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Totals at a glance[edit]
Year | Portion if applicable |
Total | Daily average |
---|---|---|---|
2015 | 18 Jul - 31 Dec | 11,711 | 70 |
2016 | 28,399 | 77 | |
2017 | 28,271 | 77 | |
2018 | 27,323 | 75 | |
2019 | 27,207 | 75 | |
2020 | 30,119 | 82 | |
2021 | 26,780 | 73 | |
2022 | 18,893 | 52 | |
2023 | 17,925 | 49 | |
2024 | |||
Grand total | 216,628 |
Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Further background on metrics[edit]
As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.
Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.
The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:
Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies
- Missing birth year BLPs - 150,574, of which 53,355 female - 35.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs - 5,096, of which 1,325 female - 26.0%
- 1930s birth BLPs - 39,055, of which 7,086 female - 18.1%
- 1940s birth BLPs - 95,602, of which 18,495 female - 19.3%
- 1950s birth BLPs - 128,518, of which 27,172 female - 21.1%
- 1960s birth BLPs - 145,300, of which 33,390 female - 23.0%
- 1970s birth BLPs - 150,539, of which 37,893 female - 25.2%
- 1980s birth BLPs - 171,072, of which 42,880 female - 25.1%
- 1990s birth BLPs - 150,880, of which 36,944 female - 24.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs - 30,042, of which 7,542 female - 25.1%
Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes
If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:
- Missing birth year BLPs - 140,177, of which 51,021 female - 36.4%
- 1920s birth BLPs - 4,321, of which 1,228 female - 28.4%
- 1930s birth BLPs - 28,978, of which 6,161 female - 21.2%
- 1940s birth BLPs - 73,095, of which 16,566 female - 22.7%
- 1950s birth BLPs - 95,893, of which 23,644 female - 24.7%
- 1960s birth BLPs - 96,175, of which 26,632 female - 27.8%
- 1970s birth BLPs - 81,682, of which 27,562 female - 33.7%
- 1980s birth BLPs - 58,078, of which 24,816 female - 42.7%
- 1990s birth BLPs - 23,281, of which 11,754 female - 50.5%
- 2000s birth BLPs - 2,850, of which 1,539 female - 54.0%
April 2024
- Aalia Neelum
- Abiba Kone
- Abigail Martin (gymnast)
- Addie Viola Smith
- Ade Yasin
- Adebola Adeyeye
- Adela Montes
- Adela Peralta Leppe
- Adela Świątek
- Adelaide D. Thayer
- Adelaide Thurston
- Adelia E. Carman
- Adeseha Wuraola Becky
- Adina Machwirth
- Adriana G. Ioachimescu
- Adrienn Ruzsinszky
- Agiya Nakhchivanli
- Agnes Brewster
- Agnes Kimball
- Agnes Melinda Kovacs
- Agnessa Haikara
- Agnès Monnet
- Ahod Al-Amari
- Aicha Mara
- Ailie Gallant
- Ailín Pérez
- Aiman Umarova
- Aimee Sapp
- Ain Bandial
- Ainara Osoro
- Aino Õige
- Ainura Sagyn
- Ajok Lucy
- Akari Iiyama
- Akumu Catherine Mavenjina
- Akylina of Drama
- Alaura Sharp
- Alda Sousa
- Alena Hromádková
- Alessia Gritti
- Alex Clarke (saxophonist)
- Alexa Spaanstra
- Alexia Barros
- Alexia Dizeko
- Alia Al Shamsi
- Aliane Baquerot
- Alice Briones
- Alice Cary McKinney
- Alice Komuhangi Khaukha
- Alice Leonard
- Alice Righter Edmiston
- Alicia Brandet
- Alicia Camiña
- Alima Doumbia
