Top 100 Notable Women in History and Today
A curated list of iconic women across science, leadership, arts, activism, and beyond.
🧠 Scientists & Innovators
- Marie Curie
- Rosalind Franklin
- Ada Lovelace
- Katherine Johnson
- Jane Goodall
- Rachel Carson
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Mae Jemison
- Hedy Lamarr
- Barbara McClintock
🎨 Artists, Writers & Performers
- Frida Kahlo
- Maya Angelou
- Toni Morrison
- Virginia Woolf
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Agatha Christie
- Billie Holiday
- Audrey Hepburn
- Aretha Franklin
- Beyoncé
🏛️ Leaders & Politicians
- Cleopatra
- Joan of Arc
- Elizabeth I
- Catherine the Great
- Angela Merkel
- Margaret Thatcher
- Indira Gandhi
- Golda Meir
- Jacinda Ardern
- Kamala Harris
⚖️ Activists & Humanitarians
- Malala Yousafzai
- Rosa Parks
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- Gloria Steinem
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Wangari Maathai
- Susan B. Anthony
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Eleanor Roosevelt
🩺 Health & Medicine
- Florence Nightingale
- Clara Barton
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Mary Edwards Walker
- Virginia Apgar
⚽ Athletes & Olympians
- Serena Williams
- Simone Biles
- Billie Jean King
- Nadia Comăneci
- Wilma Rudolph
🎬 Modern Icons
- Oprah Winfrey
- Princess Diana
- Madonna
- Lady Gaga
- Michelle Obama
- Rihanna
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Taylor Swift
- Shakira
- Emma Watson
✍️ Journalists & Writers
- Christiane Amanpour
- Ida B. Wells
- Nellie Bly
- Barbara Walters
- Oriana Fallaci
🧘 Spiritual & Philosophical
- Mother Teresa
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Anne Frank
- Hypatia
- Simone Weil
💼 Business & Tech
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Melinda French Gates
- Susan Wojcicki
- Indra Nooyi
- Whitney Wolfe Herd
🎓 Educators & Thinkers
- Maria Montessori
- bell hooks
- Angela Davis
- Ruth Simmons
🌍 World Leaders
- Benazir Bhutto
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Tsai Ing-wen
- Sanna Marin
- Michelle Bachelet
🧬 Space & STEM
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Sally Ride
- Lise Meitner
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Annie Easley
📚 Authors & Poets
- J.K. Rowling
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Mary Shelley
- Louisa May Alcott
- Zora Neale Hurston
🎤 Voices of Change
- Greta Thunberg
- Dolores Huerta
- Coretta Scott King
- Tarana Burke
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This list is just a starting point—millions of incredible women have shaped history and continue to do so every day.
