1.(1820-1910). Led a party of 38 women to work in the hospitals of the Crimean War. The meticulous records and statistics she kept were the foundation for reforms in the military and public health systems after the war.
2.(1821-1910). The first woman doctor of modern day medicine; she helped to found the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1853.
3.(1877-1962). Joint founder and first Principal of Hillcroft College.
4.(1902-1970). Devoted her life to missionary work in China and Taiwan. One of her most inspirational acts was to lead more than a hundred orphans over the mountains to escape from the Japanese invasion in 1940.
5.(1909-1974). The first female anaesthesiologist; she also developed a simple and effective system to measure the health condition of newborn babies.
6.(1912-1997). Went unrecognised for her groundbreaking work in beta particles in the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics, her male Columbia and Princeton University colleagues won it.
7.(1913-2005). Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a racially-segregated bus in Alabama. Known as the 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'.
8.(1920-1958). Her work significantly contributed to the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid.
9. (1928-2014). Notable actor, poet and writer who drew upon her personal history to bring the themes of economic, racial and sexual oppression to millions through her fiction. Her poem 'A Brave and Startling Truth' was composed for the 50th Anniversary of the UN.
10.(1956-). The first African American woman to become an astronaut in 1992.