Dr Kathleen Lynn
Irish medical practitioner and political activist
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Margaret Skinnider
Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist
Nora Sipos
Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward
Arsinoe III of Egypt
Queen of Egypt, a brave as well as prudent woman who accompanied her husband when he invaded Syria
Adelaide of Susa
Countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the marchioness of Turin in northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death in 1091.
Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz
Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.
Janie McCarthy
Irish WWII resistance worker and language teacher
Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Anna Politkovskaya
Award-winning Russian journalist
Arsinoe IV
Co-ruler in ancient Egypt