50 most popular women in the world who are famous, influential, and powerful, 2020. Photo by Analise Benevides on Unsplash
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50 most popular women who are famous, influential, and powerful women in the world
The List of the top 50 most popular women 2020
1. Ali Wong – an entertainer/a comedienne/a fun artist
2. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi – Black Lives Matter Founders
3. Allyson Felix – a female athlete
4. Amy O’Sullivan – a professional ER nurse
5. Anaïs Mitchell – a song composer/poet
6. Angela Davis – a revolutionary leader
7. Angela Merkel – The President of Germany
8. Anne Hidalgo – The Mayor of Paris and a woman leader in a global safer environment
9. Arussi Unda – a female activist
10. Bonnie Castillo – A nurse and a powerful union leader
11. Bilkis – an 82-year old female Indian activist
12. Camilla Rothe – a German infectious-disease specialist
13. Cecilia Martinez – an advocate of and leader in environmental safety
14. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir – female space explorers
15. Claire Babineaux-Fontenot – the leader of Feeding America
16. Gabriela Cámara – a professional Mexican chef
17. Gabrielle Union – an advocate of social justice for The Black women
18. Gwynne Shotwell – an astronautical (aerospace) engineer.
19. Halsey – a musical artist
20. Jennifer Hudson – a professional singer, film artist, and actress
21. Jojo Siwa – a model artist
22. Julie K. Brown – a reporter and an investigator
23. Julie Mehretu – a paint artist
24. Kamala Harris – the elected Vice President of the US
25. Kristalina Georgieva – the IMF Managing Director
26. LASTESIS – performance artists
27. Lauren Gardner – the developer of COVID-19 real-time global data-tracking dashboard
28. Lina Attalah – an Egyptian journalist
29. Lisa Nishimura – a former head, Netflix documentary films, and stand-up comedy
30. MacKenzie Scott – a high profile philanthropist
31. Mary Kay Henry – a health workers’ union woman leader
32. Maya Moore – a professional basketball player and social justice advocate
33. Megan Rapinoe – a US professional footballer and a female activist
34. Megan Thee Stallion – an American rapper, singer, and songwriter
35. Michaela Coel – a British entertainer/a comedienne
36. Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi – Speaker of US Congress
37. Naomi Osaka – a Japanese professional tennis player
38. Nemonte Nenquimo – The President of the Waorani of Pastaza
39. Phoebe Waller-Bridge – an English actress, writer, and producer
40. Rebecca Gomperts – a Dutch physician and an activist
41. Serena Gomez – an American singer, actress, and producer.
42. Shari Redstone – a TV magnate and businesswoman
43. Shi Zhengli – a Chinese virologist
44. Shiori Ito – a Japanese journalist
45. Sister Norma Pimentel – a Catholic Church charity missionary
46. Tomi Adeyemi – a Nigerian-American novelist, and writing trainer.
47. Tourmaline – an activist, artist, and film producer
48. Tsai Ing-wen – The President of Taiwan
49. Ursula von der Leyen – The President of the European Commission
50. Waad-al-Kateab – an assumed Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist.
1. Ali Wong – writer/entertainer/comedienne/fun artist
Ali Wong – A comedienne, fun artist, and writer. Photo credit: straitstimes.com
Key attributes and achievements that made her popular and famous
Ali Wong, who is also one of the top 10 most famous women artists is also among the 50 most popular women in the world, is a comedienne who represents shared cultural heritage, defiling stereotypes as she makes her proof of what women should represent.
Ali Wong makes jokes that people especially women cherish with an understanding that one can achieve so much without too much formality.
The fun artist and writer who has released her first Netflix special, magically making her audience happy and with so much energy, Ali Wong makes fun of any subject at her disposal – family lifestyle, sexuality, among others, making comedy look like a practical science.
2. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi – Black Lives Matter Founders
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi – Black Lives Matter Founders. Photo credit: aspenpublicradio.org
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement that moved the world
Very influential female trio – Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi who founded Black Lives Matter were able to inspire the people with assumed situations of gruesome killings and got the people to think and act in a movement against racial discrimination of African-Americans in the US after the brutal killing of George Floyd.
In fact, Black Lives Matter Founders witnessed more young people getting involved, more nationalities, and more races until the protests became a rainbow of people from all walks of life, in different countries in the world including South Korea, Japan, Australia, and others, joining and saying, “Black lives matter.”
The Black Lives Matter Founders who didn’t give up rather wanted the people to support, stand with, write a letter to them as well as join the rally, who made it in the list of 50 most popular women in the world, said that it was about human lives.
