Valentina Ramírez
Soldadera who inspired the Carrancista corrido (ballad) “La Valentina” and fought at the side of General Ramón F. Iturbide in the Mexican Revolution
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Grissel Gómez Estrada
Mexican poet
Margarita Neri
Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution.
María Quinteras de Meras
Col. María Quinteras de Meras was a coronela whom Pancho Villa highly respected. She proved herself in the ten battles she fought during her three years in his rebel army from 1910-1913.
Aura Xilonen
Mexican writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Ayari Velázquez
Mexican writer
Luz Corral
Although Pancho Villa went on to marry many other women, Corral is considered his first wife, and the only one to have contributed to his political career.
Graciela Salicrup
Graciela Salicrup trained as an architect and then worked as an archaeologist. She became a mathematics undergraduate at the age of 29 and went on to the become a leading topologist.
Dr Vera Spinadel
Vera W de Spinadel was the first woman to be awarded a mathematics Ph.D. by the University of Buenos Aires. She was an Argentine mathematician whose main contributions were to mathematics in architecture, art, and design. She introduced the “metallic means family” which generalises the Golden Ratio.
Guacolda Lazzerini
Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini was a mathematics teacher at both school and university level in Chile. She made many contributions to the development of education in Chile during her long active life.