20 th century
Nicole Capitaine
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| Born | March 14, 1948 |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | French |
| Alma mater | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Known for | International expert in astrometry and associated standards |
| Awards | Descartes Prize, Struve Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Paris Observatory |
Gioconda Rizzo
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| Born | April 18, 1897 |
| Died | March 22, 2004 (aged 106) |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Lesieli Moala Taviri is a businesswoman and chief executive from Papua New Guinea. In 2014 she was the winner of the Westpac Outstanding Women Award in Papua New Guinea.[1]
\Rose Elizabeth Squire, OBE (1861–1938) was an English factory inspector at the Home Office.
Dame Ruth Runciman DBE (born Ruth Hellman: 9 January 1936) is a former Chair of the UK Mental Health Act Commission.[1]
She served for more than three decades with the Citizens Advice Bureau and made significant contributions to work on drug misuse,[2] for which she was awarded the OBE in 1991, which was later elevated to DBE.[3]
Dorle Soria
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| Born | 14 December 1900 |
| Died | 7 July 2002 (aged 101)
New York, New York
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| Alma mater | Columbia University |
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Blessed
Bruna Pellesi | |
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| Religious | |
| Born | 11 December 1917 Prignano sulla Secchia, Modena, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 1 December 1972 (aged 55) Sassuolo, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 29 April 2007, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, Italy by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins |
| Feast | 1 December |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
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Chief
Alimotu Pelewura
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| Born | c. 1865[1]
Lagos
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| Died | 1951 |
| Monuments | Pelewura Market on Adeniji Adele rd, Lagos |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Occupation | Women activist |
| Years active | mid 1920s - 1951 |
| Era | Colonial Nigeria |
| Title | President, Lagos Market Women Association |
| Term | mid 1920s - 1951 |
| Successor | Abibatu Mogaji |
| Political party | |
Gladys Ethel Parentelli Manzino (born 21 March 1935, Carmelo, Colonia, Uruguay) i
Constance Evelyn Padwick (2 July 1886 – 1968) was an English missionary. She was known as one of the leading British women missionaries and one of the first women missiologists of the twentieth century: she also worked with Church Mission Society for several years. She lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt and traveled to many different places from Fez to Lahore. In 1947 when conditions were bad because of the war she was asked to leave Jerusalem and went to Kordofan in Sudan. Padwick prepared textbooks for Christian schools for three years and then moved to Istanbul and then returned to England in 1957.
Edna Owen (more generally referred to by her married name Mrs Herbert Sumner Owen) is probably best known for her contributions to the training of female wireless operators in the US during World War One. She was the director of the wireless training course run by the National League for Women's Service at Hunter College, New York; trained female wireless operators at the YWCA in New York City; and was a founder and chairman of the Women's Radio Corps.
Contents
- 1Early life and marriage
- 2Wireless work in World War One
- 3References
- 4Sources and Further reading
Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) is
Susana Naidich (alt, Naidic; born, 1932) is
Clare, Lady Morpurgo, MBE (née Lane) is a philanthropist. She is the wife of British author Michael Morpurgo and the eldest daughter of Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books.[1]
Morpurgo founded the charity Farms for City Children,[2] set up in 1974
Anne L. Kinney is an American space scientist and educator. Kinney is currently the head of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) for the National Science Foundation (NSF).[1] Previously, s
Margaret L. McLeod OC OMC (died June 19, 1993)
Blessed Eugénie Joubert (11 February 1876 – 2 July 1904)
Audrey Evelyn Jones (15 October 1929 – 16 August 2014)
Lida Scott Howell (August 28, 1859 – December 20, 1938) was an American female archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won three gold medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the double national and Columbia rounds and for the US team.[1]
Mary Handen is a businesswoman from Papua New Guinea. In 2009 she won the Private Sector Award in the 2009 Westpac Outstanding Women awards in Papua New Guinea.[1]
alvera Rita Frederic Kalina, (October 21, 1921 – 2014) was a multiracial woman who passed as white, married a racist white man and kept the secret of her heritage from her children.[1] Her parents were Camille Kilbourne and Azemar Alfred Frederic (born 1897). She was listed in the Louisiana census as 'Col', or colored. Her daughter, author Gail Lukasik, kept the secret for seventeen years before publishing her story in a book, "White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing."[2]
Kary Fajer (born 23 June 1953, in Mexico D.F., Mexico), is a Mexican writer. She has made her career in the Mexican television.[1] She is well known for writing of telenovelas for the producer Nicandro Díaz González.
