Embet Ilen
Embet Ilen was a distinguished figure of high birth and political prominence during the Zemene Mesafint period in what is now Eritrea.
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Pancha Carrasco
Costa Rican freedom fighter
Gabriela Silang
María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang was a Filipino military leader remembered for her leadership in the Ilocano independence movement against Spanish colonial rule.
Kathleen Clarke
Irish republican activist
Lilian Lenton
Militant British suffragette
Partizanke
The contribution of partizanke, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe: official statistics of the socialist period report 100,000 women fighting as partisans, and two million participating in various ways to the support of the National Liberation Movement.
Mary Elmes
Irish humanitarian worker ‘righteous among the nations’
Brigid Thornton
Irish public health doctor and first female commissioned officer in the Irish Free State army
Vida Mary Katie MacLean
New Zealand civilian and military nurse, hospital matron
Lily Alexander
British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally