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100 Women
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StatusActive
FrequencyAnnually
Years active2013–present
Inaugurated22 October 2013 (2013-10-22)
Most recentDecember 2024 (2024-12)
Website100 Women

100 Women is a BBC multi-format series established in 2013. The annual series examines the role of women in the 21st century and has included events in London[1] and Mexico.[2][3] Announcement of the list is the start of an international "BBC's women season", lasting three weeks including broadcast, online reports, debates and journalism on the topic of women.[4] Women around the world are encouraged to participate via Twitter and comment on the list, as well as on the interviews and debates that follow release of the list.[5]

History

After the 2012 Delhi gang rape, then BBC Controller Liliane Landor,[6] BBC editor Fiona Crack[7] and other journalists, were inspired to create a series focusing on the issues and achievements of women in society today.[8] They felt that many of the issues women faced were not getting in-depth coverage, and in March 2013 a "flood of feedback from female listeners" was received by the BBC to the effect that the corporation should provide more "content from and about women."[9] The BBC launched this series in 2013 to address the under-representation of women in the media.[8][10] Women to participate in the first programme were chosen by survey in 26 different language services.[9] Programming ran over the course of a month, culminating in a conference held on 25 October, in which 100 women from across the world discussed issues they shared. A wide range of topics were debated covering employment challenges, feminism, motherhood, and religion,[11] to examine both the cultural and social challenges women faced in living their lives.[12] The series has since covered many topics, including education, healthcare, equal pay, genital mutilation, domestic violence, and sexual abuse[13] and seeks to provide women with a platform to discuss how to improve the world and eliminate sexism.[14] Women included on the list are from around the globe, and involved in diverse fields of endeavour.[15] Women who are already famous are included, as well as people who are less known.[16][17]

Laureates

2024

The 2024 list was released on 3 December and included women facing conflicts and humanitarian crises. The 2024 list was subdivided into five categories, including 11 in the category Climate Pioneers.[18]

Climate Pioneers

Image Name Country Description
Maheder Haileselassie Ethiopia Photographer
Nejla Işık Turkey Village head and forest campaigner
Adenike Titilope Oladosu Nigeria Climate justice advocate
Inna Modja Mali Artist and climate advocate
Enas Al-Ghoul Palestinian Territories Agricultural engineer
Shilshila Acharya Nepal Sustainability entrepreneur
Naomi Chanda Zambia Farmer and trainer
Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti Switzerland Teacher and climate campaigner
Sasha Luccioni Canada Computer scientist
Rosa Vásquez Espinoza Peru Chemical biologist
Brigitte Baptiste Colombia Ecologist

Culture & Education

Image Name Country Description
Olivia McVeigh United Kingdom Make-up artist
Christina Assi Lebanon Photojournalist
Dilorom Yuldosheva Uzbekistan Seamstress and businesswoman
Xuân Phượng Vietnam Film director, author, gallery owner
Eugenia Bonetti Italy Nun
Lesley Lokko Ghana/United Kingdom Architect
Su Min China Road tripper and influencer
Anat Hoffman Israel Religious campaigner
Hinda Abdi Mohamoud Somalia Journalist
Svetlana Anokhina Russia Human rights campaigner
Hamida Aman Afghanistan Media and education entrepreneur
Johana Bahamón Colombia Social activist
Idania del Río Cuba Fashion entrepreneur
Helen Molyneux United Kingdom Co-founder, Monumental Welsh Women
Shin Daewe Myanmar Filmmaker
Cristina Rivera Garza Mexico/United States Writer
Shahrnush Parsipur Iran/United States Writer and translator
Plestia Alaqad Palestinian Territories Journalist and poet
Zhanylsynzat Turganbaeva Kyrgyzstan Museum manager
Sharon Kleinbaum United States Rabbi
Margarita Barrientos Argentina Soup kitchen founder
Yasmeen Mjalli Palestinian Territories Designer
Tracey Emin United Kingdom Artist
Roxy Murray United Kingdom Disability rights advocate
Maheder Haileselassie Ethiopia Photographer
Pooja Sharma India Performer of funerary rites
Linda Dröfn Gunnarsdóttir Iceland Women’s shelter manager
Harbia Al Himiary Yemen Heritage conservation engineer
Maria Teresa Horta Portugal Poet

Entertainment & Sport

Image Name Country Description
Vinesh Phogat India Wrestler
Joan Chelimo Melly Kenya/Romania Long-distance runner
Hend Sabry Tunisia Actress
Naomi Watanabe Japan Comedian
Gaby Moreno Guatemala Latin-pop musician
Allyson Felix United States Track and field athlete
Zakia Khudadadi Afghanistan Taekwondo Paralympian
Noella Wiyaala Nwadei Ghana Afro-pop musician
Tracy Otto United States Archer
Hadiqa Kiani Pakistan Singer and songwriter
Zhiying (Tania) Zeng Chile Table tennis player
Raye United Kingdom Singer
Sharon Stone United States Actress
Elaha Soroor Afghanistan Singer and composer
Firda Marsya Kurnia Indonesia Heavy metal musician
Chloé Zhao United Kingdom Film director
Rebeca Andrade Brazil Gymnast
Inna Modja Mali Artist and climate advocate
Madison Tevlin Canada Talk-show host and model

Politics & Advocacy

Image Name Country Description
Aruna Roy India Social acitivist
Angela Rayner United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minister
Feng Yuan China Women's rights advocate
Guerline M Jozef Haiti Immigration rights campaigner
Hala Alkarib Sudan Activist against sexual violence in war
Danielle Cantor Israel/Palestinian Territories Cultural activist
Fawzia al-Otaibi Saudi Arabia/United Kingdom Women’s rights campaigner
Nejla Işık Turkey Village head and forest campaigner
Katherine Martínez Venezuela Human rights lawyer
Kemi Badenoch United Kingdom Leader of the Conservative party
Yumi Suzuki Japan Plaintiff in forced sterilisation lawsuit
Nadia Murad Iraq Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Gisèle Pelicot France Rape survivor
Huang Jie Taiwan Politician
Annie Sinanduku Mwange DR Congo Miner
Susan Collins United States Senator
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera Uganda Diversity and inclusion campaigner
Einav Zangauker Israel Hostage release campaigner
Rosmarie Wydler-Wälti Switzerland Teacher and climate campaigner
Mahrang Baloch Pakistan Medical doctor and political activist
Latisha McCrudden Ireland Irish Traveller Movement activist
Ann Chumaporn (Waaddao) Thailand
Lilia Chanysheva Russia Political activist and ex prisoner
Zhina Modares Gorji Iran Women’s rights campaigner
Amanda Zurawski United States Reproductive rights advocate
Ruth López El Salvador Lawyer
Lourdes Barreto Brazil Campaigner for sex workers’ rights
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke New Zealand Politician

Science, Health & Tech

Image Name Country Description
Enas Al-Ghoul Palestinian Territories Agricultural engineer
Kauna Malgwi Nigeria Union leader for content moderators
Olga Rudnieva Ukraine Founder, Superhumans Centre
Olga Olefirenko Ukraine Farmer
Sasha Luccioni Canada Computer scientist
Rikta Akter Banu Bangladesh Nurse and school founder
Shireen Abed Palestinian Territories Paediatrician
Silvana Santos Brazil Biologist
Brigitte Baptiste Colombia Ecologist
Sara Berkai United Kingdom/Eritrea Designer of DIY science kits
Georgina Long Australia Medical oncologist
Katalin Karikó Hungary Biochemist and Nobel laureate
Nour Emam Egypt Fem-tech entrepreneur
Adenike Titilope Oladosu Nigeria Climate justice advocate
Subin Park South Korea Founder, Stair Crusher Club
Gabriela Salas Cabrera Mexico Programmer and data scientist
Naomi Chanda Zambia Farmer and trainer
Safa Ali Sudan Obstetrician
Sneha Revanur United States AI expert
Samia Syria Psychology counsellor
Shilshila Acharya Nepal Sustainability entrepreneur
Sunita Williams United States Astronaut
Rosa Vásquez Espinoza Peru Chemical biologist

2023

The 2023 list was released on 21 November and it included 21 women involved with climate change. The laureates included the Indian cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur, Aitana Bonmatí, Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, Timnit Gebru, Trần Gấm and Huda Kattan. The list was subdivided into four categories: Culture & Education, Entertainment & Sport, Politics & Advocacy and Science, Health & Tech, with 28 of the laureates dubbed climate pioneers (shown as green rows below).[19]

Politics & Advocacy

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Briefing Bahrain Seven Years Later (39406688745).jpg Maryam Al-Khawaja File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain (also a citizen of File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark) Human rights campaigner, board member of Civicus and the International Service for Human Rights
Shamsa Araweelo File:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia (also a citizen of the File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) Anti-FGM campaigner
Yasmina Benslimane File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Founder of Politics4Her and gender equality campaigner
Yael Braudo-Bahat File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel Peace activist and co-director at Women Wage Peace
File:Alicia Cahuiya, Caso Tagaeri y Taromenani-2.jpg Alicia Cahuiya File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Indigenous rights activist
File:Amal Clooney 02 (cropped).jpg Amal Clooney File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon (also a citizen of the File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) Human rights lawyer
File:Official portrait of Dehenna Davison MP crop 3.jpg Dehenna Davison File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Member of Parliament
File:Christiana Figueres 2011 (cropped).jpg Christiana Figueres File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica Diplomat and climate policy negotiator with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
File:2019-03-15 Bella Gallhos.jpg Bella Galhos File:Flag of East Timor.svg East Timor
File:Rina Gonoi - IWOC 2024 (53568198184) (cropped).jpg Rina Gonoi[20] File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Former military officer and anti-sexual harassment activist
File:Sônia Guajajara .jpg Sonia Guajajara File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil State minister for native peoples and indigenous rights campaigner
Renita Holmes File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Housing rights campaigner
File:Natasa Kandic-mc.rs.jpg Nataša Kandić File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia Lawyer and human rights activist. Founder of the Humanitarian Law Center
File:Guthi Bill Protest Rukshana Kapali.jpg Rukshana Kapali File:Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal
Sofia Kosachyova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Firefighter
File:Monica+mcwilliams.jpg Monica McWilliams File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Former politician and peace negotiator during the Good Friday Agreement talks. Co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition
Najla Mohamed-Lamin File:Flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.svg Western Sahara Women's rights and climate activist in the Saharawi refugee camps
Ulanda Mtamba File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi Campaigner against child marriage
Tamar Museridze File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia Investigative journalist
Neema Namadamu File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of Congo Disability rights campaigner
File:Michelle Obama in 2014 (cropped).jpg Michelle Obama File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Attorney, author and campaigner
File:Sepideh Rashnu.jpg Sepideh Rashnu[21] File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Writer and artist
Bernadette Smith File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Advocate for families of missing indigenous women and girls. Co-founder of Drag the Red
Iryna Stavchuk File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Climate policy adviser at the European Climate Foundation
File:Gloria Steinem crop.jpg Gloria Steinem File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Feminist leader and co-founder of Ms. magazine
Summia Tora File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Refugee rights campaigner
Xu Zaozao File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Egg freezing campaigner. Advocate for single women's reproductive rights and bodily autonomy

Entertainment & Sport

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:2019-05-18 Fußball, Frauen, UEFA Women's Champions League, Olympique Lyonnais - FC Barcelona StP 0032 LR10 by Stepro (cropped).jpg Aitana Bonmatí File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain Footballer, winner of the Ballon d'Or and former UEFA player of the year
Antinisca Cenci File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Equestrian vaulter
Andreza Delgado File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Curator and cultural manager. Co-founder of PerifaCon
File:Desak Made IFSC Asia Qual 2023.jpg Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Speed climber
File:AmericaFerreraHSApr10.jpg America Ferrera File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Actor and Latino rights advocate
Anne Grall File:Flag of France.svg France Comedian
Georgia Harrison File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK TV personality. Anti-revenge porn campaigner
File:Harmanpreet Kaur 2017 (sq cropped).jpg Harmanpreet Kaur File:Flag of India.svg India Cricketer
Dayeon Lee File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Climate change campaigner for Kpop4Planet
Justina Miles File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Deaf performer
File:Dia Mirza in grace the IIFA 2020 press conference (5).jpg Dia Mirza File:Flag of India.svg India Actor. Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme and a board member of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation
Zandile Ndhlovu File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Freediving instructor
Alice Oseman File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Award-winning author, illustrator and screenwriter
Paramida File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany DJ and music producer
Camila Pirelli File:Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay Olympic heptathlete and EcoAthlete Champion
File:Aziza-Sbaity (cropped).jpg Aziza Sbaity File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Sprinter
File:Khine Hnin Wai.png Khine Hnin Wai File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Actor and activist
File:Bianca Williams 2018.jpg Bianca Williams File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Athlete