3. Allyson Felix – a female athlete
Allyson Felix – a female athlete. Photo credit: denverpost.com
Why she makes the top 50 most popular women in the world
Allyson Felix spoke against pregnancy discrimination in 2018 and forced Nike, her sponsor at the time, into changing its maternity leave policies to safeguard athletes’ pay for 18 months surrounding childbirth, after speaking against Nike’s threat to pay her less for giving birth.
Allyson Felix is one of the most decorated athletes in track and field and one of the top 50 most popular women in 2020.
Allyson Felix won her 13th world championship gold in September 2019 breaking a record set by Usain Bolt.
4. Amy O’Sullivan – a professional ER nurse
Amy O’Sullivan – a professional ER nurse. Photo credit: wdtvpress.com
How she is listed among the top 50 most popular women in the world
Amy O’Sullivan, a professional ER nurse, risked everything to preserve others’ lives.
As a health-care specialist, who has spent 18 years in the career, Amy O’Sullivan treated the first COVID-19 patient at Wyckoff hospital in Brooklyn, New York even though the patient became the city’s first COVID-19 victim in early March. She contracted the virus, suffered the symptoms, and got treated until she became healthy.
The world will always say a million thank you to Amy O’Sullivan for heroism. Indeed she deserves to be one of the top 50 most popular women in the year 2020.
5. Anaïs Mitchell – a song composer/poet
Anaïs Mitchell – a song composer/poet. Photo credit: alchetron.com
Major qualities for which she became popular and famous
Anaïs Mitchell is a visionless poet and a talented and skillful US composer. Her response with amazement to her own creation served as a guiding inspiration to Broadway throughout the laborious journey of theatrical performances from concept to execution.
Anaïs Mitchell brought an indelible mark and quality to great folk opera, the 2019 Broadway hit Hadestown. Anaïs Mitchell is listed among the 10 most popular female artists in the world.
6. Angela Davis – a revolutionary leader
Angela Davis – a revolutionary leader. Photo credit: peoplesworld.com
How she became famous and influential
Angela Davis is deep-rooted in the truth and would stand up for it. She makes the list of 50 most popular women in 2020
Angela Davis led powerful revolutions against the racial abuses black people in the US suffered and was not deterred in the fight for their liberation despite that she was hunted down and imprisoned.
With unequivocal love for humanity, Angela Davis, as a political leader, continues to inspire, speak against, and resist oppression against the Black people.
As a child, her family friends were among the young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church – an incident that gave more impetus to fight for freedom and injustices.
7. Angela Merkel – The President of Germany
Angela Merkel – President of Germany, Photo credit: businessinsider.com
Key famous qualities and achievements
Angela Merkel is an ardent and reliable problem-solver, who considers all factors in play by stabilizing a crisis-ridden situation and brings a lasting solution, especially when urgently needed.
President Angela Merkel of Germany, is a tough negotiator, achieving her negotiating goals in ways that also allow all parties to reach compromise as evidenced in the financial crisis, the Brexit, and now the coronavirus pandemic crisis.
The Time Magazine 2015 person of the year, President Angela Merkel uses logical and strategic patience as well as unusual politics as a leadership style in her governance. She did not just make the list of the top 50 most popular women but also among the 10 most influential and powerful female leaders in the world in 2020
8. Anne Hidalgo – The Mayor of Paris and a woman leader in a global safer environment
Anne Hildalgo – The Mayor of Paris. Photo credit: newsweek.com
Great achievements that earned her popularity and influence as one of the top 50 most popular women in the world
Anne Hidalgo succeeded in turning Paris, the City of Light into a brilliant example of how cities can lead the transition to a cleaner and healthier environment by reducing the level of air pollution and making the air safer for breathing. She also made Paris become the city friendlier to pedestrians and bikers.
Anne Hidalgo, powerfully, brought global leaders together in 2015 to sign the Paris Agreement, setting a milestone for the world to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are warming our planet today at an increasing rate.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo is a farsighted, proactive, and influential woman leader who has established how the application of local action can solve the world’s environmental problem.
9. Arussi Unda – a female activist
Arussi Unda – a female activist. Photo credit: daliaempower.com
How she retained a spot among the top 50 most popular women in the world, 2020
Arussi Unda, a female activist from Veracruz, Mexico, called for a national women’s strike on March 9, 2020, and millions of women in Mexico stayed home from work and refused to care for others in response to her call – an influential power many famous women lack.
