Dr Margaret Dunlevy
Irish physician and epidemiologist
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Grace Alexandra Rood
New Zealand dental nurse
Grace Hirst
New Zealand farmer, midwife, nurse and businesswoman
Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.
Carmel Humphries
Irish zoologist
Ellen Hutchins
Irish cryptogamic botanist
Margaret Huggins
Irish pioneer astrophysicist
Emma Vyssotsky
American astronomer known for her work in stellar astronomy, specifically for her extensive studies on the velocities and motions of stars.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Queen consort of Great Britain for fifty-seven years.
Vivian Bullwinkel
Vivian Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service in May 1941 and sailed to Singapore. She survived ‘The Bangka Island Massacre,’ where she was shot in the back and pretended to be dead until the Japanese soldiers left. She spent more than three years a prison camp.