Women memoirists

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".

queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer (born 1937)

Palestinian activist

Russian author of Jewish ancestry

mother of Joseph Stalin

German writer (1766-1838)

Dutch prostitute

Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974

German writer and businesswoman

Israeli politician (1939–2024)

Palestinian author and architect

citizen of Saudi Arabia who fled the country in fear of her life

Persian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty. (1883–1936)

Soviet film director and film editor (1894-1959)

Armenian poet (1887–1905)

Sudanese doctor and author

Hungarian acrobat and pornographic actress

German writer (1870-1967)

Polish-born Holocaust survivor, Israeli writer, poet, translator and activist (b. 1929)

Mongolian author

Iranian politician

Russian noble and philanthropist (1873–1958)

Colombian writer, columnist, television and radio journalist

South Korean essayist

Hungarian writer

Soviet actress (1901-1991)

Turkish attorney and writer (born 1950)

children's writer, social leader and Peredvizhniki's model

Swiss anarchist (1908-1987)

Hungarian countess (1863–1940)

Lithuanian doctor and author

South African writer

writer, editor and singer (1935–2008)

Lithuanian writer

Russian writer (1833–1916)

Israeli activist (1917–2021)

Jewish Lithuanian historian

Romanian woman Holocaust survivor

Soviet actress (1926–1970)

Japanese lady-in-waiting in the mid 1200s.

Soviet intelligence officer (1900–1981)

Rwandan writer

Ottoman noble (1898–1931)

Romanian socialite and author

Soviet war interpreter who safeguarded Hitler's remains (1919–2017)

Soviet actor (1903-1977)

Cape Verdean politician and activist (1945-2011)

Soviet writer

Iranian revolutionary and writer

Turkish statesperson (1921–2024)

Zimbabwean politician

DRC poet and writer

Chilean singer (1912–1985)

Swiss writer and essayist (1927-2015)

Polish writer (1928–2015)

Yiddish-language writer from Galicia

was a courtesan and celebrated society figure in fin de siècle Lisbon

Indian writer