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Irina Lungu (born 5 June 1980) is a Russian operatic soprano. Born in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and raised in Russia, Lungu obtained diplomas...

Sophie of Sweden (Sofia Vilhelmina Katarina Maria Lovisa Charlotta Anna; 21 May 1801 – 6 July 1865) was, by marriage, Grand Duchess of Baden as the wife...

The recent history of changes in women's roles includes having women in the military. Every country in the world permits the participation of women in...

William Stobb is an American poet and professor. He is the author of the National Poetry Series selection, Nervous Systems (Penguin 2007), Absentia (Penguin...

Women in China are under-represented in government, especially in high-ranking positions. In ancient and historical China, women were restricted from many...

Maria Isabella of Spain (Spanish: María Isabel de Borbón y Borbón-Parma; 6 July 1789 – 13 September 1848) was Queen of the Two Sicilies from 4 January...

The USL Super League (USLS) is a future Division I professional women's soccer league in the United States. The league will be owned and operated by the...

Delphine Galou (born 1977) is a French contralto.[citation needed] Her vocal style allows her to perform the most virtuoso roles of the baroque repertoire...

Laura Dave (born July 18, 1977) is an American novelist. Dave was born in New York City and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her interest in writing began...

Natalie Ong (born 19 December 2000), known professionally as NYA, is a Singaporean Australian singer-songwriter who rose to fame after appearing on the...

Joanna Barnes (November 15, 1934 – April 29, 2022) was an American actress and writer. Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the eldest daughter of...

Todd Tozama Matshikiza OMSS (7 March 1921 – 4 March 1968) was a South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist. As a journalist, he was a contributor...

Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language...

Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a fictional character of two of the Agatha Christie novels, The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)...

List of Modenese consorts...

Charles (German: Karl Ludwig Friedrich; 8 June 1786 – 8 December 1818) was Grand Duke of Baden from 11 June 1811 until his death in 1818. He was born in...

Janisa Ivette Johnson (September 22, 1991 – May 25, 2024) was an American volleyball player. Johnson was born on September 22, 1991. Long Beach, California...

The Women's Suffrage Movement in the Western world influenced changes in female fashions of the early 1900s: causing the introduction of masculine silhouettes...

Mathilde (born Jonkvrouw Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz [matild dyd(ə)kɛm dakɔ]; 20 January 1973) is Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Philippe. She...

Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, through her volume Salve Deus Rex...

Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (Swedish: Lovisa Ulrika; German: Luise Ulrike; 24 July 1720 – 16 July 1782) was Queen of Sweden from 1751 to 1771 as the wife...

Olga Grushin (born June 1971) is a Russian-American novelist. Born in Moscow to the family of Boris Grushin, a prominent Soviet sociologist, Olga Grushin...

Nina Foch (/fɒʃ/ FOSH; born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress who later became an instructor. Her career...

Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that...

Jessie Benton Evans (March 24, 1866 – 1954) was an artist known for depicting the Arizona landscape and supporter of the arts. Jessie Benton Steese was...

Marilou Berry (born 1 February 1983) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She is known for her roles in Look at Me (2004), Vilaine (2008)...

American entertainer Madonna debuted in media in the early 1980s. Once called a media icon, popular and critical explorations of her media figure spanned...

Pratibha Rani (born 25 August 1956) is a former judge of the Delhi High Court, in Delhi, India. She gained public attention after writing several controversial...

Dempagumi.inc (でんぱ組.inc, Denpagumi Inku) is a Japanese female idol group from Akihabara, Tokyo. Their music generally follows the style of denpa song....

Maybanke Susannah Anderson (nee Selfe and also known as Maybanke Wolstenholme; 16 February 1845 – 15 April 1927) was an Australian suffragist and education...

Artemis Pebdani is an American actress, best known for her roles as Susan Ross on Scandal, Artemis on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Gramma Alice...

Glenda Kemp (born 1949) is a South African stripper, activist, and teacher. Glenda Kemp was born in the Cape Province on 13 May 1949. As a young girl,...

Natalie Choquette (born 1959) is a French Canadian soprano. Choquette was born in Tokyo to Canadian diplomats. She grew up in Lima, Peru, Boston, Rome...

Asta's Book is a 1993 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine. It was published in the USA under the title Anna's Book...

Briana Marela Lizárraga is an American musician. Previously from Seattle, Marela is now based in Oakland, California. Marela grew up in Seattle and studied...

Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her first novel to be published after The Bluest Eye (1970). The Bottom was a Black neighborhood...

Mirta Rosenberg (October 7, 1951 – June 28, 2019) was an Argentine poet and translator. Rosenberg was born on October 7, 1951, in Rosario, Santa Fe. She...

Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix Spencer, Countess Spencer DCVO OBE (née Hamilton; 16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972) was a British peeress and the paternal grandmother...

Alok Dixit is a journalist turned social activist, fighting for freedom of Internet in India. He is the founder member of Save Your Voice, a movement against...

Sarah is a novel by Laura Albert, written under the name JT LeRoy, a persona that she has described as an "avatar," asserting that it enabled her to write...

Dragonhaven is a fantasy novel written by Robin McKinley, published by Putnam in 2007. The story is set in the Smokehill National Park, a wildlife preserve...

Deva Premal (born 2 April 1970 in Nürnberg, Germany, as Jolantha Fries) is a singer known for introducing Sanskrit mantras into the mainstream. Her music...

Urraca (León, 24 June 1081 – Saldaña, 8 March 1126), called "the reckless" (la temeraria), was Queen of León, Castile and Galicia from 1109 until her death...

American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo has headlined two concert tours, conducted one promotional concert, performed at six music festivals, and has...

Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist, author, and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing...

Peter d'Agostino is an artist and a professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia. Surveys of his work include: Peter d'Agostino: COLD...

This is a list of notable, professional, and female racing drivers or riders in any form of motorsport, sorted by country alphabetically. Desara Muriqi...

Maya Abu Al-Hayat (1980) is a Palestinian novelist, poet, storyteller, and translator, born in Beirut. She has published three novels and three collections...

Madi Diaz (born May 14, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Diaz grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she was home-schooled...

Eliza Jean Reid (born 5 May 1976) is a Canadian-Icelandic writer and, since 2016, the First Lady of Iceland through her marriage to Icelandic President...

Cemre Baysel is a Turkish actress. She graduated from painting department of Buca Işılay Saygın Fine Arts High School. She is studying in art teacher department...

Netball New Zealand is the national body which oversees, promotes and manages netball in New Zealand, including the Silver Ferns. In 2019, 137,713 players...

Kenneth Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955) is a British crime novelist, whose work has won multiple awards including lifetime achievement awards for his...

Arturo "Benito" Castro Hernández (5 June 1946 – 11 September 2023) was a Mexican musician, actor, and comedian. He was a member of Los Hermanos Castro...

Stephanie Graham "Stevie" Cameron, CM DD, (née Dahl; born October 11, 1943) is a Canadian investigative journalist and author. Stephanie Dahl was born...

Kiera Cass (born May 19, 1981) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series. Cass was born and raised in Myrtle Beach...

Lola Gjoka Aleksi (22 May 1910 – 6 October 1985) was an Albanian pianist during the period of the Communist regime. Gjoka was born in Sevastopol in 1910...

Monica Sheridan (29 January 1912 – 22 April 1993) was an Irish cookery expert, broadcaster, and journalist, and Ireland's first celebrity chef. Monica...

Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last...

