Prominent Seychellois educator, linguist, diplomat, and politician. Her enduring legacy lies in her advocacy for the defense and promotion of Seychellois Creole, striving for its recognition as the national language of the Seychelles.
Celticist and literary scholar
Irish academic and political activist
Irish WWII resistance worker and language teacher
Irish folksong collector, Irish language enthusiast, and political activist
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Bengali poet and translator
Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer known for her exceptional learning and her defense of female education.
Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight.
English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.