Rehema Ellis is an American television journalist, working for NBC News.[1] A correspondent based in New York City, New York, she is also the lead education correspondent for NBC News.
Sima Diab (Damascus, November 1979) is a Syrian-American photographer and press photographer who has portrayed the civil war in her country, Syria.
Anne Dangar (1 December 1885 – 4 September 1951) was an Australian painter and potter.[1]
Rosa Garrido Roberto-Carter Ph.D. (August 29, 1929 – April 11, 2010) was a Guamanian educator who served as the President of the University of Guam from 1977 to 1983.[1]
María Constanza Ceruti (born 11 January 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian high-altitude archaeologist and anthropologist who has done more than 80 field surveys, most of them with National Geographic teams in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. She specializes in excavating Inca Empire ceremonial centers on the summits of Andean mountains.[1][2] Her most important finding are the Llullaillaco Mummies, the best preserved mummies in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. She's the only archaeologist specialized in the field of High Mountains. She's also a researcher in the CONICET, director of the Institute of High Mountain Research at the Catholic University of Salta and teacher of a class that bears her name: Sacred Mountains - Constanza Ceruti.
Madjiguène Cissé (born in 1951 in Dakar) is a Senegalese activist, former spokeswoman of the undocumented immigrants movement and founder of the Women's Network for Sustainable Development in Africa.
Stavroula Constantinou (born 1975) is a Cypriot academic who specialises in Byzantine literature.
Beda Cornwall (November 21, 1907 – June 13, 1994) was instrumental in the development of public libraries in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ruth Hope Crow (née Miller) AM[1] (1916–1999) was an Australian political activist,[2] social worker, writer, and long serving member of the Communist Party of Australia.[3] Her work ranged from establishing child care centres, youth activities and neighbourhood centres, to campaigning on topics of anti-fascism, urban planning, women's issues and the environment. Crow is credited with mentoring other women in their careers and activism, with the result that ‘the whole society was politicised’.[4]
Amalia Abad Casasempere (11 December 1897, in Alcoy – 21 September 1936, in Alcoy) was a Catholic woman killed during the Spanish Civil War, a widow and mother of two daughters, and very active in the service of the church. She hid two nuns in her house at the outbreak of the civil war.[1][2] For this she was arrested and executed by the militia.[2] She was one of 233 people beatified by Pope John Paul II on 11 March 2001,[3] as martyrs of the Spanish Civil War (the name given by the Catholic Church to those killed by Republicans because of their faith).
Oloori Kofoworola "Kofo" Aina Ademola, Lady Ademola MBE, MFR, OFR (née Moore; 21 May 1913 – 15 May 2002) was a Nigerian educationist[2] who was the first president of the National Council of Women Societies in Nigeria and was the head of the women's organization from 1958 to 1964.[3] She was the first black African woman to earn a degree from Oxford University[4][2] and also an author of children's books.[5]
The Babushka Lady is an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women (бабушка – babushka – literally means "grandmother" or "old woman" in Russian).
Rae Selling Berry (January 21, 1881 – October 9, 1976) was an American gardener and horticulturist.
Blessed Eugénie Joubert (11 February 1876 – 2 July 1904)
Audrey Evelyn Jones (15 October 1929 – 16 August 2014)
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray
Blessed
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray | |
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| Religious | |
| Born | 25 November 1848 Pamplona, Navarra, Kingdom of Spain |
| Died | 10 October 1918 (aged 69) Madrid, Kingdom of Spain |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 29 October 2011, Almudena Cathedral, Madrid, Spain by Cardinal Angelo Amato |
| Feast | 10 October |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
Blessed María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray (25 November 1848 - 10 October 1918) - in religious María Desposorios - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Siervos de María Ministros de los Enfermos.[1] From her adolescence she worked to comfort and tend to the old and ill and her religious call manifested while doing this work; she entered the order where her work increased.[2][3]
Mary Handen is a businesswoman from Papua New Guinea. In 2009 she won the Private Sector Award in the 2009 Westpac Outstanding Women awards in Papua New Guinea.[1]
alvera Rita Frederic Kalina, (October 21, 1921 – 2014) was a multiracial woman who passed as white, married a racist white man and kept the secret of her heritage from her children.[1] Her parents were Camille Kilbourne and Azemar Alfred Frederic (born 1897). She was listed in the Louisiana census as 'Col', or colored. Her daughter, author Gail Lukasik, kept the secret for seventeen years before publishing her story in a book, "White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing."[2]
Kary Fajer (born 23 June 1953, in Mexico D.F., Mexico), is a Mexican writer. She has made her career in the Mexican television.[1] She is well known for writing of telenovelas for the producer Nicandro Díaz González.
