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Atossa

Daughter of Cyrus the Great, wife of three kings and mother of Xerxes I, who operated her own business and maintained her own court and military.

Azarmiduxt

Boran (r. 630, 631-632) and Azarmiduxt (r. 630-631) were the only queens of the Sassanian Empire who ruled with the power of absolute monarchs.

Banu Khorramdin

In the 800s CE, Banu fought against the occupying forces of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Googoosh

Iranian megastar who catapulted to stardom in Iran during the 1970s, only to be silenced by the Islamist regime that took power after the 1979 Islamic Revolution

Azar Besharat Moayeri

Edinburgh’s first female graduate in chemical engineering

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist

Narges Mohammadi

Nobel-winning Iranian human rights activist and writer

Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.