Frances Batty Shand
1800s Jamaican-British social worker
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Marjorie Merriweather Post
Marjorie Merriweather Post inherited the General Food Corporation in 1914 and served as a director until 1958.
Hester Lane
Born enslaved, as an adult free woman Hester Lane built her own business and used her success to buy other people out of slavery, as well as working tirelessly as a fundraiser for different organisations.
Kathy Webb
Kathy Webb—the first openly gay member of the Arkansas General Assembly—has had a long career in private business, philanthropy, and local and state government.
Lucinda Sullivan
1800s Irish philanthropist, writer and promoter of children’s welfare
Julia McMordie
British philanthropist and politician
Margaret Butler
1400s and 1500s countess of Ormond
Nurbanu Sultan
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (politically powerful mother of the sultan) in the 1500s
Hafsa Sultan
During the Ottoman Empire’s so-called Sultanate of Women from 1534 to 1683, the valide sultans (mother of the ruling sultan) held much more power than they had as haseki sultans (wives of the ruling sultan).
Margaret Haughery
1800s Irish-American philanthropist