1000+ Remarkable Women: Past and Present
Explore a diverse collection of women who have shaped our world. From scientists and artists to activists and leaders, their stories are a testament to the power of women’s contributions.
- Aaliyah – R&B singer and actress.
- A’ja Wilson – WNBA champion and Olympic gold medalist.
- Abbott, Maude E. – Canadian physician and pioneering pediatric cardiologist, known for her work on congenital heart disease.
- Aberle, Sophie Bledsoe – American anthropologist recognized for her research on Navajo and Pueblo cultures, especially their social organization and kinship.
- Abigail Adams – U.S. First Lady and women’s rights advocate.
- Abete-Scarafiotti, Anna Rosa – Italian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry, with notable contributions to the study of algebraic curves and surfaces.
- Abidh, Stella – Public health physician and epidemiologist, instrumental in the understanding and prevention of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
- Abouchdid, Edna – Physician and medical researcher, recognized for her work on cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, particularly heart attacks and strokes.
- Abrotelia – 6th-century BC Greek natural philosopher and mathematician, believed to be a student of Pythagoras.
- Ada Blackjack – Inupiat explorer and Arctic survivor.
- Ada Deer – Native American activist and scholar.
- Ada E. Yonath – Israeli crystallographer.
- Ada Lovelace – Mathematician, first computer programmer.
- A. Elizabeth Verder – Microbiologist.
- Adèle Haenel – French actress and #MeToo advocate.
- Adele – British singer-songwriter.
- Adena Friedman – CEO of Nasdaq, finance leader.
- Adriana Lima – Brazilian model.
- Adriana Ocampo – Planetary geologist at NASA.
- Afton Williamson – American actress.
- Agatha Christie – Bestselling mystery writer.
- Agnes Chow – Hong Kong pro-democracy activist.
- Agnes Macphail – First female Member of Parliament in Canada.
- Agnès Varda – Belgian-born French film director.
- Agnodice – Ancient Greek physician, one of the first known female doctors.
- Ahd Kamel – Saudi actress and filmmaker.
- Ahilyabai Holkar – Indian queen known for administrative reforms.
- Aileen Wuornos – Woman convicted in high-profile serial murder case.
- Aimee Mullins – Paralympian and fashion model.
- Aimee Semple McPherson – Canadian-American evangelist.
- Aishwarya Rai – Indian actress.
- Ai Xiaoming – Chinese documentarian.
- Ajla Tomljanović – Croatian-Australian tennis player.
- Alaa Salah – Sudanese “Woman in White” protest icon.
- Alba Flores – Spanish actress, known for “Money Heist.”
- Alanis Morissette – Canadian-American singer.
- Alba Roballo – Uruguayan politician and human rights advocate.
- Alexandra David-Néel – Belgian-French explorer and spiritualist.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – U.S. politician and progressive activist.
- Alexandrine Tinné – Dutch explorer of Africa.
- Alexis McGill Johnson – President of Planned Parenthood.
- Alice Ball – Chemist who developed a leprosy treatment.
- Alice Coachman – First Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
- Alice Catherine Evans – Microbiologist.
- Alice Guy-Blaché – Pioneer female filmmaker.
- Alice Lee Marriott – Anthropologist.
- Alice Mossie Brues – Archaeologist.
- Alice Munro – Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author.
- Alice Paul – U.S. suffragist and equal rights activist.
- Alice Walker – Author of The Color Purple.
- Alisha Boe – Norwegian-American actress.
- Alicia Alonso – Cuban ballerina.
- Alicia Keys – American singer and songwriter.
- Alissa White-Gluz – Canadian vocalist.
- Alla Genrikhovna Massevitch – Astronomer.
- Ali Stroker – First wheelchair-using Tony Award winner.
- Alondra Nelson – American sociologist.
- Amal Clooney – Lebanese-British barrister.
- Amalia C., Lady Fleming – Microbiologist.
- Amal Kassir – Syrian-American poet and activist.
- Amara Lakhous – Italian-Algerian writer.
- Amanda Gorman – Youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.
- Amanda Nunes – Brazilian mixed martial artist.
- Amanda Seyfried – American actress.
- Amber Liu – Taiwanese-American singer.
- Amber Riley – American actress, singer, and author.
- Amiliya Pavlovna Khusu – Russian mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of differential equations.
- Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards – Egyptologist and novelist.
- Amelia Earhart – First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
- Amelie Mauresmo – French tennis player.
- Ameenah Gurib-Fakim – Former president of Mauritius, scientist.
- Aminatou Sow – American writer and cultural commentator.
- Amiela Chalubinska – Polish geographer who specialized in the study of human geography and regional development.
- Amy Carmichael – Missionary and author.
- Amy Poehler – American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director.
- Amy Schumer – American stand-up comedian and actress.
- Amy Tan – American novelist.
- Ana de Armas – Cuban-Spanish actress.
- Ana Ivanovic – Serbian former professional tennis player.
- Ana M. Gálvez Barrera – Anthropologist.
- Anastasia – Greek singer.
- Anastasia Lin – Chinese-Canadian actress, model, and beauty pageant titleholder.
- Anaïs Nin – French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, novelist, and short-story writer.
- Anandi Gopal Joshi – First Indian woman to study medicine in the U.S.
- Andie MacDowell – American actress and fashion model.
- Andrea Ghez – American astronomer.
- Angela Bassett – American actress.
- Angela Davis – American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author.
- Angela Lansbury – British-American actress and singer.
- Angela Merkel – German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany.
- Angelina Jolie – American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.
- Anita Borg – American computer scientist.
- Anita Hill – American lawyer and academic.
- Anna Brownell Murphy Jameson – Writer and art historian.
- Anna C. Williams – Microbiologist.
- Anna Deavere Smith – American actress, playwright, and professor.
- Anna Kendrick – American actress and singer.
- Anne Bancroft – American actress.
- Anne Barbara Underhill – Astrophysicist.
- Anne Boleyn – Queen of England.
- Anne Bradstreet – First published poet in Colonial America.
- Anne Frank – German-born diarist.
- Anne Hathaway – Actress and activist.
- Anne McClain – American astronaut.
- Anne Strachan Robertson – Archaeologist.
- Anne Wojcicki – American entrepreneur.
- Annette Chambers – American guidance project engineer who worked on the development of missile guidance systems.
- Annie Jump Cannon – American astronomer.
- Annie Leibovitz – American portrait photographer.
- Annie Lennox – Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.
- Annie S. Peck – Mountaineer.
- Annita Roddick – Founder of The Body Shop.
- Anoushka Shankar – Indian sitar player and composer.
