ok, i know it’s late! i was on a trip and didn’t have access to my computer so that’s why it’s out late
DW: [name_f]Michelle[/name_f], [name_f]Ruth[/name_f], [name_f]Helen[/name_f], [name_f]Bonita[/name_f], [name_f]Rebekah[/name_f], [name_f]Harriet[/name_f], [name_f]Aretha[/name_f], [name_f]Yusra[/name_f], [name_f]Serena[/name_f], [name_f]Mia[/name_f]
DW: [name_f]Rosa[/name_f], [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], [name_u]Florence[/name_u], [name_f]Madonna[/name_f], [name_u]Kahlo[/name_u], [name_u]Marie[/name_u], [name_f]Angelou[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Marsha[/name_f], [name_f]Susan[/name_f]
DD: [name_f]Diana[/name_f], [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f], [name_f]Phoebe[/name_f], [name_f]Suni[/name_f], [name_f]Halima[/name_f], [name_u]Austen[/name_u], [name_f]Mae[/name_f], [name_f]Chloe[/name_f], [name_f]Kaja[/name_f], [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]
DD: [name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u], [name_f]Zaha[/name_f], [name_f]Greta[/name_f], [name_f]Millie[/name_f], [name_f]Margaret[/name_f], [name_f]Clara[/name_f], [name_u]Marley[/name_u], [name_f]Gloria[/name_f], [name_f]Teresa[/name_f]
DD: [name_f]Amelia[/name_f], [name_u]Anne[/name_u], [name_f]Malala[/name_f], [name_f]Deja[/name_f], [name_f]Mari[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f], [name_f]Sally[/name_f], [name_u]Harper[/name_u], [name_u]Simone[/name_u], [name_f]Kamala[/name_f]
who they are/were
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f] (Earhart) - first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic [name_u]Ocean[/name_u] alone
(Maya) [name_f]Angelou[/name_f] - activist and poet whose works of literature revolved around themes of racism and identity
(princess) [name_f]Diana[/name_f] - known for her humanitarian work with AIDS victims
[name_u]Anne[/name_u] (Frank) - young writer who journaled her family’s attempt to hide from the Nazis during the Holocaust
[name_f]Aretha[/name_f] (Franklin) - “The [name_f]Queen[/name_f] of Soul” who earned 18 Grammy Awards for her R&B vocals
(Jane) [name_u]Austen[/name_u] - “Pride and Prejudice” novelist whose works are still celebrated to this day
[name_f]Bonita[/name_f] (Norris) - youngest woman in history to summit Mount [name_u]Everest[/name_u]
[name_f]Cami[/name_f] Téllez - CEO of Parade, a new affordable and inclusive approach to underwear
[name_f]Caroline[/name_f] (Marks) - youngest surfer to ever qualify for the women’s championship tour
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] (Kim) - became the first person under 16 to win 3 gold medals at the X-Games
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] (Barton) - pioneering nurse who founded the American [name_u]Red[/name_u] [name_u]Cross[/name_u]
[name_f]Deja[/name_f] (Foxx) - fierce young advocate for accessible and affordable reproductive healthcare for all women, especially those impacted by poverty
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] (Blackwell) - first American woman to receive a medical degree
[name_f]Emma[/name_f] (Gonzalez) - survivor of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, [name_f]Florida[/name_f] who has become an advocate for stricter gun laws and proactive change
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] (Panklhurst) - British suffragist and political activist
[name_u]Florence[/name_u] [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u] - known as the founder of modern nursing
[name_f]Gloria[/name_f] (Steinem) - referred to as the “Mother of Feminism” for leading the women’s liberation movements in the 1960s and 1970s
[name_f]Greta[/name_f] (Thunberg) - inspired an international movement to fight climate change, missing school at 15 years old to protest
[name_f]Halima[/name_f] (Aden) - Somali-American fashion model noted for being the first woman to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant
[name_u]Harper[/name_u] (Lee) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote “To Kill A Mockingbird”
[name_f]Harriet[/name_f] (Tubman) - American hero who helped over 70 enslaved people achieve a life of freedom through the Underground Railroad
[name_f]Helen[/name_f] (Keller) - first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree
[name_f]Jane[/name_f] (Goodall) - primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees
[name_f]Kaja[/name_f] (Kallas) - became Estonia’s first female Prime Minister
(Frida) [name_u]Kahlo[/name_u] - Mexican artist whose paintings explored topics of gender, class, and race in Mexican society
[name_f]Kamala[/name_f] (Harris) - first female [name_m]Vice[/name_m] [name_m]President[/name_m] of the United States
[name_f]Madonna[/name_f] - known as the “Queen of Pop”
[name_f]Mae[/name_f] (Jemison) - first African American woman to travel to space
[name_f]Malala[/name_f] (Yousafzai) - overcame an assassination attempt by the Taliban at age 15 and is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate
[name_f]Margaret[/name_f] (Sanger) - founded the Planned Parenthood Federation of [name_u]America[/name_u]
[name_f]Mari[/name_f] (Copeny) - known as “Little Miss Flint;” advocated for clean water in her hometown of [name_m]Flint[/name_m] Michigan when she was only 8 years old
[name_u]Marie[/name_u] (Curie) - the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize for her pioneering research on radioactivity
[name_u]Marley[/name_u] (Dias) - collected 1,000 books featuring black female protagonists and distributed the books to communities in need
[name_f]Marsha[/name_f] (P. Johnson) - activist, self-identified drag queen, and performer who was a prominent figure in the [name_m]Stonewall[/name_m] uprising of 1969.
[name_f]Mia[/name_f] (Hamm) - soccer champion who has scored more international goals than any other soccer player
[name_f]Michelle[/name_f] (Obama) - first black first lady of the United States
[name_f]Millie[/name_f] (Bobby Brown) - known for her role on the Netlix series Stranger Things, she is also the youngest person to become a UNICEF [name_m]Goodwill[/name_m] Ambassador
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f] (Schecter) - Britain’s first female NFL coach
[name_f]Rebekah[/name_f] (Bruesehoff) - young activist and public speaker for trans rights
[name_f]Rosa[/name_f] (Parks) - refused to give up her bus seat which was a major point in the civil rights movement
[name_f]Ruth[/name_f] (Handler) - inventor of the [name_f]Barbie[/name_f] doll
[name_f]Sally[/name_f] (Ride) - first American woman to go to space and the youngest astronaut to make the trip
[name_f]Serena[/name_f] (Williams) - professional tennis player who has become an advocate for women’s rights
[name_u]Simone[/name_u] (Biles) - an Olympic gymnast who has won a total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] (Cruz) - a young girl passionate about helping undocumented parents, even writing the Pope to spark change
[name_f]Suni[/name_f] (Lee) - American Olympian gymnast who was the 2020 all-around champion
[name_f]Susan[/name_f] (B. Anthony) - played a key role in the women’s suffrage movement
Mother (Teresa) - Catholic nun and missionary who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world
[name_f]Yusra[/name_f] (Mardini) - Syrian swimmer who was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team
[name_f]Zaha[/name_f] (Hadid) - an innovative architect and award-winning titan of the industry
(obviously there are many namesakes for some of the names, but this lists one prominent woman)
