Female GP Names

[spaceman98]

Nettie Stevens as a great scientist for the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettie_Stevens

 

[Hightower]

Khmer

Neang Neak or Soma - Great... something. Founder of Funan, the first state in ancient Cambodia. Definitely should be included, but not sure as what. Great Prophet is a good default for ancient monarchs.
Jahavi - Great Engineer (constructed the first major Buddhist temple in the Khmer kingdom)
Saptadevakula Prana - Great Scientist (an important astrologer and courtly advisor during the early Buddhist period)
Penh or Daun Penh - Great Merchant (a wealthy woman, the eponymous founder of Phnom Penh)


Also, you could include the Trung sisters as Great Generals. They were obviously Vietnamese and not Khmer, but as the Khmer rump state that survives in Hanoi after the Thai spawn has the dynamic name "Dai Viet", they are not totally inappropriate.

Trung Trac
Trung Nhi

 

[spaceman98]

Rosalind Franklin as Great Scientist for the British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Kate Vaughan as a great artist for the British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Vaughan

 

[ozqar]

For the Aztecs:
Macuilxochitzin, Great Artist
Malintzin - She was Cortes' translator and companion during the conquest of Mexico, although she's often considered a traitor, as she was a key player in bringing down the Aztec Empire, however, she wasn't an Aztec person herself. She could be perhaps Mexican or something? I'm listing her down in case you decide to add her.

For Mexico:
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Great Artist (mentioned before)
Frida Kahlo, Great Artist (mentioned before)
Josefa Ortiz, Great General*
Gertrudis Bocanegra, Great General*
*For these last two, they were involved in the Independence war but calling them "generals" might be stretching it out a bit. In any case, there they are.

For a modern Maya / Central American civiization:
Rigoberta Menchú - Nobel Peace Price Laureate, don't know which category would fit her best.

 

[Leoreth]

Great Artist - Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Great Artist (mentioned before)

Came back to this thread to make sure she was mentioned here, +1 for you guys.

Also friendly reminder that I haven't forgotten about this project. But once again I have plans to integrate it into wider changes that make it worth the effort, so those have to happen first. We're getting there.

 

[youtien]

In order of timing, some ancient Chinese female great general candidates:

Fu Hao 婦好
Yuenü 越女
Huang Giugu 黃九姑？
Lü Mu, or Mother Lü　陸母
Li Xiu　李秀？

Also:

Ban Zhao - Great Scientist　班昭 should be artist
Xie Daoyun - Great Scientist 謝道蘊 should also be artist
Li Qingzhao - Great Artist 李清照
Su Xiaoxiao - Great Artist 蘇小小
Shangguan Wan'er - Great Artist or Scientist 上官婉兒, no, she is a politician.

Tan Yunxian - Great Scientist (doctor) 譚芸仙？she is an actress.

Wu Chien-Shiung (or Wu Jianxiong if all Pinyin) - Great Scientist or Engineer (modern era applied physicist) (She did her most famous work in the US, though.) 吳健雄

It always hurt my eye when it comes to pingying. It forces me to write down the name in Chinese.

Here, have a look at this list:

Great general

Hua Mu Lan 花木蘭
Madam Xian or Xian Fu Ren 冼夫人
Liang hung-yu 梁紅玉
Mu Gui Ying 穆桂英
Qing Liang Yu 秦良玉

Great Prophet

He Qiong (He Xian Gu) 何瓊／何仙姑
Lim Ma Niong /Má-chó͘ 林默娘／媽祖
Ching Hai Wu Shang Shih 清海無上師
Zheng Yan 釋證嚴

Great Artist (modern)

Pan Yuliang 潘玉良 (painter)
Zhou Xuan 周璇(singer)
Eileen Chang 張愛玲(writer)
Yan Hui Zhu 言惠珠(Beijing opera actress)
Ann Hui 許鞍華(movie director)
Yang Hui Shan 楊惠姍(founder of Liuligongfang, glasswork master)
Maggie Cheung 張曼玉(actress)
Sheu Fang-Yi 許芳宜 (modern dancer)

Great Scientist

Great Engineer

Great Merchant

Great Spy


....to be continued.

 

[ozqar]

A couple more.

For Mexico,
Great artists: Rosario Castellanos; Remedios Varo (spanish-born, later became Mexican); Leonora Carrington (english-born, later became Mexican).
Great Generals: Carmen Serdán.

 

[Leoreth]

Italian GA: Artemisia Gentileschi

 

[MechatronicJazz]

How about Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad for Arabia? Probably as a great prophet or great stateswoman.

I can also think of at least a few biblical women (some more historical than others perhaps?), but I'm not sure what civ you could add them for since they would mostly be Israelites and I don't think Israel is included on the map.

