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Kahina

7th century CE Berber (Imazighen) warrior-queen and seer who led her people against the Arab Invasion of North Africa

Amanikhatashan

First century CE queen of Meroe

Alexandra David-Néel (l. 1868-1969) was a world traveler, writer, and Buddhist spiritualist who wrote over 30 books on her journeys which took her 18,641.136 miles (30,000 km) around the world on foot or by various conveyances.

Ankhsenamun

1300s BCE princess and the first Egyptian woman of royal blood known to have tried to marry a foreign prince and make him pharaoh

Margaret Carroll

1800s Irish-American Sister of Mercy, educator, historian, and writer

Dr Fatema Mernissi

Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist

Julia McGroarty

1800s Irish nun and educator

Letitia Dunbar-Harrison

20th century Irish librarian and methodist activist

Mary Clare Moore

1800s Irish Sister of Mercy, foundress, Crimean war nurse, and teacher

Margaret Anna Cusack

1800s Irish nun and author