Maria José Marques da Silva
Maria José Marques da Silva was the first woman to graduate with an architecture diploma (CODA) from the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (Porto Fine Arts School) in Porto, Portugal (1943).
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Mary Raine
English-Australian businesswoman and philanthropist
Frances Batty Shand
1800s Jamaican-British social worker
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