Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,
must be intolerably stupid.”

Jane Austen defined an entire literary genre with her

shrewd social observations and wit. Born into a family of
eight children in England, Austen started writing her now
classic novels, such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and
Sensibility, in her teens.

Anne Frank (1929 – 1945)

 “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.”

The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most honest,

powerful and poignant accounts of World War II and was
written by a German teenage girl. The Franks were a Jewish
family living in Germany, then Austria throughout Hitler’s rise
to power and during World War II. The Diary of Anne Frank
has been translated into almost 70 languages and is an
intimate portrayal of one of the most inhumane moments in
history and is able to educate us on the universal human
qualities of emotion, passion, love, hope, desire, fear and
strength.

4. Queen Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603)

 Elizabeth called herself ‘The Virgin Queen’ because she
chose to marry her country instead of a man. It might seem
like ancient history now, but Queen Elizabeth I is one of the
most successful monarchs in British history, and under
her, England became a major European power in politics,
commerce and the arts.

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)

 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time
to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and scientist, who

coined the term radioactivity, discovered two new elements
(radium and polonium) and developed a portable x-ray
machine. Currie was the first person (not woman) who has
won two separate Noble Prizes, one for physics and another
for chemistry, and to this day Curie is the only person,
regardless of gender, to receive Noble prizes for two different
sciences.
 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their
failure must be but a challenge to others.”

An American aviator who became the first woman to fly

solo across the Atlantic and the first person ever to fly solo
from Hawaii to the US, Amelia was a pioneering aviator and a
true female trailblazer.

Edith Cowan (1861 – 1932)

 "Women are very desirous of their being placed on absolutely equal
terms with men. We ask for neither more nor less than that.”

Her face is on our $50 dollar note and she has a

University named after her in Western Australia, but what
you may not know is that Edith Cowan was Australia’s first
ever female member of parliament and a fierce women’s
rights activist.  

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political
figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of
the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945,
during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four
terms in office, making her the longest-serving First Lady of
the United States

Nadia Comăneci (1961-)

 Nadia Comăneci is a Romanian retired gymnast and a
five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In
1976 at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be
awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.[5] At
the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal), she
received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning
three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,
Comăneci won two more gold medals and attained two more
perfect 10s. During her career, Comăneci won nine Olympic
medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship
medals.

Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1887-1973)

 The first female engineer in Europe was a Romanian
woman- Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu. Born on 10th of November
1887, she tried to attend Bridges and Roads University in
Bucharest but was rejected because she was a female. She
went on to study in Germany at the Royal Technical Academy
in Germany. She graduated and became the first female
engineer in 1912.

Sofia Ionescu (1920-2008)

 The first female doctor to perform brain surgery was
Romanian Sofia Ionescu. The successful surgery was done in
1944 on a child who was hit by a bomb during the war. She is
considered one of the first female neurosurgeons in the
world.
 Ana Aslan (1897- 1988)

You might have used her face creams, body lotions or

you might have taken her medicine. Ana Aslan, born in 1897
was a doctor, inventor and member of the Romanian
academy. Her brand called Gerovital still lives on and is used
by many people.
 Martha Bibescu( 1889- 1973)

Martha Bibescu was well known as a writer, publishing over

40 books ( Les Huit Paradis, At the ball with Marcel Proust).
She has managed a hospital during the German occupation in
1917-1918 and has been council for Romanians for Charles de
Gaulle.