Na Hyesŏk
Korean activist, poet, journalist and painter
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Shidzue Katō
Japanese birth control and abortion rights activist
Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
Gloria Allred
American lawyer and activist
Dr Dorothy Klenke Nash
American neurosurgeon
Lin Qiaozhi
20th century Chinese doctor
Dr Emily Stowe
Suffragist and the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada
Dr Encarnación Alzona
Filipina suffragist and historian
Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008