Culture & Education

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Afroze Numa (Taseer Beyg).jpg Afroze-Numa File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Shepherdess
Hosai Ahmadzai File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan TV presenter on Shamshad TV
Esi Buobasa File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Fishmonger
File:Chila Burman.jpg Chila Kumari Burman File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Artist
File:Paulina Chiziane by Otávio de Souza.jpg Paulina Chiziane File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique Writer. Winner of the Camões Prize
Susanne Etti File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Sustainable tourism expert
Licia Fertz File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
Jannatul Ferdous File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Burns survivor, film-maker, writer and disability rights campaigner
File:Natalia Idrisova of CAN EECCA (sq cropped).jpg Natalia Idrisova File:Flag of Tajikistan.svg Tajikistan Green energy consultant
File:Head and shoulder shot of Vee Kativhu.jpg Vee Kativhu File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe (also a citizen of the File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) Content creator and YouTuber
File:Huda Kattan - Vogue Taiwan.png Huda Kattan File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Founder of Huda Beauty
File:Sophia Kianni in dorm for Vogue Arabia.jpg Sophia Kianni File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Student and social entrepreneur
Arati Kumar-Rao File:Flag of India.svg India Photographer
File:Louise Mabulo UN Young Champion of the Earth Award Ceremony Speech 2 (50749798578).jpg Louise Mabulo File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Farmer and entrepreneur. Recognised by the United Nations Environment Programme as a Young Champion of the Earth
Marijeta Mojašević File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro Disability rights activist
Sarah Ott File:Flag of the United States.svg USA School teacher and climate change ambassador with the National Center for Science Education
File:Palmo - Cropped.jpg Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo[22] File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK (citizen of File:Flag of India.svg India) Bhikṣuṇī buddhist nun
File:Lala Pasquinelli.png Lala Pasquinelli File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina
Jess Pepper File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Founder of Climate Café and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
File:Matcha Phorn-in.png Matcha Phorn-in File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand
Carolina Díaz Pimentel File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Journalist specialising in neurodivergence and mental health coverage
Shairbu Sagynbaeva File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Co-founder of For Life sewing shop
File:Daria Serenko - MIBF 2019 - 3110.jpg Daria Serenko File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Poet, writer and political activist. Member of Feminist Anti-War resistance
Kera Sherwood-O'Regan File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Indigenous rights and disability advocate
Sagarika Sriram File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates Educator and climate adviser
Clara Elizabeth Fragoso Ugarte File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Truck driver
File:Oksana Zabuzhko (2019).jpg Oksana Zabuzhko File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Writer

Science, Health & Tech

Image Name Country of birth Description
Basima Abdulrahman File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Green building entrepreneur
Bayang File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Diarist and sustainability advocate
Amina Al-Bish File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Volunteer rescue worker with the Syria Civil Defence
File:Rumaitha Al Busaidi at Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021.png Rumaitha Al Busaidi File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman Scientist
Sara Al-Saqqa File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine General surgeon
Susan Chomba File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Scientist and director at the World Resources Institute
Leanne Cullen-Unsworth File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Marine scientist
File:Dagdeviren in front of YellowBox (cropped).jpg Canan Dagdeviren[23][24] File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Scientist and inventor
Izabela Dłużyk File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Sound recordist
Marcela Fernández File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Expedition guide
File:P4120036 Anamaria Font.jpg Anamaría Font Villarroel File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Particle physicist
Trần Gấm File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Biogas business owner
File:Timnit Gebru crop.jpg Timnit Gebru File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia (citizen of File:Flag of the United States.svg USA) AI expert
File:Claudia Goldin Headshot.jpg Claudia Goldin File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Economist and recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics
Anna Huttunen File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland Carbon impact tech expert
File:Gladys Kalema Zikusoka.jpg Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Veterinarian and conservationist. Founder of Conservation Through Public Health. Recognised by the United Nations Environment Programme as a Champion of the Earth in 2021
Sonia Kastner File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Wildfire detection tech developer
Astrid Linder File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Professor of traffic safety
Neha Mankani File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Midwife
File:Wanjira Mathai at Global Scholars Symposium 2013.jpg Wanjira Mathai File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Environmental adviser. Former leader of the Green Belt Movement. Managing director for Africa & Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute and adviser to the Clean Cooking Alliance and the European Climate Foundation
Isabel Farías Meyer File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile Journalist and early menopause campaigner
Natalie Psaila File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta Medical doctor
Olena Rozvadovska File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Children's rights advocate
Sumini File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Forest manager
Fabiola Trejo File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Social psychologist
Jennifer Uchendu File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Mental health advocate. Founder of SustyVibes
Qiyun Woo File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Storyteller and environmentalist
Elham Youssefian File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran (citizen of File:Flag of the United States.svg USA) Human rights lawyer, adviser on climate and adviser on disability to the International Disability Alliance

2022

The list for 2022 was released on 6 December. Women included this year were Olena Zelenska of Ukraine, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, the singer Billie Eilish, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Selma Blair, Lina Abu Akleh, Alla Pugacheva, Elnaz Rekabi and Yulimar Rojas. The list was subdivided into four categories: Culture & Sport, Activism & Advocacy, Politics & Education and Health & Science.[25]

Politics & Education

Image Name Country of birth Description
Maeen Al-Obaidi File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Lawyer and mediator
Fatima Amiri File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Student
File:Versailles - Sœur Nathalie Becquart - 1.jpg Nathalie Becquart File:Flag of France.svg France (also a citizen of the File:Flag of Vatican City (2023–present).svg Vatican City) Nun in the Congregation of Xavières and first ever female Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops.
Taisia Bekbulatova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Journalist. Founder of the independent media outlet Holod
Kristina Berdynskykh File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Journalist
María Fernanda Castro Maya File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Disability rights advocate
Chanel[26] Contos File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Sexual consent activist
File:Mónica Eva Copa Murga (Official Photo, 2015) Alejandra Vaca, Chamber of Senators of Bolivia.jpg Eva Copa File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia Politician and mayor of El Alto of Aymara descent
Joy Ezeilo File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Law professor and former United Nations special rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons
Ibijoke Faborode File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Founder of ElectHER
File:Erika Hilton em 2019.jpg Erika Hilton File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
File:민주당 전국여성위원회, 블루스타트포럼 발족식 2 (cropped).jpg Park Ji-hyun File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Political reformer
Zahra Joya File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Journalist and founder of Rukhshana Media
File:Official Portrait of Ursula von der Leyen.jpg Ursula von der Leyen File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany First ever female President of the European Commission
File:Naomi Long MLA.jpg Naomi Long File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Northern Ireland (uses a File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK passport) Politician and former Lord Mayor of Belfast
Ayesha Malik File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan First female judge on the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Zara Mohammadi File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Kurdish language educator
File:Mia Mottley (2021) (cropped).jpg Mia Mottley File:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados First female Prime Minister of Barbados
File:Sepideh Gholian 6.jpg Sepideh Qoliyan File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Political campaigner and workers’ rights advocate
File:Roza Salih campaigning for equal access to abortion in Ireland (cropped).png Roza Salih File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq (active in File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland, File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) Politician and member of activist group the Glasgow Girls
File:Simone-tebet-076 (cropped).jpg Simone Tebet File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Member of the Brazilian Federal Senate
Kisanet Tedros File:Flag of Eritrea.svg Eritrea Educational entrepreneur and Tigrinyan digital content creator
File:Dharma Master Shih Cheng Yen.jpg Cheng Yen File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan Buddhist philanthropist, founder of the Tzu Chi humanitarian organisation
File:Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.jpg Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran (also a citizen of the File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK) Charity worker
File:Участь Президента України у другому Саміті перших леді та джентльменів 45.jpg Olena Zelenska File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Incumbent First Lady, architect and screenwriter

Culture & Sport

Image Name Country of birth Description
Dima Aktaa File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Refugee and parathlete
File:Holy Spider Red Carpet - The 75th Cannes Film Festival 04 (cropped).png Zar Amir Ebrahimi File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Actor and founder of Alambic Productions
File:Selma Blair, May 2010 (sq cropped).jpg Selma Blair File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Actor and multiple sclerosis awareness campaigner
File:Ona Carbonell (ESP) 2022.jpg Ona Carbonell File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain Olympic medal winning synchronised swimmer
Sarah Chan File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan NBA scout and former professional basketball player. Advocate for education and sports
File:Priyanka Chopra promoting The Sky Is Pink.jpg Priyanka Chopra File:Flag of India.svg India Actor and producer. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, campaigning for children's rights and education for girls
File:Billie Eilish @Pukkelpop 2019 (48590585507).jpg Billie Eilish File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Singer and songwriter
File:Ons Jabeur (51313423151) (cropped2).jpg Ons Jabeur File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Tennis player
Sneha Jawale File:Flag of India.svg India Social worker
File:Reema Juffali (cropped).jpg Reema Juffali File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Racing driver and founder of Theeba Motorsport
Kadri Keung File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong Fashion designer
Miky Lee File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Producer, architect of KCON music festival and vice-chair of CJ ENM
File:Professor Laura McAllister (8552094408).jpg Laura McAllister File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg WalesFile:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK
File:Thai rapper Milli.jpg Milli File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Rap artist
File:Rita Moreno 2014.jpg Rita Moreno File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto RicoFile:Flag of the United States.svg USA EGOT winning actor
File:Salima Rhadia Mukansanga.jpg Salima Rhadia Mukansanga File:Flag of Rwanda.svg Rwanda Football referee
File:Alla Pugacheva on Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk 01 (cropped).jpg Alla Pugacheva File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Musician
File:ElnazRekabi2019.jpg Elnaz Rekabi File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Climber, appeared at the Asian Championships without a hijab in violation of Iranian law and was arrested as her action was interpreted by the Iranian government as a silent protest against the law in the context of feminist protesters in Iran at the time
File:Yulimar Rojas - Triple saut Femmes (48614911652) (cropped).jpg Yulimar Rojas File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela
Sally Scales File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Pitjantjatjaran artist
File:Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah.jpg Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Writer and feminist activist
File:Geetanjali.jpg Geetanjali Shree File:Flag of India.svg India Author and winner of the International Booker Prize
File:Sasha Skochilenko.png Alexandra Skochilenko File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Artist, imprisoned by the Russian government for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
File:Velia Vidal R.jpg Velia Vidal File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Writer and El Chocó cultural and education campaigner
Esraa Warda File:Flag of Algeria.svg AlgeriaFile:Flag of the United States.svg USA Dancer and proponent of raï, a grassroots genre historically associated with social protest

Activism & Advocacy

Image Name Country of birth Description
Lina Abu Akleh File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine Human rights advocate
Velmariri Bambari File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Activist and women's rights campaigner
File:Tarana Burke 2018 Disobedience Awards at the MIT Media Lab (cropped).jpg Tarana Burke File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Activist. Started the MeToo movement.
Sanjida Islam Choya File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Student
File:Heidi Crowter 2021 (cropped).jpg Heidi Crowter File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Disability rights campaigner with an emphasis on Down syndrome
File:Sandya Eknelygoda IWOC 2.jpg Sandya Eknelygoda File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Human rights activist
File:Gohar Eshghi.jpg Gohar Eshghi File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Civil activist and Iranian Complainant Mother
File:Cecilia Patricia Flores Armenta junio 2022 cropped.jpg Ceci Flores File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Activist and member of the Madres Buscadoras de Sonora collective
Geraldina Guerra Garcés File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Women's rights and anti-femicide activist
Moud Goba File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK
File:Solidarity with Iranian Protests (52383249999).jpg Women cutting their hair File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Group protesting against Iranian laws against women, (especially the law mandating that women wear a hijab at all times) and against its restrictive laws and theocratic government in general
Gehad Hamdy File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Dentist and humanitarian
File:Judith Heumann, 2014 (cropped).jpg Judith Heumann File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Disability rights advocate
Jebina Yasmin Islam File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Campaigner for women's safety
Layli (pseudonym) File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Protester
File:Hadizatou Mani (Niger).png Hadizatou Mani File:Flag of Niger.svg Niger Anti-slavery campaigner
File:Oleksandra Matviichuk.jpg Oleksandra Matviichuk File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist at the Center for Civil Liberties. Helps Ukraine document proof of Russian atrocities resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
File:Narges Mohammadi (cropped1).jpg Narges Mohammadi File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Journalist and human rights campaigner. Vice-president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center
Tamana Zaryab Paryani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Human rights activist
Alice Pataxó File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Indigenous rights activist and climate campaigner
Roya Piraei File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Kurdish rights activist
File:V0A3581.jpg Yuliia Sachuk File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Disability rights advocate
Suvada Selimović File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina Peace campaigner
File:אפרת טילמה בבית השגריר הבריטי (cropped).jpg Efrat Tilma File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel
File:Xianzi (2022) 2 (cropped).png Zhou Xiaoxuan File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Feminist activist

Health & Science

Image Name Country of birth Description
Aye Nyein Thu File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Medical doctor
Sirisha Bandla File:Flag of India.svg India Aeronautical engineer
Victoria Baptiste File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Nurse and vaccine educator. WHO Goodwill Ambassador for cervical cancer elimination
Niloufar Bayani File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Ecologist and programme manager at the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation
File:Photography of Sandy.jpg Sandy Cabrera Arteaga File:Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras Sexual and reproductive rights advocate
Samrawit Fikru File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Tech entrepreneur
Wegahta Gebreyohannes Abera File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Humanitarian aid worker
Dilek Gürsoy File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Heart surgeon
Sofía Heinonen File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Conservationist
Kimiko Hirata File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Climate change activist. Recipient of Goldman Environmental Prize
Judy Kihumba File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Sign language interpreter
File:Marie Christina Kolo...jpg Marie Christina Kolo File:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar Climate entrepreneur and ecofeminist
Iryna Kondratova File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Paediatrician at the Kharkiv Regional Perinatal Centre
Asonele Kotu File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Tech entrepreneur
Erika Liriano File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic Cocoa entrepreneur.
Naja Lyberth File:Flag of Greenland.svg Greenland Psychologist and trauma therapist
Nigar Marf File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Nurse
File:Monica Musonda, Founder & CEO, Business Java Foods 20200120144838 GMCB9983 (49419178233) (cropped).jpg Monica Musonda File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia Businesswoman and nutrition advocate
Ifeoma Ozoma File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Public policy and tech specialist
File:Yuliia Paievska December 2022.jpg Yuliia Paievska File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Paramedic and founder of Taira's Angels
File:Jane Rigby 2023.jpg Jane Rigby File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Astronomer and astrophysicist. Advocate for equity and inclusion in STEM
Ainura Sagyn File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Computer engineer and ecofeminist
Monica Simpson File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Reproductive justice activist. Executive director of SisterSong
File:Maryna Vazovska MFO 2013 crop.jpg Maryna Viazovska File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Mathematician. Winner of the Fields Medal
File:March of Ukraine's Defenders in Kiev, 2019.08.24 - 36crop.jpg Yana Zinkevych File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Politician, front-line medical volunteer and military veteran

2021

The 2021 list was published on 7 December with special focus on Afghanistan. The year's keyword is reset, covering women who have contributed to "playing their part to reinvent our society, our culture and our world". The list was subdivided into four categories: Culture & Education, Entertainment & Sport, Politics & Activism and Science & Health, with half the total laureates being Afghan.[27] Not everyone's real name was used for their safety; pseudonymised laureates are marked in the table below with an asterisk.