Arussi Unda, who retains a spot as one of the top 50 most popular women in the world, is an activist fighting against social vices meted against the female gender – maim and murder, kidnap, rape disappeared, unjust treatment, trafficking, and others
Her clear-minded call for a united front of all-female activist movements for an immediate stop to inequality and violence against women and her leadership as a spokesperson for the female activist organization – the Witches of the Sea (Las Brujas del Mar) have really astounded Mexico’s young generations.
Arussi Unda described Mexican women are the gatekeepers of the crumbling country, and she became more famous and influential for her remark in referring to the role of women in the democratic world when she said, ‘’If we stop, the world stops’’
10. Bonnie Castillo – A nurse and a union leader
Bonnie Castillo – A nurse and a union leader. Photo credit: nationalnursesunited.org
Popular qualities, attributes, and achievements
Bonnie Castillo is a famous societal healer and a popular farsighted leader and currently the executive director of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, the US nation’s largest union of registered nurses.
As a high-spirited union leader, Bonnie Castilla was quick to bring the government’s attention to the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) available to nurses across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bonnie Castillo also was influential for advocating against the COVID-19 redundancy that US nurses faced despite the essential frontline pressure they endured in caring for the coronavirus patients.
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11. Bilkis – an 82-year old female Indian activist
Bilkis – an 82-year old female Indian activist. Photo credit: freepressjournal.in
What made her emerge as one of the most famous women in the world
82-year-old old female Indian activist Bilkis made the list of top 50 most popular women in the world 2020 for being the voice of the marginalized and the symbol of resistance in India.
Bilkis, in giving hope and strength to activists and student leaders who were being thrown behind bars for standing up for the unpopular truth in an Indian democracy that was sliding into authoritarianism, inspired peaceful copycat protests across India.
The voices of women and minorities in India were being methodically drowned out by the majoritarian politics of Narendra Modi’s regime. at the time Bilkis, along with thousands of other women, joined her in Shaheen Bagh, a neighbourhood in New Delhi, India to stage a series of protests.
Bilkis sat in the midst of a crowd, surrounded by young female activists protesting with placards displaying verses of revolution against the regime of Prime Minister Modi from 8 a.m to midnight, and continued even in the cold winter season.
12. Camilla Rothe – a German infectious-disease specialist
Camilla Rothe – a German infectious-disease specialist. Photo credit: morganweb.de
Her great achievements in 2020
Camilla Rothe an infectious-disease specialist in Munich, Germany, was named among the top 50 most popular women for being the first to publish an article on asymptomatic coronavirus infection. Asymptomatic coronavirus infection – a situation where a large proportion—approximately 3 to 4 out of every 10 people with the infection do not show symptoms but are fully capable of spreading COVID-19.
Leading her medical team, Dr. Camilla Rothe documented symptomless coronavirus – a discovery that eventually confirmed in dozens of patient partners to be absolutely true and now is widely accepted even though it was first met with disbelief, criticism, and rejection, but eventually was confirmed in dozens of patient cohorts to be categorically true and now is widely accepted.
Dr. Camilla Rothe prevented further coronavirus spread and saved many lives because of her smart observation and discovery.
13. Cecilia Martinez – an advocate of and leader in safer environmental safety policies
Cecilia Martinez – an advocate of safer environmental policies. Photo credit: taosnews.com
Key qualities and achievements
Cecilia Martinez has dedicated her inspiring career to a moral imperative – the pursuance of environmental policy equity and justice. Cecilia Martinez is the co-founder and Executive Director at the Center for Earth, Energy, and Democracy (CEED)
In the demonstration of the fight for environmental justice, Celica Martinez is committed to, is ultimately a movement for human dignity and for our collective future.
Leading from the safe environmental project in the grassroots movement, Cecilia Martinez has helped in the hearing of suppressed and marginalized voices in communities, raising up the voices of communities that have been disproportionately harmed seeking environmental safety from toxic pollution having been subjected to different toxins. She has advocated fiercely for policies to protect them from suffering.
14. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir – female astronauts and space explorers
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir – female space explorers. Photo credit: timesofisrael.com
Great and heroic attributes and achievements that made influential
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are two famous women astronauts (space explorers) who the world, in general, will not forget for their spacewalk. Their completion of intellectually and physically demanding work in one of the most challenging circumstances in which humans operate—the orbital altitude of 250 miles, the velocity of 17,500 miles per hour—is credit-deserving without reservation. It is a job of physicality men could find difficult to accomplish.
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir executed a spacewalk (the first all-female spacewalk in 7hrs 17 minutes wearing space suits designed mostly in the 1970s when no US women astronauts had been in space.
