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