Famous Cities part 14

Famous Cities part 14

Famous Cities part 14

943. Frances Perkins – First woman U.S.

Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor, 1933)

944. Flora Tristan – First to link feminism and socialism in her writings (1840s)

945. Tegla Loroupe – First African woman to win NYC Marathon (1994)

946. Ruth Bader Ginsburg – First Jewish woman on U.S.

Supreme Court (1993)

947. Raden Adjeng Kartini – First Javanese feminist and educator (early 1900s)

948. Maya Lin – First Asian-American woman to design a major U.S.

monument (Vietnam Memorial, 1982)

949. Agnes Chow – First young woman jailed for Hong Kong democracy activism (2020)

950. Betty Friedan – Author of The Feminine Mystique, founder of second-wave feminism (1963)

951. Pratibha Patil – First woman President of India (2007)

952. Florence Bascom – First American woman geologist (1893)

953. Noor Inayat Khan – First Indian-origin woman spy for Britain in WWII (1940s)

954. Janet Reno – First woman U.S.

955. Wangari Maathai – First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize (2004)

956. Linda Buck – First woman to win Nobel for smell receptors research (2004)

957. Michelle Bachelet – First woman President of Chile (2006)

958. Leticia Ramos-Shahani – First female Senate President Pro-Tempore, Philippines (1993)

959. Maria Teresa de Filippis – First woman to race in Formula 1 (1958)

960. Gertrude Ederle – First woman to swim the English Channel (1926)

961. Annette Kellerman – First woman to wear a one-piece swimsuit publicly (1907)

962. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove – First woman to win U.S.

National Medal of Science in nuclear physics (2007)

963. Michelle Obama – First African-American First Lady of the U.S.

964. Jessica Ennis-Hill – First British woman to win heptathlon Olympic gold (2012)

965. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw – First self-made Indian female billionaire (2004)

966. Mette Frederiksen – Youngest and first female Prime Minister of Denmark (2019)

967. Anneli Jäätteenmäki – First woman Prime Minister of Finland (2003)

968. Kate Sheppard – First leader of a successful women’s suffrage movement (New Zealand, 1893)

969. Toni Morrison – First Black woman to win Nobel Prize in Literature (1993)

970. Kathy Sullivan – First woman to both walk in space and dive to Challenger Deep (2020)

971. Harriet Tubman – First woman to lead an armed expedition in the U.S.

Civil War (1863)

972. Christine Lagarde – First woman to head IMF (2011) and ECB (2019)

973. Harriet Quimby – First American woman to earn a pilot’s license (1911)

974. Leila Seth – First woman Chief Justice of a state High Court in India (1978)

975. Mariya Takeuchi – First Japanese female artist to gain global recognition in city pop (1980s)

976. Jill Ellis – First coach to win back-to-back Women’s FIFA World Cups (2015, 2019)

977. Fatima Al-Fihri – Founder of world’s first university, University of al-Qarawiyyin, Morocco (859 CE)

978. Anna Chandy – First female judge in India (1937)

979. Lhakpa Sherpa – First woman to summit Everest 10 times (by 2022)

980. Gabrielle Giffords – First U.S.

Congresswoman to survive an assassination attempt and become a gun control advocate (2011)

981. Stephanie Frappart – First woman to referee a men’s UEFA match (2019)

982. Jocelyn Bell Burnell – First to discover pulsars (1967), later recognized for gender inequity in Nobel recognition983.

Reita Faria – First Asian woman to win Miss World (1966)

984. Joanne Liu – First Asian woman International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (2013)

985. Maud Wagner – First known female tattoo artist in the U.S.

986. Arunima Sinha – First female amputee to climb Mount Everest (2013)

987. Lucretia Mott – First to organize U.S.

women’s rights convention (1848)

988. Charlotte Cooper – First woman to win Olympic gold in singles tennis (1900)

989. Maryam Mirzakhani – First woman to win Fields Medal in Mathematics (2014)

990. Annie Londonderry – First woman to bicycle around the world (1894–1895)

991. Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi – First female minister in post-revolution Iran (2009)

992. Lil Hardin Armstrong – First prominent female jazz pianist and arranger (1920s)

993. Manuela Sáenz – First woman general in South American revolutionary history (early 1800s)

994. Therese of Lisieux – First female declared Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II (1997)

995. Madeleine Albright – First woman U.S.

996. Margaret Chase Smith – First woman to serve in both U.S.

Senate and House (1940s–1970s)

997. Megan Smith – First female Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.

998. Mari Skurdal – First woman editor-in-chief of Norway’s largest newspaper (Klassekampen, 2018)

999. Kamala Harris – First woman, first Black and South Asian U.S.

Vice President (2021)

1000. Greta Gerwig – First solo female director of a billion-dollar film (Barbie, 2023)

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