Culture & Education

Image Name Country of birth Description
Lima Aafshid File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Poet and writer
Oluyemi Adetiba-Orija[28] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Lawyer and founder of the all-women law firm Headfort Foundation
Rada Akbar File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Artist
Catherine Corless File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Local historian
Pashtana Durrani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Teacher, founder and executive director of Learn Afghanistan
Saeeda Etebari File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Jewellery designer
Sahar Fetrat File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Feminist activist, writer and film-maker
File:Chatham House Prize 2014 (15848093031) (sq cropped).jpg Melinda French Gates File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Philanthropist and businesswoman
Saghi Ghahraman File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
Angela Ghayour File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Teacher and founder of The Herat Online School
Najlla Habibyar File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Entrepreneur
File:Secret Series at Kabul, Afghanistan.jpg Shamsia Hassani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Street artist
Mugdha Kalra File:Flag of India.svg India Autism-rights activist and co-founder of Not That Different
Freshta Karim File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Children's-rights activist and founder of Charmaghz mobile library
Aliya Kazimy File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Educator
File:Official portrait of Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws crop 2, 2019.jpg Baroness Helena Kennedy QC File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Director, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute
Iman Le Caire File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
Depelsha Thomas McGruder File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Founder of Moms of Black Boys United, COO of the Ford Foundation
Fahima Mirzaie File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Whirling-dervish dancer
File:2020 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (sq cropped) (cropped).jpg Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie[28] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Writer
Lynn Ngugi[28] File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Journalist
File:ATrentin201906250124.jpg Rehana Popal File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Barrister
*Rohila File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Schoolgirl
File:Alba Rueda en GNetwork360 - 2022.png Alba Rueda File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Trans activist
File:ElifShafak Ask EbruBilun Wiki cropped.jpg Elif Shafak File:Flag of France.svg France
Anisa Shaheed File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Journalist
File:The Three New Archdeacons (9764190886) (Mina Smallman cropped).jpg Mina Smallman File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Priest and educator
Barbara Smolińska File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Founder of Reborn Sugar Babies
Adelaide Lala Tam File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Artist and food designer
File:Vera Wang 2009 portrait Tribeca.jpg Vera Wang File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Fashion designer
File:Malala Yousafzai 2015.jpg Malala Yousafzai File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Nobel Peace Prize laureate, co-founder of the Malala Fund and girls’ education activist

Entertainment & Sport

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Halima Aden Paris Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2019.jpg Halima Aden File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Humanitarian and former model. UNICEF ambassador for children's rights.
File:Leena Alam Festival gpeg2016 (cropped).jpg Leena Alam File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Actor and human-rights activist
Sevda Altunoluk File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Professional goalball player and Paralympic champion
File:Nilofar Bayat (sq cropped).jpg Nilofar Bayat File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Wheelchair basketball player and advocate for women with disabilities
Carolina García File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Director, Netflix
Ghawgha Taban File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Musician
Chloé Lopes Gomes File:Flag of France.svg France Ballet dancer
Tanya Muzinda[29] File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Motocross champion
*Razma File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Musician
File:Roya Sadat (Afghanistan).jpg Roya Sadat File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Film-maker
Shogufa Safi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Orchestra conductor
*Sahar File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Footballer
Fatima Sultani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Mountaineer and martial arts expert
File:Alison Klayman-Nanfu Wang-Justine Nagan - Hooligan Sparrow (cropped) - Nanfu Wang.jpg Nanfu Wang File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Film-maker
File:Ming-Na Wen (48379221082) (cropped) (2).jpg Ming-Na Wen File:Flag of Macau.svg Macau
(File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China)
Actor
File:Rebel Wilson 2019 3.png Rebel Wilson File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Actress, writer and producer

Politics & Activism

Image Name Country of birth Description
Muqadasa Ahmadzai File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Social and political activist. Recipient of N-Peace award
Abia Akram File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Disability rights activist
Dr Alema File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Philosopher, campaigner and women's-rights advocate
Wahida Amiri File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Librarian and protester
File:Natasha-asghar.jpg Natasha Asghar File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Member of the Welsh Senedd
File:Marcelina Bautista Bautista cropped.jpg Marcelina Bautista File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Activist and union leader
File:Crystal Bayat (sq cropped).jpg Crystal Bayat File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Social activist and human-rights advocate
Razia Barakzai File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Protester
File:Najla Mangoush-Headshot-e1645841738656-332x332.jpg Najla El Mangoush File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya
Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs
Shila Ensandost File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Teacher and women's rights advocate
Fatima Gailani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Peace negotiator
Momena Ibrahimi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Policewoman
Hoda Khamosh File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Period campaigner, poet and journalist
File:Elisa Loncon 2021.jpg Elisa Loncón Antileo File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile President, Constitutional Convention
*Maral File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Campaigner
*Masouma File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Public prosecutor
File:Hon. Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa (cropped1).jpg Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa Prime minister of the Independent State of Samoa
File:220504 Salima Mazari.jpg Salima Mazari File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Politician and former governor of Charkint district
File:Amanda Nguyen at House Judiciary Committee.jpg Amanda Nguyen File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Social entrepreneur, civil-rights activist and founder of Rise
Basira Paigham File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Gender-equality and gender-minorities activist
Monica Paulus File:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Papua New Guinea Campaigner against sorcery accusation-related violence
File:Manjula Pradeep addresses a crowd (sq cropped).jpg Manjula Pradeep File:Flag of India.svg India Lawyer and human-rights activist. Executive director of the Navsarjan Trust
Halima Sadaf Karimi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Campaigner for women's rights, politician and former MP
Soma Sara File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Founder of Everyone's Invited
Mahbouba Seraj File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Women's and children's rights activist. Founder, Afghan Women's Network
*Ein Soe May File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Pro-democracy activist
Piper Stege Nelson File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Women's-rights activist and Public Strategies Officer at The Safe Alliance
Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng[30] File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Catholic nun
File:Emma Theofelus et Asekantsler Mariin Ratniku (visiit Namiibiasse 26-29.03.2023) (cropped).jpg Emma Theofelus File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia Politician
Benafsha Yaqoobi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Disabled rights advocate
Zala Zazai File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Policewoman

Science & Health

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Monica Araya donated by Dave Malkoff (sq cropped).jpg Mónica Araya File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica Emissions-free transportation advocate
Zuhal Atmar File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Entrepreneur and founder of Gul-e-Mursal recycling
Jos Boys File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Architect
Faiza Darkhani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Environmentalist and women's rights advocate
File:Azmina Dhrodia (sq cropped).jpg Azmina Dhrodia File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Safety policy lead at Bumble
Jamila Gordon File:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia Chief Executive and founder of Lumachain
Laila Haidari File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Women's rights advocate and founder of Mother Camp, drug rehabilitation centre
Zarlasht Halaimzai File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Co-founder and chief executive of Refugee Trauma Initiative
Nasrin Husseini File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Veterinarian
Amena Karimyan File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Astronomer
Mia Krisna Pratiwi File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Environmentalist and eco-activist
File:Heidi Larson for World Economic Forum.jpg Heidi Larson File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Anthropologist and Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project. Recipient of the Edinburgh Medal
Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon Climate activist
*Mahera File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Medical doctor
Mulu Mesfin File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Nurse
Mohadese Mirzaee File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Pilot
File:Tlaleng Mofokeng at RightsCon.jpg Tlaleng Mofokeng File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Universal health access advocate and United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health
File:Natalia Pasternak IQC 2019 (sq ).jpg Natalia Pasternak Taschner File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Microbiologist and science writer
*Ruksana File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Surgeon
Sara Wahedi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Chief executive of Ehtesab
Roshanak Wardak File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Gynaecologist and former Member of Parliament
Yuma File:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan

2020

The 2020 list was described as "different" before it was scheduled to be announced on 24 November 2020,[31] but it was released the day before. One name on the list was left blank as a tribute to the countless women around the world who had made sacrifices to help others. The list was subdivided into four categories: Knowledge, Leadership, Creativity and Identity.[32]

Image Name Country of birth Description[33]
Unsung hero Worldwide Acknowledgement of the "countless women around the world" who "have made a sacrifice to help others" in this "extraordinary year," including those who "have lost their lives while making a difference."

Knowledge

Image Name Country of birth Description
Rina Akter File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Bangladeshi sex worker turned humanitarian
File:Sarah Amiri - Sustaining the Space Economy - 2019 (48177030097) (cropped).jpg Sarah Al-Amiri File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg UAE Chair, UAE Space Agency
File:Just Adriana Albini at TEDx Foggia (cropped).jpg Adriana Albini File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Pathologist and veteran fencer
Nisreen Alwan File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq

File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom

Health and wellbeing of women through public health
File:Elizabeth Anionwu portrait 2017(cropped).jpg Elizabeth Anionwu File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Sickle cell and thalassaemia nurse specialist
File:Baroness Barran Official Portrait.jpg Diana Barran File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Minister for Civil Society and founder of SafeLives, a national charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse
Macinley Butson File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Inventor
File:Fang Fang (cropped).jpg Fang Fang File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Writer
Somaya Faruqi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Robotics team leader
Lauren Gardner File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Epidemiologist
Iman Ghaleb Al-Hamli File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Manager of a women-run microgrid
File:Dr.Sarah Gilbert.jpg Sarah Gilbert File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Scientist who developed one of the COVID-19 vaccines
File:Rebeca Gyumi.png Rebeca Gyumi File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania Lawyer and founder of girls' rights organization Msichana Initiative
Jemimah Kariuki File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Doctor and creator of the free Wheels for Life ambulance service
Safaa Kumari File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Plant virologist
File:Lakhani side profile.jpg Ishtar Lakhani File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Feminist activist
Lucy Monaghan File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Campaigner against sexual violence
Douce Namwezi N'Ibamba Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Social entrepreneur, journalist and activist
File:Dr Etheldreda Nakmuli Mpungu Uganda (sq cropped).png Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Mental health programme developer
Vernetta M Nay Moberly File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Iñupiaq environmental activist
File:Sania Nishtar at the World Economic Forum on India 2012 (cropped).jpg Sania Nishtar[34] File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Global health leader
Lorna Prendergast File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Dementia researcher
Susana Raffalli File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Delivering nutrition to the malnourished
Sapana Roka Magar[35] File:Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal Crematorium technician
File:Pardis-Sierra-Leone.jpg
Pardis Sabeti File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Computational geneticist
Febfi Setyawati File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Activist, founder of Untukteman.id
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Ruth Shady File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Archaeologist
File:Kathryn Sullivan, PCAST Member (cropped).jpg
Kathy Sullivan File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Scientist and astronaut
Rima Sultana Rimu File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Teacher and humanitarian activist working with Rohingya refugees
Anastasia Volkova File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Agricultural innovator. Founder of FluroSat
File:Siouxsie Wiles MNZN (cropped).jpg Siouxsie Wiles[36] File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Scientist and public health communicator
File:Leo Yee Sin at SG50 Infectious Diseases.jpg Yee-Sin Leo File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Doctor and research leader

Leadership

Image Name Country of birth Description
Loza Abera Geinore File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Association footballer
File:Christina Adane on The British Library.jpg Christina Adane File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Campaigner against injustices of food system (free school meals)
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone Mayor of Freetown
File:Ubah Ali.jpg Ubah Ali File:Flag of Somaliland.svg Somaliland Advocate against female genital mutilation
File:Nadeen Ashraf American University in Cairo AUC Conference Panel On Sexual Harassment (cropped).jpg Nadeen Ashraf File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Advocate against sexual harassment
Bilkis Dadi File:Flag of India.svg India Protest leader
File:EvelinaCabrera.jpg Evelina Cabrera File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Football coach and manager.
Carolina Castro File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Advocate for gender equality
File:Agnes Chow on Tim Mei Avenue (cropped).jpg Agnes Chow File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong Pro-democracy activist
Naomi Dickson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Advocate for Jewish women and children suffering from domestic abuse
File:Ilwadelman2 (cropped).jpg Ilwad Elman File:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia Peace activist
File:Jeong Eun-kyeong KDCA 정은경.jpg Jeong Eun-kyeong File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency commissioner, led COVID-19 response
File:Mama Maggie in 2019 (cropped).jpg
Maggie Gobran File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Coptic nun and child welfare advocate
File:Deta Hedman on Darts Planet TV.jpg
Deta Hedman File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica Darts champion
File:Mansi Joshi in 2020 (sq cropped).jpg Manasi Joshi File:Flag of India.svg India Para-badminton champion
Salsabila Khairunnisa File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Environmental campaigner and School Strike for Climate leader
File:Claudia López.png
Claudia López Hernández File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Mayor of Bogotá
File:Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin 2019 (cropped).jpg Sanna Marin File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland Prime Minister of Finland
File:Vanessa Nakate.jpg
Vanessa Nakate File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Climate activist
Nemonte Nenquimo File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Waorani activist
File:Phyllis Omido, 2014 (cropped).JPG Phyllis Omido File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Environmental activist. Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize
Ridhima Pandey File:Flag of India.svg India Climate activist
File:2019 Oksana Pushkina.png
Oksana Pushkina File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Politician, member of the State Duma
File:รุ้ง ปนัสยา สิทธิจิรวัฒนกุล Rung Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul.jpg Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Student activist
File:Nasrin Sotoudeh.jpg Nasrin Sotoudeh File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Lawyer and human rights activist
File:Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, 2020.jpg Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya File:Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus Exiled Belarus politician
Arussi Unda File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Campaigner against femicide
File:Aisha Yesufu.png Aisha Yesufu[37] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Activist, co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign
Gulnaz Zhuzbaeva File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Disability activist

