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Iordana Nikolaeva Filaretova

Bulgarian who cared for the needy

Josefa Jacoba Jované

First lady of Panama from 1908 to 1910

Hedwig Dransfeld

German writer and activist

The Bolivian Yungas forests are home to the Afro-Bolivian kingdom. At the centre is Mururata, where lives ‘el rey afroboliviano’ or ‘the Afro-Bolivian king’ Julio Bonifaz Pinedo and queen consort Angélica Larrea.

Margaret Hardy

Brighton’s first female mayor

Minna Cauer

German pedagogue, activist in the feminist movement, pacifist and journalist.

Mary Todd Lincoln

U.S. First Lady during the American Civil War

Maria Konopnicka

Writer of lyrics, poems, dramatic sketches, novels, and commentaries on literature, who translated many masterpieces of French, Czech and German literature.

Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė

Lithuanian writer, democrat and educator

Ngalifourou

Ngalifourou was the last Queen of the Teke, or Bateke, people in the Tio kingdom (a region located in Gabon, Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo).