We'wha

01Ban Zhao completed the Han Shu (Book of Han) after her brother Ban Gu was executed in 92 CE — becoming China's first known female historian.
02Her Nüjie (Lessons for Women) prescribed that wives must address their husbands as 'lord' and never contradict them publicly.
03Ban Zhao was also a court astronomer who calculated calendrical corrections — her mathematical work circulated separately from her domestic ethics texts.

The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395 –1399. Each panel is 53 cm × 37 cm (21 in × 15 in) .

General Tomoyuki Yamashita

We'wha, a Zuni lhamana, spent six months in Washington in 1886 as a cultural ambassador, met President Grover Cleveland, and was celebrated as a weaver and diplomat — a third-gender role the Zuni had honored for generations.