Margaret Boyle
First countess of Orrery in 1600s Ireland
Category Archives: Business
Continue reading
Mary King
Irish bookseller
May O’Flaherty
Irish bookshop owner
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans
One of the first women to serve on the board of directors of a major American corporation, the Coca-Cola Company. One of the country’s most generous philanthropists, she also set up charitable foundations to share her family’s vast fortune with others.
Lauretta Schulte
Cleveland, Ohio funeral director
Eva Kelly Bowring
In 1954 Eva Kelly Bowring arrived in the U.S. Senate with the vocabulary of a witty cattle wrangler and impressive credentials as a state political figure and prosperous businesswoman.
Judith Marx Wieder
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman
Kim Basinger
Best known as an Academy Award–winning actress, Kim Basinger has also been recognized as a fashion model, businesswoman, animal activist, and to a lesser extent, recording artist.
Tuanku Zara Salim
Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.
Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).