Maria Feodorovna
Maria Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I, and the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria, an imperial government charitable agency.
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Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina I was the granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Augustus, and played a key role in the succession struggles under Tiberius (who ruled C.E. 14–37).
Ángela Jeria
Chilean archaeologist, the mother of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the wife of the Chilean Air Force
Zhang Yao’er
Zhang Yao’er (章要兒).z was an empress of the Chinese Chen Dynasty
Mama Ocllo
Mama Ocllo was a princess and queen consort (Coya), of the Inca Empire
Naqi’a
Naqi’a was influential in the politics of the Assyrian throne 680–627 B.C.E., serving in an advisory role under the title of queen mother.
Pulcheria
Aelia Pulcheria ruled as regent of the Eastern Roman Empire during the minority of her brother Theodosius II and then empress in her own right from July 450 to her death in 453.
Shirley Clarke Franklin
In 2001, Shirley Clarke Franklin became Atlanta, Georgia’s first African American female mayor, as well as the first African-American woman to be a mayor of a major southern US city.
Martha Érika Alonso
A Mexican politician and member of the National Action Party (PAN), Martha Érika Alonso served as the first female governor of Puebla from 14 December 2018 until her death ten days later in a helicopter crash. As the wife of her predecessor, she had served as the state’s first lady from Februray 2011 to February 2017.
Teresa Leger Fernandez
Teresa Leger Fernandez is an American attorney and politician who was elected in 2020 Representative for New Mexico’s 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first Latina to represent New Mexico’s third congressional district