Mary Budenbach
Mary Budenbach, a graduate of Smith College and known to all as “Polly,” joined the Navy’s cryptologic organization, OP-20-G, in 1943. Trained as a cryptanalyst, she worked against Japanese naval ciphers during World War II.
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Elizabeth Van Lew
She joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers during the United States’ Civil War.
Aphra Behn
1600s playwright, poet and spy
Sofka Skipwith
Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.
Mildred Harnack
American literary historian, translator, and a member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime.
Nancy Wake
SOE spy in France during WWII
Tamara Bunke
Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter
Mary Elmes
Irish humanitarian worker ‘righteous among the nations’
Lucie Aubrac
Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.
Rozanne Colchester
Intelligence officer who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II