List of biographies of women every Wikipedia should have

This is a list of the 1000 biographies of women that every Wikipedia should have, similar to the List of articles every Wikipedia should have.

The idea is to create a general list useful for all Wikipedias to reduce the gender gap. The list is at construction and you can add the biographies you consider, only keep in mind the number of 1000 articles. The first version of this list was constructed selecting all women articles at List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded.

Section	Current number
Actress, dancers and performing artists	41
Visual artists	4
Writers and fictional characters	39
Composers and musicians	19
Sports figures	24
Businesspeople	3
Philosophers and social scientists	8
Religious figures, theologians and legendary people	11
Political leaders and activists	56
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians	25
Total	231

How to use this list

There are several different ways to use this list. The first is to translate it into the language of your Wikipedia and see whether you have articles on all of these topics. The topics here are linked to corresponding items in the Wikidata project. If your Wikipedia is missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles from a different language that you are familiar with (for example, English). Language links to Wikipedias in which the topic is covered are provided at the bottom of each Wikidata item page.

Biographies

Actress, dancers and performing artists, 41

1. Sarah Bernhardt
2. Marlene Dietrich
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Lillian Gish
5. Mary Pickford
6. Gloria Swanson
7. Claudette Colbert
8. Joan Crawford
9. Bette Davis
10. Jane Fonda
11. Judy Garland
12. Whoopi Goldberg
13. Katharine Hepburn
14. Grace Kelly
15. Barbara Stanwyck
16. Meryl Streep
17. Elizabeth Taylor
18. Shirley Temple
19. Mae West
20. Asta Nielsen
21. Brigitte Bardot
22. Audrey Hepburn
23. Vivien Leigh
24. Gina Lollobrigida
25. Sophia Loren
26. Ingrid Bergman
27. Greta Garbo
28. Marian Anderson
29. Cyd Charisse
30. Isadora Duncan
31. Fanny Elssler
32. Margot Fonteyn
33. Tamara Karsavina
34. Jenny Lind
35. Birgit Nilsson
36. Anna Pavlova
37. Leontyne Price
38. Renata Scotto
39. Beverly Sills
40. Marie Taglioni
41. Maria Tallchief

Visual artists, 4

1. Æthelwynn
2. Claricia
3. Diemoth
4. Ende
5. Frida Kahlo
6. Mary Cassatt
7. Georgia O'Keeffe
8. Leni Riefenstahl

Writers and fictional characters, 39

1. Aisha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya
2. Dhuoda
3. Ava
4. Alice Walker
5. Emily Dickinson
6. Hildegard of Bingen
7. Jane Austen
8. Murasaki Shikibu
9. Christine de Pizan
10. Agatha Christie
11. Astrid Lindgren
12. Mary Shelley
13. Mary Wollstonecraft
14. Virginia Woolf
15. Nadine Gordimer
16. Margaret Atwood
17. Ursula K. Le Guin
18. Margaret Mitchell
19. Harriet Beecher Stowe
20. Anna Akhmatova
21. Karen Blixen
22. Anne Frank
23. Selma Lagerlöf
24. Enid Blyton
25. Christiane Amanpour
26. Hedda Hopper
27. Barbara Walters
28. Snow White
29. Baba Yaga
30. Grazia Deledda
31. Sigrid Undset
32. Pearl S. Buck
33. Gabriela Mistral
34. Nelly Sachs
35. Svetlana Alexievich
36. Alice Munro
37. Herta Müller
38. Doris Lessing
39. Elfriede Jelinek
40. Wisława Szymborska
41. Toni Morrison
42. Pearl Buck

Composers and musicians, 19

1. Umm Kulthum
2. Mariah Carey
3. Cher
4. Doris Day
5. Celine Dion
6. Madonna
7. Liza Minnelli
8. Joni Mitchell
9. Barbra Streisand
10. Faith Hill
11. Reba McEntire
12. Dolly Parton
13. Aretha Franklin
14. Édith Piaf
15. Lata Mangeshkar
16. Alla Pugacheva
17. Janis Joplin
18. Linda Ronstadt
19. Tina Turner

Sports figures, 24

1. Stefka Kostadinova
2. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
3. Yelena Isinbayeva
4. Lilia Podkopayeva
5. Wilma Rudolph
6. Annemarie Moser-Pröll
7. Lindsey Vonn
8. Luciana Aymar
9. Sonja Henie
10. Michelle Kwan
11. Tara Lipinski
12. Irina Rodnina
13. Annika Sörenstam
14. Nadia Comăneci
15. Olga Korbut
16. Larisa Latynina
17. Ludmilla Tourischeva
18. Mia Hamm
19. Anja Andersen
20. Margaret Court
21. Steffi Graf
22. Suzanne Lenglen
23. Martina Navratilova
24. Serena Williams