 

[Chep]

Margaret Thatcher as English Great Statesman (or Stateswoman)

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_Ávila Teresa of Avila as Spanish Great Priest

 

[Manuss]

Margherita Hack as a scientist for Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Hack

 

[Leoreth]

I was deeply disappointed to find out she did not, in fact, invent hacking.

 

[ozqar]

A couple more.

For Mexico,
Great artists: Rosario Castellanos; Remedios Varo (spanish-born, later became Mexican); Leonora Carrington (english-born, later became Mexican).
Great Generals: Carmen Serdán.

Now that there are Statesmen, Rosario Castellanos should be a Stateswoman.

Other Great Women for Mexico:
Artists: Dolores del Río, Virginia Fábregas, Ángela Peralta.
Stateswomen: Emma Godoy, María Lavalle Urbina.

Edit: Another Great Stateswoman: Elvia Carrillo Puerto

 

[LatestGuy]

Margherita Hack as a scientist for Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Hack

I'd prefer to see Rita Levi-Montalcini, who discovered Nerve Growth Factor. She was the only Italian scientist who gained Nobel Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini

 

[Manuss]

I'd prefer to see Rita Levi-Montalcini, who discovered Nerve Growth Factor. She was the only Italian scientist who gained Nobel Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini

I would actually add both.

 

[sole_cepheid]

Korea :

Soseono : Great Statesman / 66BC - 6BC
Contributed to the foundation of Goguryeo and Baekje during the early Three Kingdoms Period.

Queen Seondeok of Silla (In-game name better as "Seondeok") : Great Statesman / 580AD - 647AD
Queen of kingdom of Silla who had stabilized her kingdom internally and externally.

Heo Nan-seol-heon : Great Artist / 1563AD - 1589AD
Genius Poet, writer, and artist during Joseon dynasty.

Shin Sa-im-dang : Great Artist / 1504AD - 1551AD
Famous poet and a traditional model of women(현모양처, 賢母良妻, wise mother and good wife).

Non Gae : Great Spy / ? - 1593AD
A Kisaeng(기생; similar to waitress and/or Japanese Geisha) who had intentionally seduced Japanese general during the Japanese invasion of Korea(Imjin war) and kill him with herself by throwing her body into the water.

Hwang Jin-yi : Great Artist / 16th century
Beautiful Kisaeng during mid-Joseon dynasty, also well-known as her poems and songs.

Empress consort Myeongseong : Great Statesman / 1851AD - 1895AD
Wife of Gojong(or Emperor Gwangmu) of Korean Empire. Controversial figure, but there's no doubt that she was very important female leader in the late Joseon era. She was brutally killed by Japanese armies in 1895, after the failure of political reformation.

Ryu Gwan-sun : Great.. um.. Prophet? Statesman? Can't sure. / 1902AD - 1920AD
A female student who had devoted herself into independence movement during the Japanese colonial period, and later been tortured and killed by the Empire of Japan.

 

[soul-breathing]

For the Aztecs:
Macuilxochitzin, Great Artist
Malintzin - She was Cortes' translator and companion during the conquest of Mexico, although she's often considered a traitor, as she was a key player in bringing down the Aztec Empire, however, she wasn't an Aztec person herself. She could be perhaps Mexican or something? I'm listing her down in case you decide to add her.

For Mexico:
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Great Artist (mentioned before)
Frida Kahlo, Great Artist (mentioned before)
Josefa Ortiz, Great General*
Gertrudis Bocanegra, Great General*
*For these last two, they were involved in the Independence war but calling them "generals" might be stretching it out a bit. In any case, there they are.

For a modern Maya / Central American civiization:
Rigoberta Menchú - Nobel Peace Price Laureate, don't know which category would fit her best.

Far from the topic, are Rolando Villazon and Octavio Paz considered as Great Artists in Mexico?

 

[ozqar]

Far from the topic, are Rolando Villazon and Octavio Paz considered as Great Artists in Mexico?

I had never heard of Rolando Villazon (just googled him), but perhaps it's that I don't know much about opera singers. Octavio Paz, on the other hand, is known by everyone. I have already recommended him as a Great Statesman, since he was also a diplomat and wrote plenty on politics, but he could be a Great Artist as well.

 

[soul-breathing]

I had never heard of Rolando Villazon (just googled him), but perhaps it's that I don't know much about opera singers. Octavio Paz, on the other hand, is known by everyone. I have already recommended him as a Great Statesman, since he was also a diplomat and wrote plenty on politics, but he could be a Great Artist as well.

Yes, they are both one of the most famous persons in their own field all over the world.

 

[Leoreth]

Good news, I figured out an easy way to handle female graphics for GPs in a way that changes the graphics after the name has been selected. So this is going on the road soon.