Top 100 Famous Women

Princess Diana 1961 - 1997 - Princess of Wales, humanitarian and charity work.
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) - Prime Minister of India
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) - Queen of Great Britain during ninenteenth century
Madonna (1958 - ) Pop star
Mary Magdalene (4 BC - 40AD) - devotee of Jesus Christ
Benazir Bhutto (1953 - 2007) Prime Minister of Pakistan
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994)- Wife of John F. Kennedy
Cleopatra (69 -30 BC) - Queen of Egypt
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) - young girl who inspired French to revolt against British
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) - Actress, and icon of post war America
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) - nun and charity worker.
Anne Frank ( 1929-1945) - Jewish diarist
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) - Actress
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ) Chat show host and icon of American women
Billie Jean King (1943- ) - Tennis player
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) - Queen of France
Hilary Clinton (1947 - ) US Secretary of State
Bridgitte Bardot (1934- ) actress, animal rights activist
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) - Wife of F.D.Roosevelt and human rights campaigner.
St Teresa Of Avila (1515-1582) - Saint, mystic and writer.
Agatha Christie (1890-1973)- Best selling crime fiction author
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589)
Mata Hari - (1876 - 1917) Exotic dancer, executed as spy during First World War
J.K.Rowling (1965- ) - Author of Harry Potter series.
Elizabeth I (1533-1603) - Queen of England
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish actress
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) - Queen of Russia
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) - Early feminist and writer.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) - Writer
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ) Burmese democrat.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - Anti slavery campaigner
Mae West (1892-1980) - US actress
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - Pioneering nurse
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) - Political activist for women and human rights
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) - Poet
Marie Antoinette (1755-1795) - French Queen of Austrian birth
Emily Pankhurst (1858-1928) - Suffragette
Marie Curie (1867-1934) - Nobel Prize winning scientist
Emily Murphy (1868-1933) - Female lawyer
Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) - Political activist
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919- ) Hungarian actress
Bette Davis (1908-1989) - US actress
Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) - US businesswomen
Helen Keller (1880-1968) - campaigner for death and blind.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) - fashion designer
Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) - English writer
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) - adventurer.
Raisa Gorbachev - Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) - Multiple Oscar winning actress
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Philosopher
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) German actress
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) - American political activist
Jiang Qing (1914-1991) - Chinese politician
Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179 - nun, musician and poet.
Billie Holiday (1915-1959) - Iconic jazz singer
Eva Peron (1919-1952) - Wife of Argentinian President.
Yoko Ono (1933- ) US artist, musician
Betty Frieden (1921-2006) - Leading feminist of 1960s.
Queen Elizabeth II - British Queen from 1953.
Mrs Thatcher ( 1925-) - British Prime Minister during 1980s.
Dian Fossey (1932-1985) - Environmentalist
Germaine Greer (1939- Feminist and writer
Enid Blyton - Children's author
Betty Williams 1945- Peace activist from Northern Ireland.
Lauren Bacall (1924- ) US actress
Julie Andrews - Actress famous for role in Sound of Music.
Jane Goodall - Environmentalist and Chimpanzee enthusiast
Amy Johnson - (1903-1941) - Pioneering aviator
Martina Navratilova (1956 - ) US Tennis player
Daphne Du Maurier - (1907-1989) British novelist
Golda Meir (1898 - 1978) - Israeli leader
Tegla Laroupe (1973 - )African marathon runner
Elizabeth Taylor (1932- ) actress
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)- Writer
Maya Angelou - Poet
Anita Roddick (1942-2007) UK businesswomen and environmentalist.
Barbara Cartland - Best selling author
Beatrix Potter - Author and conservationist.
Shakira - Colombian pop star
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) Russian ballet dancer.
Edith Cavell - British nurse shot as spy in First World War
St Therese Lisieux - Saint and writer
Estee Lauder (1908- ) US, cosmetics executive
Sappho Biography (570BC) - Poet
Marie Stopes - Cancer research
Susan Boyle - Singer
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) - Irish writer
Vera Brittain ( ) English writer, poet, pacifist
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) poet
Whoopi Goldberg (1994-) actress
Gabriela Mistral - Latin American poet
Kate Middleton - Wife of Prince William
Mary Seacole - (1805-1881) Nurse during Crimean war
Maria Callas (1923-1977) US opera singer
Mirabai 1498-1565 - Indian princess and singer of devotional songs.
Lady Gaga - Twenty First Century pop icon
Boudicca 1st Century - Ruler of Britons during rebellion against Romans.
Paula Radcliffe - British marathon runner
Louise Mary Alcott (1832-1888) - US writer
Emily Brontë (1818-1850) - British writer