Sanchez, Arantxa - Spanish tennis champion
Streep. Meryl - Oscar winning actress
Shaw, Anna Howard - American Physician and Peace Advocate
Streisand, Barbra - Singer and Actress
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Novelist. Uncle Tom's Cabin
Seles, Monica - Serbian/American tennis champion
Steckenstrom, Wilma - South African author
Stanwyck, Barbara - Actress
Stone, Sharon - Actres
Tan, Amy Chinese-American writer
Teresa, Mother - saint
Taylor, Elizabeth - actress
Trollope, Joanna, British novelist
Tubman, Harriet, US activist
Twain, Shanya, singer
Tuchman, Barbara, US historian and writer
Irene Ayako Uchida - Can. Scientist and Down's Syndrome researcher.
Shoen Uemura - Japan - Writer and Painter
Adaora Lily Ulasi - Nigeria, UK - Wellknown novelist and journalist.
Fran Ulmer -US - First woman elected as Lieutenant Governor of the state of Alaska.
Kulthum Umm - Egypt - Singer and musician
Paula Underwood - Iroquois Indian, U.S.A. Native American author
Sigrid Undset -Norway - Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1928.
Nice to find a singer called Umm!
Vigée Lebrun, Elisabeth, French artist who did a very nice portrait of herself with her daughter
Victoria, queen and giver of her name to many cities and provinces
Van Grunsven, Anky, Netherlands equestrienne
Webb, Kerry - Australian golfer and former World no. 1
Winfrey, Oprah - Wellknown American television host
Woolf, Virginia - English novelist and essayist
Wright, Francis, - British-born radical reformer/adventurer
Wyman, Jane - American movie actress
Witt, Katarina - German Olympic and World Champion figure skater
West, Rebecca - English journalist, novelist, and critic.
Waelsch, Salome -English, winner 1999 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, for outstanding contribution to science and genetics.
Xin Ran - a very interesting Chinese writer, Mary Wesley's daughter-in-law, who ran a phone-in for women in Shanghai about 10 yrs ago and found appalling treatment of so many of them.
Yoko Ono. (aka Okay Yoni).
Zenobia (around 240-?) was a Syrian woman who lived in the third century. She was a queen of Palmyra and the second wife to king of Palmyra Septimius Odaenathus.
Names of Kings:
Alaric
Albert
Alboin
Alfred
Attila
Alfonso
Alexander
Babum - Sumerian guy, thousands of years ago
Bahram x 6 - Persian Kings (Sassanid Empire if you must know more)
Balthasar - one of the three Kings who brought gifts to the Infant Christ
Blathmac - a King of Ulster in the 7th century
Bertie - affectionate family name for King George VI whose first name was Albert.
Capet
Carol.
Creon
Clovis
Charles
Croesus
Christian
Cymbeline
Carl Gustaf
Charlemagne
Constantine
Edwy
Edmund Ironside
Esarhaddon
Edgar
Edwin
Emanuel
Ethelred
Farouk
Faisal
Frederick (take your pick of many)
Ferdinand
Ivan the Terrible
Ibn Saud