Soft Focus is a contemporary romance written by Jayne Ann Krentz. It was released in hardcover by Putnam on January 3, 2000, and reached number 12 on The...

Issa Doumbia (born 10 June 1982) is a French actor and columnist. In 2015, he was columnist in the TV Show Touche pas à mon poste!. Média, Prisma. "Issa...

Reminisce Kioni Mackie (née Smith; born May 30, 1980), known professionally as Remy Ma, is an American rapper. Discovered by Big Pun, she came to prominence...

Daria Sofia Elisabeth (Lisa) Aschan (born 28 February 1978) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Aschan grew up on a farm in Vejbystrand. At the...

Catherine O'Flynn (born 1970) is a British writer. She has published three novels for adults, and two for children as well as various articles and short...

Charlotte Hollands (née Kerwood, born 15 September 1986) is a British sports shooter. She won her first Commonwealth Gold medal at the age of 15 at the...

Antonia Clara Iacobescu (born 12 April 1989), known professionally as Antonia, is a Romanian singer. Antonia Clara Iacobescu was born on 12 April 1989...

Marilyn French (née Edwards; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author, most widely known for her second book and first...

Ai Van was born on October 30, 1954, in Hue Street, Hanoi. Her family is an artistic family. Mother is a popular artist Ai Lien. Father is Ha Quang Dinh...

Sarah Charlotte, Lady Campbell-Bannerman (née Bruce; 10 May 1832 – 30 August 1906) was the wife of British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman. She...

Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie...

Beatrice Gormley (born October 15, 1942) is an American writer who specializes in biographies for children. She has published a number of books with publishers...

Barbara D'Urso (born Maria Carmela D'Urso; 7 May 1957) is an Italian television presenter, actress and writer. D'Urso was born in Naples, Campania. Her...

Dorothea von der Lippe Christensen, née Frost (19 December 1847 – 28 February 1908) was a Norwegian domestic science proponent and politician. She was...

Francesca Sacchi Tommasi is an Italian art dealer. Francesca Sacchi Tommasi is the daughter of the artist Claudio Sacchi and Ilaria Tommasi. She is also...

Marcelle Azra Hincks (25 October 1883 – 1938), known by the pen name Countess Morphy, was a British food writer, dance critic, and cookery demonstrator...

Julie Andrieu (born 27 February 1974) is a French television/radio presenter and food critic. Andrieu was born in Paris, the daughter of actress Nicole...

Dhonielle Clayton (born 1983) is an American author and chief operating officer of We Need Diverse Books. She has written multiple book series, including...

Pamela Haag is an American writer and historian. Haag received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1995, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College, where...

The phrase women in business refers to female businesspeople who hold positions, particularly leadership in the fields of commerce, business, and entrepreneurship...

Ana Carolina Ardohaín Dos Santos (born 17 January 1978) is an Argentine model, television personality, dancer, television host and actress. She is widely...

Joaquín José Victor Bernaudo Giménez-Arnau Puente, better known as Jimmy Giménez-Arnau (born 14 September 1943 in Brazil) is a Spanish journalist, author...

Helena Jubany Lorente (Mataró, 27 February 1974 – Sabadell, 2 December 2001) was a 27-year-old librarian found dead in Sabadell, Catalonia on 2 December...

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston's...

Sweet Sensation was a freestyle-dance music girl group from The Bronx, New York City. The group was originally composed of Betty "Dee" LeBron and sisters...

Wallis Day (born 20 September 1997) is a British actress and model. She is best known for playing Kate Kane in the TV series Batwoman, Nyssa-Vex in the...

The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) is a choral group composed of gay men from the Los Angeles area. Established in 1979, the GMCLA has grown in...

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum is an animated children's television series that premiered on November 11, 2019, on PBS Kids. The series is produced...

Tracey Jane McAndrew (born 6 November 1973), known as Nell McAndrew, is an English glamour model, TV presenter and fitness trainer. She is also an accomplished...

Heather McHugh (born August 20, 1948) is an American poet. She is notable for Dangers, To the Quick and Eyeshot. McHugh was awarded the MacArthur Fellows...

Katherine Bellingham (born 1963) is a British engineer and television presenter known for her role presenting the BBC1 science show Tomorrow's World from...

Chloe Jones (née Melinda Dee Jones; June 17, 1975 – June 4, 2005) was an American pornographic actress. Melinda Dee Jones was born and grew up in Silsbee...

Lois Dorothy Daish MNZM is a New Zealand restaurateur, food writer, cookbook author and contributor to Radio New Zealand and Newstalk ZB. She is also a...

Mary Shelton (1510-1515 – 1570/71) was one of the contributors to the Devonshire manuscript. Either she (or her sister Madge Shelton) may have been a mistress...

This page records the details of the Japan women's national football team in 2002. Japan v France Japan v Australia Japan v Canada Japan v China Japan...

Louise of Hesse-Kassel (German: Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie, Danish: Louise Wilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie; 7 September...

Crystal Maria Rogers disappeared from her home in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, on July 3, 2015.[not verified in body] Her boyfriend at the time...

Marguerite Chapman (March 9, 1918 – August 31, 1999) was an American film and television actress. During a year of modeling Chapman was made aware that...

Brooke Jaye Mueller (born August 19, 1977) is an American actress. Mueller was born and raised in upstate New York. Her father, Allen Mueller, worked as...

Lucy Filippini (Italian: Santa Lucia Filippini; 13 January 1672 – 25 March 1732) is venerated as a Catholic saint. She founded the Institute of the Maestre...

Johanna Charlotte Wessels (born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is best known as the former lead vocalist for the symphonic metal band...

Mariella Frostrup (born 12 November 1962)[citation needed] is a British-Norwegian journalist and presenter, known in British television and radio mainly...

Ilka Chase (April 8, 1905 – February 15, 1978) was an American actress, radio host, and novelist. Chase was born in New York City and educated at convent...

Judith Dwan Hallet (born 1941) is an American documentary filmmaker. Hallet was born Judith Ann Dwan in 1941 in San Francisco, California. Her father,...

Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (24 June 1825 – 10 August 1844) was the youngest daughter and fourth child of Tsar Nicholas I, Emperor of...

Hello! Project (ハロー!プロジェクト, Harō! Purojekuto) is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion...

Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress and director. Her most well-known roles include portraying Space Girl in Lifeforce...

Theodore Arnold Haultain (1857–1941) was a British writer. He was for many years secretary to Goldwin Smith in Toronto, writing a memoir and acting as...

The 1999 Open Gaz de France singles was the singles event of the seventh edition of the Open GDF Suez; a WTA Tier II tournament held in Paris, France....

Ryeisha Berrain (born November 25, 1990), known by her stage name Rye Rye, is an American rapper, singer, dancer and actress. Signed to N.E.E.T. Recordings...

Violeta Rosa Ester Vidaurre Heiremans (12 September 1928 – 1 June 2021), better known as Violeta Vidaurre, was a Chilean actress with a long television...

Alexandra Penney is an American artist, journalist, and author. Penney was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Greek-American parents. She graduated from...

Dark Dark Dark is an American folk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Formed in 2006, the band has toured extensively in the United States and Eastern Asia...

Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first...

Joan Evans (born Joan Katherine Eunson; July 18, 1934 – October 21, 2023) was an American film actress known for Roseanna McCoy, Skirts Ahoy! and co-starred...

Bina Venkataraman (born October 11, 1979) is an American science policy expert, author, and journalist. She is currently a Columnist at The Washington...

Arsenic for Tea is a children's mystery novel by American-English author Robin Stevens. The story is written in the style of a casebook and follows the...

