Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
Vietnamese revolutionary leader within the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.
Vietnamese revolutionary leader within the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.
New Zealand nurse who served in WWI
Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).
Dutch sculptor and painter who she played a significant role in the anti-Nazi Dutch Resistance
Notable figure in the French Resistance during World War II.
Dutch resistance fighter during World War II, renowned as “the girl with the red hair.”
Women like Queen Mary Thomas, Queen Agnes Salomon, and Queen Mathilda McBean led the 1878 Fireburn labor rebellion, known as the Queens of the Fireburn.
Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter
One of the only known onna-bugeisha (female samurais) in Japan’s history
Qiu Jin (秋瑾) was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and author who joined a failed uprising against the Qing dynasty and is celebrated as a national heroine, a martyr for republicanism and feminism.