First In World : Female Personalities 4

S.No.

Role

Miscellaneous

1

First European woman to the international space station

Claudie Haighere (French Cosmonaut)

2

First woman of Indian origion in space

Dr. Kalpana Chawla

3

The first woman President of Chile

Michelle Bachelet Nov. 2005

4

Africa's First elected woman head of state

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

5

Germany's First woman Chancellor

Angela Markel

6

World's first private woman space tourist

Anousheh Ansari (2006)

7

First woman to reach Antarctica

Caroline Michealson

8

first woman to break the sound barrier

Jackie Cochran

9

irst woman who was formed out of clay by the gods

Pandora

10

first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic

Amelia Earhart

11

first woman to win 'Young Scientist'

Hannah Eastwood

12

First woman to win oscar for best Dirsctress

Kathryn Bigelow

13

First woman to summit all 14 major peaks

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

14

first woman chairperson of the Federation of Community Forestry Users (FECOFUN)

Apsara Chapagain

15

first woman U.S. Army surgeon

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

16

First woman to head save the children organization

Carolyn Miles

17

first woman guilty of genocide

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

18

first woman to be inaugurated as a Mbanderu 'paramount chief'.

Aletha Karikondua Nguvauva

19

The first woman to run the Boston Marathon

Roberta Louise Gibb

20

first woman to graduatein the World

Elena Cornaro