BIOGRAPHIES

FEMALE HEROES & RULERS


Our heroes are women whom we consider central figures in an event or a period. They are "heroic" because of their abilities, achievements or qualities that helped define the age in which they lived. Our rulers are women who achieved the right to rule in their own name.

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Female Heroes of Asia
Female Heroes from the
Time of the Crusades
Recent Women Winners
of the Nobel Peace Prize

Empress Wu Zetian
China (Tang Dynasty)

Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France

Wangari Maahtai
Kenya, 2004
 Murasaki Shikibu
(Lady Murasaki)

Japan (Heian Period)

Shagrat al-Durr
Sultan of Egypt

Shirin Ebadi
Iran, 2003

Queen Sondok (or Sonduk)
Korea (Silla Dynasty)

Melisende
Queen of Jerusalem

Rigoberta Menchú
Guatemala, 1992

The Trung Sisters
Vietnam (ca. 40 C. E.)

Anna Comnena
Byzantine Historian

Sorghaghtani Beki
Mongolia (Genghis Khan)

  Rulers

Mirabai
India (1498?-1546 C.E.)

Great Women Rulers!
19 Women Who Ruled
Bertha von Suttner
First Winner 1904

Nur Jahan
India (1577-1645 C.E.)

More Women Rulers
Nominated By Our
Site Visitors

Three Transforming Poets
Iran
(13th, 19th, 20th Centuries)

Empress Adelaide
Ottonian Empire
  

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