Marie Wilcox
The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.
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Lois Mailou Jones
Harlem Renaissance artist and educator
Isabelle Gatti de Gamond
Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician.
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen
Renowned author known for her tales of affluent African-American families in the South.
Cornelia Sorabji
Prominent Indian lawyer, social reformer, and writer.
Ella M S Marble
American physician who had a diverse career as a journalist, educator, and activist. Marble actively supported women’s interests and participated in various movements from an early age.
Kateryna Yushchenko
Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.
Jeanette Berglind
Swedish founder of Tysta Skolan, a school for deaf/mute children
Dorothy Maynor
Celebrated African-American soprano, concert singer, and founder of the Harlem School of the Arts.