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Ruth Williams Khama
First Lady of Botswana (1923-2002)
Maria Ewing
American opera singer (soprano/mezzo-soprano)
Rebecca Miller
American filmmaker and novelist (born 1962)
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk
British princess; youngest child of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Louise, Princess Royal (1893–1945)
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Figure of the Wars of the Roses
Anne de Mortimer
English countess
Katherine Grey
noblewoman; Potential successor to the English throne (1540-1568)
Mary Sidney
Countess of Pembroke, poet, and literary patron
Rachel Kempson
British actress (1910–2003)
Joan Lindsay
Australian writer (1896-1984)
Juliet Mitchell
Feminist psychologist
Barbara Ward
British economist; life peer (1914-1981)
Susan Hill
English author
Moira Shearer
British ballerina and actress (1926–2006)
Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham
English noblewoman; younger sister of Elizabeth Woodville
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
Philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism (1924-2019)
Esther McVey
British politician (born 1967)
Gayle Hunnicutt
American actress (1943–2023)
Emily Thornberry
British politician (born 1960)
Pamela Stephenson
New Zealand clinical psychologist, writer and actress
Alison Balsom
English trumpet player
Amy Robsart
wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Patricia Quinn
British actress and singer
Mary Soames
British aristocrat (1922–2014); daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier
Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk
English noblewoman (1472–1481)
Maria Graham
British painter and author (1785-1842)
Amalia Fleming
Greek physician, bacteriologist (1912-1986)
Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter
English noblewoman
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
British noblewoman (1736–1807)
Shakira Caine
Guyanese-British model and actress
Bertha Swirles
British mathematician & academic (1903-1999)
Giannina Facio
Costa Rican actress
Dorothy Tennant
British artist (1855-1926)
Diana Cooper
noblewoman; English social figure, actress and memoirist, editor (1892–1986)
Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter
Elder sister of King Edward IV of England
Catherine Carey
chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I
Alice Seeley Harris
British photographer and missionary (1870–1970)
Wilma Neruda
Moravian violinist (1838–1911)
Lady May Abel Smith
noblewoman; British Royal Family descendant (1906–1994)
Abala Bose
Indian educationalist (1864–1951)
Imogen Stubbs
British actress
Lettice Knollys
English noblewoman
Anita Dobson
British actress and singer
Tina Brown
British-American journalist, talk-show host, and author
Elizabeth Eastlake
British art historian (1809-1893)
Anne Bacon
English scholar
Mary Bailey
Anglo-Irish aviator (1890-1960)
Rosalyn Higgins
British barrister, judge and scholar (born 1937)
Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk
British noble
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland
English countess
Flora Shaw
English journalist and writer, editor (1852-1929)
Jane Franklin
British explorer and philanthropist (1791–1875)
Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond
prominent member of the Court of the Restoration (1647-1702)
Sybilla of Conversano
Duchess of Normandy
Anne Clifford
noblewoman; English countess (1590-1676)
Bess of Hardwick
notable figure of 16th century Elizabethan English society
Helena Fourment
second wife of Peter Paul Rubens (1614-1673)
Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
English countess (1515-1552)
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
British duchess (1806-1868)
Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick
English countess