List of female mathematicians

The majority of mathematicians are male, but there have been some demographic changes since World War II. Women are still underrepresented in mathematics and neighboring branches of science such as physics. A number of prizes instituted by the AMS and other mathematical societies are aimed at changing this situation.
Prominent female mathematicians have included:

A
• Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1974)
• Maria Agnesi (1718–1799)
• Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940)
• Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923)

B
• Nina Bari (1901–1961)
• Ruth Aaronson Bari (1971–2005)
• Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917)
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988)
• Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009)
• Joan Birman (1927– )
• Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996)
• Lenore Blum
• Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940)
• Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916)
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979)

C
• Mary Cartwright (1900–1998)
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)
• Fan Chung (1949– )
• Marianna Csörnyei (1975– )

D
Ingrid Daubechies is known for her Daubechies wavelets
• Ingrid Daubechies (1954– )

E
• Tatyana Ehrenfest (1905– 1984)
• Karin Erdmann (1948– )

G
• Sophie Germain (1776– 1831)
• Shafi Goldwasser (1958– )

H
• Christine Hamill (1923– 1956)
• Caroline Herschel (1750– 1848)
• Susan Howson (1973– )
• Hypatia of Alexandria (died 415)

K
Sofia Kovalevskaya is known for her contributions to partial differential equations
• Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
• Krystyna Kuperberg (1944– )

L
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922– 2004)
• Judith Q. Longyear (1938–1995)
• Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)

M
• Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990)
• Mileva Marić (1875–1948)
• Dusa McDuff (1945– )
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977– )
• Ruth Moufang (1905–1977)

N
• Hanna Neumann (1914–1971)
• Emmy Noether (1882–1935)

P
• Rózsa Péter (1905–1977)
• Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684)
• Cheryl Praeger (1948– )

R
• Marina Ratner (1938– )
• Idun Reiten (1942– )
• Julia Robinson (1919– 1985)
• Mary Ellen Rudin (1924– )

S
• Charlotte Scott (1858–1931)
• Nina Snaith
• Mary Somerville (1780–1872)
• Bhama Srinivasan (1935–)
• Irene Stegun (1919–2008)
• Esther Szekeres (1910–2005)

T
• Éva Tardos (1957– )
• Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995)
• Audrey Terras (1942– )
• Theano (6th century BC)

U
• Karen Uhlenbeck (1942– )

W
• Katrin Wehrheim
• Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883– )
• Melanie Wood (1981– )
• Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976)

Y
• Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944)
• Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966)

***This is a list of female mathematicians who are notable. Many have made significant contributions to mathematics. There are many many more (also from Pakistan), I will try to find, and then I will post the list here … keep intouch … (Nadeem Ahmad)