Nurbanu Sultan
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (politically powerful mother of the sultan) in the 1500s
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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
Lucy Edith Gullett
In 1921 Gullett founded the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women. Within a year the Association had raised sufficient funds to establish the outpatient clinic that provided the basis for the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children which opened in 1925.
Margaret Pirrie
Viscountess Pirrie , public figure and philanthropist
Margaret Porter
1800s Irish philanthropist
Florence Vere O’Brien
Irish philanthropist and craftswoman
Maria Webb
1800s Irish philanthropist and author
Ellen Woodlock
1800s Irish philanthropist and social worker
Martha Magee
1800s Irish benefactor