Lou Anna Kimsey Simon is an American academic administrator who served as the 20th president of Michigan State University (MSU). Simon was appointed interim...

Evelyn Ijeh (born 12 August 2001) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A side AC Milan on loan from Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL...

Women with disabilities have the same health issues as any other women, such as the need for routine breast and cervical cancer screening. However, women...

Anne-Marie Devreux (born 1952) is a French sociologist specializing in feminism and the sociology of gender relations. Born in 1952, Devreux became a researcher...

Transe is a 2006 Portuguese film directed by Teresa Villaverde. It won a Special Jury Award at the 2007 Lecce European Film Festival. Sonia is a young...

Delicious is a historical romance by Sherry Thomas. Set in England, the novel alternates between the story's present in 1892 and flashbacks to 1882. Verity...

Albertine Randall Wheelan (May 27, 1863 - January 9, 1954) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and costume designer. Albertine Randall was born May...

Carmen Alcayde Ballesteros (Valencia, 9 April 1973) is a Spanish TV presenter and actress. She made the career of journalism and started making reports...

Hadley Clare Freeman (born 15 May 1978) is an American British journalist. She writes for The Sunday Times, having previously written for The Guardian...

Melinda Rackham is an Australian writer, artist and curator. Rackham studied sculpture and performance at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, graduating...

Daniela Castro (born Danielle Stefani Castro Arellano; 17 August 1969) is a Mexican actress and singer. She felt an attraction for music at a very young...

Juliana Kanyomozi (born 27 November 1980) is a musician actress and entertainer. She is a multiple award-winning Ugandan pop musician, an R&B and Afro...

Sharp Edges is a contemporary romance written by Jayne Ann Krentz. It was published in hardcover by Pocket Books in February 1998 and became Krentz's 20th...

Won Min-ji (Korean: 원민지; born February 5, 1991), better known by her stage name Anda (안다) and formerly Andamiro (안다미로), is a South Korean singer and songwriter...

Hilary John Davan Wetton (born 23 December 1943) is a British conductor. He has married three times, in 1964 to Elizabeth Tayler and in 1989 to Alison...

Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress. Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera...

In tennis, the first edition of the US Open Series was contested in 2004. United States Tennis Association. "ABOUT THE US OPEN SERIES". US Open Series...

Lori A. Clarke is an American computer scientist noted for her research on software engineering. Clarke received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University...

The Women's Police Service (WPS) was a national voluntary organisation of women police officers in the United Kingdom, which was active from 1914 until...

The Revealers is a 2003 teen's novel by American author Doug Wilhelm about bullying in middle school. Russell Trainor always seems to get picked on at...

Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an enterprise, particularly a business. Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United...

Sophie Dobzhansky Coe (July 7, 1933 – May 25, 1994) was an American anthropologist, food historian, and author, who studied the history of chocolate. Sophie...

Robyn Lawley (born 13 June 1989) is an Australian model, writer, photographer and director. She has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Elle, and other publications...

Olga Karina Jelinek (born 22 March 1981) is an Argentine model, actress and television personality. Jelinek was born on 22 March 1981 in Villa María, Córdoba...

St. Bridget's Convent is a private girls' school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was founded on February 1, 1902 by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd order, making...

Lynne Joanne Franks OBE (born 16 April 1948) is a communications strategist and writer. She founded a public relations consultancy in the early 1970s....

There are many types of contraceptive methods available in France. All contraceptives are obtained by medical prescription after a visit to a family planning...

Diana Wynyard, CBE (born Dorothy Isobel Cox; 16 January 1906 – 13 May 1964) was an English stage and film actress. Born in Lewisham, South London, Wynyard...

The Tiger's Wife is the debut novel of American writer Téa Obreht. It was published in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British imprint of Orion Books...

Arden Myrin (/məˈriːn/) is an American actress and comedian. Myrin was a cast member on the Netflix series Insatiable, playing the role of Regina Sinclair...

Sultanah Nur Zahirah (Jawi: سلطانة نور ظاهرة; née Rozita binti Adil Bakeri; born 7 December 1973) is the current Sultanah of Terengganu as the wife of...

Robert Jacks AO (8 March 1943, Melbourne – 14 August 2014, Castlemaine) was an Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Born in Melbourne, Australia...

Abigail Michal Spears (born July 12, 1981) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She was suspended for doping offences from 7...

Geltrude Caterina Comensoli, also known as Mother Geltrude (January 18, 1847 – February 18, 1903) is the Patron of Youth, Val Camonica and Relic Custodians...

Fledgling is a science fiction vampire novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 2005. It was the author's final book published before her...

Republic of Ireland women's national under-17 football team represents Republic of Ireland in international youth football competitions. The team has qualified...

Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is a nonprofit international organization founded in 1997 that advocates for the field of contemporary art jewelry through education...

The Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement declared that the issue of the comfort women between Japan and South Korea was to be resolved finally and...

Lohana Berkins (15 June 1965 – 5 February 2016) was an Argentine travesti activist. Berkins was born on 15 June 1965 in Pocitos, Salta. Her father, a soldier...

María Cristina Lugones (January 26, 1944 – July 14, 2020) was an Argentine feminist philosopher, activist, and Professor of Comparative Literature and...

Latin American feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and achieving equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and...

Peter and Donna Thomas are American papermakers, book artists, and authors. They travel across the United States in their self-constructed gypsy wagon...

Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known...

Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2011 mystery fiction novel by British writer P.D. James that continues Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with...

Celine Parreñas Shimizu (born December 28, 1969) is a filmmaker and film scholar. She is well known for her work on race, sexuality and representations...

The first records of a detective organization in London began in 1767, with the Bow Street Runners. This consisted of a group of seven men who investigated...

Angelica Cheung (born April 24, 1966, in Beijing) is a Chinese fashion journalist and the founding editor-in-chief of Vogue China, launching its first...

Savera Nadeem (Punjabi: سویرا ندیم) is a Pakistani actress, producer, and director. Primarily known for her work on television, she also acted in theatre...

Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam. Born in...

Gender-based price discrimination is a form of economic discrimination that involves price disparities for identical goods or services based on an individual's...

Chantel Dawn McGregor is a British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. McGregor was given her guitar and was given some tuition by her father....

Christine Beauchamp (born c.1970) is an American businesswoman and fashion professional. Beauchamp graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA and...

Ian Siegal (born 4 February 1971)[citation needed] is a British blues singer and guitarist. Ian Siegal is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and...

Ferris Olin (June 27, 1948, Trenton, New Jersey) is an American feminist, scholar, art historian, curator, educator and librarian, who founded and directed...

This article displays the squads that participated at the football tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara. Head coach: Roberto Medina...

Rebecca Reynolds is an American poet. Reynolds was born in Washington, D.C., United States, in which city she also grew up. She graduated from Vassar College...

Lucy Patterson was the first African American woman elected to the Dallas City Council. Patterson was a social worker, politician, and professor. Lucy...

A communion cup is a ritual liturgical vessel, a variant of a chalice, used by only one member of the congregation. A communion cup is usually quite small;...

Lillian Evanti (August 12, 1890 – December 6, 1967), was an African American opera singer. Evanti was the first African American to perform with a major...

María José Alondra Rojas Pino (born 17 December 1987), informally known as Cote Rojas, is a Chilean professional footballer currently playing for Santiago...

Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer (July 28, 1935 – July 21, 2009) was one of the foremost scholars in African-American gospel music. Boyer received a B.A. from...

Julia Frances Smith ( January 25, 1905 – April 18, 1989) was an American composer, pianist, and author on musicology. She was born in Denton, Texas. She...

Lucile Watson (May 27, 1879 – June 24, 1962) was a Canadian actress, long based in the United States. She was "famous for her roles of formidable dowagers...

Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Alice Cary was born...

Sonja Blomdahl (born 1952 in Waltham, Massachusetts) is an American blown glass artist. Blomdahl began glassmaking as an undergraduate student during the...

Rachel Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland (née Watkins, born 2 September 1963) is a British noblewoman and podcaster. She is the daughter of a farmer from...

Handle with Care (2009) is the 17th novel by the American author Jodi Picoult. It debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. The story follows...

Wild Seed is a science fiction novel by American writer Octavia Butler. Although published in 1980 as the fourth book of the Patternist series, it is the...

When the Dust Settles is a 2023 Macedonian novel by Jasmina Atanasova. The debut appearance of this novel is more than an external formality, as through...

Rani Roopmati (kavi roopmati) was a Poet queen of Mandu and the consort of the Sultan of Malwa, Baz Bahadur. Roopmati features prominently in the folklores...

Sailor Neptune (セーラーネプチューン, Sērā Nepuchūn) is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon media franchise. Her alternate identity is Michiru Kaiou (海王...

Susan Krinard is an American author of paranormal romance, science fiction, and fantasy. Krinard received a BFA in Illustration from the California College...

Ginn Hale (born April 23, 1968) is an American writer of speculative fiction. Hale spent a portion of her early childhood living in an off the grid cabin...

Elyse Guttenberg (born August 9, 1952) is an Alaskan writer known primarily for her fantasy novels. Elyse Guttenberg was born in New York City and grew...

Sabine Devieilhe (French: [sa.bin də.vjɛl]; born 12 December 1985) is a French operatic coloratura soprano. She is known for her interpretation of works...

Jocasta Claire Traill Innes (21 May 1934 – 20 April 2013) was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman. Innes was born in Nanjing, China, the eldest...

Julia London is the pen name of Dinah Dinwiddie (born March 18, 1959), an American writer of romance novels. Dinah Dinwiddie aka Julia London was born...

Rita Williams-Garcia (born Rita Williams) is an American writer of novels for children and young adults. In 2010, her young adult novel Jumped was a National...

Hannah Moskowitz is an American author of young adult and middle grade novels. Her first novel, Break, was published while she was a junior in high school...

Emma Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite and...

Michelle Tam (born September 20, 1974) is an American blogger, food writer, and bestselling cookbook author known for recipes and food writing focused...

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization...

Ashley Graham Ervin (born October 30, 1987) is an American plus-sized model and television presenter. Graham made her debut on the cover of the Sports...

Angella Dorothea Ferguson (born February 15, 1925) is an American pediatrician known for her groundbreaking research on sickle cell disease. Angella Dorothea...

Margaret Masterman (4 May 1910 – 1 April 1986) was a British linguist and philosopher, most known for her pioneering work in the field of computational...

An honorary male or honorary man is a woman who is accorded the status of a man without disrupting the patriarchal status quo. Queen Hatshepsut was the...

259 teams have appeared in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament in one or more years, between 1982 (the initial year that the post-season...

History of women in the United Kingdom covers the social, cultural and political roles of women in Britain over the last two millennia. Medieval England...

Princess Sophie of Baden (Sophie Pauline Henriette Marie Amelie Luise; 7 August 1834 in Karlsruhe – 6 April 1904 in Karlsruhe), was a Princess of Baden...

The modern-day character and the historical status of women in Denmark has been influenced by their own involvement in women's movements and political...

Kim Clijsters defeated Maria Sharapova in the final, 6–3, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2005 Miami Open. She did not lose a set during...

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Elizabeth Jane Bullard (11 January 1847 - 14 August 1916) was the first woman to practice landscape architecture in the USA. In 1899, she was the first...

Rosebell Kagumire is a Ugandan journalist. Rosebell Kagumire went to Bwerayangi Girls Secondary School for her secondary school education. She then studied...

Look up dead as a doornail in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dead as a Doornail is the fifth book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries...

Leylah Fernandez defeated Viktorija Golubic in the final, 6–1, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2021 Monterrey Open. Fernandez did not drop a...

Luiz Fernando Ruffato de Souza (Cataguases, Brazil, February 1961) is a contemporary Brazilian writer. An alumnus of the Federal University of Juiz de...

Margaret Mary Crawford Louden FRCS (6 April 1910 – 11 December 1998) was a British surgeon. Her treatment for Crush Syndrome saved hundreds of people dug...

Luciano Jerry Axelsson (born 13 May 1993), known professionally as Lucianoz, is a Swedish singer. Lucianoz was born in Rinkeby, an immigrant-majority district...

Aimee Meredith Cox is an American cultural anthropologist, former dancer, and choreographer. Her research interests include feminism, social justice, and...

Marie-Catherine Girod (born 19 August 1949) is a French classical pianist. Born in Peyrehorade, Girod studied piano at the Conservatoire de musique de...

Julie Shea is a former American long-distance runner and politician. While at Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, she was the first Track and...

The following is a list of Austrian women's soccer teams: The 3rd, 4th and 5th divisions are organized by the local football associations from the various...

Carla Geneve is an Australian singer-songwriter from Albany, Western Australia. Carla Geneve released her debut single "Greg's Discount Chemist" in March...

Sharmila Banerjee is a classical, folk and creative dancer, and choreographer from Bangladesh. . Banerjee is a graduate from the University of Dhaka in...

Katie Morgan is an American pornographic actress. Morgan initially entered the porn industry as a means to pay off her bail and plea bargain after being...

Hélène Vincent (born 9 September 1943) is a French actress and stage director. She made her on-screen debut in 1969, with the movie Pierre et Paul, directed...

Leilani Jones Wilmore (born May 14, 1957) is an American actress. Jones was born in Oahu, Hawaii. She originated the role of Chiffon at the WPA Theater...

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actress Kerry Washington. "NAACP Winners 2020: The Complete List". Variety. February...

Stéphanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais (28 August 1789 – 29 January 1860) was a French princess and the Grand Duchess consort of Baden by marriage to...

Shauna MacDonald is a Canadian television and film actress, director, producer, writer, voice actor, and radio announcer. She became known for her role...

Susan Beth Horwitz (January 6, 1955 – June 11, 2014) was an American computer scientist noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering...

Artemis Langford is a transgender woman whose acceptance into the University of Wyoming chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma garnered a lawsuit, Westenbroek v...

Lisa Carprini Sthalekar (born 13 August 1979) is an Indian-born-Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer and captain of the Australia women's...

Fascinating Womanhood is a book written by Helen Andelin and published in 1963. The book recently went into its sixth edition, published by Random House...

Laurence Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s...

Nina Hoss (German: [ˈniːna hɔs] ; born 7 July 1975[citation needed]) is a German stage and film actress. She is known for her collaborations with director...

The women's tournament in ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy from 11 to 20 February 2006. Eight countries qualified for the...

On April 27, 1964, a one-day old infant, Paul Joseph Fronczak was kidnapped from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. A woman dressed as a nurse...

Radical lesbianism is a lesbian movement that challenges the status quo of heterosexuality and mainstream feminism. It arose in part because mainstream...

Judy Piatkus is a former British publisher who founded Piatkus Books in 1979. Piatkus founded Piatkus Books from the bedroom of her home in Loughton, Essex...

