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? Prime-MinisterIndira Gandhi
? Woman (India and World) who
crossed English Channel
through SwimmingArti Shah
? GovernorSarojini Naidu (U.
P.)
? I. P. S.Kiran Bedi
? President of National
CongressAnne Besant
? Chairman of the Union PublicService
CommissionRose-William Baithu
? Winner of Nobel PrizeMother
Teresa (for peace)
? Awardee of Miss WorldReeta
Farhia? Awardee of Miss
UniverseSushmita Sen
? MayerTara Charian
(Madras-1957)
? Minister in Central
CabinetRajkumari Amrit Kaur? Chief MinisterSucheta
Kriplani
? ParliamentrianRadhabai
Subbarayan (1938)
? J udge of Supreme
CourtJ ustice Meera Sahaib
Fatima Bibi
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? Chief J ustice of High
CourtJ ustice Leela Seth
(Himachal Pradesh)
? Session J udge of the
CountingAnna Chandi (Kerala)
? Mountaineer who climbed
(Conquered) the Mt.
EverestBacchendri Pal
? Awardee of Norman Barlog
PrizeDr. Amrita Patil? Literature who was awarded
the Sahitya Akademi
awardAmrita Pritam (1956)
? Honoured with Bharat
RatnaIndira Gandhi
? Awardee of Lenin peaceawardAruna Asaf Ali
? Awardee of J ananpith
PurshkarAsha Purna Devi
(1976)
? Woman who reached
AntarcticaMahel Musa (1977)? Woman who reached the North
PolePritisu Gupta (1993)
? Woman who travelled All
round the worldUjjawala Patil
(1988) by Boat
? Chief EngineerP. K. Tresia
Naguli
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? PilotFlying Officer Sushma
Mukhopaddhyaya
? Air Lines PilotCapt. Durga
Banerjee
? Commander of Boeing 737
PlaneCapt. Saudamini Deshmukh
? Paratrooper of Indian Air
ForceGeeta Ghosh
? I. A. S.Auna George
Malhotra? First television news
broadcasterPratima Puri
? Participated in mustic
programme of U.N.O.M. S.
Subbuluxmi (1966)
? Woman participated inOlympic gamesMeri Lila Row
(1952)
? Woman who won the medal in
Olympic gamesMalleshwari
(weight liftingSydney)
? Woman who won the Gold Medalin Asian gamesKamaljeet Sidhu
(1970, 400 metre)
? Woman who won the medal in
Commonwealth gamesAnil Ghiya
and Kawal Thakur Singh (woman
Doubles Badminton, 1978)
? Medal winner in
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International Athletic
ChampionshipAnju B. George
(2003 Paris)
? Grandmaster winner in
ChessBhagiya Sri Thispey
(1988)
? One hundred wicket taker in
International CricketIndulgi
(1986)
? Awardee of Arjun PurskarN.Lamsden (Hockey, 1961)
? Woman who made hat-trick in
footballYoulandade-Suza
(1978)
? Awardee of Ashok
ChakraNeerja Bhanot(Posthumously)
? Awardee of Sena MedalVimla
Devi (1988)
? Degree of
graduationKadambni Ganguly
(Bose) and Chandramukhi Bose(Kolkata University, 1883)
? Awardee of B. E.
degreeElla-Majumdar (1951)
? M.B.B.S. Degree
awardeeVidhumuti Bose and
Virginia Mitter (Kolkata
Medical College)
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? First SurgeonDr. Prema
Mukherjee
? Deputy Governor of Reserve
BankK. J . Udesi (2003)
? Chairman of NABARDRanjana
Kumar
? D. I. G. (Police)Kanchan
Chaudhry Bhattacharya
? Lieutenant GeneralPunita
Arora? Chairman of Indian Air
linesShushma Chawla
? BarristerCornonia Sorabji
(Allahabad High Court-1923)
? AdvocateRegina Guha
? AmbassadorVijayalaxmiPandit (U.S.S.R.-1947)
? Woman who crossed over
Gibralter Strait by
SwimmingArati Pradhan
? World Record in
PowerliftingSumita Laha(1989)
? Represented the nation in
all three games (Cricket,
Hockey and Basketball)Shrin
Khushro Kiyasa
? First Commercial test Pilot
of the worldCapt. Surun Darsi
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and Capt. Rose Lopar
? Pilot of Indian Air
ForceHarita Daoel
? Twice scaled the Mt.
EverestSantosh Yadav
? Ramon Magsaysay Prize
awardeeKiran Bedi
? Heroin awarded Dada Sahaib
Phalke PrizeDevika Rani Rorik
? Youngest woman who scaledthe Mt. Everest twiceDecky
Dolma
? Scientist who was awarded
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
awardAshima Chatterjee
? Foreign SecretaryChokilaAyyar
? First Chief Secretary of the
CountryNirmla Buch
? First Space
travellerKalpana Chawla
? J oint Director ofC.B.I.Archana Sunder Lingam
? Winner of Murti Devi
PrizePratibha Rai
? Woman Contested the
Presidential electionCapt.
Laxmi Sahgal
? Air Vice-Marshal and
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Air-Marshal in Indian Air
ForceP. Bondyopaddhyay
? Non-military Police Advisor
in U.N.O.Kiran Bedi
? Revenue SecretaryVinita Rai
? Referee in BoxingRajia
Sabnam
? First woman of Indian origin
who stayed for the longest
time in spaceSunitaWilliam
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