- Anya Taylor-Joy – American-born Argentine-British actress.
- Araceli Segarra – Spanish mountaineer.
- Aretha Franklin – “Queen of Soul,” civil rights activist.
- Ariana Grande – Pop singer.
- Arlene Foster – British politician.
- Artemisia Gentileschi – Italian Baroque painter.
- Arundhati Roy – Indian novelist and activist.
- A.R. Kasturi Bai – Botanist.
- Asha Bhosle – Indian playback singer.
- Ashima Mukherjee Chatterjee – Indian chemist who made significant contributions to the field of medicinal chemistry
- Ashima Shiraishi – American rock climber.
- Ashley Judd – American actress and political activist.
- Aung San Suu Kyi – Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- Ava DuVernay – American filmmaker.
- Avani Chaturvedi – Indian pilot.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, writer, and politician.
- Ayesha Curry – Canadian-American actress, cookbook author, and cooking television personality.
- Ayumi Hamasaki – Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson, and entrepreneur.
- Azah Awasum – Cameroonian-American entrepreneur.
- Aziza Barnes – American poet and playwright.
- Aziza Mustafa Zadeh – Azerbaijani singer, pianist, and composer.
- Azzar Abdel Hamid – Egyptian human rights activist.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias – American athlete.
- Babcock, Harriet – American psychologist known for her work on child development and education
- Bacon-Bercey, June – American meteorologist and the first African American woman to earn a degree in meteorology.
- Barbara Bush – Former First Lady of the United States.
- Bacon, Clara Latimer – American mathematician and educator, known for her work in the field of mathematics education.
- Barbara Hendricks – American operatic soprano.
- Barbara Jordan – American lawyer, educator, and politician.
- Barbara Kingsolver – American novelist, essayist, and poet.
- Barbara McClintock – American scientist and cytogeneticist.
- Barbara Palvin – Hungarian model.
- Barbara Walters – American broadcast journalist and television personality.
- Barbara Ann Bailar – American mathematician and statistician known for her contributions to the design of experiments and statistical analysis.
- Baroness Amos – First Black woman in the UK Cabinet.
- Beatrice Mtetwa – Zimbabwean human rights lawyer.
- Beatrix Potter – Children’s author and illustrator.
- Bebe Rexha – Pop singer-songwriter.
- Bebe Vio – Italian Paralympic fencer.
- Belva Lockwood – First woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Benedetta Carlini – 17th-century Italian nun and mystic.
- Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician.
- Berta Vogel Scharrer – Neuroendocrinologist.
- Bertha Van Hooten Anthony – Microbiologist.
- Bertha von Suttner – Austrian pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
- Bessie Coleman – First African-American and Native-American female pilot.
- Bessie Stringfield – First Black woman to motorcycle solo across the U.S.
- Bethany Hamilton – Surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack.
- Bette Davis – American actress.
- Betty Friedan – American feminist writer, activist, and a leading figure in the women’s movement in the United States.
- Betty White – American actress and comedian.
- Beulah Louise Henry – American inventor.
- Beverly Cleary – American writer of children’s and young adult fiction.
- Beyoncé – American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress.
- B.E. Wheeler – Archaeologist.
- Bijur Tara Bai – Indian chemist and home economist who worked on improving nutrition and food safety in India.
- Billie Eilish – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter.
- Billie Holiday – Legendary jazz singer.
- Billie Jean King – Tennis champion and gender equality advocate.
- Bindi Irwin – Australian television personality, conservationist, and zoo operator.
- Birgit Nilsson – Swedish dramatic soprano.
- Biruté Galdikas – German-Canadian primatologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and conservationist.
- Biz Stone – American software developer and businessman.
- Blanca Canales – Puerto Rican Nationalist.
- Blanche E. Williams – Archaeologist.
- Blythe Danner – Award-winning actress.
- Bo Derek – American actress and model.
- Bonnie Blair – Olympic speed skater.
- Boudicca – Queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe.
- Brenda Chapman – American writer, storyboard artist, and film director.
- Brené Brown – American research professor.
- Britney Spears – Pop icon and advocate for conservatorship reform.
- Brittany Howard – American musician, singer, and songwriter.
- Caitlyn Jenner – American media personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.
- Calamity Jane – American frontierswoman and sharpshooter.
- Calista Eliot Causey – Microbiologist.
- Camila Cabello – Cuban-born American singer and songwriter.
- Cameron Diaz – American actress, author, and former model.
- Candace Owens – American conservative commentator and political activist.
- Candace Parker – American professional basketball player.
- Carla Bruni – Italian-French singer-songwriter and former model.
- Carla Hayden – 14th Librarian of Congress.
- Carli Lloyd – American former professional soccer player.
- Carlie Hanson – American singer-songwriter.
- Caroline Bonaparte, Queen Murat – Queen and patron of the arts.
- Caroline Herschel – German astronomer.
- Carol Burnett – American actress, comedian, singer, and writer.
- Carol Jo Argus Crannell – Astrophysicist.
- Carol Shaw – American early video game designer and programmer.
- Carole King – American singer-songwriter.
- Carrie Fisher – American actress, writer, and comedian.
- Carson McCullers – American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.
- Casey DeSantis – American former television newscaster and First Lady of Florida.
- Catherine Deneuve – French actress.
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge – Member of the British royal family.
- Catherine O’Hara – Canadian-American actress, writer, and comedian.
- Catherine the Great – Empress of All Russia.
- Cathy Freeman – Australian former sprinter.
- Cecily Strong – American actress and comedian.
- Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin – Astronomer.
- Celeste Ng – American novelist.
- Celia Cruz – Cuban-American singer.
- Cellier, Elizabeth – 17th-century English midwife and medical statistician, known for her work on maternal mortality
- Cesniece-Freudenfelde, Zelma – Latvian physician and the first woman to earn a medical degree in Latvia
- Chanel Miller – American writer and artist.
- Charlize Theron – South African and American actress and producer.
- Charlotte E. Moore Sitterly – Astronomer.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman – American feminist writer.
- Chelsea Clinton – American writer and global health advocate.
- Cher – American singer, actress, and television personality.
- Chaix, Paulette Audemard – French biochemist who made significant contributions to the study of enzymes and proteins
- Chieko Asakawa – Japanese computer scientist.
- Chien-Shiung Wu – Chinese-American experimental physicist.
- Chika Kuroda – Japanese organic chemist.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Nigerian writer.
- Chloe Kim – American snowboarder.
- Chloë Grace Moretz – American actress and model.
- Chloé Zhao – Chinese filmmaker.
- Chris Evert – American former professional tennis player.
- Christa McAuliffe – American teacher and astronaut.
- Christina Aguilera – American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.
- Christina Koch – American engineer and NASA astronaut.
- Christine Jones-Forman – Astrophysicist.
- Christine Lagarde – French politician, lawyer, and President of the European Central Bank.
- Ciara – American singer, songwriter, dancer, and model.
- Clara Barton – American nurse, hospital founder, and patent clerk.
- Clemence Augustine Royer – Anthropologist.
- Cleopatra – Last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
- Cleo Kinnaman – Brazilian tattoo artist.
- Coco Chanel – French fashion designer and businesswoman.
- CoCo Lee – Hong Kong-American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress.
- Condoleezza Rice – American diplomat and political scientist.
- Cora Downs – Microbiologist.
- Corazon Aquino – Filipino politician.
- Cornelia Horsford – Archaeologist.
- Cyndi Lauper – American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.
- Dakota Fanning – American actress.
- Dame Cicely Saunders – English nurse, social worker, physician, and writer.
- Dame Emma Hamilton – English courtesan and muse.
- Dame Judi Dench – English actress.
- Dame Zaha Hadid – Iraqi-British architect.
- Danai Gurira – American actress and playwright.
- Danica McKellar – American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate.
- Danica Patrick – American former professional racing driver.
- Danica Roem – American politician.
- Darnella Frazier – American woman who videotaped the murder of George Floyd.
- Deb Haaland – American politician.
- Debbie Allen – American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
- Debi Mukerji Chakravarthy – Indian chemist known for her research in organic chemistry and natural products.
- Deborah Sampson – American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
- Deepika Padukone – Indian actress.
- Demi Lovato – American singer, songwriter, and actress.
- Diahann Carroll – American actress, singer, and model.
- Dian Fossey – American primatologist and conservationist.
- Diana Ross – American singer and actress.
- Diana, Princess of Wales – British royal, humanitarian, and fashion icon.
- Diane von Fürstenberg – Belgian fashion designer.
- Dina Asher-Smith – British sprinter.
- Dolores Huerta – Labor leader and activist.
- Dolly Parton – American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian.
- Donna Strickland – Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers.
- Donna Summer – American singer.
- Dorothea Lange – American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
- Dorothy Arzner – American film director.
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin – British chemist.
- Dorothy Dandridge – American actress.
- Dorothy Eady – Writer and Egyptologist.
- Dorothy Height – American administrator and educator.
- Dorothy Norman Pearse – Mathematician.
- Dr. Jill Biden – American educator and First Lady of the United States.
- Drew Barrymore – American actress, producer, director, talk show host, and author.
- Duchess of Suffolk, Chaucer – 15th-century English physician and the first woman to be licensed to practice medicine in England.
- Dua Lipa – English singer and songwriter.
- Eartha Kitt – American singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, and songwriter.
- Edith Clarke – First female electrical engineer in the U.S.
- Edith Cavell – British nurse and World War I spy.
- Edith H. Hall – Archaeologist.
- Edith Porada – Art historian and archaeologist.
- Eileen Collins – First female Space Shuttle pilot and commander.
- Eleanor Albert Bliss – Bacteriologist.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine – Powerful medieval queen.
- Eleanor J. MacDonald – American cancer epidemiologist
- Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady and human rights advocate.
- Elena Ferrante – Pseudonymous Italian novelist.
- Elif Shafak – Turkish-British novelist and activist.
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney – Planter and businesswoman.
- Elizabeth Blackwell – First woman to graduate from medical school in the U.S.
- Elizabeth Caroline Crosby – Neuroanatomist.
- Elizabeth Dexter Hay – Anatomist.
- Elizabeth F. Genung – Microbiologist.
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson – English physician and feminist.
- Elizabeth I – Queen of England during the Elizabethan era.
- Elizabeth Peratrovich – Tlingit civil rights activist.
- Ellen Churchill Semple – Anthropologist.
- Ellen DeGeneres – Comedian, actress, and LGBTQ+ advocate.
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – First female president of Liberia.
- Ellen MacArthur – Record-breaking sailor.
- Ellen Ochoa – First Hispanic woman in space.
- Eloise Cobell – Native American activist and banker.
- Elsa Guðbjörg Vilmundardóttir – Icelandic chemist.
- Elsie Gregory MacGill – Aeronautical engineer.
- Elsie Widdowson – British dietician and nutritionist.
- Emily Brontë – Author of Wuthering Heights.
- Emily Dickinson – American poet.
- Emma Gonzalez – Gun control activist and advocate.
- Emma Raducanu – British tennis player.
- Emma Stone – Oscar-winning actress.
- Emma Watson – Actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador.
- Emmanuelle Charpentier – French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
- Emmeline Pankhurst – Leader of the British suffragette movement.
- Emmy Noether – German mathematician.
- Empress Helena – Empress and pilgrim.
- Esfir Shub – Soviet documentary filmmaker.
- Eslanda (Cardoza) Goode Robeson – Anthropologist.
- Ethel Payne – Journalist and “First Lady of the Black Press.”
- Ethel Rosenberg – Convicted spy during the Cold War.
- Ethel Smyth – Composer and suffragette.
- Etta Zuber Falconer – American mathematician.
- Eudora Welty – Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
- Eugenie Clark – Ichthyologist known as the “Shark Lady.”
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver – Founder of the Special Olympics.
- Eva Longoria – Actress and activist.
- Eva Perón – First Lady of Argentina and women’s rights advocate.
- Evelyn Boyd Granville – Mathematician and space scientist.
- Evelyn Glennie – Deaf percussionist.
- Ewa Wiśnierska – Paraglider who survived extreme weather.
- Faith Ringgold – Artist and activist.
- Fannie Lou Hamer – Civil rights activist.
- Fatima al-Fihri – Founded the world’s first university.
- Fatima Bhutto – Pakistani writer and activist.
- Fatima Mernissi – Moroccan sociologist and feminist writer.
- Fe del Mundo – Filipina pediatrician.
- Flannery O’Connor – American writer.
- Florence Bascom – First female geologist in the U.S.
- Florence Griffith Joyner – Olympic track and field athlete.
- Florence Kelley – Labor rights and child welfare advocate.
- Florence Nightingale – Founder of modern nursing.
- Florence Price – First African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra.
- Florence Rena Sabin – Medical scientist.
- Florentina Mosora – Romanian physicist.
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi – Nobel Prize-winning virologist.
- Frances Marion – Screenwriter.
- Frances Perkins – First female U.S. Cabinet member.
- Freddie Oversteegen – Dutch resistance fighter.
- Freda Miller – Canadian neuroscientist.
- Frida Kahlo – Mexican painter.
- Gabby Douglas – Olympic gymnast.
- Gabriela Mistral – Chilean poet and Nobel laureate.
- Gabrielle-Emilie du Chatelet – French mathematician, physicist, and author known for her translation and commentary on Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
- Gabrielle Giffords – Former Congresswoman and gun control advocate.
- Gaura Devi – Indian environmental activist.
- Genevieve Charlotte d’Arconville – Anatomist and chemist.
- George Eliot – English novelist (pen name of Mary Ann Evans).
- Georgia O’Keeffe – American modernist painter.
- Gerda Taro – Photojournalist.
- Gertrude B. Elion – Biochemist and Nobel laureate.
- Gertrude Stein – Writer and art collector.
- Gilda Peraza – Cuban physician and a pioneer in the field of pediatric cardiology
- Gitanjali Rao – Young scientist and inventor.
- Gloria Estefan – Cuban-American singer.
- Gloria Lim – Malaysian chemist.
- Gloria Steinem – Feminist writer and activist.
- Golda Meir – Former Prime Minister of Israel.
- Gorgo, Queen of Sparta – 5th-century BC queen known for her political influence.
- Grace Hopper – Computer scientist.
- Grace Kelly – Actress and Princess of Monaco.
- Graça Machel – Mozambican politician and humanitarian.
- Greta Gerwig – Filmmaker.
- Greta Thunberg – Climate activist.
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw – British actress.
- Gwendolyn Brooks – Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Halima Aden – Somali-American model.
- Halle Berry – First Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar.
- Hanan Ashrawi – Palestinian politician and activist.
- Hannah E. Myers Longshore – Physician.
- Harriet A. Boyd Hawes – Archaeologist.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs – Abolitionist and writer.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- Harriet Tubman – Abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor.
- Hatshepsut – Female pharaoh of Egypt.
- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander – Pediatrician and microbiologist.
- Hayat Sindi – Saudi Arabian scientist.
- Hazel D. Hansen – Archaeologist.
- Hazel Scott – Jazz pianist and civil rights activist.
- Hedy Lamarr – Actress and inventor.
- Helen Clark – Former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
- Helen Frances Codere – Anthropologist.
- Helen Keller – Disability rights advocate.
- Helen Mirren – Award-winning actress.
- Helen Suzman – Anti-apartheid activist in South Africa.
- Helen Thomas – Journalist and White House correspondent.
- Henrietta Leavitt – American astronomer.
- Hertha Ayrton – Engineer and mathematician.
- Hetty Goldman – Archaeologist.
- Hillary Clinton – Former U.S. Secretary of State and First Lady.
- Huda Sha’arawi – Egyptian feminist leader.
- Huang Yu-shan – Taiwanese film director.
- Hurustiati Subandrio – Anthropologist.
- Hyla Napadensky – American combustion engineer
- Hypatia – Philosopher and astronomer in Roman Egypt.
- Ibtihaj Muhammad – Olympic fencer and first U.S. Olympian to compete in hijab.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett – Journalist and anti-lynching activist.
- Ida Bengtson – Bacteriologist.
- Ilhan Omar – U.S. Congresswoman.
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz – Aerospace engineer.
- Indira Gandhi – First female Prime Minister of India.
- Indra Nooyi – Former CEO of PepsiCo.
- Ingrid Bergman – Actress.
- Irena Sendler – Rescuer of Jewish children during the Holocaust.
- Isabel Allende – Chilean novelist.
- Isabella Bird – 19th-century explorer and writer.
- Isabella d’Este – Noblewoman and art patron.
- Jacqueline Cochran – Pioneering aviator.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – Former U.S. First Lady and book editor.
- Jacquetta Hopkins Hawkes – Archaeologist.
- Jadwiga Lekczyńska – Physician and activist.
- Jane Addams – Social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- Jane Austen – English novelist.
- Jane Ellen Harrison – Classical scholar.
- Jane Goodall – Primatologist and anthropologist.
- Janelle Monáe – Singer, actress, and activist.
- Janet Jackson – Singer, songwriter, and actress.
- Janet Mock – Writer, director, and transgender activist.
- Janet Yellen – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
- Janis Joplin – Rock and blues singer.
- Jansje Gretha Schuiringa – Dutch physicist.
- Javicia Leslie – Actress, first Black Batwoman.
- Jean Macnamara – Physician.
- Jeanne Baret – First woman to circumnavigate the globe.
- Jeanne Paule Magre Dieulafoy – Archaeologist and explorer.
- Jeanette Rankin – First woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
- Jenna Ortega – Actress.
- Jennifer Doudna – Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
- Jennifer Hudson – Singer and actress.
- Jessica Ennis-Hill – Olympic heptathlete.
- Jessica Meir – NASA astronaut.
- Jill Biden – First Lady of the United States and educator.
- Jill Scott – Singer and actress.
- Joan Baez – Folk singer and activist.
- Joan Clarke – British cryptanalyst.
- Joan Didion – Writer and essayist.
- Joan Jett – Rock musician and feminist icon.
- Joan of Arc – French military leader and saint.
- Joan Rivers – Comedian and television host.
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Northern Irish astrophysicist.
- Jody Williams – Nobel Peace Prize laureate and anti-landmine activist.
- Johanna Mestorf – Archaeologist.
- Johanna Westerdijk – Dutch plant pathologist.
- Josephine Baker – Entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist.
- Josephine Butler – Social reformer and feminist.
- Josephine Cochrane – Inventor of the dishwasher.
- Josefina Castellví Piulachs – Spanish oceanographer.
- Joy Adamson – Austrian-born British naturalist.
- Joy Buolamwini – Ghanaian-American computer scientist.
- Joy Harjo – First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.
- Joy Mangano – Inventor and entrepreneur.
- Joyce Banda – Former President of Malawi.
- Judith Butler – Philosopher and gender theorist.
- Judith Jamison – Dancer and choreographer.
- Judy Blume – Author of children’s and young adult fiction.
- Judy Chicago – Feminist artist.
- Judy Garland – Actress and singer.
- Julia Child – Chef and television personality.
- Julia Gillard – First female Prime Minister of Australia.
- Julia Roberts – Actress.
- Julia Tiffany Weld – Microbiologist.
- Julianne Moore – Oscar-winning actress.
- Juliette Gordon Low – Founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
- June Almeida – Virologist.
- Juno Temple – Actress.
- Justine Hamilton Hill – Microbiologist.
- Justine Henin – Belgian tennis player.
- Juana Inés de la Cruz – Mexican writer and philosopher.