Emma Neale (born 2 January 1969) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington...

Elinor Sisulu (née Batezat; born 9 March 1958) is a South African writer and activist, who grew up in Zimbabwe. She was born Elinor Batezat in Salisbury...

Worood Zuhair (Arabic: ورود زهير‎) (born 1987) is an Iraqi women's rights activist, biologist, and author who lives in Germany. Zuhair was born in Najaf...

Elisabeth Kelan is a Professor of Leadership and Organisation at Essex Business School and Director of the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders...

Tuba Ünsal (born 7 December 1981) is a Turkish actress and model. Tuba Ünsal was born in Denizli on 7 December 1981. Her paternal family, who are of Turkish...

Charlotte "Charli" Howard (born 6 April 1991) is an English model, author and body activist. She is from South-East London, England. She is an activist...

Olivia Burnette (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress who began her career as a child actress at the age of six. She is perhaps best known for her...

Martha Wilmot (1775 – 18 December 1873) was an Irish traveller and diarist. Martha Wilmot was born in 1775 in Glanmire, County Cork. Her parents were Edward...

Charlotte Isabella Newman (née Gibbs; 11 October 1836 – 18 January 1920), was a British goldsmith and metalworker who ran her own jewellery shop on Savile...

Lady Melissa Jane Trafelet (née Percy, later van Straubenzee; born 20 May 1987) is an English fashion designer and former professional tennis player. Melissa...

Kathryn Karipides is a choreographer, modern dancer, and professor who developed and later co-directed Case Western Reserve University's dance program...

Isabella Macdonald Macdonald (1856–1947) was one of the first women to graduate as a medical doctor after training in the United Kingdom; she was awarded...

Sookie Stackhouse is a fictional character and protagonist of The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series, written by Charlaine Harris. In HBO's television...

Guo Mei (Chinese: 郭梅; pinyin: Guō Méi, born January, 1968) is a hematologist and associate director of 307th Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army...

Galanter & Jones is a San Francisco-based design and fabrication studio known for its heated seating. The studio was founded by the siblings Aaron and...

Tia Texada is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Sgt. Maritza Cruz on the NBC series Third Watch, and her recurring role...

Chung Han-ah (born 1982) is a South Korean writer. Chung Han-ah was born in Seoul in 1982. She graduated in Korean Literature from Konkuk University, and...

The agricultural system in Sub-Saharan Africa is a predominantly small-scale farming system with more than 50% of the agricultural activity performed by...

Jenny Torres Sanchez is an American writer of young adult fiction. Sanchez was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother is from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala...

The Orlando Deanery Boychoir and Girls Choir are internationally renowned choirs based in Orlando, Florida. The choirs are open to youth of all religions...

Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Parish (Winnipeg) is part of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Canada, a diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is located...

Annalaura di Luggo (born 1970) is a multimedia artist and film-maker based in Naples. In 2019 she was invited to the 58th International Art Exhibition...

This is a list of the main career statistics of Spanish professional tennis player Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. (W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist;...

Émilie Desjeux (born 9 October 1861 in Joigny; died 23 April 1957 in Paris) was a French painter. Emilie Desjeux was born in France, in the city of Joigny...

Hurt Village is a play by Katori Hall. Cookie: Female, age 13. Daughter of Crank and Buggy. Great-granddaughter of Big Mama. Crank: Female. Cookie's mother...

Sandra Echeverría Gamboa (born December 11, 1984) is a Mexican actress. In 2002, Echeverría starred in TV Azteca's Súbete A Mi Moto, alongside Bárbara...

Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality is the debut nonfiction book by American radical feminist writer and activist Andrea Dworkin. It was first published...

Women in 1960s Spain were facing a period of transition. Internal Spanish women migrants found life in Spain difficult during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s...

Diabulus in Musica is a Spanish symphonic metal band, formed in 2006. The band was formed in Pamplona, Navarre in 2006 by Zuberoa Aznárez, Gorka Elso,...

Celestia Susannah Parrish (September 12, 1853 – September 7, 1918) was an American educator. She was born the daughter of a plantation owner, William Perkins...

Mridula Mukherjee (née Mahajan) is an Indian historian known for her work on the role of peasants in the Indian independence movement. She is an ex-chairperson...

A collection of essays by physician-writer Danielle Ofri, Incidental Findings: Lessons from my Patients in the Art of Medicine is the story of Ofri practicing...

Viktoria Bashkite (Estonian: Viktoria Baškite, Lithuanian: Viktorija Baškytė, born August 6, 1985, in Tallinn) is an Estonian chess player who holds the...

Ana Elisa Pereira (1845 –1921) was a Portuguese stage and film actress and singer, mainly known for her work in theatres in Lisbon. Pereira was born in...

Leah Hirsig (April 9, 1883 – February 22, 1975) was an American schoolteacher and occultist, notable for her magical record diary, The Magical Record of...

Margaret Mary Heavey (18 October 1907 – 15 February 1980) was a polyglot and classics scholar. She taught in the Classics department at University College...

Carrie A. Rentschler is a scholar of feminist media studies and associate professor at McGill University located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Rentschler's...

Karen Köhler (born in 1974 in Hamburg) is a German writer, playwright and actor. Karen Köhler was born in the Barmbek district of Hamburg. She is the daughter...

Violence against women in New Zealand is described as the kinds of violence disproportionately affecting women compared to men, due to factors of ongoing...

Julia Görges successfully defended her title, defeating Bianca Andreescu in the final, 2–6, 7–5, 6–1. This was the first time since 2006 that no New Zealand...

Rosita Gibbons née Vai (born 4 June 1981) is a New Zealand singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the second season of New Zealand Idol in 2005...

Evangelina Yolanda Salazar (born 15 June 1946) is an Argentine actress. On television she had started in 1962 with Marilina Ross and Teresa Blasco in the...

María Esther Orozco Orozco (born 18 April 1945 in San Isidro Pascual Orozco, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican chemist, bacteriologist, parasitologist and...

John M. White (born May 10, 1937) is an American performance artist, sculptor, and painter. He is a significant figure in the development of California...

Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion...

Janice Tanaka is a Japanese-American media artist born in Hollywood, California[date?] known for making experimental videos. Tanaka is best known for Memories...

Harshita Saxena is an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder who the winner of Pantaloons Femina Miss India International 2009 title, after being...

Catya "Cat" Sassoon (September 3, 1968 – January 1, 2002) was an American actress, singer and model. She was the eldest daughter of Vidal Sassoon and Beverly...

Shukria Barakzai (Pashto: شکريه بارکزۍ) is an Afghan politician, journalist and Muslim feminist. She was the ambassador of Afghanistan to Norway. She is...

Allison Steiner is a scientist who specializes in atmosphere-biosphere interactions, regional climate modeling, and chemistry climate interactions. Steiner...

Ingrid Elizabeth Andress (born September 21, 1991) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Her breakthrough single, "More Hearts Than Mine" (2019)...

Belinda Bencic defeated Petra Kvitová in the final, 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2019 Dubai Tennis Championships. She saved...

Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the...

Mia Zabelka (born 1963 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian contemporary violinist, improviser, and composer of Czech, Jewish and French familiar background...

Anna Paterson Stout, Lady Stout (née Logan; 29 September 1858 – 10 May 1931) was a social reformer working for women's rights in New Zealand and Britain...

The Upper Canada Repertory Company is a theatre company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada founded by Rochelle Douris in 2001. It offers a training program for...

