Katherine Jones
1600s Viscountess Ranelagh and woman of letters
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Hilda Wager Bull
Hilda Bull was a Medical Officer at the City of Melbourne Department of Health in the 1940s. She published various articles in the Australian Medical Journal in the 1930s and 1940s.
Kate Fitzherbert
Kate Fitzherbert works for Birds Australia as a fundraiser. Her major interests are in working for habitat protection through purchase of habitat reserves, encouraging community involvement in conservation and monitoring, and growing environmental awareness in rural communities.
Mabel Theodore Hobler
Mabel Theodore Hobler was an Australian collector of animals and insects, with a passion for beetles.
Margaret Keats
Margaret Keats pioneered women’s involvement in veterinary science in Australia.
Joyce Price
Joyce Price was a trained botanist who was most well known for her contributions to the Girl Guides Association Australia and the Worldwide Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
Linda Kearns MacWhinney
20th century Irish republican and nurse
Julia Sewell
Julia Sewell was a plant collector in southwestern Western Australia where her family ran sheep and cattle stations. Between 1882 and 1892 she collected around Mount Caroline, the Swan River, Bunbury and Geographe Bay.
Dorothy McFadden Hoover
Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Mary Clare Moore
1800s Irish Sister of Mercy, foundress, Crimean war nurse, and teacher