Peggy Angus
British artist and designer
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Flora Sassoon
Businesswoman, philanthropist and Hebrew scholar
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (624-705) was empress consort of China through her marriage to Emperor Gaozong, and later became empress dowager and regent for her sons Zhongzong and Ruizong. She later became the first empress regnant of China.
Artemisia I of Caria
Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey
Tamar of Georgia
Tamar ascended the Georgian throne as sole monarch.
Arwa al-Sulayhi
Arwa al-Sulayhi of Yemen was queen consort from 1067 until his death in 1084, holding increasing power as he retreated from public life due to paralysation. At her husband’s death, she became regent for their son Ali Abd al-Mustansir until his death in 1094, and became queen in her own right.
Lakshmi Bai
Ruler and military leader of Jhansi who fought British imperialism
Lillian Gish
In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
Anne McCaffrey
American-Irish science fiction and fantasy writer