Women Nobel laureates

Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

Swedish writer (1858–1940)

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".

American writer (1892–1973)

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)

African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)

24th president of Liberia

German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)

Canadian writer (1931–2024)

Austrian playwright and novelist

Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)

South African writer (1923–2014)

Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)

Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer (born 1948)

Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1923–2012)

Italian novelist (1871-1936)

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

French scientist (1897–1956)

Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)

Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor

Italian neurologist (1909–2012)

British chemist

U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)

Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

Polish writer and activist (1962-)

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)

South Korean writer

Guatemalan human rights activist

Yemeni-Turkish journalist, politician and human rights activist (born 1979)

American political economist (1933-2012)

French writer (born 1940)

Liberian peace activiste (born 1972)

Chinese medical scientist

American scientist and cytogeneticist

Iranian human rights activist (born 1972)

Israeli chemist

Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)

American medical physicist (1921-2011)

American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)

American biochemist

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

American economist and writer

American biologist

peace activist (born 1944)

French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)

American teacher and aid worker

American molecular biologist

Australian-American biological researcher

Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)

Northern Irish peace activist (1943–2020)

Filipino journalist

Swedish sociologist and politician (1902-1986)

Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist

American astronomer

French-American economist (born 1972)