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The list Women associated with Bletchley Park includes Dorothy Hyson, Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, Maxime de la Falaise, Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington and Sue Black. The list consists of 62 members.

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Bletchley Park
WWII code-breaking site and British country house
  • 1.

    Dorothy Hyson
    Stage actress
    Dorothy Hyson
    Overview: Dorothy Hyson, Lady Quayle (born Dorothy Wardell Heisen; December 24, 1914 – May 23, 1996) was a successful American film and stage actress who worked largely in England. During World War II, she ...
    Date of birth: 24 December 1914
    Date of death: 23 May 1996
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    American expatriate actresses in the United Kingdom 44T
    20th-century American singers 5,176T
    Actresses from Chicago, Illinois 413T
  • 2.

    Osla Benning
    Canadian debutante
    Osla Benning
    Overview: Margaret Osla Henniker-Major, Lady Henniker (née Benning; 23 August 1921 – 29 October 1974) was a Canadian debutante, who worked at Bletchley Park, was Prince Philip's first girlfriend, and later married ...
    Date of birth: 23 August 1921
    Age: 103
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Socialite
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    Irish baronesses 26T
    Canadian socialites 64T
    Wives of knights 247T
  • 3.

    Maxime de la Falaise
    English-Irish model, actress, designer and writer
    Maxime de la Falaise
    Overview: Maxime Le Bailly, Comtesse de la Falaise (25 June 1922 – 30 April 2009). was a 1950s model, and, in the 1960s, an underground movie actress. She is also remembered as a cookery writer and "food maven" ...
    Date of birth: 25 June 1922
    Date of death: 30 April 2009
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Model
    Gender: Female
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    People from West Dean, West Sussex 12T
    British women fashion designers 146T
    Le Bailly de La Falaise family 6T
  • 4.

    Joan Clarke
    British cryptanalyst
    Joan Clarke
    Overview: Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (née Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist best known for her work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1917
    Date of death: 4 September 1996
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Mathematician
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    English women historians 135T
    GCHQ cryptographers 12T
    Women numismatists 48T
  • 5.
    Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
    Overview: Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington (23 October 1922 – 26 November 2018), DCVO, PC, was an English Conservative Party politician who in the 1960s and 70s served in local government in Cam ...
    Date of birth: 23 October 1922
    Date of death: 26 November 2018
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Female
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    Members of Cambridgeshire County Council 16T
    Socialites from London 12T
    2018 deaths 9,212T
  • 6.

    Amy Elizabeth Thorpe
    American spy
    Amy Elizabeth Thorpe
    Overview: Amy Elizabeth "Betty" Thorpe (November 22, 1910 – December 1, 1963) was, according to William Stephenson of British Security Coordination, an American spy, codenamed "Cynthia", who worked for his agency ...
    Date of birth: 22 November 1910
    Date of death: 1 December 1963
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Agent
    Gender: Female
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    World War II spies for the United Kingdom 74T
    People associated with Bletchley Park 162T
    Female wartime spies 120T
  • 7.

    Miriam Rothschild
    British biologist and entomologist
    Miriam Rothschild
    Overview: Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild DBE FRS (5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005) was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany.
    Date of birth: 5 August 1908
    Date of death: 20 January 2005
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    Jewish botanists 9T
    Jewish British scientists 16T
    Chemical ecologists 31T
  • 8.

    Sue Black
    British computer scientist
    Sue Black
    Overview: Susan Elizabeth Black OBE FRSA (born 1962) is a British computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She has been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking ...
    Date of birth: 1962
    Age: 62
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century British women scientists 87T
    British women bloggers 60T
    British women computer scientists 51T
  • 9.

    Sarah Baring
    English socialite and memoirist
    Sarah Baring
    Overview: Sarah Kathleen Elinor Baring (20 January 1920 – 4 February 2013) was an English socialite and memoirist, who worked for three years as a linguist at Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code ...
    Date of birth: 20 January 1920
    Date of death: 4 February 2013
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Socialite
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  • 10.

