Apama II
Apama II was a Seleucid who became queen of Cyrenaica through marriage in the third century BCE
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María Nsué Angüe
María Nsué Angüe was a prominent Equatoguinean writer and served as the Minister of Education and Culture.
Embet Ilen
Embet Ilen was a distinguished figure of high birth and political prominence during the Zemene Mesafint period in what is now Eritrea.
Hilda Bynoe
Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe was a distinguished and pioneering Caribbean woman whose multifaceted contributions significantly impacted the region’s development.
Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Indradevi
Politically influential queen of the Khmer Empire from roughly 1181 to 1219
Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
Alina Pienkowska
Alina Pienkowska was a nurse who played a significant role in the Solidarność movement against the communist regime in Poland.
Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah was a prominent Pakistani politician and served as the Leader of the Opposition in Pakistan from 1960 until her passing in 1967.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.