Arts and Music

• Germaine Richier (born 1904, died 1959)

  French sculptor.

  • Created the bronze sculpture The Batman (see list of 20th-century Modern Artists)
• Germaine Tailleferre (born 1892, died 1983)

  French composer.

  • The only woman in the post-WWI group of composers known as Les Six (see list of Composers of the 20th Century)

Leadership

• Germaine Greer (born 1939)

  Australian feminist and author. Advocate of sexual freedom for women.

  • Wrote The Female Eunuch, 1970 (see list of Noted Social Reformers and Educators)