Yang Naimei
Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor
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Pearl Ing
Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.
Esther Eng
Early Chinese-American filmmaker
A Nong
Shamaness, matriarch and warrior A Nong was a prominent figure among the Zhuang and Nùng people in the 11th century.
Herabai Tata
Indian women’s rights activist and suffragist
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai
Ālenush Teriān
Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist Ālenush Teriān has been called the ‘Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy’.
Sei Shōnagon
Poet and author Sei Shōnagon was a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子, makura no sōshi), a collection of essays, anecdotes, poems and descriptive passages inspired by moments in her daily life.
Wáng Zhènyì
Qing dynasty scientist Wang Zhenyi accomplished much in her short life, excelling particularly in astronomy, mathematics and poetry.
Sybil Kathigasu
Malysian Eurasian nurse and midwife during WWII who assisted resistance to the Japanese occupation of Malaya.