Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC,
GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011) served as a British
Special Operations Executive agent during the later part of
World War II. She became a leading figure in the
maquis groups of the
French Resistance and was one of the
Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war. After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain
Ian Garrow. By 1943, Wake was the
Gestapo's most wanted person, with a 5 million-
franc price on her head.