Albanian Communist Nexhmije Hoxha was the first lady of Socialist Albania for more than 40 years, from 1944 to 1985, as the wife of Enver Hoxha. She was one of the few spouses of a ruling Communist party leader to gain her own high political profile.
Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist
Empress Chabi was wife of Kublai (or Qubilai) Grand Khan of the Mongols, and the first Mongol empress of China.
Uruguayan first lady
Favorite of Queen Anne of England
The first woman elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, in 1921, just a year after the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States.
American architect and educator, the first female registered architect in Florida and one of the first women to be elected to a public office in Florida
Irish poet
Queen of England’s Richard the Lionheart
1200s queen of Bohemia