Rockett's New School is a 1997 girl-oriented video game developed by Silicon Valley-based Purple Moon. It was directed by Brenda Laurel. Five years of...

Julie Bruck is a Canadian-American poet who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012 for her collection Monkey Ranch. She has...

The Working Women's Forum (WWF) is a women's organisation in southern India. It was founded in 1978 by Jaya Arunachalam in Madras (Chennai). The WWF aims...

Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva defeated Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in the final, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the...

The Calvary at Saint-Vennec near Briec in the arrondissement of Quimper in Brittany. As was the case with the Calvary at Landrévarzec, this calvary is...

Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943) was a pioneer and healer in Arizona. She was known for her generosity to multiple, often conflicting, factions. Cordelia...

Chantal Chawaf (born 1943) is a French writer. Chawaf was born in Paris during World War II. After studying art and literature at l'École du Louvre, she...

Alice Newton Woods Ullman (November 22, 1871 – July 24, 1959) was an American painter, illustrator, and writer. Ullman was born in Goshen, Indiana, the...

Sara Errani and Bibiane Schoofs were the defending champions, but Errani was unable to participate due to her doping suspension. Schoofs played alongside...

Abhaya Ranasinghe Arachchilage Chandana Weerakumara; (Sinhala: සක්විති රණසිංහ), known as Sakvithi Ranasighe is a popular English teacher in Sri Lanka....

Jacqueline Marié-Fleury (born 12 December 1923) is a former member of the French Resistance. She was born Jacqueline Marié, the daughter of a military...

Stéphanie Arricau (born 14 June 1973 in Orthez) is a French professional golfer. She studied marketing and management and had a long amateur career as...

Janice Turner (born 8 April 1964) is a British journalist, and a columnist and feature writer for The Times. Turner was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire...

Summer Sons is a 2021 Southern Gothic novel by Lee Mandelo. The book's protagonist, Andrew, investigates the suicide of his friend Eddie just six months...

Jessie Rogers is a Brazilian-American pornographic actress. Rogers was born in Goiânia, Brazil. She attended El Camino High School in South San Francisco...

Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in England is a 1995 non-fiction book by Edward Copeland. The book is about the lives of women in Jane Austen's...

Nancy Florence Buirski (née Cohen; June 24, 1945 – August 29, 2023) was an American filmmaker, producer, and photographer. She wrote, directed, and produced...

Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947, in Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades. Vondráčková spent her childhood years in the...

Lakshman 'Sam' Samaranayake (Sinhala: ලක්ෂ්මන් සමරනායක) is a Sri Lankan clinical academic with expertise in diagnostic clinical microbiology and research...

Nicole Diar, born July 21, 1975, is an American woman convicted of the August 27, 2003 murder of her 4-year-old son, Jacob. Prosecutors argued that Diar...

Linda Simon (born 12 December 1946) is professor emerita of English at Skidmore College. Simon was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 12 December 1946, and...

Hannah James is a British–American actress. James grew up on a rural farm in Madison County, Virginia, which the Culpeper Star Exponent called an "1830...

The status of women in Nepal has varied throughout history. In the early 1990s, like in some other Asian countries, women in Nepal were generally subordinate...

Camilla Gibb (born February 20, 1968) is an English-born Canadian writer who currently resides in Toronto. Born in London, England, she grew up in Toronto...

Andrew Pyper (born March 29, 1968) is a Canadian author. Pyper's parents emigrated from Northern Ireland to Stratford, Ontario. His father was an ophthalmologist...

The 2023–24 Brisbane Heat Women's season is the ninth in the team's history. The team is coached by Ashley Noffke and captained by Jess Jonassen. The 2023–24...

Jeannie C. Riley (born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson; October 19, 1945) is an American country music and gospel singer. She is best known for her 1968 country...

Theodore Neil Divine (1939–1994) was an American stellar astrophysicist and planetary scientist whose work centered on the understanding of star formation...

Lourdes Benería (born 1937) is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning...

Daisy Fried (born 1967, Ithaca, New York) is an American poet. Fried graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989. Her work has appeared in The London Review...

Edith Lunnebach (born 1950, Köln-Ehrenfeld) is a German lawyer who has represented clients in German high profile cases such as in the Kurdish trial in...

Jean Esther Floud CBE (née McDonald; 3 November 1915 – 28 March 2013) was a prominent educational sociologist and later an academic. She was the Principal...

Susan Combs (born February 26, 1945) is an American politician, having served elected office in Texas and served as the Assistant Secretary of Policy,...

Helen J. Neville (May 20, 1946 – October 12, 2018) was a Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist known internationally for her research in the field of...

Monah Li is a Viennese-born, Los Angeles-based fashion designer, best known for her feminine, deconstructed clothes. She is credited by numerous fashion...

Bernd Karbacher and Andrei Olhovskiy were the defending champions, but Olhovskiy did not participate this year. Karbacher partnered Alex Antonitsch, losing...

Clark W. Bryan was a publisher, writer, poet, and journalist who is best known today for creating the home economics magazine Good Housekeeping that he...

Ann Townsend (born December 5, 1962) is an American poet and essayist. She is the co-founder of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts and a professor of English...

The men's 5 km race at the 2009 World Championships occurred on Tuesday, 21 July at Ostia Beach in Rome, Italy. In total, 41 participants from 24 countries...

Michelle Ye or Ye Xuan (born 14 February 1980) is a Chinese actress and producer. She is best known for her roles in, Eternal Happiness, Triumph in the...

Joseph Konde-Lule is a retired Ugandan medical sociologist and epidemiologist who conducted extensive work regarding HIV risk behaviors in rural Uganda...

Mark V. Campbell (born 1978) is a Canadian academic, disc jockey and writer. He was raised in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto, Canada. Currently, he is...

Euphemia Mary Goldsborough Willson (June 5, 1836 – March 10, 1896) was a nurse. Willson was born at her family's plantation, “Boston,” in Maryland, the...

Oran Wendle Eagleson (1910–1997) was the Callaway Professor of Psychology at Spelman College, Atlanta. He was the eighth black person in the United States...

Line Renaud (born 2 July 1928) is a French singer, actress and AIDS activist. Line Renaud was born Jacqueline Ente in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her...

Louise Brown (1878 – 1 May 1955) was an American historian of Britain. Louise Fargo Brown was born in 1878 in Buffalo, New York and received her B.A. from...

Aurélie Resch is an author, travel writer and filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Resch has written eight books and has written in many collectives...

Thomas James Hurst is an American photographer, pastor, and entrepreneur/inventor. Hurst was born in San Francisco, California, in 1971 and grew up in...

Serge Gendron, (born February 19, 1967), better known by the stage name Skip Jensen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and cartoonist raised in Lachine,...

Catherine "Cathy" Church (née Hoffman, born 1945) is an American marine biologist, SCUBA diver, underwater photographer and educator. She received a BSc...

The 1988 Virginia Slims of New Orleans was the final edition of the Virginia Slims of New Orleans tennis tournament. Chris Evert was the defending champion...

Lia Quartapelle (born 15 August 1982) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD). Quartapelle graduated as an economics major from the University...

Amelia Garland Mears (1842–1920), who published as A. Garland Mears, was an Irish novelist. Amelia Garland Mears was born in Freshford, County Kilkenny...

Hamid Said (1941), (Arabic: حميد سعيد) is an Iraqi poet and writer. He was born in Hillah. He is certified in Arabic Language and Literature from the University...

The F-Rating is a rating to highlight women on screen and behind the camera. Developed at Bath Film Festival in 2014, the F-Rating was inspired by the...

