Historical Women
1. - Hypatia (Hellenistic philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician) - Murasaki Shikibu (Author of the world’s first novel) - Peseshet (Earliest known female physician) - Enheduanna (Earliest recorded poet) 2. - Sacagawea (Lehmi Shoshone guide of America) - Giulia Tofana (Poison Maker) - Boudicca (Rebel queen of the Iceni tribe) - Pocahontas (Powhatan “civilised savage”) 3. - Ching Shih (Prostitute turned privateer queen) - Jeanne De Clisson (Lioness of Brittany) - Grace O’Malley (Irish pirate) - Josephine Baker (French rebel spy and activist) 4. - Tirgatao (Rebel Princess who refused to stand down) - Julie D’Aubigny (Bi, sword-fighing opera singer) - Olga of Kiev (Russian queen of revenge) - Harriet Tubman (Freed enslaved Americans) 5. - Joan of Arc (French rebel turned saint) - Ani Pachen (Tibetan monk freedom fighter) - Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rican Trouser-wearing labour leader) - Zenobia (Syrian queen conquerer) 6. - Æthelflæd (Lady of The Mercians) - Ada Blackjack (Iñupiat guide and wilderness survivor) - Artemisia Gentileschi (Master painter and r*pe survivor) - Töregene Khatun (Mongol Khatun and conqueror) 7. - Nakano Takeko (Samurai who died protecting her family) - Nzinga (Queen of Ndongo and Matamba) - Sarla Thukral (First Indian woman with a pilots licence) - Sappho (Ancient Greek lesbian poet) 8. - Hatshepsut (Egyptian Pharaoh whose name was almost erased) - Theodora (Empress of the Byzantine Empire) - Lozen (Spiritual leader and warrior of the Chiricahua Apache) - Wu Zetian (Tang Dynasty Empress Regnant)
9. - Mkabayi kaJama (Zulu Princess who kept her country running) - Mata Hari (Scapegoat of WWI) - Wang Zhenyi (Astronomer and poet) - Agrippina the Younger (Mother of an empire) 10. - Artemisia of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus and Naval Commander) - Puabi (Queen or Priestess of Ur) - Qin Liangyu (General of the Ming Dynasty army) - Veleda (Bructeri Seeress)