Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner.

Dame Jane Goodall

Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family…

Delia Derbyshire

Delia paved the way for the use of tape manipulation and sampling in early hip-hop. She joined the BBC as a Trainee Studio Assistant…

Hedy Lamarr

Hedys creative ideas included an improved traffic light system, a tablet that dissolved in water to make a fizzy drink and a frequency…

Marie Curie

Marie is celebrated for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only…

Grace Hopper

Grace popularised the idea ofmachine-independent programming languages, and invented the compiler, which converts code written in one…

Ada Lovelace

Ada was a 19th century mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose…

Kim Swift

Renowned games designer, best known for her work at video game developer and distributor Valve.

Inge and Claudia

Inge & Claudia are heavy jet pilots for Lufthansa Cargo. 

Anne-Marie Imafidon

Anne-Marie was a child prodigy in computing, mathematics, and language, and became the youngest-ever graduate with a Master’s Degree at the…