Jahanara Begum
Mughal princess and Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
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Maham Begum
She married Babur, the first Mughal emperor, in 1506, in Herat. Though she was Babur’s third wife, she became his chief consort, acting as a political advisor in many circumstances.
Manikuntala Sen
Activist, politician and memoirist Manikuntala Sen was one of the first women active in the Communist Party of India.
Nexhmije Hoxha
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.
Jane Wilde
Irish poet, nationalist, and feminist
Chabi
Empress Chabi was wife of Kublai (or Qubilai) Grand Khan of the Mongols, and the first Mongol empress of China.
Aurelia de Campisteguy
Uruguayan first lady
Abigail Masham
Favorite of Queen Anne of England
Edna Beard
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.
Agnes Ballard
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