Ada Verdun Howell 
Origin/Culture/Country: AustalianAda Verdun Howell: was an Australian author and poet. Born in Beaufort, Victoria, on her father's sheep property, she was educated at Ruytons Girls' School. Her sister was the artist Valma Howell. She lived in New York in the latter part of her life where she wrote most of her most famous works. Her early writing, which she later eschewed as adolescent, showed considerable skill utilising Indigenous Australian phonetic forms of her childhood in Western Victoria. She is best known for her later writing, much praised for its great formal and feminine qualities, as an early sound poet.
Ada Perkins Origin/Culture/Country: Puerto RicanAda Perkins: was a Puerto Rican beauty queen who represented her island in the Miss Universe beauty pageant in 1978. She is the only Miss Puerto Rico to die as a result of an automobile accident.Perkins was a model who participated in television commercials for various companies, among them: "Chicklets Adams", "Texaco", Salem cigarette" and for the "Milk Industries of Puerto Rico". In 1978, she represented Puerto Rico in the Miss Teen International beauty pageant held in Oranjestad, Aruba. Perkins came in 3rd place.[1]
Ada Maimon Origin/Culture/Country: IsraeliAda Maimon: was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1955.A participant in its founding convention, she also served on the executive committee of the Histadrut trade union. In 1921 she was amongst the founders of the Women's Workers Movement, and was its secretary until 1930. In that year she estabished the Eyanot study centre in Ness Ziona.
Ada Cornaro Origin/Culture/Country: ArgentineAda Cornaro: was a prominent Argentine film and theatre actress, tango dancer and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.Although she entered film in 1924 her claim to fame was in the 1930 tango film hit Adiós Argentina in which she starred alongside icon Libertad Lamarque.She appeared in tango films such as Alas de mi patria (1939), Academia El Tango Argentino and Así te quiero (1942) and Apasionadamente (1944).
Ada Falcón Origin/Culture/Country: ArgentineAda Falcón: was an Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She starred in the film Idolos de la radio in 1934. She was famous for her tango work and made over 200 recordings in the 1920s and 1930s. She shared a long relationship with orchestra leader Francisco Canaro. She mysteriously disappeared from the limelight in 1942 and lived as a recluse until she died in 2002 at age 96.
