Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Cinema directors / Producers

Neully-sur-Seine, 29-10-1930 — La Jolla (San Diego, California, United States), 21-05-2002

Review: Niki de Saint Phalle was a French artist who gained worldwide fame in the 1960s with her voluptuous and colourful feminine figures. Recognised as one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century, her most famous work is the monumental f

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Tarragona, 01-02-1918 — Barcelona, 09-09-2014

Review:   Montserrat Abelló is a Catalan poet, translator and feminist militant. She began her public career when she was more than forty years old and after spending twenty years in exile. She is the author of twelve collections of poems, plus literary

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

Roma; c. 300 — c. 384

Review: Roman poet and aristocrat of the 4th century AD. Like her husband, she occupied a prominent position in the defense of the mystical and oriental cults of the Roman religion. Although she has always been related to him in the public sphere, she was

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Tuscumbia. Alabama, 27-06-1880 — Easton. Connecticut, 01-06-1968

Review: Helen Keller was an American educator, advocate for the blind and deaf, and co-founder of the ACLU. Stricken with illness at the age of 2, Keller became blind and deaf. Starting in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous p

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Philanthropists
• Writers

Milan (Italy); 16-05-1718 — 09-01-1799

Review: Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a mathematician, philosopher and theologist from Italy, quite famous in Europe in her time. Her most important work, Instituzioni Analitiche, was translated into several languages and used to learn mathematics for over fift

Groups by dedication:

• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Midwives

Athens; 4th century BCE

Review: Agnodice was a Greek physician and gynaecologist who lived during the 4th century BC. She studied medicine in Egypt and practiced as a doctor in Athens, disguised as a man. Her recognition among women caused suspicion among the rest of the doctors

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Story writers

Cologne, 15 — Baiae, 59

Review: Agrippina the Younger (15-59 AD) was the daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, sister of emperor Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. As a child, she lost her family due to dynastic rights and became aware that the price for the

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets

Valencia; 12th century

Review: Andalusian author who, much like her contemporaries, represented a powerful feminine voice who discussed, flattered, appreciated and understood composition and metrical techniques. Her verses are written in a classical eastern genre, the qasida, wh

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)

The Escala; 11-09-1869 — 27-01-1966

Review: Caterina Albert was a novelist, storyteller, playwright and poet. In her work, she continues the Catalan literary tradition written by women, although like many other European female writers at the time, she hid behind the male pen- name "Víctor Ca

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Writers > Story writers
• Clerical or spiritual women > Spiritualists

c. 1500 — c. 1560

Review: Valencian woman in the 16th century, married to lawyer Bartolomé Monfort. She founded the parish of l’Assumpció de la Verge, known as Col·legi de Na Monforta, in the street of Les Barques in Valencia. Sources indicate that she wrote the "Constituti

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Humanistics > Archaeologists
• Humanistics > Historians

Vilnius (Lithuania), 23-01-1921 — Los Angeles (USA), 02-02-1994

Review: Marija Gimbutienė, the most outstanding Lithuanian scientist who gained worldwide recognition - created a unique field of science and discovered and described the hitherto unexplored civilization of Old Europe. Her scientific ideas substantially im

Groups by dedication:

• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators

Zaragoza; 1749 — 1833

Review: Josefa Amar y Borbón was a pedagogue, writer and defender of women’s rights in the 18th century. Her figure is renowned because of her desire for self- improvement, against enlightened society. Equal opportunities for men and women, is one of her s

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Activists > Feminists (activists)

Lowell, Massachusetts, 18-02-1878 — North Easton Massachusetts, 27-03-1969

Review: Blance Ames' name is familiar to many because of her multiple achievements as an artist, botanic researcher and activist. Her truly pioneer spirit and her action-oriented attitude made her create a series of inventions, which improved her reputatio

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Alabama (United States), 19-02-1866 — Birmingham (United States), 27-06-1953

Review: She invented the windscreen wiper, creating the first active safety system used in vehicles. In this way, vision and, therefore, driving was not affected. She patented her invention in 1903.  

