Gabriela Silang
María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang was a Filipino military leader remembered for her leadership in the Ilocano independence movement against Spanish colonial rule.
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Rahima Moosa
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
The world’s first woman Prime Minister, Sirimivo Bandaranaike, was elected in Sri Lanka in 1960s.
Bubuji Khanum
Queen mother of Bijapur in the 1500s
Dilshad Agha
Influential aunt of the ruler of Bijapur in the 1500s
Ding Ling
Prominent Chinese writer and intellectual of the 1900s.
Rajani Thiranagama
Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist, feminist, and academic, best known for her work in exposing human rights abuses during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Mehtab Kaur
First wife and maharani of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire.
Nur Jahan
Ruler of the Mughal Empire (almost all of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and large parts of northern and central India) in the 1600s