- Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell (born May 22 1970) is an English supermodel, actress, singer, businesswoman, and author. - Katie Price
Katie Price is an English glamour model, television personality, magazine columnist and businesswoman commonly known as Jordan. Her personal life is regularly featured in British tabloids and celebrity-based magazines. She is married to pop singer Peter André and has three children. - Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Perella Roddick, DBE is the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company dedicated to producing and retailing ethical beauty products. She founded The Body Shop in Littlehampton, England in 1976. She was born to an Italian immigrant family. Her mother ran a café, and was in the habit of recycling. - Meg Whitman
Another dreamy CEO choice, except she has already been a big company CEO at eBay (EBAY), has proved her mettle in building it to a powerhouse-despite the online auction site's currently harder times-and has the giant fortune to prove it. And, oh yes, she is likely to be using that pile of cash to run for governor of California, on the Republican ticket. - Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality. She is part-heiress to both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. - Belinda Stronach
Belinda Stronach has scraped together what smarts she could muster and has dropped out of the Liberal leadership race. She thought she could go off into the sunset quietly, but, boy, was she ever wrong. The newspapers today essentially ripped her a new one for using some really silly pretext for dropping out, instead of admitting to the real reasons: She can't speak French, and she'll never learn it. She simply has no talent for languages. - Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. - Hetty Green
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 - July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street. - Patricia Russo
Patricia Russo (born in 1953, in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest manufacturing firms. Lucent was a spin-off from AT&T of its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc., the former Western Electric), and the manufacturing and research and development operations, including Bell Laboratories. - Maggie L. Walker
Maggie Lena Walker (July 15, 1867-December 15, 1934) was an American teacher, businesswoman, and banker. She was the first woman to charter a bank in the United States. As a leader her successes and vision offered tangible improvements in the way of life for African Americans and women. Disabled by paralysis and limited to a wheelchair later in life, she also became an example for persons with disabilities. - Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter (born 1964 or 1965) is an American businesswoman, currently serving as president of the limited liability company TNA Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, TNA Entertainment produces professional wrestling television programs, live events, pay-per-views and associated merchandise such as video games. - Ruth Ann Minner
Ruth Ann Minner is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. She is a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, two terms as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, and is the incumbent Governor of Delaware. She is serving in her second term and is Delaware's first female governor, as well as the nation’s oldest serving governor. - Delphine Arnault
Delphine Arnault (4 April 1975) is a billionaire French businesswoman with the LVMH luxury goods conglomerate. The daughter of Bernard Arnault, she is one of the richest women in the world; on September 24, 2005, she married Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to an Italian wine fortune. - Basetsana Kumalo
Basetsana Julia Kumalo (born Basetsana Julia Makgalemele) is a former Miss South Africa and is currently a television presenter and businesswoman. She first gained fame in 1994 when she won the Miss South Africa competition - the second black woman to achieve this in the formerly all-white beauty pageant. She was the first runner-up in the subsequent Miss World competition. During her reign she became a presenter on "Top Billing", … - Elisabeth Murdoch
Elisabeth Murdoch (born in Sydney, Australia on August 22 1968) is a business executive known for shrewd deal-making in the British television industry, and a daughter of international media mogul Rupert Murdoch. She is the Chairman and CEO of Shine Limited, a television production company with offices in London and Manchester. Named for her philanthropist grandmother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, … - Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar. - Lois Hole
Lois Elsa Hole, CM, AOE (1933, Buchanan, Saskatchewan - January 6 2005, Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian politician, businesswoman, educator and best-selling author. She was the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from February 10 2000 until her death. She was known as the "Queen of Hugs" for breaking with protocol and hugging almost everyone she met, including journalists, diplomats and other politicians. - Rona Barrett
