Media
	Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) Mishal Husain (BBC anchor) Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News) Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Tavleen Singh (columnist) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist) Thrity Umrigar (writer/journalist) ...and more...

	Activism
	Medha Patkar (activist) Kamalabehn (activist) Mahasweta Devi (writer/activist) Alice Garg (educator) Fatima Meer (anti-apartheid activist) Aruna Roy (activist) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) Bilquis Edhi (social worker) Rani Jethmalani (Supreme Court advocate) Bhairavi Desai (activist) ...and more...

	Arts
	Anuradha Pal (tabalchi) Racquel Zonte (guitarist) Aradhana Seth (filmmaker) Amrita Shergil (artist) Alpana Bawa (fashion designer) Susheela Raman (musician) Thangam Philip (nutritionist/cookbook author) Indira Mahajan (soprano) Sheila Chandra (singer) Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director) ...and more...

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

	Science&Technology/Business
	Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Arati Prabhakar (scientist) Sangeeta Bhatia (biomedical engineer) Salima Ikram (Egyptologist) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Anna Mani (physicist) Sunita Williams (astronaut) Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) ...and more...

	Politics
	Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Jayalalitha (consummate politician) Vijaya Raje Scindia (royal politician) Fatima Jinnah (politician) Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician) Pratibha Patil (politician) Sonia Gandhi (politician) Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician) Sudha Churi (chief, Shiv Sena Mahila Aghadi) Gayatri Devi (royal politician) ...and more...

	Writers
	Taslima Nasrin (poetry fiction nonfiction) Chandra Kiran Sonrexa (fiction plays) Reetika Vazirani (poetry) Nandita da Cunha (fiction) Namita Gokhale (fiction journalism) Anjum Hasan (fiction, poetry) Bushra Rehman (poetry, fiction) Shanthi Sekaran (fiction) Sunny Singh (fiction nonfiction) Jean Arasanayagam (poetry fiction) ...and more...

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