Creativity

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Houda Abouz.png Houda Abouz[38] File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Rapper, women's rights and gender equality advocate
File:Waad Al-Kateab - 2020.jpg Waad al-Kateab File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Activist, journalist and filmmaker
File:Tsitsi Dangarembga 2006-11.jpg Tsitsi Dangarembga File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Novelist and filmmaker
Karen Dolva File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway Chief executive and co-founder of No Isolation
File:Jane Fonda Cannes 2015.jpg Jane Fonda File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Actor and social activist
Kiran Gandhi File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Singer, musician, and gender liberation activist
Miho Imada File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Master sake brewer
Isaivani India India Gaana singer and political campaigner
Nadine Kaadan File:Flag of France.svg France Children's author and illustrator
File:Mulenga Kapwepwe II.jpg
Mulenga Kapwepwe File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia Artist and co-founder of the Zambian Women's History Museum
File:Installation of Chancellor Professor Jackie Kay MBE - University of Salford, Peel Hall (17320850932) (cropped).jpg
Jackie Kay File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Playwright, novelist and national poet of Scotland
File:Mahira Khan at Masala Awards (cropped).jpg
Mahira Khan[34] File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Actor and activist and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
File:Angélique Kidjo Gershwin 2023.jpg Angélique Kidjo File:Flag of Benin.svg Benin Musician and UNICEF ambassador
Chu Kim Duc File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Architect and child welfare activist
File:Zahara Nairobi (cropped).JPG Zahara[39] File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Singer songwriter
File:Send fay (cropped).jpg
Nandar File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Feminist activist
File:Anita tijoux.jpg
Ana Tijoux File:Flag of France.svg France Chilean hip hop protester
File:Yulia Tsvetkova on Radio (cropped).png
Yulia Tsvetkova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Activist, political prisoner
File:Kotchakorn Voraakhom (sq cropped).jpg Kotchakorn Voraakhom File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Landscape architect
File:Elinwilliams (cropped).jpg Elin Williams File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Disability rights activist
File:Michelle Yeoh Cannes 2017 2 (cropped).jpg Michelle Yeoh File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia Actor and UN goodwill ambassador

Identity

Image Name Country of birth Description
Muyesser Abdul'ehed (AKA Hendan) File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Uyghur writer and language activist
File:TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 - Day 1 (26310041414).jpg Erica Baker File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Software engineer
File:Portrait of Cindy Bishop (cropped).jpg Cindy Bishop File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand UN goodwill ambassador and model
Wendy Beatriz Caishpal Jaco File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Advocate for the rights of disabled people
File:Patrisse Cullors.jpg Patrisse Cullors File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Human rights activist. Co-founder and executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation
File:Shani Dhanda Headshot.jpg Shani Dhanda File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK Disability activist
File:Eileen Flynn 2020.jpg Eileen Flynn File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Senator and social activist
File:Alicia Garza.jpg Alicia Garza File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Human rights activist. Co-creator of Black Lives Matter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network
Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim[37] Nigeria Nigeria
File:Gülsüm Kav 2.jpg
Gülsüm Kav File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Doctor, activist, co-founder of We Will Stop Femicide
Josina Machel File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique Human rights activist
Hayat Mirshad File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Feminist activist, journalist, co-founder of Fe-Male collective
Laleh Osmany File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Women's rights activist and founder of #WhereIsMyName campaign
Cibele Racy File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Teacher, racial equality activist
22 - Lea T-001 (17107157436) (cropped).jpg Lea T File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
File:Opal Tometi.jpg Ayu (Opal) Tometi File:Flag of the United States.svg USA Human rights activist. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter
File:Alice Wong via robot (cropped again).jpg Alice Wong File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Disability rights activist. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project

2019

The 2019 list was announced on 16 October 2019. The list of candidates was chosen from those nominated by the BBC's different language teams using the 2020 theme which was "The Female Future". The list was subdivided into six categories: Earth, Knowledge, Leadership, Creativity, Sport and Identity.[40]

Earth

Image Name Country of birth Description
Judith Bakirya File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Organic farmer and women's rights activist
Ella Daish File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Environmentalist and anti-plastic campaigner
File:Katrina Johnston Zimmerman Urban Anthropologist 2019 at BBC (sq cropped).jpg Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Urban anthropologist and co-founder of The Women Led Cities Initiative
File:Gada Kadoda with flowers after KMCA2012.jpg Gada Kadoda File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Founder of the Sudanese Knowledge Society and trainer of community engineers
Jamie Margolin File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Climate change activist and co-founder of Zero Hour movement
File:(Francia Márquez) F70A6326 (49199213312) (cropped).jpg Francia Márquez File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Afro-Colombian environmentalist and leader of a 10-day, 350-mile women's march. Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize
File:Trang at Burger Zoo (cropped).jpg Trang Nguyen File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Wildlife conservationist and founder of WildAct
Autumn Peltier File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Clean water advocate
Swietenia Puspa Lestari File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Founder of the Divers Clean Action Foundation and anti-straw campaigner
Charlene Ren File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Clean water advocate, creator of MyH2O
File:Najat Aoun Saliba (sq cropped).jpg Najat Saliba File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Air pollution researcher and chemistry professor
File:Dr. Vandana Shiva DS.jpg Vandana Shiva File:Flag of India.svg India Environmental leader and winner of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize
File:Greta Thunberg 02 cropped.jpg Greta Thunberg File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Climate change activist
File:MarilynWaring2012.jpg Marilyn Waring File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Feminist economist and environmental activist

Knowledge

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:MiMi Aung.jpg MiMi Aung File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States NASA project manager and engineer
File:EduTech Asia Raya Bidshahri (cropped).jpg Raya Bidshahri File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Educator and founder of Awecademy
File:Katie Bouman answers questions about the Event Horizon Telescope project.jpg Katie Bouman File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Processed first-ever image of a black hole
File:BBC 100 Women Lisa Campo-Engelstein PhD (cropped).jpg Lisa Campo-Engelstein File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Bioethicist and fertility and contraceptive researcher
File:El Kaliouby.jpg Rana el Kaliouby File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Artificial emotional intelligence pioneer. Founder of Affectiva
File:Amy Karle. Artist, Bioartist, Futurist.jpg Amy Karle File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Bioartist and 3D-designer
File:Fei-Fei Li at AI for Good 2017.jpg Fei-Fei Li File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Pioneer of artificial intelligence who encourages women and minorities to build AI.
File:Fogarty-nih-50th-symposium-speaker-julie-makani (41926010224).jpg Julie Makani File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease
Sarah Martins Da Silva File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Consultant gynaecologist, obstetrician and fertility researcher
File:Dr. Susmita Mohanty.jpg Susmita Mohanty File:Flag of India.svg India Spaceship designer, entrepreneur and passionate climate action advocate
Benedicte Mundele File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo Fresh food entrepreneur and founder of Surprise Tropical
Zehra Sayers File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Biophysicist and chair of the SESAME project.
Hayfa Sdiri File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Entrepreneur and UN gender equality campaigner
File:Noor Shaker (cropped).png Noor Shaker File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Artificial intelligence innovator
File:Bonita Sharma.jpg Bonita Sharma[41] File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal Founder of The Social Changemakers and Innovators
File:Véronique Thouvenot WSIS Forum 2013 - (WHO, ITU) (cropped).jpg Veronique Thouvenot File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile Leader of the Zero Mothers Die initiative
File:Paola Villarreal.jpg Paola Villarreal File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Computer programmer who developed Data for Justice
File:AmyWebb.jpg Amy Webb File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Futurist

Leadership

Image Name Country of birth Description
Alanoud Alsharekh File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Women's rights activist. Winner of National Order of Merit
File:Tabata Amaral em abril de 2019 (recorte).jpg Tabata Amaral File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Politician working for education, women's rights, political innovation and sustainable futures
File:Dhammananda09.jpg Dhammananda Bhikkhuni File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand First female Thai Buddhist monk (bhikkhuni) and abbess of Songdhammakalyan Monastery
File:Mabel Bianco.jpg Mabel Bianco File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Feminist medical doctor and women's rights activist. President of the Foundation for Studies and Research on Women (FEIM)
File:Entrevista de Canciller María Fernanda Espinosa (36388035054) (cropped).jpg Maria Fernanda Espinosa File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Fourth female president of the UN General Assembly
Sister Gerard Fernandez File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Roman Catholic nun and death row counsellor
File:Secretary Pompeo, First Lady Melania Trump, and Zarifa Ghafari Pose for a Photo (49619393902) (cropped).jpg Zarifa Ghafari File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan One of Afghanistan's first female mayors; clean city advocate
File:Secretary Pompeo, First Lady Melania Trump, and Jalilah Haider Pose for a Photo (49618619623) (cropped).jpg Jalila Haider File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Human rights lawyer and women's rights advocate
Asmaa James File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone Journalist and women's rights activist
Ahlam Khudr File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Human rights protest leader
Aïssata Lam File:Flag of Mauritania.svg Mauritania Microfinance expert and women's rights advocate
File:이수정 교수.jpg Soo Jung Lee File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Forensic psychologist and advocate for anti-stalking bill
File:Gina Martin, December 2019.jpg Gina Martin File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Campaigner to make upskirting illegal in England and Wales
Van Thi Nguyen File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Co-founder of the Will to Live Center
File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Official Portrait.jpg Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Youngest woman elected to Congress
File:Onjali Raúf at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (cropped).jpg Onjali Q. Raúf File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Writer and founder of Making Herstory
File:Maria Ressa.jpg Maria Ressa File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Journalist and founder of Rappler, a website exposing fake news
File:Соболь, Любовь.png Lyubov Sobol File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Lawyer and anti-corruption activist
Samah Subay File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Lawyer supporting families whose children have 'disappeared'

Creativity

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Precious Adams.jpg Precious Adams File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Ballet dancer
File:Manal Al Dowayan Soft Power.jpg Manal Al Dowayan File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Saudi photographer and artist
Marwa Al-Sabouni File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Architect who runs only Arabic website for architectural news. Winner of the Prince Claus award
File:Yalitza Aparicio (31374009897).jpg Yalitza Aparicio File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Actress and human rights activist
File:Dayna Ash 2020.jpg Dayna Ash File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Poet and cultural activist
File:Ayah Bdeir.jpg Ayah Bdeir File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Founder of littleBits and STEM advocate
File:Scarlett Curtis (cropped).jpg Scarlett Curtis File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Co-founder of The Pink Protest
Luchita Hurtado File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Artist and environmental advocate
Aranya Johar File:Flag of India.svg India Beat poet who writes about gender equality, mental health and body positivity
File:Erika lust.jpg Erika Lust File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Erotic film director, screenwriter and producer
Lauren Mahon File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Cancer survivor and podcaster
Lisa Mandemaker File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Designer of prototype artificial womb
Raja Meziane File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria Anti-government songs about social injustice, alleged corruption and inequality
Ashcharya Peiris File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Blind fashion designer and motivational speaker
Danit Peleg File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel Fashion designer of 3D-printed clothing
Kalista Sy File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Screenwriter of television series Mistress of a Married Man
File:Ida Vitale at Texas A&M University.jpg Ida Vitale File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay Poet, and fifth woman to win Cervantes Prize for lifetime writing achievement

Sport

Image Name Country of birth Description
Jasmin Akter File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Rohingya refugee and cricketer
File:Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics women Kimia Alizadeh.jpg Kimia Alizadeh File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran First female Iranian Olympic medallist
File:Dina AsherSmith Euro Champs 2018.JPG Dina Asher-Smith File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Fastest woman in British history
File:Salwa Eid Naser 2017.jpg Salwa Eid Naser File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain
400m world champion runner
File:Bethany Firth Rio2016.jpg Bethany Firth File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Paralympic champion swimmer
File:Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 2015 (1 av 2).jpg Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica 100m world sprint champion
File:Tayla Harris 11.03.18.jpg Tayla Harris File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Australian rules footballer and boxer
Huang Wensi File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Professional boxer
Fiona Kolbinger File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany First woman cyclist to win the Transcontinental Race
Hiyori Kon File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Sumo wrestler
File:Farida mauritius 003.jpg Farida Osman File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt First woman in Egypt to win a swimming medal
File:Megan Rapinoe (May 2019) (cropped).jpg Megan Rapinoe File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States World Cup winner and advocate for equality in football (soccer)
Jawahir Roble File:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
UK's first Muslim, black, female, hijab-wearing referee[clarification needed]