Rona Barrett (born October 8, 1936) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. She currently runs the Rona Barrett Lavender Company in Santa Ynez, California. Born Rona Burstein to a Jewish family in New York, New York, she was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy at age 9. When she was 13, she became the nationwide coordinator of singer Eddie Fisher's fan clubs. Her date for the high school prom was singer Steve Lawrence. - Gai Waterhouse
Gai Waterhouse (maiden name Gabriel Marie Smith, born September 2, 1954) is an Scottish-born, New Zealand-bred, Australian resident horse trainer and businesswoman. The daughter of Randwick racehorse trainer TJ Smith, she made a name for herself as a model and actor, including in the Australian drama The Young Doctors before moving to England and appearing in the "Doctor Who" story "The Invasion of Time". - Indra K. Nooyi
Indra Nooyi is named President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo and is elected to the Board of Directors. - Mellody Hobson
Mellody Hobson President, Ariel Capital Management, LLC Chairman, Ariel Mutual Funds Board of Trustees Mellody is responsible for firmwide management and strategic planning, overseeing all operations of Ariel’s business outside of research and portfolio management. Last fall, she was elected Chairman of Ariel Mutual Funds Board of Trustees. Mellody has become an important and nationally recognized voice on financial literacy and investor education. - Nancy Clark
Nancy Clark is CEO and Founder of WomensMedia, a media company focused on promoting women in the workplace, as well as the host of the "Women's Lunch Talk" blog and the weekly podcast "Working in Heels". Starting out in rocket science with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she moved into computer technology at the University of California, Berkeley and then became committed to helping women overcome obstacles in business. - Brownie Wise
Brownie Wise (1913-1992) was a legendary saleswoman largely responsible for the success of Tupperware through her development of the "party plan" system of marketing. A former sales representative for Stanley Home Products, Wise found Tupperware to be a product with broad appeal and soon began selling it at home parties. In 1950 she moved to Florida and created a social networking marketing system through dealers and sellers that quickly outsold Tupperware's store sales. - Yelena Baturina
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is a Russian businesswoman and Russia's only female billionaire. Baturina is a Moscow native who began working at the Fraser plant (where her parents worked) after graduating from high school. She soon left for the Institute of Economical Problems of All-Around Development of the National Economy. She later got a degree, graduating from the Management Institute. Baturina met her future husband, Yuriy Luzhkov, in the late 1980s. - Christina Smith
Christina Smith (born October 4, 1957 in Miami, Florida) is an American model and businesswoman. Christina was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for March, 1978, at the tender age of twenty, posing on a dare from a male friend. Christina's pictorial was shot mostly on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier in California, and also at a beach near Goleta, California, where Christina is seen both in and out of a bikini. - Peter Asher
Peter Asher (born on June 22, 1944 in London, England) is a guitarist, singer and record producer. Asher is known as "Peter" of 1960s duo Peter & Gordon, whose biggest hit was "World Without Love"; since Peter & Gordon disbanded. Asher's greatest success was serving as producer of a long string of multi-platinum albums for Linda Ronstadt as well as albums for James Taylor. While attending Westminster School, he first met fellow student Gordon Waller, … - Janet Holmes à Court
Janet Holmes à Court AC, (born Janet Lee Ranford in 1943) is an Australian businesswoman, and one of Australia's wealthiest women. She is the owner of one of Australia's largest private companies, Heytesbury, turning around the fortunes of the struggling group that she began to manage after the death of her husband Robert Holmes à Court. She attended the University of Western Australia, majoring in organic chemistry, the only woman in her course. - Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin OBE, Hon D.Litt (Exon) (born September 23 1949) is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and Chancellor of the University of Exeter. She is particularly well-known as the energetic presenter of popular children's programmes such as "Play School" and "Play Away". She was the first woman permitted to appear fully pregnant on British television. - Lois Brown
