Artunis
A Lieutenant Commander of the army under Cyrus the Great.
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Pantea Arteshbod
Pantea Arteshbod served as a military commander under Cyrus the Great and played a pivotal role in the Battle of Opis in 539 BCE (later assisting her husband in the formation of the 10,000 Persian Immortals)
Azadokht Shahbanu
Diplomat for the Sassanian Empire under Shapur I, his primary consort and wife, and a skilled swordswoman and a guiding force in his reign and the one responsible for establishing the great intellectual, cultural, and medical center of Gundeshapur.
Irdabama
The best-known and wealthiest businesswoman attested to in the records of the Achaemenid Empire at Persepolis.
Mawiyya
Mavia (r. c. 375-c. 425 CE) was a warrior-queen of the semi-nomadic Tanukhid Arab tribe of Syria and Jordan who led a successful insurrection against Rome in 378 CE.
Fatima bint Muhammad
The youngest daughter of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his first wife Khadija. Taking up after her father, Fatimah became highly spiritual and devoted to Islam.
Kubaba
Kubaba, according to the Sumerian King List (circa 2112 – circa 2004 BCE), was a tavern keeper (alewife) before becoming Queen of Kish.
Banu Khorramdin
In the 800s CE, Banu fought against the occupying forces of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Ama-e
Ama-e was a successful Sumerian businesswoman of the city of Umma who, though married, ran her own business under her own name.
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.