AAbraham Adolf Fraenkel

* 1891-1965, German-born Israeli Jewish male* First Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem* Awarded Israel Prize for exact sciences (1956)* Known for work in Set Theory

BEnriqueta González Baz* 1915-2002, Mexican female* Founded the Mexican Mathematical Society* First woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico (National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico)* Translated Topology by Solomon Lefschetz's

CChris Matthews

* ?-Present, Aboriginal (Quandamooka) male* Chair of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Math Alliance (ATSIMA)* Developed method of teaching math through dance and stories to relate to Aboriginal students* Earned PhD in applied math from Griffith University

DDorothy Vaughan* 1910-2010, African American female* Human computer for NASA, first African American to supervise computers at NASA* Taught herself and her staff FORTRAN (programming language) to help in the Space Race against Russia

EElbert Frank Cox* 1895-1969, African American male* First black person in the world to receive a PhD in Mathematics (from Cornell in 1925)* Studied Euler polynomials, Boole summation* Taught for most of his career at Howard University (Washington D.C.)

FFan Chung* 1949-Present, Taiwanese-American female* Known for work on spectral graph theory, extremal graphs, and random graphs* First female tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania* Led the Mathematics division at Bell Labs

GGraciela Salicrup* 1935-1982, Mexican female* Known for her work in categorical topology* Parents thought her interest in math indicated a mental problem, sent her to a psychiatrist* Published work in Spanish, so her mathematical contributions not recognized until after death

HGrace Hopper* 1906-1992, Caucasian American female* Computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral* Earned PhD in Math from Yale* Invented first computer compiler* Coined the term “debugging”* Awarded Presidential Medal of Honor in 2016

IIzabella Łaba* 1966-Present, Polish-Canadian female* Earned PhD in math from Univ. of Toronto* Professor of math at Univ. of British Columbia* Co-founded the Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics* Winner of Coxeter–James Prize (2004) and Krieger–Nelson Prize (2008)

JJama Musse Jama* 1967-Present, Somali male* Ethnomathematician known for research about traditional Somali board games* Earned PhD in computational linguistics from Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" * Activist for Somali education and Somali diaspora

KSofia Kovalevskaya

* 1850-1891, Russian lesbian female* First woman to obtain doctorate in math* First woman appointed full professor in Northern Europe* Contracted a fake marriage so she could be allowed to pursue advanced studies (needed father’s or husband’s permission at the time)

LAda Lovelace* 1815-1852, English female* Published first algorithm (program) to be run by the Analytical Engine (first computer)* Countess who called herself a “poetical scientist”* Tutored in mathematics by Mary Somerville

MMaryam Mirzakhani* 1977-2017, Iranian female* Only woman to win Fields Medal (highest math prize)* First female Iranian to earn gold medal in International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong * Made many original contributions to geometry and dynamical systems * Professor at Princeton and Stanford Univ.

NNgô Bảo Châu* 1972-Present, Vietnamese-French male* First Vietnamese national to receive the Fields Medal (highest math prize) in 2010* Proved the Fundamental Lemma for unitary and generally reproductive groups

OHee Oh* 1969-Present, South Korean female* Earned PhD from Yale, bachelors from Seoul National University* First female tenured professor at Yale* Known for work in dynamical systems

PSophie Piccard* 1904-1990, Russian-Swiss female* First female full professor in Switzerland* Founded and directed the Center of Pure Mathematics* Published over 100 mathematical articles into her eighties

QAl-Qalasadi* 1412-1486, Spanish Muslim male* Known for introduction of algebraic symbolism* Studied mathematics under local Berber scholars* When The Catholic Monarchs raided his home of Baza, he fled to Tunisia with his family

RRichard Tapia* 1938-Present, Chicano* National Medal of Science winner (2011)* Named “University Professor” at Rice University* Earned PhD from UCLA* First Hispanic elected to National Academy of Engineering

SScott Duane* ?-Present, American transgender male* Earned PhD from UC San Diego* Fired from IXL Learning after complaining about discrimination* Founder of “Visible Bodies: Transgender Narratives Retold” (transgender community art initiative)

TAlan Turing* 1912-1954, English gay male* Considered to be father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence* Leader in decrypting Enigma code messages in World War II* Designed first computer chess program in 1953

UJohn Urschel

VVictor Neumann-Lara* 1933-2004, Mexican male* Pioneer in the field of graph theory in Mexico* Taught over 100 math courses * Earned bachelor's from UNAM and became a professor and senior researcher there

* 1991-Present, Canadian-American Black male* Baltimore Ravens guard ‘14-’16 (started 13 games)* Doctoral candidate in Math at MIT, Bachelors and Masters in Math from Penn State University* 2017: Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in science* Co-host of ChessTV's Urschel Learns Chess

WWu Wen-tsün

* 1919-2017, Chinese male* Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and earned PhD from University of Strasbourg* Discovered the Wu class and Wu formula in algebraic topology* In 1966, sent to work in a factory manufacturing computers when Communist Party of China sent intellectuals to manual jobs - led Wu to create new way of studying geometry on computer

XHoàng Xuân Sính* 1906-1992, Vietnamese female* First female mathematician and first female full professor in Vietnam* Founder of Thang Long University (first private university in Vietnam)* Earned doctorate from Paris Diderot University

YGrace Chisholm Young

* 1868-1944, English female* First woman to receive doctorate in Germany* Early publications made under name of her husband (William Henry Young)* Awarded Gamble Prize for Mathematics (1915) for her work in calculus

ZAhmad Zainy al-Yasry* ?-Present, Iraqi male* Specializes in noncommutative geometry* Survived assassination attempt in Baghdad* Earned PhD from University of Bonn and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics* Winner of Excellence Award for the top Iraqi Universities Graduates in Math (2001)