green, was a sideshow performer who was presented to audiences as a human stork during the early 1900s. According to Tod Browning she was a Jewish woman who owned six blocks of flats. A genetic condition was responsible for her unusual features; she also suffered from mild mental retardation. Her large, long nose and thin bone structure earned her the "Stork-Woman" title. - Moving Robe Woman
- Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows ("Today" and "The View"), evening news magazine ("20/20"), and on "The ABC Evening News", as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's "Today", … - Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April, 1939 - 2 March, 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. She achieved her most notable success during the 1960s, with a successful comeback in the late 1980s. - Elizabeth Holtzman
Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Democratic politician. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, she was the youngest woman ever to serve in United States House of Representatives, having been elected at the age of thirty-one in 1972 from New York's 16th Congressional District, having defeated-in the Democratic primary-Judiciary Committee chairman Emanuel Celler, … - Shirley Franklin
Shirley Clarke Franklin (born May 10 1945) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. The 58th mayor of Atlanta, she was the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city. Franklin is the fourth black mayor of Atlanta, the latest in a line of African American mayors that stretches back to 1974. - Andrea James
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967), is an American transsexual woman, film producer, screenwriter, actress, LGBT rights activist, and consumer activist. - Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Poy, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, LL.D "(honoris causa)" (born February 10, 1939) is an accomplished Canadian journalist. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada (representing Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada): she was the first Chinese Canadian (although she does not speak Chinese) and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauvé. - Nancy Friday
Nancy Friday (born August 27 1933) is an author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, … - Wendy O. Williams
Wendy Orlean Williams (May 28, 1949 - April 6, 1998), better known as Wendy O. Williams, was the lead singer for the punk band the Plasmatics, whose stage theatrics included blowing up equipment, near nudity and chain-sawing guitars. Dubbed "The Queen of Shock Rock," Williams was widely considered the most controversial and radical woman singer of her day. She often sported a trademark Mohawk haircut. - Nancy Benoit
Nancy Elizabeth Benoit (born Nancy Toffoloni; May 21 1964 - June 22 2007) (more commonly known by her in-ring names as Woman and Fallen Angel) was a professional wrestling valet and manager. She worked in several promotions, including Jim Crockett Promotions, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling. On June 25, 2007, Nancy and her son Daniel were found dead by police in their Fayetteville, … - Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University. - Lucy Burns
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul. Together, they formed the National Woman's Party. Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic family. She was a gifted student and attended university at Vassar College and Yale University before becoming an English teacher. In 1906 at age twenty-seven she moved to Germany to resume her studies in language. - Edward Lucie-Smith
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator and author of exhibition catalogues. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. He studied at The King's School, Canterbury, and after a little time in Paris at Merton College, Oxford. After serving in the Royal Air Force and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer. He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising "The Group", … - Lucy Walker
Lucy Walker, a British mountaineer, was the first woman to climb the Matterhorn. Ms. Walker began her climbing rather modestly in 1858 when she was advised by her doctor to take up walking as a cure for rheumatism. Accompanied by her father Frank Walker and her brother Horace Walker, both of whom were early members of the Alpine Club, and Oberland guide Melchior Anderegg, she became the first woman to regularly climb the Alps. - Lorine Niedecker
Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970) was born on the Black Hawk Island near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. She lived most of her life here in rural isolation. She was the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets and is widely credited for demonstrating how an Objectivist poetic could handle the personal as subject matter. - Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd. In 2004, she became India’s richest woman. - Jim Ladd
Jim Ladd (born January 17, 1948), an American disc jockey, radio producer and writer, is one of the few notable remaining freeform rock DJs in United States commercial radio. Unlike his contemporaries, Ladd personally selects every song he plays on his weeknight show on KLOS-FM in Los Angeles. Station management gives him complete control over show content. He combines music with atmospheric sound samples and social commentary, … - Freya Stark
