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Lists of women

list of Wikimedia lists of women

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionSep 19, 2026

Entity authorityQ6626611 ↗

Source-derived summary

This is an index of lists about women.

Arts

Below are lists related to women in fine art, dance and design.

Business

Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women

List of female billionaires

List of women company founders

List of female top executives

List of women book publishers

List of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies

List of women in leadership

List of women founders

Technology

List of women in technology

List of women computer scientists

List of women electronic literature writers

List of women innovators and inventors by country

Education

List of female archivists

List of female librarians

By alumni or faculty

By student organizations

Below are lists related to notable women in sororities and similar student organizations.

Ethnic or national origin

Below are lists related to notable women based on ethnic or national origin.

List of Albanian women

List of Ghanaian women

List of Sami women

List of Native American women of the United States

List of Roman women

Halls of fame

Fictional characters

Film and television

Below are lists related to notable women in film and television.

List of female film and television directors

List of female film directors

List of female film score composers

Actresses

Pornographic films

AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year

Gaming

List of female chess players

List of female role-playing game professionals

History

Human rights activists

List of Women's International Democratic Federation people

Leadership

List of women in leadership

Literature

Military

List of female SOE agents

List of WASP aviators

Women's Royal Air Force List of Commandments and Directors

Models and pageants

FHM's 100 Sexiest Women (UK)

Template:Top spot in the FHM Philippines "100 Sexiest Women"

List of Allure cover models

List of glamour models

List of Japanese gravure idols

List of The Price Is Right models

List of Victoria's Secret models

List of Vogue cover models

Pageants

Swimsuits and nudes

List of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition models

List of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover models

List of Playboy models

List of Playboy Playmates of the Month

List of Playboy Playmates of the Year

Music

Below are lists related to notable women in the music industry.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lists of women” as list of Wikimedia lists of women. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 358-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lists, women and list can be independently traced.

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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as list of Wikimedia lists of women. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6626611. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lists of women” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.