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Writers > in > Catalan

Vic, 09-03-1930 — Figueres, 23-04-1999

Review: She was born in the Greco-Latin Mediterranean tradition, poet, novelist, Hellenist and literary critic, we can affirm that the great axes that mark her work are the classical world, the autobiographical experience, the arts and the ethical commitme

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Cremona (Italy), c. 1535 — Palermo (Italy), 1625

Review: Sofonisba Anguissola was a successful woman from the world who lived in different countries, not only as a companion of her husbands. She stood out in painting, becoming famous at just 25 years old, and she has gone down in history for her portrait

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Szczecin (Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia), 02-05-1729 — Saint Petersburg (Russian Empire), 17-11-1796

Review: Empress Catherine II of Russia came from the Prussian aristocracy and at the age of 15 was betrothed to the future Tsar Peter III of Russia. She became empress in 1762 after the deposition of Peter III, a government she held for 34 uninterrupted ye

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists

b. Lyme Regis — d. 09-03-1847

Review: Anning was a working-class woman, born into a poor family in a very strict, patriarchal, and very classist society. She grew up to be an important paleontologist of her generation, but unrecognized for her gender and her class. She began digging

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Story writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Drawer (drawing)
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

New York, 27-02-1935

Review: Eleanor Antin was born in New York in 1935. She is considered one of the most influential artists to emerge from the feminist art movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one of the most respected conceptual artists. Besides her work in photography, she

Groups by dedication:

• Healthcare workers > Physicians

New Jersey, 07-06-1909 — New York, 07-08-1974

Review: Among his achievements, we can highlight the Apgar test, which is still used today to make an initial assessment of the state of health of newborns and to detect possible illnesses. He discovered that the anaesthesia called cyclopropane, administer

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets

Barcelona; 06-07-1889 — 17-02-1976

Review: Clementina Arderiu is one of the many female voices that appear in Catalan literature during the first half of the 20th century. She was related to Maria Antonia Salvano, a writer with whom she wrote, and Rosa Leveroni, a younger poet with whom she

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers

Zaragoza, 1982

Review: In 2006, computer engineer Alicia Asín (Zaragoza, 1982) founded Libelium together with her partner David Gascón. The flagship product of the company, which was born as a spin-off from the University of Zaragoza, is its Waspmote hardware platform, c

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Chemists
• Writers > in > English

Belfast (Tennessee), 1939

Review: She obtained a patent for a method of enhancing underexposed photographic negatives. This method has been used by NASA and the medical industry and earned her the title of National Inventor of the Year in 1978.

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Geneticists
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

Krefeld (Germany), 14-05-1899 — Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 17-03-1994

Review: Charlotte Auerbach is also known as the "mother of chemical mutagenesis" for her research on the effects of mustard gas used in the two world wars as a chemical weapon. Charlotte showed that this gas caused mutations in the fruit fly (Drosophila

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > German
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Writers > Epistolographers

Txernivtsí/ Bucovina, 11-05-1901 — Düsseldorf, 03-01-1988

Review: Rose Ausländer's biography shows the profound changes that took place in Europe and the world throughout the 20th century, and which had a special significance for Jews in Europe. Coming from Eastern Europe, Ausländer witnessed the collapse of the

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors

Hardwick, Massachusetts (United States), 09-12-1779 — Harvard, Massachusetts (United States), 18-11-1853

Review: Sarah Tabitha Babbitt invented the first circular saw. This was used to cut the logs into planks, in a more precise way and, above all, with much less danger and effort for the sawmill staff.

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Writers
• Writers > in > English

Bratislava, 28-05-1933

Review: Graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Slovakia and in Computer Science at Stanford University (USA), her current studies focus on artificial intelligence, biosystems and computational biology. Her research has been ve

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Writers > Poets

València; c. 1640 — c. 1700

Review: Sister Laura de San José, religious name of Laura Barberà, professed in the Dominican convent of Our Lady of Bethlehem. She was a poetess. Among the different authors known in the Valencian territory during the modern period, this nun wrote one of

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Navigators
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries

Pontevedra, c. 1567 — Peru, c. 1612

Review: She was the first woman to become admiral in the history of Spanish navigation. She was married to the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña. Isabel and her husband embarked in an ambitious expedition to settle Solomon Islands, discovered by Medaña s

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Kaunas (Lithuania), 1962

Review: Aušra Barzdukaitė-Vaitkūnienė is a famous Lithuanian painter, writer, curator, and teacher (professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts) who constructs the layout of the landscape even in portraits. Barzdukaitė-Vaitkūnienė works in the fields of installat

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Abolitionists
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Swaterkill, New York, 1797 — Battle Creek, Michigan, 26-11-1883

