Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor.
She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field. Mildred Ella Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born in the coastal oil city of Port Arthur in southeastern Texas.
Sally Jane Priesand (born June 27, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio) is America's first ordained female rabbi.
Priesand was ordained in June, 1972, by the Reform Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In perpetuating and expanding the modernizing tradition of the Reform movement, Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk performed her ordination, making her the first woman to be ordained in the United States and believed to be only the second woman ever to be formally ordained in the millennia-long history of Judaism.
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2003), author of the best-selling book Iran Awakening, human rights activist, women and children’s advocate, mother, Muslim, and amazing woman.
She is one of Iran's best-known, and to some most-controversial, Muslim champions of democracy and human rights.
Elizabeth Warren (born June 22, 1949) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. She was previously a Harvard Law School professor specializing in bankruptcy law.
Warren is an active consumer protection advocate whose work led to the conception and establishment of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She has written a number of academic and popular works, and is a frequent subject of media interviews regarding the American economy and personal finance.
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma.
In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament.
She had already been detained under house arrest before the elections.