Rehema Ellis is an American television journalist, working for NBC News.[1] A correspondent based in New York City, New York, she is also the lead education correspondent for NBC News.
Dilfirib Kadın
| Dilfirib Kadın | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1890 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1952 (aged 61–62) Erenköy, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Burial | |
| Spouse | Mehmed V |
| Ottoman Turkish | دل فریب قادین |
| House | Ottoman (by marriage) |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Dilfirib Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: دل فریب قادین; c. 1890 – c. 1952) was the fifth wife of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
Anne Dangar (1 December 1885 – 4 September 1951) was an Australian painter and potter.[1]
Rosa Garrido Roberto-Carter Ph.D. (August 29, 1929 – April 11, 2010) was a Guamanian educator who served as the President of the University of Guam from 1977 to 1983.[1]
María Constanza Ceruti (born 11 January 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian high-altitude archaeologist and anthropologist who has done more than 80 field surveys, most of them with National Geographic teams in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. She specializes in excavating Inca Empire ceremonial centers on the summits of Andean mountains.[1][2] Her most important finding are the Llullaillaco Mummies, the best preserved mummies in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. She's the only archaeologist specialized in the field of High Mountains. She's also a researcher in the CONICET, director of the Institute of High Mountain Research at the Catholic University of Salta and teacher of a class that bears her name: Sacred Mountains - Constanza Ceruti.
Madjiguène Cissé (born in 1951 in Dakar) is a Senegalese activist, former spokeswoman of the undocumented immigrants movement and founder of the Women's Network for Sustainable Development in Africa.
Stavroula Constantinou (born 1975) is a Cypriot academic who specialises in Byzantine literature.
Beda Cornwall (November 21, 1907 – June 13, 1994) was instrumental in the development of public libraries in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ruth Hope Crow (née Miller) AM[1] (1916–1999) was an Australian political activist,[2] social worker, writer, and long serving member of the Communist Party of Australia.[3] Her work ranged from establishing child care centres, youth activities and neighbourhood centres, to campaigning on topics of anti-fascism, urban planning, women's issues and the environment. Crow is credited with mentoring other women in their careers and activism, with the result that ‘the whole society was politicised’.[4]
Amalia Abad Casasempere (11 December 1897, in Alcoy – 21 September 1936, in Alcoy) was a Catholic woman killed during the Spanish Civil War, a widow and mother of two daughters, and very active in the service of the church. She hid two nuns in her house at the outbreak of the civil war.[1][2] For this she was arrested and executed by the militia.[2] She was one of 233 people beatified by Pope John Paul II on 11 March 2001,[3] as martyrs of the Spanish Civil War (the name given by the Catholic Church to those killed by Republicans because of their faith).
Oloori Kofoworola "Kofo" Aina Ademola, Lady Ademola MBE, MFR, OFR (née Moore; 21 May 1913 – 15 May 2002) was a Nigerian educationist[2] who was the first president of the National Council of Women Societies in Nigeria and was the head of the women's organization from 1958 to 1964.[3] She was the first black African woman to earn a degree from Oxford University[4][2] and also an author of children's books.[5]
The Babushka Lady is an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women (бабушка – babushka – literally means "grandmother" or "old woman" in Russian).
Rae Selling Berry (January 21, 1881 – October 9, 1976) was an American gardener and horticulturist.
Dorrit Black
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|---|---|
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| Born |
Dorothea Foster Black
23 December 1891 |
| Died | 13 September 1951 (aged 59) |
| Cause of death | Car accident |
| Occupation | Artist |
Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia.[1][2] In 1951, at the age of sixty, Black was tragically killed in a car crash.[3]
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