Zsuzsanna Lorántffy
Advocate for Hungarian culture and education, and military leader
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Sophie Mannerheim
Reformer of the training of nurses in Finland.
Růžena Svobodová
Czech writer
Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Barbara Bodichon
An artist, social reformer, women’s rights campaigner and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, Barbara Bodichon challenged the status quo from day one.
Margaret Pearse
Irish politician and teacher
Adela Pankhurst
Revolutionary socialist, feminist and exiled daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Carlota Matienzo y Roman
Puerto Rican teacher and feminist
Leona Vicario
Heroine of Mexican Independence
Mercedes Abrego
Colombian independence heroine