Ann Alabaster
New Zealand teacher
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Ruth Homan
Educator and advocate for women’s welfare, who served on the London School Board for several years, and actively participated in Liberal politics, promoting progressive social policies.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Dr Julia Lermontova
The first Russian woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry
Laura Smith Haviland
Pivotal figure in the American abolitionist movement.
Mary Hamilton Swindler
American archaeologist, classical art scholar, author, and professor
Anna Vsevolodovna of Kyiv
Princess of Kyivan Rus and is best known for introducing educational institutions for girls within Kyivan Rus.
Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
Helen Laird
Irish actress, costumier, teacher, and feminist
Adèle Euphrasie Barbier
New Zealand Roman Catholic religious sister, teacher and founder of a congregation of religious sisters.