- Kai Okami – Japanese physician known for her work in the field of oncology, specializing in the treatment of breast cancer.
- Kamala Das – Indian poet and writer.
- Kamala Harris – First female Vice President of the United States.
- Karen Blixen – Danish author.
- Karen Carpenter – Singer and musician.
- Karen Khachanov – Armenian-Russian tennis player.
- Karen Uhlenbeck – Mathematician.
- Karla Wheelock – Mexican mountaineer.
- Kate Bush – British singer-songwriter.
- Kate Chopin – Author.
- Kate Middleton – Princess of Wales.
- Katharine Graham – Publisher.
- Katharine Hepburn – Actress.
- Katherine Dunham – Dancer and choreographer.
- Katherine Johnson – NASA mathematician.
- Kateryna Yushchenko – Ukrainian computer scientist.
- Kathleen Antonelli – One of the six original programmers of ENIAC.
- Kathleen Kenyon – Archaeologist.
- Kathy Sullivan – Astronaut and geologist.
- Kathy Whitworth – Professional golfer.
- Katie Bouman – Computer scientist.
- Katie Couric – Journalist.
- Kay Cottee – Australian sailor.
- Keiko Fukuda – Judoka.
- Keke Palmer – Actress and singer.
- Kelly Clarkson – Singer.
- Kelly Holmes – British athlete.
- Kelsea Ballerini – Country music singer.
- Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer – Dutch folk hero.
- Ketanji Brown Jackson – U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
- Khadija bint Khuwaylid – First wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
- Kheira Rahal – Microbiologist.
- Kim Kardashian – Reality TV star and businesswoman.
- Kim Ng – First female general manager in MLB.
- Kim Petras – German singer and songwriter.
- Kim Yuna – Olympic figure skater.
- Kimberlé Crenshaw – Legal scholar and civil rights advocate.
- Klavdiya Yakolevna Latysheva – Russian mathematician known for her work in the field of partial differential equations.
- Kirsten Gillibrand – U.S. Senator.
- Kizzmekia Corbett – Viral immunologist.
- Kris Jenner – TV personality and businesswoman.
- Kristalina Georgieva – Managing Director of the IMF.
- Kristi Noem – Governor of South Dakota.
- Kristi Yamaguchi – Figure skater.
- Kylie Jenner – Reality TV star and businesswoman.
- Kylie Minogue – Australian singer and actress.
- Lady Gaga – Singer, songwriter, and actress.
- Lady Hester Stanhope – British archaeologist and adventurer.
- Lakshmi Bai – Queen of the princely state of Jhansi in North India.
- Lana Condor – Actress.
- Larisa Latynina – Soviet gymnast.
- Lata Mangeshkar – Indian playback singer.
- Laura Bassi – Italian physicist.
- Laura Dekker – Sailor.
- Laura Maria Catarina Bassi – Physicist.
- Laura Thompson – Anthropologist.
- Laurene Powell Jobs – Businesswoman and philanthropist.
- Laverne Cox – Actress and LGBTQ+ advocate.
- Laylah Ali – Visual artist.
- Lea Salonga – Filipina singer and actress.
- Lea T – Brazilian fashion model.
- Leila Seth – First woman judge on the Delhi High Court.
- Lella Lombardi – Race car driver.
- Lena Waithe – Screenwriter, producer, and actress.
- Leticia James – Attorney General of New York.
- Leymah Gbowee – Liberian peace activist.
- Lillian Gilbreth – Industrial engineer and psychologist.
- Lillian South – Microbiologist.
- Lilly Ledbetter – Advocate for equal pay.
- Linda B. Lange – Microbiologist.
- Linda Nochlin – Art historian.
- Linda Nedbalová – Czech scientist.
- Lisa Leslie – Basketball player.
- Lise Meitner – Physicist.
- Lilith – Figure in Jewish mythology.
- Liu Yifei – Chinese-American actress.
- Lizzo – Singer, rapper, and flutist.
- Lois Weber – Silent film director.
- Louise Kerling – Dutch biologist known for her research on the plant pathology.
- Loretta Lynch – Former U.S. Attorney General.
- Louisa May Alcott – Novelist.
- Louise Twining – Social reformer.
- Luba Lukova – Graphic artist.
- Lubna Olayan – Saudi businesswoman.
- Lucille Ball – Actress and comedian.
- Lucrezia Borgia – Italian noblewoman and Renaissance figure.
- Luisa Moreno – Labor organizer.
- Luisa Piccarreta – Italian mystic and saint.
- Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner – Physician.
- Lydia Thorpe – Australian politician.
- Lynn Conway – Computer scientist and transgender activist.
- Lynn Hill – Rock climber.
- Lynn Margulis – American evolutionary theorist.
- L’udmila Pajdušáková – Slovak astronomer.
- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee – Chinese-American suffragist.
- Madeleine Albright – First female U.S. Secretary of State.
- Madeleine de Scudéry – French writer.
- Madonna – Singer, songwriter, and actress.
- Mae C. Jemison – Engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.
- Mae West – Actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
- Maggie Aderin-Pocock – Space scientist.
- Maggie Hassan – U.S. Senator.
- Maggie Lena Walker – First Black woman to charter a bank in the U.S.
- Mahalia Jackson – Gospel singer.
- Maisie Hill – Author and menstrual health advocate.
- Majdoline Bou Eid – Lebanese entrepreneur.
- Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani activist for female education.
- Mamata Banerjee – Indian politician.
- Mandy Harvey – Deaf singer and songwriter.
- Manuela Sáenz – South American revolutionary.
- Marcelline Chartz – American computer scientist who made significant contributions to the development of artificial intelligence
- Maria Dalle Donne – Italian physician.
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi – Italian mathematician.
- Maria Goeppert Mayer – German-born American theoretical physicist.
- Puga, María Luz – Mexican botanist known for her research.
- Maria Montessori – Italian physician and educator.
- Maria Orosa – Filipina food technologist and war heroine.
- Maria Paz Mendoza-Guazon – Physician.
- Maria Ressa – Filipino-American journalist.
- Maria Tallchief – America’s first major prima ballerina.
- Mariana Costa Checa – Peruvian entrepreneur.
- Mariane Pearl – French journalist.
- Marie Antoinette – Last Queen of France before the Revolution.
- Marie Bashir – First female Governor of New South Wales.
- Marie Colvin – American journalist.
- Marie Curie – Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist.
- Marie Equi – Physician and LGBTQ+ activist.
- Marie Laveau – Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo.
- Marie Laurent Pasteur – Scientist.
