List of biographies of women every Wikipedia should have
This is a list of the 1000 biographies of women that every Wikipedia should have, similar to the List of articles every Wikipedia should have.
The idea is to create a general list useful for all Wikipedias to reduce the gender gap. The list is at construction and you can add the biographies you consider, only keep in mind the number of 1000 articles. The first version of this list was constructed selecting all women articles at List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded.
Section | Current number |
---|---|
Actress, dancers and performing artists | 41 |
Visual artists | 4 |
Writers and fictional characters | 39 |
Composers and musicians | 19 |
Sports figures | 24 |
Businesspeople | 3 |
Philosophers and social scientists | 8 |
Religious figures, theologians and legendary people | 11 |
Political leaders and activists | 56 |
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians | 25 |
Total | 231 |
How to use this list
[edit]There are several different ways to use this list. The first is to translate it into the language of your Wikipedia and see whether you have articles on all of these topics. The topics here are linked to corresponding items in the Wikidata project. If your Wikipedia is missing an article, or if you are starting out with a new language, you may want to translate these basic articles from a different language that you are familiar with (for example, English). Language links to Wikipedias in which the topic is covered are provided at the bottom of each Wikidata item page.
Biographies
[edit]Actress, dancers and performing artists, 41
[edit]- Sarah Bernhardt
- Marlene Dietrich
- Marilyn Monroe
- Lillian Gish
- Mary Pickford
- Gloria Swanson
- Claudette Colbert
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Jane Fonda
- Judy Garland
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Katharine Hepburn
- Grace Kelly
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Shirley Temple
- Mae West
- Asta Nielsen
- Brigitte Bardot
- Audrey Hepburn
- Vivien Leigh
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Sophia Loren
- Ingrid Bergman
- Greta Garbo
- Marian Anderson
- Cyd Charisse
- Isadora Duncan
- Fanny Elssler
- Margot Fonteyn
- Tamara Karsavina
- Jenny Lind
- Birgit Nilsson
- Anna Pavlova
- Leontyne Price
- Renata Scotto
- Beverly Sills
- Marie Taglioni
- Maria Tallchief
Visual artists, 4
[edit]Writers and fictional characters, 39
[edit]- Aisha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya
- Dhuoda
- Ava
- Alice Walker
- Emily Dickinson
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Jane Austen
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Christine de Pizan
- Agatha Christie
- Astrid Lindgren
- Mary Shelley
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
- Nadine Gordimer
- Margaret Atwood
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Margaret Mitchell
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Anna Akhmatova
- Karen Blixen
- Anne Frank
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Enid Blyton
- Christiane Amanpour
- Hedda Hopper
- Barbara Walters
- Snow White
- Baba Yaga
- Grazia Deledda
- Sigrid Undset
- Pearl S. Buck
- Gabriela Mistral
- Nelly Sachs
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Alice Munro
- Herta Müller
- Doris Lessing
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Wisława Szymborska
- Toni Morrison
- Pearl Buck
Composers and musicians, 19
[edit]- Umm Kulthum
- Mariah Carey
- Cher
- Doris Day
- Celine Dion
- Madonna
- Liza Minnelli
- Joni Mitchell
- Barbra Streisand
- Faith Hill
- Reba McEntire
- Dolly Parton
- Aretha Franklin
- Édith Piaf
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Alla Pugacheva
- Janis Joplin
- Linda Ronstadt
- Tina Turner
Sports figures, 24
[edit]- Stefka Kostadinova
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Yelena Isinbayeva
- Lilia Podkopayeva
- Wilma Rudolph
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll
- Lindsey Vonn
- Luciana Aymar
- Sonja Henie
- Michelle Kwan
- Tara Lipinski
- Irina Rodnina
