Arts
	Susheela Raman (musician) Anoushka Shankar (sitarist) Norah Jones (musician) Ayesha Dharker (actor) Thangam Philip (nutritionist/cookbook author) Tanika Gupta (playwright) Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director) Bif Naked (rocker) Rukmini Devi Arundale (dancer) Aradhana Seth (filmmaker) ...and more...

	Politics
	Sukhi Turner (politician) Vijaya Raje Scindia (royal politician) Sonia Gandhi (politician) Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Khaleda Zia (politician) Uma Bharti (politician) Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician) Pratibha Patil (politician) Jayalalitha (consummate politician) Gayatri Devi (royal politician) ...and more...

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

	Media
	Geeta Anand (journalist) Chitra Subramaniam (journalist) Mishal Husain (BBC anchor) Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News) Razia Bhatti (journalist) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) Chitra Raghavan (journalist) Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) Thrity Umrigar (writer/journalist) ...and more...

	Activism
	Aruna Asaf Ali (freedom fighter) Maneka Gandhi (politician/activist) Tarabai Shinde (activist) Madhu Kishwar (writer/activist) Sufia Kamal (poet/activist) Shamita Das Dasgupta (activist) Pandita Ramabai (scholar/social activist) Ajitha (Naxalite activist) Dedlibai (activist) Surina Khan (gay rights activist) ...and more...

	Science&Technology/Business
	Sunita Williams (astronaut) Indra Nooyi (Pepsico president) Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model) Sangeeta Bhatia (biomedical engineer) Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Arati Prabhakar (scientist) ...and more...

	Writers
	Tehmina Durrani (fiction) Mitra Phukan (fiction, journalism) Preethi Nair (fiction) Sujata Massey (fiction) Feryal Ali Gauhar (fiction) Baby Halder (autobiography) Namita Gokhale (fiction journalism) Shobha Narayan (nonfiction) Lavanya Sankaran (fiction) Ruth Vanita (nonfiction) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Renu Khator (university president) Kiran Bedi (policewoman) Leila Seth (chief justice) Romila Thapar (historian) Maleeha Lodhi (diplomat) Chokila Iyer (foreign secretary) Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy) Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer) Arundhati Ghose (ambassador) Attiya Inayatullah () ...and more...