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.

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Lorraine Adie	French	British	1916-2013		Married American OSS agent Miles Copeland, Jr.
Francine Agazarian	French	British	1913–1999	MiD	Wife of Jack Agazarian
Juliane Aisner	French	French	1919-1980s
Vera Atkins	French	Romanian/British	1908–2000	LdH, CdeG	F Section Intelligence Officer and Assistant to Maurice Buckmaster
Dorothy Baden-Powell	Part Norwegian	British	1920-		Took the "Baden" in 1956
Lise de Baissac	French	Mauritian	1905–2004		Sister of SOE Agent Claude de Baissac
Madeleine Barclay	French	French	1911–1943		KIA aboard HMS Fidelity
Yvonne Baseden	French	British	1922-?	MBE, LdH, CdeG
Yolande Beekman	French	Swiss	1911–1944	MiD	KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Helen Thormann-Bierer	French		1885-?
Denise Bloch	French		1916–1945	KCBC, LdH, CdeG	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Andrée Borrel	French	French	1919–1944	CdeG	KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Sonya Butt	French	British	1924-2014	MBE, MiD	Married fellow SOE agent Guy d'Artois
Muriel Byck	French	British	1918–1944	MiD	Died in service of meningitis at Romorantin Hospital
Blanche Charlet	French	British	1898-1985	MBE
Marie Thérèse Le Chêne	French	French
Yvonne Cormeau	French	British	1909–1997	MBE, LdH, CdeG
Madeleine Damerment	French	French	1917–1944		KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester	French	British	1917-1983?	LdH, CdeG
Alix D'Unienville	French	Mauritian	1919-2015	MBE, LdeH, CdeG
Yvonne Fontaine	French	French	1913–1996	MdlRF
Virginia Hall	French	American	1906–1982	MBE, DSC (USA)	Post war worked for the CIA
Mary Katherine Herbert	French	British/Irish	1903–1983		First WAAF Officer to join the SOE
Ginette Julliane	French	French
Noor Inyat Khan	French	Russian/Indian	1914–1944	GC, MBE, CdeG, MiD	KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Marguerite Knight	French	British	1920-	MBE, CdeG	Known as Peggy
Phyllis Latour	French	British	1921-	MBE, CdeG
Madeleine Lavigne	French	French	unk-1945
Cecily Lefort	French	British	1900–1945	CdeG, MiD	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Vera Leigh	French	British	1903–1944	KCBC	KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Eileen Nearne	French	British	1921–2010	CdeG, MBE	Known as "Didi". Sister of SOE agents Jacqueline & Francis Nearne
Jacqueline Nearne	French	British	1916–1982	MBE	Sister of SOE agents Eileen & Francis Nearne
Sonia Olschanezky	French	Russian/French	1923–1944		KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Patricia O'Sullivan	French	British/Irish	1918–1994	CdeG, MBE	WAAF
Eliane Plewman	French	British	1917–1944	KCBC, CdeG	KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Anne Robertson			1920-
Lilian Rolfe	French	British	1914–1945	MBE, CdeG, MiD	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Diana Rowden	French	British	1915–1944	MBE, CdeG, MiD	KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Yvonne Rudelatt	French	French	1897–1945		Died in service of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Odette Sansom	French	British	1912–1995	GC, MBE, LdH	Also known by the surnames "Hallowes" and "Churchill"
Krystyna Skarbek	French	Polish	1915–1952	GM, OBE, CdeG	Better known by her nom de guerre Christine Granville
Violette Szabo	French	British	1921–1945	GC, CdeG	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Hannah Szenes	Yugoslavia	Hungarian	1921–1944		KIA in Budapest
Nancy Wake	French	Australian	1912-2011	GM, LdH, CdeG	Known by her code name "White Mouse"
Anne-Marie Walters	French	British	1923–1998	MBE, CdeG
Winifred Watkins	Intelligence 1939-1946	British	1916-?		Known as 'Betty'
Odette Wilen	French	British	1919-2015		Codename "Waitress"; Field name "Sophie"; married Santiago Strugo Garay, head of the Spanish escape network.
Pearl Witherington	French	British	1914–2008	MBE, CBE, CdeG

Key

Note	Description	Explanation
CBE	Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire	Commander of the British order of chivalry.
CdeG	Croix de guerre 1939–1945	French military decoration created on September 26, 1939, to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis force at any time during World War II
DSC	Distinguished Service Cross (USA)	US gallantry medal awarded for active operations against the enemy
FANY	First Aid Nursing Yeomanry	British independent all-female unit active in both nursing and intelligence work during the World Wars. SOE Agents who were FANY officers are highlighted in khaki.
GC	George Cross	The highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom. It is highest gallantry award for civilians as well as for military personnel in actions which are not in the face of the enemy or for which purely military honours would not normally be granted.
GM	George Medal	The second highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom It awards civilian gallantry in the face of enemy action and brave deeds more generally.
KCBC	King's Commendation for Brave Conduct	British commendation to acknowledged brave acts by civilians and members of the military in non-warlike circumstances during a time of war or in peacetime where the action would not otherwise be recognised by an existing award
KIA	Killed in Action	A casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces.
LdH	Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur	French order that is the highest decoration in France.
MBE	Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire	Member of the British order of chivalry.
MiD	Mentioned in Despatches	An official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which is described the person's gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy.
WAAF	Women's Auxiliary Air Force	SOE Agents who were WAAF officers are highlighted in light blue.
WRNS	Women's Royal Naval Service	SOE Agents who were WRNS officers are highlighted in silver.

See also

• List of SOE Agents
• SOE F Section networks