She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields: physics and chemistry. Her research on radioactivity paved the way for nuclear physics and cancer treatment
She became a global advocate for girls' education after being shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls in Pakistan. She became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate in 2014 at the age of 17
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and igniting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
She was a mathematician and writer who is credited with being the world's first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1840s
She was the first woman to serve as India's Prime Minister, serving three terms in office from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She is credited with shaping modern India's political and economic landscape
She was a pioneering aviator who set many records, including being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Her disappearance while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 remains a mystery to this day
She was a nurse who revolutionised the nursing profession and hospital care during the Crimean War in the 1850s. She is known as the founder of modern nursing and her work has influenced nursing practices around the world
She was an environmental and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, an initiative that focused on planting trees and empowering women to become environmental stewards. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
She is a primatologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace who has spent her life studying and advocating for the protection of chimpanzees and other endangered species. Her work has helped advance the understanding of primate behaviour and conservation biology
She was the first Indian woman to travel to space and a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Unfortunately, she along with her crewmates died during re-entry