The neverending A TO Z OF WHATEVER GAME

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Famous women and what they were famous for

Queen Adelaide - queen
Francis E Allen - first recipient of Turing computing award

Baker, Josephine, Dancer and Entertainer
Bernhardt, Sarah, French Actress
Bronte, Charlotte. British novelist
Bergman, Ingrid, Swedish Actress
Baker, La Verne, American Singer

Cleopatra, queen and vamp
Catherine the Great, likewise
Child, Julia, cook
Callas Maria, singer
Carter, Angela spooky novelist
Christie, Agatha, likewise
Chan, Anson, head of the civil service in HKCampbell, Naomi, model
Campion, Jane, film maker
Clark, Helen NZ politician and leader
Clinton, Hillary US likewise

Dandridge, Dorothy - Actress
David, Florence Nightingale - Academic
Davis, Betty - Actress
Davenport, Lindsay - Tennis Champion
Dietrich, Marlene - Singer and Actress
Dion, Celine - Singer
Dix, Dorothy - Famous Journalist

Elizabeths I and II - queens
Earhart, Amelia aviatrix
Eddy, Mary Baker religious person
Eliot, George, or Evans, Mary Ann - British novelist

Franklin, Aretha - singer
Frank, Anne - Diary of

Garbo, Greta Actress
Greer, Germaine Feminist and philosopher
Gandhi, Indira Indian Prime Minister
Goldberg, Whoopi Actress
Graham, Martha Dancer
Graf, Stefi Tennis player
Grey, Lady Jane, Queen for 11 days

Hamilton Emma, mistress of Lord Nelson
Hapshetsut, Pharoah
Harman Harriet, wannabe deputy Prime Minister
Harper Heather, soprano
Hathaway Anne, wife of William Shakespeare
Hayworth Rita, titian haired temptress
Heilbron Rose, first woman QC
Helen of Troy, legendary Greek beauty
Hepburn Katherine, actress
Hepworth Barbara, wonderful sculptor of horses and naked men
Hill Octavia, housing reformer
Hite Shere, sexologist
Holiday Billie, heart wrenching singer

Isabella of Spain, queen who didn't change her underwear for several years
Iremonger, Lucille British novelist, journalist, and broadcaster

Mary Jemison - Famous white girl adopted by the Seneca Indians
Carol Heiss Jenkins - World Champion American figure skater.
Amy Johnson - Famous British flyer
Lady Bird Johnson - Wife of US. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) - Prominent American labor and community organizer
Barbara Jordan - American politician from Texas.

Keller, Helen - blind and deaf philosopher
Karan, Donna - fashion designer
King, Billie Jean - tennis player
Kingsolver - Barbara - novelist
Kudrow, Lisa - actress
Knightley, Keira - actress
Kitt, Eartha - singer

Vivian Leigh - famous actress
Jennifer Lopez - actress
Clare Booth Luce - playwright and diplomat
Eve Curie Labouise - french author
Wanda Louise Landowska - polish pianist
Alicia de Larroche - spanish classical pianist

Mata Hari - Dutch spy
Montessori, Maria - educator
Medici, Catherine de - aristocrat and poisoner
Macarthur, Ellen - yachtswoman extraordinaire
Mumtaz Mahal - inspirer of the Taj
Mitchell, Joni - singer
Monroe, Marilyn - actress
Mead, Margaret - sociologist
Meir, Golda - Israeli pm
Millay, Edna St V - artist
Mulcahy, Anne - chairman of Xerox

Nefertiti - Egyptian queen - chief wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV who took the name Akhenaten

Agnes Nestor - Glove maker and union activist

Anne Neville - wife of Edward, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI; wife of Richard of Gloucester, and, when he became King Richard III, Anne became Queen of England; Princess of Wales

Cecily Neville, Duchess of York - Duchess, household and estate administrator, mother of King Edward IV and King Richard III; wife of Richard, Duke of York

Ruth Nichols - Aviator, holder of more than 35 women's aviation records

Florence Nightingale - Founder of the nursing profession as a trained profession. Head British nurse, Crimean War.

Anaïs Nin - French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer; Diarist, vamp

Emmy Noether - Mathematician

Anna Nzinga - Queen of the Ndongo (Angola), queen of Matamba; resisted Portuguese in central Africa

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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - First Lady

Annie Oakley - Legend of the Wild West

Keiko Ochiai - Japanese writer

Margaret O'Brien - Legendary child actress

Yoko Ono - Wife of John Lennon of Beatles fame

Merlene Ottey - Famous athlete from Jamaica

Blanca Oraa - Wellknown Spanish painter

Pankhurst, Emily and Christabel, suffragettes
Pym, Barbara, British novelist
Parker, Dorothy, US wit and critic
Plath, Sylvia, poet and suicide
Potter, Beatrix, children's writer
Perón, Eva, Argentine stateswoman
Pocahontas, Amerindian who married an Englishman

Qiu, Jin - Chinese Poet and Revolutionary
Queen Latifa - Wellknown American female rapper
Quimby, Harriet - US. Flyer. First lady of the air.
Quindlen, Anna - US Author
Quinton, Amelia Stone - Native American Rights Activist
Quatro, Suzy - US Singer and songwriter.

Rowling, J K, best selling author
Rand, Ayn, philosopher and writer
Rossetti, Christina, poet
Ross, Diana, singer
Robinson, Mary, Irish stateswoman
Roddick, Anita, founder of the Body Shop
Rogers, Ginger, dancer
Riefenstahl, Leni, photographer of the third Reich
Rice, Condoleezza, US stateswoman