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List of biographies of women every Wikipedia should have

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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

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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

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Actress, dancers and performing artists, 41

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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

Philosophers and social scientists, 8

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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