Brede Arkless
Irish rock climber and mountain guide
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Sayyida al Hurra
Moroccan pirate and ruler of Tetouan.
Dr Betty Shabazz
Educator and civil rights activist Dr Betty Shabazz was the wife, and later widow, of Malcolm X.
Mary Stuart
Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567
Marie Tussaud
Founder of the famous “Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition” of wax figures in London.
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist who made extensive studies in antiquities, history and languages, and was a leading authority on Mexican archaeology and ancient picture writing.
Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson was an outstanding leader in the campaign for women’s right in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.