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Simone Veil

French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).

Melchora Aquino

Filipina revolutionary widely recognized throughout the Philippines as a national hero

Mai Bhago

The first known woman in Sikh history to fight in a war.

Christine Jorgensen

American transgender trailblazer

Edith Butler trained as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she was later staff sister. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1945 in recognition of her work in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the south-west Pacific area.

Dolours Price

Irish republican paramilitary

Jackie Sedibe

South African military officer

Elizabeth Burchill

Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I’ve Trod.