List of women innovators and inventors by country

Australia

• Rose Cumming, innovative interior decoration
• Sally Dominguez, modular rainwater tank
• Myra Juliet Farrell, tailoring devices, fruit picker
• Melissa George, style snaps
• Veena Sahajwalla, green steel

  Austria

• Ingeborg Hochmair, medical devices, cochlear implants
• Lise Meitner, radioactivity, nuclear physics

  Belgium

• Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, chafing dish

  Brazil

• Chu Ming Silveira, public telephone

  Canada

• Yvonne Brill, propulsion technologies
• Maya Burhanpurkar, Alzheimer's drugs
• Martha Matilda Harper, hair tonic
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Blissymbol printer

  China

• Joyce Chen, woks
• Lanying Lin, material engineering
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, brain-science-based learning tools

  Denmark

• Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, ice cores
• Ida Tin, menstruation app

  Egypt

• Hypatia, mathematics, astronomy

  France

• Martine Bertereau, mineralogy
• Marie Boivin, pelvimeter, vaginal speculum
• Herminie Cadolle, brassiere
• Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Champagne riddling
• Marie Harel, Camembert cheese
• Géraldine Le Meur, digital innovation
• Marie Marvingt, metal plane skis
• Marguerite Perey, francium
• Joanna Truffaut, urban Wi-Fi networks
• Jeanne Villepreux-Power, aquaria

  Germany

• Melitta Bentz, coffee filter
• Judith Esser-Mittag, digital tampon
• Marga Faulstich, optical glass
• Sonja de Lennart, Capri pants
• Ida Noddack, nuclear fission
• Emmy Noether, algebra, physics
• Margarete Steiff, stuffed animals
• Brigitte Voit, polymers

  Hungary

• Mária Telkes, solar energy

  India

• Pratibha Gai, electron microscopy
• Sylvia Ratnasamy, distributed hash table
• Sheila Sri Prakash, prefabricated rotationally moulded inspection chamber

  Israel

• Ruth Arnon, multiple sclerosis drug

  Italy

• Maria Abbracchio, pharmacology
• Patrizia A. Caraveo, particle physics
• Maria Cristina Facchini, aerosols
• Elena of Montenegro, signed photographs

  Latvia

• Lina Stern, blood-brain barrier

  Netherlands

• Saskia Wieringa, gender relations

  New Zealand

• Elizabeth Ann Louisa Mackay, cooking utensils

  Nigeria

• Omowunmi Sadik, microelectrode sensing, environmental applications

  Poland

• Marie Curie, radioactivity

  Portugal

• Antonia Ferreira, winemaking

  Puerto Rico

• Olga D. González-Sanabria, battery technology, systems management

  Russia

• Anna Pavlova, pointe shoes for ballet

  Spain

• Concepción Aleixandre, gynecology
• Ángela Ruiz Robles, electronic book reader

  Sweden

• Maria Christina Bruhn, gunpowder packaging
• Eva Ekeblad, agronomy
• Amalia Eriksson, candy stick
• Simone Giertz, robotic devices
• Hanna Hammarström, telephone wires

  United Kingdom

• Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, automatic balancing bed
• Anna Atkins, photography
• Hertha Ayrton, electric arc lighting
• Melitta Bentz, Berkley Horse
• Roxey Ann Caplin, corsetry
• Adelaide Claxton, ear caps
• Eleanor Coade, artificial stoneware
• Emily Cummins, evaporative refrigeration
• Fiona Fairhurst, swimsuits
• Christine Foyer, plant science
• Ida Freund, gas measurement
• Barbara Gilmour, cheese making
• Sarah Guppy, bridge construction, domestic devices
• Mandy Haberman, baby bottles
• Diane Hart, corsetry
• Valerie Hunter Gordon, disposable diapers, sanitary towels
• Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge, glass electrodes
• Marie Killick, sapphire stylus
• Heather Martin , interaction design
• Jane A. McKeating, molecular biology
• Emma Parmee, antidiabetic drugs
• Lucy Rogers, animatronic controllers
• Beatrice Shilling, device for aircraft engines
• Bridget Elizabeth Talbot, watertight electric torch
• Clara Millicent Taylor, organic chemistry

  United States

• Berenice Abbott, photography
• Alice Alldredge, marine biology
• Randi Altschul, cellphones, games and toys
• Susan Amara, drug discovery
• Anne Anastasi, psychometrics
• Betsy Ancker-Johnson, plasma physics
• Beth Anderson, music composition
• Laurie Anderson, electronic music
• Mary Anderson, windscreen wipers
• Suz Andreasen, jewelry designer
• Virginia Apgar, health of newborns
• Barbara Askins, photographic negative enhancement