    Dorrit Dekk
    British Graphic Designer
    Dorrit Dekk
    Overview: Dorrit Dekk, born Dorothy Karoline Fuhrmann, (18 May 1917 – 29 December 2014) was a Czech-born British graphic designer, printmaker and painter.
    Date of birth: 18 May 1917
    Date of death: 29 December 2014
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Designer
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    Artists from Brno 20T
    Czech poster artists 3T
    Women's Royal Naval Service ratings 25T
  • 11.

    Diana Elles, Baroness Elles
    British politician
    Overview: Diana Louie Elles, Baroness Elles (19 July 1921 – 17 October 2009) was a barrister and United Nations representative from the United Kingdom. She was a delegate to the European Parliament for over a decade ...
    Date of birth: 19 July 1921
    Date of death: 17 October 2009
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
     0    0
    20th-century women MEPs for England 34T
    MEPs for England 1984–1989 67T
    MEPs for England 1979–1984 66T
  • 12.
    Overview: Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose (16 January 1923 – 21 March 2012) was a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her experimental novels.
    Date of birth: 16 January 1923
    Date of death: 21 March 2012
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    Women literary critics 423T
    21st-century British women writers 715T
    20th-century British women writers 1,321T
  • 13.

    Jean Valentine
    Bletchley Park bombe operator and tour guide
    Jean Valentine
    Overview: Jean Millar Valentine, later Jean Millar Rooke (7 July 1924 – 17 May 2019) was an operator of the bombe decryption device in Hut 11 at Bletchley Park in England, designed by Alan Turing and others during ...
    Date of birth: 1924
    Date of death: 17 May 2019
    Age: 94 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    2019 deaths 9,204T
    2019 deaths 6,613T
    British women in World War II 121T
  • 14.

    Phyllis Dalton
    British costume designer
    Phyllis Dalton
    Overview: Phyllis Dalton, (16 October 1925 – 9 January 2025) was an English costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she was recognised for her prolific work across film and television. She received ...
    Date of birth: 1925
    Date of death: 9 January 2025
    Age: 99 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Costume Designer
    Gender: Female
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    Women's Royal Naval Service personnel of World War II 31T
    Designers from London 49T
    Best Costume Design BAFTA Award winners 45T
  • 15.

    Irene Dixon
    Bletchley Park codebreaker
    Overview: Irene Dixon (1924-2021), Bletchley Park codebreaker was born in East London and in 1943 was one of the first women sent to the top secret unit decoding signals from Hitler's high command, during World ...
    Date of birth: 1924
    Date of death: 2021
    Age: 96 (age at death)
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  • 16.

    Helene Aldwinckle
    British translator and gallerist (1920–2020)
    Overview: Helene Aldwinckle (née Helene Lovie Taylor) (26 October 1920 – 24 April 2020), was a Bletchley Park codebreaker during the Second World War.
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  • 17.

    Mavis Batey
    English code-breaker
    Overview: Mavis Lilian Batey, MBE (née Lever; 5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), was an English code-breaker during World War II. She was one of the leading female codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
    Date of birth: 5 May 1921
    Date of death: 12 November 2013
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Historian
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  • 18.

    Rosemary Bamforth
    Scottish pathologist
    Rosemary Bamforth
    Overview: Rosemary Bamforth (19 October 1924 – 17 April 2018) was a Scottish pathologist who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. She was born to Isobel Ince and Douglas Ince, a director of a Glasgow ...
    Date of birth: 19 October 1924
    Date of death: 17 April 2018
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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  • 19.

    Joyce Aylard
    Codebreaker at Eastcote
    Overview: Joyce Ethel Aylard (née Baker, 1925 – 16 October 2022) was a British codebreaker at Eastcote, an outstation of Bletchley Park, during World War II.
    Date of birth: 1925
    Date of death: 16 October 2022
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Female
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  • 20.

    Lady Jean Fforde
    British aristocrat and Arran landowner
    Overview: Lady Jean Graham Sibyl Violet Fforde DL (née Graham; 11 November 1920 – 13 October 2017) was a British aristocrat and Arran landowner, who worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. She is known for a ...
    Date of birth: 11 November 1920
    Date of death: 13 October 2017
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Socialite
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    British debutantes 68T
    Nobility from Edinburgh 16T
    2017 deaths 9,475T
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