Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
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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
Lumina Sophie
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.
Hazel Rennie
Peace and human rights activist
Telesilla
Ancient Greek lyric poet from the fifth century BCE
Tembandumba
Ruler of the Jaga of what is now Angola.
Mussasa
Ruler of the Jaga of what is now Angola.
Bona Lombardi
Italian mercenary from the 1400s
Bubuji Khanum
Queen mother of Bijapur in the 1500s