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

	Activism
	Aruna Roy (activist) Bilquis Edhi (social worker) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) Arundhati Roy (writer/activist) Ela Gandhi (anti-apartheid activist, politician) Pandita Ramabai (scholar/social activist) Sufia Kamal (poet/activist) Hina Jilani (lawyer) Sultana Kamal (activist) Alice Garg (educator) ...and more...

	Arts
	Sheila Chandra (singer) Anoushka Shankar (sitarist) Amrita Shergil (artist) Alpana Bawa (fashion designer) Merle Oberon (actress) Ayesha Dharker (actor) Bif Naked (rocker) Anjolie Ela Menon (artist) Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer) Aradhana Seth (filmmaker) ...and more...

	Science&Technology/Business
	Sangeeta Bhatia (biomedical engineer) Sister Avelin Mary (marine biologist) Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Sunita Williams (astronaut) Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Salima Ikram (Egyptologist) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Srinija Srinivasan (Yahoo's ontologist) ...and more...

	Media
	Chitra Raghavan (journalist) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist) Chitra Subramaniam (journalist) Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) Mishal Husain (BBC anchor) Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor) ...and more...

	Politics
	Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician) Sukhi Turner (politician) Indira Gandhi (politician) Vijaya Raje Scindia (royal politician) Vasundhara Raje (politician) Sonia Gandhi (politician) Jayalalitha (consummate politician) Sushma Swaraj (politician) Khaleda Zia (politician) Uma Bharti (politician) ...and more...

	Writers
	D. Devika Bai (fiction) Anita Nair (fiction poetry) Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi (fiction) Indu Sundaresan (fiction) Asma Gull Hasan (nonfiction) Sehba Sarwar (fiction) Karen Roberts (fiction) Namita Gokhale (fiction journalism) Jaishree Misra (fiction) Zia Jaffrey (nonfiction) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Renu Khator (university president) Chokila Iyer (foreign secretary) Attiya Inayatullah () Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy) Raji Jallepalli (fusion chef) Arundhati Ghose (ambassador) Maleeha Lodhi (diplomat) Romila Thapar (historian) Kiran Bedi (policewoman) Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (witch) ...and more...