Identity

Image Name Country of birth Description
Parveena Ahanger File:Flag of India.svg India Human rights activist
File:Piera Aiello daticamera 2018.jpg Piera Aiello File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Anti-mafia politician
Rida Al Tubuly File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya Peace campaigner
File:Sinéad Burke speaking on "When Building This World, No One Thought of Me".png Sinéad Burke File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Disability activist
Lucinda Evans File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Women's rights activist and founder of Philisa Abafazi Bethu (Heal our Women)
Hollie File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Sex trafficking survivor
Yumi Ishikawa File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Gender discrimination campaigner and founder of KuToo movement
Subhalakshmi Nandi File:Flag of India.svg India Gender equity researcher and campaigner
Natasha Noel File:Flag of India.svg India Body positivity influencer and Yogini
File:Djamila Ribeiro.jpg Djamila Ribeiro File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Writer and Afro-Brazilian women's rights advocate
File:Nanjira Sambuli, Senior Policy Manager at World Wide Web Foundation at the 2018 2018 African Submit on Women and Girls Technology.jpg Nanjira Sambuli File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya World Wide Web Foundation digital equality expert
Pragati Singh File:Flag of India.svg India Doctor running Indian Aces, an online community for asexual people
File:Bella Thorne for Vogue 2019.png Bella Thorne File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Actress and director
Purity Wako File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Life coach empowering women
Sara Wesslin File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland Skolt Sami journalist who lobbied for government funding for Sami language teaching
Gina Zurlo File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Expert in religion statistics

2018

The 2018 list was announced in November 2018. The list included the 27th Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Stacey Cunningham who runs the New York Stock Exchange and Shaparak Shajarizadeh[42] who challenged the Iranian law that requires women to wear the Hijab.[43][44][45]

Image Name Country of birth Description
File:Abisoye 1.jpg Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin[46] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Social impact entrepreneur
Esra'a Al Shafei Bahrain Bahrain Leads not-for-profit Majal.org
Svetlana Alekseeva File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Model and burns survivor
File:LIZT ALFONSO WIKIPEDIA 02.jpg Lizt Alfonso File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba Director and choreographer, Cuba
File:2019 Freedom of Expression Awards (40575329543).jpg Nimco Ali File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Somaliland Somaliland
Wrier and FGM activist
File:Isabel Allende - 001.jpg Isabel Allende File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Author
Boushra Yahya Almutawakel File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Artist, photographer and activist
Alina Anisimova File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Student programmer at Kyrgyz Girls' Space School
File:Frances Arnold 2012.png Frances Arnold File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Nobel Prize winning chemical engineer
Uma Devi Badi File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal Leader of the Badi movement and member of the Provincial Assembly in Nepal
Judith Balcazar File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Fashion designer and co-founder of Giggle Knickers (underwear for women with urinary incontinence)
File:Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista IWOC 2.jpg Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Lawyer who works against domestic violence as the face of the NiUnaMenos (Not One [woman] Less)
Leyla Belyanova File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan Academic and ecologist, seeking to protect Uzbekistan's birdlife and mountain ecosystems
File:Photo Analia -3.jpg Analia Bortz File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Doctor, rabbi and bioethicist treating women with fertility problems
File:Fealofani Bruun (cropped).jpg Fealofani Bruun File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa Traditional Polynesian navigator and qualified yachtmaster
Raneen Bukhari File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Curator, gallery manager, and business developer
File:Joy Buolamwini - Wikimania 2018 01.jpg Joy Buolamwini File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Artificial intelligence artist and researcher
Barbara Burton File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Founder and CEO of BehindBras, a charity that supports women prison leavers
File:Cheremnova Tamara.jpg Tamara Cheremnova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Author, living with cerebral palsy
File:Chelsea Clinton DNC July 2016 (cropped).jpg Chelsea Clinton File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Writer and organiser, Vice-chair of the Clinton Foundation
File:Stacey Cunningham October 2019 (cropped).jpg Stacey Cunningham File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States NYSE President
Jenny Davidson (businesswoman) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States CEO of Stand Up Placer
File:Asha de Vos.jpg Asha de Vos File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Marine biologist
File:Gabriella Di Laccio 2016.jpg Gabriella Di Laccio File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Soprano and founder of DONNE: Women in Music
Xiomara Diaz File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua Entrepreneur, restaurant owner and charity founder
File:Noma Dumezweni Out of Darkness.jpg Noma Dumezweni File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini
Actor
File:Chidera Eggerue November 2017.png Chidera Eggerue[46] File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom "The Slumflower" blogger
Shrouk El-Attar File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Electronic design engineer
Nicole Evans File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Online retail sales facilitator and supporter of women who are experiencing Early menopause
Raghda Ezzeldin File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Free diver
Mitra Farazandeh File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Artist advocate for people with physical disabilities
Mamitu Gashe File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Senior nurse aide and fistula surgeon
Meena Gayen File:Flag of India.svg India Business owner and road builder
File:G.E.M. Laughing.jpg G.E.M. (Gloria Tang Tsz-kei) [citation needed] File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China
File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong
Singer-songwriter
File:Fabiola Gianotti Royal Society.jpg Fabiola Gianotti File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Particle physicist and director general of CERN
File:Julia Gillard 2010.jpg Julia Gillard File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 27th Prime Minister of Australia
File:Elena Gorolová SJK 2019 0-50.png Elena Gorolová File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Social worker, campaigning against forced sterilisation
Randi Heesoo Griffin File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Olympic ice hockey player and data scientist, advocate for equal pay for women in ice hockey
Janet Harbick File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Altruistic surrogate
Jessica Hayes File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Theology teacher and consecrated virgin
File:Thando Hopa at World Economic Forum.jpg Thando Hopa File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Model, lawyer and diversity and inclusion advocate
File:Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.jpg Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim File:Flag of Chad.svg Chad Environmentalist and advocate for indigenous people and women
File:Reyhan Jamalova at UPenn cropped.jpg Reyhan Jamalova File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan Entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Rainenergy, company that collects energy from rainwater
File:Jameela Jamil at the 2018 Comic-Con International (42913091955) (cropped).jpg Jameela Jamil File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom British actor who founded @i-weigh
Liz Johnson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Paralympian gold medal swimmer and entrepreneur, with a recruitment agency aiming to close the disability employment gap
Lao Khang File:Flag of Laos.svg Laos Rugby player and coach
Joey Mead King File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Model and television presenter
File:Krishna Kohli.jpg Krishna Kumari[47] File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Women's rights campaigner elected to Pakistan Senate
Marie Laguerre File:Flag of France.svg France Civil engineer and architecture student, who has developed platform where women can share stories of street harassment
Veasna Chea Leth File:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia Lawyer, first woman to study law in Cambodia
Ana Graciela Sagastume López File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Women and Femicide Special Prosecutor
File:Maria Corina Machado.jpg Maria Corina Machado File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Political leader who has campaigned to safeguard democratic processes in Venezuela
File:Nanaia Mahuta looks left.jpg Nanaia Mahuta File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Minister of Maori development, first female parliamentarian to wear a Maori face tattoo
File:Diyahdiyah.jpg Sakdiyah Ma'ruf File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Indonesia's first female Muslim stand-up comedian
Nujeen Mustafa File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Syrian refugee, activist, and a campaigner on behalf of refugees with disabilities
Lisa McGee File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Northern Irish playwright and the writer and creator of Derry Girls
Kirsty McGurrell File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Charity co-ordinator of 4Louis, providing memory boxes for bereaved parents of stillborn babies
Becki Meakin File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom General manager of Shaping Our Lives, advocate for people with disabilities
File:Ruth Medufia.jpg Ruth Medufia File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Female welder acting as role model for young women in the construction industry
Larisa Mikhaltsova File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Accordion music teacher who became a model at age 63
File:Amina J. Mohammed in London - 2018 (41824822362) (cropped).jpg Amina J. Mohammed[46] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Deputy secretary general, United Nations
File:Yana Mohammed Foto Uwe Steinert (8568692398) (cropped).jpg Yanar Mohammed File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq President of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)
Joseline Esteffania Velasquez Morales File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Student and NGO co-ordinator, campaigning to end forced marriages
File:RobinMorgan profile.jpg Robin Morgan File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Author and activist, founder of The Sisterhood is Global Institute and the Women's Media Center
Dima Nashawi File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Artist, clown and visual storyteller, who collects and reflects tales from Syria
Helena Ndume File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia Ophthalmologist who has performed sight-restoring surgeries upon 35,000 Namibians, free of charge
File:Kelly O'Dwyer 2017.jpg Kelly O'Dwyer File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Minister for jobs and industrial relations, and minister for women in the Australian parliament
Yuki Okoda File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Astronomer, first person to discover a new star that could shed light on the origins of the Solar System
File:Professor Olivette Otele, Keynote Lecture, SHS conference 2019 (cropped).jpg Olivette Otele File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon Professor of History at Bath Spa University, England
File:Claudia Sheinbaum.jpg Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Mayor of Mexico City and Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist
Park Soo-yeon File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Digital campaigner against sex crimes
File:Ophelia Pastrana (cropped).png Ophelia Pastrana File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Comedian and media personality
Viji Palithodi File:Flag of India.svg India Activist who founded the Penkootam women's union in Kerala
File:AIBa 2018 - Brigitte Sossou Perenyi (sq cropped).jpg Brigitte Sossou Perenyi File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Documentary producer and former Trokosi
Vicky Phelan File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Exposed the Irish Cervical Check Screening scandal
File:Rahibai Soma Popere H2019030865839 (cropped).jpg Rahibai Soma Popere File:Flag of India.svg India Farmer and founder of Seed Bank, India collecting indigenous seeds
Valentina Quintero File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Journalist promoting tourism and the environment through television programs
Sam Ross File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Catering assistant and advocate for people with Down syndrome
File:Fatma Samoura (cropped).jpg Fatma Samoura File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Secretary General of FIFA
Juliet Sargeant File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania Garden designer
Sima Sarkar File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Full-time mother of 18-year-old disabled child
Shaparak Shajarizadeh File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Activist against compulsory hijab rule, now in exile
Haven Shepherd File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Suicide bomb survivor and Paralympic hopeful
Nenney Shushaidah Binti Shamsuddin File:Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg Malaysia Female Syariah judge
File:Hayat Sindi - PopTech 2012 - Camden Maine USA (8103609979).jpg Hayat Sindi File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Biotechnologist, Unesco Goodwill Ambassador for science and founder of the i2 Institute for imagination and ingenuity
File:Jacqueline Straub 2020.jpg Jacqueline Straub File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Theologian, journalist and author seeking to become a Catholic priest
File:Donna Strickland, OSA Holiday Party 2012.jpg Donna Strickland File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo, Canada and winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, 2018
Kanpassorn Suriyasangpetch File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Dentist, mental health advocate and app developer
Setsuko Takamizawa File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Learning English to help tourists at Tokyo's 2020 Olympic Games
Nargis Taraki File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan NGO legal adviser who campaigns for female empowerment
File:Ellen Tejle.jpg Ellen Tejle File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Campaigner for awareness of women's representation in film
Helen Taylor Thompson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom AIDs Hospice founder
Bola Tinubu[46] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Lawyer who established the first free children's helpline in Nigeria
File:ErrollynWallen (cropped).png Errollyn Wallen File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize
Opera composer and Ivor Novello Award winner
File:Safiya Wazir (49119269071).jpg Safiya Wazir File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Community activist and U.S. politician
File:Dr Gladys West Hall of Fame.jpg Gladys West File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Mathematician, instrumental in developing GPS
Luo Yang File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Art photography series on Chinese girls since 2007
Maral Yazarloo-Pattrick File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Fashion designer and motorcyclist
Tashi Zangmo Bhutan Bhutan Executive director for the Bhutan Nuns Foundation
Jing Zhao File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Entrepreneur running online sex education network

2017

In 2017 the women on the list were part of a 100 Women Challenge, tackling some of the biggest problems facing women around the world. Coming together in four teams, the women shared their experiences and created innovative ways to tackle:[48]

  • The glass ceiling (#Teamlead)
  • Female illiteracy (#Teamread)
  • Street harassment (#Teamgo)
  • Sexism in sport (#Teamplay)

Glass ceiling team

Image Name Country of birth Description[44]
Agnes Atim Apea File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Founder and CEO of Hope Co-ops
File:Acuddy.jpg Amy Cuddy File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Harvard social psychologist and author
File:Elaine Welteroth on Ashley Graham.jpg Elaine Welteroth File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue
Erin Akinci File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Data scientist
File:Jin Xing at WEForum (sq cropped).jpg Jin Xing File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Dancer, television star and business owner
Karlie Noon[49] File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Astronomer
Lea Coligado File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Software engineer
Lori Nishiura Mackenzie File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Executive Director of the Clayman Institute, Stanford University
File:Loujain Alhathloul.jpg Loujain Alhathloul File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Student
Maci Peterson File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Co-founder and CEO, On Second Thought
Mariana Feraru File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania Cosmetician
File:Ruiz, Maria Teresa -FILSA 2015 10 29 fRF01.jpg María Teresa Ruiz File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile Astronomer
Marilyn Loden File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Author, management consultant and diversity advocate
Marina Potoker File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Managing director, Rockwool Russia
Melisa Marquez-Rodriguez Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Lead Android engineer for website builder, Weebly.com
File:Michelle Mone (Ultimo founder) 2013.jpg Michelle Mone File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Entrepreneur
Muhabbat Sharapova File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan Maths teacher
Nana Akua Oppong Birmeh File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Architect
Natalia Margolis File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Software Engineer at Huge agency
File:Chocoloate remix.webp Romina Bernardo (aka Chocolate Remix) File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Musician
Roya Ramezani File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Design strategist
File:Rumman Chowdhury at the AI for Good Global Summit 2018 (42110666692).jpg Rumman Chowdhury File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Senior Principal at Accenture AI
Sasha Perigo File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Student
Savita Devi (Drummer) File:Flag of India.svg India Drummer
File:Susi Pudjiastuti.jpg Susi Pudjiastuti File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Politician and entrepreneur
Suzanne Doyle-Morris File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Author and expert on gender in the workplace

