(ref: Amelia to Zora: Twenty-six Women Who Changed the World, by Cynthia Chin-Lee)
- Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) – pilot
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956) – athlete
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1980) – astronomer
- Dolores Huerta (1930- ) – union co-founder
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) – first lady
- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) – painter
- Grace Hopper (1906-1992) – computer scientist
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) – advocate for the disabled, women’s rights, and peace activist
- Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) – photographer
- Jane Goodall (1934- ) – naturalist
- Kristi Yamaguchi (1971- ) – ice skating champion
- Lena Horne (1917- ) – entertainer
- Maya Lin (1959- ) – architect
- Nawal El Sadaawi (1931- ) – women’s rights activist
- Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) – talk show host
- Patricia Schroeder (1940- ) – congresswoman
- Quah Ah (1893-1949) – artist
- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) – environmentalist
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ) – democratic leader
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) – servant of the poor
- Ursula Le Guin (1929- ) – writer
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990)- diplomat
- Wilma Mankiller (1945-), chief of the Cherokee nation
- Chen Xiefen (1883-1923) – journalist
- Yoshiko Uchida (1922-1992) – writer
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) – anthropologist, writer
Cynthia Chin-Lee is an award winning children’s book author who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more about her.
