Thank you to the contributors (listed below) for submitting these twenty four suggestions. The two most popular will be made into miniatures! Please have a read through them all and have a think about who your favourites are! You will be able to vote for as many as you like, but please only vote for your favourites, ie what you’d REALLY like as a mini.

VOTING WILL OPEN 7PM WEDNESDAY 28th FEB AND CLOSE 7PM SATURDAY 2ND MARCH on our Facebook group

Click here to be taken directly to the poll. Only votes on that will count.

Images: Images are not necessarily how the minis will be dressed, just chosen for an easy glance and public domain, you are encouraged to look up more photos and information, we just haven’t gone in full detail for everyone or it would take a long, long, time!

Notes: Most of the text below is written or sourced by the contributors – you wonderful people via our Facebook group where such decisions take place, some may have more written about them, as that person just submitted more information. Some with low levels of info I, (Annie) have written a bit more to give them a fighting chance.

NOTE ON BERNADETTE DEVLIN: She won’t be in the poll due to being…alive. This sounds macabre! I hadn’t realised til I was typing up. Unless exceptional circumstance & permission, we’re not making any body who is still with us, for a variety of reasons. She slipped through so I’ll keep her in this list though!

1. Anne Bonny (1670-17??) A female pirate, operating with her lover Calico Jack Rackham. Together with Mary Read, another female pirate, she was captured in 1720, tried and sentenced to death, but given a stay of execution because she was pregnant. 
2.  Bernadette Devlin (1947 – Now)  Irish. The youngest MP elected at age 21. When asked by an all-male press corps if she intended to apologise to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Devlin said: “I’m just sorry I didn’t get him by the throat.”
3. “Captain” Nieves Fernandez (1906-1997) Nieves was a school teacher and local businesswoman in Tacloban City, Philippines, who became a legendary resistance fighter after the Imperial Japanese brutalized the people of her town. She organized a guerilla unit that ended up having between 100-200 fighters, and personally killed dozens using a homemade shotgun and her bolo knife. Her trademark tactic was a quick kill with the bolo, earning her the nickname “The Silent Killer.
4. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) Doctor, Spy (probably), and advocate of women’s dress reform. One of the earliest women in the US to have a medical degree. When war broke out in 1861, she went to Washington D.C. to offer her services as an army surgeon. She was rejected as a woman, but stayed as a volunteer nurse in local army hospitals. She wore a “uniform” of her own design incorporating trousers under a skirt.   Always favoring men’s trousers to ladies dresses, by the end of her life, she’d taken to wearing full men’s suits. She remains the only woman in US military history to have received the Medal of Honour.
5. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady and social activist (before marrying FDR and long after his death). She was definitely a fighter for social justice, racial equality, women’s rights, and SO many other things.
6. Eleonore Prochaska (1785-1813) A German soldier who fought in the Prussian army with the Lützom volunteer Jaegers, disguised as a man. Strongly idealized as a chaste heroine and honoured as “Potsdam’s Joan of Arc”
7. Empress Maude (Matilda) (1102-1167) Queen of England & Normandy, Rightful queen usurped by her cousin
8. Gerda Taro (1910-1937)  Frontline photojournalist from the Spanish Civil War. Hanno Hardt described her work with Robert Capa: “Taro and Capa helped invent the genre of modern war photography while fueling the vicarious experience of the spectator by offering an approximation of life in the conflict zone.”
9. Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (1282-1337) Princess consort of Deheubarth. Led a revolt against the Norman invaders at Kidwelly Castle. She was betrayed by a fellow countryman, captured and beheaded. The Welsh vowed revenge, leading to the Gwent Revolt of 1136.
10. Isabella of France (1295-1358) Also known as the She-Wolf of France, was the daughter of Philip IV of France (The same Philip who conspired with Pope Clement V to destroy the Knights Templar), the wife of King Edward II and the mother of Edward III.
11. Jeanne Laisné “Jeanne Hachette” (1454- ????) Axe-wielding peasant heroine of the siege of Beauvais
12. Margaret Ann Bulkley (James Barry). (1789-1865) Spent most of their life as the male surgeon James Barry, having qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1812. They went on to work at St Thomas’ in London and then joined the army as a medical officer. While in South Africa they performed the first successful caesarean in 1826. In 1857, they became the inspector general of military hospitals in Canada and did lots of excellent things improving health and welfare. They died in 1865 having been forced to retire from the army medical board in 1859.