Outside the spacewalk, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir also exited the International Space Station and successfully replaced a controller regulating the batteries that store the station’s solar power.
These strong, brave, courageous, able, capable, intelligent, skillful, and ambitious women pushing the boundaries of exploration are a great motivation to aspiring astronauts of both human genders.
15. Claire Babineaux-Fontenot – the leader of Feeding America
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot – the leader of Feeding America. Photo credit: zimbio.com
Her great achievements and why she is currently among the top 50 most popular women in the world of females
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot as the leader of Feeding American is working hard to provide food banks for about 54 million Americans who are faced with food insecurity this year – the number of children facing hunger could rise to 30% of the figure across the US.
Claire responded rapidly to meet increased needs when hunger surged and the global economy downturned because of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn in March.
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot’s Feeding America, in long time partnership with ‘My cooking and kids’ initiatives, the Yum-o! Organization and the Rachael Ray Foundation, have powerfully inspired first-hand front lines in the project.
Without Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, millions of people would lose access to food globally, and food-pantry lines would grow longer and longer. Her feeding the world makes it a better place to live.
16. Gabriela Cámara – a professional Mexican chef
Gabriela Cámara – a professional Mexican chef. Photo credit: masterclass.com
What made her famous and influential
Gabriela Cámara, as a chef and top Mexican cookery ambassador and culinary diplomats and presidential adviser, is an exemplary role model in showcasing the role of food far beyond the walls of a restaurant kitchen common to a commoner.
Gabriela Cámara is a rebirth famous and influential woman and one of the 50 most popular women in 2020, courageously creating her perfect chef career and the industry at large. The finest of her cultural legacy is evidenced in her two of the most iconic restaurant kitchens on the continent—Contramar in Mexico City and Cala in San Francisco
Outside being a chef professional, Gabriela Cámara walks the talk and she advocates for social justice for the marginalized whose voices are ‘’unheard’’ in the society.
Gabrielle Union – an advocate of social justice for Black women. Photo credit: allure.com
How she got listed among the topmost influential and powerful women
Gabrielle Union is famous for directing her resources towards advocating for the most marginalized in the society, including Black women and girls and unexpected and trans folks and remains among the top 50 most popular women in the world.
She was controversially disqualified as a judge on America’s Got Talent after calling out several reckonings of racial injustice. Many people in the limelight wouldn’t speak out against inconsiderateness in circumstances that Gabrielle Union would.
Gabrielle Union is a transparent influencer whose authenticity and straightforwardness are loved by her supporters and followers. She stands firmly on the true position of her life even in public.
18. Gwynne Shotwell – an astronautical (aerospace) engineer.
Gwynne Shotwell – an astronautical (aerospace) engineer. Photo credit: interactive.satellitetoday.com
Key qualities and professional achievements
Gwynne Shotwell provided the world an alternative to astronauts’ spacesuit for space travel and indeed featured as one of the 2020 top 50 most popular women in the world.
Having spent 10 years in the policy and analytical segments of the space sector and as a vice president for business development, Gwynne Shotwell succeeded in building the Falcon that manifests to more than 70 launches, together valued at more than $10 billion.
Gwynne Shotwell, a professional model engineer, and an excellent team player became SpaceX’s earliest employees when she joined them in 2002
Having joined them, Gwynne Shotwell rose swiftly to her current role of president and chief operating officer, and under her guidance, SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft, and the first to launch and recover astronauts.
19. Halsey – a musical artist
Halsey – a musical artist. Photo credit: globalnews.ca
How she became famous and popular
Halsey is enlisted among the most popular women artists in the world, having produced Manic her third album which was described as one of the most genuine pieces of musical work. She also collaborated with BTS a multiplatinum-selling pop group in the single “Boy With Luv”
Hasley is an amazingly talented artist and musician and an inspiration to her way-comers.
Halsey, another influential personality, does leave a person she meets without leaving a lasting artistic impression on him or her. She is an ambitious musician and performer and merits her inclusion among the 50 most famous women in 2020.
20. Jennifer Hudson – a professional singer, film artist, and actress
Jennifer Hudson – a professional singer, film artist, and actress. Photo credit: iconspng.com
Attributes and achievements that brought her influence
Jennifer Hudson, a calm, humble, and an inspiration to women of all cultural generations, a talented singer, and actress won an Oscar for Dreamgirls,
Jennifer Hudson is quite a professional film artist. She played the parts of the life of Aretha Franklin, who was the Queen of Soul and the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in the filming of Respect in 2019.
