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This is a list in alphabetical order of notable women, both past and present, based on a variety of sources (see below). It is still being developed and expanded. Further lists by continent or country are under consideration.

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  1. Jane Addams (1860–1935), pioneering American social worker and women's rights activist
     
  2. Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), Austrian-born Queen Consort of France
     
  3. Corazon Aquino (1933–2009), Filipina politician, President of the Philippines
     
  4. Anna Atkins (1799–1871), early English photographer
     
  5. Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945), Burmese politician, State Counsellor of Myanmar
     
  6. Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist
     
  7. Josephine Baker (1906–1975), American vaudeville dancer and entertainer
     
  8. Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916–2000), Sri Lankan politician, modern world's first female head of government
     
  9. Mary Barra (born 1961), American business executive, CEO of General Motors Company
     
  10. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1968), French philosopher and writer
     
  11. Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), English traveller, explorer and administrator
     
  12. Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), French actress
     
  13. Annie Besant (1847–1933), British women's rights activist, writer and orator
     
  14. Liliane Bettencourt (1922–2017), French businesswoman, world's richest woman
  15. Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician
     
  16. Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), Russian occultist
     
  17. Karen Blixen (1885–1962), Danish writer
     
  18. Enid Blyton (1897–1968), English children's writer
     
  19. Letizia Bonaparte (1749–1836), mother of Napoleon I
     
  20. Boudica (died ca, 60 AD), leader of the early Britons
     
  21. Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist
     
  22. Gro Harlem Brundtland (born 1939), Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway
     
  23. Carla Bruni (born 1967), Italian-French singer and songwriter, First Lady of the French Republic
     
  24. Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), American novelist, Nobel Literature laureate
     
  25. Maria Callas (1923–1977), Greek-American soprano opera singer
     
  26. Catherine the Great (1728–1796), Empress of Russia
     
  27. Coco Chanel (1883–1971), French fashion designer and businesswoman
     
  28. Eileen Chang (1920–1995), Chinese writer
     
  29. Agatha Christie (1890–1976), English crime novelist and playwright
     
  30. Cleopatra (69–30 BC), Egyptian ruler
     
  31. Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician
     
  32. Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican nun, writer and philosopher
     
  33. Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French physicist and chemist
     
  34. Princess Diana (1961–1997), British Princess of Wales
     
  35. Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), German-American actress and singer
     
  36. Isadora Duncan (1877–1878), American modern dancer
     
  37. Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), pioneering American aviator
     
  38. Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Iranian lawyer and human rights activist
     
  39. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204), Queen Consort of France and later of England
     
  40. Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England and Ireland
     
  41. Elisabeth II (born 1926), Queen of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth
     
  42. Cesária Évora (1941–2011), Cape Verdean morna singer
     
  43. Renée Fleming (born 1959), American soprano opera singer
     
  44. Margot Fonteyn (1919–1991), English ballet dancer
     
  45. Anne Frank (1929–1945), Dutch Jewish diarist
     
  46. Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), American singer and songwriter
     
  47. Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), English chemist and X-ray crystallographer
     
  48. Indira Gandhi (1917–1984), Indian politician
     
  49. Sonia Gandhi (born 1946), Italian-born Indian politician
     
  50. Melinda Gates (born 1964), co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
     
  51. Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), Iraqi-British architect
  52. Mata Hari (1876–1917), Dutch exotic dancer, executed for spying
     
  53. Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), British film actress
     
  54. Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer
     
  55. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), German abbess, writer and visionary
     
  56. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British chemist and Nobel chemistry prize winner
     
  57. Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist
     
  58. Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 350–415), Greek mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and educator
     
  59. Michaëlle Jean (born 1957), Canadian stateswoman
     
  60. Joan of Arc (1412–1431), French heroine
     
  61. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter
     
  62. Helen Keller (1880–1968), deaf-blind American writer and political activist
     
  63. Grace Kelly (1929–1982), American actress and Princess of Monaco
     
  64. Billie Jean King (born 1943), American tennis player and gender equality activist
     
  65. Melanie Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-British psychoanalyst
     
  66. Umm Kulthum (1898–1975), Egyptian singer and actress
     
  67. Yayoi Kusama (born 1929), Japanese artist, avant-garde painter and writer
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  68. Christine Lagarde (born 1956), French politician, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
     
