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Abzeita Djigma
This Mossi Princess founded a company to provide solar-powered electricity to help her people, and others, who lack power.
Lúcia da Silva Teixeira
Lúcia Teixeira is a visually impaired judoka from Brazil who won second place in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and will be competing again in the 2016 events.
Mona Hanna-Attisha
When she found that cases of elevated lead levels had doubled, she warned the community.
Agafia Lykova
Russia's most famous hermit has lived outside of civilization for virtually seven decades, amidst some severe difficulties.
Rose Mackenberg
Mackenberg was recruited by Harry Houdini to help him uncover the fraudulent tricks of psychics and mediums. After his death, Mackenberg continued to expose them for several decades.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
She was the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, one of the first black female lawyers in the United States and an advocate for granting women the right to vote.
Amy Dickman
She turned lion hunters to lion defenders, was slept on by a lion, and got a dentist to work on a leopard - quite a story!
Margaret Abbott
In 1900, Abbott made history as the first woman to come first place in an Olympic event. The rub? She didn't know it--and for decades, neither did anyone else.
Rukhsana Kausar
An Indian farmer’s daughter disarmed a terrorist leader who broke into her home, attacked him with an axe and shot…
Suzelle Poole
"Life is too short not to do what you want to do... It's never too late. So start doing what you love doing now."
Nicole Ticea
In 2014, Nicole Ticea won first place in the British Columbia Regional Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge for her development of a faster, cheaper test for HIV.
DeDe Phillips
She was attacked while putting up a “Women who behave rarely make history” bumper sticker on her truck. No, seriously.
Miki Koyama
Koyama has been interested in racing since she was five years old, even competing (and winning second place) as early as twelve.
Umm Abdu
This pistol-packing medic refuses to abandon her war-torn city. “Getting justice from this war has become a personal jihad for me,” she admits. “I can’t work without it [the gun] any more.”
Tsuneko Sasamoto
She became Japan's first female photojournalist at the age of 25. 76 years later she's still going strong.