Politics
	Jayalalitha (consummate politician) Benazir Bhutto (politician) Sirimavo Bandaranaike (politician) Gayatri Devi (royal politician) Uma Bharti (politician) Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician) Pratibha Patil (politician) Vasundhara Raje (politician) Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (freedom fighter/politician) Fatima Jinnah (politician) ...and more...

	Arts
	Merle Oberon (actress) Racquel Zonte (guitarist) Alpana Bawa (fashion designer) Sheila Chandra (singer) Bif Naked (rocker) Anoushka Shankar (sitarist) Tanika Gupta (playwright) Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer) Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director) Susheela Raman (musician) ...and more...

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

	Media
	Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Jugnu Mohsin (journalist) Geeta Anand (journalist) Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Mishal Husain (BBC anchor) Chitra Subramaniam (journalist) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News) Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) ...and more...

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

	Activism
	Vandana Shiva (environmental activist) Kamalabehn (activist) Surina Khan (gay rights activist) Sufia Kamal (poet/activist) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) Pandita Ramabai (scholar/social activist) Bhairavi Desai (activist) Ela Gandhi (anti-apartheid activist, politician) Nasreen Huq (women's rights activist) Alice Garg (educator) ...and more...

	Writers
	Hima Raza (poetry) Chandra Prasad (fiction, nonfiction) Anu Kumar (fiction) Susham Bedi (fiction) Maureen Seneviratne (fiction) Nabaneeta Dev Sen (fiction nonfiction) Shobha De (fiction nonfiction journalism) Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen (fiction) Bushra Rehman (poetry, fiction) Robbie Clipper Sethi (fiction) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Renu Khator (university president) Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel) Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy) Romila Thapar (historian) Kiran Bedi (policewoman) Arundhati Ghose (ambassador) Vidya Dehejia (art curator) Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer) Attiya Inayatullah () Nina Puri (President, Int'l Planned Parenthood Federation) ...and more...