Running Eagle
1800s Native American war chief of the Blackfeet tribe.
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Amanirenas
Warrior queen of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.
Nur Jahan
Ruler of the Mughal Empire (almost all of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and large parts of northern and central India) in the 1600s
Micaela Bastidas
Born in Tamburco in 1744, Micaela was ruler of the chiefdoms of Tungasuca, Surimana and Pampamarca, Peru
Kolomt’e K’abel
Powerful warrior queen in seventh century Guatemala
Nexhmije Hoxha
Albanian Communist Nexhmije Hoxha was the first lady of Socialist Albania for more than 40 years, from 1944 to 1985, as the wife of Enver Hoxha. She was one of the few spouses of a ruling Communist party leader to gain her own high political profile.
Cockacoeske
Leader of the Pamunkey people in colonised Virginia in the 1600s
Lü
The empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, and was the first woman to hold the title of Empress of China. She is typically portrayed as the first woman to have ruled over a united China.
Mọremí Àjàṣorò
Queen Moremi was a renowned Yoruba queen from the Yorubaland region of modern-day southwestern Nigeria.
Ranavalona I
Queen of Madagascar