Cockacoeske
Leader of the Pamunkey people in colonised Virginia in the 1600s
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Lü
The empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, and was the first woman to hold the title of Empress of China. She is typically portrayed as the first woman to have ruled over a united China.
Mọremí Àjàṣorò
Queen Moremi was a renowned Yoruba queen from the Yorubaland region of modern-day southwestern Nigeria.
Ranavalona I
Queen of Madagascar
Chengtian
Empress Chengtian was one of the most well-known and powerful women in the Liao Dynasty, taking after her aunt Empress Yingtian.
Anna Warner Bailey
American Revolutionary War heroine
Sarah Taylor
Cross-dressing “Manchester Heroine” of the British army in the 1800s
Catalina de Erauso
Spanish-American military heroine
Amina of Zazzau
This sixteenth century queen ruled over her domains for nearly forty years and is the only female ruler of Zazzau, modern day northern Nigeria, recorded for almost nine hundred years.
Tarereenore
Aboriginal leader from the nineteenth century that organised an armed resistance against white colonists in now-Tasmania, Australia.