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List of the most influential female people in Engineering,

#1201

Anne-Marie Jolly-Desodt

#186824

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Anne-Marie Jolly-Desodt, , is a French engineer and academic. Also published as Anne-Marie Jolly, she was deputy director of Ensait from 2001 to 2005 and director of the École Polytechnique of the University of Orléans from 2008 to 2012. She received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize as female scientist of the year in 2004.

#1202

Miss Elizabeth

#38595

Overall Influence

1960 - 2003 (43 years)

Elizabeth Ann Hulette , best known in professional wrestling circles as Miss Elizabeth, was an American professional wrestling manager, occasional professional wrestler and professional wrestling TV announcer. She gained international fame from 1985 to 1992 in the World Wrestling Federation and from 1996 to 2000 in World Championship Wrestling , in her role as the manager to wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage, as well as other wrestlers of that period. She died as a result of an acute toxicity on May 1, 2003, in the home she shared with wrestler Lex Luger.

#1203

Jean Grossholtz

#116458

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Thelma Jean Grossholtz was an American professor emeritus of politics and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Beyond her academic work she was also known as an activist for peace and against forced prostitution, and as a senior bodybuilder.

#1204

Corinne Vezzoni

#100240

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Corinne Vezzoni is a French architect. She was born in Arles and was educated at the . Vezzoni founded Agence Corinne Vezzoni & Associés at Marseille in 2000. Vezzoni is an instructor in planning and development at the University of Provence. She also teaches at the .

#1205

Alina Scholtz

#178854

Overall Influence

1908 - 1996 (88 years)

Alina Scholtz was a Polish landscape architect, known as one of country's pioneers in developing the field. Throughout her career she worked on various public and private projects for cemeteries, parks and green spaces. Some of her most noted works include the grounds of a villa on Kielecka Street in Warsaw for which she won a Silver Medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, the memorial cemetery to the victims of the Palmiry massacre, and landscaping projects along the East-West traffic route of Warsaw. In addition to her design work, she served as one of the founding members of the Inter...

#1206

E. J. Westlake

#128850

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

E.J. Westlake is a playwright and performance studies scholar. She won an Oregon Book Award in 1991. Biography Early life E.J. Westlake was born Jane Elizabeth Westlake in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Curtis Edison Westlake, a factory worker at Delco Products, and Joy Louise Hauser, a political activist and printer. After graduating from Colonel White Performing Arts School in Dayton, Ohio in 1982, Westlake attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where she majored in Theatre Arts and Business .

#1207

Hulya Kirkici

#186562

Overall Influence

Hulya Kirkici is a Turkish-American electrical engineer whose research interests span a wide range of topics including insulatorss for aerospace applications, pulsed power, the use of advanced materials in plasma switches and vacuum electronics, pulsed plasma, and beam shaping for lasers and lidar. She is professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of South Alabama.

#1208

Kelly Korreck

#175983

Overall Influence

Kelly Korreck is an American space scientist. She is currently an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and Program Scientist at NASA as head of operations for the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons instrument aboard the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft.

#1209

T. F. Tierney

#94277

Overall Influence

Thérèse Frances Tierney is an American urbanist, network theorist, and educator. She is the director of the Urban Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Biography Born in Palo Alto, California, Tierney grew up in a post-war Eichler house designed by Ashen & Allen Architects, fostering an early interest in architecture and urban design. Tierney graduated from Palo Alto High School.

#1210

Judy Vance

#188750

Overall Influence

Judy M. Vance is an American mechanical engineer known for her research on the use of virtual reality and haptic technology in design and manufacturing. She is a professor emerita of mechanical engineering and the former Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University.

#1211

Jennifer Glass

#146467

Overall Influence

Jennifer L. Glass is Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, University of Iowa and the University of Notre Dame.

#1212

Rose Marasco

#181511

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Rose Marasco , is an American photographer. She is considered to be "perhaps Maine’s most prolific photographer,” living and working there since 1979. Early life and education Rose Marasco grew up in Utica, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at Syracuse University in 1971, an M.A. from Goddard College in 1981, and her Master of Fine Arts at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. where she studied under Nathan Lyons and Joan Lyons.

#1213

Theda Daniels-Race

#187368

Overall Influence

Theda M. Daniels-Race is an American engineer and Michael B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor in the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University. Her research is in nanoelectronics, specialising in the growth and characterization of nanomaterials and hybrid electronic devices based on compound semiconductors.