  69. Estée Lauder (1908–2004), American businesswoman specializing in cosmetics
     
  70. Jenny Lind (1820–1887), Swedish opera singer
     
  71. Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), Swedish children's writer
     
  72. Audre Lorde (1934–1992), American writer, feminist and civil rights activist
     
  73. Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), English mathematician
     
  74. Ida Lupino (1918–1995), Anglo-American actress, singer and film director
     
  75. Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), Polish-German socialist politician
     
  76. Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan political activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
     
  77. Madonna (born 1958), American singer and actress
     
  78. Miriam Makeba (1932–2008), South African musician and civil rights activist
     
  79. Mary Magdalene (1st century AD), biblical figure, follower of Jesus
     
  80. Winnie Mandela (born 1936), South African politician
     
  81. Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American cultural anthopologist
     
  82. Catherine de' Medici (1519–1589), Italian noblewoman, influential queen consort of France
     
  83. Meera (1498–1546), Indian Hindu mystic
     
  84. Golda Meir (1917–1956), Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel
     
  85. Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959), Guatemalan civil and women's rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize lauteate
     
  86. Angela Merkel (born 1954), German politician
     
  87. Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist
     
  88. Lee Miller (1907–1977), American photographer and war correspondent
  89. Maria Montessori (1870–1952), Italian physician and educator
     
  90. Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), French impressionist painter
     
  91. Alice Munro (born 1931), Canadian short story writer
     
  92. Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973–1014), Japanese novelist
     
  93. Nefertiti (ca. 1370–1330), Egytian queen
     
  94. Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English social reformer, founder of modern nursing
     
  95. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (1583-1663), Angolan queen of the Mbundu people
     
  96. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), American modernist artist
     
  97. Michelle Obama (born 1964), American lawyer, First Lady of the United States
     
  98. Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793), French playwright, political activist and feminist
     
  99. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994), First Lady of the United States
     
  100. Camille Paglia (born 1947), American academic and social critic
     
  101. Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), Russian ballet dancer
     
  102. Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French cabaret singer and songwriter
     
  103. Rosa Parks (1913–2005), American civil rights activist
     
  104. Eva Perón (1919–1952), First Lady of Argentina
     
  105. Jiang Qing (1914–1991), Chinese politician, active in the Cultural Revolution
     
  106. Qiu Jin (1875–1907), Chinese feminist, revolutionary and writer
  107. Ayn Rand (1905–1882), Russian-American writer
  108. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978), Nigerian political campaigner and women's rights activist
     
  109. Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), German film director, screenwriter and actress
     
  110. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), American politician, activist and First Lady
     
  111. Dilma Rousseff (born 1974), Brazilian economist, former President of Brazil
     
  112. J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British novelist, writer of the Harry Potter series
     
  113. Sheryl Sandberg (born 1969), American technology executive
     
  114. Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), American birth control activist
     
  115. Sappho (630–570 BC), ancient Greek poet
     
  116. Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German musician and composer
     
  117. Irena Sendler (1910–2008), Polish nurse, social worker and Jewish resistance leader
     
  118. Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
     
  119. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (born 1942), Icelandic politician, world's first openly lesbian head of government
     
  120. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938), President of Liberia
     
  121. Soong Ching-ling (1893–1981), Chinese politician
     
  122. Gloria Steinem (born 1934), American feminist leader
     
  123. Meryl Streep (born 1949), American actress
     
  124. Joan Sutherland (1926–2010), Australian colatura soprano
     
  125. Kiri Te Kanawa (born 1944), New Zealand soprano
     
  126. Mother Teresa (1910–1997), Albanian-Indian nun and missionary
     
  127. Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937), Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
     
  128. Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British politician
     
  129. Margrethe Vestager (born 1968), Danish politician, European Commissioner for Competition
     
  130. Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
     
  131. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), English philosopher and women's rights advocate
     
  132. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), English modernist writer
     
  133. Janet Yellen (born 1946), American economist, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
     
  134. Malala Yousafzai (born 1997), Pakistani women's education activist, Nobel Prize laureate
     

Works consulted edit

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  • Apotheker, Jan; Sarkadi, Livia Simon (2011). European Women in Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-3-527-63646-4.
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