Alive during the renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time and often had affairs with his younger male students. Leonardo _____________
Born in the mid 1600's, he is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, formulating the laws of motion, universal gravitation, and a key figure in the scientific revolution. Sir Isaac ________
Born in the 1870's, this german scientist is most famous for his work in the theory of relativity, and his mass-energy equivalence formula (E=mc2). Albert __________
Born in the late 1500's, this man was an astronomer, physicist, and engineer who studied speed, velocity, gravity, free-fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, and projectile motion. ___________ Galilei
Born in the early 400's BCE, he was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Born in the late 300's BCE, he, along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy". His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.
Born in the mid 1700's, he composed more than 600 works, many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. Despite the fact that he was of Moorish descent and therefore dark-skinned, he is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music. Wolfgang ___________
Born in the mid 1800's, he was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Nikola ___________
Born in the mid 1500's, he was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. William ____________
Born in the mid 1800's, she was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, is the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice, and is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. Marie _________
born in 1947, she is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and autism spokesperson. She is one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism. Temple ___________
Born in 1933, she was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Although her essays and speeches sometimes drew controversy, she has been described as one of the most influential critics of her generation. Susan ______________
Born in 1928, she was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Maya ____________
Born in 1934, she is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gloria _________
Born in 1930, she is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served from her 1981 appointment by President Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Sandra Day ___________
Born in 1934, she is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960. Jane ___________
Born in 1907, she was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Rachel _______________
Born in 1907, she was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Frida ___________
Born is the late 1500's, she was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters following the death of Caravaggio. In an era when female painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and had an international clientele. Artemisia ______________
Born in the late 1700's, she was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; The Modern Prometheus in 1818. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary ___________
Born in the late 1700's, she was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Jane __________
Born in the mid 1800's, he was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction and imprisonment for "gross indecency", because being gay was a criminal offence at the time. Oscar __________
Born in the early 1800's, he was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Frederick _______________
Born in 1912, he was a mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, creating the first computer-like machine. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Despite these accomplishments, he was not fully recognised in his home country during his lifetime, due to his homosexuality. Alan _________
Born in 1951, she was an American astronaut and physicist, who became the first American woman in space, the third woman in space overall, and the first known LGBT+ person in space in 1983. Sally ______
Born in the early 1800's, she was an English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing; changing that reputation of the nursing profession. There are many rumors about her sexuality, some arguing that she was gay based insome of her writing, asexual because she never married, or transgender because she often referred to herself with male pronouns. Florence ____________
Born in 1945, she was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, she was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. She was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, and co-founded the gay and transvestite advocacy organization S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera. Marsha P. ___________________
