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Joan of Arc was a French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions. She led French forces to victory over the English at Orléans during the Hundred Years' War. She was captured, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake; however, she was later canonized as a saint.

Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States and was a prominent advocate for civil rights. She also played a key role in the creation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Florence Nightingale was a British social reformer and the founder of modern nursing. She became famous for her work during the Crimean War, where she organized care for wounded soldiers. She also made many contributions to the field of hospital planning and statistics.

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry).

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.

Cleopatra was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. She is known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Mark Antony and Augustus, and her tragic love affairs with Roman statesmen.

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She is known for her 1949 treatise 'The Second Sex', a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

Jane Goodall is a British primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she has studied them in the wild for over 55 years. Her work has redefined the relationship between humans and animals in the field of ethology and primatology.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for her advocacy in regions where the Taliban has often banned girls from attending school.

Indira Gandhi was the first and, so far, the only female Prime Minister of India. Her tenure was marked by significant economic and social changes in India as well as her controversial policies, including the Emergency. She was assassinated in 1984.

Hatshepsut was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, notable for her successful rise to power in a male-dominated era. She established trade networks and commissioned hundreds of building projects throughout Egypt, including her famous mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.

Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She is revered for her charitable work, dedicating her life to helping the impoverished and sick, particularly in India. She was canonized as a saint in 2016.

Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. She is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. Much of her poetry has been lost, but her immensely personal style and focus on emotion has greatly influenced Western literature.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain, known for her poetry, plays, and essays that addressed topics ranging from love to criticism of gender inequality.

Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She is sometimes considered the first computer programmer.

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and organizer of the UK suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. She was known for her militant tactics in order to achieve this goal.

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. Her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the public perception of the monarchy as corrupt and led to the revolution.

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her actions were a significant symbol in the fight against racial segregation and she is known as the 'Mother of the Freedom Movement'.

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.