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Sridevi
Sridevi Kapoor (née Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan; 13 August 1963 – 24 February 2018), known mononymously as Sridevi, was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films. Cited as the "first female superstar" of Indian cinema, she was the recipient of various accolades, including a National Film Award, Seven Filmfare Awards (a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, Three Filmfare Awards, Three Filmfare Awards South), Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, a Kerala State Film Award, and a Nandi Award. Sridevi's career spanned over 50 years in a wide range of genres.
Shilpa Shetty
Indian actress and film producer (born 1975)
Juhi Chawla
Indian actress
Indra Nooyi
Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo (born 1955)
Ela Bhatt
founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Indian businessperson, Founder and Chairperson, Biocon; billionaire
Ekta Kapoor
Indian film/TV producer, director (born 1975)
Gita Gopinath
Indian-American economist
Urvashi Butalia
Indian feminist and historian
Anjali Devi
Indian actress, producer
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Indian banker
Shobhna Samarth
Indian actress (1916–2000)
Deepa Sahi
Indian actress and producer
Kalpana Lajmi
Indian film director
Savitri
Indian actress (1935–1981)
Chanda Kochhar
Indian businesswoman
Esther Victoria Abraham
Winner of the Miss India contest, actress, film producer and film distributor (1916–2006)
Bhanumati Ramakrishna
South Indian actress, singer and writer
Padmasree Warrior
Indian chemical engineer and business executive
Raadhika Sarathkumar
Indian actress
Savitri Jindal
Indian Business Woman And Female politician
Vinita Bali
Indian businessman
Anu Aga
Indian billionaire
Soundarya Rajinikanth
Indian film director
Sanjana Kapoor
Indian actress
Sheila Sri Prakash
Indian architect
Naina Lal Kidwai
Indian banker
Sulabha Deshpande
Indian actress and theatre director (1937–2016)
Eulie Chowdhury
Indian architect (1923–1995)
Mallika Srinivasan
Indian businesswoman
Kalpana Saroj
Indian Entrepreneur
Shobhana Bhartia
Indian businesswoman
Shobha Kapoor
Indian producer
Tanya Dubash
Indian businesswoman
Indu Jain
Indian businesswoman (1936–2021)
Ritu Menon
Indian writer, journalist and publisher
Shikha Sharma
Indian businesswoman
B. V. Radha
Indian film actress (1948-2017)
Devaki Jain
Indian economist
Swati Piramal
Indian businesswoman
Meera Sanyal
Leading Indian Banker, Independent candidate for South Mumbai, President Indian Liberal Group (1961-2019)
Aruna Kumari Galla
Indian politician
Pamela Chopra
Indian playback singer and film producer
Sheila Bhatia
Punjabi poet and playwright
Jaddanbai
Jaddanbai (1 April 1892 – 8 April 1949) was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmmaker, and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She along with Bibbo and Saraswati Devi were one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. She was the mother of actor Anwar Hussain and the well-known Hindi film actress Nargis, and the maternal grandmother of Priya Dutt and Sanjay Dutt.
Zia Mody
Indian lawyer
Shanta Gandhi
Indian dancer and theatre director (1917-2002)
Latha Rajinikanth
Indian film producer
Amrita Patel
Indian businessperson
Sumati Morarjee
Indian businesswoman (1909–1998)
Jeroo Billimoria
Indian businesswoman
Fatima Zakaria
Indian journalist (1936–2021)
Nisa Godrej
Indian businesswoman
Zarina Mehta
Indian businessperson
Krishnaveni
Indian actress
Shahnaz Husain
Indian business woman
Seetha Coleman-Kammula
Indian chemist, environmentalist and entrepreneur.
Bengaluru Nagarathnamma
Indian singer
Radhika Roy
Co-Founder, Co-Chairperson NDTV
Chiki Sarkar
Indian book publisher