- Allegra Fulton
- Allison Lanier
- Ally Cook
- Alma Faye Brooks
- Alma Lawton
- Almut Burchard
- Amanda Barusch
- Amanda Kramer (director)
- Amina Goodwin
- Amina Mahmoud Al-Jaidah
- Amjadi Bano
- Amna Mahmoud Al-Jaidah
- Amoit Judith Mary
- Amrita Devi
- Amy Andrew
- Amy Eden
- Amy Kellogg Morse
- Amy Rowntree
- Amy Toungara
- Ana Bernardo (politician)
- Ana Dolores Pérez Marchand
- Ana María Comaschi
- Ana Miguel dos Santos
- Ana Tadić
- Anabela Rodrigues (MEP)
- Anahí Lazzaroni
- Anashuya Fletcher
- Anastasia Tolmacheva
- Andrea Chapdelaine
- Andrea Marie Breiling
- Angel Jackson
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- Angharad Evans
- Angufiru Margaret
- Aniela Chałubińska
- Aniela Wolberg
- Anita Daniel
- Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds
- Anjana Devi Chaudhary
- Ann Watt Milne
- Ann-Eve Mansfeld Johnson
- Anna Buhigas
- Anna Burtasova
- Anna Grace Barlow
- Anna Lawniczak
- Anna Makkavaiou of Asia Minor
- Anna Maksymenko
- Anna Mann Richardson
- Anna Maria Mussolini
- Anna Monika Siepmann
- Anna Monro
- Anna Ospelt
- Anna Tumadóttir
- Anna-Karin Heijdenberg
- Anne Abel Smith
- Anne Tomasini
- Anne Vétillard
- Anne Wilmot-Horton
- Anne-Marie Essy Raggi
- Anneli Cahn Lax
- Annette Mills (academic)
- Annie Coleman Peyton
- Annie Crisp
- Annie Mabel Sandes
- Annie O'Hara
- Annie Payep
- Annie Tomasini
- Annika Seibel
- Annu Patel
- Anousha Nazari
- Antje Leendertse
- Anya Culling
- Aoife Wafer
- Arisu Endo
- Arkasha Stevenson
- Arlette Sombo-Dibélé
- Arminta Victoria Scott Haensler
- Arooba Rashid Rabbani
- Asha Sobhana
- Ashley Zelinskie
- Asrar Al-Shaibani
- Asrar Bakr
- Ataska Mercado
- Atefeh Khademolreza
- Aube Rey Lescure
- Aude Clavier
- Audrey Leduc
- Aurra Bhatnagar Badoni
- Aya El-Fiky
- Ayaka Konno
- Ayesha Madon
- Aziaha James
- Azza El Siddique
- Barbara Bagshaw
- Barbara Joans
- Barbara McManus
- Barbara Mularczyk
- Barbara Skrzypek
- Barbara Yi
- Barbara Zangerl
- Barrie Buck
- Beata (Lenape prophet)
- Beata Rutkiewicz
- Beatrice Kiraso
- Beatrice ap Rice
- Beatriz Seigner
- Beau Gadsdon
- Bela Yaari Hazan
- Berenice d'Avigdor
- Bessie Behan
- Beti Rabadzievska-Naumovska
- Betsey Brown (filmmaker)
- Bettina Bucher
- Betty Cole Dukert
- Betty Hoag
- Betty Naz
- Beulah Armstrong
- Beverly Joubert
- Bianca Leigh
- Biassi Feukeu Davide Laure
- Bibi Yasmeen Shah
- Bijaylakshmi Chatterjee
- Bimpe Onakoya
- Bluebell M. Hunter
- Bojana Janković
- Bonica Brown
- Brandi Siegel
- Brenda Navarrete
- Breta Luther Griem
- Briana Scott (athlete)
- Briana Scott (runner)
- Briana White
- Bridget Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex
- Brigita Ozolins
- Britni Stanwood
- Britt Rios-Ellis
- Brooke Overholt
- Brynna Maxwell
- Buthaina Khidir Mekki
- Büşra Işıldar
- Cai Yingying
- Caisja Chandler
- Camberley Kate
- Camille Lutz
- Camille Étienne
- Candice Pascal
- Cara Feain-Ryan
- Cara Shillingford
- Carla (footballer, born 1997)
- Carla Barros
- Carla Leite
- Carmen Bezanilla
- Carmen Iguina González
- Carole Vincent
- Carole Vincent (sculptor)
- Carolina Deik
- Carolina Vásquez Uribe
