Clémentine Delait, bearded lady

Nzinga, Queen of Ndongo and Matamba

Margaret Hamilton, terrifying actress

Las Mariposas, rebel sisters

Josephina van Gorkum, obstinate lover

Lozen, warrior and shaman

Annette Kellerman, mermaid

Delia Akeley, explorer

Josephine Baker, Dancer, French resistance fighter, matriarch

Tove Jansson, painter, creator of trolls

Agnodice, gynecologist

Leymah Gbowee, social worker

Giorgina Reid, lighthouse keeper

Christine Jorgensen, reluctant celebrity

Wu Zetian, empress

Temple Grandin, animal whisperer

Sonita Alizadeh, rapper

Cheryl Bridges, athlete

Therésè Clerc, utopian realist

Betty Davis, singer-songwriter

Nellie Bly, journalist

The Shaggs, rock stars

Katia Krafft, volcanologist

Jesseyln Radack, lawyer

Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor

Naziq al-Abid, activist aristocrat

Frances Glessner Lee, crime miniaturist

Mae Jemison, astronaut

Peggy Guggenheim, lover of modern art.