#1214

Yomaira Pagán Torres

#184629

Overall Influence

Yomaira Jeannette Pagán Torres is a Puerto Rican chemical engineer. She is a professor in the department of chemical engineer at University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Pagán was formerly a senior engineer at the Dow Chemical Company.

#1215

Jill Enfield

#129979

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Jill Enfield is a photographer and hand coloring artist best known for her work in alternative photographic processes such as Cyanotype and Collodion process. She has taught at The New School , ICP, and New York University.

#1216

Eleni Antoniadou

Eleni Antoniadou

#181100

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (36 years)

Eleni Antoniadou is a Greek public figure and scientist. Background Early life and education Eleni Antoniadou was born in 1988 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Central Greece and received a master's degree in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine from University College London.

#1217

Maitland McDonagh

#105058

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

Maitland McDonagh is an American film critic, writer-editor and podcaster. She is the author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento and other books and articles on horror and exploitation films, as well as about erotic fiction and erotic cinema. In 2022, McDonagh was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame. She is the founder of the small press 120 Days Books, which became an imprint of Riverdale Avenue Books.

#1218

Rodica Ramer

#186248

Overall Influence

Rodica Ramer is a Romanian born Australian professor of microelectronics at the University of New South Wales, where she and her team work on the development of radio-frequency microelectronic technologies, advancing wireless communication technology. She earned a Ph.D from the University of Bucharest in solid-state physics in 1992. Prior to working at UNSW, she was a senior research scientist at the Microwave Laboratory, National Centre for Nuclear Energy of Romania, a research associate at the Superconductivity Laboratory, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and at the Microwave Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

#1219

Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien

#60987

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Angela Maxine O'Brien is an American film, radio, television, and stage actress, and is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Beginning a prolific career as a child actress in feature films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at age four, O'Brien became one of the most popular child stars in cinema history and was honored with a Juvenile Academy Award as the outstanding child actress of 1944. In her later career, she appeared on television, on stage, and in supporting film roles.

#1220

María Ángeles Martín Prats

#188502

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

María Ángeles Martín Prats is a Spanish engineer and entrepreneur. She is the director of aeronautical research within the University of Seville's ICT-109 Electronic Technology Group, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , and founder of the spin-off Skylife Engineering. She is a board member of the Partnership of a European Group of Aeronautics and Space Universities , and is the European university coordinator of the European Defence Agency . She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Commission's Clean Sky Joint Undertaking. In 2015...

#1221

Judith Ivey

#65291

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and theatre director. She twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play: for Steaming and Hurlyburly . She also received Best Actress In A Play nomination for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard and another Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for The Heiress.

#1222

Kui-juan Jin

#184534

Overall Influence

Kui-juan Jin is a Chinese physicist. Jin studied optics at Shandong University. After completing her bachelor's degree, Jin pursued a doctorate at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jin engaged in postdoctoral research under the direction of Gerald Mahan at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then moved to Lund University, where she was advised by Koung-An Chao. Jin subsequently returned to China and IOPCAS, becoming a full professor in 2004. In 2012, Jin was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[f]or her significant contribution i...

#1223

Rachel Esson

#160349

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Rachel Margaret Esson is the National Librarian Te Pouhuaki of New Zealand. Before moving into that role in 2020, she served in several positions at the Victoria University of Wellington library and the National Library of New Zealand, including Director of Content Services. Esson also served as the president of LIANZA, New Zealand's national library association, from 2019 to 2020.

#1224

Catherine Gfeller

Catherine Gfeller

#188076

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Catherine Gfeller is a Swiss artist. She currently lives and works in Paris and Southern France after having lived in New York from 1995 to 1999. Career After a Master in Fine Arts in 1991 at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne, she devoted herself to photography. Gfeller traveled to many different continents to create large landscape triptychs . In 1995, she received a grant for a one-year residency in New York. There, she developed a printing technique which combines paper, monoprint and photography on the theme of urban landscape .

#1225

Kathy Vargas

#71340

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Kathy Vargas is an American artist who creates photographs from multiple exposures that she hand colors. She often devotes several works to a particular theme, creating series. Biography Vargas was born in San Antonio, Texas. She was influenced early on by her Catholic faith, her grandmother's ghost stories and her father's retelling of pre-Columbian history.

