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Married then divorced to Prince Charles. Died in a car accident in Paris. | Princess Diana | 97%
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Queen of England during the 16th century. Made England Protestant. | Queen Elizabeth I | 92%
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British monarch since 1953. | Queen Elizabeth II | 92%
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Teenage author of a dairy. Died in Bergen concentration camp. | Anne Frank | 88%
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Last Pharaoh of Egypt. Personally involved with Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar. | Cleopatra | 87%
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Actress, model and icon of the 50s and 60s. Sang happy birthday to the husband of #7 | Marilyn Monroe | 87%
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Queen of the British Empire in the 19th century | Queen Victoria | 87%
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"Iron Lady" British Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher | 83%
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Young woman who inspired the French in their fight against the English. Burnt at the stake as a witch. | Joan of Arc | 82%
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Albanian nun who worked mostly in Kolkata | Mother Teresa | 82%
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African American talk show host, book club, magazine and television station owner | Oprah Winfrey | 82%
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Author of the Harry Potter series | JK Rowling | 81%
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American singer, songwriter, and actress. Best selling female artist of all time. Uses one name | Madonna | 80%
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American singer, actress and dancer. Lead singer of Destiny's Child. Known by her first name | Beyonce Knowles | 79%
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Born in Austria, Queen of France and guillotined during the Revolution | Marie Antoinette | 79%
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Civil rights figure who refused to change her seat | Rosa Parks | 76%
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Polish physicist and chemist. Winner of two Nobel prizes | Marie Curie | 75%
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First Lady, US Senator, US Secretary of State and possible candidate for 2016 presidential election | Hillary Rodham Clinton | 73%
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Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma | Jane Austen | 73%
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American aviation pioneer. Flew across the Atlantic solo. Disappeared across the Pacific | Amelia Earhart | 72%
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German chancellor since 2005 and Time 2015 Person of the Year | Angela Merkel | 72%
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Married Prince William | Catherine Middleton | 72%
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French fashion designer and founder of a fashion label using her own name. Gained influence first in the 1920s. | Coco Chanel | 72%
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US First Lady, cultural and fashion icon of the 60's. | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | 72%
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American singer, songwriter, activist, fashion designer and actress. Meat dress and Twitter | Lady Gaga | 70%
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American actress who married the Prince of Monaco | Grace Kelly | 69%
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US actress, producer and humanitarian. Lara Croft:Tomb Raider | Angelina Jolie | 68%
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Minor German princess who became Queen of Russia after her husband was assisinated | Catherine the Great | 68%
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Barbados actress, singer and fashion designer. Uses only one name | Rihanna | 68%
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African American tennis player and one of the most successful of all times. | Serena Williams | 68%
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US artist and musician. Broke up the Beatles. | Yoko Ono | 67%
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English author. Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 66%
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Mystery writer, Poirot and Miss Marple | Agatha Christie | 65%
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Actress in the 50s and 60s who later went to work for UNICEF | Audrey Hepburn | 65%
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British American actress. AIDS activist. Married Richard Burton twice. | Elizabeth Taylor | 63%
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British nurse during the Crimean War. Improved hospital standards | Florence Nightingale | 63%
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Blind and deaf advocate for human rights and social justice | Helen Keller | 63%
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Argentinian First Lady. Advocated for the poor. Portrayed in a biopic by #4 | Eva Peron | 61%
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Colombian singer, model, dancer, and producer. Uses one name. | Shakira | 61%
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Third Prime Minister of India 1966 - 1977, 1980 - 1984, killed by her Sikh bodyguards | Indira Gandhi | 60%
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British actress, dancer and singer. Mary Poppins. The Sound of Music | Julie Andrews | 59%
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American actress. On Golden Pond. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Katherine Hepburn | 58%
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American comedian, actress, and TV talk show host. TV show went by her first name | Ellen DeGeneres | 57%
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Devoted follower of Jesus. First witness to the resurrection | Mary Magdalene | 57%
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Spanish saint, mystic and writer | St. Teresa of Avila | 56%
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American actress, model and singer. The Avengers, Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring | Scarlett Johansson | 54%
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Swedish actress featured in Casablanca | Ingrid Bergman | 52%
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African American actress. The Color Purple. Ghost. The View. Known by her first name. | Whoopi Goldberg | 52%
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1970s era tennis player who advocated for gender equality in sports | Billie Jean King | 51%
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First Lady, human rights campaigner, diplomat, UN Human Rights committee | Eleanor Roosevelt | 50%
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Dutch exotic dancer executed in WWI as a spy | Mata Hari | 49%
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France's national diva. La Vie en rose. Non je ne regrette rien. | Edith Piaf | 47%
