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

	Politics
	Syeda Abida Hussain (politician) Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Fatima Jinnah (politician) Vasundhara Raje (politician) Sonia Gandhi (politician) Indira Gandhi (politician) Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician) Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician) Vijaya Raje Scindia (royal politician) Mayawati (firebrand politician) ...and more...

	Science&Technology/Business
	Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Anna Mani (physicist) Sunita Williams (astronaut) Sangeeta Bhatia (biomedical engineer) Arati Prabhakar (scientist) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Sister Avelin Mary (marine biologist) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Salima Ikram (Egyptologist) Srinija Srinivasan (Yahoo's ontologist) ...and more...

	Activism
	Mahasweta Devi (writer/activist) Pandita Ramabai (scholar/social activist) Alice Garg (educator) Mukhtar Mai (activist) Ajitha (Naxalite activist) Medha Patkar (activist) Arundhati Roy (writer/activist) Nasreen Huq (women's rights activist) Sultana Kamal (activist) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) ...and more...

	Arts
	Tanuja Desai Hidier (writer/singer) Madhur Jaffrey (author & actor) Alpana Bawa (fashion designer) Merle Oberon (actress) Tanika Gupta (playwright) Rukmini Devi Arundale (dancer) Anoushka Shankar (sitarist) Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director) Ayesha Dharker (actor) Bif Naked (rocker) ...and more...

	Media
	Chitra Raghavan (journalist) Mishal Husain (BBC anchor) Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News) Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Chitra Subramaniam (journalist) Pinki Virani (writer/journalist) Tavleen Singh (columnist) Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) ...and more...

	Writers
	Anjali Joseph (fiction, journalism) Sunny Singh (fiction nonfiction) Bharati Mukherjee (fiction) Sorayya Khan (fiction) Samina Ali (fiction) Tehmina Durrani (fiction) Sonia Singh (fiction) Sarojini Naidu (poetry) Talat Abbasi (fiction) Imtiaz Dharker (poetry) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Chokila Iyer (foreign secretary) Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (witch) Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel) Romila Thapar (historian) Renu Khator (university president) Attiya Inayatullah () Sister Nirmala (social worker) Leila Seth (chief justice) Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer) Nina Puri (President, Int'l Planned Parenthood Federation) ...and more...