Category
page 1Female wartime cross-dressers
Joan of Arc
French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
Louise Labé
French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon (1524–1566)
Milunka Savić
Serbian war heroine (1890–1973)
Yoshiko Kawashima
Japanese spy in China (1907-1948)
Marie Marvingt
French athlete and aviator (1875-1963)
Maria Quitéria
Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine (1792–1853)
Antonio
Basque explorer, adventurer, soldier, explorer, memorialist, authorized by Pope Urban VIII to dress like a man
Dorothy Lawrence
English reporter and cross-dresser
Eleonore Prochaska
female Prussian soldier (1785-1813)
Alena Arzamasskaia
Russian military rebel
Deborah Sampson
Continental Army soldier
Sofija Jovanović
Serbian war heroine
Hannah Snell
British soldier (1723-1792)
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Canadian-born woman who is known for serving as a man with the Union Army during the American Civil War (1841-1898)
Viktoria Savs
Austrian military personnel (1899–1979)
Wanda Gertz
Polish soldier (1896–1958)
Christian Davies
English soldier
Brita Hagberg
Swedish soldier

Sri Suriyothai
Suriyothai (, , ; ) was a royal queen consort during the 16th century Ayutthaya period of Siam (now Thailand). She is famous for having given up her life in the defense of her husband, King Maha Chakkraphat, in a battle during the Burmese–Siamese War (1547–1549).

Brita Olofsdotter
Finnish soldier of the Swedish cavalry
Jovita Feitosa
Military heroine (1848-1867)

Petra Herrera
Soldadera of Mexican revolution

Anna Henryka Pustowojtowna
Polish soldier (1843-1881)
Franziska Scanagatta
Italian female soldier (1776-1864)
Friederike Krüger
Prussian Army soldier
Mária Lebstück
Austrian army officer (1831-1892)
Mary Anne Talbot
British wartime cross-dresser, died 1808
Claude des Armoises
French adventurer
Maria ter Meetelen
Dutch writer
Joanna Żubr
Polish Army officer
Angelique Brulon
French soldier
Marie-Jeanne Schellinck
Belgian soldier (1757-1840)

Louise Kessenih-Graphemes
Prussian military officer (1786–1852)
Maria Ursula de Abreu e Lencastre
Portuguese woman soldier who dressed as a man
Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel
German soldier
Enriqueta Favez
Swiss physician (1791-1856)
Onorata Rodiani
Italian painter and condottiere
Júlia Bányai
Hungarian freedom fighter (1824-1883)
Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar
Swedish soldier
Sirma Vojvoda
Bulgarian rebel soldier

Elisa Bernerström
Swedish soldier
Epipole of Carystus
Female combatant of the Trojan War
Anna Lühring
Prussian soldier (1796-1866)
Martina Ibaibarriaga
Spanish military personnel
Maria van Antwerpen
soldier
Marie-Antoinette Lix
French governess and heroine of the 1863–64 January Uprising against Russia (1839–1909)
Renée Bordereau
French wartime cross-dresser
Margareta Elisabeth Roos
Swedish soldier (1696-1772)
Eliza Allen
American memoirist
Fannu
Fannu bint Umar ibn Yintan (died April 1147) was a princess and a Commanding officer of the Almoravid dynasty. In the guise of a man, wearing armour she participated in the defense of the citadel of Marrakesh during the Almohad conquest of the city in 1147.
Sally St. Clair
American military personnel
Thao Thep Kasattri and Thao Sri Sunthon
Hero Memorial Phuket
Phoebe Hessel
British wartime cross-dresser
Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné
Fairy tale by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy
Okaji no Kata
concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Ana María de Soto
world's first female Marine. soldier in the 6th Company of the 11th Marine Battalion
Loreta Janeta Velazquez
American spy
Aal de Dragonder
German soldier
Maria la Bailadora
Spanish soldier
Barbara Adriaens
Dutch soldier