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"
• Diana Skouris in "The 4400"
• Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archeologist in Natural History by Justina Robson
• Lily Unser in "Matryoshka" ("Millennium" 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

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