Science&Technology/Business
	Indra Nooyi (Pepsico president) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Salima Ikram (Egyptologist) Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Srinija Srinivasan (Yahoo's ontologist) Sunita Williams (astronaut) Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Sister Avelin Mary (marine biologist) Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) ...and more...

	Activism
	Alice Garg (educator) Fatima Meer (anti-apartheid activist) Urvashi Vaid (gay rights activist) Ela Bhatt (activist) Nasreen Huq (women's rights activist) Mukhtar Mai (activist) Kamalabehn (activist) Rani Jethmalani (Supreme Court advocate) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) Shamima Shaikh (activist) ...and more...

	Politics
	Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Syeda Abida Hussain (politician) Uma Bharti (politician) Indira Gandhi (politician) Vasundhara Raje (politician) Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician) Khaleda Zia (politician) Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician) Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (freedom fighter/politician) Sushma Swaraj (politician) ...and more...

	Sports
	Lhakpa Sherpa (mountaineer) Bachendri Pal (mountaineer) P.T. Usha (athlete) Susanthika Jayasinghe (sprinter) Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (mountaineer) Sania Mirza (tennis) Mohini Bhardwaj (gymnast) Ming Kipa (mountaineer) Diana Eduljee (cricketer) Roopa Unnikrishnan (rifle shooter) ...and more...

	Media
	Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist) Pinki Virani (writer/journalist) Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor) Chitra Subramaniam (journalist) Chitra Raghavan (journalist) Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News) Jugnu Mohsin (journalist) Thrity Umrigar (writer/journalist) Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) ...and more...

	Arts
	Anoushka Shankar (sitarist) Bif Naked (rocker) Tanuja Desai Hidier (writer/singer) Susheela Raman (musician) Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director) Merle Oberon (actress) Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer) Madhur Jaffrey (author & actor) Ayesha Dharker (actor) Racquel Zonte (guitarist) ...and more...

	Writers
	Sara Suleri (nonfiction) Sohaila Abdulali (fiction) Tulsi Badrinath (fiction) Samantha Sirimanne Hyde (fiction) Tahira Naqvi (fiction) Shani Mootoo (fiction) Amulya Malladi (fiction) Shyama Perera (fiction) Sujata Bhatt (poetry) Temsula Ao (poetry,fiction) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer) Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel) Kiran Bedi (policewoman) Chokila Iyer (foreign secretary) Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy) Attiya Inayatullah () Romila Thapar (historian) Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (witch) Sister Nirmala (social worker) Renu Khator (university president) ...and more...