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.
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.
Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey
The clever and heroic wife of Leonidas in ancient Sparta.
She was a heroine of civil life during a period when the conditions in Argentina were chaotic.
Colombian patriot
Canadian heroine, who defended her father’s fort against an Iroquois attack when she was just 14.
Heroine of the Greek Revolution of 1821-28
Puerto Rican heroine
Njinga, born c. 1582 to the royal family of Ndongo, was trained in both as a diplomat and in warfare during her adolescence. These skills came into practice many times during her reign as she resisted Portuguese colonial expansion into her kingdoms.