8/ Komako Kimura, a Japanese suffragette who took to the streets of New York to demand the right to vote
9/ Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity, who twice won the Nobel prize
10/ Margaret Heafield, the genius software engineering director of NASA’s Apollo space programme
11/ Maud Stevens Wagner, the first American woman to become a tattoo artist, in 1907
12/ Anne Franck, a precocious heroine
13/ Marina Ginestà, a French veteran of the Spanish civil war
14/ Gertrude Caroline Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel (1926)
15/ Anna Lee Fisher, the first mother to be sent into space (1984)