Dorothy Daniels
One of New Zealand’s leading teachers of ballet.
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Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.
Frances E Willard
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830-1917) was an American lawyer and reformer.
Ellen Hayes
Ellen Hayes was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was one of the first female American professors.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator, and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Philippa Fawcett
In 1890 Philippa Fawcett came top in the Mathematical Tripos Examinations at Cambridge, being placed “ahead of the first Wrangler”.
Marie Mildred Clay
Marie Clay was an influential literacy researcher and educationalist whose pioneering Reading Recovery programme changed the experience of learning to read for many children in many countries.
Margaret Kissling
The Kisslings established a Māori girls’ boarding school in buildings which Bishop G. A. Selwyn had purchased from William Spain at Kohimarama (Mission Bay).
Martha King
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.