Jennifer Hudson is quite a powerful and famous personality, applying unnoticeable strength in everything she does successfully. She is an artist who made it as one of the 2020 50 most popular women. She is a great blessing to the movie industry and a representation of morals in the professional art world.
21. Jojo Siwa – a model artist
Jojo Siwa – a model artist. Photo credit: favpng.com
What brought her fame and popularity
Jojo Siwa is an outstanding positive female figure who has confidence in her work. Her rainbow ponytail is quite fun, mind-capturing, and adorable.
The popularity and influence of Jojo Siwa, a television personality, came as a great role model for children, always giving hope – a ray of sunshine to a world enveloped in darkness. Every child will love a moment to be part of Jojo Siwa’s YouTube channel. She is among the top 10 most popular women artists in the world today.
22. Julie K. Brown – a reporter and an investigator
Julie K. Brown – a reporter and an investigator. Photo credit: middletownpress.com
Her major efforts and achievements as one of the 50 most popular women
With Julie K. Brown’s effort and doggedness, Jeffrey Epstein, a sex offender and financier was brought to book.
Many media outlets had failed to report significantly on the involvement of Jeffrey Epstein in the sex scandal reporters because of his connections to political figures like US President Donald Trump and former US President Bill Clinton before Julie K. Brown’s explosive and expository report on the matter.
The relentless report of Julie Brown proved that Epstein’s accusers deserved to be heard more fully and his crimes to be exposed more thoroughly. Epstein had been convicted and some of the allegations against him disclosed.
The Miami Investigator is devoted to amplifying voices by publishing stories that have confronted influential personalities and powerful interests and encouraging reforms.
23. Julie Mehretu – a paint artist
Julie Mehretu – a paint artist. Photo credit: tadias.com
How she became one of the 50 most popular women in 2020
Julie Mehretu is famous for her abstract 3-D landscape painting often representing the socio-political chaos of our time and her overwhelming. The unique way of composition of her artwork propelled her to be listed among the 2020 top 10 most influential artists and 50 most popular women
Julie Mehretu uses her own language as a gateway to the expression of her works of art, revealing our relationship in space
She uniquely uses scientific approaches explicitly to architectural designs, reference maps, networks, and diagrams during the 2019 Venice Biennale’s 58th International Exhibition, “May You Live in Interesting Times,” – a distinguished rare quality many female artists lack.
Julie Mehretu’s splendid artworks which hold qualities of memory, history, global mobilities, inequities, and sense of place, send a message on experienced reality.
24. Kamala Harris – the elected Vice President of the US
Kamala Harris – the elected Vice President of the US. Photo credit: theguardian.com
Kamala’s strong and powerful political leadership, and the road to excellence
Kamala Harris is a strong and powerful political leader rooted in community development whose life and career have been characterized by a serious commitment to good governance and public service.
Kamala Harris’s election as the vice president of the US, alongside President-elect Joe Biden, is the realization of a dream that so many have struggled for so long to make possible but could not achieve. She is listed among TIME’s 50 most popular women in the world 2020 whose heart burns with passion, persistence, and dedication to social justice, equity, and fairness in society. She legislates strongly against racial discrimination even to the less-advantaged in US communities.
Young girls and women see in Kamala the embodiment of the beliefs and expectations to become forces to reckon with in the future.
She made history as the first black woman and the first Indian American in the history of politics to be nominated and elected as a vice president of the US, consequently became more famous and influential.
25. Kristalina Georgieva – IMF Managing Director
Kristalina Georgieva – IMF Managing Director. Photo credit: financialnigeria.com
Her qualities and achievements as an economic reform champion
Kristalina Georgieva is the first Bulgarian to become a managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a powerful champion of economic reforms in the European Commission. Her years at the World Bank not only gave her a global perspective but established a friendly relation with the US and Russia.
She is an environmental economist, a visionary and influential leader, and one of the 50 most popular women in the world 2020.
Kristalina Georgieva has matchless collaboration and problem-solving skills and combining big-picture assessments with definite actions to accomplish results.
Kristalina Georgieva has advanced plans to promote inclusive economic recovery from breakdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritizing health spending, fiscal stimuli, and debt restructurings for the poorest economies.
26. LASTESIS – performance artists
Perfomance ‘ínterventions’ qualities and achievements of LASTESIS
LASTESIS, the Chilean female artists, show today how famous art can be about changing the world – not just about fun and entertaining. LASTESIS created a popular international hit song and viral dance.
