Famous Female Soldiers
List of famous female soldiers, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. This greatest female soldiers list contains the most prominent and top females known for being soldiers. There are thousand of females working as soldiers in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Historic soldiers have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a female aspiring to be a soldier then the people below should give you inspiration.
List below includes Elisabeth Eberl, Jรถrdis Steinegger and more people.
While this isn't a list of all female soldiers, it does answer the questions "Who are the most famous female soldiers?" and "Who are the best female soldiers?"- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainLadda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who has served as the junior United States Senator for Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017. Before election to office, she served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2009โ11) and Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs (2006โ09). Duckworth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, defeating Republican incumbent Mark Kirk.Duckworth was the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, the first born in Thailand elected to Congress, the first woman with a disability to be elected to Congress, the first female double amputee in the Senate, and the first Senator to give birth while in office. Duckworth is the second Asian American woman serving in the U.S. Senate, after Mazie Hirono, and before Kamala Harris. A combat veteran of the Iraq War, Duckworth served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot and suffered severe combat wounds, which caused her to lose both of her legs and some mobility in her right arm. She was the first female double amputee from the war. Despite her grievous injuries, she sought and obtained a medical waiver which allowed her to continue serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran. Both have since retired from the armed forces.
- Photo: user uploaded imageKatrina Hodge (born 29 March 1987) is a former member of the British Army from Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in south-east England who was handed the Miss England 2009 title after Rachel Christie stepped down.
- Sosthene Taroum Moguenara is a German long jumper. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but failed to qualify for the final. In 2011 Moguenara won the bronze medal at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Ostrava.
Ewelina Ptak
Ewelina Ptak (nรฉe Klocek; born 20 March 1987) is a Polish track and field sprint athlete.Klocek represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Daria Korczyลska, Dorota Jedrusinska and Marta Jeschke. In their first round heat they placed fifth behind Belgium, Great Britain, Brazil and Nigeria. Their time of 43.47 seconds was the second best non-directly qualifying time and the seventh time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they replaced Jeschke with Joanna Henryka Kocielnik. In the final they were eventually disqualified.Lenka Maruskova
Lenka Maruskova is an athlete and soldier.- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / CC-BY-SASnjeลพana Pejฤiฤ (born 13 July 1982) is a Croatian athlete who competes in shooting. Her first notable success was winning silver at the Juniors European Shooting Championship in Thessaloniki in 2002, and she won second place at an ISSF World Cup held in Munich in 2008. She took up sports shooting at the age of 15 and she is a member of Lokomotiva sport shooting club in Rijeka. Her greatest success came at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she earned a bronze medal.
- Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB)Petra Majdiฤ (born 22 December 1979 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian former cross-country skier. Her best results came in classic style races. She won twenty-four World Cup races, twenty in sprint races, but she also won a marathon (30 km race) in Trondheim in 2009. She is the first Slovenian cross-country skier to win the World Cup race, the first to get a medal at the World Championships and the first to get an Olympic medal. With 20 wins, Majdiฤ is the second-most successful sprinter in FIS Cross-Country World Cup history and with 24 wins in total she's the fourth-most successful World Cup competitor of all time.
- Elena Romagnolo (born October 5, 1982 in Borgosesia) is an Italian steeplechaser, middle and long-distance runner. She is the national record holder in the 3000 metres steeplechase, but now competes mainly in the 5000 metres.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / CC-BYVanessa Ferrari (born 10 November 1990) is an Italian artistic gymnast. She was the 2006 World All-Around Champion and competed for Italy at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics.
- Matteo Morandi is an Italian artistic gymnast.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Fair useEkaterina Chuikova is an Olympic Cross-country Skier from Russia.
- Nadja Drygalla is a rower.
- Marisol Guadalupe Romero is a Mexican long-distance runner who competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres on the track and in half marathon and marathon road races. She won the marathon at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and completed a 5000/10,000 m gold medal double at the 2011 Pan American Games. Her first competitive outings came in 2006, when she set a personal best of 1:16:48 hours as runner-up at the Mazatlรกn half marathon and recorded a time of 2:51:32 hours at the Mexico City Marathon. She improved her best marathon time of 2:43:21 hours the following year and won the silver medal in the 5000 m at the 2007 NACAC Championships in San Salvador. Romero made her debut on the global stage at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and finished in 39th place. The following year she ran a marathon best of 2:42:33 hours in Leรณn, Mexico before going on to claim the women's gold medal in the event at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. She ran a half marathon best of 1:14:13 hours at the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning to finish in 22nd place in the women's race.
- Marie-Louise Drรคger (born 11 April 1981 in Lรผbeck) is a German national representative rower who has represented over a twenty year period from 1999 to 2019. She is a five-time world champion lightweight sculler who has won world championships titles in all sculling boat classes. She is a three-time Olympian who competed for Germany in both the lightweight double sculls and the women's single sculls at the Olympics.
- Maaike Polspoel is a Belgian road bicycle racer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 29th.
- Marika Popowicz-Drapaลa (Polish pronunciation: [maหrika pษหpษvitอกส draหpawa]; born 28 April 1988) is a Polish track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting. She is a two-time European bronze medalist in the 4 x 100 metres relay.
