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Won the world's first national women's vote in 1893.

The 'teacher of teachers' who trained the founders of Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science.

Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.

First non-European Nobel laureate; wrote two nations' anthems.

Founded anthroposophic medicine with Ita Wegman; still practised in European hospitals.

Physician of Unani medicine who built its modern colleges and led the Indian National Congress.

Turned nonviolent resistance into a working political technology.

Founded Arya Vaidya Sala at Kottakkal and industrialised classical Ayurvedic pharmacy.

German émigré who founded American naturopathy and its first college in 1902.