Review: She was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her daughter in 1826. After going to court to get her son back, she became the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man. She is well kno

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dressmakers / Fashion designers

Philadelphia (United States), 1847 — United States, 1913

Review: American entrepreneur and inventor. She holds fifteen different patents in the USA and two in the UK. She is known for inventions like the barrel-making machine and two improved lifeboats models, used among others on the Titanic. She also created f

Groups by dedication:

• Writers

Plunge (Lithuania), 31-05-1845 — Marijampole (Lithuania), 07-12-1921

Review: She was born in the XIX century and started a writing career when she was 40. In those times, it was pretty late. But she was one of the first women who started talking about women's situation in families and that those women experience violence fr

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > Catalan

València; 14-05-1925 — 15-03-2011

Review: Poetess, novelist, storyteller and columnist. Although Maria Beneyto started her career during Francoism, she published in Valencian and Spanish. Her poetry evolved from realism denouncing linguistic, genre, social class or political ideology injus

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Biographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Girona, 29-10-1892 — Berga, 03-09-1974

Review: Aurora Bertrana i Salazar was a writer and musician. She lived, studied and worked in France and Switzerland. Her stay in Polynesia was the beginning of her activity as a writer. The writer Carmen Karr transmitted to her the interest in feminism. I

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Humanistics > Geographers
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers

Boroughbridge Hall (Yorkshire), England, 15-10-1831 — Edinburgh (Scotland), 08-10-1904

Review: Middle-class traveller who wrote several travel books. Her numerous trips, publications and observations made her the first woman to be allowed to join the Royal Geographical Society. During her last years, she decided to study medicine and give a

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Object designers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Portland EE.UU.; 25-10-1840 — 12-01-1922

Review: She began an ambitious career as an inventor in the emerging industry of mechanised sewing. She is known for inventing the zig-zag stitch sewing machine, which made garments more resistant. For her inventions in the textile industry, she is part of

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Lyricists
• Writers > in > English

Amory. Mississipi, 01-04-1897 — Los Angeles, 10-08-1948

Review: Lucille Bogan was an African-American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, when the genre was first emerging. She became known for the references to sex in her songs, many of which she composed and wrote herself, which were explicit in contrast to

Groups by dedication:

• Women-at-arms > Fighters
• Rulers > Clan chiefs
• Rulers > Leaders

Britannia; between 25 and 30 — c. 61

Review: Boudica was a warrior queen of the Iceni who led several British tribes during the largest uprising in Britain against Roman occupation in 60-61 during the reign of Emperor Nero. He subdued the Roman 9th Legion and subsequently burned London (Londi

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers

Saint Louis, Missouri (USA), 08-12-1919 — Oakland, California (USA), 30-07-1985

Review: Julia Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician. She had a difficult childhood: at the age of 2 her mother died and at the age of 10 a serious illness left her isolated for a whole year and caused her to miss two years of schooling. At the age

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Alchemists
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Scientists > Biologists > Botanists
• Healthcare workers > Herbalists
• Humanistics > Historians
• Writers

Knutstorp (Svalöv), Sweden, 24-08-1556 — Helsingor (Denmark), 1643

Review: Sophia Brahe was born in the bosom of a noble family. She was self-taught with the help of her brother Tycho Brahe, a renowned astronomer. At a time when celestial body observation was done just by watching, they worked long hours together in the o

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Object designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Lighting designers and technicians

Chemnitz, Germany, 01-10-1893 — Kirchberg, Saxony, 18-06-1983

Review: Lamps, ashtrays, teapots that we use today thinking that they are contemporary designs are actually product of the genius of a woman who managed to infiltrate herself in a world of men. Marianne Brandt-Liebe was the first woman to direct the Bauhau

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists

London; 28-12-1862 — 05-06-1939

Review: Self-taught and with a late passion, Christina Broom converted the need of making a living into a profession that she did not give up. Although she was never in the front, her images of soldiers expressed the fear, uncertainty, and despair of those

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > in > Catalan

Tortosa, 10-03-1933 — Tortosa, Spain, 4-1-2026

Review: Librarian by profession, Zoraida Burgos is a poet and narrator of children's and youth literature in Catalan. She has been considered the leading female voice in the post-war literature of the Terres de l'Ebre. Initially she is inscribed to histori

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Navigators
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries
• Educators > School teachers

