Mary Gunter

Mary Gunter born Mary Cresswell (1586–1622) was an English Catholic ward and servant who became a celebrated convert to Protestantism. She had become the ward of a man who was executed for his part in a rebellion and was then adopted by his widow. She was subjected to a rigorous conversion after she planned to be a nun. Her husband later published the sermon of her funeral and her biography which went to three editions and it was reprinted as that of an "eminent person" sixty years later.

Maria Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley

Maria Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley was a British letter writer and liberal advocate

Bessie Clarksone

Bessie Clarksone (1584–1625) was a Scottish exemplar of godly life whose growing faith was recorded by her minister after her death

Elizabeth Weaver (actress)

Elizabeth Weaver, born Elizabeth Farley was an English actress in the King's Company from 1660 to 1683

Elisabeth de Groux

Élisabeth de Groux was a Belgian engraver and painter

Elizabeth Throckmorton (prioress)

Elizabeth Throckmorton whose religious name was Elizabeth Teresa Pulcheria was an English prioress of the Convent of Our Blessed Lady of Syon in

Jayamma Bandari

Jayamma Bandari is an Indian former sex worker turned social worker. In 2018 she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar. In 2011 she founded an organisation which supports sex workers and their children with choices

June Kovach

June Kovach was an American-born Swiss film director, film editor and concert pianist. She was a concert pianist until 1961 when she took to working on documentary films

Ellen Sullivan

Ellen (Nell) O’Mara Sullivan was an Irish silent film screenwriter and film company director. The company her family funded and ran was said to be the most prolific Irish silent film company

Alice Holford (bailiff)

Alice Holford was an English bailiff of London Bridge for 25 years. She was a rare example of a woman in authority in the fifteenth century

Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum