Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (624-705) was empress consort of China through her marriage to Emperor Gaozong, and later became empress dowager and regent for her sons Zhongzong and Ruizong. She later became the first empress regnant of China.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
One of the most famous queens of medieval western Europe. Crowned queen of both France and England, her long life and several heirs, and position as one of the wealthiest duchesses of western Europe, enabled her to exert great influence in the Anglo-French sphere.
Trưng Trắc
The Trung sisters organised an army – composed mostly of women – and rose up against the Chinese regime, eventually securing Vietnamese independence from China for the first time in 150 years.
Artemisia I of Caria
Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey
Gorgo of Sparta
The clever and heroic wife of Leonidas in ancient Sparta.
Isabel Calvimontes
She was a heroine of civil life during a period when the conditions in Argentina were chaotic.
Manuela Beltrán
Colombian patriot
Madeleine de Verchères
Canadian heroine, who defended her father’s fort against an Iroquois attack when she was just 14.
Laskarina Bouboulina
Heroine of the Greek Revolution of 1821-28
Mariana Bracetti
Puerto Rican heroine