* Jean Annett

..... FIRST Lady Commodore in South Wales

* Jean Gardner Batten

 born September 16th 1909 died 1982

..... New Zealander who was the FIRST woman to make a flight across the South Atlantic when in November 1935 she made a solo flight from England to Argentina. She was also the FIRST woman to complete a solo round trip between England and Australia after a trip of seventeen days and fifteen hours and the FIRST person to hold both the England-Australia and Australia-England solo flights

* Jean Blackwood

..... FIRST woman to command an all-male British Regiment of 500 TA volunteers in 1982 when she began work at the Bristol headquarters of the 37th (Wessex and Welsh) Signals Regiment

* Jean Graham Hall

 born March 26th 1917

..... FIRST woman President of the Gray's Inn Debating Society 

* Jean Haslam

..... FIRST person to win a prestigious new lifelong learning award when she received the BT Skills Award in recognition of her lifetime achievements in 2002. She was also the FIRST woman and FIRST Briton to be awarded the Commander's Medal, America's highest civilian honour and the FIRST woman to be awarded a fellowship by the Chartered Institute of Transport. She helped to mastermind transport at Burtonwood in Warrington when it was occupied by  the Americans during the Second World War

* Jean Harlow

born March 3rd 1911 died 1937

..... American star who was the screens FIRST blond goddess. She was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City and took her stage name from her mothers maiden name. Her screen persona was as the impudent, tough, wise cracking, slatternly and sexually voracious girl, giving as good as she got. She wore clinging satin dresses and no bra and was known as the Platinum Blonde. She was married 5 times and made many films with Clark Gable but died at the young age of 26 through uremic poisoning having been prevented medical treatment, which might have helped her, as her mother was a Christian Scientist. Three of her best known films are - Hells Angels (1930) Red Dust (1932) and Bombshell (1933)

* Jean Hawkes

..... FIRST British woman to set foot on French soil during the D-Day landings after she had volunteered for active service with an RAF mobile field hospital. In 1942 she was awarded the Associates of the Royal Red Cross Medal for her work when an RAF hospital in London was bombed and was later awarded the MBE (Military Division)

* Jean Jones

..... FIRST British patient to have a combined heart and lung transplant at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.  The operation lasted 15 hours and she received the heart and lungs of a man who had been killed in a road accident

* Jean Illingworth

..... FIRST married woman ordained at the same Anglican service as her husband when made a deaconess in September 1981

* Jean Judge

..... FIRST woman to run the National Catholic Marriage Advisory Council

* Jean MacNamara

 born 1899 died 1968

..... introduced the FIRST artificial respirator (iron lung) into Australia

* Jean McFarlane

.....  FIRST Professor of Nursing in England when appointed to the new Chair at Manchester in 1974 

* Jean Muir

..... FIRST winner of Ford Motors British Design Award for 1989. The presentation - the first in a series organised by Ford Britain with British Vogue was made at the start of her showing of her Spring/Summer collection

* Jean Palmer

 .....  FIRST person in Britain to be evicted from her home because of the noise from her dogs

* Jean Roberts

..... Scottish woman who from 1960-63 was the FIRST woman Lord Provost of Glasgow

* Jean Rook

born 13th November 1931 died 1991

..... successful journalist in a male-dominated world who became known as the " First Lady of Fleet street" and also owned up to being the original model for Private Eye's feminine columnist Glenda Slag.  Whilst at Bedford College, London, she became the FIRST woman to edit the student newspaper Sennet and was also the FIRST journalist to enter the same cage as a pair of man-eating Bengal tigers

* Jean Savory

 born December 10th 1920 died 2000

..... born at Edmonton, north London, she was one of the FIRST volunteers to join the London Auxiliary Fire Service as war approached.  In the midst of the London Blitz in 1940 she co-ordinated the work of crews struggling to save St Paul's. In 1968 she became one of the few firewomen to receive a Long Service Medal for 20 years with the AFS

* Jean Stewart

..... one of the FIRST women Chief Superintendents in the UK when she served with Lancashire County

* Jean Wadds

..... FIRST woman High Commissioner for Canada in Britain, Canada's top diplomatic post in Europe and had to be made an honorary member of the all-male Canada Club because it was a club tradition to invite the High Commissioner to chair the dinners. It was stressed however that the club, which was founded in 1810, had no intention of changing its constitution to admit women