Eileen Gallagher
20th century Irish businesswoman
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Agnes TuiSamoa
Agnes TuiSamoa spent a lifetime supporting and campaigning for the rights of her fellow Pacific Islanders in Auckland, both new migrants and their New Zealand-born children.
Margaret Anglin
American actress, director and producer
Sheila Conroy
Irish trade unionist, social activist and administrator
May Furey
New Zealand suffragist
Margaret Gaj
Irish restaurateur, radical, and political activist
Agnes Repplier
American essayist and critic who contributed to many periodicals such as Scribner’s and the Atlantic Monthly, and has spent much of her time in Europe. Her essays are distinguished for dignity of treatment, a lucid style, and a delicate sense of humor, with not a little irony.
Mary Fasenmyer
Mary Celine Fasenmyer was an American mathematician known for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebra.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator, and the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics.
Hildegard von Bingen
German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.