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Ethel Pritchard

New Zealand nurse who served in WWI

Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).

Hannie Schaft

Dutch resistance fighter during World War II, renowned as “the girl with the red hair.”

Truus Oversteegen

Dutch sculptor and painter who she played a significant role in the anti-Nazi Dutch Resistance

Simone Segouin

Notable figure in the French Resistance during World War II.

Mary Thomas

Women like Queen Mary Thomas, Queen Agnes Salomon, and Queen Mathilda McBean led the 1878 Fireburn labor rebellion, known as the Queens of the Fireburn.

Tamara Bunke

Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter

Nakano Takeko

One of the only known onna-bugeisha (female samurais) in Japan’s history

Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin (秋瑾) was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and author who joined a failed uprising against the Qing dynasty and is celebrated as a national heroine, a martyr for republicanism and feminism.