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.
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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
Melisende of Jerusalem
Queen of Jerusalem in the 1100s
Henrietta Maria of France
In 1625, Henrietta became the first French queen consort to sit on the English throne since Margaret of Anjou
Cleopatra II
Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt who ruled from 175 to 116 BCE with two successive brother-husbands and her daughter, Cleopatra III.
Vivian Bullwinkel
Vivian Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service in May 1941 and sailed to Singapore. She survived ‘The Bangka Island Massacre,’ where she was shot in the back and pretended to be dead until the Japanese soldiers left. She spent more than three years a prison camp.
Elsie Dalyell
The first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-1912. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-1923 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-1946.
Wanda
Symbol of the heroism and patriotism of Polish womanhood.