Businesspeople, 3

1. Madam C. J. Walker
2. Coco Chanel
3. Oprah Winfrey

Philosophers and social scientists, 8

1. Anna Komnene
2. Simone de Beauvoir
3. Maria Montessori
4. Barbara W. Tuchman
5. Judith Butler
6. Rosa Luxemburg
7. Hannah Arendt
8. Jane Goodall
9. Margaret Mead

Religious figures, theologians and legendary people, 11

1. Eanswith
2. Elsbeth Stagel
3. Eustochium
4. Saint FabiolaEnde
5. Macrina the Younger
6. Saint Marcellina
7. Mary of Bethany
8. Martha
9. Mary (mother of Jesus)
10. Phoebe
11. Mary Baker Eddy
12. Priscilla
13. Paula of Rome
14. Eugenia of Rome
15. Genevieve
16. Saint Lucy
17. Maximilla
18. Scholastica
19. Egeria
20. Thecla
21. Brigit of Kildare
22. Clotilde
23. Olympias the Deaconess
24. Æbbe the Younger
25. Athanasia of Egina
26. Baudonivia
27. Begga
28. Bertila de Chelles
29. Fatimah
30. Andromeda
31. Electra
32. Europa
33. Helen of Troy
34. Medea
35. Medusa
36. Sphinx
37. Sirens

Political leaders and activists, 56

1. Bertha
2. Agrippina the Elder
3. Agrippina the Younger
4. Anastasia
5. Caelia Macrina
6. Galla Placidia
7. Helena Augusta
8. Julia Domma
9. Julia Maesa
10. Julia Avita Mamaea
11. Livia
12. Lydia of Thyatira
13. Octavia the Younger
14. Pompeia Plotina
15. Porcia
16. Basina of Thuringia
17. Brigh Brigaid
18. Cambra
19. Queen Marcia
20. Adelaide of Italy
21. Aelia Eudocia
22. Aelia Eudoxia
23. Pulcheria
24. Theodora
25. Æthelburg of Wessex
26. Anna Dalassene
27. Balthild
28. Bertha of Kent
29. Danielis
30. Engelberga
31. Æthelflæd
32. Fredegund
33. Irene of Athens
34. Matilda of Ringelheim
35. Olha of Kyiv
36. Radegund
37. Theodora
38. Theodora Porphyrogenita
39. Theodelinda
40. Princess Wanda
41. Zoe Porphyrogenita
42. Æthelburh of Kent
43. Æthelburh of Kent
44. Agnes II
45. Lady Carcas
46. Eadburh
47. Bertrada of Laon
48. Joan of Arc
49. Cleopatra VII
50. Nefertiti
51. Queen of Sheba
52. Boudica
53. Lucrezia Borgia
54. Isabella I of Castile
55. Elizabeth I of England
56. Mary I of England
57. Mary, Queen of Scots
58. Marie Antoinette
59. Catherine de' Medici
60. Maria Theresa
61. Catherine the Great
62. Elizabeth of Russia
63. Eva Perón
64. Eleanor Roosevelt
65. Empress Dowager Cixi
66. Indira Gandhi
67. Corazon Aquino
68. Benazir Bhutto
69. Golda Meir
70. Diana, Princess of Wales
71. Elizabeth II
72. Margaret Thatcher
73. Queen Victoria
74. Angela Merkel
75. Theresa May
76. Aung San Suu Kyi
77. Joan of Arc
78. Florence Nightingale
79. Emilia Plater
80. Mother Teresa
81. Susan B. Anthony
82. Emma Goldman
83. Mother Jones
84. Helen Keller
85. Rosa Parks
86. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
87. Sojourner Truth
88. Harriet Tubman
89. Malala Yousafzai
90. Jane Addams
91. Emily Greene Balch
92. Bertha von Suttner
93. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
94. Leymah Gbowee
95. Tawakel Karman
96. Shirin Ebadi
97. Jody Williams
98. Rigoberta Menchú
99. Alva Myrdal
100. Betty Williams
101. Mairead Corrigan
102. Jane Addams
103. Wangari Maathai

Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 25

1. Leoparda
2. Hypatia
3. Marie Curie
4. Dorothy Hodgkin
5. Rachel Carson
6. Josephine Cochrane
7. Stephanie Kwolek
8. Emmy Noether
9. Ada Lovelace
10. Maria Göppert-Mayer
11. Ada Yonath
12. Dorothy Hodgkin
13. Irène Joliot-Curie
14. Tu Youyou
15. May-Britt Moser
16. Elizabeth Blackburn
17. Carol Greider
18. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
19. Linda B. Buck
20. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
21. Gertrude Elion
22. Rita Levi-Montalcini
23. Barbara McClintock
24. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
25. Gerty Theresa Cori
26. Elinor Ostrom

Sources

• Added all female biographies from List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded, the list of 10.000 articles that every Wikipedia should have.
• Added winners of Nobel prize from here, until 13-10-2017