Edith Newman Devlin
20th century Irish lecturer in English
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Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
Doria Shafik
Eminent Egyptian feminist
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
Grazia Deledda
The first Italian woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Eileen Chang
Chinese-American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter
Jade Snow Wong
Chinese-American ceramicist and writer
Anna Letitia Waring
1800s British hymn writer and poet
Beatrice Vio
Italian Paralympic fencing champion and activist
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.