- Marie Marvingt – French athlete, aviator, and adventurer.
- Marie-Therese Mackowsky – German mineralogist
- Marilú Martens – Peruvian educator and politician.
- Marina Abramović – Serbian performance artist.
- Marina Silva – Brazilian politician and environmentalist.
- Marissa Mayer – Former CEO of Yahoo!
- Mead, Margaret – Influential American cultural anthropologist.
- Marjane Satrapi – Iranian-born French graphic novelist.
- Marjorie Lee Browne – Mathematician and educator.
- Martha Beckwith – Folklorist.
- Martha Graham – American modern dancer and choreographer.
- Martha Nussbaum – American philosopher.
- Mary Allen Wilkes – American former computer programmer.
- Mary Anning – English fossil collector and paleontologist.
- Mary, Lady Bruce – Microbiologist.
- Mary Cassatt – American Impressionist painter.
- Mary Dell Chilton – Biologist.
- Mary E. Caldwell – Microbiologist.
- Mary Edwards Walker – American abolitionist, prohibitionist, and surgeon.
- Mary Eliza Mahoney – One of the first African-American women to earn a professional nursing degree in the United States.
- Mary Engle Pennington – Chemist.
- Mary Fields – First African-American woman star route mail carrier in the United States.
- Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse) – English criminal and cross-dresser.
- Mary G. Ross – First Native American female engineer.
- Mary Harris “Mother” Jones – Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer.
- Mary Jackson – Mathematician and aerospace engineer.
- Mary Kingsley – English ethnographic and scientific writer.
- Mary Kirkbride – Physician.
- Mary Leakey – British paleoanthropologist.
- Mary Lyon – American pioneer in women’s education.
- Mary Ritter Beard – American historian and archivist.
- Mary Seacole – Jamaican-born nurse and businesswoman.
- Mary Shelley – English novelist.
- Mary Somerville – Scottish science writer and polymath.
- Mary Wollstonecraft – English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights.
- Mata Hari – Exotic dancer and accused spy.
- Matilda Coxe Stevenson – Anthropologist.
- Matilda Joslyn Gage – American women’s suffragist.
- Maud Leonora Menten – Canadian biochemist and organic chemist.
- Maud Wagner – American circus performer and tattoo artist.
- May-Britt Moser – Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist.
- Mayly Sánchez – Venezuelan particle physicist.
- Maya Angelou – Poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
- Maya Lin – Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
- Megan Rapinoe – Professional soccer player.
- Meghan Markle – Duchess of Sussex.
- Melati Wijsen – Indonesian environmental activist.
- Melinda French Gates – Philanthropist and businesswoman.
- Meryl Streep – Actress.
- Mia Farrow – American actress and activist.
- Mia Hamm – Soccer player.
- Michelle Bachelet – Former President of Chile and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Michelle Kwan – Figure skater.
- Michelle Obama – Former First Lady of the United States.
- Michelle Yeoh – Malaysian actress.
- Michele Arditi – Archaeologist.
- Mikaela Shiffrin – Alpine ski racer.
- Mila Kunis – Actress.
- Mildred Amanda Engelbrecht – Microbiologist.
- Mildred Dresselhaus – American nanoscientist.
- Mildred Trotter – Anatomist.
- Millie Bobby Brown – British actress.
- Mina Bissell – Iranian-American biologist.
- Mindy Kaling – American actress, comedian, and writer.
- Minerva Cuevas – Mexican conceptual artist.
- Minouche Shafik – Egyptian-born British-American economist.
- Mira Nair – Indian-American filmmaker.
- Miriam Coronel-Ferrer – Filipino peace negotiator.
- Miriam Makeba – South African singer and activist.
- Missy Elliott – American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
- Misty Copeland – American ballet dancer.
- Mithali Raj – Indian cricketer.
- Mo’ne Davis – American former baseball and basketball player.
- Molly Brown – American philanthropist, activist, and actress.
- Molly Ivins – American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist.
- Monica Lewinsky – American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern.
- Mother Teresa – Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
- Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport) – Filmmaker.
- Murasaki Shikibu – Japanese novelist, poet, and lady-in-waiting.
- Muriel Siebert – First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Myrlie Evers-Williams – American civil rights activist and journalist.
- Nadia Comăneci – Romanian retired gymnast.
- Nadia Murad – Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist.
- Nadine Gordimer – South African writer, political activist, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Naomi Alderman – British novelist and game writer.
- Naomi Campbell – British model, actress, and businesswoman.
- Naomi Osaka – Japanese professional tennis player.
- Naomi Wolf – American author, journalist, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
- Natalie Curtis Burlin – Ethnomusicologist.
- Natalie Portman – Israeli-born American actress.
- Natalie Vodianova – Russian model and philanthropist.
- Nawal El Saadawi – Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist.
- Nellie Bly – American investigative journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker.
- Nemonte Nenquimo – Waorani Indigenous leader and environmental activist.
- Nergis Mavalvala – Pakistani-American astrophysicist.
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Nigerian-American economist and international development expert.
- Nguyen Thi Binh – Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.
- Nichelle Nichols – American actress, singer, and voice artist.
- Nicki Minaj – Trinidadian-born rapper, singer, and songwriter.
- Nicole Kidman – American and Australian actress and producer.
- Nikki Haley – American politician and diplomat.
- Nina Ansaroff – American mixed martial artist.
- Nina Bouraoui – French novelist and singer-songwriter.
- Nina Simone – American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist.
- Nina Tandon – American biomedical engineer.
- Nina Turner – American politician and political commentator.
- Nita Ambani – Indian philanthropist.
- Noor Inayat Khan – Indian-American British spy.
- Norma McCorvey – American activist.
- Normani – American singer and dancer.
- Nyamayaro, Elizabeth – Founder and CEO of the Catapult Design.
- Nzinga Mbande – 17th century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms.
- Octavia Butler – American science fiction writer.
- Oksana Baiul – Ukrainian former figure skater.
- Oksana Masters – American Paralympic rower and cross-country skier.
- Olga Korbut – Soviet gymnast.
- Olga Litricin – Yugoslavian ophthalmologist known for her work in the field of corneal transplantation.
- Olive Dennis – American engineer.
- Olympe de Gouges – French playwright and political activist.
- Opal Lee – American retired teacher, counselor, and activist.
- Opal Tometi – Nigerian-American writer and human rights activist.
- Oprah Winfrey – American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.
- Oumou Sangaré – Malian Wassoulou musician.
- P. T. Usha – Indian former track and field athlete.
- Padma Lakshmi – Indian-American author, activist, model, and television host.
- Paige Spiranac – American social media personality and retired professional golfer.