Llenera (Spain), c. 1490 — Texoco (Mexico), 1546

Review: She is considered the first teacher of America, probably from a noble family, since she knew reading and writing. She was a Franciscan secular tertiary. She denounced injustice suffered by native girls and created a school for girls in Texoco (Mexi

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Translators

London; 10-12-1815 — 27-11-1852

Review: [Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists

Sariñena, España, 24-10-1961

Review: Lita Cabellut is a Spanish painter who lives and works in the Netherlands. On her large canvas, she uses oil with a crackle paint usually used in fresco painting. She creates mass projects and combines different techniques like drawing on paper, sc

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Ecologists (activists)

La Esperanza (Honduras); 04-03-1971 — 02-03-2016

Review: Feminist activist and indigenous and social leader from Honduras. She founded the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), from which she led the defence of the environment by opposing to the construction of hydro

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses

Barcelona; 03-03-1918 — 02-10-1991

Review: Maria Aurèlia Capmany (1918-1991) was a Catalan writer, pedagogue and politician. With a modern vision and a vital attitude towards the world, the author questioned reality and reflected on it critically, not only in her teaching, but also in her w

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Professionals / Other groups > Slaves

Granada, Sevilla or Utrera, c. 1590 — Sevilla, c. 1649

Review: Professional Spanish playwright belonging to the querelle des femmes. She used her plays to defend the right to education and autonomy for women. She was an adoptive daughter to Gabriel Caro de Mallén (who had connections in the royal family) and A

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Activists > Ecologists (activists)
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > in > French
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists
• Writers > Story writers > Short-story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers

Lancashire, England, 6-4-1917 — Ciudad de México, 25-5-2011

Review: Leonora Carrington, British by birth but Mexican at heart, is undoubtedly one of the leading figures of 20th-century art. She was a leading representative of the surrealist movement and its greatest critic. She was a multifaceted artist with a larg

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Eastbourne, 07-05-1940 — London, 16-02-1992

Review: Angela Carter was a writer, novelist, and journalist who rejected being identified with a particular group. She wrote at a time in which English literature was dominated by moderate social realists, but she played with poor reputation genres and ma

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > English
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists

c. 1970

Review: New York photographer who has made photo reports all over the world, portraying situations such as natural disasters, systemic violence against women, refugee crises, famines or wars, in addition to dealing with other less extreme topics, such as f

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Illuminators (books)

Bavaria, Germany; 13th century

Review: Claricia was one of the many women who devoted themselves to illumination, like Ende or Herrad of Landsberg. Although we do not know much about her figure, the image of a woman swinging from the tail of a letter Q in the so- called _Claricia Psalte

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen

Alexandria; 69 BCE — 30 BCE

Review: Last queen of Egypt (Alexandria, 69 - 30 BC). She ruled a very rich country and tried to reach an understanding on an equal footing with Rome. She calculated her decisions taking into account the interest of her kingdom and that of her children. He

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Intellectuals > Puellae doctae
• Professionals / Other groups > Rebels

Rome; b. c. 95 BCE

Review: Claudia, born ca. 95 BC in a patrician family, took the plebeian name of Clodia. She was a woman of strong personality and exquisite beauty who received a good education. She married Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer at the age of 18, but she lived

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Ohio, 08-03-1839 — Illinois, 03-08-1913

Review: She invented the first functional dishwasher and obtained numerous patents related to it. She founded a company to manufacture it commercially, the origin of today's Whirlpool.

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists

United States, 24-04-1961

Review: Carolyn Cole is a photographer whose reporting on armed conflict has earned her many top prizes in photojournalism, including the Pulitzer. She has worked for numerous media and also as a freelancer in Israel, Haiti, Liberia, Kosovo and elsewhere. 

Groups by dedication:

• Sportswomen

Onesti (Rumanía), 12-11-1961

Review: Nadia Comaneci became a world icon, becoming in 1976 in Montreal the first gymnast to achieve the highest score at the Olympic Games: a 10, which was considered a perfect exercise. She became Olympic champion at just fourteen years of age. She went

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Humanistics > Historians
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek
• Healthcare workers > Physicians

Constantinople; 1083 — 1153

Review: Anna Comnena (1083-1153), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus and Irene Ducas, was heir to the throne until her brother, the future John II, was born. The women in her family circle provided her with a great deal of knowledge and s

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists > Vulcanologists
• Technologists > Inventors

