Betsy Miller
During the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, Elizabeth Miller achieved the distinction of being the only woman before or since entered as Captain of a merchant vessel in the Lloyd’s British Registry of Tonnage.
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Nora Sipos
Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward
Anne Esdall
1700s Irish printer, publisher, and bookseller
Elizabeth Mary Palmer
New Zealand composer, singer and businesswoman
Elizabeth Watts
Irish printer, stationer, and ‘bookseller to the courts of law’ in the 1700s
Mary Anne Locke
Irish distiller and philanthropist
Dorice Reid
Cook Islands businesswoman, judge and tourism official Dorice Reid was active for decades until her death in 2011, and held the title Te Tika Mataiapo.
Rachel Pringle Polgreen
In the 1770s and 1780s, hotelier and brothel owner Rachel Pringle Polgreen was one of the first mulatto women to own and operate a business in colonial Barbados.
Irene Gilbert
Irish fashion designer
Sarah Harding
Dublin printer and publisher