LASTESIS, made it to the top 10 most popular women artists and 50 most popular women in the world. Their central theme of the ‘intervention’ is a campaign against deeply ideological assumptions and ‘blame’ of female victims of circumstances by the political class and elites and call for females in the society to brace themselves up for a change.
The performance dance artists group performed “Un violador en tu camino” (“A Rapist in Your Path”), and also to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Santiago, Chile on Nov. 25, 2019, and it quickly became a global feminist anthem. The squats-features dance performance is now performed by activists in more than 52 countries of the world.
27. Lauren Gardner – the developer of COVID-19 real-time global data-tracking dashboard
Lauren Gardner – the developer of COVID-19 real-time global data-tracking dashboard. Photo credit: sciencemag.com
Her major achievements towards the influence
Lauren Gardner, an associate professor of engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) discovered a lack of reliable global coronavirus pandemic data-tracking resources and decided to develop a real-time dashboard themselves in one day with her graduate student Ensheng Dong. It went online on 22nd January 2020, and by early March, it was accessed more than a billion times per day.
Public-health authorities use the COVID-19 tracking dashboard to guide policies, featuring glaringly in emergency operation centers around the world. Researchers depend on Lauren Gardner’s tool for their analysis and modeling and apparently every media agency uses the JHU data dashboard as the basis for their reporting.
Lauren Gardner is listed as one of the 50 most popular women in the world 2020–a deserved and befitting achievement for taking a bold step first in providing a resource that solved a major public-health problem that would have resulted in more deaths.
28. Lina Attalah – an Egyptian journalist
Lina Attalah – an Egyptian journalist. Photo credit: egyptianstreets.com
Why she is one of the most recognized women in the world
Lina Attalah, the chief editor of a newsgroup in Egypt known as Mada Masr, got its office was raided and its journalists including Lina, got intimidated, arrested, and detained after it reported embarrassing news about the son of Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. She was named among the top 50 most powerful women in 2020.
She took courage and ensured Mada Masr’s website continued publishing even when the site was blocked by the authorities. Lina Attalah was ever prepared not to keep the world in dark over stories that should be made public which will bring trouble to the reporter.
Lina Attalah, an excellent team player, held hands with each other’s hands as they mentally grappled with the impact on their lives.
29. Lisa Nishimura – a former head, Netflix documentary films, and stand-up comedy
How she took a top spot among the 50 most popular women in the world
Lisa Nishimura was once the head of documentary films and stand-up comedy at Netflix but now oversees independent film as well. Her projects are full of compassion, sympathy, and understanding.
Lisa Nishimura is a staunch supporter of a female food show that explores different cultures and giving women the opportunity to aspire for greatness and achieve their life dreams.
She is the reason why stand-up specials from Hannah Gadsby and Ali Wong were possible for Nosrat and even got to see Wild Wild Country, Making a Murderer and Tiger King, three of the most talked-about shows in Netflix’s history—and a big reason the company has pulled ahead of the competition.
Lisa Nishimura is also the reason the filmmakers who collaborated with the Obamas won an Oscar last year for a heartbreaking story about cultural and economic clashes in the U.S.
30. MacKenzie Scott – a high profile philanthropist
MacKenzie Scott – a high-profile philanthropist. Photo credit: kuow.org
The road to her greatness and popularity
MacKenzie Scott might probably become one of the world’s known greatest philanthropists if her impact on philanthropy is continuously felt in the next few years.
MacKenzie Scott pledged with urgency to give the majority of her wealth back to society in 2019. In her words, ‘’ “It will take time and effort and care,” she wrote. “But I won’t wait. And I will keep at it until the safe is empty.”
She prioritized organizations led by people who have experienced first-hand the injustices they are fighting to the end—and drummed support for their good work so she deservedly named among the top 50 most popular women in the world.
Since making that statement within a space of 1 year, she has given $1.7 billion to 116 organizations, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and grassroots groups on the frontlines of racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ equity. To many organizations, MacKenzie Scott’s donation was the highest they had ever received so far.
31. Mary Kay Henry – A health workers’ union woman leader
Mary Kay Henry – A health workers’ union leader. Photo credit: businessinsider.com
What brought her fame and influence
Mary Kay Henry co-hosted a weekly web show called Walkout Wednesdays as a virtual post line aimed at protecting the needs and rights of health care workers in the US when governors started implementing shutdowns in March.
As the leader of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest labour unions in America, which represents millions of health care workers, among others, Mary Kay Henry powerfully and tirelessly continued to advocate and to win protections for workers on the front lines including PPE guarantees, hazard pay, and extended health care and paid sick leave, which earned her more popularity.
