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 45. Sarojini Naidu For being one of the stalwarts of India's freedom movement and being the first woman president of the Indian National Congress and Governor of Uttar Pradesh. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) 
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 44. Rosa Parks African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man started the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, the precursor to the US civil rights movement.
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 43. Florence Nightingale Foundational philosopher of modern nursing, statistician, and social reformer.
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 42. Toni Morrison American writer noted for her examination of the experience within the black community. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
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 41. Maria Montessori Italian educator and originator of the educational system that bears her name. The Montessori system is based on belief in the child's creative potential, his drive to learn, and his right to be treated as an individual.
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