Jean Gardner Batten (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was New Zealand's greatest aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.

"Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands."

Renhō Murata (28 November 1967), commonly known mononymously as Renhō, is a Taiwanese Japanese journalist and politician who on September 14th, 2016 became the first female leader elected to Japan’s main opposition Democratic Party. She was a member of the Cabinet of Japan from 2010 to 2012, serving as Minister for Government Revitalization and Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety.

Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer.

"What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."

Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of her own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled.

Liliuokalani (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was Hawaii's first queen and final sovereign ruler before the islands were annexed by the United States in 1898.