Sarojini Naidu:-
She was a great poet and a freedom fighter.She joined the Indian National Congress and became its president.She was the first Indian Women to become the president of INC.She was also the first Indian women to become governor of an Indian state.She played a very active role in our freedom movement.She believed in the equality of all people and was against caste system.She worked for Hindu-Muslim unity and uplift of women.She is called the Nightingale of India.

Suchetha Kripalani:-
Most prominent among the women freedom fighters and the first women chief minister in India.She was born on 25th june 1908 in Ambala in PunjabHer father, S.N.Majumdar though a government doctor was a nationalist. Educated at Indraprastha College and St.Stephen's College, Delhi she became a lecturer at the Banaras Hindu University. In 1936, she married socialist Acharya Kriplani and became involved with the Indian National Congress.

empress Noorjahan:-'the light of the world',who ruled the Emperor Jahangir and his mighty Empire of Hindustan with absolute power,was one of the illustrious women ruler of India.No gift of nature seemed to be wanting in her.Endowed with rich Persian beauty,her soft features lighted up a spirit by vivacity and superbness.She was intensely fashionable and charitable.When in power she ruled everything.When out of power she abstained relegiously from all activities oflife.Even her enemies admitted that difficulties vanished at her touch.
Noorjahan was the ornament of the imperial court,an adviser and a supporter of her husband in all his ardous affairs of state.She exercised a tremendous influence,which was felt in every corner of the vast Indian Empire.With the death of Jahangir in 1628 her reign came to an end.

Raziya Sultan:-The First Women Who Ruled India.Altamash was the first king to appoint a woman as his official successor. Raziya Sultan is a much-romanticized figure in Indian history. As late as three centuries later, the legal aspect of her accession was still a matter of heated theological debate. By all accounts Raziya vindicated her father’s faith in her. She was a very shrewd ruler, and for all her feminine beauty an autocrat who kept the nobility in their place. The army and the people of Delhi were solidly behind the queen. She needed all the support she could get for many of her most powerful governors were in revolt against her. It was in tackling them that Raziya gave evidence of her immense sagacity. She played such a skilful game of political intrigue that very soon the rebels were fighting each other. On the military front, she defeated one of their principal leaders Wazir Muhammad Junaidi so convincingly that he retired from active politics. Soon she was successful in winning over most of the remaining nobles to her side.

Annie Besant:- An Irish by birth,who had come to India in 1893 became a staunch supporter of India's freedom movement.In 1988 she organized a strike at London Match Factory,one of the first successful strike by unskilled workers.Founded Boy Scouts Association.The Theosophist movement grew in India as a result of the leadership given to it by Mrs.Annie Besant.She is the first women President of Indian National Congress.From 1918 to 1920 she served as the President of Indian National Congress.

Rani lakshmibhai:-One of the great leaders of the revolt of 1857 and perhaps one of the greatest heroins of Indian history.She fought like a true heroine.Tales of her bravery and courage and military skill have inspired her countrymen ever since.Driven out of Jhansi by the British forces after afierce battle in which "even women were seen working the batteries and distributing ammunition",she administered the oath to herfollowers that "with our own hands we shall not our Azadshahi(independent rule) bury".She captured Gwalior with the help of Tantiatope and her trusted Afghan guards.The brave rani died fighting on 17 June 1858, clad in the battle dress of a soldier and mounted on a charger.Beside her fell her life-long friend and companion,a muslim girl.