Alliquippa
Alliquippa was a prominent leader of the Seneca nation for at least a decade before her death in December 1754.
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Awashonks
Awashonks was a sachem, or chief, of the Sakonnet people in present-day Rhode Island, North America. She was not born into this royal role but had proved herself as a powerful leader.
Gabrielle Petit
Belgian national heroine and WWII spy
Emilia Plater
Lithuanian military leader
Elza Žiglevica
Member of the Latvian Women’s Auxiliary Corps, which provided food for the thousands of troops during WWI, who died bringing soldiers food
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (624-705) was empress consort of China through her marriage to Emperor Gaozong, and later became empress dowager and regent for her sons Zhongzong and Ruizong. She later became the first empress regnant of China.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
One of the most famous queens of medieval western Europe. Crowned queen of both France and England, her long life and several heirs, and position as one of the wealthiest duchesses of western Europe, enabled her to exert great influence in the Anglo-French sphere.
Trưng Trắc
The Trung sisters organised an army – composed mostly of women – and rose up against the Chinese regime, eventually securing Vietnamese independence from China for the first time in 150 years.
Artemisia I of Caria
Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey
Gorgo of Sparta
The clever and heroic wife of Leonidas in ancient Sparta.