Politics
	Mayawati (firebrand politician) Syeda Abida Hussain (politician) Sushma Swaraj (politician) Pratibha Patil (politician) Sudha Churi (chief, Shiv Sena Mahila Aghadi) Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Priyanka Gandhi (politician) Sukhi Turner (politician) Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (freedom fighter/politician) Khaleda Zia (politician) ...and more...

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

	Activism
	Sufia Kamal (poet/activist) Aruna Roy (activist) Medha Patkar (activist) Mary Roy (activist) Ela Bhatt (activist) Arundhati Roy (writer/activist) Irshad Manji (writer/activist) Alice Garg (educator) Aruna Asaf Ali (freedom fighter) Zubaida Jalal (activist/educator) ...and more...

	Media
	Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor) Mishal Husain (BBC anchor) Thrity Umrigar (writer/journalist) Pinki Virani (writer/journalist) Chitra Raghavan (journalist) Jugnu Mohsin (journalist) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) ...and more...

	Science&Technology/Business
	Indra Nooyi (Pepsico president) Anna Mani (physicist) Sangeeta Bhatia (biomedical engineer) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Srinija Srinivasan (Yahoo's ontologist) Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Sunita Williams (astronaut) Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Salima Ikram (Egyptologist) ...and more...

	Arts
	Bif Naked (rocker) Anjolie Ela Menon (artist) Sheila Chandra (singer) Madhur Jaffrey (author & actor) Rukmini Devi Arundale (dancer) Anuradha Pal (tabalchi) Racquel Zonte (guitarist) Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer) Indira Mahajan (soprano) Anoushka Shankar (sitarist) ...and more...

	Writers
	Leila Seth (nonfiction) Manuka Wijesinghe (biography) Soniah Kamal (fiction nonfiction) Ameena Hussein (fiction) Bharti Kirchner (fiction) Asma Gull Hasan (nonfiction) Kavita Daswani (fiction) Sorayya Khan (fiction) Shivani (fiction) Jean Arasanayagam (poetry fiction) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (witch) Kiran Bedi (policewoman) Arundhati Ghose (ambassador) Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel) Nina Puri (President, Int'l Planned Parenthood Federation) Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer) Leila Seth (chief justice) Chokila Iyer (foreign secretary) Raji Jallepalli (fusion chef) Vidya Dehejia (art curator) ...and more...