Not many women have come down to us in history, and I'm not into queens.
Oh they are there, once you go past high school textbooks. they rarely get the hollywood blockbuster treatment but not for lack of awesomeness.
sophie scholl (student and revolutionary, fighting the system in Nazi germany)
rosa luxemburg (co-founder of the communist party of germany)
bertha von suttner (leading figure in the pacifist movement, first woman to get a nobel peace prize)
irena sendler (nurse serving in the Polish Underground, smuggling jewish children out of the german occupied warsaw)
lydia lityvak (soviet fighter pilot during WW2)
krystyna skarbek (polish special operations excutive during ww2, real-life inspiration for fleming's tatania romanova and vesper lynd)
hedy lamarr (actress and mathematician, invented an early technique for frequency hopping, paving the way for wireless communication)
ada lovelace (mathematication and pioneer programmer, wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine)
ching shih (legendary pirate, took it up with the Chinese, British and Portguese empire, survived to retire in old age)
juana galan (guerrilla fighter against Napoleon, organized the defense of her village against the french cavalry)
agustina de aragon (highly decorated officer during the spanish war for indepedence)
mary seacole (nurse and sutler, ran a hospital for wounded servicemen in the Crimean War)