Irene Morales Infante
Irene Morales Infante was a Chilean soldier who served in the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) between Chile, Peru and Bolivia.
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Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson CBE was a pioneering English aviator, and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia over 19.5 days in May 1930.
Dr Florence Stoney
Irish medical doctor who was the first female radiologist in the United Kingdom
Jhalkaribai
Jhalkaribai was a soldier who served in the Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi’s women’s army and eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen herself, including analysing and strategising battle tactics.
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington was an American Revolutionary War heroine.
Mary Hallaren
Mary Agnes Hallaren was an American soldier and the third director of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) at the time when it became a part of the United States Army.
Solør shield-maiden
As befitting a Viking warrior, she was buried with a two-edged sword, an axe, a spear, five arrowheads, a shield, the skeleton of a horse with bridle and other tools.
Rusla
Viking pirate
Andrée Borrel
Andrée Raymonde Borrel was a French woman who fought in the French Resistance and worked as an agent for Britain’s clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II.
Queen Lozikeyi Dlodlo
Lozikeyi was a senior queen of the Ndebele nation until 1893.