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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
71: ...[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
10: ...r was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and officially the most eligible heiress in Europe. These...
16: ...had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by her flamboyan...
18: ...that were the beginnings of what would become the field of [[Admiralty law|admiralty law]]. She later ...
20: ... their second daughter, [[Alix of France]] (their first was [[Marie de Champagne|Marie]]), but there w...
22: ... with her. Over the next 13 years, she bore Henry five sons and three daughters: [[William, Count of P... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
33: ... of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name '''Kim''' in her teens. She was educated ...
35: ...trustee. Campbell and Divinsky were divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986...
41: ... ([[1990]]-[[1993]]). Then she briefly became the first female [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)...
43: ... and Eddy were divorced, although the divorce was finalized before she was sworn in as Prime Minister.
45: ...any Canadians. The fact that she was a woman, the first to become Prime Minister, initially made her v... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
9: ...degree, she moved to [[Seattle, Washington]] in [[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then mov...
15: ...st congressional district in 40 years. During her first term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Adm...
21: ...et privacy. However, Internet privacy experts confirmed that RealNetworks software was sending person...
27: At the urging of party activists and officials, Cantwell formed an exploratory committee in...
31: ... Cantwell of hypocrisy because of the incident. "Fiddling with people's websites and calling it good ... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ... as leader and, subsequently, Prime Minister. She finally entered politics just before the [[1998]] Lo...
15: ...hi to reverse her decision. Gandhi instead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[Nation... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
6: ...n Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace and enviro...
8: ... ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundest... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ncy four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 Sept...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD<br>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
31: ...g fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contra... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
29: ...9|1979]], [[United Kingdom general election, 1983|1983]] and [[United Kingdom general election, 1987|198...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955...
8: ...being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat...
29: ...Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film.
33: ...e]] for her achievements in [[civil rights]] in [[1983]]. - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: When she returned to the U.S., she was unable to find a job as a journalist because editors wanted ma...
21: Gloria is regarded as a 'mother' figure to many young women who recognize the role sh...
25: ... [[Irina Dunn]]: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
31: * ''Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions'' (1983) - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
15: ...buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's H...
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourne...
26: * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1044&pt=S... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
46: :''[[Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995]]'' ([[1998]]) - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: ...eror [[Alexius I|Alexius I Comnenus]], and is the first known female [[historian]].
5: ..., with the result that the language is highly artificial. Her chronology is generally sound when recou...
7: A fictional account of Anna Comnena's life is given in...
13: ...irst Crusade]", ''Reading Medieval Studies'' v.9 (1983) - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...ance and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
10: - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays alm...
26: *''[[Recitatif]]'' (1983)
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005) - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: .... [[May 26]], [[1951]] in Los Angeles CA) was the first [[United States|American]] woman to fly into o...
5: ... the first American woman in space as part of a [[1983]] [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[...
18: ...a.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut profile.] - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...eavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...emison was Science Mission Specialist (a [[NASA]] first) on the [[STS-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[Unit...
7: ...rs (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West A...
11: ...cience degree in [[Chemical Engineering]], and fulfilled the requirements for an A.B. in African and A...
15: ...er high achievements in historically exclusionary fields led [[Dartmouth College]] to invite her to it... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s...
22: ..., Revolutionary</cite> (Rutgers University Press, 1983) - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ... public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...onstitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is in...
22: ...expected, this book upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt s...
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