50 Girls Names Inspired by Historical Figures

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1} Amelia - Amelia Earhart; first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

2} Maya - Maya Angelou; African American poet, author, singer and activist

3} Rosa - Rosa Parks; Woman's rights activist 

4} Malala - Woman's rights activist

5} Lise - Lise Meitner; An American physicist who helped discover nuclear fusion ✰

6} Marie - Marie Curie; The only person to have won two Nobel's in two different sciences

7} Ada - Ada Lovelace; First computer programmer ✰

8} Jane - Jane Austen; Literary author 

9} Janis - Janis Joplin; Prominent female rock singer and activist

10} Florence - Florence Nightingale; War nurse

11} Claudette - Claudette Colvin; Civil rights activist 

12} Rosalind - Rosalind Franklin; Helped greatly with the x-ray image of DNA. Her work was incredibly downplayed as her male colleagues took the credit because fuck them.

13} Babe - Babe Didrikson Zaharias; First female sports star. First woman to play in the golf all male PGA tournament. 

14} Sojourner - Sojourner Truth; Woman's activist and civil right activist 

15} Chien-Shiung - Chien-Shiung Wu; Disproved the theory that laws of nature are symmetrical 

16} Marsha - Marsha P. Johsnon; Black transgender activist who was the first person who threw a brick at the Stonewall and its police in 1969

17} Harriet - Harriet Tubman; Civil rights activists who freed slaves through the underground railroad. 

18} Oprah - Oprah Winfrey; Television host, activists, writer

19} Avril - Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell; First female primeminister of Canada ✰

20} Frida - Frida Kahlo; Artist

21} Kamala - Kamala Harris; First woman vice president of the United States

22} Annie - Annie Oakly; Most famous female gunslinger

23} Aileen - Aileen Wurnos; Considered one of the first female serial killers

24} Anna - Anna Freud; Psychologist who took her fathers (Sigmund Freud) theories and incorporated them into a female context and focused on child psychology.

25} Margaret - Margaret  Washburn; First female psychologist

26} Kathrine - Kathrine Switzer; First woman to run the Boston Marathon

27} Valentina - Valentina Tereshkova; First woman in space

28} Eliza - Eliza Zamfirescu; First woman engineer ✰

29} Anne - Anne Frank; Jewish author during the Holocaust 

30} Maude - Maude Wagner; First female tattoo artist ✰

31} Sarla - Sarla Thakral; First Indian woman to fly

32} Betty - Betty White; Cultural icon known as the 'first lady of television'

33} Marilyn - Marilyn Monroe; Actress and icon

34} Barbara - Barbara Walters; First woman to host a television show

35} Dorothy - Dorothy Edwards Brunson; First African American woman on television

36} Ella - Ella Fitzgerald; Influential black singer ✰

37} Joan - Joan Rivers; Known as one of the first women of comedy 

38} Lucy - The first Australopithecus skull found from early humans/human ancestors

39} Elizabeth - Elizabeth Smith Miller; First modern woman to wear pants as well aided in giving women the right to vote.

40} Billie Jean - Billie Jean King; First woman athlete to come out 

41} Maria - Maria Beasley; Invetor of the life raft

42} Dianna - Princess Dianna; Princess of Wales ✰

43} Gertrude - Gertrude Belle Elion; Inventor of various drugs to help treats AIDS

44} Ruth - Rith Ginsberg; The second female justice on the US Supreme court who famously fought for gender rights

45} Policarpa - Policarpa Salavarrieta;  A Spanish spy during the Spanish Reconquista

46} Hypatia - Hypatia of Alexandria; First female mathematician 

47} Aretha - Aretha Franklin; Activist and singer

48} Emily - Emily Carr; Artist known as 'Canadian Van Gough' 

49} Nellie - Nellie Bly; Journalist and traveller

50} Sybil - Sybil Ludington; 16 year old girl who rode twice the distance of Paul Revere to warn about the British's attack. ✰

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