Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi The first Indian female to study and graduate with a degree in western medicine from the United States.

Kadambini Ganguly She was the first Indian woman to practise medicine in India, and the first Indian woman to get admission to Calcutta Medical College.

Mary Poonen Lukose She was the first woman obstetrician of India, and also the first woman legislator of the Princely State of Travancore. In 1938, she became the first female Surgeon General of India.

Kamala Sohonie She was the first Indian woman to receive a PhD degree in a scientific discipline. She is known for her discovery of the enzyme 'Cytochrome C', which plays an important role in the electron transport chain occurring in plant and animal cells for energy synthesis.

Anna Mani She is also known as the 'Weather Woman' of India. She became the first woman to join the Meteorological Department in Pune, in 1984.

Bibha Chowdhuri She was the first woman high energy physicist of India and the first woman scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Purnima Sinha She was an Indian physicist and one of the first Bengali women to receive a doctorate in physics. She received her doctorate in physics under the guidance of Professor Satyendra Nath Bose.

Kamal Ranadive She established India's first tissue culture research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in Mumbai, in 1960. Her basic research on the bacteria related to leprosy resulted in the evolution of the leprosy vaccine.

Asima Chatterjee Chatterjee was the first woman to be elected as the General President of the Indian Science Congress.

Rajeshwari Chatterjee She was the first woman engineer at the Indian Institute of Science to join the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE). She was a researcher in microwave engineering.