- Caroline Fohlin
- Caroline Ribeiro
- Caroline Wedgwood
- Carolyn Bracken
- Carolyn Gates
- Carolyn Laffan
- Carrie Finnell
- Carrie Robbins
- Caterina Vozzi
- Catharine Armitage
- Catherine Fowler (film and media academic)
- Catherine Mahugu
- Catherine Moran
- Catherine Moran (academic)
- Catherine Thürig
- Catherine de Nevers
- Cathy Galvin
- Celeste Espino
- Celeste Hurst
- Celia Rico Clavellino
- Celinda Sosa Lunda
- Challen Sievers
- Chanda Feldman
- Chantal Djotodia
- Chanté Dompig
- Charli Evans
- Charlotta Stern
- Charlotte (Trials of Mana)
- Charlotte Julian
- Charlotte Karam
- Charlotte Lutz
- Chea Samy
- Chen-Nee Chuah
- Chiyoko Nakatani
- Chiyuki Miura
- Chloe Watson (boxer)
- Choi Hye-seon
- Christina Aragon
- Christine Akello
- Christine Kenney
- Chryssie Lytton Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold
- Cielo Magno
- Cielo Rusinque
- Clair Beams
- Claire Borotra
- Claire Gérard
- Claire Sanford
- Clara Chassaniol
- Clara Chizoba Kronborg
- Clara Lescurat
- Clare S. Spackman
- Clarence Yongo
- Claribel Wheeler
- Claude Baumann
- Claude Doumet-Serhal
- Claudete Alves Pina
- Claudia Langenberg
- Claudia Major
- Claudia Schvartz
- Claudia Valentina
- Cleota Gage Fry
- Comfort Yeates
- Constance Smith (civil servant)
- Cora Babbitt Johnson
- Cordula Kropp
- Cornelia Keeble Ewing
- Cosmo Lombino
- Cynthia Carnes
- Cécile Kohler
- Céline Delbecq
- Dagmar Divjak
- Dana Mattioli
- Danella Ilene
- Daniela Delgado
- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat
- Daniela Kerck
- Danka Savić
- Dara Viravong
- David Misch
- Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander
- Deanna Syme Tewari
- Debbie Currie
- Deborah Castillo
- Deborah Haarsma
- Deborah Nardozzi
- Dee Libbey
- DeeDee Ritchie
- Delano Christopher
- Delma Zita
- Dení Prieto Stock
- Despo Botsi
- Deva Cassel
- Devyn Garcia
- Diana Block
- Diana Yazzie Devine
- Diane Audrey Ngako
- Dimple Thapa
- Dina Grunitzky
- Dodik Jégou
- Dolors Marti Domenech
- Dolors Martí Domènech
- Dong Xue
- Donna Arkoff Roth
- Donna Ashworth
- Donya Rad
- Dora Sweetapple
- Doreen Chadwick
- Doris Bass Andrews
- Dorothea Deakin
- Dorothea Phillips
- Dorothea Trudel
- Dorothea de Schweinitz
- Dragana Miljanić
- Dragana Tripković
- Durdana Rehman
- Edith Alice Macia
- Edith Checa Oviedo
- Eileen Goudge
- Ela Gawin
- Elaine Sanceau
- Eleanor Gwinnell Coit
- Elena Amato
- Elena Hartmann
- Elena Tikhonova
- Eleven Yao
- Elham Afkari
- Elham Modarresi
- Elia Mera
- Elif Beyza Aşık
- Elin Pudas Remler
- Elisabeth Deichmann-Schaaffhausen
- Elisabeth Holzleithner
- Elisavet Ypsilanti
- Eliza Fanthome
- Eliza Van Benthuysen Davis
- Elizabeth C. Addoms
- Elizabeth Garlick
- Elizabeth Honor Dolan
- Elizabeth Hubbell Fisk
- Elizabeth Jaxon
- Elizabeth Johns
- Elizabeth Leitman
- Elizabeth Murray Bourne
- Elizabeth O'Hara (medical doctor)
- Elizabeth Seifert
- Elizabeth Smith Middleton
- Elizabeth Yeampierre
- Ella Airlie
- Ella King Torrey
- Ella N. McLean, Countess Norraikow
- Ella V. Aldrich Schwing
- Ellen Hadden
- Ellen Oliver (suffragette)
- Elsbeth Tascioni
- Elvira Fernández Balboa