13. Maria Nikiforova (1885-1919) also known as Marusya, Atamansha Marusya, and probably other names as well. Ukrainian anarchist, self-described terrorist sentenced to death four times by two different governments (once before she was old enough to be executed), leader of at least one Black Guard detachment of the Makhnovschina (the Ukrainian Revolutionary Insurgent Army, the anarchists), bank robber, train robber, bomb-thrower, one of Nestor Makhno’s most trusted commanders – and, in fact, more famous at the time than he was – orator and revolutionary.
14. Marie Catherine Laveau (1801-1881) Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans
15. Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) Athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist. A hell of a woman!
16. Marsha P Johnson (1945-1992) Pivotal American LGBTQ+ activist. “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”
17. Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem. (1105-1161) She was one of few women to be queen in her own right in the twelfth century (and even the entire medieval period) and ruled during a transitional period in the Latin East, including the fall of Edessa and the Second Crusade. Moreover, her costume would be interesting because it would likely be a fusion of western and eastern styles, given she was of Armenian and Frankish descent, lived her entire life in the Middle East, but was married to a prominent west Frankish lord.
18. Milunka Savić  (1889-1973) A Serbian war heroine who fought in the Balkan Wars and in World War I. She is the most-decorated female combatant in the recorded history of warfare.
19. Nicola de La Haye (1150-1230) Landowner, administrator, constable, sheriff of Lincolnshire. She defended Lincoln castle twice against sieges.
20. Olga of Kiev (later Elena) (890-925) Regent of Kievan Rus, viking descendant, canonized saint, and vengeance incarnate.  After the murder of her husband, Olga went on a revenge spree against the people that had killed him(and their prince that wanted to marry her). I’m pretty sure her life basically inspired several key moments of Game of Thrones! 
21. Puabi of Ur (Around 2600 BC) Possibly a Queen and/or Priestess. She was buried with a large number of attendants who were ritually slain to accompany Puabi in the afterlife. Puabi’s skull and headdress, along with some grave goods is in the British Museum. Well worth a visit and to pay respects to Puabi.
22. Queen Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (1686–1760) Jamaican Freedom Fighter. She led a community of formerly enslaved Africans called the Windward Maroons. In the early 18th century, under the leadership of Nanny, the Windward Maroons fought a guerrilla war over many years against British authorities in the Colony of Jamaica in what became known as the First Maroon War.
23. The Siberian Ice Maiden / The Altai Princess (Around 500 BC) A Scythio-Siberian woman from the 5th C BC, famous for her magnificent burial and tattoos! Sadly, we don’t know much at all about her life, but she must have been remarkable!
24. Chevalier d’Eon (1728-1810) Fencer, spy, soldier, diplomat, socialite and badass. Presented in all these roles as both male and female, with much very public conjecture on the topic (the Stock Exchange took bets!) but successfully had their gender transition recognised by not one but two national courts (France and England).

Thanks to the contributors: In no particular order… Carole Flint, Chris Cooper, Phil Leedell, Marianne Wells, Mark Jenkins, John Cunningham, Phil Gregory, Nigel Higgins, Adam Aaron, Alias Zug, Jack Hiscock, Michael J. Thomas, Ben Caile, Ben Owen, Magnus Guyra, Judith Burke, Felicity MacLeod Cullen, Christopher M Garcia and Phil Crawley.

Refresh on Nominations

Thank you to anybody else who made suggestions. If yours wasn’t included here, it is most likely because you didn’t submit all the required information needed for the nomination. We do this not to be mean, but to make the project more manageable. Even typing out and ordering the nominations here (and double checking info, finding pics etc) takes a lot of work and time, so it’s to make sure all nominations have been highly considered by the nominee. That was a word salad, sorry. Please don’t be discouraged, there will be future rounds, we’ve unlocked number 13 already, so stay tuned.

For future reference, the MINIMUM to nominate a person is:

“YOU MUST put their birth and death date, name/s, country, and a term that sums them up like job title or what they’re known for.

YOU CAN ONLY NOMINATE UP TO TWO PEOPLE EACH.“

Bad Squiddo Games reserves the right to remove any suggestions from the poll for any reason.