Mabel Sharman Crawford (3 June 1820 – 14 February 1912), was an Irish adventurer, feminist and writer. She was born Mabel Sharman Crawford on 3 June 1820...

Zuzana Vačková (born 12 February 1969) is a Slovak actress best known for her role in the television series Panelák. Zuzana Vačková was born in Nitra,...

In Greek and Roman legendary history, Orithyia, "woman raging in the mountains", was the daughter of Marpesia. Upon the death of her mother, Orithyia became...

Sweet Starfire is a futuristic romance written by Jayne Ann Krentz and released in 1986. Krentz likened the novel to a historical romance set in another...

The 2016 Nadeshiko League for Japan's women's association football Nadeshiko League was won by NTV Beleza, who have won the title 14 times. Source: [citation...

Afnan Al-Shuaiby (Arabic: أفنان الشعيبي ‘Āfnān ash-Shu‘ībī) is a Saudi national who is the former Secretary General and Chief Executive of the Arab British...

Nedda Casei (September 9, 1932 – January 20, 2020) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Early in her career, Casei was selected by Leopold Stokowski...

Dora Mohini Maya Das (born about 1884) was an Indian educator and speaker. She was the YWCA's associate general secretary for India, Burma, and Ceylon...

Anabel Medina Garrigues was the defending champion and successfully defender her title, by defeating Klára Koukalová 6–4, 6–0 in the final. Silvia Farina...

Rose Spector (born July 9, 1933) is a lawyer and judge based in Texas. In 1992, she became the first woman to be elected to the state's highest court....

Caroline Auguste Fischer (maiden name Venturini, married name Christiani, born 9 August 1764 in Braunschweig – died 26 May 1842 in Frankfurt) was a German...

Angèle Albrecht (12 December 1942 – 1 August 2000) was a German ballerina. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Albrecht was the daughter of the Munich painter...

Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara were the defending champions, but they decided not to participate this year. Nadiia Kichenok and Raluca Olaru won the title...

Jelena Kostanić and Michaela Paštiková were the defending champions, but Paštiková did not compete this year. Kostanić teamed up with Tina Pisnik and lost...

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature (2007) is a young adult novel by Robin Brande. The story follows Mena Reece, a high school freshman. She has recently...

Barbara Hoffman (born January 18, 1931) is a former infielder who played from 1951 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...

Suzanne Gordon is an American journalist and author who writes about healthcare delivery and health care systems and patient safety and nursing. Gordon...

This was the first edition of the event. Kurumi Nara won the title, defeating Klára Zakopalová in the final, 6–1, 4–6, 6–1. 01.   Klára Zakopalová (final)...

Anne Johnston (1932 – June 26, 2019) was a Canadian politician and community activist. She was a longtime city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada....

Robyn Douglass (born June 21, 1953) is a retired American actress and model. The daughter of an Army doctor and hospital administrator, Robyn Douglass...

Savannah Smith (born 1992) is an American All State basketball player from Dallas. She is the youngest of four children. Savannah was born to Chris Christian...

Marina Gordon (11 December 1917 – 13 December 2013) was a Belarusian-born American singer and coloratura soprano. She has been known as a performer of...

Julia Flynn Siler is an American journalist and nonfiction author. Born in Palo Alto, California, in 1960, Siler grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Lara Shiree Davenport OAM (born 22 December 1983, in Sydney, New South Wales) in 2006, she relocated to Kingscliff, Northern NSW to train with at the High...

Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl (née Winkler; born 5 May 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). She has served as Chairwoman...

Women's doubles were played at the 2019 Dubai Tennis Championships at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women's tournament...

Peter Gojowczyk won the title, beating Farrukh Dustov 7–6(7–2), 6–3. Jiří Veselý (first round) Lukáš Lacko (quarterfinals) Andrey Kuznetsov (first round)...

Lukáš Rosol was the defending champion but lost to Lukáš Lacko in the final. Lukáš Rosol (final) Bernard Tomic (first round) Igor Sijsling (semifinals)...

The U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, often referred to as the Public Links or the Publinx, was a women's amateur golf tournament, one of...

Rose Seretse is the CEO of the Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority.[citation needed] She previously was the Director General of the Botswana Directorate...

Maria Rosa Cutrufelli (born Messina, 1946) is an Italian writer and journalist. Born in Messina and raised between Sicily and Florence, she studied in...

Kim Un-ju (born 11 November 1989) is a North Korean weightlifter, and former world record holder competing in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 87 kg starting...

Hoda Elsadda is Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Manchester. She serves as Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced...

Milena Palakarkina (born 1959) is a Bulgarian artist. After she completed undergraduate studies at UCLA and NYU, she met Pierre Restany in 1983 in Milan...

Linda Iris Newbery (born 12 August 1952) is a British writer known best for young adult fiction—where she entered the market, although she has broadened...

Sister Irene (born Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon; May 12, 1823 – August 14, 1896) was an American nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital in 1869...

Sophia Collier is an American investor, artist, and entrepreneur. In 1977, at 21, Sophia Collier developed Soho Natural Soda in her kitchen in Brooklyn...

Irka Mateo is a Taino Dominican singer-songwriter and world music artist. Her artistic sensibility incubated in Spain, France, Brazil, Canada, the United...

Danielle Cohen-Levinas (born 21 April 1959 in Paris) is a French philosopher, musicologist, and a specialist of Jewish philosophy. A pianist by training...

Julia Vargas-Weise (1942 – 1 April 2018) was a Bolivian photographer, screenwriter, educator, and film director. Julia Vargas-Weise was born in Cochabamba...

Alice C. Jones (pen name, Alix John; August 25, 1853 – February 27, 1933) was a Canadian novelist and travel writer. Jones was born and educated in Halifax...

The play-offs of the 2006 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I Zonal Competition involving teams from the Americas. Using...

Diane Lim is an economist and writer known for translating economic research into policy recommendations and for explaining economic issues for lay audiences...

Lucie Faure-Goyau (4 May 1866 - 22 June, 1913) was a French traveller and woman of letters. Lucie-Rose-Séraphine-Élise Faure was the daughter of the President...

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (April 23, 1881 – January 26, 1965) was an American journalist and writer. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant was born on April 23,...

Yvonne Tracy (born 27 February 1981) is an Irish female international football defender. She is a well known player at the club and international level...

Tuluhan Tekelioğlu (born 5 March 1970) is a Turkish writer, documentary filmmaker and former journalist, television anchorwoman, and talk show host. Tuluhan...

Purvi Patel (born c. 1982) is an Indian American whose conviction and sentence to 20 years in prison in Indiana for feticide and child neglect was overturned...

Helen Margaret Wallis OBE (17 August 1924 – 7 February 1995) was the Map Curator at the British Museum (afterwards the British Library) from 1967 to 1987...

Jelena Janković defeated Dinara Safina in the final, 6–4, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2009 Cincinnati Masters. Nadia Petrova was...

Agnieszka Radwańska defeated Julia Görges in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2012 Dubai Tennis Championships. Caroline...

Peggie Sampson (1912–2004) was a cellist, viola da gambist and educator. Margaret Sampson was born February 16, 1912, in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the...

Anabel Medina Garrigues was the defending champion, but was defeated in the semifinals by Peng Shuai. Nicole Vaidišová won the title, defeating Peng in...

Rosa María Andrés / Andreea Vanc were the defending champions. Liezel Huber / Martina Navratilova (champions) Gabriela Navrátilová / Vladimíra Uhlířová...

