List of fictional female scientists in SF
- Dr. Susan Calvin in Asimov's Foundation series
- Life by Gwyneth Jones ("Dr. Anna Senoz")
- Dr. Dorcas Rae in Gaia's Toys by Rebecca Ore
- Dr. Anna Quibler in Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Anne Clewiston, in The Clewiston Test by Kate Wilhelm
- Dr. Antonia Almiramez (Ann, Toni) in Dance of Knives by Donna McMahon
- Dana Scully in "The X-Files" (medical doctor; but repeatedly describes herself as a scientist)
- Diana Skouris in "The 4400"
- Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archeologist in Natural History by Justina Robson
- Lily Unser in "Matryoshka" ("Millennium (TV series)" 3x14 (1999)) - a brilliant biologist
- Albertine Meyer in "Chocky's Children" and "Chocky's Challenge" (mathematician)
- Dr. Beatrice Liddle in "Chocky's Challenge" (astronomer)
- Samantha Carter in "Stargate SG-1" (is there anything she can't do?)
- Jeanie Miller in "Stargate Atlantis" (physicist)
- Zoe in "Doctor Who" (mathematician)
- Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in "Doctor Who" (polymath)
- Romana in "Doctor Who" (Time Lady)
- Dr. Mary Malone in The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- Renee in "Division by Zero", by Ted Chiang
- Dr. Louise Banks in "Story of Your Life", by Ted Chiang
- Takver in The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Diane Bates, oceanographer, in the Ocean Girl TV series
- Female Victorian scientist in "Dear Froggy" by Patricia Anthony in Eating Memories
- Protagonist of Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh is a female geneticist.
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's "Sultana's Dream" (1905) depicts Ladyland, where the peaceful revolution that overturned purdah was led by lady scientists
- Lesbian scientists in "Time Gypsy" by Ellen Klages
- See also "The Gods of Reorth" in Elizabeth A. Lynn's collection, The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories
- Vonda McIntyre, The Moon and the Sun (1997)
- Karen Marie Christa Minns, Calling Rain
- Protagonist of Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962)
- Story by Cherry Potts
- Jane Summers, in story by John Wyndham
Inventors
- Tinker by Wen Spencer
- Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach (young girl invents efficient solar battery & does not patent it, distributing it freely instead)
- Violet Baudelaire in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket