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69 - 30 BC, The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, she tried to defend Egypt from the Roman Empire through personal relations with Marc Anthony and Julius Caesar | Cleopatra | 92%
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1412 - 1431, Patron saint of France, Inspired the French to revolt against the English occupation. Later burned at the stake. | Joan of Arc | 87%
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1867 - 1934, Polish scientist in Paris, she won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. | Marie Curie | 85%
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1883 - 1971, French fashion designer who defined femimine style and dress in the 20th century | Coco Chanel | 83%
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1929 - 1945 Her dairy as a 13 year old Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam is one of the most widely read books. | Anne Frank | 82%
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1910 - 1997, Albanian nun who spent most of her life in Kolkata, soon to be a saint. | Mother Teresa | 81%
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1819 - 1901, Long ruling monarch of the British Empire | Victoria | 79%
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1925 - 2013 First female Prime Minister of the UK, known as the Iron Lady by some and the Milk Snatcher by her detractors | Margaret Thatcher | 78%
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1913 - 2005, American civil rights leader who refused to change seats in Montgomery, Alabama | Rosa Parks | 78%
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1533 - 1603, Queen of England who ensured England would be Protestant and free of Spanish control | Elizabeth I | 77%
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1965 - , One of the most successful writers of all time, her Harry Potter series revived reading among young people. | JK Rowling | 77%
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1729 - 1796, A minor German princess who became the Queen of Russia after her husband was assasinated | Catherine the Great | 76%
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1961 - 1997, British royal princess and humanitarian worker. Died in a car accident in Paris. | Diana Princess of Wales | 76%
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1775 - 1817, Popular English author known for novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma | Jane Austen | 75%
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1926 - 1962, American actress and model. Happy Birthday to the President | Marilyn Monroe | 75%
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1519 - 1589, Born to a famous Florence family, she married the King of France at the age of 14 and was involved in the St. Bartholomew's massacre. | Catherine de Medici | 73%
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1919 - 1952, First Lady of Argentina, she concisely supported the women and workers' rights. Madonna later portrayed her in a biopic. | Eva Peron | 72%
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1929 - 1993, British actress who defined feminine glamor and dignity. After her film career ended in the mid-60s, she worked for UNICEF | Audrey Hepburn | 70%
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1880 - 1968, Blind and deaf, she campaigned for human rights and social justics | Helen Keller | 70%
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1926 - Longest serving British monarch | Elizabeth II | 69%
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1954 - , African-American talk show host, book club, and television network. | Oprah Winfrey | 68%
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1907 - 2003, American actress and winner of four Oscars and twelve nominations | Katharine Hepburn | 65%
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1884 - 1962, Head of the UN Human Rights Committee she drafted the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. She was also spouse to a US president | Eleanor Roosevelt | 63%
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1820 - 1910, Nurse during the Crimean War. Helped change the treatment of wounded soldiers | Florence Nightingale | 61%
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4BC - 40AD, One of Jesus' most devoted followers, she was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection | Mary Magdalene | 60%
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Circa 630 - 570 BC, One of the more famous poets of Ancient Greece, referred by Plato as one of the top 10 poets. She spent her entire life on the island of Lesbos | Sappho | 59%
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1997 - , Pakistani school girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for education rights. Known by her first name. | Malala Yousafzai | 56%
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1958 - , American singer, songwriter, actress. Most successful female musician. | Madonna | 48%
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1917 - 1984, First female of Prime Minister of India. She was assassinated by her Sikh guards | Indira Gandhi | 44%
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1953 - 2007, First female prime minister of a Muslim country. Moved Pakistan from a dictatorship to a democracy. Assassinated in 2007. | Benazir Bhutto | 41%
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1811 - 1896, An anti-slavery campaigner and writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 40%
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1908 - 1986, French existentialist philosopher best know for the Second Sex and her friendship with Sartre | Simone de Beauvoir | 37%
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1915 - 1959, American jazz singer or First Lady of the Blues | Billie Holiday | 34%
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1943 - , American tennis player who campaigned for equal treatment and pay for female athletes. She won 20 Wimbledon titles. | Billie Jean King | 33%
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1122 - 1204, First Queen of France. Her sons, John and Richard, became kings of England. | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 32%
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1st Century AD, Led the Britons against the German invasion. | Boudicca | 30%
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1858 - 1928, British suffragette, she advocated any form of protest including violence and hunger strikes | Emmeline Pankhurst | 25%
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1830 - 1886, American poet | Emily Dickinson | 24%
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1820 - 1906, Campaigned against slavery and for temperance and women and workers' rights | Susan B. Anthony | 23%
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1939 - , Australian feminist who wrote the Female Eunuch | Germaine Greer | 21%
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1870 - 1919, Polish-Jewish Marxist revolutionary who founded the German Communist Party and was killed by right wing militia suppressing the Spartacist revolution. | Rosa Luxemburg | 20%
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1759 - 1797, An early feminist best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | 16%
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1921 - 2006 American social activist and writer of The Feminine Mystique. | Betty Friedan | 11%
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1098 - 1179, Mystic, author and composer. Popes, kings, and other important individuals consulted her for advice. | Hildegarde of Bingen | 10%
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1821 - 1910, Born in Britain, she became the first licensed female doctor in the US. | Elizabeth Blackwell | 6%
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1815 - 1902, American social activist, suffragist and temperance movement leader | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 6%
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1512 - 1585, Spanish mystic, poetic, and Carmelite reformer | St. Teresa of Avila | 6%
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1940 - 2011, Kenyan born environmentalist, democracy activist, and women's right campaigner. Awarded a Nobel Peace Prize | Wangari Maathai | 6%
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1947 - , Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer. Given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | 3%
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1943 - , Campaigned to bring an end to sectarian violence in northern Ireland, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize with Mairead Corrigan in 1977 | Betty Williams | 2%
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1910 - 1994, British chemist who won a Nobel Prize for her work on the structure of penicillin and insulin. She also devoted a large part of her life to the peace movement and nuclear disarmament | Dorothy Hodgkin | 2%
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1868 - 1933, A Canadian magistrate, she challenged the law which did not recognize women as persons. | Emily Murphy | 2%
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1498 - 1565, Indian mystic and poet. A devotee of Krishna and yoga. | Mirabai | 2%
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1810 - 1850, An American women's right advocate wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century | Margaret Fuller | 1%
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