Today we want to honor the strong and brave women who have made history. Scientists, writers, artists, politicians and other personalities who opened roads, women who left their mark, who broke borders and continue (and will continue to be) remembered for their exploits.
Inspiring us, if you're waiting for a baby, we leave you 35 strong women names for girls proud to be.
Ada, by Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, was a British mathematician and writer. It was a precursor in the computer world having been a pioneer in describing a programming language. It is considered as the first computer programmer.
Amelia, by Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart (Atchison, Kansas, July 24, 1897 - disappeared in the Pacific Ocean, July 2, 1937) was an American aviator, famous for being the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean Flying a plane
Ana, by Ana Bolena
Ana Bolena, elegant and educated lady, queen consort of England, is the image of a Romantic victim, a tenacious and beautiful woman That was destroyed by her husband. She was executed under accusation of adultery, incest and treason, after a moot trial and was the mother of the powerful Queen Elizabeth I, one of the most important monarchs in British history.
Carlota, by Carlota Corday
Charlotte Corday (1768-1793) was one of the key characters of the French Revolution, famous for killing Marat, a Jacobin.
Catalina, by Catalina de Aragón
Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) was Queen of England and is considered the first ambassador in history.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (69-30 BC) was the Last Queen of Ancient Egypt and with it the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Hellenistic era of Egypt also ended. His love with Marco Antonio occupies entire chapters of the chronicle of humanity.
Clara, by Clara Campoamor
Clara Campoamor (1881 - 1972) was one of the promoters of women's suffrage in Spain, achieved in 1931 and a convinced feminist.
Diana, by Dian Fossey and Diana of Wales
Dian Fossey was a American zoologist recognized for her scientific and conservation work with the gorillas of the Virunga mountains in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Diana of Wales, first wife of the heir to the British Crown. He has conquered the whole world for his personality, and after his tragic death he became a true myth and a very popular character worldwide.
Eleonora, by Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a diplomat and activist American for human rights. He was the first American lady and wife of the president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It is considered one of the leaders that has most influenced the twentieth century.
Emma, by Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian writer and anarchist of Jewish origin, was one of the pioneers in the fight for the emancipation of women.
Eva, by Eva Perón
Eva Perón was a Argentine political leader and actress which promoted the women's suffrage law (1947) and very active in the struggles for social and labor rights.
Frida, by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Mexican painter of great personality, admired by Picasso, Breton and Trotsky, his painting is cataloged as expressionist and surrealist. It has been rediscovered in recent years for its great personality and for having been a victim of adverse circumstances, especially for its disability.
Gabriela, by Coco Channel
Coco Chanel, pseudonym of Gabrielle Chanel became one of the most innovative designers to the present day. Chanel dared to take traditionally masculine garments and redesign them for the benefit of women.
Grace, by Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly was an Oscar-winning American film actress, and later Princess consort of Monaco for her marriage to Prince Ranier III. It is considered as one of the myths of the industry and one of the most recognized divas in film history.
Helena, by Hellen Keller
Hellen Keller was a American Deafblind writer, speaker and political activist. At the age of 19 months he suffered a serious illness that caused him the total loss of vision and hearing. Keller became a leading activist and philanthropist who promoted women's suffrage, workers' rights and the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities,
Indira, by Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi became the India's first woman to hold the position of Prime Minister of his country. Considered a national hero and the second prime minister of India who was in office for a long time, she earned the nickname "the Asian iron lady."
Jana, by Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is a primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist and messenger of the peace of the UN English and considered the greatest expert in chimpanzees.
Juana, by Juana de Arco and Sr. Juana Inés de la Cruz
Joan of Arc, also known as the Maiden of Orleans was a heroine, military and french saint that with 17 years headed the French royal army. She was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake.
Sr. Juana Inés de la Cruz was a Mexican religious and one of the most representative figures of Hispanic letters. He learned to read and write with three years, cultivated the lyric, the sacramental car and the theater, as well as prose. It was a woman who was ahead of her time managing to overcome the socially imposed borders in colonial times to women.
Lucia, by Lucy Montgomery
Lucy Montgomery, Canadian writer, novelist and teacher, recognized by the series of novels "Ana de las Verjas Verdes" and deserving of the Order of the British Empire.
Luisa, by Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American writer, recognized for her famous novel Little Women (1868). Committed to the abolitionist movement and suffragism, he wrote under the pseudonym of A.M. Barnard a collection of novels and stories in which taboo subjects for the time such as adultery and incest are treated.
Mafalda
Determined and hairless on the tongue, Mafalda is a popular comic character created by Argentine graphic humorist Quino. The girl is worried about humanity and world peace, and rebels against the world bequeathed by her elders.
Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani student, activist and blogger. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at seventeen, she became the youngest person to access that award in any of the categories granted.
Marie, by Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a Polish scientist, nationalized French, a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. It was the first person to receive two Nobel prizes in different specialties (Physics and Chemistry) and the first woman to occupy the position of professor at the University of Paris.
Margarita, by Mata Hari
Mata Hari was a famous dancer, actress and spy, sentenced to death for espionage during World War I. The word Matahari means, in the Malay language, sun and literally "eye of the day."
Marilina, by Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was a Hollywood celebrity of the fifties and is one of the most popular characters of the twentieth century. The American film actress is considered as a pop icon and a sex symbol.
Nadia, by Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci is a former Romanian gymnast won nine Olympic medals of which five were gold. It was also the first gymnast who got a ten point rating (perfect qualification) in an Olympic competition of artistic gymnastics.
Olympia, by Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges is the pseudonym of Marie Gouze, writer, playwright, pamphleteer and French political philosopher, author of the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Citizen (1791). Like other feminists of his time, he was abolitionist. Arrested for her defense of the Girondines, she was tried and died guillotined.
Rita, by Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) was a neurologist and politician, who dedicated her life to brain research discovering the neuronal growth factor. This earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986.
Rosa, by Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a social activist who He refused peacefully to give his place on the bus to a white man in United States. This sparked the spark that would lead to protests without violence in favor of the civil rights of African Americans.
Sibila, by María Sibylla Merian
María Sibylla Merian was a German naturalist, explorer and painter, currently considered as one of the most important initiators of modern entomology, thanks to its detailed observations and descriptions, with own illustrations, of the metamorphosis of the butterflies.
Simone, by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, teacher and philosopher human rights defender and feminist. He wrote novels, essays, biographies and monographs on political, social and philosophical topics. He was a couple of the philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.
Teresa, by Teresa of Calcutta
Teresa of Calcutta was a Catholic nun of Albanian origin who He worked with the poor in the Indian city of Calcutta. He helped the marginalized of society, primarily sick, poor and homeless.
Valentina, by Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova was a Russian engineer and cosmonaut who became the first woman to travel to space.
Victoria, for Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria of England ascended the throne at eighteen and remained there for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days, the second longest reign in the history of the United Kingdom, only surpassed by that of her great granddaughter Isabel II.
Virginia, by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, it was a British novelist, essayist, letter writer, editor, feminist and storyteller, considered one of the most prominent figures of literary modernism of the twentieth century.
