Mary Anne Locke
Irish distiller and philanthropist
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Adelaide of Susa
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
Anna Hierta-Retzius
Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist
Agnes McCullough
Irish teacher, activist and philanthropist
Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
Marie Leszczyńska
France’s longest-serving queen
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
Pioneering American feminist, educator, and social reformerof the 1800s
Pari Khan Khanum
Daughter of Shah Tahmasp, Pari Khan Khanum took on a political role during her father’s reign, helping him to rule during his last years of illness in 1500s Iran.
Jahanara Begum
Mughal princess and Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
Germaine Ford de Maria
Germaine Ford de Maria was a French philanthropist who funded Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt’s excavation of the Valley of the Queens in the 1980s, among other cultural and environmental causes.