Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians
Eighteenth Century and Before
Theano ((Ancient Greece, 5th Century B.C.)
Hypatia of Alexandria (Ancient Greece/Egypt 370-415)
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (Venice/Italy, 1646-1684)
Emilie du Chatelet (France,1706-1749
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italy, 1718-1799)
Caroline Herschel (Germany/England, 1750-1848)
Sophie Germain (France, 1776-1831)
Mary Fairfax Somerville (Britain, 1780-1872)
Nineteenth Century
Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (Britain, 1815-1852)
Florence Nightingale (England-born Italy, 1820-1910)
Mary Everest Boole (England, 1832-1916)
Susan Jane Cunningham (U.S.A., 1842-1921)
Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova (Russia, 1845-1919)
Christine Ladd- Franklin (U.S.A., 1847-1930)
Sofia Kovalevskaya (Russia, 1850-1891)
Ellen Amanda Hayes (U.S.A., 1851-1930)
Hertha Ayrton (England, 1854-1923)
Winifred Edgerton Merrill (U.S.A., 1862-1951)
Grace Chisholm Young (England, 1868-1944)
Isabel Maddison (England, 1869-1950)
Mary Frances Winston Newson (U.S.A., 1869-1959)
Virginia Ragsdale (U.S.A., 1870-1945)
Bird Margaret Turner (U.S.A., 1877-1962)
Mayme I. Logsdon (U.S.A., 1881-1967)
Emmy Noether (Germany, 1882-1935)
Mildred Leonora Sanderson (U.S.A., 1889-1914)
Cecilia Krieger (Austria, 1894-1974)
Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina (Russia, 1899-1999)
Twentieth Century
Mary Lucy Cartwright (Britain, 1900-1998)
Nina Karlovna Bari (Russia, 1901-1961)
Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (Germany, 1903-1974) – engineer / aeronautics
Rózsa Péter (Hungary, 1905-1977)
Ruth Moufang (Germany, 1905-1977)
Maria Cinquini-Cibrario (Italy, 1905-1992)
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (U.S.A., 1906-1992)
Olga Taussky-Todd (Austria/Hungary, 1906-1995)
Margaret Jarman Hagood (U.S.A., 1908-1963)
Florence Nightingale David (Britain-born Italy, 1909-1993)
Cora Ratto de Sadosky (Argentina, 1912-1981)
Marjorie Lee Browne (U.S.A., 1914-1979)
Ruth Aaronsom Bari (U.S.A., 1917- )
Julia Bowman Robinson (U.S.A., 1919-1985)
Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Russia, 1922-2004)
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (France, 1923- )
Cathleen Morawetz (Canada, 1923- )
Evelyn Boyd Granville (Black-African American, 1924- )
Olga Arsen'enva Oleinik (Russia, 1925-2001)
Joan S. Birman (U.S.A., 1927-)
Hu Hesheng (China, 1928-)
Valentina Mikhailovna Borok (Ukraine, 1931-2004)
Vivienne Malone-Mayes (Black-African American, 1932-1995)
Etta Falconer (Black-African American, 1933-2002)
Louise Hay (France, 1935-1989)
Gloria Hewitt (Black-African American,1935- )
Marina Ratner (Russia, 1938- )
Nancy Kopell (U.S.A., 1942- )
Evelyn M. Nelson (U.S.A., 1943-1987)
Jean Taylor (U.S.A., 1944- )
Dusa McDuff (United Kingdom, 1945- )
Linda Rothschild (U.S.A., 1945- )
Cheryl Praeger (Australia, 1948- )
Fan Chung (Taiwan, 1949- )
Lai-Sang Young (Hong-Kong/England/U.S.A., 1952- )
Ingrid Daubechies (Belgium, 1954- )
Bernadette Perrin-Riou (France, 1955- )
Abigail Thompson (U.S.A., 1958- )
Sijue Wu (China, 1964- )
Irene Hueter (Switzerland, 1965- )
Karen E. Smith (U.S.A., 1965- )
Svenlana Jitomirskaya (Ukraine, 1966-)