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First female leader of a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan | Benazir Bhutto | 44%
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French actress, dancer, singer and animal rights activist. | Brigitte Bardot | 42%
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Uncle Tom's Cabin. Anti-slavery campaigner | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 39%
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Hungarian born American actress and socialite | Zsa Zsa Gabor | 39%
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Czech and American tennis player. Dominated the 1970s | Martina Navratilova | 38%
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Wife of the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War. Works for Russian humanitaran causes | Raisa Gorbachev | 38%
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Modern American poet and writer. Civil Rights leader. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Recited "On the Pulse of the Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration | Maya Angelou | 37%
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English modernist writer. Member of the Bloomsbury group. Orlando. A Room of One's Own. Killed herself by drawing. | Virginia Woolf | 37%
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English conservationist and author of the Tales of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | 36%
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Russian tennis player, model, and businesswoman. Won the Grand Slam in 2012 | Maria Sharapova | 36%
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Born in Kiev, grew up in Milwaukee, she became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel | Golda Meir | 35%
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Environmentalist and chimpanzee ethusiast | Jane Goodall | 34%
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American actress of the 40s and 50s. Married to Humphrey Bogart. How to Marry a Millionaire. | Lauren Bacall | 34%
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Campaigned against slavery and in favour of women and workers' rights. On the US dollar | Susan B. Anthony | 34%
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German American actress. Started in the silent film era. | Marlene Dietrich | 33%
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Ancient Greek Poet. One of the first female published writers. | Sappho | 33%
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American actress in movies, TV, and theatre. All About Eve | Bette Davis | 32%
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American jazz singer. First Lady of the Blues | Billie Holiday | 31%
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British children's author. The Famous Five. Secret Seven | Enid Blyton | 31%
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French actress, artist and dancer. The English Patient. Chocolat | Juliette Binoche | 30%
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Queen of France who made her sons, John and Richard, kings of England | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 29%
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Yugoslavian-American tennis player. Won the French Open at 16. Career suffered after she was stabbed on the court. | Monica Seles | 29%
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French existentialist philosopher. Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 29%
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Born into a famous Florence family she became the Queen of France at the age of 14 | Catherine de Medici | 28%
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Burmese democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner | Aung San Suu Kyi | 27%
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US tennis player. Dominated women's tennis in the 70s and early 80s. | Chris Evert | 27%
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American 19th century female poet | Emily Dickinson | 27%
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British militant suffragette who used radical and violent tactics | Emmeline Pankhurst | 26%
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Romanian gymnast who was perfect at the Montreal Olympics. | Nadia Comaneci | 24%
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British writer of romance novels. Using a standard formula she could produce a book a month producing over 700 books and was one of the top selling novelist of all time. | Barbara Cartland | 22%
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American cosmetics executive. The firm bears her name. | Estee Lauder | 22%
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Australian feminist icon. Female Eunuch. | Germaine Greer | 21%
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British romantic novelist and playwright with a slightly moody or macabre touch. Rebecca. Don't Look Now. The Birds. Her last name is also a brand of Canadian cigarettes. | Daphne duMaurier | 20%
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Russian ballet dancer. Toured the world with her own company. Famous for The Dying Swan | Anna Pavlova | 18%
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Pakistani schoolgirl and education advocate. Shot by the Taliban but survived and now campaigns worldwide. Known by her first name. | Malala Yousafzai | 18%
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British feminist and writer. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | 16%
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American actress, singer, playwright and comedian. Subject to censorship. Klondike Annie, Go West Young Man | Mae West | 14%
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American feminist and civil rights advocate. Fought for women's right to vote and the temperance movement | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 11%
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Polish Jew who helped found the German Communist party and died during the Spartacist revolt | Rosa Luxemburg | 11%
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UK businesswoman and environmentalist. Founded the Body Shop | Anita Roddick | 8%
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Latin American poet. Won the Nobel Prize in 1945. Taught at Colombia, Vassar, and Middlebury | Gabriela Mistral | 6%
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Kenyan environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. | Wangari Maathai | 4%
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Irish activist. Together with Mairead Corrigan, she campaigned for end to sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. | Betty Williams | 3%
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Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Shirin Ebadi | 3%
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Canadian. First magistrate in British Empire. Had women declared legal persons | Emily Murphy | 2%
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Indian mystic and poet. Devoted to Krishna and spirtual yoga | Mirabai | 2%
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