Agnes TuiSamoa
Agnes TuiSamoa spent a lifetime supporting and campaigning for the rights of her fellow Pacific Islanders in Auckland, both new migrants and their New Zealand-born children.
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Wilma Smith
Violinist Wilma Smith maintained a strong profile as soloist and chamber musician in Australasia.
Dr Mary Ann Augustin
Prominent CSIRO scientist whose main area of research is in protein structure and immunoparasitology.
Savita Halappanavar
Halappanavar’s preventable death was the catalyst for change in Irish abortion laws
Cixi
Empress Dowager, the most famous woman in Chinese history
Kiyo Minijima
Japanese businesswoman and philanthropist
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages
Concepción Felix
Feminist, lawyer, social reformer and human rights activist Concepción Felix Roque founded one of the Philippines’s first women’s organisations, Asociación Feminista Filipina, and one of the first humanitarian organisations, La Gota de Leche, focused on the well-being of mothers and their children.
Fan Chung
Fan Chung is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician who works mainly in graph theory.
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Sun-Yung Alice Chang is a Chinese born American mathematician whose research interests include the study of certain geometric types of nonlinear partial differential equations and the related extremal inequalities and problems in isospectral geometry.