Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi became the first female Prime Minister of India in 1966. She was the daughter of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who was the first Prime Minister of Independent India.

Anne Frank was of Jewish origin. When Germany occupied the Netherlands during World War II, she went into hiding with her family and documented her experience in a diary. The diary was later published by her father with the title “The Diary of a Young Girl.”

Florence Nightingale, also known as the “Lady with the Lamp,” was a British nurse during the Russia-Turkey war in 1854. She got the name as she looked after the soldiers at night with a lamp in her hand.

A Japanese mountaineer, Junko Tabei, is credited with being the first woman to scale Mount Everest in 1975. She is also the first woman to have climbed the highest peak on each continent.

Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997 in Mingora, was a Pakistani political campaigner who became famous in 2012 for advocating for the right of education for girls in Swat Valley.

Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie, also known as Madame Curie, was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize for her work in Physics in 1903.

Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, shot her to fame.

Cleopatra VII, one of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers, ruled Egypt for more than three decades. She was clever and well-educated.

The first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was Amelia Mary Earhart. She achieved this feat in 1932.