Lesbia Venner Harford
Australian poet
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Rosemary Nelson
Irish human rights lawyer
Velma Bronn Johnston
American animal welfare activist
Laura Hershey
American poet, journalist, and disability rights activist. Known for her powerful writing and advocacy, she explored themes of disability, identity, and social justice.
Eleanor Abbott
Eleanor Abbott created the game Candy Land while she was recovering from polio
Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Nobel Prize-winning British chemist renowned for her work in X-ray crystallography.
Angela MacDonnell
Countess of Antrim , sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator
Tembandumba
Ruler of the Jaga of what is now Angola.