Ann Hui
Ann Hui On-wah, BBS MBE is a Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter and actress and one of the Hong Kong New Wave’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers.
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Aasta Hansteen
Norwegian feminist writer and artist
Thérèse de Dillmont
In 1884 needleworker Thérèse de Dillmont left the embroidery school that she had started with her sister Franziska and moved to France, where she wrote her Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886).
Teréz Karacs
Teréz Karacs was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist and women’s rights activist.
Kartini
Kartini was an Indonesian national hero, a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women’s rights for Indonesians.
Andrea Villarreal
Andrea Villarreal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary.
Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla is an American comedian and actor.
Lillemor Rachlew
Lillemor Rachlew was one of four Norwegians who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937, for whom the Four Ladies Bank in Prydz Bay was named.
Mina Shum
Mina Shum is the writer and director of award-winning feature films and several short films. I
Julia Peterkin
Julia Peterkin was an American author who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary.