- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet
- [Marie de France](https://archive.md/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-de-France): earliest known French woman poet
- [Herrad of Landsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg): 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, *Hortus deliciarum*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time
- [Hrotsvitha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha): first female writer (from German-speaking lands) and first female historian
- [Baya Mahieddine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baya_(artist)): surrealist artist whose work was imitated by Picasso
- [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay?lang=en): first woman (and second person!) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- [Lucy Terry Prince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Terry): author of *Bars Fight*, the oldest known work of literature by an African American
- [Lotte Reiniger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger): director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, [_The Adventures of Prince Achmed_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed)
- [Mary Shelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley): novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre of books
- [Murasaki Shikibu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu): wrote the first novel, *The Tale of Genji*
- [Pamela Colman Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Colman_Smith): illustrator of the iconic Rider-Waite tarot deck
- [Valerie Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas): invented the illusion transmitter, critical for the invention of 3D movies
- [Maud Wagner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Wagner): first female tattoo artist in the USA
- [Ada Lovelace](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace): the first computer programmer
- Kathleen Booth: inventor of assembly language
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- [Judith Heumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann): held the longest sit-in in a government building for the enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (civil rights protection for disabled people)
- [Qiu Jin](https://archive.md/rhArg): Chinese revolutionary, poet, and early feminist
- [Elizabeth Peratrovich](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peratrovich?lang=en): instrumental in the passing of the USA's first anti-discrimination law
- [Hannah Szenes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Szenes): poet and volunteer parachutist who helped evacuate Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust
- [Grunya Sukhareva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_Sukhareva): child psychiatrist; first to publish a detailed description of autistic symptoms