Famous Women - A to Z #1

Can you name these famous women whose names start with each letter of the alphabet?

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Letter	Hint	Answer
A	Queen Consort to Louis XVI of France	Marie Antoinette
B	Founder of the American Red Cross	Clara Barton
C	First person to win 2 Nobel prizes	Marie Curie
D	Recipient of 2 Academy Awards and the first actor to accrue 10 nominations	Bette Davis
E	American aviation pioneer and writer	Amelia Earhart
F	Author of The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan
G	Assassinated Indian Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
H	Computer scientist who helped invent English programming languages	Grace Hopper
I	Helped unite Spain	Queen Isabella of Spain
J	The brains behind the complex calculations that helped send the first man to the moon - her work is highlighted in the film Hidden Figures	Katherine G. Johnson
K	Mexican painter known for her many self-portraits	Frida Kahlo
L	Author of To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee
M	Politician who served as the chancellor of Germany	Angela Merkel
N	Considered a pioneering in modern nursing	Florence Nightingale
O	Wife of the late John Lennon	Yoko Ono
P	A leader of the British suffragette movement	Emmeline Pankhurst
Q	Kurdish martyr - first woman hanged by the Iraqi Ba'ath party	Leyla Qasim
R	Astronaut and the first American woman to go to space	Sally Ride
S	Leading pioneer in offering contraception and health care services to women	Margaret Sanger
T	The first female British prime minister	Margaret Thatcher
U	British-American actress and comedian, whose eponymous show was the birthplace of The Simpsons	Tracey Ullman
V	The "Grandmother of Europe”	Queen Victoria
W	American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war, and surgeon - the only woman to ever receive the US Medal of Honor	Mary Edwards Walker
X	Children's television host and the highest-selling Brazilian female singer	Xuxa
Y	1992 Olympic figure skating gold medalist	Kristi Yamaguchi
Z	Dual Academy Award winner for Judy and Cold Mountain	Renée Zellweger

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