9. Emma Watson
Paris-born brit Emma Watson (actress, activist, and model) first captured our hearts back in 2001 when she portrayed the iconic character of Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Being the object of a mass of pre-teen boy crushes as she played Hermione through the yearly progressions of the Harry Potter film franchise, Emma Watson is now a full-fledged woman, and all those multitudes of boy crushes have now become man crushes.
Not merely a stunning beauty and extremely talented actress, Emma Watson is a great woman in every sense of the word, having been extremely active and vocal concerning women’s rights, particularly the global right to education for young girls.
She delivered an iconic speech to the New York City UN Headquarters in September 2014, during which she advocated for men to start advocating for gender equality. After receiving death threats following her speech, Watson said, “If they were trying to put me off [of doing this work], it did the opposite.”
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