Women founders

Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)

Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-volume series about a young wizard. Published from 1997 to 2007, the fantasy novels are the best-selling book series in history, with over 600 million copies sold. They have been translated into 84 languages and have spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.

Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Beginning in 1960, under the mentorship of the palaeontologist Louis Leakey, Goodall's research demonstrated that chimpanzees share many key traits with humans, such as using tools, having complex emotions, forming lasting social bonds, engaging in organised warfare, and passing on knowledge across generations, which redefined the traditional view that humans are uniquely different from other animals.

Italian pedagogue and physician (1870-1952)

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)

Italian saint (1194–1253)

queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)

Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque

Italian former politician, model and singer

Russian political activist and musician

Italian painter (1638-1665)

Iraqi American author, women's rights activist

Icelandic Poet, Writer, Editor, and Member of Parliament

Russian activist (1837–1912)

British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer (1890-1946)

British scouting pioneer

Zimababwean activist

Japanese educator (1864–1929)

dramaturge, newspaper columnist, activist (1947-2019)

British writer

Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (1901-1994)

British radical feminist

German art collector (1869-1939)

Canadian activist (1914-1965)

Australian politician (born 1954)

Japanese activist and physician (1871–1959)

British campaigner for global health and education

English writer (1922–1999)

Italian mathematician and scientist

German founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and famous transgender

Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (1902–1990)

Scottish singer

Ethiopian activist and judge

founder of Tenrikyo (1798–1887)

Angolan nationalist, heroine, militant, writer, and translator

Nigeria environmental activist

Peruvian writer and journalist (1836–1918)

British dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (1921-2007)

Indian politician (1892-1963)

English film director

Israeli settlement movement activist

Russian Bolshevichka

poet, writer, feminist, art critic, teacher and translator (1914-c.1980)

Kenyan computer engineer and businesswoman

Spanish religious figure and mystic

Mexican politician and diplomat

Indian activist for women's rights

Argentinian psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1910–1987)

Australian artist (1917–1979)

British Wiccan priestess

Singaporean journalist

Spanish politician (1951-2016)

Venezuelan musicologist, pianist, composer, singer, and caricaturist (1903–1985)

Puerto Rican writer, educator, activist, and philanthropist

French Dominican and founder of Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation

Argentinian psychologist (1922–2011)

Venezuelan political leader

Catalan narrator, translator, literary critic, journalist, and activist