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![Hélène Dutrieu](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Dutrieu.jpg/300px-H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Dutrieu.jpg)
Hélène Dutrieu in her airplane in 1911. Dutrieu was the fourth woman in the world to earn a pilot's license and possibly the first to carry passengers. She was the first woman to earn the French Legion of Honor for aviation. She was also world cycling champion, a stunt motorcyclist, an automobile racer, a wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital.