An ever-expanding list of biographies of notable women, both those who are well-known and those who should be better-known:
- Maria Agnesi
- Virginia Apgar
- Elizabeth Arden
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Britton
- Rachel Carson
- Anna Comnena
- Marie Curie
- Dian Fossey
- Rosalind Franklin
- Sophie Germain
- Alessandra Giliani
- Winifred Goldring
- Jane Goodall
- Caroline Herschel
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Ada Lovelace (Augusta Byron, Countess of Lovelace)
- Maria Mitchell
- Florence Nightingale
- Amalie Emmy Noether
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia
- Harriet Quimby
- Charlotte Angas Scott
- Alicia Stott
- Mary Fairfax Somerville
- Sarah Hackett Stevenson
- Trota or Trotula
- Fanny Bullock Workman
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