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Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.

Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)

President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian writer (born 1977)

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet

Flannery O'Connor

American writer (1925–1964)

American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)

Jacques Maritain

French philosopher (1882–1973)

American singer

Héloïse d’Argenteuil

Héloïse (c. 1101 – 16 May 1164), variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.

Rachel Griffiths

Australian actress

Geraldine Ferraro

American politician (1935–2011)

Alice B. Toklas

American writer (1877-1967)

Adelaide Anne Procter

English poet and philanthropist (1825–1864)

First lady of South Vietnam (1924-2011)

Canadian politician

American suffragist (1879-1966)

Canadian actress

Adela Pankhurst

British-Australian suffragette and political activist

Rosemary Radford Ruether

American theologian (1936–2022)

English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist (1847–1922)

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Romanian-born German-American feminist theologian

Brazilian politician

Kristina Keneally

Australian politician; former Premier of New South Wales and current Senator

Élisabeth de Gramont

20th-century French writer

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

American historian

Aline Mayrisch-de Saint-Hubert

Luxembourgian women's rights campaigner, socialite, philanthropist (1874–1947)

Catharina Halkes

Dutch theologian (1920–2011)

Carolin Kebekus

German comedian

British theologian

Italian teacher and editor

British politician and blogger

American poet and essayist

Gabrielle Suchon

French philosopher

Germaine Poinso-Chapuis

French politician (1901-1981)

Elizabeth Johnson

American Catholic theologian (born 1941)

Ada María Isasi-Díaz

American Roman Catholic theologian and academic (1943–2012)

Louise van den Plas

founder of the first feminist christian movement in Belgium

María Larraín de Vicuña

Chilean feminist writer

Hedwig Dransfeld

German journalist, women's rights activist, and politician (1871–1925)

Maureen Fiedler

American activist

Margaret Farley

American Sister of Mercy and theologian

Frances Kissling

American activist

Professor at the University of Detroit Mercy (1938-2012)

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger

Austrian nun who defied the church and was ordained a priest and bishop