Women illiteracy team

Image Name Country of birth Description[44]
Aditi Avasthi File:Flag of India.svg India Entrepreneur; Founder and CEO, Embibe
Huỳnh Thị Xậm File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Librarian
File:Indira Ranamagar.jpg Indira Rana Magar File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal Founder, Prisoner's Assistance Nepal
File:Ira Trivedi, May 2012-2.jpg Ira Trivedi File:Flag of India.svg India Writer
Maggie MacDonnell File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Teacher
File:Mariéme Jamme, March 2020.jpg Marieme Jamme File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Founder of iamtheCODE
Mehroonisa Siddiqui File:Flag of India.svg India Homemaker
File:Portrait Michelle Bachelet.jpg Michelle Bachelet File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile President of Chile
Nitya Thummalachetty File:Flag of India.svg India Director of Diversity, FortunaPIX
File:Peggy Whitson.jpg Peggy Whitson File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Astronaut
Priyanka Roy File:Flag of India.svg India Student
File:Sakena Yaccobi with Muhammad Yunus.jpg Sakena Yacoobi File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan CEO of Afghan Institute for Learning and social entrepreneur with four private schools and one radio station.
Tulika Kiran File:Flag of India.svg India Teacher and social worker
File:Urvashi Sahni.png Urvashi Sahni File:Flag of India.svg India Founder and CEO, Study Hall Educational Foundation
Zainab Fadhal Iraq Student
File:SWF 2008 photo.jpg Vicky Colbert File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Sociologist of education
File:Muzoon Almellehan 2016 (cropped).jpg Muzoon Almellehan File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Lin Nien-Tzu File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan Founder, Dharti Mata Sustainable Workshop
Frances Melanie Hardinge File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Author
File:Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi (2008 portrait).jpg Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Economist
Ahlam al-Rashid File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Teacher and Head of the Women Empowerment Centre, northern Syria
File:Regina Honu.jpg Regina Honu File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Social entrepreneur
Angeline Murimirwa File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Regional executive director, Camfed Southern & Eastern Africa
Bella Devyatkina File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Polyglot
Tran Thi Kim Thia File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Lottery ticket vendor and swimming coach

Street harassment team

Image Name Country of birth Description[44]
File:Adele Onyango on Hustle Yako.jpg Adelle Onyango File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Radio presenter
Anita Nderu File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Television presenter and radio news anchor at Capital FM
File:Flatt Imefidon Murphy (cropped).jpg Anne-Marie Imafidon File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom CEO & 'Head Stemette' at Stemettes
Chaima Lahsini File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Journalist
File:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf February 2015.jpg Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia Liberia President of Liberia
Ellie Cosgrave File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Lecturer in Urban Innovation and Policy at UCL
Laura Jordan Bambach File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer, Mr President and co-founder, SheSays
Liz Kelly File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Professor of Sexualised Violence
Maria Scorodinschi Moldova Moldova Campaigner against domestic violence
Naomi Mwaura File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Founder, Flone Initiative and Communications Associate at ITDP Africa
Resham Khan File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Student
File:Rupi Kaur, 2017 (cropped).jpg Rupi Kaur File:Flag of India.svg India Author
Talent Jumo File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Founder and Director, Katswe Sistahood
File:Tiwa Savage's studio portrait.jpg Tiwa Savage File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Singer-songwriter
File:Virali Modi portrait (cropped).jpg Virali Modi File:Flag of India.svg India Disability rights activist and youth ambassador
Leila Smith File:Flag of France.svg France Artist
Sharon Sabita Beepath File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago Counsellor, Stand Against Abuse advocate
Amanda Nunez-Ferreira File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Student
Somporn Khempetch[50] File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Social worker and teacher
A women with curly red hair stands in front of a pink brick wall.
Tamara De Anda File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Journalist
Doris Muthoni Wanjira File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Conductor
Hanne Bingle File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Powerlifter and retired London Underground driver
Nihal Saad Zaghloul File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Business development officer and co-founder of Bassma
Angie Ng File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Founder of SlutWalk Hong Kong
Asena Melisa Saglam File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Student

Sexism in sport team

Image Name Country of birth Description[44]
File:Adriana behar.jpg Adriana Behar File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil General Manager of Sport Planning for the Brazilian Olympic Committee
Ana Luiza Santos de Andrade File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Student
File:Beatriz Vaz e Silva (cropped 3).jpg Beatriz Vaz E Silva File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Athlete and Footballer
Claudianny Drika File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Football coach
Fernanda Nunes File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Olympic rower and blogger
Grace Larsen File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Retired civil servant
Luiza Travassos File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Student
Maira Liguori File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Director of NGO, Think Olga
File:Virada SP 2022 em Votuporanga, MC Soffia 01 (cropped).jpg MC Soffia File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Rapper
File:Mithali Raj Truro 2012.jpg Mithali Raj File:Flag of India.svg India Cricketer
File:Momina Mustehsan at New Islamabad Airport (cropped).jpg Momina Mustehsan File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Musician
File:Nadia Comăneci Montreal1976c.jpg Nadia Comaneci File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania
File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
Olympic gymnast
Nawaal Akram File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar Model, comedian and founder of Muscular Dystrophy Qatar
File:Nora Tausz Rónai.jpg Nora Tausz Ronai File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Architect and teacher
File:Arsenal LFC v Kelly Smith All-Stars XI (189) (cropped).jpg Steph Houghton File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Footballer
File:Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala at RighstCon 2023.jpg Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Women's rights activist and mountaineer
Cwengekile Nikiwe Myeni File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Gogo (granny) support programme manager
Helena Pacheco File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Businesswoman and former football coach
File:Roxanne Hehakaija World Forum 2020 (cropped).jpg Rocky Hehakaija File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Director of Favela Street Foundation and coach
Lina Khalifeh File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Martial arts expert
Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dung File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam Footballer
File:Derartu Tulu in 2019.jpg Derartu Tulu File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Long-distance runner
Shantona Rani Roy File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Taekwondo athlete and activist
File:Hou Yifan (29762728494).jpg Hou Yifan File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Chess grandmaster

2016

The 2016 theme was Defiance.[16] Part of the 100 Women festival took place in Mexico City on this year.[51] The main event took place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, where artists like Julieta Venegas, Ángela Aguilar, Ali Gua Gua, Elis Paprika, Sofía Niño de Rivera, Ximena Sariñana, and Alexis De Anda performed live. The event also features debates with journalists Carmen Aristegui, and Denise Dresser, among others.[52] The 2016 list was published in alphabetical order, but split by category into Creative, Defiant, Influential, Pioneering and Resilient with 20 women in each stream.[53]

Creative

Image Name Nationality Description
Babs Forman File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London based make-up artist who covers up skin problems
File:Conchi Rios.png Conchi Reyes Rios File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain Bullfighter
File:Doaa ElAdl.jpg Doaa el-Adl File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Cartoonist whose cat stories reflect the news
Dwi Handa File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Instagram fashion star
Funke Bucknor-Obruthe[54] File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Planner of glitzy and celebrity weddings
File:Gcina Mhlope 5.jpg Gcina Mhlope[55] File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Author, poet, playwright and storyteller
File:Festival des Vieilles Charrues 2014 - Christine and the Queens - 016.jpg Heloise Letissier File:Flag of France.svg France French singer and songwriter known by her stage name Christine and the Queens
Isabella Springmuhl Tejada File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Fashion designer
File:Jeanette Winterson 02.JPG Jeanette Winterson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom novelist
File:Kartika Jahja headshot.png Kartika Jahja File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia gender-equality singer
Liv Little File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Editor-in-chief at gal-dem
File:Mariana Costa 17 Nov 2016.png Mariana Costa Checa File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Businesswoman, founder of Laboratoria
Nadia Khiari File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Creator of cartoon character 'Willis from Tunis', whose adventures reflect the news
File:Nadiya Hussain 2019.jpeg Nadiya Hussain File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Winner of reality show "The Great British Bake Off" – went on to television jobs
Nay el-Rahi File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Journalist, and co-founder of HarassTracker.org
Ou Xiaobai File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China
File:Paula Hawkins Göteborg Book Fair 2015.jpg Paula Hawkins File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Writer of the novel "The Girl on the Train"
File:PratibhaParmar.jpg Prathiba Parmar File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya British film maker
Reham el-Hour File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Cartoonist who became professional after winning a UNESCO competition in 2000
File:Sunny Leone snapped post shoot at Mehboob Studio 2.jpg Sunny Leone File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Actress

Defiant

Image Name Nationality Description
Amna Suleiman File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine Teacher andbike protester against custom that stops women cycling in Gaza
Amy Roko File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Comedian who became known via Instagram and Vine
Cat Hulbert File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Professional gambler
File:Corinne MAIER.jpg Corinne Maier File:Flag of France.svg France Writer and psychoanalyst
File:Denise Ho Wan Si (cropped).JPG Denise Ho[56] File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong
Singer and pro-democracy campaigner
Ieshia Evans File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Nurse and protestor who became an icon of the Black Lives Matter movement following the publication of Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge
File:Iskra Lawrence modeling Chromat Spring-Summer 2017 Hyperwave cropped.jpg Iskra Lawrence File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Model
File:Jamilah Lemieux at Brooklyn Museum 2015.png Jamilah Lemieux File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Cultural commentator, editor and columnist for Interactive One
File:Janet O'Sullivan.jpg Janet Ní Shuilleabháin File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Founding member, Abortion Rights Campaign
File:June Nwando Eric-Udorie at Girl Summit 2014 (14538262739) (cropped).jpg June Eric-Udorie File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Writer and blogger
Lois Strong File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Former college maths professor and present day cheerleader
File:Naema Ahmed.jpg Naema Ahmed[57] File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan E-commerce start-up manager
File:Neha Singh (Author).jpg Neha Singh[58] File:Flag of India.svg India Actor, writer and campaigner who encourages women to ignore harassment and reclaim the public space
Renee Rabinowitz File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Lawyer who sued El Al when she was asked to move as the man next to her objected to sitting beside a female
File:SeyhanArman.jpg Seyhan Arman File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
Tess Asplund File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Care worker and anti-fascism activist caught in iconic photo resisting fascists
File:Viktoria Modesta Altered Beauty2016 01.png Viktoria Modesta File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia Bionic pop artist
File:Winnie Harlow 2015.jpg Winnie Harlow File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Model
File:Yuliya Rusanova Istanbul 2012.jpg Yuliya Stepanova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Whistle-blowing athlete
Zulaikha Patel File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Thirteen year-old who took stand for young girls with natural hair

Influential

Image Name Nationality Description
File:AliciaKeys2013.jpg Alicia Keys File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Singer-songwriter
Aline Mukovi Neema File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg Republic of the Congo Student activist for political change
File:Aristegui.jpg Carmen Aristegui File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico journalist
Egge Kande File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Community leader who advises young girls about education
File:Evelyn Miralles at NASA.jpg Evelyn Miralles File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela NASA computer engineer
Heather Rabbatts File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica Lawyer and businesswoman. Non-executive member of the boards of Grosvenor Estates, Royal Opera House and The FA. Chief Executive of the London Borough of Lambeth
File:Judi Aubel.jpg Judi Aubel File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Social entrepreneur
File:Lilane Landor of BBC.png Liliane Landor File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon BBC journalist
Lubna Tahtamouni File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Biology professor and science campaigner
File:Mallika Srinivasan - Chairman and CEO TAFE.jpg Mallika Srinivasan[58] File:Flag of India.svg India CEO of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited
File:Maria Zakharova 2017 (2).jpg Maria Zakharova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Foreign ministry spokeswoman
File:2017 Marnie Levine (cropped).jpg Marne Levine File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Chief Operating Officer, Instagram
File:Marta Vieira da Silva 2013.jpg Marta Vieira da Silva File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Footballer
File:Festival automobile international 2016 - Photocall - 043 (cropped).jpg Rachida Dati File:Flag of France.svg France Politician
Rakeft Russak-Aminoach Rakefet Russak-Aminoach File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel CEO, Bank Leumi
File:Rebeccawalker.jpg Rebecca Walker File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Writer and activist
File:Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera.jpg Shriti Vadera File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Banker and economist
File:EUA levam ouro na ginástica artística feminina; Brasil fica em 8º lugar (28262782114).jpg Simone Biles File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Olympic gymnast
File:Thuli Madonsela April 2014.png Thuli Madonsela[55] File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Advocate who combats corruption
File:Zoleka Mandela 2.jpg Zoleka Mandela File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Writer – survivor of addictions, sexual abuse and cancer. Granddaughter of Nelson Mandela.