#1226

Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler

#189174

Overall Influence

Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler is an American biomechanics researcher specializing in human gait and balance, and in the design of devices for assisting in gait and posture. She is a professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

#1227

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde

#126286

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde is an American physicist and electrical engineer. She worked for NASA in the 1960s, where she developed several instruments for various projects. Lunde became the second woman to graduate from Iowa State University with a doctorate in physics and the first woman in Iowa to become a professional electrical engineer.

#1228

Marcy Page

#177155

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

Marcy Page is an animation filmmaker and educator. Page was born and raised in California. She animated her own projects and for several companies, and she taught courses at both San Francisco State University and the California College of Arts before she emigrated to Canada. Her own film Paradisia won awards at many international festivals.

#1229

Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska

#186411

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezińska is a Polish-American geodetic engineer known for her work on the Global Positioning System. She is University Distinguished Professor and Lowber B. Strange Endowed Chair in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at Ohio State University, and director of the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation at Ohio State, where she was also the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and senior associate vice president for research of the university. She current serves as Vice President of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise, p...

#1230

Sholeh Maani

#102137

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Sholeh Maani is a New Zealand economics academic. She is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career Maani is the first female Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland. She is a specialist in applied microeconomics, in particular the economics of the labour market, and the economics of education. Sholeh has a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After completing her PhD, titled A Study of Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility: A Cross-Cultural Approach, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full profe...

#1231

Theresa Utlaut

#172949

Overall Influence

Theresa Lynn Utlaut is an American statistician, and a principal engineer at the Intel Corporation, where she develops statistical methods for Intel's microprocessor and integrated circuit manufacturing processes, as well as providing statistical consultation and training. She is also a user of the JMP statistical software package and its scripting language, and a coauthor of the book JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP® Scripting Language.

#1232

Silvia Bächli

#133826

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Silvia Bächli is a Swiss visual artist, photographer, and educator. She works primarily in painting and drawing. She has taught art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe since 1993. Biography Silvia Bächli was born on 16 March 1956 in Wettingen, Baden District, Aargau, Switzerland. She attended Haute École d'Arts Appliques de Bâle, and École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève.

#1233

Bonny L. Schumaker

#155925

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Bonny Laura Schumaker is an American physicist and pilot who worked on the LISA Pathfinder. In 2010 she founded the nonprofit "On Wings of Care", a charity which protects animals and environments. Early life and education Schumaker was born and raised in Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan. She wanted to be a vet but was awarded a scholarship to study physics at the California Institite of Technology. She loved mathematics, and continued at the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, earning a PhD in 1985. She worked under the supervision of Kip Thorne. Over six papers, her PhD thesis considered theoretical investigations into nonlinear quantum optics.

#1234

Dhayendre Moodley

#190145

Overall Influence

Dhayendre Moodley is a South African scientist and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Career She received an Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation fellowship to work with John Sullivan at his laboratory. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Over 100 journal papers have been co-authored by Moodley.

#1235

Frances V. Harbour

#116807

Overall Influence

1953 - 2013 (60 years)

Frances Vryling Harbour was an associate professor of government at George Mason University, in the United States. She died on December 19, 2013. Information She is a founding member and past president of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association and a former John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellow in international peace and security studies. She has written on the ethics of weapons of mass destruction and just war philosophy. Her book Thinking About International Ethics: Moral Theory and Cases from American Foreign Policy looks at the Realism-Idealism debat...

#1236

Arminda Schutte

Arminda Schutte

#168567

Overall Influence

1909 - 1995 (86 years)

Arminda Schutte was a Cuban classical pianist and pedagogue. Life Early life and training Schutte was born in the farm of La Merced located near Matanzas City, Cuba, to a well-educated high middle-class family. Her father, Julio Schutte, was of French origin and insisted that when at home the family would speak only French; this would prove to be invaluable later. Her Cuban mother, Ondina Visiedo, had a teaching degree. Schutte's mother was strongly determined to see her three children excel in life. Schutte's two brothers grew to become physicians prominent both in Cuba and in Pan-American medical societies.