- Pam Melroy – Retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut.
- Paramjit Khurana – Indian chemist.
- Park Geun-hye – South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea.
- Patricia Bath – American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic.
- Patricia Espinosa – Mexican diplomat.
- Patti LuPone – American actress and singer.
- Patti Smith – American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist.
- Paula Rego – Portuguese-British visual artist.
- Pauline Cushman – American actress and spy.
- Peggy Guggenheim – American art collector, bohemian, and socialite.
- Peggy Whitson – American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut.
- Penny Marshall – American actress, director, and producer.
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge – English actress, writer, and producer.
- Phyllis Wheatley – First African-American author of a published book of poetry.
- Pocahontas – Native American woman who assisted Jamestown settlers.
- Priyanka Chopra – Indian actress, singer, and film producer.
- Princess Diana – Member of the British royal family.
- Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya – Member of the Thai royal family.
- Pythias of Assos – Biologist.
- Queen Elizabeth I – Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 to 24 March 1603.
- Queen Elizabeth II – Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.
- Queen Latifah – American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and producer.
- Queen Lili’uokalani – Last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- Rachel Carson – American marine biologist, author, and conservationist.
- Rachel Maddow – American television host, political commentator, and author.
- Rachel Ruysch – Painter.
- Radclyffe Hall – English poet and author.
- Radia Perlman – American software designer and network engineer.
- Radmila Šekerinska – Macedonian politician.
- RBG – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Rebecca Craighill Lancefield – Microbiologist.
- Rebecca Sugar – American animator, songwriter, and director.
- Regina Fleszarowa – Polish geologist.
- Regina King – American actress and television director.
- Renata Adler – American journalist, novelist, and film critic.
- Renée Fleming – American operatic soprano.
- Renée Zellweger – American actress and producer.
- Rhea Seehorn – American actress.
- Rihanna – Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman.
- Rigoberta Menchú – K’iche’ Guatemalan human rights activist.
- Rita Levi-Montalcini – Italian neurobiologist.
- Rita Moreno – Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer.
- Ritu Karidhal – Indian scientist.
- Rosa Luxemburg – Polish-Jewish-German philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist.
- Rosa Parks – African-American activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
- Rosa Elizabeth Prigosen – Microbiologist.
- Rosalind Franklin – British scientist.
- Rosalynn Carter – Former First Lady of the United States.
- Rose McGowan – American actress and activist.
- Rosetta Tharpe – American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist.
- Rowan Blanchard – American actress and activist.
- Roxane Gay – American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator.
- Ruby Bridges – American civil rights activist.
- Ruby Dee – American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Ruth Benedict – American anthropologist.
- Ruth First – South African anti-apartheid activist.
- Ruth Fulton Benedict – Anthropologist.
- Ruth Gilbert – Pediatrician.
- Ruth Handler – American businesswoman and inventor.
- Ruth L. Bunzel – Anthropologist.
- Ruth Moufang – German mathematician.
- Ruth Murray Underhill – Anthropologist.
- Ruth Westheimer – German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, radio, and television personality.
- Saadia Faruqi – Pakistani-American author.
- Sabine Bergmann-Pohl – German politician and physician.
- Sade Adu – Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter.
- Sally Hemings – Enslaved woman of African descent owned by President Thomas Jefferson.
- Sally Ride – American physicist and astronaut.
- Samantha Cristoforetti – Italian European Space Agency astronaut, and former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer.
- Samia Suluhu Hassan – Tanzanian politician.
- Sandra Cisneros – American writer.
- Sandra Day O’Connor – Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Sandra Oh – Canadian actress.
- Sara Bareilles – American singer-songwriter, actress, and author.
- Sara Blakely – American businesswoman.
- Sara Branham – Bacteriologist.
- Sarah Bernhardt – French stage actress.
- Sarah Breedlove – African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.
- Sarah Franklin – American anthropologist and feminist scholar.
- Sarah Guppy – British inventor.
- Sarah McBride – American politician.
- Sarah Palin – American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality.
- Sarah Paulson – American actress.
- Sarah Thomas – American football official.
- Sasha Velour – American drag queen and artist.
- Savannah Guthrie – Australian-born American broadcast journalist and attorney.
- Sayyida al Hurra – Arab ruler of the 16th century.
- Seema Rao – Indian military trainer.
- Selena Gomez – American singer, actress, and producer.
- Selena Quintanilla – American singer.
- Selma Lagerlöf – Swedish author and teacher.
- Selma Meyer – Dutch resistance fighter.
- Serena Williams – American professional tennis player.
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Canadian environmental activist.
- Shabana Azmi – Indian actress of film, television and theatre.
- Shakira – Colombian singer and dancer.
- Sharice Davids – American politician, attorney, and former mixed martial artist.
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy – Pakistani-Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and activist.
- Sheila E. – American percussionist, singer, author, and actress.
- Sheila Evans Widnall – Aerospace researcher.
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier – Canadian Inuit activist.
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – Jamaican track and field sprinter.
- Sheryl Sandberg – American business executive, billionaire, author, and philanthropist.
- Shonda Rhimes – American television producer, screenwriter, and author.
- Simone Biles – American artistic gymnast.
- Simone de Beauvoir – French philosopher, writer, and feminist.
- Simone Veil – French lawyer and politician.
- Sinéad O’Connor – Irish singer-songwriter.
- Siri Lindley – American former professional triathlete.
- Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali – Malaysian physician.
- Sofia Bardina – Revolutionary and writer.
- Sofia Coppola – American filmmaker.
- Sofia Kovalevskaya – Russian mathematician.
- Sonia Gandhi – Indian politician.
- Sonia Guajajara – Brazilian Indigenous activist and politician.
- Sonia Sotomayor – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Sophia Brahe – Danish horticulturalist and astronomer.
- Sophia Engastromenos Schliemann – Archaeologist.
- Sophie Blanchard – French aeronaut.
- Sophie Germain – French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
- Sophie Scholl – German anti-Nazi political activist.
- Stacey Abrams – American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author.
- Steffi Graf – German former professional tennis player.
- Stella McCartney – English fashion designer.
- Stephanie Kwolek – American chemist.
- Stevie Nicks – American singer and songwriter.
- Sue Bird – American former professional basketball player.
- Sulamith Goldhaber – Austrian-American nuclear physicist.
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang – Taiwanese-American mathematician.
- Sunetra Gupta – Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and novelist.
- Sunita Krishnan – Indian social activist.
- Sunita Williams – American astronaut.
- Sun Yat-sen’s wife, Soong Mei-ling – Former First Lady of the Republic of China.