Mary Kay Henry is not only working to help the health care workers get to the polls but advocating for parity and giving the poor and low-income people in the US a voice and empowering them to rise up together and build a society that gives all US citizens equal opportunities. Mary Kay Henry was named as one of the 50 most popular women in the world
Maya Moore – a professional woman basketball player and social justice advocate. Photo credit: cbssports.com
Maya’s great and remarkable successes
Maya Moore is one of the 50 most popular women and the greatest winner in the history of women’s basketball in the world today, with multiple Woman National Basketball Association (WNBA) championships, Olympic gold medals, and back-to-back collegiate national titles.
As one of the most celebrated entertainer and famous athlete, who decided to relinquish playing professional basketball at the prime of her career to fight for reform of the U.S. criminal justice system, Maya Moore brought the same skill and determination that has made her one of the best basketball players in the world to her advocacy. The U.S. criminal-justice system is believed to favour the rich and guilty than the poor and innocent.
Her greatest and remarkable successes have been in the release of Jonathan Irons, who had spent more than 20 years in prison after being wrongly convicted.
33. Megan Rapinoe – a professional footballer and a female activist
Megan Rapinoe – a professional footballer and a female activist. Photo credit: themarysue.com
How Megan became popular and renowned
Megan Rapinoe and her teammates excitedly dominated on their way to a record fourth title, celebrating as 2019 Women World Cup – a way to show the world the best of American epitomes: hard work, strength, and emotion.
Megan Rapinoe’s impact goes far beyond the pitch.—a proud feminist and an out gay advocate—refuses to be silenced.
Since the past year, Megan Rapinoe’s activism for gender pay equality, racial justice, and LGBTQ rights has become as iconic as her fabulous pink hair. She makes it as one of the 50 most popular women and one of the influential female soccer players.
Megan Rapinoe fearlessly and powerfully uses her voice – an apparent threat to her critics, to make the world a more equal place for all no matter your politics, ethnicity, or gender, and millions of her fans around the world are greatly inspired.
34. Megan Thee Stallion – an American rapper, singer, and songwriter
Megan Thee Stallion – an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Photo credit: vanityfair.com
Why she made it to the top 50
Megan The Stallion has been described as an epitome of persistence, pulling herself up by her bootstraps. She stands as one of the 50 most popular women artists in 2020.
She is an ambitious and committed entertainer. Megan The Stallion is strong even in predicaments – rising high up in the music industry despite losing a good number of her family members—her mother, her father, her grandmother and still pursuing our education. She has a winning spirit.
It’s stimulating to see Megan The Stallion become a platinum-selling artist with the viral hit “Hot Girl Summer” and multiple No. 1 in best songs in the past year, “Savage” and “WAP.”
35. Michaela Coel – an entertainer/a comedienne
Michaela Coel – an entertainer/a comedienne. Photo credit: independent.co.uk
Michaela Cole’s achievements and successes
Michaela Coel produced hilarious and funny moments and entertainment in her two shows: Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You
Michaela Coel’s work displays the other side of us that is infrequently captured onscreen. She is a made artist who doesn’t need her audience’s approval or applause to engulf them in a world of ecstasy, speaking truth with power.
The British entertainer made the 2020 top 10 most influential and famous female artists and the top 50 most powerful women in the world.
36. Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi – Speaker of US Congress
Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi – Speaker of US Congress. Photo credit: usatoday.com
Why she is listed among the top 50 most popular women in the world
Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi is a famous diplomat and negotiator who took office in January 2019 as the Speaker of the most diverse Congress ever, amidst the crisis rocking the US.
She is a principled, strict, and powerful political leader and one of the most influential women leaders in 2020 who led the way through a historic impeachment of President Donald Trump in an intense and clear-headed manner.
Nancy Pelosi was determined to overcome several challenges facing the US including border-caging of children; the economic recession due to COVID-19 pandemic; tension in connection to the death of George Floyd, a likely war with Iran over the killing of their top general and not excluding the longest shutdown of US government in history.
Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi successfully worked on the COVID-19 pandemic-relief CARES Act and on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement legislation to the benefit of US citizens.
37. Naomi Osaka – a Japanese professional tennis player
Naomi Osaka – a US professional tennis player. Photo credit: enca.com
Key qualities and successes of Naomi Osaka
Naomi Osaka is an incredible, female Japanese tennis player whose talents and gifts as well as her voice and status to honour the preciousness of Black and brown lives.
