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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1901

Nnedi Okorafor

#77938

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor is a Nigerian American writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. She is best known for her Binti Series and her novels Who Fears Death, Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, Lagoon and Remote Control. She has also written for comics and film.

#1902

Angela Mihai

#137556

Overall Influence

Loredana Angela Mihai is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst. Originally from Romania, she works in the UK as professor of applied mathematics at Cardiff University, and director of research and innovation for the Cardiff University School of Mathematics. She specialises in mathematical modeling of the mechanical properties of soft materials, such as biological tissue.

#1903

Zerrin Bölükbaşı

#124183

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Zerrin Bölükbaşı was a Turkish sculptor, one of the first Turkish female sculptors, and the first woman sculptor to work on abstract sculptures. Life Early life Zerrin Bölükbaşı was born as Zerrin Ark to İhsan and Nevzat Hanım in Bakırköy, İstanbul, then in the Ottoman Empire in 1919. Her mother Nevzat was an educated woman, who graduated from the German school and her father İhsan Ark worked in real estate business. In 1926, she entered the Bakırköy Primary School, and after she finished the school, the family moved to Kadıköy in Istanbul. There, she continued her schooling in Kadıköy Ameri...

#1904

Patricia Reynaud-Bouret

#181499

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Patricia Reynaud-Bouret is a French statistician who has studied Hawkes processes, density estimation, and concentration inequalities, and applied them in neuroscience, neural connectivity reconstruction, and genomics. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the J. A. Dieudonné Laboratory of Côte d'Azur University , founder and former director of the university's NeuroMod Institute for Modeling in Neuroscience and Cognition, and a chair holder in the university's Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence .

#1905

Gladys H. Reynolds

#152259

Overall Influence

Gladys H. Reynolds is an American statistician who did pioneering research on modeling sexually transmitted diseases. She worked for many years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , was the first female chief of a CDC statistics branch, and the first statistician to serve in that role.

#1906

Latika Katt

#99966

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Latika Katt is an Indian sculptor who specializes in stone carving, metal casting and bronze sculpting. She is notable for winning the Beijing Art Biennale Award for her bronze work titled "Makar Sankranti at Dashawmeth Ghat, Varanasi.

#1907

Eva Ferreira

#99835

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

María Eva Ferreira García is the Rector of the University of the Basque Country . She graduated from the University of the Basque Country with a degree in Mathematics. She obtained a master's degree in Probability and Statistics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a PhD in Economics from the University of the Basque Country. Since 2005, she has held a full professorship in Applied Economics. On 25 January 2021, she was named Rector of the University of the Basque Country .

#1908

Kate Soper

#164985

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Kate Soper is a composer and vocalist. She was a recent Rome Prize winner American Academy in Rome and Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012–13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her chamber opera, Ipsa Dixit.

#1909

Nancy Springer

#34381

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Nancy Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award in 1994. She also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novels Toughing It in 1995 and Looking for Jamie Bridger in 1996. Additionally, she received the Carolyn W. Field Award from the Pennsylvania Library Association in 1999 for her novel I am Mordred. She has written more than fifty books over a career that has spanned nearly four decades.

#1910

Edna Schechtman

#181517

Overall Influence

1948 - 2022 (74 years)

Edna Schechtman was an Israeli statistician, a professor emeritus of statistics at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is best known for development of statistical tools that utilize the Gini Mean Difference as the measure of association.

#1911

Shirley Temple

#86693

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.

#1912

Kenzie

#92831

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Kim Yeon-jung , known professionally as Kenzie, is a South Korean songwriter and record producer who signed under SM Entertainment. She has composed, arranged and written mostly songs for SM artists such as BoA, Isak N Jiyeon, Super Junior, The Grace, TVXQ, Girls' Generation, Shinee, f, Exo, Red Velvet, SuperM, and NCT, as well as non-SM acts such as Twice, CIX, BAE173, and The Boyz.

#1913

Joan Bernard

#83723

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Joan Constance Churchill Bernard, FRSA was Principal of Trevelyan College, University of Durham from its foundation in 1966 to 1978. During World War II, she was an officer of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and was instrumental in Britain's defence against V-1 and V-2 rockets. In later life, she was active in the Church of England.