Alsacia, 1942 — Monte Unzen (Japón), 1991

Review: Graduated in Physics and Geochemistry, her first work on vulcanology in active sites was awarded by _Vocation Foundation_ in 1969.  Later on, her career as a volcano researcher brought her to travel the world in the search for dangerous volcanic

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Philosophers > Philosophers of religions
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Orators

Venice (Italy), 05-06-1646 — Padua (Italy), 26-07-1684

Review: Elena Cornaro Piscopia was a Venetian philosopher and mathematician, inseparable branches of knowledge at that time. She was the first woman in the world to receive a Ph.D degree. She received a doctorate in philosophy in 1678 from the University

Groups by dedication:

• Educators
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > in > Latin

Rome, 189 BCE — Misenum, 110 BCE

Review: Born in 189 BC, she was the daughter of Scipio Africanus and Aemilia Paulla Tertia, who participated in the riot to abolish the Oppian Law. The Scipios directed cultural life and attached importance to the education of their women. She was married

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Spanish

Almendralejo (Badajoz), 12-12-1820 — Lisboa, 15-01-1911

Review: Carolina Coronado was a self-taught writer of the Spanish Romanticism, whose mentor was Juan Eugenio de Hartzenbusch, who encouraged her to publish her poems and even prefaced her collection of 37 poems, published in 1843 ( _Poes ías_). She also cu

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Scientists > Physicists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Healthcare workers > Pharmacists
• Writers

Wolów (Silesia, Poland), 1610 — Byczyna (Silesia, Poland), 22-08-1664

Review: Marie Cunitz was known as the "Silesian Pallas" because of her great wisdom. She spoke several languages. She studied maths and medicine among other disciplines. She devoted herself especially to the study of astronomy. In her main work "Urania pro

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Educators > Pedagogues
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Autobiographers

Occitania; c. 810 — c. 843

Review: Duoda, Countess of Barcelona and Girona and Duchess of Septimania, was born c. 810 and died c. 843. She was married to Bernard of Septimania, who had a daughter and two sons, who were held hostage for political reasons. The Liber manualis (Manual f

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers
• Educators
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters
• Writers > in > Spanish
• Writers > in > English

Río de Janeiro, 09-05-1979

Review: World-renowned Brazilian photographer who combines photography with sociological research and public participation in the defence of human rights. She is the creator of the photographic project Humanae: a collection of portraits that reveals the di

Groups by dedication:

• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Athens; 5th century BCE

Review: According to sources, Timarete _despised the duties of women and practiced her father's art_. She is known for a panel painting of the goddess Artemis that was kept in Ephesus. She painted with wax and tempera on wood, using the encaustic technique

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Madrid, 01-11-1850 — Gijón, 05-05-1923

Review: Playwright, feminist, mountaineer, poetess, regenerationist, freethinker, female mason, poultry farmer, columnist, exiled, iberist, puritan, pro- socialist, theatre producer, self-taught, deist, republican, music lover, traveller, publicist, etc.

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• Scientists > Biologists

Aso (Greece), 360 BCE — Athens (Greece), 326 BCE

Review: Pythias is supposed to have worked with her husband, Aristotle, on an encyclopaedia from the material they collected during their honeymoon in Mytilene. He made a large collection of living specimens. Kate Campbell Hurd- Mead suggests that the coup

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• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Writers > Poets

Xàtiva?, 1435 — València, 1459

Review: An intellectual and poetess born into the Borgia family. She was, specifically, the daughter of Jofré de Borja and Isabel de Borja and had 4 siblings, including Roderic de Borja, the future Pope Alexander VI. She was supposedly born in Xàtiva in 14

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Rulers > Vicereines / Lieutenants / Regents
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Patronesses
• Writers > Epistolographers

Segovia, 1401 — València, 1458

Review: Maria of Castile and Lancaster was a queen and lieutenant who governed alone during twenty-six years because her husband, Alfonso V of Aragon, went to Naples. Maria of Castile took her responsibility fully respecting the rules and customs of the Cr

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• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Writers > Poets
• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Musicians > Singers
• Writers > in > Occitan

Provenza; c. 1140 — c. 1212

Review: Provençal poet. Born around 1140, she seems to have had court in Die. She loved and wrote about love for the great troubadour Raimbaut of Orange. Her compositions stand out for their quality and singularity. Her poetic voice is gallant, daring and

