Savita Halappanavar
Halappanavar’s preventable death was the catalyst for change in Irish abortion laws
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Cixi
Empress Dowager, the most famous woman in Chinese history
Kiyo Minijima
Japanese businesswoman and philanthropist
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages
Concepción Felix
Feminist, lawyer, social reformer and human rights activist Concepción Felix Roque founded one of the Philippines’s first women’s organisations, Asociación Feminista Filipina, and one of the first humanitarian organisations, La Gota de Leche, focused on the well-being of mothers and their children.
Fan Chung
Fan Chung is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician who works mainly in graph theory.
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Sun-Yung Alice Chang is a Chinese born American mathematician whose research interests include the study of certain geometric types of nonlinear partial differential equations and the related extremal inequalities and problems in isospectral geometry.
Bhama Srinivasan
Bhama Srinivasan is an Indian-born mathematician who has worked in England and America and is known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups.
Sijue Wu
Sijue Wu was born and brought up in China but went to the United States to study for her doctorate. She became Robert W and Lynne H Browne Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Her research involves the mathematics of water waves.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young is a Hong Kong born American mathematican known for her work on ergodic properties of dynamical systems.