Dame Freya Madeleine Stark, DBE (b. 31 Jan1893, Paris France - d. 9 May 1993, Asolo Italy) was a British travel writer. In between that time, she was famous for her experiences in the Middle East, her writing, and her cartography. Freya Stark was not only one of the first Western women to travel through the Arabian deserts (Hadhramaut); she often travelled solo into areas where few Europeans, let alone women, had ever been. - Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi is an Indian writer. - Mary Post
Mary Elizabeth Post (June 17, 1841-1934) was an Elizabethtown, New York native who immigrated to Arizona in 1872 to become a teacher there. She was a pioneer of education in Arizona, she was the fifth teacher in Arizona and the first to receive a teacher's pension. Although her father was a carpenter who worked very hard to maintain his family, he was a lover of books and literature. - Chica Umino
is a Japanese female mangaka, based in Adachi, Tokyo. She is noted for being the author and creator of the "Honey and Clover" series, for which, in 2003, she received the Kodansha Manga Award, and has been adapted into an anime series, produced by J.C. Staff. Her pen name comes from her favorite location "umi no chikaku no yuuenchi" (海の近くの遊園地, lit. an amusement park by the sea), which is also the title of her dojin works prior to her debut. - Fumiko Orikasa
is a female seiyū and singer. Her blood type is A. She is represented by the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. - Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is an African American woman from Alabama. In 1955, at the age of 15, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist Rosa Parks' (on December 1, 1955) by nine months. At the time, Colvin was a student at Booker T. Washington High School. Colvin's family didn't own a car, so she relied on the city's gold-and-green buses to get to school. - Simon Sheppard
Simon Sheppard is a neo-nazi activist and an ex-member of the British National Party. Sheppard presents himself as a psychologist, but there is no evidence that he holds any qualifications in this field. He claims to have applied game theory and evolutionary psychology to the analysis of competition between the sexes and between different races and runs a website, heretical.com, devoted to publicizing his theories of Procedural Analysis and his interests. - Kathy Galloway
Rev Kathy Galloway is an ordained Church of Scotland minister and was, in 2002 the first woman to be elected leader of the Iona Community. She lives in Glasgow where she is based at the Iona Community's mainland offices. - Helen Chadwick
Helen Chadwick (1953 - March 15, 1996) was a British artist. Chadwick studied at Croydon College of Art, Brighton Polytechnic and then at the Chelsea School of Art. She has often been identified as a feminist, with several of her works addressing the role and image of woman in society. Her work often often reflected her sometimes uneasy relationship with her own body, using organic materials, such as meat, flowers and chocolate. - Anna Kingsford
Anna Bonus Kingsford (b. September 16, 1846 in Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex - d. February 22, 1888 in London) was one of the first female English physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Kingsford participated in the Theosophical movement England and was best known as an advocate of women's rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarianism. She obtained a medical degree in Paris in 1880. In 1883, she was made President of the Theosophical Society. - Louise McKinney
Louise McKinney (September 22, 1868 - July 10, 1931), born Louise Crummy, was the first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire. The first woman elected to any government position was Hannah Gale, an Alderman in Calgary, Alberta. McKinney won election in the 1917 Alberta general election by defeating Alberta Liberal Party incumbent William Moffat. - Godfried Danneels
"His Eminence" Godfried Cardinal Danneels (born June 4, 1933) is a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Brussels-Mechelen and the chairman of the episcopal conference of his native country. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. Danneels is considered an outspoken liberal, advocating a different view on contraception and a greater role for women and the laity as a whole in the Church. - Theresa Sparks
Theresa Sparks is the president of the San Francisco Police Commission, the CEO of a multimillion-dollar sex toy retailer, and a transgender woman. A member of the Emeritus Board of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, Sparks is also a Vietnam veteran and a trained engineer. - Agnes MacPhail
Agnes Campbell Macphail (March 24 1890 - February 12 1954) was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Active throughout her life in progressive Canadian politics, Macphail worked for two separate parties and promoted her ideas through column-writing, activist organizing, and legislation. Agnes Macphail was born to Dougald McPhail and Henrietta Campbell in Proton Township, …
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