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Poets

14th century

Review: Poetess who followed the troubadour tradition of the 14th century. Only one of her poems has survived, "E-z yeu am tal qu'es bo e belh”, in the Cançoner Vega-Aguiló. The main voice expresses the sadness caused by the distance that sets her apart fr

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• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Educators > Pedagogues

Molins de Rei, c. 1504 — Barcelona, 1549

Review: Estefania de Requesens was the daughter of LLuís de Requesens i Joan Soler and Hipòlita Roís de Liori, as well as the heiress of a great heritage. She was so renowned that, when she married Juan de Zúñiga, it was agreed that the heir had to be surn

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• Clerical or spiritual women > Abbesses
• Writers
• Writers > Story writers

Valencia; 1430 — 1490

Review: Writer, abbess and intellectual character of the Golden Age of València. Her work, _Vita Christi_ , constitutes a revision of the sacred history from the feminine genealogy of Christ, and had a great subsequent influence. It is one of the reference

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• Writers
• Writers > Poets

Kaunas (Lithuania), 06-07-1928 — Vilnius (Lithuania), 06-02-1990

Review: She was born in Kaunas (Lithuania). She had health problems since her youth. The mother was overwhelmed by alcoholism. Studied at Kaunas VII Gymnasium. In Šančiai, when she was only ten years old, she started writing poems. 1948 graduated from the

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• Technologists > Architects
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Plastic, visual and performing artists

Viena, 30-07-1898 — Auschwitz-Birkenau, 09-10-1944

Review: Friedl Dicker was a multidisciplinary artist, intellectual and political activist in Vienna and Germany before World War II. She was an architect, a prolific painter, and one of the first members of the Bauhaus movement in Weimar. She painted along

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• Writers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Rokiškis (Lithuania), 24-04-1856 — Griezioneles, Anyksciai (Lithuania), 25-10-1925

Review: In her literature works, Liudvika Didžiulienė-Žmona (Wife) promoted the ideas of national revival, elevated nationality and condemned talked a lot about education for all people of Lithuania. The works mock the life of the manors of that time, the

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Humanistics > Sociologists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > Essayists

Madrid, 30-11-1942

Review: Born in 1942, she grew up in the post-war period and the early years of Spanish modernisation. She studied political science and economics at the same time as she began an exhaustive investigation into the invisibility of women's work. Since the 19

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Aircraft pilots
• Healthcare workers > Nurses
• Professionals / Other groups > Social workers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers

Atchison, 24-07-1897 — Pacific Ocean, 02-07-1937

Review: American aviator. Her feats include the solo crossing of the Atlantic (1932), never before accomplished by a woman, and the first successful flight between the island of Hawaii and the US mainland (1935). She also achieved several records in the 19

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > in > Latin

b. Galicia, c. 350

Review: Egeria was a high lady from the Hispanic province of _Gallaecia_ who made a trip to the Holy Land between 381-384. She gathered her impressions in the book _Itinerarium ad loca sancta_ , written in the form of letters. It narrates the details of th

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• Activists
• Healthcare workers > Nurses
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors

Wila, Switzerland, 12-06-1913 — Zurich, Switzerland, 23-05-2011

Review: Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a teacher and nurse who founded Mothers of Elne to foster pregnant women in French refugee camps during the Spanish Civil War. Elisabeth, as head of midwives in the Red Cross and director of Mothers of Elne, assisted the bir

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• Activists
• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Scientists

Alma Ata, 06-11-1988

Review: Alexandra Elbakyan is a software developer and neuroscientist from Kazakhstan, best known for founding the _Sci-Hub project_ in 2011, a website that provides free access to more than 60 million recent scientific articles. She has been described as

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• Rulers > Politicians
• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Clerical or spiritual women > Priestesses
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Poets

Akkadian Empire, Mesopotamia, c. 2285 BCE — Ur, Mesopotamia, c. 2250 BCE

Review: Enheduanna was a priestess, writer, politician and musician. He is considered the first writer who signed his work (Exaltation of Inanna), male or female, of mankind. She was also the first person to develop a musical notation and to determine the

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• Activists > Ecologists (activists)

Stockholm, 03-01-2003

Review: Greta Thunberg began her activism at the age of 15 with a school climate strike that has had a huge international impact. Her impact on the world stage, which some media have described as the _Greta Thunberg effect_  has led to large-scale student

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > English
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Photographers > Photojournalists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Newsreaders

