Let's go with Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace. She was more or less the first female computer scientist. I learned this from a cheap Google search for "dead female British mathematicians." I tried to figure it out without google, but got nowhere so I figured I'd just cheat my way to the possible win. :)
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Not cheating. That's logical :)
And yes, you won Guess what I am game round #1 !
The reason why i chose her is that she is one of the earliest computer programmer and a computer program language was actually named after her and the language is called "ada" The answer: Ada Lovelace http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-ada-lovelace
Check out here: http://www.biography.com/people/ada-lovelace-20825323
Round 2 tomorrow. Won't be easy. Watch out for it :-)
Hooray!!!