Agrippina the Younger
Julia Agrippina was a powerful Roman empress and one of the most prominent and effective women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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Thung Sin Nio
Betsy Thung Sin Nio was an Indonesian-Dutch women’s rights activist, medical doctor, economist and politician.
Michelle Bachelet
Chilean politician who served as the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, actor, and major political figure during the country’s Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976).
Irena Sawicka
Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.
Maria Feodorovna
Maria Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I, and the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria, an imperial government charitable agency.