#1914

Carole Dawn Reinhart

#103223

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Carole Dawn Reinhart is an American musician. She is a trumpet soloist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Early life Reinhart was born on December 20, 1941, in Roselle, New Jersey, the daughter of C. O. Reinhart and Mabel Geiger Reinhart. Her mother, a trombonist, gave Reinhart her first brass lessons on the slide cornet aged two and a half years. By the age of seven she was playing trumpet duets with her brother, Rolfe, who was known as a "boy trumpeter" and also received scholarships to study music.

#1915

Almadena Chtchelkanova

#140623

Overall Influence

Almadena Yurevna Chtchelkanova is a Russian-American scientist. She is a program director in the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations at the National Science Foundation. Education Chtchelkanova completed a Ph.D. in physics from Moscow State University in 1988. In 1996, she earned a M.A. in the department of computer sciences at University of Texas at Austin. Her master's thesis was titled The application of object-oriented analysis to sockets system calls library testing. James C. Browne was her advisor.

#1916

Pam Lins

#143064

Overall Influence

Pam Lins is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She refers to all of her work primarily as sculpture, although she uses the term expansively. Through it she contemplates the social, the political, and the historical by constructing situations inquisitive and equivocal to sculpture and the making of it. Her range of adoptive methods includes painting, producing jewelry, drawing cartoons, and growing mushrooms. She currently teaches at Cooper Union School of Art and Princeton University.

#1917

Jeni Tennison

#56352

Overall Influence

Jenifer Fays Alys Tennison is a British software engineer and consultant who co-chairs the data governance working group within the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence . She also serves on the board of directors of Creative Commons, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the information law and policy centre of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. She was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Open Data Institute .

#1918

Marjan van den Akker

#186540

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Janna Magrietje van den Akker is a Dutch computer scientist and operations researcher specializing in scheduling algorithms with applications including transportation and software engineering. She is an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, where she directs the Utrecht AI & Mobility Lab and Robust Rail Lab. She also holds a research affiliation with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

#1919

Jane Powell

#127771

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Jane Powell was an American actress, singer, and dancer who first appeared in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals in the 1940s and 50s. With her soprano voice and girl-next-door image, Powell appeared in films, television and on the stage, performing in the musicals A Date with Judy , Royal Wedding , Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , and Hit the Deck .

#1920

Carol Kreeger Davidson

#173080

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Carol Kreeger Davidson was an American sculptor known for her Postminimalist style and technique of bending, folding, and bolting material rather than welding. Life Carol Kreeger was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago before transferring her credits to Northwestern University where she graduated with a B.A. in literature. She moved to Hartford, Connecticut after marrying Donald Davidson. In 1959 she broke her back in a horse back riding accident. While in the hospital for nearly a year, friends brought her art books as entertainment. The books inspired her to study art and she began to study sculpture privately with Wolfgang Behl before completing her B.F.A.

#1921

Anne Arnold

#167797

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Anne Arnold, was a sculptor best known for her whimsical life-size and sometimes larger than life-size sculptures of animals and people rendered in wood, ceramic, or softer materials such as canvas and Dynel, and resins.

#1922

Mousumi Banerjee

#187946

Overall Influence

Mousumi Banerjee is an Indian-American statistician and singer. She is the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Research Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy at the University of Michigan. Banerjee is also the executive director of the nonprofit art foundation Tagore Beyond Boundaries.

#1923

Rashna Bhandari

#104066

Overall Influence

Rashna Bhandari is Head, Laboratory of Cell Signalling at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. Bhandari is pursuing her study on signal transduction in biological systems, with particular emphasis on understanding the role of inositol pyrophosphates in physiology and metabolism.

#1924

Cheryl

#132490

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality. Born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV's Popstars: The Rivals. While still in the group, she began a solo career in April 2009, and between then and 2014, she released four studio albums – 3 Words , Messy Little Raindrops , A Million Lights and Only Human . Collectively, the albums included ten singles, five of which – "Fight for This Love", "Promise This", "Call My Name", "Crazy Stupid Love" and "I Don't Care" – reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart.

#1925

Caroline Davis

#120585

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Caroline Davis is a British academic who specialises in the history of publishing culture, and government propaganda in Africa during the Cold War. She is currently an Associate Professor in Publishing at University College London.

