Edith Wharton

first woman to win a Pultizer Prize for fiction-1921

Jhumpa Lahiri

first Indian woman to win a Pultizer Prize-2000

Halle Berry

first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress-2002

Shirin Ebadi

first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize-2003

Jane Addams

first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace-1931

Selma Ottilia Lovisia Lagerlof

first woman Nobel Prize winner for literature-1909

Mother Teresa

first Indian woman to win a Nobel Prize for Peace-1979

Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner

first women Nobel Prize winner for peace-1905

Marie Skoldowska Curie

first woman to win a Nobel Prize-1903,

first to win a Physics Nobel-1903,

first to win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry-1911,

first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Arundhati Roy

first Indian to win a Booker Prize-1997

Toni Morrison

first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature-1993

Wallis Warfield Simpson

first woman selected as Time magazine's "Man Of The Year"-1936