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page 121st-century American women engineers
Frances Arnold
Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
Christina Koch
Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth, Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to travel around the Moon.
Katie Bouman
American engineer and computer scientist
Catherine Coleman
American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
Ellen Ochoa
American engineer and former astronaut
Ginni Rometty
American business executive
Karen L. Nyberg
American astronaut
Stephanie Wilson
American engineer and NASA astronaut
Marsha Ivins
American astronaut
Wendy B. Lawrence
US astronaut and Navy Captain
Joan Higginbotham
American engineer and NASA astronaut
Annie Easley
American mathematician and rocket scientist
Shirley Ann Jackson
American physicist (born 1946)
Mary L. Cleave
American engineer and NASA astronaut (1947–2023)
Susan Kilrain
American engineer, US Navy officer, and astronaut
Nancy J. Currie
American engineer, United States Army officer, and astronaut, Professor at Texas A&M
Frances Haugen
American data engineer, scientist, and whistleblower
Ursula Burns
American businessperson
Padmasree Warrior
Indian chemical engineer and business executive
Loral O'Hara
US astronaut
Alia Sabur
American mathematician
Sheila Widnall
American aerospace researcher and educator
Limor Fried
electrical engineer
Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
Maria Klawe
Canadian-American computer scientist
Cynthia Breazeal
American computer scientist
Erica Baker
Engineer and engineering manager
Kimberly Bryant
African American electrical engineer
Sangeeta N. Bhatia
American nanotechnologist and biological engineer
Clarice Phelps
African American nuclear chemist
Zhenan Bao
Chinese American chemical engineer
Dava Newman
Media Lab director and former Deputy Administrator of NASA
Arati Prabhakar
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
JoAnn H. Morgan
American aerospace engineer
Ayanna Howard
American roboticist
Anna Menon
American aerospace engineer, astronaut on Polaris Dawn space mission
Jeri Ellsworth
American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer
MiMi Aung
American electronic engineer at NASA
Ruchi Sanghvi
Computer engineer
Evelyn Hu
American physicist
Lyndsey Scott
American model, iOS mobile app software developer, and actress
Yvonne Young Clark
mechanical engineer (1929-2019)
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Serbian American biomedical engineer
Susan G. Finley
software engineer
Sarah Gillis
American aerospace engineer, astronaut on Polaris Dawn space mission
Barbara Johnson
American engineer
Wanda Austin
American businessperson
Adah Almutairi
American academic
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
Wendy Okolo
aerospace engineer
Aisha Bowe
Bahamian-American aerospace engineer
Janelle Bynum
American politician (born 1975)
Paula T. Hammond
American chemical engineer
Nadja West
American physician and retired general; former Surgeon General (born 1961)
Jennifer A. Lewis
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Elayne Arrington
American mathematician and engineer
Donna Auguste
African-American businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and engineer
Lilia Ann Abron
American chemical engineer
Kathy Lueders
American scientist and astronaut
Helen Thom Edwards
American physicist (1936–2016)