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page 220th-century women educators
Ana Clara Guerra Marques
Angolan dancer
Edel Hætta Eriksen
Northern Saami schoolteacher and politician (1921–2023)
Anna Bērzkalne
Latvian educator and folklorist (1891–1956)
Ida Falbe-Hansen
Danish educator and women's activist, editor
Nokutela Dube
School founder in South Africa
Latifa Labida
Moroccan politician
María Berenice Duque
Colombian Catholic nun
Ernestina Lecuona Casado
Cuban pianist, music educator and composer
Anna Rūmane-Ķeniņa
Latvian writer (1877-1950)
Paulina Lebl-Albala
Serbian feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, professor (1891-1967)
Avabai Bomanji Wadia
Sri Lankan-born Indian social worker, writer
Antoaneta Vassileva
Bulgarian economist and professor
Taliä Xäbrievä
Russian legal writer
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
American educator, activist, architect (1867-1951)
María Gómez Carbonell
Cuban politician (1903-1988)
Tamāra Zitcere
Latvian historian (1947-2014)
Rosa Torre González
Mexican activist (1890-1973)
Irmela Mensah-Schramm
German activist
Ewa Bandrowska-Turska
Polish singer, opera singer and music educator (1894–1979)
María Teresa Linares
Cuban musicologist, ethnographer, and music researcher
María Arias Bernal
Mexican school teacher and revolutionary
Laura Rodig
Chilean sculptor and painter (1901–1972)
Jean Lave
American anthropologist
Fay Chung
Zimbabwean politician
Grace Onyango
Kenyan politician
Božidarka Kika Damjanović-Marković
Yugoslav freedom fighter, writer (1920-1996)
Nazlı Nəcəfova
Azerbaijani educator
Chioma Agomo
Nigerian academician
Haruna Miyake
Composer and pianist
Borghild Holmsen
Pianist and composer (1865–1938)
Naxhije Dume
Albanian politician
Shoba Raja
activist
Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé
Canadian pianist, teacher and soprano
Marija Bilezka
Ukrainian pedagog
Zandokht Shirazi
Iranian writer (1909–1952)
Elsa Goveia
Guyanese historian
Maryam Yakubova
teacher (1931-2018)
Hilda Grīva
Livonian musician, music teacher, founder and artistic director of the Livonian folklore ensemble "Kāndla" (1910-1984)
Frances Akello
Ugandan politician, farmer, and educator
Quratulain Bakhteari
Pakistani social entrepreneur and community organizer born 1949
Irina Pavlovna Zarutskaya
Russian geographer (1908-1990)
Fresia Saavedra
Ecuadorian singer songwriter
Marija Knežević
Serbian writer
Marlene Mungunda
Namibian politician
Hadjé Halimé
Chadian activist, educator, and politician
Māhīyah Najīb
Yemeni journalist
Wu Li-hua
Taiwanese politician
Margot Rojas Mendoza
Mexican pianist (1903-1996)
Boonlua
Thai novelist
Anna Nilsson
Swedish educator and peace activist (1869-1947)
Maria Evelina de Sousa
Portuguese jornalist, educator and pioneer feminist
Martha Biilmann
Colette Samoya Kirura
Burundian former politician and diplomat
Amarilis Fuentes
Ecuadorian teacher and suffragist
Fahr-Ozma Arghun
Iranian teacher, journalist and poet
Clara Boscaglia
Sammarinese teacher, politician and member of parliament (1930-1990)
Mercy ffoulkes-Crabbe
Gold Coast-Ghanaian teacher
Sarah Onyango Obama
Kenyan educator and philanthropist
Charlotte Munck
Danish nurse and educator
Alexandra Tegleva
nursemaid and governess to Romanovs