Helen Keller

first blind and deaf woman to be a graduate- Radcliffe College 1904

Edith Wharton

first woman to win a Pultizer Prize for fiction-1921

Jhumpa Lahiri

first Indian woman to win a Pultizer Prize-2000

Halle Berry

first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress-2002

Shirin Ebadi

first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize-2003

Jane Addams

first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace-1931

Selma Ottilia Lovisia Lagerlof

first woman Nobel Prize winner for literature-1909