Chengtian
Empress Chengtian was one of the most well-known and powerful women in the Liao Dynasty, taking after her aunt Empress Yingtian.
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Anna Warner Bailey
American Revolutionary War heroine
Sarah Taylor
Cross-dressing “Manchester Heroine” of the British army in the 1800s
Catalina de Erauso
Spanish-American military heroine
Gudït
Ethiopian queen who brought down the ruling house of Aksum in the tenth century, a dynasty which was not to rise again until c. 1270.
Tarereenore
Aboriginal leader from the nineteenth century that organised an armed resistance against white colonists in now-Tasmania, Australia.
Sophie Cook
Transgender former Labour Party Parliamentary candidate, RAF veteran, Premier League Football photographer, self harm and suicide survivor
Alliquippa
Alliquippa was a prominent leader of the Seneca nation for at least a decade before her death in December 1754.
Awashonks
Awashonks was a sachem, or chief, of the Sakonnet people in present-day Rhode Island, North America. She was not born into this royal role but had proved herself as a powerful leader.
Gabrielle Petit
Belgian national heroine and WWII spy