100 Most Important Women in World History

From time to time, people publish lists of "top 100" of women in history. As I think about who I'd put into my own Top 100 list of women important to world history, the women in the list below would at least make it to my first draft list.

Women's Rights

• European and British: Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, the Pankhursts, Simone de Beauvoir
• Americans: Judith Sargent Murray, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem

Heads of state:

• Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance: Hatshepsut, Cleopatra of Egypt, Galla Placidia, Boudicca (or Boadaceia) of the Celts, Empress Theodora, Queen Isabella, Elizabeth I of England
• Modern: Catherine the Great of Russia, Christina of Sweden, Queen Victoria, Cixi (Tz'u-hsi or Hsiao-ch'in), Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino

More Politics

• Asian: Sarojini Naidu
• European and British: Joan of Arc, Madame de Stael
• American: Barbara Jordan, Margaret Chase Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt

Religion

• European and British: Theodora, Hildegard of Bingen, Princess Olga of Kiev, Jeanne d'Albret
• American: Mary Baker Eddy

Inventors and Scientists

• Hypatia, Sophie Germain, Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Madam C. J. Walker, Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall

Medicine and Nursing

• Trota or Trotula, Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Social Reform

• Americans: Jane Addams, Frances Willard, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Wells-Barnett, Rosa Parks
• More: Elizabeth Fry, Wangari Maathai

Writers

• Sappho, Aphra Behn, Lady Murasaki, Harriet Martineau, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Emily Dickinson, Selma Lagerlof, Toni Morrison