Caroline Lucas
The UK’s first ever Green Party Member of Parliament in 2010, in 2008 being the first leader of the Green Party who until then had been collectively led, and the first woman to represent Brighton.
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Emilia Sczaniecka
Polish social and national activist during the November Uprising (1830–1831)
Mairghréag Ní Chearbhaill
Lady of Uí Failghe (Offaly) in 1400s Ireland
Trần Thị Dung
Empress consort in 1200s Vietnam
Gorgo of Sparta
The clever and heroic wife of Leonidas in ancient Sparta.
Gina Krog
A leader of the Norwegian feminist movement and editor of Nylænde.
Iordana Nikolaeva Filaretova
Bulgarian who cared for the needy
Josefa Jacoba Jované
First lady of Panama from 1908 to 1910
Hedwig Dransfeld
German writer and activist
Angélica Larrea
The Bolivian Yungas forests are home to the Afro-Bolivian kingdom. At the centre is Mururata, where lives ‘el rey afroboliviano’ or ‘the Afro-Bolivian king’ Julio Bonifaz Pinedo and queen consort Angélica Larrea.