Activism
	Kamalabehn (activist) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) Surina Khan (gay rights activist) Madhu Kishwar (writer/activist) Brinda Karat (women's activist) Mridula Sarabhai (freedom fighter) Shamima Shaikh (activist) Mukhtar Mai (activist) Sufia Kamal (poet/activist) Asma Jahangir (lawyer) ...and more...

	Science&Technology/Business
	Arati Prabhakar (scientist) Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Anna Mani (physicist) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Sangeeta Bhatia (biomedical engineer) Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Sister Avelin Mary (marine biologist) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Kalpana Chawla (astronaut) Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) ...and more...

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

	Politics
	Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Sukhi Turner (politician) Benazir Bhutto (politician) Jayalalitha (consummate politician) Vasundhara Raje (politician) Fatima Jinnah (politician) Indira Gandhi (politician) Khaleda Zia (politician) Mayawati (firebrand politician) Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician) ...and more...

	Media
	Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Tavleen Singh (columnist) Jugnu Mohsin (journalist) Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Geeta Anand (journalist) Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News) ...and more...

	Arts
	Susheela Raman (musician) Norah Jones (musician) Anuradha Pal (tabalchi) Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director) Madhur Jaffrey (author & actor) Thangam Philip (nutritionist/cookbook author) Indira Mahajan (soprano) Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer) Racquel Zonte (guitarist) Amrita Shergil (artist) ...and more...

	Writers
	Krupabai Sattianadhan (nonfiction) Uma Parameswaran (poetry fiction) Shinie Antony (fiction) Aimee Nezhukumatathil (poetry) Atima Srivastava (fiction) Kiran Desai (fiction) Suniti Namjoshi (poetry fiction) Ayesha Jalal (nonfiction) Ameena Hussein (fiction) Ruth Vanita (nonfiction) ...and more...

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