- Ema Kapustová
- Emeline King
- Emeri Adames
- Emilie Fleten
- Emily A. Buchholtz
- Emily Conrad
- Emily Goodrich Smith
- Emily Schumann
- Emma Bullet
- Emma Gilthorpe
- Emma Gurney Salter
- Emma Rosenblum
- Emma Villacieros
- Enanga Kebbi
- Enji (singer)
- Eri Matsuda
- Erica Fontes
- Erika Dickerson-Despenza
- Erika Dos Santos
- Erika Ishitobi
- Eriko Kishida
- Ermina Lekaj Prljaskaj
- Ernestine Ouandié
- Ersilia Fossati
- Esmery Martínez
- Esther Tay
- Ethel Sarah Davidson
- Ethel Tench Rogers
- Eugenia Bronskaya
- Eva Brás Pinho
- Eva Dwiana
- Eva Okaro
- Evangeline Papageorge
- Evelyn Hurley
- Evelyn Namara
- Evelyne Nakiyingi
- Evelyne Owona Essomba
- Evgeniia Subbotina
- Evi Grünenwald
- Evialina Laskevich
- Fabian Nelson
- Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
- Farah Azeem Shah
- Farah Sohail
- Fariba Balouch
- Farida El-Sherif
- Farzana Hanif Baloch
- Fatima Sacko
- Fatma Aly
- Fayza Kamal
- Federica Botter
- Fernanda Saponara Rivva
- Filiz Gencan Akın
- Fiona McIntosh (rugby union)
- Fiona Murtagh (netball)
- Firouzeh Khalatbari
- First Lady of Bogotá
- Flora Juliette Cooke
- Florence Brookhart Yount
- Florence Chatfield
- Florence Ivy Mary Holmes
- Florence Mitchell
- Flávia de Faria
- Folly Bah Thibault
- Fomudam Rose Ngwari
- Fotinì Peluso
- Foun-Sen
- Fran Leeper Buss
- Frances Louise Lockridge
- Frances Van Gasken
- Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
- Francesca Primas
- Françoise Cadol
- Françoise Élisabeth Desfossez
- Frehiwot Gesese
- Freya Sargent
- Frédérique Fontanarosa
- Fuyuka Ono
- Fátima Corozo
- Fátima Servín
- Gabriela Atanasova
- Gabriela Bryan
- Gabriela Fundora
- Gabriele Kafka
- Gaea Schoeters
- Gail Dahms
- Genevieve Chenneour
- Georgia Brescia
- Georgia Downing
- Georgie Lingham
- Gerd Hay-Edie
- Gerrie Naughton
- Gertrud Zwicknagl
- Gertrude Martin Rohrer
- Gertrude Njuba
- Gertrude Walton
- Ghita Skali
- Gibering Bol Alima
- Gillian Bowser
- Gina Sereno
- Ginette Amara
- Giorgia Bettalli
- Giorgia Mortello
- Girlie Hodges
- Gisela Gaytan
- Gisela Gaytán
- Gisela Sole
- Gloria Guissou
- Gláucio Carvalho
- Grace Banwaa Buoadu
- Grace Kigeni
- Grace Tolo
- Gugu Dhlamini
- Gunda Lakshmi Devi
- Gustika Fardani Jusuf
- Gwendolyne Stevens
- Gwyneth Philips
- Gyulboor Davydova
- Gëzime Starova
- Hadiya Nawaz
- Hagar Amer
- Hagir S. Elsheikh
- Hal Hershfelt
- Hala bint Mohammed Al Khalifa
- Hanna Amani
- Hannah L. Wessling
- Hannah Tobey Farmer
- Hannah Tobey Shapleigh Farmer
- Harriet De Claire
- Harriet Gunn
- Hashaka Kabahweza Florence
- Hasna Bano
- Hedevig Paus
- Heidemarie Schmidt
- Heidi Howitzer
- Heidi Ploeg
- Heike Heubach
- Helen Burnet
- Helen Caldwell Day Riley
- Helen Monsch
- Helena Kmieć
- Helena Pueyo
- Henny Russell
- Henrietta Lange
- Henriette Bruns
- Henriette Lagou Adjoua
- Henriëtte van den Brandeler
- Hermine Patricia Tomaïno Ndam Njoya
- Hilda Hope McMaugh
- Hilda Svensson
- Hinata Komaki
- Holly Dunford
- Holly Winterburn
- Honey Osrin
- Hope Butera
- Huang Haiyan
- Huguette Dagenais
- Huma Akhtar Chughtai
- Huma Mir
- Ida Jimmy
- Iida Rauma
