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
- The Clewiston Test by Kate Wilhelm
- Dr. Antonia Almiramez (Ann, Toni) in Dance of Knives by Donna McMahon
- Dana Scully in "The X-Files"
- Diana Skouris in "The 4400"
- Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archeologist in "Natural History" by Justina Robson
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