Lois Brown is a Canadian businesswoman and presumptive politician. She is a former member of the Canadian Alliance Party having been its nominated candidate prior to the merger with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. She sought the nomination of the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Newmarket—Aurora for the 2004 federal election, but lost to Belinda Stronach by a vote of 512-412. - Gordon Waller
Gordon Waller (born as Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller, on June 4, 1945 in Braemar, Scotland) is a singer/songwriter/Guitarist, best known as "Gordon" of 1960s duo Peter & Gordon, whose biggest hit was "World Without Love". While attending Westminster School, he first met fellow student Peter Asher, and together they began playing together as a duo - Peter & Gordon. Asher is the older brother of actress and businesswoman Jane Asher, … - Kate Chappell
Kate Cheney Chappell is an American businesswoman and manufacturer and co-founder of Tom's of Maine in 1970. Chappell attended Chatham College and Sarah Lawrence College before she and her husband, cofounder Tom Chappell, moved to Kennebunk, Maine in 1968 to raise their family. She also attended the Sorbonne and the University of Southern Maine, where she graduated "summa cum laude" in 1983 with an A.B. in Communications after an 18-year hiatus from college. - Linda Bradford Raschke
Linda Bradford Raschke is a commodities and futures trader who is President of LBRGroup, Inc., a registered CTA and money management firm and president of LBR Asset Management, a "Commodity Pool Operator". - Serra Sabancı
Serra Sabancı (1975), a member of the renowned Sabancı family in third generation, is a wealthy young Turkish businesswoman. She was born 1975 in Adana, Turkey as the second child and the daughter of Özdemir Sabancı and his wife Sevda. Serra was educated in economics at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom and later at Istanbul Bilgi University, graduating in 2000 as her class’ first. She gained professional experience at the family owned TemSA, … - Carol Galley
Carol Galley is a businesswoman who was regarded as the most powerful woman in the City in the 1990s. She no longer actively makes fund management decisions. Although she is a very sought after public speaker, she is pursuing many other interests including travel, and golf. She features on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List with a personal wealth of £80 million. - Carol Joynt
Carol Ross Joynt is an interviewer and webcaster with a long career in journalism and network news. She is the host of the "Q&A Café", a weekly talk show that takes place in a restaurant in Washington D.C. and features interviews with notables and newsmakers. It was started in October 2001 as a response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Carol called upon her extensive background producing talk shows for Charlie Rose, David Brinkley, Ted Koppel, Larry King, … - Gloria Pall
Gloria Pall (born July 15, 1929) is an American model, showgirl, film and television actress, author and businesswoman. Pall was born in Brooklyn, New York to an English family. During World War II, she worked as an aircraft mechanic in upstate New York at Rome Army Air Depot. O On July 28, 1945 she was employed by the USO headquarters office on the 56th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City when a U.S. Army B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the 79th floor. - Azeb Mesfin
Azeb Mesfin is an Ethiopian women's right activist, businesswoman, member of parliament, and political spouse. Azeb is the wife of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and the mother of three children, Semhal, Marda and Senay Meles. She was elected in 2005 to the House of Peoples Representatives (the lower House of the Ethiopian Parliament) representing her home district Wolkait, and serves as chair of its Social Affairs Standing Committee. - Keiko Fujimori
Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi is a Peruvian businesswoman and politician. She is the daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. At 17 years old, as a consequence of her parents' divorce, she became the youngest First Lady in Peru and in the history of the Americas. In 2004, Fujimori married Mark Villanella, an American citizen from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. After over a year of residence in the United States, … - Lourdes Mendoza
Zoila Lourdes Carmen Sandra Mendoza del Solar is a Peruvian businesswoman and politician with the Peruvian Aprista Party. She is the first woman in Peru's history to become a Vicepresident, running as the Second Vicepresident of Alan García in the 2006 election. She was also elected as Member of Congress representing Arequipa, where she had been elected as "regidora" in 2002. - Pearl Starr
Rosie Lee Reed (September 1868 - 1925), better known as Pearl Starr, was an American prostitute, bordello owner and businesswoman in Arkansas, the first child of Belle Starr, the reputed "Bandit Queen" of the American Old West, and Jim Reed, Belle's first husband.
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