- Iida Turpeinen
- Ilinca Manolache
- Ilise Feitshans
- Imogen Hermes Gowar
- India Royale
- Ingvild Mucauro
- Inha Shkarupa
- Inma Sanz
- Inna Faliks
- Irene Costa
- Irene González Hernández
- Irene Lim (actress)
- Irene Lim (fashion designer)
- Irina Bulakhova
- Irina Podnosova
- Iryna Rudnytska
- Iréne Bognini
- Isa Melsheimer
- Isabel Ferreira (politician)
- Isabella Hobson
- Isabelle Cazeaux
- Isabelle Junot
- Isabelle Musset
- Isabelle Thompson
- Isla Callister
- Iva Mabelle Miller
- Iva Primorac
- Ivy Wolk
- Ixone Andreu
- Iyana Halley
- Iyeth Bustami
- Izabela Bodnar
- Izaskun Lacunza
- Jaas Newen
- Jackie Redmond
- Jaclyn Chernett
- Jacqueline Crooks
- Jacqueline Kyatuheire
- Jacqueline Ottmann
- Jacquetta Marshall
- Jaidyn Triplett
- Jameese Joseph
- Jan Michalski
- Jana El-Alfy
- Jana Gutiérrez
- Jana Mittún
- Jana Sallman
- Jane Kagiri
- Jane Noria
- Jane Vabarna
- Janet L. B. Martin
- Janet Sayers
- Janet Tate
- Jasmin Bajwa
- Jayla Hang
- Jazzy Collins
- Jean Hay-Smith
- Jean Louise Berg Thiessen
- Jean Teillet
- Jeanine Fissler
- Jen Margaret
- Jennifer DeSena
- Jessica Schumacher
- Jessica Velasquez
- Jessika Carter
- Jillian Cavanaugh
- Jin Zhao (physicist)
- Jiuhou Nü
- Jo Allen (academic administrator)
- Jo Bensemann
- Joan DelFattore
- Joana Kuntz
- Joanna Arnow
- Joanna Cullinane
- Joanna Wichmann
- Joanne Zinzan
- Joce Nuttall
- Joey Siu
- Johariah Abdul Wahab
- Jordan Alexandra
- Josephine Dias
- Josephine Kakooza
- Josephine Kenyon
- Josephine Robinson Roe
- Joshua Mfonobong Temitope
- Joy Seager
- Joyce Edwards
- Judith Darmady
- Judith Suminwa
- Judith Tuluka
- Juli Fulks
- Julia Lester (soccer)
- Julia Prescot
- Julia Pulo
- Julia Seton
- Julia Sharp
- Julia Tannheimer
- Juliana Chan (science communicator)
- Julie Chen (academic)
- Julie Rowland
- Julienne Niat
- Julieta Lara Estable
- Juliette Whittaker
- Junelle Cavero
- Just Brittany
- Kaba Rougui Barry
- Kalani Witherspoon
- Kamala Das (politician)
- Kanaklata Devi
- Karabo Meso
- Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
- Karen Fisher (geographer)
- Karen Riley
- Karin Lind
- Karin Thaler
- Karine Aslamazyan
- Karla Alves
- Karmen Fouché
- Katalin Kiss
- Kate C. Woodhull
- Kate Walker Behan
- Kathleen Lower
- Kathleen Okubo
- Kathleen Price Bryan
- Kathryn Fort
- Kathy G. Chinoy
- Kaye Bernard
- Kaylynne Truong
- Kecia Lewis
- Kelechi Ndukaba
- Kelly-Anne Bonieux
- Kendra McSweeney
- Kenya Hunt
- Key Alves
- Khatuna Samnidze
- Khushbu
- Kim Albright
- Kim Cadzow
- Kimidi Mrunalini
- Kiran Masood
- Kiyo Tanaka
- Kjersti Anfinnsen
- Klaudija Bubelytė
- Klára Strnadová
- Koh Sok Hiong
- Kolla Lalitha Kumari
- Koto Hiraoka
- Kristbjörg Helga Ingadóttir
- Kristina Dudina
- Kristina Gurung
- Kulthum Akbari
- Kuni Kaa Jenkins
- KyoungSeo
- Käte Selbmann
- L. Adele Cuinet
- Labiba Sawaya
- Laila Edwards
- Lalla Lamia Al Solh
- Lally Horstmann
- Lamia Al Solh
- Landy Párraga
- Laur Allen
- Laura Dave (journalist)
- Laura Emily Start
- Laura Jou
- Laura Leroux-Revault
- Laura Mantecón Arteaga
- Laura Stoeri
- Laura Taleb Muller
- Laura Waterman
