* Alice Beer

..... FIRST to register as a boarder at Uppingham School in 1999 when it went fully co-educational.  The headmaster allowed the girls to help design their uniforms and even their boarding house

* Alice Guy Blache

  born 1876 died 1968

..... French woman who was the FIRST woman film director in the world and possibly the FIRST director ever of a fiction film when she made La Fée Aux Choux in 1896 ( The Cabbage Fairy). In 1895 she was working as Leon Gaumont's secretary in Paris when the first Lumiére cameras were exhibited and was fascinated by the new technology. She has been credited with the direction of more than 400 hundred one-reelers in France between 1896 and 1907 and more than 300 hundred one-reelers in the USA between 1910 and later 1913.  There are also numerous feature films 

* Alice Childress

born 1920

..... her play Gold Through The Trees was the FIRST play by an African-American woman ever to be professionally produced on the American stage

* Alice Coachman

  born 1925

 ..... FIRST African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal for the high jump when she competed at the World Olympics in London in 1948. She is established as one of the true great athletes in the history of amateur competition

* Alice Evans

 ..... American who was the FIRST woman president of the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1928. She was the scientist who discovered the cause of the deadly disease brucellosis and her findings led to the pasteurisation of milk

* Alice Hamilton

   born 1869 died 1970

 ..... FIRST woman to receive the Lasker Award from the American Public Health Authorities. She gained her MD in 1893 and until 1915 worked with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago. In 1919 she became the FIRST woman Professor of Industrial Medicine at Harvard Medical School provided that she did not use the Harvard Club ( which was strictly men only)

* Alice Hardy

 ( or Harding)

 ..... FIRST recorded businesswoman in England - 1498

* Alice Heine

 ..... American, born in New Orleans, who was the FIRST American Princess of the principality of Monaco when she became the wife of Prince Albert 1 of Monaco in the 1870s

* Alice Hyde

 ..... FIRST to be dubbed 'Miss World' in 1911 when she was 17 years old. At the outset the competition was known as 'Miss Queen of the World' until the organisers came up with the Miss World version 

* Alice K Kurashige

..... the FIRST Japanese American woman to be commissioned in the US Marine Corps

* Alice Blanche Leigh

  born 1855

 ..... FIRST woman champion of the sport of archery. It was the first sport to be taken up with any real success by women and she held an amazing record of 23 British championships spanning 41 years from 1881 to 1922. She was 67 years old when she won her last championship. Between 1882 and 1885 her own mother won the championships from her. World War 1 prevented the events being held between 1915 and 1918

* Alice Marangopoulos

 ….. born in Corfu, where she completed high school. After receiving her degree from the Law School of the University of Athens with honours, Alice Marangopoulos undertook postgraduate studies in Penal Law and Criminology at the Universities of Rome (1952-1954) and Geneva. She was awarded her doctor’s degree (LID) with the highest distinction by the University of Geneva (1973) . As advocate in Athens, she was elected in 1967 to the Board and in 1974-76 as vice president of the Athens Bar Association. In 1976 she was elected and appointed full professor of Criminology the Panteios University of Athens, of which she was elected Rector (President and Chancellor) during 1979-1980 and 1983-84 (FIRST woman President of a University). In 1973 she established, in the same University, a postgraduate seminar in Criminology in which she also taught. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology and President of the Greek Society of Criminology. She is Vice-President of the Greek National Centre of Social Research and the FIRST woman member of the Governing Board of the Bank of Greece

* Alice More & Denise Jones

..... two of the FIRST childcare workers in Salford (U.K) to be given the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership, a new award given for the high quality of care given to Salford children

* Alice Huyler Ramsey

..... FIRST woman to motor across the United States from coast to coast when she set off from Hell's Gate in New York in 1909 with two sisters-in-law and a female friend. Fifty nine days later they ended up in San Francisco. The drive was to promote the company that made the smart green Maxwell 30 motorcar they were in and Alice drove all the way

* Alice Stebbins Wells

..... American who was the FIRST policewoman in the Los Angeles Police Department in 1910. On her first day of service she was given a Gamewell Key, a book of rules, a first aid book and a policeman's badge which entitled the holder to free passes on buses when travelling to and from work. On using this badge she was often accused of misusing her husband's badge and when she drew this to the attention of her superiors she was subsequently issued with Policewoman's Badge No.1. She was allowed to design her own uniform and was active in propagating the need for policewomen elsewhere. As a result of her efforts seventeen departments in American were employing policewomen by 1916

* Alice Woods

..... one of the world's FIRST female football stars who played with the Dick, Kerr's Ladies from Preston. The team was formed during the First World War and took their name from the Dick, Kerr tram factory. Eventually they toured France and America where they took on the men and sometimes beat them.  Their club colours were black and white jerseys and blue shorts and their England colours were white jerseys and blue shorts. They were the undefeated British champions from 1920 to 1921 and were also the holders of seven silver Cups and two sets of Gold medals