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Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai

Vietnamese revolutionary leader within the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.

Trưng Trắc

The Trung sisters organised an army – composed mostly of women – and rose up against the Chinese regime, eventually securing Vietnamese independence from China for the first time in 150 years.

Trần Thị Dung

Empress consort in 1200s Vietnam

Hồ Xuân Hương was a Vietnamese poet born at the end of the Lê dynasty (1428 to 1789). She wrote poetry using chữ nôm (Southern Script), which adapts Chinese characters to write demotic Vietnamese. She is considered one of Vietnam’s greatest classical poets.

Ho Thi Que

Ho Thi Que, the Tiger Lady of the Mekong Delta, was a master sergeant during the Vietnam War. Her South Vietnamese 44th Ranger Battalion, also known as “The Black Tigers” fought against the Viet Cong, who nicknamed her “Madame Death”.

Lý Chiêu Hoàng

Lý Chiêu Hoàng was the ninth and last sovereign of the Lý dynasty from 1224 to 1225 and the only empress regnant in the history of Vietnam. Because she was only 6 when she succeeded to the throne, Lý Chiêu Hoàng ruled under the complete nfluence of Commander of Royal Guard Trần Thủ Độ and other members of the Trần clan. She was forced to marry another child when she was only 7, and her title diminished to Empress consort when her new husband, Trần Cảnh, was crowned. She was later further downgraded to “princess” when her husband stole another man’s pregnant wife and named her empress.