Velvalee Dickinson
American who spied for Japan during World War II.
American who spied for Japan during World War II.
Belgian national heroine and WWII spy
American sculptor and spy
Colombian independence heroine
New Zealand-British cryptographer and the first female commander in Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters during World War II.
Irish undercover SOE agent during World War II
English war-nurse, head of a nurses’ training school in Brussels, where she attended German as well as Allied soldiers during the European War. In August 1915, she was accused by the German military authorities of Belgium of assisting prisoners to escape, and in October was condemned to be shot by a firing squad of German soldiers.
Olive Clio Hazlett was an American mathematician who worked in algebra. Between 1914 and 1930 she published fourteen papers that were presented at meetings of the American Mathematical Society. She did outstanding work for the Cryptanalysis Committee during World War II.
Joan Clarke was one of the English mathematicians recruited to work on wartime German codes with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park.
During the US Civil War, runaway slave couple Dabney and Lucy Ann Walker provided Union General Joseph Hooker with valuable intelligence.