The list, which also includes Marilyn Monroe and 17-year-old girls' education activist³ Malala Yousafzai, was topped by pioneering Polish chemist Marie Curie, who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize – and won it twice.

 

British nurse Florence Nightingale came second and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was third.

 

Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and Mother Teresa completed the top five.

 

Royals fared well, with the Queen, Princess Diana, Queen Victoria, the Queen Mother and Elizabeth I all in the top 20.

 

A spokeswoman for Sky Arts said, 'There's no doubt that the women on this list changed the world and continue to inspire people today.'

 

 

1. Marie Curie

 

2. Florence Nightingale

 

3. Margaret Thatcher

 

4. Emmeline Pankhurst

 

5. Mother Teresa

 

6. Princess Diana

 

7. Queen Victoria

 

8. Anne Frank

 

9. Joan of Arc

 

10. Queen Elizabeth I

 

11. Rosa Parks

 

12. Queen Elizabeth II

 

13. Indira Gandhi

 

14. Amelia Earhart

 

15. Amy Johnson

 

16. J.K. Rowling

 

17. Marilyn Monroe

 

18. Jane Austen

 

19. Mary, Queen of Scots

 

20. Queen Mother

 

21. Coco Chanel

 

22. Benazir Bhutto

 

23. Enid Blyton

 

24. Marie Antoinette

 

25. Helen Keller

 

26. Oprah Winfrey

 

27. Germaine Greer

 

28. Eva Peron

 

29. Hilary Clinton

 

30. Malala Yousafzai

 

31. Linda McCartney

 

32. Audrey Hepburn

 

33. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

34. Maya Angelou

 

35. Michelle Obama

 

36. Kate Middleton Duchess of Cambridge

 

37. Billie Jean King

 

38. Katharine Hepburn

 

39. Ingrid Bergman

 

40. Simone de Beauvoir

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