• Tabitha Babbitt, tool making
• Betty Lou Bailey, exhaust nozzle
• Ellene Alice Bailey, clothing, household goods
• Alice Pike Barney, mechanical devices
• Janet Emerson Bashen, software
• Patricia Bath, medical devices
• Maria Beasley, barrel hooper, life rafts
• Ruth Benedict, anthropology
• Ruth R. Benerito, cotton fabrics
• Miriam Benjamin, hotel chairs
• Barbara Beskind, therapeutic devices
• Hazel Bishop, lipstick
• Sara Blakely, hosiery
• Helen Blanchard, sewing machines
• Joani Blank, vibrators
• Katharine Burr Blodgett, low-reflectance glass
• Bessie Blount Griffin, feeding devices, disposable basins
• Vanna Bonta, flight suit for weightless environments
• Sarah Boone, ironing boards
• Louise Brigham, modular furniture design
• Marie Van Brittan Brown, home security systems
• Rachel Fuller Brown, antibiotics
• Mary Brush, corsets

• Ve Elizabeth Cadie,, heat insulating handle for small home appliances, coffee pot
• Mary P. Carpenter, sewing machines, mosquito nets
• Leona Chalmers, menstrual cup
• Melanie Chartoff, water recycling
• Deanna M. Church, human genome
• Inga Stephens Pratt Clark, scarf
• Edith Clarke, electrical engineering
• Josephine Cochrane, dishwasher
• Lynn Conway, computer science
• Martha Coston, marine signalling
• Cathy A. Cowan, health care cost trends
• Caresse Crosby, modern bra
• Jamie Lee Curtis, diapers

• Constance Demby, electronic musical instruments
• Marion Donovan, disposable diapers
• Emily C. Duncan, banking calculators

• Ellen Eglin, clothes wringer
• Gertrude B. Elion, medical research, drugs

• Edith M. Flanigen, molecular sieves
• Eunice Newton Foote, greenhouse effect, boot soles
• Helen Murray Free, diabetes tests

• Ruth Graves Wakefield, chocolate chip cookies
• Sarah E. Goode, folding cabinet bed
• Linda Gottfredson, educational psychology
• Bette Nesmith Graham, liquid paper
• Temple Grandin, autism
• Lori Greiner, household sponge, toilet accessories

• Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, visual music
• Ruth Handler, Barbie doll
• Elise Harmon, computer miniaturization
• Ami Harten, applied mathematics
• Elizabeth Lee Hazen, antifungal medication
• Marti Hearst, text mining
• Ada Henry Van Pelt, water purification
• Beulah Louise Henry, sewing machines, freezers, typewriters
• Leta Stetter Hollingworth, educational psychology
• Erna Schneider Hoover, computerized telephone switching
• Grace Hopper, computer programming language compiler
• Ida Henrietta Hyde, intracellular micropipette electrode

• Mary Lou Jepsen, computer applications, sunlight-readable display, laptop development
• Karen C. Johnson, preventative health
• Kristina M. Johnson, optoelectronic processing, 3-D imaging
• Amanda Jones, vacuum canning
• Eldorado Jones, aeronautical mufflers, electric iron developments
• Marjorie Joyner, cosmetics, permanent waving

• Anna Keichline, interior design, kitchen features, construction bricks
• Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, sanitary belt
• Mary Dixon Kies, hat manufacture
• Elizabeth Kingsley, crossword puzzles
• Margaret E. Knight, flat-bottomed paper bag
• June Kroenke, sewing tools
• Deepika Kurup, solar-powered water purification
• Stephanie Kwolek, synthetic fibres

• Hedy Lamarr, radio guidance systems
• Esther Lederberg, microbial genetics
• Cricket Lee, clothing fitting
• Tara Lemmey, information technology

• Elizabeth Magie, game of Monopoly
• Misha Mahowald, computational systems
• Annie Malone, cosmetics
• Joy Mangano, self-wringing mop, luggage systems
• Elizabeth Holloway Marston, systolic blood-pressure test
• Sybilla Righton Masters, corn milling, hat making
• Melanie Mayron, skin care products
• Frances McConnell-Mills, hair rinse
• Florence Melton, foam-soled slippers
• Ynes Mexia, botany
• Catharine Cox Miles, human intelligence
• Karen Mohlke, human genetics
• Mary Sherman Morgan, Hydyne rocket fuel
• Virginia A. Myers, printing press developments

• Lyda D. Newman, hairbrush

• Bonnie Pemberton, cat anti-scratch deterrent
• Radia Perlman, spanning-tree networking protocol
• Lindsay Phillips, flip-flop design

• Sibyl M. Rock, mass spectrometry
• Ernestine Rose, deodorizer
• Lorraine Rothman, menstrual extraction kit

• Leona D. Samson, DNA repair
• Sandra Scarr, developmental psychology
• Patsy O'Connell Sherman, Scotchgard, repellents
• Amy B. Smith, screenless hammer mill, phase-change incubator
• Pamela S. Soltis, botany, polyploidy
• Harriet Williams Russell Strong, water storage
• Janese Swanson, educational games

• Esther Takeuchi, energy storage
• Valerie Thomas, illustion transmitter
• Madeline Turner, fruit press
• Anne Tyng, children's construction set

• Grace Wahba, statistics
• Mary Walton, reduced hazards of smoke emissions
• Sandra Welner, patient examination table
• Eliza Wilbur, telescopes
• Nancy Farley Wood, ionizing radiation detectors

• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, radioimmunoassay technique