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The widow of King William IV. She asked for and paid for a home on St John's Road in Penge for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers. It was founded in 1847 and built in 1848.

An actress, composer and director, and a campaigner for women's rights, born in Bickley in 1860. She was the youngest of eight children, and her father named her after the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale.

A nurse and political activist, born in Orpington in 1911. She trained as a nurse at University College Hospital, London, and when the Spanish Civil War began she volunteered as a nurse, arriving in Spain in February 1937.

A ballerina, dancer and choreographer born in Bromley. She is known for her choreography for the musicals Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. In 2018 a London theatre was renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre, making her the first non-royal woman to have a West End theatre named after her.

A palaeontologist born in Beckenham in 1939. She studied zoology at Girton College, Cambridge, wrote her PhD on fossil lobe-finned fish, and worked for the National Museum of Scotland.

A musician and singer-songwriter, born Marianne Elliott-Said in Bromley in 1957 and brought up in Brixton. She fronted the punk band X-Ray Spex and is seen as a pioneer of feminist punk.

A singer and songwriter whose family lived in Chislehurst when she was growing up. She was the singer and main lyricist of the band Siouxsie and the Banshees, who released 11 studio albums from 1978 to 1995.

A sprinter born in Orpington in 1995, who went to Newstead Wood School there. She is the fastest British woman on record, and in 2019 she won gold in the 200 metres at the World Championships.

The Watermen's Almshouses in Penge, built in 1840–1841, were homes for retired freemen of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the City of London, and for their widows.