200 inspiring people

[LadyBuffOfBuffdonia]

I've been inspired by another poster's inclusion of a modern day hero in a thread.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Cohen-Hatton
I'm a teacher currently on maternity leave and would like to do a 'hero a day' when I go back. I'll put the resource on tes as well so others can share it when I have a full set.
I need 200 inspiring people for the list. I'd like it to be representative of society. Obviously at least 50 percent women. At least 20% non white ethnicity and at least 20% disabled.
Ideally I would like people still alive, as I think there are enough lists about inspiring dead people. I'd like it to be the challenge to Kardashian and influencer culture.
I figured I will get some good suggestions on the feminist board. Kardashian's need not apply.

Ellen MacArthur

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_MacArthur

Malala Yousafzai

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

David Aguilar

www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-lego-prosthetic-arm-idUSKCN1PW155

Warsan Shire

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/warsan-shire

You'll get a few off this - black, female professor portraits at the Southbank www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/phenomenal-women

Maggie Aderin Pocock

Jane Garvey (from Woman's Hour) has started a new series about life-changing events. She interviewed a woman called Grace Spence Green who was a trainee doctor and was out shopping one day in a mall and a man fell from the third floor and landed on top of her, causing her to be paralysed. It was one of the most inspirational podcasts I've heard. It's Spence Green here. She is absolutely amazing.

Anna McNuff www.annamcnuff.com/barefootbritain/

Hibo Wardere twitter.com/HiboWardere

Thanks everyone. Great stuff. FYI I want to use it in primary, so no one with dodgy hobbies or nude photos etc please. (I'm sure you already thought of that!)

Oh sorry, I was thinking of secondary school.

Natalie du Toit.
Doreen Lawrence.
Hibo Wardere.
Bea Dean-Lewis.

I think your entry is fine for primary if it's presented in the right way.
I'd like to include Hibo but that's the kind of thing I would have to check with parents.

I'll maybe tag ten or so (190 days in a school year) on at the end with parental guidance warning.

Tim Berners-Lee has to be in your list.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Are you just looking at the UK or globally?

Sarah Gilbert heads up the Oxford covid vaccine team, secured funding to rapidly develop her existing project back in January 2020 as the virus news came out of China en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Gilbert

Ada Lovelace

Hmmm I'd like the UK but willing to expand for someone really good.

Claudia Jones

Any local heroes like this lady would be good too.
inews.co.uk/news/uk/hijab-wearing-firefighter-blazes-trail-women-fire-service-975691

Evelyn Glennie

Mary Barbour rent strike leader.
Dagenham women

Khadijah Mellah and Lee Pearson.

Could point out at the same time that equestrian events are the only Olympics mixed sex discipline.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

JK Rowling? For a number of reasons.
Baroness Hale
Ebony Rainford-Brent

Lewis Hamilton
Chris packham (neuro diverse)
George Elliot
Nicola Adams
Kelly Smith
Jessica Ennis Hill
Mary Beard