Lisa Freeman (born July 28, 1957) is an American author and actress best known for her young adult surf fiction novel Honey Girl. Lisa Freeman was born...

Sarah J. Mahler (born 1959) is an American author and cultural anthropologist. She was part of a group of anthropologists attempting to change migration...

Elyse Friedman (born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer who was raised in North York, Ontario. Her latest novel, The Opportunist, released...

The Women's Malaysian Open Squash Championships 2014 is the women's edition of the 2014 Malaysian Open Squash Championships, which is a tournament of the...

Suzanne le Peletier (also known as Louise-Suzanne le Peletier, 1782–1829) was a French aristocrat. Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau was the daughter...

Sloboda Trajković (7 October 1918, in Vrnjci Spa – 9 May 1942, in Belgrade) was a National liberation fighter and Ivo Lola Ribar’s fiancée. She was born...

Maria P. P. Root (born September 13, 1955) is a clinical psychologist, educator, and public speaker based in Seattle, Washington. Her areas of work include...

Élodie Bernard is a French writer, adventurer and entrepreneur, born in June 1984 in Troyes. Élodie Bernard traveled the Andes, the Himalayas, Karakorum...

Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona (May 19, 1913 – February 11, 1992) was recognized as a kahuna lapaʻau (healer) in Hawaiʻi and taught her updated version of hoʻoponopono...

Ulla Plener (born 12 February 1933) is a German historian. Ulla Plener was born in Berlin. The Communist Party, of which her parents Kurt and Marie-Luise...

Maureen Muggeridge (13 August 1948 – 7 October 2010) was a British geologist best known for discovering the Argyle diamond deposit in the north of Western...

Lizz Tayler (born June 9, 1990) is an American former pornographic actress. Born in Arizona, Tayler debuted in the adult industry in March 2010. Her stage...

The Americas Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2010 Fed Cup. Venue: Yacht y Golf Club Paraguayo, Lambaré, Paraguay (outdoor clay)...

Defending champion Diede de Groot defeated Yui Kamiji in the final, 6–0, 6–2 to win the women's singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2019 Australian...

Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot defeated the defending champion Marjolein Buis and her partner Sabine Ellerbrock in the final, 5–7, 7–6(7–4), [10–8]...

Two-time defending champion Esther Vergeer defeated Korie Homan in the final, 6–3, 6–3 to win the women's singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2008 Australian...

Kiki Bertens and Demi Schuurs were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Kristina Mladenovic and Galina Voskoboeva. Nicole Melichar and...

Laura Critchley (born 27 March 1984) is an English singer and songwriter. Laura Critchley was born in Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. With a voice...

Flavia Pennetta was the defending champion but lost to Kaia Kanepi in the final 6–4, 6–3. Flavia Pennetta (final) Aravane Rezaï (quarterfinals) Sara Errani...

Nicole Vaidišová was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Anabel Medina Garrigues won the title, defeating Amélie Mauresmo in...

Anabel Medina Garrigues was the defending champion, but retired in the second round against Kristina Barrois. Aravane Rezaï won the title, defeating Lucie...

Elena Likhovtseva and Iroda Tulyaganova were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year. In the final, wildcards Liezel Huber and...

Unseeded Tamarine Tanasugarn successfully defended her title, by defeating Yanina Wickmayer 6–3, 7–5 in the final. Dinara Safina (semifinals) Dominika...

Guðrún P. Helgadóttir (April 19, 1922 – July 5, 2006) was an Icelandic writer, poet, scholar and educator and is widely recognized in Iceland. Guðrún graduated...

Evgeny Donskoy was the defending champion but lost in the first round. Aljaž Bedene won the final after defeating Nicolas Devilder 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–4) in...

Gastão Elias was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Máximo González, 7–5, 6–3. Denis Kudla (quarterfinals) Blaž Rola (withdrew due to left...

Katherine Solomon is an American poet. Katherine Solomon was born and raised in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and attended college in Missouri. After living...

Alice Matilda "Olive" White Smith (December 25, 1846 - August 26, 1918) was an American writer and poet. Alice Matilda "Olive" White was born in Clarendon...

Tanya Melich is one of the founders of the modern women's political movement. She was born in Moab, Utah on April 23, 1936 and co-founded the National...

Simona Halep was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Brisbane instead. First-seeded Agnieszka Radwańska won the title, defeating Alison Riske...

Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam is an Indian scientist. She is the director of CSIR-IICT and has obtained her PhD degree from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra...

Elina Svitolina was the defending champion, but lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich – in a repeat of the previous year's final – in the second round. Karolína...

Dominic Thiem was the defending champion, but lost to Diego Schwartzman in the semifinals. Marco Cecchinato won the title, defeating Schwartzman in the...

Deborah Woodson is a singer and author. She was born in Cordele, Georgia, US. She started her career singing gospel music in her grandfather’s Baptist...

Gertrude Stewart was a Suffragette during the 19th century who campaigned in the United Kingdom. There is a photograph labelled as Gertrude Stewart as...

Gulfairus Mansurovna Ismailova (Kazakh: Гүлфайрус Мәнсүрқызы Ысмайылова) (December 15, 1929 - May 12, 2013) - kazakh artist, actress, People's Artist of...

Isabella Smiley Davis Spurlock (January 21, 1843 – October 14, 1906) was a philanthropist. Isabella Smiley Davis Spurlock was born in Nodaway County, Missouri...

The 2004 Vancouver Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the Tier V category of the 2004 WTA Tour...

Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos were the defending champions, but chose to compete in Hamburg instead. Oliver Marach and Philipp Oswald won the title...

This was the first edition of the event. Donald Young won the title, defeating Matthew Ebden in the final, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2. Denis Kudla (quarterfinals) Tim...

Jürgen Zopp was the defending champion. Sergiy Stakhovsky (champion) Michał Przysiężny (first round) Matteo Viola (quarterfinals, withdrew) Konstantin...

This was a new event in 2012. Elina Svitolina won the first title, defeating Kimiko Date-Krumm 6–2, 6–3 in the final. Nina Bratchikova (quarterfinals)...

Grigor Dimitrov was the defending champion but decided not to participate. Josselin Ouanna won the title, defeating Maxime Teixeira 6–3, 6–2 in the final...

Jane Ellen Ibur (born 1950) is an American poet and arts educator living in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She has been chosen to serve as the Poet...

María del Carmen Hornillos Baudo (16 June 1962 – 4 July 2014) was a Spanish journalist and television presenter. Born in Torrelavega, Cantabria, Hornillos...

Henriette Willebeek LeMair (April 23, 1889 in Rotterdam – March 15, 1966) was a Dutch illustrator of children's books. The French illustrator Louis-Maurice...

M. A. Griffiths (1947–2009) was a British poet who developed an international following on the Internet. Margaret Ann Griffiths, who was of English and...

Frances Wildt Pavlu, also known as Frances Pavlu and Hilda Pavlu, was a contemporary art jeweller and educator. Born in the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia...

This article concerns the period 59 BC – 50 BC. Consuls: Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (known in jest as "the consulship of Julius...

Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen (January 1, 1878 – December 25, 1958) was the founder of the Women's International Association of Aeronautics. She was born...

Bet Me is a contemporary romance novel written by Jennifer Crusie. It won a Romance Writers of America Rita Award for Best Contemporary Single Title in...

Group D of the EuroBasket Women 2015 took place between 11 and 15 June 2015. The group played all of its games at MKB Aréna Sopron in Sopron, Hungary....