Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne
Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne was the oldest woman the SOE sent to France—age 52 when she was served as a courier and distributed anti-Nazi materials from November 1942 to August 1943.
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Chevalier d’Eon
The diplomat, soldier, and spy was notorious and scandalous long before they began presenting permanently as a woman in 1777
Juliet Beyler
Executive director for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa
Cyrena Bailey Stone
U.S. Civil War diarist
Anna McClarmonde Chase
Irish merchant and spy
Gaby Bloch
Gaby Bloch was a French Resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of her country during World War II.
Jennifer Seberry
Jennifer Roma Seberry is Professor and former Head, Department of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong.
Stella Rimington
Spy novelist and the first female head of MI5
Pauline Cushman
Though trained as an actress, Major Pauline Cushman’s legacy is her service as a spy for the Union during the Civil War.
Florence Finch
Florence Finch aided United States military intelligence and the Philippine resistance movement during World War II. She provided supplies to prisoners of war (POWs) in Manila when the Japanese occupied the island, and she survived arrest and interrogation.