[troutman]

I select in the Asian category, QUEEN NOOR of JORDAN:



(Jordan is considered part of Asia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor_of_Jordan

Queen Noor of Jordan (Arabic: الملكة نور‎; born 23 August 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is the latest wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan.

She was born an American of Syrian, English, Swedish, and Scottish descent. She is the current president of the United World Colleges movement and an advocate of the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Global Zero.

Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby