Nathalie Lemel
Militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871
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Ana Néri
Pioneer of nursing in Brazil who served during the Paraguayan War (1864-1870).
Maria
Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.
Martha Christina Tiahahu
Moluccan (Indonesia) freedom fighter against the Dutch colonizers
Sofka Skipwith
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
Tatiana Markus
When Kyiv fell under German occupation in 1941, Markus joined the underground resistance. She carried out sabotage missions, often disguised as innocent gestures, like throwing a grenade hidden as a bouquet. Using a false identity as “Marcousisse,” she worked at an officer’s dining facility, poisoning SS officers’ meals and eliminating a valuable Gestapo informant.
Marcella LeBeau
Prominent Lakota woman celebrated for her service as a nurse and military veteran.
Mildred Harnack
American literary historian, translator, and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime.
Narchat
Moksha Queen who ruled over the land of Moxel in the 1200s
Marianne Joachim
Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi era, actively involved with the “Prenzlauer Berg Antifascist Group” (Antifaschistischen Gruppe im Prenzlauer Berg Berlin / AGiP).