Adelaide of Susa
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
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Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz
Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.
Janie McCarthy
Irish WWII resistance worker and language teacher
Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Anna Politkovskaya
Award-winning Russian journalist
Arsinoe IV
Co-ruler in ancient Egypt
Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.
Jadwiga of Poland
The first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, in the 1300s.
Sayyida Shirin
Regent of most of Jibal during the minority of her son, Majd al-Dawla (r. 997–1029), and served as de facto ruler during his reign.
Tomyris
Queen of the Massagetae who defeated and killed Cyrus the Great