Fang, who lived during the first century BCE, was the earliest recorded woman alchemist in China. She reputedly discovered a way to turn mercury into silver—one interpretation is that she used a chemical technique to extract silver from ores using mercury.
One of China’s most famous women doctors, active in the 1400s and 1500s
Chinese performance and installation artist
Co-inventor of the rice cooker
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.
On March 30, 2001, Coral Wong Pietsch became the first female Asian American general officer in the Army and the first female general officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps’ (JAG) 230-year history.
Ono no Komachi was a poetess of great renown during Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185 CE)
Queen Himiko was a 3rd-century CE ruler of the territory in ancient Japan known as Hsieh-ma-t’ai or Yamatai, later to be known as Yamato. Considered by the Chinese as the ruler of all of Japan or Wa, given her state’s power, she exchanged diplomatic embassies with the ruling Wei dynasty.
Match Group engineer and CEO
American fashion designer