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20 Influential Women in History You Need to Know About

Their influence and contributions are impossible to ignore.

By Catherine Phelan | Published Jan 24, 2019
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Hatshepsut

1507-1458 BCE

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Princess Pingyang

598-623

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Dihya

Unknown-701

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Mandukhai Khatun

Circa 1449-1510

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Anne Boleyn

1501 or 1507-1536

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Jeanne d'Albret

1528-1572

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Queen Nzinga

1583-1663

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Catherine the Great

1729-1796

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Mary Wollstonecraft

1759-1797

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Queen Lili'uokalani

1838-1917

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Cut Nyak Dhien

1848-1908

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Ida B. Wells

1862-1931

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Qiu Jin

1875-1907

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Helen Keller

1880-1968

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Eleanor Roosevelt

1884-1962

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Queen Soraya Tarzi

1899-1968

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Hannah Kudjoe

1918-1986

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Phyllis Schlafly

1924-2016

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Maria Rosa Henson

1927-1997

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Barbara Jordan

1936-1996

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  • Barbara Jordan, center, speaks in the House.

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