Waltham, 05-06-1949

Review: Donna Ferrato is a photographer focused on documenting violence against women. She has worked as a photojournalist on swingers' clubs, group weddings, and other forms of sexuality and affection which are not normative, as well as on brothels, prost

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• Scientists > Biologists > Biophysicists
• Scientists > Crystallographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

London; 25-07-1920 — 16-04-1958

Review: She has gone down in history for being the author of the famous Photograph 51, an image of the DNA molecule taken with a completely new technique at the time: X-ray diffraction. As both Watson and Crick recognized years later, the vision of the ima

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• Rulers > Politicians
• Humanistics > Intellectuals > Puellae doctae

Tusculum?, between 83 and 77 BCE — Sicyon (Greece), c. 40 BCE

Review: Fulvia was the wife of Publius Clodius, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Mark Antony. She was known for her political ambition and the influence she exerted over her husbands. Sources and historiography have portrayed her as a greedy, arrogant and murder

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• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Philanthropists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Translators
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses

Barcelona, 07-01-1921 — París, 04-03-2012

Review: Versatile author, Felícia Fuster is a visual artist, writer, and translator; even though she was put in the spotlight in her maturity, she is considered to be a prominent figure of contemporary Catalan poetry. As a painter, she evolved from Express

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• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Expeditionaries
• Women-at-arms > Militaries / Soldiers
• Humanistics > Anthropologists
• Humanistics > Archaeologists

London (United Kingdom), 05-05-1892 — Cambridge (United Kingdom), 18-12-1968

Review: She was an archaeologist, professor at Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom, and carried out fieldwork in significant and relevant places like Gibraltar, southern England, Iraqi Kurdistan and Bulgaria. She excavated key sites like Kent’s cav

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• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers

Vienna (Austria), 28-12-1893 — California (USA), 22-03-1973

Review: Hilda Geiringer was a great German mathematician from the 20th century who was a pioneer in applying the theory of relativity and statistics to different fields, such as genetics. She became the first woman to teach in German universities but after

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• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Humanistics > Philosophers > Philosophers (morals and ethics)
• Humanistics > Psychologists
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > English

New York, 28-11-1936

Review: Prestigious academic, undisputed voice in the modification of the parameters of analysis of socio-moral conduct, introducing the moral contributions of women on an equal footing. Defender of the rights of oppressed groups from a pacifist position,

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• Scientists > Physicists
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers

Katowice, Upper Silesia (Poland), 28-06-1906 — San Diego, California (USA), 20-02-1972

Review: Maria Goeppert Mayer lived science from a very young age and developed an extraordinary talent for physics and mathematics. She was discriminated against for being a woman and developed most of her professional career as a voluntary professor and

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• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists

Lugo, Spain, 05-01-1902 — Madrid, 06-02-1995

Review: Painter and illustrator, pioneering Spanish surrealist artist considered part of the Generation of 27. She lived in exile for 25 years mainly in Argentina, where she pushed her work beyond the parameters of Surrealism. Her expressive style is defin

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• Scientists > Biologists > Biophysician
• Healthcare workers > Pharmacists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Madrid, 1977

Review: Graduated in Pharmacy and doctor in Biomedicine, with an MBA in Biotechnological Management. Specialised in cancer and AIDS, she has developed a gel for topical vaginal use to prevent the spread of HIV. As the co-founder of the company Ambiox Bio

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• Activists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Essayists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters

Boston, Massachussets, 29-08-1947

Review: Temple Grandin is a zoologist, ethologist, and professor at Colorado State University, and an abattoir designer. She was born in Boston in 1947. She got a PhD in Animal Science at the University of Illinois, and currently, she is professor of anim

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• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers

Enniscorthy, Irlanda,, 09-08-1878 — París, Francia, 31-10-1976

Review: Eileen Gray's contributions to the world of design and architecture are clearly visionary. However, until almost the end of the 1960s her work remained in oblivion. It was the critic Joseph Rykwert who put Eileen Gray in her rightful place by publi

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• Musicians > Orchestra and band conductors

Vilnius, 29-08-1986

Review: She is the first female artistic director with a long-term contract with _Deutsche Grammophon._

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• Writers

Kaunas (Lithuania); 28-05-1927 — 25-12-1987

Review: She was born in Kaunas and studied at the local girls' gymnasium. After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the family was exiled in the first wave of deportations in June 1941. Dalia's father was separated from the rest of the family and died in t