Sybil Kathigasu
Malysian Eurasian nurse and midwife during WWII who assisted resistance to the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
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Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Ellen Downing
Irish poet
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim
Columnist, newspaper editor and promoter of the Irish language
Davina Whitehouse
Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Eilís Dillon
Irish writer
Joss Shawyer
New Zealand activist and single mother Joss Shawyer campaigned for the rights of single mothers from the 1970s.
Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain
New Zealand activist and writer
Anne Devlin
Irish nationalist and heroine
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.