Mary Agnes Chase
American botanist specializing in agrostology, the study of grasses.
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Alice Eastwood
Canadian-American botanist known for her pivotal role in curating the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences. She authored over 310 scientific articles and named 395 land plant species, ranking as the fourth most prolific female scientist in this regard.
Mary Thomas
Women like Queen Mary Thomas, Queen Agnes Salomon, and Queen Mathilda McBean led the 1878 Fireburn labor rebellion, known as the Queens of the Fireburn.
Luisa Capetillo
Iconic figure in Puerto Rico’s labor history. An anarchist writer and relentless activist, she championed labor rights, women’s empowerment, free love, and human emancipation.
Lilly Becher
German writer, journalist, and committed communist activist known for being one of the first anti-Nazi authors who documented the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930s.
Tamara Bunke
Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter
Qiu Jin
Qiu Jin (秋瑾) was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and author who joined a failed uprising against the Qing dynasty and is celebrated as a national heroine, a martyr for republicanism and feminism.
Eglantyne Jebb
British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of World War I
Annie Turnbo Malone
Businesswoman, inventor, and philanthropist who was one of the first African American women to become a millionaire.
Elizabeth Torlesse
New Zealander who ran a female refuge in the 1800s