Politics
	Mayawati (firebrand politician) Syeda Abida Hussain (politician) Indira Gandhi (politician) Sirimavo Bandaranaike (politician) Khaleda Zia (politician) Vasundhara Raje (politician) Benazir Bhutto (politician) Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician) Pratibha Patil (politician) Sonia Gandhi (politician) ...and more...

	Activism
	Fatima Meer (anti-apartheid activist) Sufia Kamal (poet/activist) Irshad Manji (writer/activist) Arundhati Roy (writer/activist) Alice Garg (educator) Aruna Asaf Ali (freedom fighter) Asma Jahangir (lawyer) Hina Jilani (lawyer) Ela Gandhi (anti-apartheid activist, politician) Mukhtar Mai (activist) ...and more...

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

	Media
	Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor) Tavleen Singh (columnist) Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News) Chitra Raghavan (journalist) Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist) Shobhana Bhartia (media baron) Pinki Virani (writer/journalist) Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer) Chitra Subramaniam (journalist) Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist) ...and more...

	Science&Technology/Business
	Sister Avelin Mary (marine biologist) Srinija Srinivasan (Yahoo's ontologist) Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur) Arati Prabhakar (scientist) Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician) Anna Mani (physicist) Salima Ikram (Egyptologist) Sunita Williams (astronaut) ...and more...

	Arts
	Madhur Jaffrey (author & actor) Anuradha Pal (tabalchi) Bif Naked (rocker) Thangam Philip (nutritionist/cookbook author) Susheela Raman (musician) Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer) Tanuja Desai Hidier (writer/singer) Indira Mahajan (soprano) Merle Oberon (actress) Amrita Shergil (artist) ...and more...

	Writers
	Mitra Phukan (fiction, journalism) Imtiaz Dharker (poetry) Gita Mehta (fiction) Sunny Singh (fiction nonfiction) Kalpana Swaminathan (fiction) Uma Parameswaran (poetry fiction) Shinie Antony (fiction) Manjushree Thapa (fiction journalism) Kamala Markandaya (fiction) Tara Deshpande (fiction poetry) ...and more...

	& Other Notable Women
	Leila Seth (chief justice) Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (witch) Renu Khator (university president) Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel) Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy) Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer) Romila Thapar (historian) Sister Nirmala (social worker) Arundhati Ghose (ambassador) Attiya Inayatullah () ...and more...