Eleanor Abbott
Eleanor Abbott created the game Candy Land while she was recovering from polio
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Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Nobel Prize-winning British chemist renowned for her work in X-ray crystallography.
Angela MacDonnell
Countess of Antrim , sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator
Tembandumba
Ruler of the Jaga of what is now Angola.
Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Alice Rahon
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.
Terry Mullen
Irish paralympic athlete
Joan Horan
Irish paralympian
Amanirenas
Warrior queen of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.