List of female SOE agents

List of female SOE agents

The following is an incomplete list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive during World War II.

*Lorraine Adie
*Vera Atkins
*Dorothy Baden-Powell
*Lisé de Baissac (1905-2004)
*Madeleine Barclay (1922-1943)
*Yvonne Baseden
*Yolande Beekman (1911-1944)
*Helen Thormann-Bierer (1885-ukn)
*Denise Bloch (1915-1945)
*Andrée Borrel (1919-1944)
*Sonya Butt
*Muriel Byck (1918-1944)
*Blanche Charlet
*Marie Thérèse Le Chêne
*Yvonne Cormeau (1909-1998)
*Madeleine Damerment (1917-1944)
*Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester
*Yvonne Fountaine
*Virginia Hall (1906-1982)
*Mary Katherine Herbert
*Ginette Julliane
*Noor Inyat Khan (1914-1944)
*Marguerite Knight
*Phyliss Ada Latour
*Madeleine Lavigne
*Cecily Lefort (1900-1945)
*Vera Leigh (1903-1944)
*Eileen Nearne
*Jacqueline Nearne
*Sonia Olschanezky (1923-1944)
*Patricia O'Sullivan
*Eliane Plewman (1917-1944)
*Lilian Rolfe (1914-1945)
*Diana Rowden (1915-1944)
*Yvonne Rudelatt (1895-1945)
*Odette Sansom-Hallowes (1912-1995)
*Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952)
*Violette Szabo (1921-1945)
*Hannah Szenes (1921-1944)
*Nancy Wake (1912- )
*Anne-Marie Walters
*Odette Wilen
*Pearl Witherington (1914- )


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