Qiu Jin Anti-Qing revolutionary who was executed after a failed uprising which foreshadowed the 1911 Revolution which toppled the Qing Dynasty.

Ada Lovelace First computer programmer.

As for some of the choices named above:

Queen Victoria was widely known for being against Woman’s Suffrage from her publicly disparaging comments against activists advocating for it.

Tzu Hsi/Cixi – While much of Chinese historiographical criticism was Patriarchal and failed to account for the fact she was subjected to the constraints of Western/Japanese colonialist demands and an increasingly moribund government, the highly negative assessments aren’t totally groundless.

For instance, she lead the reactionary counter-revolution in 1898 which crushed the 100 days of Reform under the Guangxu emperor and his reform-minded ministers. Many Chinese historians have argued that if these reforms were not impeded as they were at the time, that China had a good chance of evolving into a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy and thus, avoided several calamitous civil wars and further colonialist depredations because of China’s internal chaos, poverty, and lack of effective power to resist colonialist encroachments/demands.

By the time Cixi and her ministers realized that institutional reform was necessary in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, it was already too late as many Chinese had already felt the Qing Dynasty was too moribund and corrupted to be redeemed by “too little, too late” reforms. A reason for the increasing popularity of Anti-Qing revolutionary movements during the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

As one source of such search info, try http://www.google.com/trends for “Madonna” and “Elizabeth Cady Stanton” and “Hai Bà Trưng” and “Trung sisters” and “Marie Curie” and “Ada Lovelace” (as just a few examples) or any of the other women you’re interested in.

The lack of mention of some of our favorites is a sign that fewer people know about them and look them up. Talking about them (online and in educational publications and the media) will help with that, but it’s still likely that more will be looking up celebrities and those who are included in history standards and those who get movies made about them.

In that context, I’m thrilled that women like Mother Jones, Anne Bradstreet, Anais Nin, Harriet Tubman, and Helen Keller made it as high on the list as they did!

For those who want to see the whole list at once, here’s a tip: Use the “Print” icon near the upper right of the page, and you’ll get a page with all 100 listed in (reverse) sequence. If you don’t really want to print it, you can cancel the printer dialog that pops up automatically, and just read it in that sequence.

I presume she is on the list, but Marie Curie should be on it. Twice winning the Nobel Prize is quite an achievement.

Aung San Suu Kyi should also be on the list.

Some other names:

Lucy Stone
Alice Paul
Carrie Chapman Catt
Dorothea Dix
Christine de Pizan
Margery Kempe