In history, most people who are well-known by the general public are male. There are less well-known females in history, apparently because most historians are male and focus on male subjects.

Let's start with places named after women.

Saint Lucia is a Carribean country named after Lucia of Syracuse, a Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. The population is fairly large, about 180,000 people currently, and 85% of the inhabitants are of African descent, most of the rest are mixed African-European-Carib decesent or of Indian related descent. They speak a French-based creole called "Saint Lucia French Creole."

The traditional music in Saint Lucia is heavily based from the traditions of Africa and Western Europe, and popular music from other Carribean countries, including Trinidadian music such as calypso and soca, and the Carribean music of zouk, is very popular.

Saint Lucia is part of the Lesser Antilles, and also part of the Windward Islands, where an ethnic group known as the "Island Caribs" lived. They used to speak a language called "Island Carib" or "Igneri," before it went extinct due to genocidal activity by European colonizers.

Saint Helena is an island named after Saint Helena of Constantinople, located West of southern Africa. Unlike Saint Lucia, Helena is not a sovereign state, but belongs to the United Kingdom. The population is quite small, only about 4,000-something people, and they are primarily descended of Europeans, Chinese and historical slaves from primarily Madagascar and Asia, a few slaves from other parts of Africa. The population speaks a dialect of English.

There is also this Wikipedia list of counties in the United States named after women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_women

Most hurricanes are named after women, which can lead people to underestimate them, according to CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/health/female-hurricanes-deadlier-than-male-hurricanes-trnd/index.html

Ireland's name in the Irish Gaelic language is "Eire," which evolved from Old Irish "Eriu," a Gaelic goddess.

Speaking of Irish Gaelic, even though most Irish people speak English fluently, there are dubbed Irish versions of popular cartoons. This Reddit post asks where to watch them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/apqzkf/where_to_watch_irish_dubbed_cartoons/

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Now we can look at actual people themselves.

Alexandra David-Neel:

Alexandra David-Neel who was born in France, visited Lhasa in Tibet during the 1920s, back when it was forbidden to foreigners. In order to do this, she disguised herself as a beggar and then a monk, discreetly carrying a backpack. She also chose not to take a camera or survey equipment, to not reveal her status as a foreigner.

Alexandra wrote many books about Tibet and Buddhism during her lifetime. She has also met Ekai Kawaguchi, the first Japanese person, a man, to visit Tibet, which he did before Alexandra did.

In the silent era of Hollywood, women played a much bigger role in creating films, so much that the silent era was called a "Manless Eden." More than half of all silent films are thought to have been written by women. Frances Marion was the highest paid screenwriter in the silent era.

Fanta Regina Macro:

Speaking of directors, Fanta Regina Macro is the first female film director in Burkina Faso, a West African country. Her first film was "Un Certain Matin" in 1991. She also directed the 2004 feature film "Night Of Truth", about the reconciliation of two ethnic groups, the Nayak and the Bonandes, after 10 years of fighting.

Bella Ann Lockwood:

Belva Ann Lockwood was an American lawyer and politician who was active in fighting for women's right's. She drafted an anti-discrimination bill in the 1870s to have the same access to the legal profession as men. In 1880, she became the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court, arguing Kaiser v. Stickney and United States v. Cherokee Nation.

Dolores Hart is a former Hollywood movie star who stunned Hollywood by announcing she would leave the profession to become a nun. She kissed Elvis onscreen in at least one film. Her last film was In 1963, where she started In "Come Fly With Me." In recent years, she appeared in the documentary films "God Is the Bigger Elvis," and " The Seven Ages Of Elvis."

Frances Glessner Lee:

Frances Glessener Lee was a forensic scientist who created 20 dollhouses of actual crime scenes, homicides or suicides, called "Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death."

I first had known of these dollhouses through a Vox video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdT8PgT19w

Juana Ines de la Cruz:

If you're from Mexico, you might know Juana Ines de la Cruz, or in English, "Joan Agnes of the Cross," because she appeared on Mexico's 200 peso bill until September of 2019, when she was replaced by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Jos? Mar?a Morelos, both male. She lived during the 1600's, was a nun and philosopher, wrote poetry, was able to read and write Latin by age three, and advocated for women's rights, defending the right of all women to obtain knowledge. She studied privately, formal education not being possible due to her gender, and eventually became a nun so she could study at will. One of her poems, "Foolish Men," or "Hombres necios" in Spanish, is famous, and accuses men of being illogical by criticising women.

Grace Hopper:

Grace Hooper was a computer scientist who worked for the United States Navy. She created the first compiler for computer languages, (a compiler renders worded instructions into computer-readable code) which eventually led to other people developing the "Common Business Oriented Language," or COBOL for short.

Computers used to be very large, and their warmth attracted flying insects, which might cause the circuits to shorten, resulting in the computers malfunctioning. This is what helped popularize the term "computer bug," after a moth was found in the Harvard Mark II computer.

Aminata Sana Congo:

Aminata Sana Congo is a Burkina Faso politician, diplomat and computer scientist. She was appointed Ambassador to Taiwan in 2017, shortly before Burkina Faso cut ties to Taiwan in favour of the People's Republic of China.

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This is but a small sampling of the many interesting and important women throughout history. You can find much more online.