Pioneering

Image Name Nationality Description
Asel Sadyrova File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Archer
File:Chan Yuen Ting.JPG Chan Yuen-ting[56] File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong Football manager
Chanira Bajracharya File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal Former "living goddess" or Kumari
File:Zheng Churan.png Churan Zheng File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Women's rights activist arrested for planning protest against sexual harassment on public transportation
File:Cindy Meston cropped.jpg Cindy Meston File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Professor of clinical psychology
Ellinah Ntombi Wamukoya File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini First woman to become a bishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
File:Gold award winner .jpg Erin McKenney File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Science award winner
Gouri Chindarkar[58] File:Flag of India.svg India Computer engineering student of the "School in the Cloud"
Jane Elliott File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Educator, author and anti-racism activist
File:Katherine Johnson in 2008.jpg Katherine Johnson File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Space scientist who was a mathematician for NASA
Lhakpa Sherpa File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal Mountaineer who has climbed Mount Everest seven times.
Lucy Finch File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi Palliative care nurse and founder of Malawi's only hospice
File:Mary Akrami.png Mary Akrami File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Women's shelter director and founder of refuge for abused women
Megan Beveridge File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
First female "lone piper" at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Omotade Alalade File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Founder of BeiBei Haven Foundation, helping those struggling with infertility
File:SherinKhankan-2011.jpg Sherin Khankan File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Imam
Shirin Gerami File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran First "Ironwoman" triathlete in Iran
File:Sian Williams Rugby.jpg Sian Williams File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Wales Wales
Rugby player
File:Stephanie harvey crop.jpg Stephanie Harvey File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Professional e-gamer "missharvey"
Yasmine Mustafa File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Entrepreneur, CEO of ROAR for Good

Resilient

Image Name Nationality Description
Ashwaq Moharram File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Doctor dealing with starvation in Hudaydah
Becci Wain File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Healthcare assistant and former self-harmer who challenged supermarket policy
Carolina de Oliveira File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon
File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria
Actor and Mental health activist
Dalia Sabri File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Blind music teacher
Erin Sweeny File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Psychologist
File:Karima Baloch.png Karima Baloch File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
(File:Flag of Balochistan.svg Balochistan)
Balochistan independence campaigner; died under suspicious circumstances in 2020
Kathy Murray File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Relationship coach and co-author of "Surrendered Wives Empowered Women"
File:Khadija Ismayilova.jpg Khadija Ismayilova File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan Journalist
Mao Kobayashi File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Newsreader and cancer blogger
Marta Sánchez Soler File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Sociologist, activist and President of the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement
'Mary' File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Survivor of al-Shabab rape
Mercedes Doretti File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Forensic anthropologist who investigates crimes against humanity
File:Morena Herrera 2018.jpg Morena Herrera File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Philosopher and Abortion activist
Nagira Sabashova File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Wrestler
File:Natalia Ponce de León interview.png Natalia Ponce de Leon File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Human rights activist and acid attack victim
Pashtun Rahmat File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Police officer
File:Saalumarada Thimmakkaj.jpg Saalumarada Thimmakka[59][58] File:Flag of India.svg India 105-year-old environmentalist
File:Mia Yim at Smash Canusa.jpg Stephanie Yim Bell File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Korean-American professional wrestler, then known as Jade
File:Traci Houpapa MNZM (cropped).jpg Traci Houpapa File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Company director
Um-Yehia File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Nurse

2015

The BBC News 100 Women list in 2015 was made up of many notable international names, as well as women who were unknown, but who represented issues women face. This year the list focussed on octogenarians sharing life lessons; 'good girl' film-makers discussing expectations; nursing; five high-profile women; and '30 under 30' entrepreneurs.[60] The women of 2015, were from 51 countries and were not necessarily those who would traditionally have been seen as role models—a woman with depression, a woman who advocates for equal access to bathroom facilities, a woman who encourages other women to avoid make-up, and a reindeer nomad.[61]

The 100 Women interviews (five high-profile women)

Image Name Country Occupation
File:Fatou Bensouda.jpg Fatou Bensouda File:Flag of The Gambia.svg Gambia Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC)
File:Bobbi Brown at 2009 Heart Truth fashion show.jpg Bobbi Brown File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Make-up artist and entrepreneur
File:Sania Mirza (28418631362).jpg Sania Mirza[62] File:Flag of India.svg India Tennis player
File:Hilary Swank at 28th Tokyo International Film Festival.jpg Hilary Swank[62] File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Actress
File:AlekWek.jpg Alek Wek File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan
Fashion model/UN ambassador

30 under 30 entrepreneurs

Image Name Country Occupation
Antonia Albert File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria Founder, Careship
File:Victoria Alonsoperez 2013 (cropped).png Victoria Alonsoperez File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay Co-founder, ieeTECH
Paulina Arreola File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico CEO and co-founder, Lavadero
Meryl Benitah File:Flag of France.svg France Founder, La Boite Qui Cartonne
Leimin Duong File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Founder, Zeven Lemon Beerworks
Elissa Freiha File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates
File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon
Co-founder, WOMENA
Melanie Goldsmith File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Founder, Smith and Sinclair
File:Sara Jane Ho, AD magazine Dec 2014 issue.jpg Sara Jane Ho File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong Founder, Institute Sarita
File:Samantha John programmer 03.png Samantha John File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States CTO and co-founder of Hopscotch
File:Linda Kwamboka 02.png Linda Kwamboka File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Co-founder, MFarm Ltd
Zihan Ling File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China CEO and founder, TechBase
File:Catherine Mahugu IT person.jpg Catherine Mahugu File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Founder, Soko
Karabo Mathang File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa South Africa's first female Fifa-accredited soccer agent
File:Brit Morin CEO.jpg Brit Morin File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States CEO and founder, Brit + Co
Smriti Nagpal[17] File:Flag of India.svg India Founder, Atulyakala
Pauline Ng File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Co-founder, Porcelain
File:Bel Pesce - Gus Oenning.jpg Bel Pesce File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Founder, FazINOVA
Elsa Prieto File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Technical director and co-founder, Pili Pop
Cristina Randall File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Founder, Conekta
Claire Reid File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Entrepreneur, Reel Gardening
Nikita Ridgeway File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia CEO and founder, Dreamtime Ink Australia
Lorrana Scarpioni File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Founder, Bliive
Rasha Shehada File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine Managing director, Diamond Line FZE
Zuzanna Stańska File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Entrepreneur, creator of DailyArt app
Michelle Sun File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong Founder, First Code Academy
Julie Sygiel File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Founder, Dear Kate
File:Kanika Tekriwal, 2017 (cropped).jpg Kanika Tekriwal[17][63] File:Flag of India.svg India CEO and founder, JetsetGo
Lizanne Teo File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Co-founder, Upsurge
File:Jana Tepe Jobsharing 2.3.png Jana Tepe File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany CEO and founder, Tandemploy
Xian Xu (entrepreneur) File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Co-founder, Cuisines Sous Vide restaurant chain

'Good girl' film-makers

Image Name Country Occupation
Naomi Bya'Ombe File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg Republic of the Congo Student
Massiel Chávez File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Student
Ayesha Ishtiaq File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Student
Delaney Osborne File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Student
Lubov Russkina File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Reindeer nomad
Nour (pseudonym) File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Refugee

Vintage ladies (octogenarians)

Image Name Country Occupation
File:Nawal El Saadawi 02.JPG Nawal el-Sadaawi File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Writer
File:Kamini Kaushal.jpg Kamini Kaushal[17] File:Flag of India.svg India Bollywood actress
Jenni Rhodes File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Textile designer
Louise Schwartz (showgirl) File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica Showgirl and cabaret performer
Tin Tin Yu (teacher) File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar Retired teacher

Nurses

Image Name Country Occupation
Eveles Chimala File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi Midwife
Aissa Edon File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of Mali.svg Mali
Midwife
Azza Jadalla File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine Nurse
Misraa Jimaa File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia Health extension worker
Tina Lavender File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Midwife
Marie-Ange Zimndou Koutou File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Central African Republic Nurse's aide in a war zone

Further inspiration

Image Name Country Occupation
File:Nicola Adams boxing at London 2012.jpg Nicola Adams File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Boxer
File:Muzoon Almellehan 2016.jpg Muzzon al-Mellehan File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Activist
Siba Alaradi File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria Structural engineer
File:Afghan rapper Sonita Alizadeh.jpeg Sonita Alizadeh[62] File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Rapper
Niloufar Ardalan File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Footballer
Masoumeh Ataei File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Acid attack survivor
File:Xyza Cruz Bacani -Professional Photographer- (cropped).jpg Xyza Bacani File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Photographer
Alimata Bara File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso Trader
File:Sana Ben Achour (2018).jpg Sana Ben Ashour File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Civil society activist
File:Nicky Benedetti.jpg Nicola Benedetti File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Musician
File:Ashaji.jpg Asha Bhosle[17] File:Flag of India.svg India Singer
File:Cecilia Bouzat.jpg Cecilia Bouzat File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Biophysicist
File:Rivka Carmi 301108 087.jpg Rivka Carmi File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel Geneticist
File:Estela de Carlotto 17 Bienal Rio de Janeiro 1.jpg Estela de Carlotto File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Human rights activist
File:Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma 2014.png Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Physician and chair of the African Union Commission
File:Isabel dos Santos em dezembro de 2017.png Isabel dos Santos File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola Investor
Ernestina Edem Appiah File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana Social entrepreneur and founder, Ghana Code Club
Jana Elhassan File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Novelist
File:Paula Escobar (cropped).jpg Paula Escobar File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile Magazine editor
Monir Farmanfarmaian File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Artist
File:Claire Fox of Moral Maze (cropped).png Claire Fox File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Writer and broadcaster
File:Uta Frith.jpg Uta Frith File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Psychologist
Alina Gracheva File:Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova Camerawoman
Megan Grano File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Comedian
Alice Gray File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Science blogger
Michaela Hollywood File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Fundraiser for disabled people
Ella Ingram (activist)[62] File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Activist for mental illness anti-discrimination
Somayya Jabarti File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Newspaper editor, Saudi Gazette
Tahmina Kohistani File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Olympic sprinter
Rimppi Kumari[17] File:Flag of India.svg India Farmer
Zimasa Mabela File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Naval captain
File:Emi Mahmoud Islamic Poet.jpg Emi Mahmoud File:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan
File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
Poet
Amara Majeed File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States Hijab activist and author
Nemata Majeks-Walker File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone Women's rights activist
File:Katrine Kielos 2.jpg Katrine Marcal File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Economist, writer and journalist
File:In Studio with Muniba Mazari (cropped).png Muniba Mazari File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Artist and anchorwoman
Jessy McCabe File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Student
File:VERASHNI PILLAY 2015.jpg Verashni Pillay File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Newspaper editor, Mail & Guardian
Irina Polyakova File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Paralympian
Neyda Rojas File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Nun
Rabia Salihu Said File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Physicist
File:Amina Tyler.jpg Amina Sboui File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Writer and women's rights activist
File:PatriciaScotland2a.jpg Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Trade envoy
Mumtaz Shaikh[17] File:Flag of India.svg India Human rights activist
File:Nareen Shammo en los XII Edición Premios Internacionales Yo Dona 01.jpg Nareen Shammo File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Political activist and journalist
Rotana Tarabzouni File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia Singer/songwriter
Li Tingting File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Human rights activist
File:Sophie Walker crop.jpg Sophie Walker File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Leader of the Women's Equality Party

2014

The BBC News 100 Women list in 2014 continued the efforts of the first year's initiative.[64]

Image Name Country Occupation
SDr Yasmin Altwaijri Saudi Arabia Mental health and obesity scientist
File:Conchita Wurst, ESC2014 Meet & Greet 08 (crop).jpg Conchita Wurst Austria Singer
File:Laura Bates 2014 (cropped).jpg Laura Bates United Kingdom Founder, Everyday Sexism project
File:Pinky Lilani (cropped).jpg Pinky Lilani United Kingdom Founder, Asian Women of Achievement Awards
Ruby Chakravarti India Women's rights campaigner
File:Susie Orbach Crop (5).jpg Susie Orbach United Kingdom Psychotherapist
Pontso Mafethe Zimbabwe Women's programme manager, Comic Relief
Kate Shand United Kingdom Managing director of Enjoy Education
File:Shappi Khorsandi 01.JPG Shappi Khorsandi United Kingdom Comedian
Shazia Saleem United Kingdom Founder ieat Foods
File:Wai Wai Nu.jpg Wai Wai Nu Myanmar Director, Women Peace Net
Michaela Bergman United Kingdom Chief Counsellor for Social Issues, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
File:Paula Zapata - MinC Brasil - Colectiva de prensa (15).jpg Paula Moreno Colombia Founder of peace foundation Manos Visibles
File:Rubana Huq at the 21st Year Celebration Ceremony of TechnoVista Limited.jpg Rubana Huq Bangladesh Textile manufacturer
Lucy-Anne Holmes United Kingdom Founder, No More Page Three campaign
File:Brianna Stubbs Aviron 2015 - World Championships - 59 (cropped).jpg Brianna Stubbs United Kingdom Rower for Great Britain and Oxford PhD Scientist
Matilda Tristam United Kingdom Comics writer
File:Nigar Nazar 1.jpg Nigar Nazar Pakistan Cartoonist
File:Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy World Economic Forum 2013.jpg Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Pakistan Documentary film-maker
Uldus Bakhtiozina Russia Photographer
File:Professor Lesley Yellowlees portrait (cropped).jpg Lesley Yellowlees United Kingdom First female president, Royal Society of Chemistry
File:Rebeca Gompers Lodz 2017 by Jarek Sawiuk. cropped.jpg Rebecca Gomperts Netherlands Founder, Women on Waves
Katherine Brown United Kingdom Academic, King's College London
Emily Kasyoka Kenya Boxer, Kenya
Aowen Jin United Kingdom Chinese-born British artist
Eliza Rebeiro United Kingdom Founder of Lives not Knives
Muge Iplikci Turkey Journalist
Natumanya Sarah Uganda Educator
Linda Tirado United States Campaigner
Alice Hagan United Kingdom Technician at healthcare company BTG
May Tha Hla Myanmar Food aid social worker
File:Rainatou Sow.png Rainatou Sow Guinea Founder of Make Every Woman Count
Justa Canaviri[65] Bolivia Celebrity chef, Bolivia
Heather Jackson United Kingdom Women's business campaigner
File:Ruby-Wax-2016 (cropped).jpg Ruby Wax United States Mental health campaigner and comic
Umm Ahmed Iraq Sole provider for her family
File:9.21.14XiaoluGuoByLuigiNovi1.jpg Xiaolu Guo People's Republic of China Novelist and film-maker
Hind Hobeika Lebanon Founder of Instabeat
Molly Case United Kingdom Student nurse and Women of the Future Ambassador
File:President of Malawi Joyce Banda (8985928177).jpg Joyce Banda Malawi Former President of Malawi
File:Saadia Zahidi.jpg Saadia Zahidi Pakistan Managing Director at the World Economic Forum
Aditi Mittal India Stand-up comedian
Jess Butcher United Kingdom Co-founder of Blippar
Farah Mohamed United States Founder, Girls 20 summit
Katy Tuncer United Kingdom Founder, Ready Steady Mums
Smruti Sriram United Kingdom Founder, Wings of Hope & Achievement Awards
Darshan Karki Nepal Opinion-piece editor at Kathmandu Post daily, blogger
File:Brooke Magnanti 4.jpg Brooke Magnanti United States
United Kingdom
Anthropologist, author, former sex worker
File:Chipo Chung - Museum Futures.png Chipo Chung Zimbabwe

