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This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their contribution to the military in academics, business, economics, politics, research, government or the social sector.

See also WikiProject Military history Women in Warfare and the military


Australia

Austria

Belgium

Germaine Guérin Dirique (left)
Germaine Guérin Dirique (left)
Marie-Louise Hénin
Marie-Louise Hénin

Bolivia

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

Chile

China

Czech Republic

Denmark

Eritrea

Finland

France

A

Delphine Aigle
Delphine Aigle
Anne Schützenberger (right)
Anne Schützenberger (right)

B

C

Marie-Louise Charpentier
Marie-Louise Charpentier
Marie-José Chombart de Lauwe
Marie-José Chombart de Lauwe
Mireille Chrisostome
Mireille Chrisostome

D

Marcelle Devilliers
Marcelle Devilliers
Josette Dumeix
Josette Dumeix
Margot Durrmeyer
Margot Durrmeyer

E

F

Yvette Feuillet
Yvette Feuillet

G

H

J

File:Marie et Elisa Josse
File:Marie et Elisa Josse

L

Aline Lapique
Aline Lapique
Augustine Le May
Augustine Le May

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Illona Tóth
Illona Tóth

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

  • Olga Ban Italian who fought in the anti-Nazi Yugoslavian forces, national hero of Yugoslavia, shot by German forces
  • Franca Barbier [it] Member of the female auxiliary of the WWII fascist Italian Republic. Awarded posthumous gold Medal of Military Valor after refusing to renounce her allegience when captured by partisans.
  • Angelina Milazzo [it] Former primary school teacher who was in the female auxiliary of the WWII fascist Italian Republic, shielded a woman from machine gun fire and was killed. Awarded posthumous gold Medal of Military Valor.
  • Laura Lombardo Radice [it] female partisan of WWII

Japan

Latvia

Luxembourg

Mexico

Netherlands

A

B

Ellis Brandon
Ellis Brandon

D

G

H

K

L

N

O

P

R

S

T

Betty Trompetter
Betty Trompetter

V

W

Y

Norway

Poland

A

B

C

  • Krystyna Cała [pl] Home Army lieutenant, Warsaw Uprising fighter, subsequently a trade unionist, socialist party politician.
  • Battalion Zośka
    , Warsaw Uprising fighter, won Cross of Valour
  • Alicja Czerwińska [pl] Underground agent, Warsaw Uprising fighter, killed in action, Cross of Valor recipient

D

  • Zofia Dąbrowska [pl] Home army liaison officer, fought in the Warsaw Uprising, received Cross of Valor

F

G

Sarah Goldberg
Sarah Goldberg

H

I

  • Konfederacja Narodu
    resistance fighter. Ranked as a colonel. Seriously wounded whilst protecting her colleagues' escape from a German attack she was captured, tortured and killed by German forces.

J

K

L

M

N

O

  • Stanisława Olędzka [pl] Polish Army lieutenant, nurse and Home Army fighter
  • Freedom and Independence
    resistance movement after the war. She was again arrested. She subsequently pursued a career in medicine.

P

R

  • Franciszka Ramotowska [pl] Home Army fighter. Captured by the Russian NKVD she was seriously injured in an escape attempt. She was rescued from hospital by the resistance.
  • Zofia Rapp-Kochańska [pl] Home Army soldier and intelligence agent who stole the plans for the German submarine assembly yard in Hamburg and determined the whereabouts of the Tirpitz, escaped from Gestapo custody whilst 8-months pregnant
  • Halina Rubinek [pl] WWII resistance courier and fighter
  • Natalia Rybarczyk [pl] Polish army soldier and taekwondo athlete

S

  • Bataliony Chłopskie
    in WWII
  • Kazimiera Sobieska-Stachurowa [pl] Commanded a unit of Polish Scouts in the fight against the German occupation. Also worked with the Home Army arrested and imprisoned, survived the war.
  • Armia Ludowa
    lieutenant, later wife of the Polish prime minister

T

  • Gray Ranks
    member. Wounded during the Warsaw Uprising, suspected to have been killed by the Gestapo.

W

Z

Puerto Rico

  • Maria Rodriguez Denton first known female US Navy officer from Puerto Rico. First Hispanic officer in WAVES. Forwarded the end of war message to President Truman. Admitted to the Puerto Rican Veteran's Hall of Fame (Salón de la Fama del Veterano Puertorriqueño) in 2022. Most sources all seem to link back to the Women's Memorial Service article. This may take finding actual service records/death records, etc. [41] [42][43]

Philippines

Romania

Russia (including USSR)

Sierra Leone

Brigadier General Kestoria Kabia in 2010.

