Louise Michel
French anarchist agitator, called the Red Virgin of Montmartre
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Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Elizabeth Hamilton
Irish writer
Mary Anne Müller
New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist
Jane Lathrop Stanford
American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages
Miriam Leslie
That a woman of such business ability, and with heavy responsibilities, should be at the same time a society leader, is a marvel of versatility.
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.
Lillian Russell
Actor and singer Lillian Russell was a noted beauty of the American stage, and much beloved for her kindliness and charities. During the latter part of her life she became interested in public matters, and in 1921 President Harding appointed her a special investigator to study immigration conditions.
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville wrote many works which influenced Maxwell. Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus led Adams to his investigation. Somerville College in Oxford was named after her.