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| The "Iron Lady". | Margaret Thatcher | 92%
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| Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama. | Rosa Parks | 91%
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| Long serving prime minister of India. | Indira Gandhi | 79%
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| Daughter of the above. Author of "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" | Mary Shelley | 79%
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| First lady of America. As head of UN human rights commission she helped to draft the 1948 UN declaration of human rights. | Eleanor Roosevelt | 77%
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| Born into slavery in the 19th century America. She escaped and made many missions to rescue enslaved people, using the "Underground Railroad". | Harriet Tubman | 64%
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| Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a bestseller and helped to popularise the anti-slavery campaign. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 56%
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| The first female prime minister of a Muslim country. | Benazir Bhutto | 52%
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| One of America’s greatest poets. Her poems were published posthumously and received widespread literary praise for their bold and unconventional style. | Emily Dickinson | 45%
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| The interpreter for Lewis and Clark during the U.S. government’s first exploration of the Northwest. | Sacagawea | 45%
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| Plato referred to her as one of the great ten poets. | Sappho | 41%
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| Duchess who was also queen mother in England and queen consort in France | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 30%
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| Known for her pamphlet “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”. | Mary Wollstonecraft | 27%
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| Founder of the American Red Cross. | Clara Barton | 25%
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| Ruler of Egypt around 1500BC. | Hatshepsut | 25%
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| African-American abolitionist and women’s rights campaigner. "Ain't I a woman?" | Sojourner Truth | 24%
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| It is said she brought modern dance to the world. Her untimely death was caused by her scarf. | Isadora Duncan | 18%
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| She controlled the Qing Dynasty from 1861 to her death in 1908 for 47 years. | Dowager Cixi | 17%
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| The only empress in the history of China. | Wu Zetian | 14%
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| Mystic, author and composer in the 11th and 12th century. Her writings and music have influenced people to this day. | Hildegard of Bingen | 13%
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| Mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer of the ancient Alexandria. She was a pagan martyr, torn apart by a mob of Christian monks. | Hypatia | 13%
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| One of the greatest athletes of all time, she won track and field gold medals at the 1932 Olympics, before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships. | Babe Didrikson Zaharias | 12%
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| American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. Her work lead to the developement of COBOL programming language. | Grace Hopper | 7%
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| The lead software engineer for the Apollo Project. | Margaret Hamilton | 5%
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| Her work "Genji Monogatari" is often regarded as the world's first novel. | Murasaki Shikibu | 5%
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