- Susan B. Anthony – American social reformer and women’s rights activist.
- Susan Kare – American artist and graphic designer.
- Susan La Flesche Picotte – Omaha physician.
- Susan Rice – American diplomat and policy advisor.
- Susan Solomon – Atmospheric chemist.
- Susan Wojcicki – American business executive.
- Susanna Haswell Rowson – British-American novelist, playwright, religious writer, poet, educator, and theatrical impresario.
- Susanna M. Salter – First female mayor in the United States.
- Sushila Nayar – Indian physician and rural public health advocate.
- Suzanne Ciani – American composer and musician.
- Suzanne Lenglen – French tennis player.
- Sylvia Alice Earle – American marine biologist.
- Sylvia Plath – American poet and author of The Bell Jar.
- Sylvia Rivera – American gay liberation and transgender rights activist.
- Sylvia Robinson – American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive.
- Tawakkol Karman – Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist.
- Taylor Swift – American singer-songwriter.
- Temple Grandin – American scientist and animal behaviorist.
- Teresa Carreño – Venezuelan pianist, singer, and composer.
- Teresa Heinz – American philanthropist.
- Teresa Teng – Taiwanese singer.
- Tererai Trent – Zimbabwean-American educator.
- Tessa Thompson – American actress.
- The Brontë Sisters – 19th-century English literary family.
- The Mirabal Sisters – Dominican revolutionary activists.
- Theodora (Byzantine Empress) – Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- Theresa Kachindamoto – Malawian senior chief.
- Tina Brown – British-American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host, and author.
- Tina Fey – American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright.
- Tina Turner – American-born Swiss singer and actress.
- Toni Morrison – American novelist.
- Toni Stone – First woman to play professional baseball in a men’s major league.
- Torrey DeVitto – American actress, musician, and former fashion model.
- Toyin Ojih Odutola – Nigerian-American visual artist.
- Tracy Chapman – American singer-songwriter.
- Trota of Salerno – Italian physician.
- Tsai Ing-wen – Taiwanese politician.
- Tsvetana Pironkova – Bulgarian professional tennis player.
- Tu Youyou – Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist.
- Tulsi Gabbard – American politician and United States Army Reserve officer.
- Tyra Banks – American television personality, model, businesswoman, producer, actress, and writer.
- Uma Thurman – American actress.
- Umm Kulthum – Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress.
- Ursula Burns – American businesswoman.
- Ursula K. Le Guin – American author.
- Ursula von der Leyen – German politician.
- Valentina Shevchenko – Kyrgyzstani-Peruvian professional mixed martial artist.
- Valentina Tereshkova – Soviet and Russian former cosmonaut.
- Valerie Jarrett – American businesswoman and former government official.
- Vanessa Hudgens – American actress and singer.
- Vanessa Nakate – Ugandan climate justice activist.
- Vanessa Williams – American actress, singer, and fashion designer.
- Venus Williams – American professional tennis player.
- Vera Rubin – American astronomer.
- Vera Sandberg – Swedish civil engineer.
- Vera Wang – American fashion designer.
- Veronica Guerin – Irish crime reporter.
- Vicki Draves – American diver.
- Victoria Beckham – English singer, fashion designer, and television personality.
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull – American suffragist, advocate of free love, and labor reformer.
- Victoria Wood – English comedian, actress, singer, and writer.
- Viola Davis – American actress and producer.
- Viola Desmond – Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman.
- Virginia Apgar – American obstetrical anesthesiologist.
- Virginia Hall – American spy.
- Virginia Louise Trimble – Astrophysicist.
- Virginia Woolf – English writer.
- Vivian Malone Jones – American civil rights activist.
- Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu – Kosovan politician.
- Wafa Sultan – Syrian-American psychiatrist.
- Wafaa El Sadeek – Archaeologist.
- Wangari Maathai – Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist.
- Waris Dirie – Somali model, author, actress, and social activist.
- Wendy Carlos – American composer and electronic musician.
- Wendy Davis – American attorney and former politician.
- Wen Hui – Chinese dancer and choreographer.
- Whitney Houston – American singer and actress.
- Whitney Wolfe Herd – American entrepreneur.
- Whoopi Goldberg – American actress, comedian, author, and television personality.
- Wilhelmina Iwanowska – Astronomer.
- Willa Cather – American novelist.
- Wilma Mankiller – First woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
- Wilma Rudolph – American sprinter.
- Winona LaDuke – American environmentalist, economist, and writer.
- Winnie Harlow – Canadian fashion model.
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – South African anti-apartheid activist.
- Wunmi Mosaku – British-Nigerian actress.
- Xia Peisu – Chinese computer scientist.
- Xie Xingfang – Chinese badminton player.
- Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz – Mexican engineer and politician.
- Yaa Asantewaa – Queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire.
- Yalitza Aparicio – Mexican actress and educator.
- Yang Lan – Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host.
- Yang Yang (A) – Chinese short track speed skater.
- Yau Ching – Hong Kong actress and filmmaker.
- Yayoi Kusama – Japanese contemporary artist.
- Yoko Ono – Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist.
- Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia – Mexican-American botanist.
- Young Kim – American politician.
- Yuna – Malaysian singer-songwriter.
- Yusra Mardini – Syrian swimmer.
- Yvonne Brill – Canadian-American rocket scientist.
- Zadie Smith – British novelist.
- Zaha Hadid – Iraqi-British architect.
- Zainab Salbi – Iraqi-American humanitarian and author.
- Zarina Hashmi – Indian-American artist.
- Zdenka Ježková – Microbiologist.
- Zelda Fitzgerald – American novelist and socialite.
- Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall – Anthropologist.
- Zeng Jinlian – Tallest woman in recorded history.
- Zhou Qunfei – Chinese entrepreneur.
- Zitkala-Ša – Yankton Dakota writer, editor, musician, teacher, and political activist.
- Zoë Bell – New Zealand stuntwoman and actress.
- Zoë Kravitz – American actress, singer, and model.
- Zoë Saldaña – American actress.
- Zoë Quinn – American video game developer.
- Zohra Sehgal – Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer.
- Zora Neale Hurston – American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker.
- Zulaikha Patel – South African student activist.
- Zulfiya Chinshanlo – Kazakhstani weightlifter.
- Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska – Polish paleontologist and biologist who specialized in the study of early mammals.
- Zubeida Lattiri – Tunisian engineer
- Zuzana Čaputová – Slovak politician, lawyer, and environmental activist.
- Zhang Miman – Chinese paleontologist.
- Zydrunas Ilgauskas – Lithuanian-American former professional basketball player.
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