The history classes we took throughout our education touch heavily on the events and people that shaped the country and the world. You probably learned about women like Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Queen Elizabeth.

But there were many other women all around the world who impacted not only their times, and the world, but ours as well:

1. Alice Roosevelt.

Alice Roosevelt was an American socialite during the turn of the century. Her father, Theodore Roosevelt, became the 26th President of the United States when Alice was 17. This made her nearly an instant fashion icon. However, the relevance went far beyond just fashion and her social graces, Alice was also known to interrupt her father in the Oval Office to offer political advice and remained politically active until her death in 1980. She was also known for her witticisms, including mouthing off to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

2. Ada Lovelace.

Ada Lovelace was a mathematician in the 19th century. The daughter of poet Lord Byron. She was imaginative and intelligent from a young age. Her achievements contributed to modern computers and computer scientists. Many credit her with writing the first computer program.

3. Dr. Virginia Apgar.

Dr. Virginia Apgar is credited with creating the Apgar scale, which is a system that helps to determine a newborn's health after birth. This scale helped lower infant mortality rates in the 1950's when it was first implemented. The Apgar scale is still used today. In addition to contributing to neonatology, she was the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

4. Princess Khutulun.

Khutulun was a princess of the Khan's Mongol Empire and the great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan. She is most famous for her wrestling abilities. When her father wanted her to marry, she wrestled all of her suitors. If they won, they could marry her. If she won, they would give her 100 horses. She ended up with what was said to be 10,000 horses. While the true amount is impossible to know, it was a ridiculous amount of horses.

She is remembered as one of the greatest warrior princesses in history. Her story has been rewritten and misinterpreted many times throughout history, but her native Mongolia continues to honor her true story.

5. Sayyida al-Hurra.

Sayyida al-Hurra was the ruler of modern-day Morocco's city-state of Tetouan. Growing up, her family was expelled from Granada, Spain (along with many other Muslim and Jewish peoples). She married the governor of Tetouan and became a co-regent. When her husband died, she became the sole ruler of Tetouan. Much of the prosperity she brought to the region came from attacks on Portuguese and Spanish ships (those responsible for her family's exile from Granada). Earning her the title of a "pirate queen".

6. Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first African American newspaper editor and started a newspaper called "The Provincial Freemen" which was targeted for African Americans and escaped slaves. She was a staunch abolitionist and, despite her family having moved to Canada, she fought against the Confederacy in the American Civil War. After the war, she earned a law degree from Howard University, only the second African American woman to earn the degree.

7. Sophia Duleep Singh.

The goddaughter of Queen Victoria, Sophia Duleep Singh, was born the daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh who famously abdicated the Sikh Empire to the British monarchy. She grew up as a British aristocrat, but in her later life became a vital figure in the British and Indian Suffragette movements. She co-founded the "Women's Franchise League" and was prosecuted for not paying her taxes until women got the vote.

8. Molly Spotted Elk.

Molly Spotted Elk was a Native American ballerina born to the Penobscot Tribe, Maine. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and performed with various vaudeville shows, in New York nightclubs, and eventually a silent film. Her career eventually took her to Paris where she performed traditional Native American dances. Her career often forced her to play stereotyped versions of Native Americans. However, her career was notable and paved the way for other Native American ballerinas like Maria Tallchief, who was the first prima ballerina of the United States.

9. Sylvia Rivera.

Sylvia Rivera is an often forgotten Latina, trans activist born in 1951. She began her activism during the Civil Rights movement and was later present at the Stonewall Riots. She became an early voice for the LGBT community and youth, a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, and the Gay Activists Alliance.

10. Audre Lorde.

Born in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, she struggled with her sight and communication but eventually found a way to communicate through poetry. She attended various universities and worked as a librarian where she was active in the gay culture of Greenwich Village. She eventually became writer-in-residence at Tougaloo College where she not only taught young black students during the Civil Rights era but also rediscovered her voice as a queer black woman poet.

11. Mamie Till-Mobley.

In history class, you may have learned about Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy killed for supposedly flirting with a white woman, but his mother's strength and continued activism after his death are often left out of the curriculum. Mamie Till-Mobley became an educator and activist after her son's death, continuing to tell his story and not allowing to be forgotten. She worked to help children in poverty and worked heavily with the NAACP. Her activism continued even after her death in 2003; her memoir coming out the same year.