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Ashley Callingbull-Burnham
Callingbull became the first Canadian and first indigenous woman to win the Mrs. Universe pageant in 2015. She used that to launch a campaign advocating for First Nations rights.
Kiara Nirghin
The 16-year-old high schooler invented a polymer from orange peel and avocado skins, capable of storing massive reserves of water.
Tish and Snooky Bellomo
Manic Panic, which has become practically synonymous with extremely vivid shades of hair dye, was started in 1977 by these two punk rock sisters.
Ishita Malaviya
For most of her life she thought she'd have to go to California to surf. When she discovered she could surf along India's own coast, she co-founded the Shaka Surf Club to let everyone else know that too.
Amla Ruia
This nonagenerian entrepreneur helps out villages across Rajasthan, India, by building dams.
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici
During World War II, Geulen moved Jewish children to Christian families. After the war, she used the records she had kept to reunite the children with any surviving family.
Kakenya Ntaiya
At the age of seven, Kakenya Ntaiya made a bargain with her father: she would undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) if he agreed to let her finish her education.
V Nannamal
This 98-year-old yoga master continues to practice yoga, teaching students and performing poses like a woman a quarter her age.
Helly Luv
Helly Luv is a pop singer whose songs against the terrorist group have earned her its ire, and several death threats.
Đặng Thùy Trâm
An American soldier found and kept the diary of this North Vietnamese civilian doctor for 35 years after her death. When it was finally released to the world, nobody could have guessed the reaction.
Clare Hollingworth
After spending a year helping 3,500 refugees escape Poland to Britain, in 1939 Hollingworth broke the news that World War II had started. That was merely the first week of her decades-long career at the Telegraph.
Kyra Poh
The video of this 14-year-old Singaporean competing in the solo freestyle event at the Wind Games 2017 – which she won! – is beautiful, hypnotic stuff.
Angelina Fanny Hesse
In the 1880s, scientists were trying to isolate and culture tuberculosis bacteria. Hesse's husband Walther was running into problems until she offered a solution.
Rena Kanokogi
50 years after she won a judo championship while posing as a man, she finally got the gold medal owed to her.
Franca Viola
In the 60s, an Italian woman was abducted and raped - and then pressured to marry her rapist. She instead took him to court and got him tossed into jail.