- Julia Mรคchtig (born 1 January 1986 in Rostock) is a German heptathlete. She has a personal best of 6430 points for the event.She began competing in heptathlon competitions from a young age. She placed eighth at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics then won her first international medals as a junior athlete, taking bronze at the 2004 World Junior Championships and silver at the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships. She won the German senior long jump title in 2006. In the 2007 season she won her first national heptathlon title and placed third at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships. She also made her senior international debut at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she came ninth in the women's pentathlon.Mรคchtig represented Germany at the World Championships in Athletics in 2009, 2011 and 2013. She placed ninth with 6265 points on her debut outing, but was less successful in 2011 with her 17th-place finish. In 2012 she won the Mehrkampf-Meeting Ratingen with a personal best score of 6341 points, which included a long jump best of 6.49 metres. In 2013, she improved her personal best at the Ratingen meet.
Luiza Almeida
Luiza Tavares de Almeida is a Brazilian dressage rider. She is represented Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the individual dressage, finishing 47th.- Mariya Vasiliyevna Abakumova (Russian: ะะฐัะธั ะะฐัะธะปัะตะฒะฝะฐ ะะฑะฐะบัะผะพะฒะฐ; born 15 January 1986) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw.
- Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina (Russian: ะฎฬะปะธั ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดัะพะฒะฝะฐ ะัฬัะธะฝะฐ, born 4 March 1983 in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast) is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.On 30 November 2017 she was disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics, as a result of a positive doping test.
Aline dos Santos
Aline dos Santos is a track and field athlete.Ana Luiza Souza Lima
Ana Luiza Souza Lima is an athlete, teacher and soldier.- Photo: Adhi Rachdian / Flickr
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Nusa Rajher is a Slovenian athlete. Annika Schleu
Annika Schleu is a German modern pentathlete. She got the gold medal of the relay event at the 2012 World Championships. She was born in Berlin, Germany.- Christina Schwanitz (born 24 December 1985) is a German shot putter. Her personal best is 20.77 metres, achieved in May 20, 2015 at World Challenge meeting in Beijing. She has 20.05 m on the indoor track, achieved in February 2, 2014 in Rochlitz.
- Loudy Wiggins (nรฉe Tourky) (born 7 July 1979) is an Australian former diver. She was born in Haifa, Israel to Palestinian parents, but moved to Australia when she was 3 years old. Wiggins said she thinks of herself as 100 per cent Australian, although her family stays close to relatives in the Middle East. "All of my immediate family is in Australia, and everyone else back home is safeโwe're in contact with them," she said. "We keep them updated with my results."Wiggins was a gymnast at the Australian Institute of Sport, then began diving at age 12 at the suggestion of her physiotherapist.Wiggins competed at her first Olympic Games when she was 17 years old (in year 12) and finished 19th in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She won bronze in the 10m synchronised platform event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, becoming the first Australian to win an Olympic medal in diving since Dick Eve in 1924. She and Rebecca Gilmore were also the first Australian female Olympic diving medalists in the 2000 Games. She won bronze at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka in 2001 after a successful year on the grand prix circuit. She was named Female Australian Diver of the Year for 2001 and was known as being a powerful platform diver.After winning many Australian and international medals, in 2002 she won gold at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in the 10m platform event 2002 Commonwealth Games. Wiggins won first place at an unprecedented three successive CAN-AM-MEX FINA Diving Grand Prix competitions in 2003 and came home with 6 gold medals. She finished the year with a silver medal at the World Championships 10m synchronised diving in Barcelona in 2003. Also in 2003, she was named Sydney University Sports Woman of the Year and won the Magpie Wests Ashfield Award. In 2004, after finishing second in the 10m platform event at the World Cup in Athens, Wiggins won bronze in the 10m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, making her the first Australian diver to win more than one Olympic medal. Wiggins trained for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but a calf injury suffered during the Olympic selection trials on 13 April 2008 prevented her from competing in the Games.After getting married and having a baby, Wiggins began a comeback, placing 14th at the Olympic Test Event in London. Returning to Australia, she partnered with Rachel Bugg and, after very limited preparation, defeated Melissa Wu and Alexandra Croak at the Australian Nomination Trials. Wiggins competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where, at 33, she was the oldest diver in the field.Wiggins has a degree in media and communications, from Sydney University and was a personal trainer from 2012 - 2017. She now works in corporate Marketing. She was on the Australian Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission and the board of Diving Victoria from 2012 - 2014. She owned a personal training business and also launched an online Fitness program at www.mindbodyblitz.com, but has now returned to the corporate world in a digital marketing capacity.
Tina Miheliฤ
Tina Miheliฤ is an athlete. She represented Croatia in the 2012 Summer Olympics.ล pela Ponomarenko Janiฤ
ล pela Ponomarenko Janiฤ (born 2 October 1981) is a Slovenian sprint canoer who has won three medals in the K-1 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in 2006 and bronze in 2007 and 2013. Ponomarenko also finished sixth in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.Michela Guzzetti
Michela Guzzetti is an Italian swimmer. She competed for Italy at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