- Annika Sörenstam
- Nadia Comăneci
- Olga Korbut
- Larisa Latynina
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Mia Hamm
- Anja Andersen
- Margaret Court
- Steffi Graf
- Suzanne Lenglen
- Martina Navratilova
- Serena Williams
Businesspeople, 3
[edit]Philosophers and social scientists, 8
[edit]- Anna Komnene
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Maria Montessori
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Judith Butler
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Hannah Arendt
- Jane Goodall
- Margaret Mead
Religious figures, theologians and legendary people, 11
[edit]- Eanswith
- Elsbeth Stagel
- Eustochium
- Saint FabiolaEnde
- Macrina the Younger
- Saint Marcellina
- Mary of Bethany
- Martha
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Phoebe
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Priscilla
- Paula of Rome
- Eugenia of Rome
- Genevieve
- Saint Lucy
- Maximilla
- Scholastica
- Egeria
- Thecla
- Brigit of Kildare
- Clotilde
- Olympias the Deaconess
- Æbbe the Younger
- Athanasia of Egina
- Baudonivia
- Begga
- Bertila de Chelles
- Fatimah
- Andromeda
- Electra
- Europa
- Helen of Troy
- Medea
- Medusa
- Sphinx
- Sirens
Political leaders and activists, 56
[edit]- Bertha
- Agrippina the Elder
- Agrippina the Younger
- Anastasia
- Caelia Macrina
- Galla Placidia
- Helena Augusta
- Julia Domma
- Julia Maesa
- Julia Avita Mamaea
- Livia
- Lydia of Thyatira
- Octavia the Younger
- Pompeia Plotina
- Porcia
- Basina of Thuringia
- Brigh Brigaid
- Cambra
- Queen Marcia
- Adelaide of Italy
- Aelia Eudocia
- Aelia Eudoxia
- Pulcheria
- Theodora
- Æthelburg of Wessex
- Anna Dalassene
- Balthild
- Bertha of Kent
- Danielis
- Engelberga
- Æthelflæd
- Fredegund
- Irene of Athens
- Matilda of Ringelheim
- Olha of Kyiv
- Radegund
- Theodora
- Theodora Porphyrogenita
- Theodelinda
- Princess Wanda
- Zoe Porphyrogenita
- Æthelburh of Kent
- Æthelburh of Kent
- Agnes II
- Lady Carcas
- Eadburh
- Bertrada of Laon
- Joan of Arc
- Cleopatra VII
- Nefertiti
- Queen of Sheba
- Boudica
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Isabella I of Castile
- Elizabeth I of England
- Mary I of England
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Marie Antoinette
- Catherine de' Medici
- Maria Theresa
- Catherine the Great
- Elizabeth of Russia
- Eva Perón
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Empress Dowager Cixi
- Indira Gandhi
- Corazon Aquino
- Benazir Bhutto
- Golda Meir
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Elizabeth II
- Margaret Thatcher
- Queen Victoria
- Angela Merkel
- Theresa May
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Joan of Arc
- Florence Nightingale
- Emilia Plater
- Mother Teresa
- Susan B. Anthony
- Emma Goldman
- Mother Jones
- Helen Keller
- Rosa Parks
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Malala Yousafzai
- Jane Addams
- Emily Greene Balch
- Bertha von Suttner
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
- Leymah Gbowee
- Tawakel Karman
- Shirin Ebadi
- Jody Williams
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Alva Myrdal
- Betty Williams
- Mairead Corrigan
- Jane Addams
- Wangari Maathai
Scientists, inventors and mathematicians, 25
[edit]- Leoparda
- Hypatia
- Marie Curie
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Rachel Carson
- Josephine Cochrane
- Stephanie Kwolek
- Emmy Noether
- Ada Lovelace
- Maria Göppert-Mayer
- Ada Yonath
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Tu Youyou
- May-Britt Moser
- Elizabeth Blackburn
- Carol Greider
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
- Linda B. Buck
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
- Gertrude Elion
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Barbara McClintock
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- Gerty Theresa Cori
- Elinor Ostrom
Sources
[edit]- Added all female biographies from List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Expanded, the list of 10.000 articles that every Wikipedia should have.
- Added winners of Nobel prize from here, until 13-10-2017