Famous Cities part `13

Famous Cities part `13

Famous Cities part `13

853. Maria Montessori – First woman in Italy to become a physician (1896)

854. Ada Lovelace – First computer programmer (1843)

855. Margaret Hamilton – First to lead software engineering for NASA’s Apollo missions (1960s)

856. Valentina Matviyenko – First female head of Russia's upper parliamentary house (2011)

857. Liliana Mammina – First woman in Argentina to become a university dean (1950s)

858. Joyce Banda – First female President of Malawi (2012)

859. Helen Clark – First woman elected Prime Minister of New Zealand three times (1999–2008)

860. Sheila Widnall – First woman Secretary of the U.S.

Air Force (1993)

861. Cori Bargmann – First woman to head science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (2016)

862. Jody Williams – First woman to win Nobel Peace Prize for landmine activism (1997)

863. Aly Raisman – First American gymnast to captain two gold-medal Olympic teams (2012, 2016)

864. Ynes Mexia – First Latina botanist to collect 145,000 specimens (1920s–1930s)

865. Joan Clarke – First woman cryptanalyst to work with Alan Turing (1940s)

866. Senda Berenson – First to introduce women’s basketball in colleges (1893)

867. Olive Morris – First Black British woman to lead a major youth movement (1970s)

868. Beatrice Tinsley – First to model how galaxies evolve over time (1970s)

869. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – First Nigerian woman shortlisted for the Orange Prize (2004)

870. Greta Thunberg – Youngest to address the UN Climate Action Summit (2019)

871. Barbara McClintock – First woman to receive unshared Nobel in Physiology/Medicine (1983)

872. Mo’ne Davis – First girl to pitch a shutout in Little League World Series (2014)

873. Amal Clooney – First to bring ISIS crimes against Yazidis to international court (2010s)

874. Alexandrine Tinné – First European woman to attempt crossing the Sahara (1850s)

875. Katharine Wright – First woman to support and assist powered flight innovations (early 1900s)

876. Ann Tsukamoto – First to patent the isolation of human stem cells (1991)

877. Sarah Parcak – First to use satellite archaeology to discover lost cities (2000s)

878. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain – First Muslim feminist writer in Bengal (1905)

879. LaDonna Harris – First Native American woman to run for U.S.

Vice President (1980)

880. Paula Radcliffe – First woman to run sub-2:16 marathon (2003)

881. Wu Zetian – First and only woman Emperor of China (690 AD)

882. Sandra Day O’Connor – First woman U.S.

Supreme Court Justice (1981)

883. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – First female President in Africa (Liberia, 2006)

884. Elsie MacGill – First woman aeronautical engineer (1930s)

885. Rachel Carson – First to raise global awareness on environmental toxins (Silent Spring, 1962)

886. Aphra Behn – First woman in England to earn a living by writing (1670s)

887. Helen Keller – First deafblind person to earn a college degree (1904)

888. Mary Seacole – First Black nurse to set up her own medical facility in a war zone (1850s)

889. Grete Waitz – First woman to win the New York Marathon nine times (1978–1988)

890. Claudia Goldin – First solo woman to win Nobel in Economics (2023)

891. Margaret Thatcher – First woman Prime Minister of the U.K. (1979)

892. Bessie Coleman – First Black woman to earn a pilot's license (1921)

893. Emily Roebling – First woman to supervise construction of a major bridge (Brooklyn Bridge, 1880s)

894. Fatima Jinnah – First woman to run for head of state in a Muslim country (Pakistan, 1965)

895. Hellen Nzama – First female chief pilot in South African Airways (2000s)

896. Antonia Novello – First Hispanic U.S.

Surgeon General (1990)

897. Anandi Gopal Joshi – First Indian woman doctor (1886)

898. Fanny Blankers-Koen – First woman to win four Olympic golds in a single Games (1948)

899. Coco Chanel – First to liberate women’s fashion from corsets (1920s)

900. Soong Mei-ling – First Chinese woman to address the U.S.

Congress (1943)

901. Kathryn Sullivan – First American woman to walk in space (1984)

902. Megan Rapinoe – First openly gay woman to win the FIFA Best Player Award (2019)

903. Ann Dunwoody – First woman four-star general in U.S.

Army (2008)

904. Sophia Duleep Singh – First royal to lead British suffragette movement (1900s)

905. Zohra Sehgal – First Indian actress to gain international stardom in British films (1940s–60s)

906. Svetlana Savitskaya – First woman to fly to space twice and conduct a spacewalk (1984)

907. Louisa May Alcott – First woman to serve as a Civil War nurse and best-selling author (Little Women, 1868)

908. Ada Yonath – First Middle Eastern woman to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)

909. Annette Funicello – First female teen idol in the U.S.

via Disney (1950s)

910. Maria Reiche – First to map and protect Peru’s Nazca Lines (1940s)

911. Oumou Sangaré – First Malian woman Grammy Award winner (1990s)

912. Amrita Sher-Gil – First Indian modernist woman painter with global acclaim (1930s)

913. Alice Ball – First to develop treatment for leprosy with injectable chaulmoogra oil (1915)

915. Rigoberta Menchú Tum – First indigenous woman Nobel Peace Prize winner (1992)

916. Susan Solomon – First to explain ozone hole chemistry (1986)

917. Wanda Rutkiewicz – First European woman to summit Mount Everest (1978)

918. Althea Gibson – First Black woman to win a Grand Slam (1956)

919. Mary Eliza Mahoney – First Black licensed nurse in the U.S.

920. Beate Sirota Gordon – First to draft women’s rights into Japan’s postwar constitution (1946)

921. Louise Arbour – First female Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal (1996)

922. Tamara de Lempicka – First Art Deco female painter of international fame (1920s)

923. Anne Sullivan – First teacher of a deafblind person (Helen Keller, 1887)

924. Fay Kellogg – First woman to design skyscrapers (1900s)

925. Miriam Makeba – First Black African woman to win a Grammy (1965)

926. Christine Sinclair – First to score 190+ goals in international soccer (2020)

927. Barbara Jordan – First Black woman elected to U.S.

House from South (1973)

928. Waris Dirie – First supermodel to become UN Special Ambassador against FGM (1997)

929. Sirimavo Bandaranaike – First woman Prime Minister in the world (Sri Lanka, 1960)

930. Gertrude B.

Elion – First to win Nobel in Medicine without a medical degree (1988)

931. Shirin Ebadi – First Iranian woman to win Nobel Peace Prize (2003)

932. Nellie Bly – First female investigative journalist (1880s)

933. Junko Tabei – First woman to summit Mount Everest (1975)

934. Malala Yousafzai – Youngest Nobel laureate (2014)

935. Joy Harjo – First Native American U.S.

Poet Laureate (2019)

936. Sylvia Earle – First female chief scientist of the U.S.

NOAA (1990)

937. Rosa Luxemburg – First Marxist female political theorist of global fame (early 1900s)

938. Mary Wollstonecraft – First feminist philosopher of the Enlightenment (1792)

939. Clara Schumann – First female concert pianist and composer to gain European fame (1830s–80s)

940. Tatyana McFadden – First to win six golds in a single World Para Athletics Championships (2013)

941. Elena Cornaro Piscopia – First woman to receive a PhD (Italy, 1678)

942. Benazir Bhutto – First woman Prime Minister of a Muslim-majority country (Pakistan, 1988)

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