Singapore

  • Anastasia Gan, female fighter pilot and Singapore's first female commercial pilot. In Singapore Women's Hall of Fame [47]
  • Lim Sok Bee, first woman to command an artillery battalion in Singapore [48]

Slovenia

Ruža Šegedin

South Korea

  • Park Ji Won (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [49]
  • Park Ji Yeon (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [50]
  • Pyun Bo Ra, air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [51]

South Sudan

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

  • Songül Yakut [tr] Turkish gendarmes officer, first female district commander in the Turkish Armed Forces

Ukraine

  • Dounia Ourisson [fr] Holocaust survivor forced to work as a translator for the Germans at Auschwitz
  • Katerina Zaritska (UK) In the Ukrainian nationalist resistance medical service during WWII

United Kingdom

See also List of senior female officers of the British Armed Forces for a list of ~17 currently serving military women in major command positions who do not have articles yet.

  • Anna Barker [de] British soldier and biathlete
  • Mary Cane (currently a redirect to Mary Cain) assistant director WRNS [55]
  • Caroline Hart [de] (currently a redirect to the author Charles Garvice
    ) Royal Artillery soldier and biathlete
  • Ange Laycock [de] Royal Engineers officer and biathlete
  • Brigadier Shirley Nield, director Women's Royal Army Corps 1986–1989
  • Fay Potton [de] British soldier and biathlete
  • Patricia Purves brigadier and British Army director of education and training [56] [57] [58]
  • Brigadier Gael Ramsey, director Women's Royal Army Corps 1989–1992
  • Brigadier Dame Jean Rivett-Drake, director Women's Royal Army Corps 1961–1964
  • Brigadier Joan Roulstone, director Women (Army) 1992-94 ("No. 53001". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 July 1992. p. 12670.)

United States

B

Sandra Best
Sandra Best
Babette Bolivar (left)
Babette Bolivar (left)
Heidi Brown (centre)
Heidi Brown (centre)
Paula Brown (left)
Paula Brown (left)

C

Althea H. Coetzee
Althea H. Coetzee
Dawn Cutler
Dawn Cutler

D

Phyllis Mae Dailey (second from right)
Phyllis Mae Dailey (second from right)
Kathleen Dussault (left)
Kathleen Dussault (left)

E

F

Moira Flanders (centre)
Moira Flanders (centre)

G

Ann Gilbride
Ann Gilbride
Robin Graf
Robin Graf
Sheryl E. Gordon
Sheryl E. Gordon

H

Karen Harmeyer
Karen Harmeyer
  • Karen A. Harmeyer Rear Admiral [91]
  • Lillian Harris US Women's Armcy Corps Lieutenant-Colonel. Lyndon B Johnson asked her to remain in the corps whilst he tried to pass legislation to allow women to hold higher rank. Served in Korean War and won the bronze star and the legion of merit. [92] [93]
  • Pauline Hartington Rear Admiral [94]
Deborah Haven
Deborah Haven
Martha Herb (left)
Martha Herb (left)
Valerie Huegel
Valerie Huegel
Christine Hinter (left)
Christine Hinter (left)
Tamhra L. Hutchins-Frye
Tamhra L. Hutchins-Frye

I

J

Cindy L. Jaynes
Cindy L. Jaynes

K

L

M

Linda McTague
Linda McTague
Rebecca J. McCormick-Boyle
Rebecca J. McCormick-Boyle

N

Elizabeth Niemyer
Elizabeth Niemyer

O

P

Ann Phillips
Ann Phillips

R

Sharon Redpath
Sharon Redpath

S

T

Cynthia Thebaud
Cynthia Thebaud

W

Diane Webber
Diane Webber
Giselle Wilz
Giselle Wilz
Patricia E. Wolfe
Patricia E. Wolfe

Y

Z

Maria Zumwalt
Maria Zumwalt

Venezuela

Vietnam

Organizations, awards and other

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  8. ^ "Marjorie Courtney and Deedre Thombleson in The Bluegrass Guard, Vol. 12, No. 6, p. 8 (photo)" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Marjorie Courtney in October 4 Women Leaders Sympoisum to Feature Indiana Trailblazers, in Greater Greenwood News".
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  13. ^ "Janet R. Donovan on U.S. Navy Biographies". U.S. Navy.
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  29. ^ "Karolyn Peeler, in U.S. Army Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger, Indiana National Guard adjutant general, greets Master Sgt. Karolyn Peeler upon her return from deployment to Iraq, Nov. 5, 2008 (photo with brief blurb), in Photo Gallery, U.S. Department of Defense website".
  30. ^ Karolyn Peeler, in photo caption of Forget Them Not, in The Indianapolis Star, January 3, 2008|url=http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/hot-off-press-indianapolis-star.html}}
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  32. ^ "Sharon H. Redpath on U.S. Navy Biographies". U.S. Navy.
  33. ^ "Barbara Sweredoski on U.S. Navy Biographies". U.S. Navy.
  34. ^ "Cynthia Thebaud on U.S. Navy Biographies". U.S. Navy.
  35. ^ "Deedra Thombleson, in 143rd CSSB receives 38th SB deployment patch (video), in 38th Sustainment Brigade".
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  39. ^ "Maude Elizabeth Young on U.S. Navy Biographies". U.S. Navy.
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