Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi was a poetess of great renown during Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185 CE)
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Himiko
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.
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Match Group engineer and CEO
Vera Wang
American fashion designer
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Indian-American comedian
Tatsu’uma Kiyo
Tatsu’uma Kiyo built her family’s sake business into an empire in the 1800s
Dr Teruko Ishizaka
Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966
Trinidad Tecson
Philippine revolutionary who joined the revolutionary nationalist army Katipunan in 1895 to fight for her country’s independence from Spanish colonizers.
Velu Nachiyar
Born in 1730, Rani Velu Nachiyar was the first Indian queen to actively oppose the British, though she would be far from the last.
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