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Empress Wu Zetian
China (Tang Dynasty)

Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France

2011 Winners
Tawakkol Karman - Yeman
Leymah Gbowee - Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Liberia

 Murasaki Shikibu
(Lady Murasaki)
Japan (Heian Period)

Shagrat al-Durr
Sultan of Egypt

Wangari Maahtai
Kenya, 2004

Queen Sondok (or Sonduk)
Korea (Silla Dynasty)

Melisende
Queen of Jerusalem

Shirin Ebadi
Iran, 2003

The Trung Sisters
Vietnam (ca. 40 C. E.)

Anna Comnena
Byzantine Historian

Rigoberta Menchú
Guatemala, 1992

Sorghaghtani Beki
Mongolia (Genghis Khan)

Notable Women
in the year 1000 C.E.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma, 1991

Mirabai
India (1498?-1546 C.E.)

Empress Adelaide
Ottonian Empire

List of Women Nobel
Prize Winners

Nur Jahan
India (1577-1645 C.E.)

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Bertha von Suttner
First Winner 1904

Three Transforming Poets
Iran
(13th, 19th, 20th Centuries)

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