#1926

Barbara Bush

#156104

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Barbara Pierce Bush is an American activist. She co-founded and is the chair of the board of the nonprofit organization Global Health Corps. She and her fraternal twin sister, Jenna, are the daughters of the forty-third U.S. president, George W. Bush, and former first lady Laura Bush. She is also a granddaughter of former president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, after whom she is named.

#1927

Velina Hasu Houston

#151661

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Velina Hasu Houston is an American playwright, essayist, poet, author, editor and screenwriter who has had many works produced, presented and published. Her work draws from her experience of being multiracial as well as from the immigrant experiences of her family and those she encountered growing up in Junction City, Kansas.

#1928

Adenike Akinsemolu

#174510

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (34 years)

Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian sustainability advocate, educator, author, and a social entrepreneur. She is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University . She is known as one of the country's leading experts on environmental sustainability.

#1929

Sayumi Michishige

Sayumi Michishige

#168353

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (35 years)

Sayumi Michishige is a Japanese singer, actress and model. She is a former sixth-generation member and former leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Following the departure of fifth-generation member Risa Niigaki on October 12, 2013, Michishige held the longest tenure of any member in the group's history even after her graduation. She went on to hold this record until surpassed by ninth-generation members Mizuki Fukumura and Erina Ikuta in December 2022.

#1930

Georgina Kleege

#116929

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Georgina Kleege is an American writer and a professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. Kleege was diagnosed as legally blind, with macular degeneration, at age 11. Kleege has written classic essays and memoirs in the field of disability studies on blindness and teaches a range of classes at Cal Berkeley with a specialization in creative writing and disability studies. She is best known for her autobiographical collection of essays in 1999 with her book titled Sight Unseen, where she compared her view of the world to the world's view of blindness. Her work often explores the r...

#1931

Marianna Pineda

#108633

Overall Influence

1925 - 1996 (71 years)

Marianna Pineda was an American sculptor, who worked in a stylized realist tradition. The female figure was typically her subject matter, often in a striking or expressive pose. Major work included an eight-foot bronze statue of the Hawaiian Queen Lili’uokalani, for a site between the Hawaii State Capitol and Iolani Palace, which she used as the subject matter of Search for the Queen, a 1996 documentary she produced on the life of her subject and the sculpture-making process. Other significant work includes the figure of a seated woman in The Accusative, for a site in the Honolulu, Hawaii off...

#1932

Jane Rosen

#178003

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jane Rosen is an American artist, working in sculpture, drawing and printmaking. While Rosen's career was established in her native New York in the 1970s and 80s, with well received exhibitions and a teaching position at the School of Visual Arts, "a trip to Northern California provided an unexpected pivot for her aesthetic vision and her life." She lived on both coasts and subsequently began a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley. Rosen "made the break from her urban existence as an artist in New York to a life as an artist on her ranch in California."

#1933

Barbara Stripling

Barbara Stripling

#191525

Overall Influence

Barbara Stripling is an American librarian and is the President of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association. Stripling served as president of the American Library Association from 2013 to 2014. During her term as president, she stressed that "Libraries Change Lives."

#1934

Marija Ujević-Galetović

#131093

Overall Influence

1933 - 2023 (90 years)

Marija Ujević Galetović was a Croatian sculptor and painter. She lived and worked in Zagreb. Work and artistic career Ujević-Galetović's work included portraits and figures. She studied sculpture at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Since 1987 she had been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, where she was appointed full professor in 1995. She was also an active member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was the creator of numerous outdoor and indoor public sculptures located in places such as Virovitica, Vrsar, Zagreb, Marija Bistrica, Sinj, Slavonski Brod, Krk, Cres, Rijeka, Osijek, Labin, Visoko, Bihać, and Novi Sad.

#1935

Frances Langford

Frances Langford

#165375

Overall Influence

1913 - 2005 (92 years)

Julia Frances Newbern-Langford was an American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film and television appearances for over two decades. She was known as the "GI Nightingale", an American armed-forces sweetheart, who entertained troops touring often with Bob Hope.

#1936

Shamim Sikder

#42070

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Shamim Sikder was a Bangladeshi sculptor. Sikder served as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka between 1980–2001. She was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh.

#1937

Gillian Jagger

#183281

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Gillian Jagger was a British multimedia sculptor and installation artist, based in the Hudson Valley of the United States. She is known for her plaster castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City in the 1960s, during which time she was "erroneously being identified as a Pop artist". In her work Jagger "[appropriates] materials from nature", and incorporates tracings, rubbingss, and castings of found objects in both urban and rural environments.

