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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 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.

Ruth Cheney Streeter

The first director of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II.

Barbara of Ernecourt

Countess de St. Belmont who defended her people during the Thirty Years War

Amanirenas

Warrior queen of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.