Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
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Anne Lister
English diarist known for being recognized as “the first modern lesbian.”
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.
Emilia Dilke
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.
Justine Siegemund
Silesian midwife who wrote “The Court Midwife,” the first German medical text authored by a woman, in 1690
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.
Nelly Sachs
Poet and playwright whose life was profoundly shaped by the horrors of World War II and the ascent of the Nazis in Europe, leading her to become a powerful voice representing the sorrows and aspirations of her fellow Jews.
Rachel Bluwstein
Hebrew poet