11 most dangerous women in the history of Mankind – #3 was a prostitute (With Photos)

10. Ada Lovelace: Women & Technology Do Mix

For those of us forced to learn the “history of computers,” we may remember the name Ada Lovelace with the same frequency as Charles Babbage. For if Charles Babbage was the father of computers, Ada Lovelace was certainly its fairy godmother.

While Charles thought of computers as a calculating machine, it was Ada who saw the potential of a machine like this and created the very first “algorithm” of what a computer could do. In effect, she is the first ever computer programmer!

What many don’t know is that she was also the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the poet, though she never actually met her father after he abandoned her when she was a month old, and died when she was eight. Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace was pushed toward mathematics and logics by her bitter mother who hated both her ex-husband and literature with a vengeance, and she really did do the world a favor, though like many others, she died too soon at 36 in 1852.

Ada Lovelace was dangerous for she paved the way for women and technology, a cocktail the world still finds bitter.

9. Griselda Blanco: The Murderous Queen Of Cocaine

Most movies portray the drug mafia as having its own brutal and feudal drug lords and drug kings who rule with an iron first. But they all could probably take notes from “grandmotherly Griselda” who bloodied the streets of Miami for decades, ruling the drug world with her style of bloody vengeance.

Griselda was Colombian by birth and involved in the drug trade since her teenage years. Her education was all about plying drugs. She had 20 aliases, was moving 300 kilos of cocaine on a monthly basis, and was feared by even the most hardened of Colombian cartels.

She sort of invented the motorcycle drive-by killings that were so popular in the 70s and 80s, innocent bystanders be damned. Unofficial counts say that she orchestrated the killing of at least 250 people and in a rather infamous and legendary show of temper, gunned down her husband and six cohorts, suspecting them of stealing profits. She served 19 years in the US for murder and was then deported to Colombia. There, in a fitting end, she was killed when a motorcyclist shot her.

Dangerous is as dangerous does and Griselda showed the world that when women go bad, they really go rotten!