Mary Seacole
1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman
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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
Deloris Ruddock
Deloris L. Ruddock was one of 855 African American women who served in the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) during the war. Officially known as the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the women called themselves the “Six Triple Eight” with the motto “No Mail, Low Morale.”
Mary Baird
20th century Irish nurse and health service administrator
Chand Bibi
1500s regent of India’s Bijapur Sultanate and Ahmednagar Sultanate, who defended Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces
Agnes Forneri
Canadian nurse
Heather Wilson
In 1998 Heather Wilson became the first woman veteran of the U.S. armed services and the second woman from New Mexico elected to the U.S. Congress.
Juliet Beyler
Executive director for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa
Kate Cumming
Kate Cumming is best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. She spent much of the latter half of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.
“Canary Girls”
British and Irish women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during World War I