- Mae Jemison - first black woman in space
- Qiu Jin - Chinese revolutionary feminist and writer
- Julie D'Aubigny - 17th century French bisexual opera singer and fencing master
- Jane Goodall - chimp researcher
- Nalini Nadkarni - rainforest explorer
- Kakenya Ntaiya - building first school for girls in her Kenyan village
- Sylvia Earle - deep sea explorer, ocean advocate
- Kira Salak - first woman to traverse Papua New Guinea and the first person to kayak 600 miles down Africa's Niger River to Timbuktu
- Emily Ainsworth - had just graduated from Oxford when she ran away to join the circus. Her adventures-as "Princess Aurora"-with a wandering troupe in Mexico, which also featured a cranky harmonica-playing elephant, launched her on a career photographing some of society's more intriguing subcultures: butchers, fishmongers, transvestites, you name it.
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