People's Republic of China

Actor and activist
Pinar Ogunc Iraq Journalist writing about women's issues and the Kurdish political movement
Sabina Kurgunayeva Azerbaijan Footballer who also runs her own bicycle rental business
Kate Wilson United Kingdom Founder of independent children's book publisher, Nosy Crow
Betty Lalam Uganda Director of women's community organisation, Gulu War Affected Training Centre
Arabella Dorman United Kingdom War artist
Andy Kawa South Africa Businesswoman and social entrepreneur
File:Bahia.png Bahia Shehab Lebanon

Egypt

Artist, designer and art historian
Divya Sharma India Science student
File:Launch of IYA 2009, Paris - Grygar, Bell Burnell cropped.jpg Jocelyn Bell Burnell United Kingdom Scientist who discovered Pulsars
File:Eleni Antoniadou. 06 19.jpg Eleni Antoniadou Greece Co-founder Transplants Without Donors
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed United Kingdom Blogger, columnist and author
File:Salinee Tavaranan.jpg Salinee Tavaranan Thailand Engineer and social entrepreneur
Hatoon Kadi Saudi Arabia Comedian
File:Brie Rogers Lowery smile at ODI.png Brie Rogers Lowery United Kingdom Director of Change.org
Balvinder Saund United Kingdom Chair of Women's Sikh Alliance
Cora Sherlock[66] Ireland Pro-life campaigner and blogger
File:Dr. Murabit.jpg Alaa Murabit Canada

Libya

Founder, The Voice of Libyan Women
Bushra El-Turk United Kingdom

Lebanon

Composer for London Symphony Orchestra
Kim Winser United Kingdom Founder, Winser London
File:Arzu Geybullayeva.jpg Arzu Geybullayeva Azerbaijan Blogger
Judith Webb United Kingdom First female commander of an all-male British Army squadron
Sarah Hesterman Qatar Equal rights campaigner
Sana Saleem Pakistan Pakistani campaigner against Internet censorship
File:Asma Mansour 2.jpg Asma Mansour Tunisia Co-founder of Tunisian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
File:Diana Nammi.jpg Diana Nammi United Kingdom Kurdish women's rights campaigner against "honour killing"
Funmi Iyanda Nigeria Talk show host, journalist, activist
File:Karen Masters, astronomer, December 2017.jpg Karen Masters United Kingdom Scientist at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
Khuloud Saba Syria Researcher and public health worker
Yolanda Wang Yixuan People's Republic of China Women's rights campaigner
Ayesha Mustafa United Kingdom Founder and director of FashionComPassion.co.uk
File:Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, 2009 World Economic Forum on Africa.jpg Obiageli Ezekwesili Nigeria Former World Bank Vice President for Africa and Former Minister for Education
Tehmina Kazi United Kingdom Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy
Sophi Tranchell United Kingdom Head of Divine Chocolate
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji Cameroon Virologist and campaigner for ethical medical research
Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah Indonesia Women's movement leader
Anjali Ramachandran United Kingdom Head of Innovation at PHD
Yas Necati United Kingdom Campaigner for better sex education
File:Yeonmi Park - Atlas Network Liberty Forum.jpg Yeonmi Park South Korea Activist raising awareness of the plight of her people in North Korea
Irene Li Hong Kong Citizen journalist who took part in and documented protests
Sandee Pyne Myanmar Chief executive of Community Partners International, focused on aid
Temie Giwa Nigeria

United States

Founder of the One Percent Project, facilitating blood donation
File:Kavita Krishnan 02.jpg Kavita Krishnan India Secretary, All India Progressive Women's Association
Sarah Khan Pakistan Filmmaker and campaigner
Nicky Moffat United Kingdom Highest Ranked woman in British Armed Forces
File:Alice Powell Oulton Park 2009 (1).JPG Alice Powell United Kingdom Racing driver and first female to win a Formula Renault Championship
Misty Haith United Kingdom Research Engineer at Imperial College London
Sally Sabry Egypt Businesswoman
File:Kate Smurthwaite, 2010.jpg Kate Smurthwaite United Kingdom Comedian and activist
File:Susana López Charretón (cropped).jpg Susana Lopez Mexico Virologist specialising in rotavirus
Jaya Luintel Nepal Journalist and women's rights advocate
File:Nicola Sturgeon.jpg Nicola Sturgeon Scotland

United Kingdom

First Minister of Scotland

2013

The 2013 event was a month-long BBC series that took place in October.[9] The series examined the role of women in the 21st century and culminated in an event held at BBC Broadcasting House in London, United Kingdom on 25 October 2013 involving a hundred women from around the world, all of whom came from different walks of life.[9] The day featured debate and discussion on radio, television and online, in which the participants were asked to give their opinions about the issues facing women.[1] The event held on 25 October 2013 featured 100 women from all walks of life.[67]

Image Name Occupation
Salwa Abu Libdeh Palestinian television journalist
File:Madawi Al-Rasheed, Visiting Professor, Middle East Centre, LSE (44920405002).jpg Madawi Al-Rasheed Saudi academic and gender expert
File:Nadia Al-Sakkaf, AlJazeera Channel - May 11, 2015.jpg Nadia Al-Sakkaf Editor, Yemen Times
Sreymom Ang Cambodian fashion designer
File:Anna Span at cambridge debate.png Anna Arrowsmith English porn film director
Joyce Aoko Aruga Student teacher in Kenya
Moe Thuzar Aung Myanmar state broadcast
Rehana Azib London-based barrister
Firuza Aliyeva Associate Director, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
File:Zainab Bangura giving a radio interview in Kinshasa (8654821769).jpg Zainab Hawa Bangura UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict
Michaela Bergman Chief Counsellor for Social Issues, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Claire Bertschinger Anglo-Swiss nurse whose work inspired Live Aid
File:Íngrid-Betancourt-mspac2.jpg Ingrid Betancourt French-Colombian former politician and FARC hostage
File:Cherie Blair in Trento.jpg Cherie Blair British barrister and philanthropist
File:Emma Bonino - World Economic Forum on Europe 2010.jpg Emma Bonino Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Yvonne Brewster Stage director, teacher and writer
File:Gurinder Chadha 2013.jpg Gurinder Chadha British-Asian film director
Nervana Mahmoud Egyptian blogger and commentator
File:Irina Chakraborty.jpg Irina Chakraborty Russian-Finnish-Indian engineer
File:Shadi Sadr.jpg Shadi Sadr Iranian lawyer and human rights defender
File:Chipo Chung - Museum Futures.png Chipo Chung Chinese-Zimbabwean actor and activist
File:Helen Clark UNDP 2010.jpg Helen Clark Head of UN Development Programme, former New Zealand Prime Minister
File:Diane Coyle at work with Apple laptop-9Oct2009.jpg Diane Coyle Economist, writer and blogger
File:Shouting Back Conway Hall.png Caroline Criado Perez British journalist and feminist campaigner
File:Jody day.jpg Jody Day Founder of Gateway Women, a network for childless women
File:Es Devlin at FutureFest in 2016 portrait.png Es Devlin British theatre designer
File:Klara Dobrev 2008.jpg Klára Dobrev Hungarian lawyer and economist
File:Efua Dorkenoo.jpg Efua Dorkenoo Ghanaian Senior Advisor to Equality Now and campaigner against female genital mutilation
Sigridur Maria Egilsdottir Iceland's champion debater
Marwa El-Daly Egyptian grassroots activists, founder of the Waqfeyat Foundation
Bushra El-Turk British-Lebanese composer
File:Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, 2009 World Economic Forum on Africa.jpg Obiageli Ezekwesili Senior adviser, Open Society Foundations
Caroline Farrow Catholic writer, blogger and pro-life activist
Anne Stella Fomumbod Women's rights activist, Cameroon
File:Teresa Forcades2.jpg Teresa Forcades Radical Spanish nun
File:Razan Ghazzawi in Beirut - 20080824.jpg Razan Ghazzawi Syrian blogger and activist
File:Rebeca Gompers Lodz 2017 by Jarek Sawiuk. croped.jpg Rebecca Gomperts Dutch doctor, head of Women on Waves
File:Tanni Grey-Thompson.jpg Tanni Grey-Thompson Winner of 11 Paralympic Games gold medals
Parveen Hassan Conservative women's organiser, UK
Barbara Hewson Senior barrister, UK
File:Photo of Anis Hidayah.jpg Anis Hidayah Indonesian activist working on migrant worker rights
Deborah Hopkins British mother and political activist
File:Keith Palmer's funeral (002) (cropped, Rose Hudson-Wilkin).jpg Rose Hudson-Wilkin Jamaican born British priest
File:Bettany Hughes.BH.jpg Bettany Hughes Historian, author, broadcaster
File:Rubana Huq at the 21st Year Celebration Ceremony of TechnoVista Limited.jpg Rubana Huq Bangladeshi textile manufacturer
File:Leyla Hussein.jpg Leyla Hussein Co-founder, Daughters of Eve, anti-violence campaigner
Heather Jackson (CEO) CEO of An Inspirational Journey and founder of The Women's Business Forum
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Blogger, columnist and author
File:Laura Janner-Klausner interfaith 2015.jpg Laura Janner-Klausner Movement rabbi, specializing in Reform Judaism
Aowen Jin Chinese contemporary artist
Andy Kawa South African businesswoman, anti-violence campaigner
Tehmina Kazi Director, British Muslims for a Secular Democracy
File:Jude Kelly Keynote- Zero Tolerance.jpg Jude Kelly Artistic Director, Southbank Centre
Fereshteh Khosroujerdy Visually impaired Iranian singer
File:Azadeh Kian 2022.jpg Azadeh Kian Iranian academic and gender specialist
File:Kanya King at the Asian Awards.jpg Kanya King CEO and founder, Mobo
File:Fawzia Koofi MP, Afghanistan - Chatham House 2012.jpg Fawzia Koofi MP and former Deputy Speaker, Afghan National Parliament
File:Дина Корзун.JPG Dina Korzun Russian actor and charity activist
File:Martha Lane Fox.jpg Martha Lane-Fox UK technology entrepreneur
File:Paris Lees at Pink Therapy.png
Ann Leslie Journalist
Sian Lindley Researcher in social technology
Pontso Mafethe Programme manager, Comic Relief
File:Brooke Magnanti 4.jpg Brooke Magnanti US anthropologist, author, former sex worker
File:Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba addressing panellists crop.jpg Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba Deputy Secretary General, the Commonwealth
Shirley Meredeen Founding member, Growing Old Disgracefully
File:Samar Samir Mezghanni SQ Faces of the revolution at TED (cropped).png Samar Samir Mezghanni Record-breaking young Tunisian writer
File:ShaziaMirza01.jpg Shazia Mirza British comedian
Aditi Mittal Indian comedian
Rosmery Mollo Indigenous Bolivian activist
Orzala Ashraf Nemat Afghan scholar and civil society activist
File:Pauline Neville-Jones - minister for security and counter-terrorism.jpg Pauline Neville-Jones Former UK Security and Counter-Terrorism Minister
File:Susie Orbach Crop (5).jpg Susie Orbach Psychotherapist and author
Mirina Paananen Islamic researcher
File:Claudia Paz y Paz.jpg Claudia Paz y Paz Attorney General, Guatemala
File:Marianne Pearl.jpg Mariane Pearl French journalist, founder of Chime for Change
Laura Perrins Stay-at-home mother
Charlotte Raven British feminist and journalist
Gail Rebuck Chief executive, Random House UK
Justine Roberts Founder, Mumsnet
Sarah Rogers Voice of Women community radio, Sierra Leone
Fatima Said British-Egyptian pro-democracy advocate
Balvinder Saund Chair of Sikh Women's Alliance
File:Hayfestival-2016-Kamila-Shamsie.jpg Kamila Shamsie UK-based Pakistani writer
Divya Sharma Indian electronics and communications engineer
File:Bahia Shehab.jpg Bahia Shehab Lebanese-Egyptian artist, designer and art historian
File:Joanna Shields in 2014.jpg Joanna Shields Chair and CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation
File:Dame Stephanie Shirley - 2013.jpg Stephanie Shirley Businesswoman and philanthropist
File:Clare Short at the Energy Conference 2015 crop.jpg Clare Short British politician, former International Development Secretary
File:Jacqui Smith, September 2009 cropped.jpg Jacqui Smith Former UK Home Secretary
File:Kate Smurthwaite, 2010.jpg Kate Smurthwaite British stand-up comedian and activist
File:Rainatou Sow.png Rainatou Sow Guinean founder, Make Every Woman Count
Louise Stephenson Trainee counsellor, UK
May Tha Hla Founder, Helping The Burmese Delta
Natasha Walter British feminist writer and campaigner
Judith Webb First female commander of all-male British Army squadron
File:Saadia Zahidi 2014 (cropped).jpg Saadia Zahidi Head of Gender Parity and Human Capital, World Economic Forum
Dinara Zhorobekova Student, Kyrgyzstan
Gemma Godfrey Board director, broadcaster
File:Martina Navratilova (7490736068).jpg Martina Navratilova 18-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion

Other participants

Name Occupation
Sarah Walker Head of the English Collective of Prostitutes[1]
Cerrie Burnell Children's television presenter[1]
Selma James Writer and activist[1]

See also

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