Khadijah of the Maldives

Khadijah (died 1379 or 1380) was Sultana regnant of the Maldives and the eldest daughter of Sultan Omar I. In 1347 she deposed and had her brother Sultan Ahmed Shihabuddine assassinated and seized the throne, the first woman to rule the Theemuge dynasty.

Deposed by her vizier-husband Muhammad el-Jameel around 1363, she soon had him killed and ruled again, then lost power to a second husband, Abdullah I, before assassinating him in 1376 and beginning her third reign. She ruled for nearly thirty years. She was succeeded by her sister Raadhafathi.