Name: Famous Women in History - Flashcards
Ada Lovelace Amelia Earhart Annelies Marie Frank Clara Barton
She was an English mathematician Amelia Earhart was an American Anne Frank’s diary, documenting Clara Barton was an American and a visionary in computing. She aviator. She was the first woman two years of her life in hiding pioneering nurse who founded is considered to be one of the first to fly solo across the Atlantic during the German occupation of the American Red Cross. She was computer programmers. Ocean. the Netherlands, became a classic inducted into the National 92.895of war literature. Women’s Hall of Fame in 1973.
Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman Helen Keller Jane Addams
Popularly known as “The Lady with Harriet Tubman also known as Losing her vision and hearing Jane Addams was a social worker the Lamp”, she was an English “Moses” was a famous power at the age of two, Helen who co-founded one of the most nurse and the founder of modern underground “conductor“ who Keller became the first deaf-blind famous settlement houses in nursing. helped more than 300 slaves to person to earn a Bachelor’s America. She won a Nobel Peace escape from slavery. Degree in Arts. Prize in 1931 for her social work.
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Jane Austen Jane Goodall Marie Curie Maya Angelou
Considered an iconic figure of the Jane Goodall is an English Marie Curie was a French-Polish Maya Angelou was an literary world, Jane Austen was an primatologist and anthropologist. physicist. She was the only person African-American writer, most English novelist. Her extraordinary She discovered that chimpanzees to win a Nobel Prize in two famous for her poems and series works are a social commentary of can make and use tools and she different scientific fields. of autobiographies. the middle class English people. also studied their social behavior.
Mother Teresa Queen Victoria Rosa Parks Sally Ride
Honored as Saint Teresa, she Giving her name to an era, Queen Known as “the mother of the Sally Ride was an American devoted her life to help the poor Victoria of the United Kingdom freedom movement”, Rosa Parks astronaut and physicist who and the homeless. In 1979, she was the head of the largest was an activist. Her refusal to give became the first American woman won the Nobel Peace Prize for her colonial empire on which the sun up her seat to a white man ignited to travel to space. humanitarian work. never set. the U.S. civil rights movement.
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