#1237

Penelope Umbrico

#98868

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites. Education and career Umbrico was born in Philadelphia in 1957. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada in 1980. She obtained her M.F.A. in 1989 at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

#1238

Chung Pau-choo

#190289

Overall Influence

Julia Chung Pau-choo is a Taiwanese electrical engineer. Chung earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1981, followed by a master's degree in the same subject in 1983. She subsequently graduated in 1991 from Texas Tech University with a doctorate, and accepted a faculty position at NCKU in 1996. Chung was elevated to a distinguished professorship in 2005. In 2008, Chung was elected a fellow of the IEEE. Chung was a founding member of Women in Circuits and Systems in 2008, a subcommittee sanctioned by the board of governors of the IEEE Circuit...

#1239

Limor Fix

#153019

Overall Influence

Limor Fix is an Israeli electronic design automation engineer and executive, senior principal engineer and director of academic programs and research at Intel. Her research interests include formal verification languages.

#1240

Marian Penner Bancroft

#101110

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Marian Penner Bancroft is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Vancouver. She is an associate professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she has been teaching since 1981. She has previously also taught at Simon Fraser University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is a member of the board of Artspeak Gallery and is represented in Vancouver by the Republic Gallery.

#1241

Emma Byrne

#98447

Overall Influence

Emma Byrne is a contemporary British writer and scientist, working in the fields of swearing, artificial intelligence and robotics. Career Scientist Byrne completed her PhD in Expectation Violation Analysis at the University College London, UCL, Department of Computer Science in 2005. Her work showed how it is possible to automatically identify and rank unexpected, and therefore interesting, news from the large volumes of news are available around the clock and around the world.

#1242

Anna Devor

#188766

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Anna Devor is an Israeli-American biomedical engineer who is a full professor at Boston University. Her research considers neuronal imaging and new strategies to better understand brain function. She is the editor of Neurophotonics, an SPIE journal.

#1243

Susan Lowdermilk

#172079

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Susan Lowdermilk is a contemporary book artist and print maker who works "primarily in woodcut, wood engraving and etching". She also teaches graphic design and studio art classes at Lane Community College.

#1244

Lisa Wiegand

#174796

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Lisa Marie Wiegand, is an American cinematographer. Biography Lisa Marie Wiegand was born in 1968 in Royal Oak, Michigan, USA. She graduated in 1989 from Wayne State University, and obtained her MFA in cinematography from UCLA in 1998. In 1995, she received a Master's in Cinematography from the American Film Institute AFI.

#1245

Céline d'Orgeville

#188090

Overall Influence

Céline d'Orgeville is a Professor and instrument scientist at the Australian National University Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She leads teams designing laser and optical systems for ground based astronomical telescopes. She is a Fellow of SPIE and the Astronomical Society of Australia.

#1246

Zhihong Chen

#187176

Overall Influence

Zhihong Chen is a Chinese-American nanoelectronics engineer known for her research on the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.

#1247

Ashleigh Gnat

#130770

Overall Influence

1994 - Present (30 years)

Ashleigh Marie Gnat is a former American collegiate gymnast and coach. She competed for the Louisiana State University gymnastics team from 2014 to 2017. Gnat coached as an assistant coach at Penn State in 2020. She is now an assistant coach at her alma mater, Louisiana State University.

#1248

Claudia Reinhardt

Claudia Reinhardt

#151896

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Claudia Reinhardt is a contemporary German photographer. She lives and works in Norway and Berlin. Early life Claudia Reinhardt was born in southern Germany in 1964. In the age of eighteen she left her home town to live for one year in London. Back in Germany she studied philosophy and literary history in Heidelberg. After two years she broke her studies and started to teach herself in photography. She moved to Berlin to work as a photo assistant. After few years she moved to Hamburg to work as a freelance fashion photographer. Her work was published in different magazines . In 1988–1994 she was a student at the art academy in Hamburg.

#1249

Georgia Litwack

#189483

Overall Influence

1922 - 2020 (98 years)

Georgia Shuset Litwack was born in January 27 in Pennsylvania. She was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for her portraits of notable women in the arts, science and technology.

#1250

Laura Waters

#124077

Overall Influence

Laura Jane Waters is a British physician, genitourinary consultant at the National Health Service Mortimer Market Centre in London. She is chair of the British HIV Association and advises the NHS on HIV treatment. Waters is a regular contributor to Boyz magazine, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic provided regular advice to HIV-positive people.

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