Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian classicist, writer, and academic. Born in Toronto, she graduated from the U of Toronto and starting in 1979 became a professor of classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at several universities. #WomanToday

1/ Annot (née Anna Ottilie Krigar-Menzel; December 27, 1894 – October 20, 1981), also known after her marriage as Annot Jacobi, was a German painter, art teacher, art writer and pacifist. #WomanToday

1/ Carrie Frances Fisher (1956-2016) was an American actress and writer. Fisher played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. #WomanToday

Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. #WomanToday

Hanna Hirsch, later Hanna Pauli (Stockholm, 13 January 1864 – 29 December 1940, Solna), was a Swedish painter, primarily of genre scenes and portraits. #WomanToday

Ivory Winston (August 11, 1911 – August 6, 1996) was an African-American singer. She sang for President Harry S. Truman, Governor William S. Beardsley, and others. She was named "Iowa's First Lady of Song." #WomanToday

Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014. #WomanToday

Kim Westwood is an Australian author born in Sydney and currently living in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory. #WomanToday

1/ Hannah Diggs Atkins (November 1, 1923 – June 17, 2010) was the member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 97th district from 1968 to 1980, and the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. #WomanToday

1/ Betty Binns Fletcher (1923–2012) was an American lawyer and judge. #WomanToday

Binns wanted to be a lawyer from a young age. Her father sometimes allowed her to skip classes in order to watch him try cases.

Laura Jean McKay (born 1978) is an Australian author and creative writing lecturer. In 2021, she won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel The Animals in That Country. In 2025, she was the Frank O'Connor International Fellow. #WomanToday

Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. #WomanToday

Dr. Bridie Kean (b. 27 February 1987) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and canoeist. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. In 2016, she became a va'a world champion. #WomanToday

Julia Mary Yeomans OBE FRS is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics. She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002. #WomanToday

Catherine Elizabeth Deeley (born 23 October 1976) is an English television presenter. Since 2024, she has co-presented ITV's This Morning, alongside Ben Shephard. #WomanToday

Avon Wilson was the first African-American to undergo SRS (sexual reassignment surgery) at the now closed Johns Hopkins Gender Clinic. #WomanToday

1/ Sarah Collins Rudolph is the “fifth little girl” and survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. Rudolph was just 12 when her older sister Addie Mae died in the blast. #WomanToday

1/ Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933 – October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics. She is known for the first experimental confirmation of the Kondo effect in the 1960s. #WomanToday

1/ Marie Desma Wilcox (November 24, 1933 – September 25, 2021) was a Native American who was the last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, which is a Yokutsan indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. #WomanToday

1/ Evelyn Richter (31 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a German art photographer known primarily for social documentary photography work in East Germany. #WomanToday