This document lists and describes 8 of the most famous women in history: Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated for President by a major party; Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt and famous beauty; Anne Frank, whose diary of hiding from Nazis became a widely read book; Oprah Winfrey, a successful talk show host and businesswoman; Mother Teresa, a nun who founded an order to care for the sick and poor in India and won a Nobel Peace Prize.

2. The most famous women

3. 8 – Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, First Lady as wife to President Bill Clinton (1994-2001). She was an
attorney and reform advocate before moving to the White House. Then Hillary Clinton, made
history by being elected to the Senate and running for President herself. She is the 67th
United States Secretary of State today.
07 – Cleopatra
Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. The most well known by far of the queens called
“Cleopatra”, she is the one usually meant when this name is mentioned. Cleopatra was a
woman of intelligence and charisma, later celebrated as a great beauty.
06 – Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl in the Netherlands.She kept a diary during the time when
she and her family were hiding from the Nazis. Unfortunately she didn’t survive her time in a
concentration camp, but her diary has become one of the world’s most widely read books.
She was the most discussed Jewish victim of the Holocaust.
05 – Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, is an African-american talk show host.She is also one of America’s most
successful business people and a philanthropist.
8 most famous women in history

4. 04 – Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian
ethnicity and Indian citizenship,
who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. .
For over 45 years, she devote
herself to caring for the sick and poor. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
03 – Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005) was an African-American civil rights activist,
whom the U.S. Congress called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the
freedom movement”.
02 – Madonna
• Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone; August 16, 1958) is an American singer,
songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. May be she isn’t as important as Mother Teresa,
but her fame is known all over the world more than her. Probably that’s because she is
an hard worker and doesn’t stop to produce new materials even she is getting older.
• 01 – Marilyn Monroe
Basically an icon. Marilyn Monroe, actress who was discovered while
working in a World War II defense plant, epitomized a certain image for
women in the 1940s and 1950s. She starred in a number of commercially
successful motion pictures during the 1950s.