Edwina Brocklesby
Edwina Brocklesby, who would go on to be the U.K.’s oldest Ironman triathlete and founder and director of Silverfit, which promotes physical activity among older people, “didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50.”
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Dr Lorna Verdun Sisely
Dr Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS).
Martha McTier
1700s and 1800s Irish activist and writer
Dr Amelia Yeomans
Canadian physician and social reformer
Leila Alloush
Leila Alloush’s focus on social justice for all ethnic groups has helped give women a greater voice in the community in Victoria, Australia.
Dr Deborah H Ward
American health executive
Mary Cosgrave
Irish social worker and local politician
Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.
Letitia Munson
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife
Anne Smith-Young
Founded non-profit organization (Continence Restored, Inc. 1975) that disseminates information on bladder control problems to people with the problem, people interested in the problem and help create and awareness about having urinary incontinence.