Name of Female Personalities | Role |
Junko Tabei | First Woman in the World to climb Mt. Everest |
Valentina Tereshkova | First Woman in the World as Cosmonaut in Space |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka) | First Female to be elected as Head of Government (Prime Minister) in the World |
Isabel Perón (1974-1976) from Argentine | First Female President in the World |
Eileen Collins | First Female in the World as the commander of a Space Shuttle |
Irene Zubaida Khan | The First Muslim Woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International |
Han Myeong-Sook | First Female Prime Minister of South Korea |
Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003) | The First Muslim Woman to receive Nobel Prize |
Kiran Baloch | The Woman with the highest individual Test Score in Women's Test Cricket |
Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepal) | The most successful female climber of Mount Everest |
Bula Choudhary (India) | First Woman Swimmer to cross Seven Seas in the World |
Dr. Habiba Sarabi | First Female Governor in Afghanistan |
Yelena Isinbayeva | The first woman athlete to touch 5.0 meters park in pole vault |
Margaret Beckett | First woman foreign secretary of England |
Portia Simpson Miller (Feb. 2006) | First woman Prime Minister of Jamaica |
Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria | First Woman President of Chile |
Angela Merkel (took over in Nov. 2005) | First Woman Chancellor of Germany |
Shamshad Akhtar (Dec. 2005) | First Woman Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | The First duly elected Woman President of an African Country |
Anousheh Ansari | First Female Space Tourist in the World |
Caroline Mikkelsen | The first woman to step onto the land of Antarctica |
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | First Woman President of UN General Assembly |
Margaret Thatcher | The First Woman Prime Minister of England |
Benazir Bhutto | First Woman Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Kiran Bedi (India) | First woman appointed as UN civilian police adviser |
Anne Warburton | First woman ambassador of Britain |