#1938

Helen J. Walker

#181223

Overall Influence

1953 - 2017 (64 years)

Helen Joan Walker was a UK space scientist. Personal life She was born in Warwick on 2 January 1953. She died in Wantage, Oxfordshire, on 19 September 2017, after a five-month illness, and her funeral was in Oxfordshire on 9 October.

#1939

Anne Wright

#176360

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Anne Margaret Wright is a British academic and academic administrator. She was educated at King's College London . She was a Lecturer in English at Lancaster University from 1969 to 1971 then Senior Lecturer in Modern English at Hatfield Polytchnic from 1971 to 84. She served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Sunderland from 1992 to 1998. She was Chair of the National Lottery Commission 2005 to 2013. She was made a CBE in 1997.

#1940

Liza Johnson

#153524

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Liza Johnson is an American film director, producer, and writer. Biography Johnson was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1970. She attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1992. She then went to the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA in 1995.

#1941

Hélène Velasco-Graciet

#98754

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Hélène Velasco-Graciet is a French professor of geography and was the president of the Bordeaux Montaigne University from 2016 to 2020. Velascho-Graciet's work has touched on geography, borders, and culture.

#1942

Sidiga Washi

#133582

Overall Influence

1955 - 2018 (63 years)

Sidiga Abdelrahim Washi was a Sudanese academic specializing in population, reproductive health and nutrition. Sidiga Washi is a Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences/Community Nutrition and former Dean of the School of Family/Health Sciences and former Director Nutrition and Health Research and Training at Ahfad University for Women in Sudan. She is currently the Director of the Quality Assurance and Institutional Assessment Office at the University.

#1943

Siobhan Vivian

#160280

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Siobhan Vivian is a bestselling American novelist, editor, and screenwriter. Early life and education Siobhan Vivian was born in New York City on January 12, 1979. At a young age, Vivian moved to Rutherford, New Jersey where she went to school and often got in trouble for sneaking out and not doing her homework. A 1997 graduate of Rutherford High School, Vivian has used her childhood in Rutherford as a "deep well" of ideas for her work.

#1944

Neža Mramor–Kosta

#191532

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Nežka Mramor Kosta is a Slovenian mathematician working at University of Ljubljana. She is known for her work on computational logic and is a member of the Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics of Slovenia.

#1945

Bella Feldman

#178975

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Bella Tabak Feldman is an American sculptor. Her work addresses the themes of sexuality, war, and the persistent anxiety of the industrial age. Feldman is known for pioneering the use of glass with steel. Her work has affinities with Surrealism, Post-Minimalism, and the Feminist art movement, although she has no formal affiliation with these. She is a Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts. Feldman lives and works in Oakland, California and in London, England.

#1946

Kathleen E. Harring

#80679

Overall Influence

Kathleen E. Harring is an American educator and the 13th president of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Early life and education Herring graduated high school in 1976 from Tri-Valley High School in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Harring received her bachelor's in psychology from Franklin & Marshall College, and then earned her master's and Ph.D. in social psychology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#1947

Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer

#66817

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer , is Professor of Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg. Biography After her education Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer worked as Teacher at the comprehensive school Kallern, at several junior high schools and at the Kantonsschule Rämibühl Zürich.

#1948

Madeline Held

#114578

Overall Influence

2000 - 2020 (20 years)

Madeline Held MBE was a British academic in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University. She had been the Director of the LLU+ . The unit ran the largest professional development centre in the UK, undertaking capacity building for teacher training in further, higher and community education.

#1949

Frances Joseph

#187455

Overall Influence

Frances Joseph is an Australian-born sculptor and academic. She is a full professor at Auckland University of Technology. Academic career Joseph has a BA in visual art from the University of Tasmania and a Master of Fine Art from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. She was awarded a PhD by Auckland University of Technology in 2010. The title of her doctoral thesis was Mnemotechne of design — ontology and design research theories. Joseph moved to New Zealand in 1997, working in the School of Art and Design. In 2007 she became director of AUT's Textile and Design Lab and in 2009 director of CoLab.

#1950

Elina Kahla

#153826

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Elina Kahla is a Finnish philologist and academic who works at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. She was the former President of the St. Petersburg EUNIC in 2015-2016 and Director of the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg in 2012–2016.

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