Shar Dubey
Match Group engineer and CEO
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Vera Wang
American fashion designer
Zarna Garg
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.
Madhur Jaffrey
Indian actress and chef
Lady Mo
The woman known as Ya Mo (Grandma Mo) was the wife of a government official in Nakhon Ratchasima, and was in her mid-50s in 1826 when King Anouvong of Vientiane invaded and seized the city while the governor was away.
Lü Mǔ
When her adult son was a local government official who was executed by the governor, ostensibly for a minor crime, Lü Mǔ planned and executed an uprising, part of the Red Eyebrows uprising that started in 22 CE