Germaine Ford de Maria
Germaine Ford de Maria was a French philanthropist who funded Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt’s excavation of the Valley of the Queens in the 1980s, among other cultural and environmental causes.
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Minnie Turner
British activist in politics and social justice, particularly women’s suffrage.
Martha Gunn
English businesswoman and “Queen of the Dippers”
Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Anita Roddick
As well as founder of the Body Shop, she was also an energetic human rights, social justice and environmental campaigner; she became a well-known and admired woman all around the world.
Gertrude Denman
Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.
Yang Naimei
Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor
Pearl Ing
Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.
Harriet Elphinstone-Dick
On the 9 September 1875, in rough open water Harriet Elphinstone-Dick swam seven miles from Shoreham Harbour to Brighton’s West Pier. She completed the distance in a record making 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was regarded as one of the greatest swimming feats of the time.
Barbara Uthmann
Foundress of the lace industry in her community.