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Licoricia of Winchester (early 13th century – 1277) was an English Jewish businesswoman.

Karima bint Ammar, better known as Wuhsha al-dallala (fl. 11th century) was a Jewish Egyptian businesswoman and pawnbroker active in Fustat, Egypt. Her existence is attested solely by a series of documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza; she is the only woman whose biography could be comprehensively reconstructed from these records.