- Lauren Coughlin
- Lay Hoon Chan
- Layan Al-Yafei
- Leah Lawall
- Leanne Cullen-Unsworth
- Leilani Correa
- Lena Georgescu
- Lena Schilling
- Leonia Nastał
- Leslie Bernstein
- Leslie Sexton
- Levi Ruivivar
- Ley Uwera
- Leïla Lacan
- Lia Karatancheva
- Liberty Barros
- Lila Neuenfelt
- Lilian Scantlebury
- Lina Khatib
- Linda Collins (psychologist)
- Linda de Vetta
- Lindsay Gibson
- Ling Siew May
- Lisa Alward
- Lisa Coleman (academic)
- Lisa Ingram
- Lisa Lori
- Lisa Schulte (luger)
- Lise Baron
- Lolly Winston
- Lonka Korzybrodska
- Lori Allen (astronomer)
- Lorna Norris
- Lorna Rutto
- Lotta Cordes
- Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
- Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan
- Louise Kennedy (writer)
- Louise de Schweinitz Darrow
- Louli Sanua
- Love Ezema
- Lu Wang (biostatistician)
- Luana Márton
- Lucie Azema
- Lucy Moore (archaeologist)
- Lucía Garibaldi
- Luella F. McWhirter
- Lughano Nyondo
- Luisa Ballesteros Rosas
- Luisa del Valle Silva
- Luitgard Schwendenmann
- Lulu Al-Obaid
- Lusine Kharatyan
- Lydia Babirye
- Lynley Anderson
- Lynn Wells
- Lynne Brydon
- Lynne Hillenbrand
- Lyubov Kamyrina
- Léa Koyassoum Doumta
- M.J. Jenkins
- Mabe Fratti
- Mabel Suffield Tolkien
- Macky Corbalán
- Madalena Cordeiro
- Maddie Pokorny
- Madeleine Ginsburg
- Madeleine Memb
- Madeline Early
- Madie Boreman
- Madison Calley
- Madjiguene Sene
- Madle Lippus
- Magdalena Hinterdobler
- Magdalena Stużyńska
- Maha Zain
- Mahira Miyanji
- Mahjabeen Abbasi
- Mahsa Jeddi
- Mai Whelan
- Maia Joseph
- Maida Clark
- Makenzie Dunmore
- Makiko Furuichi
- Maleeha Manzoor
- Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani
- Malin Hansen-Hotopp
- Mandy James
- Manon Azem
- Manorama Basu
- Manuela Zoccali
- Marcella of Marseille
- Maren Gaulke
- Maren Wellenreuther
- Margaret Crawford
- Margaret Deanesly
- Margaret Gillett
- Margaret Kempe Howell
- Margaret Tynes
- Margarida Gil
- Margit Göll
- Margrethe Tennfjord
- Marguerite Lamarche
- Mari Romundset Nilsen
- Maria Angels Vallvé
- Maria Daskalogianni
- Maria Eugênia Villarta
- Maria Janyska
- Maria Subbotina
- Maria al-Qibtiyya
- Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho
- Marian E. Rottman
- Mariana Higuita
- Mariana Leitão
- Marianne Díaz Hernández
- Maribelcy Peña
- Maribelle Cormack
- Marie Danielle Selvon
- Marie Fabianová
- Marie Gabrielle Mfegue
- Marie Imanizabayo
- Marie Jeanneret
- Marie Khone Faye
- Marie Madeleine Fouda
- Marie Mennessier-Nodier
- Marie Nilsson
- Marie-Aimée de Kermorvan
- Marie-Claire Nnana
- Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet
- Marie-Odette Lorougnon
- Marietta Sherman Raymond
- Mariia Aniichyn
- Mariia Balakina
- Marija Bubanj
- Marina Artuso
- Marina Lipovac Tanasković
- Marion Campbell (statistician)
- Marisa Borini
- Marjan Philhour
- Marjorie Gordon Smart
- Marjorie Woolcock
- Marla Geha
- Marquesha Davis
- Marta Martins da Silva
- Marthe Rajchman
- Martina Holečková
- Martina Scuratti
- Martina Vidaić
- Mary A. Brinkman
- Mary Alice Hearrell Murray
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