It took Naomi Osaka more than focussed and courageous effort in addition to graceful humility to get to where she is in athletic performance – winning at the biggest stages of the competitions. She is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion and is the reigning champion at the US Open.
Naomi Osaka got listed among the top 50 most popular women in 2020.
38. Nemonte Nenquimo – The President of the Waorani of Pastaza
Nemonte Nenquimo – The President of the Waorani of Pastaza. Photo credit: amazonfrontlines.org
Great qualities and successes of the Amazon woman
President Nemonte Nenquimo is another influential leader who hasn’t appeared at the central stage that much. The President of the Waorani of Pastaza and a co-founder of the Ceibo Alliance was powerful enough to restore hope to Indigenous communities everywhere, all too often facing overwhelming odds of their own.
Powerful, popular, and influential Waorani President Nemonte Nenquimo achieved that feat when she brought forth a lawsuit – the judgment of which preserved her Ecuadorian ancestral home from imminent destruction.
President Nemonte Nenquimo’s a relentless freedom fighter and never surrenders to difficult situations – which part of why she was nominated as one of the 50 most popular women in 2020.
In keeping to her promise, she has continued to be a voice and advocate for her community She is determined to continue to defend the forest that she loves against industries and the oil companies’ destruction activities. She is a great inspiratory, and a world leader worth emulating.
39. Phoebe Waller-Bridge – an English actress, writer, and producer
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s reasons for her popularity
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s 2019 Emmys glamourous and stylish popular internet photo “My vision board is just this photo 500 times” and the famous “The Power She Holds.” drew thousands of tweets in addition to the story that followed that gave the ecstasy image a perfect literary landing.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the executive producer and was the showrunner of the electrifying hit TV shows Fleabag and Killing Eve. Her one-woman play Fleabag was adapted into a show that turned her into everyone’s favourite self-sabotaging maker of mischief.
She has a habit of creating female antiheroines in a fashion that seemed previously reserved for male characters. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a raw talent, possesses razor-sharp predispositions, killer wit and she is someone you would love to work with. Phoebe Waller-Bridge co-wrote the screenplay for the new Bond film and with these achievements, she became one of the top 50 most popular women and influential females in 2020.
40. Rebecca Gomperts – a Dutch physician and an activist
Rebecca Gomperts – a Dutch physician and an activist. Photo credit: hani.co.kr
Major attributes and achievements of Dr. Rebecca Gomperts
Rebecca Gomperts is a Dutch physician and a brave activist.
She has been spending her career expanding abortion access around the world, using everything from sea voyages to internet drones to reach the people who rely on her intervention—especially those in rural, restricted, and dangerous areas.
Rebecca Gomperts’s popularity and influence in 2020 came to the limelight as she campaigned for a public-health-related issue – abortion while her colleagues in the profession were ideally-busy fighting the pandemic.
Rebecca Gomperts is continuing in her fight to providing early, safe remote abortion safe abortion remotely in the form of pills through her organization, Aids Access. In this moment of fear and uncertainty, Gomperts is one of the 50 most popular women who is an example of hope, standing up for the principle that safe abortion is a human right.
41. Serena Gomez – an American singer, actress, and producer.
Selena Gomez – a musical artist. Photo credit: teenvogue.com
Why Serena did not miss out in the top 50 most popular women 2020
Selena Gomez is one of the most versatile popular female artists in 2020 for her commitment to the entertainment industry and artistry. She has undivided dedication and passion to the career, venturing into artwork production and cooking as well. She is also a strong social media influencer and one of the 50 most popular women in the world even in more than one nominations.
Selena Gomez courageously powerful and she uses her global influential power in service of encouraging people to realize their full potentials – a quality that has added to her fame.
Selena Gomez has famously released three albums; executive-produced the Netflix docuseries Living Undocumented, and featured in a cooking show on HBO Max, Selena + Chef, and will star in and executive-produce the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building.
She has launched a beauty line with a projected to raise 100 million dollars years for mental-health services in marginalized communities intended to be raised before the end of 10 years. She advocates for immigrant rights in America.
42. Shari Redstone – a TV magnate and businesswoman
Shari Redstone – a TV magnate and businesswoman. Photo credit: bloomberg.com
Why Shari is powerful and influential
Ultimately proving her doubters wrong after becoming the chairperson of ViacomCBS, Shari Redstone was able to overcome all challenges that stood her way in the takeover of her father’s family business. The legal bickering over who would succeed her father had lasted for over 10 years.
While creating a balance between possessive strength and sympathy, Shari Redstone proved herself every bit like a powerful shrewd but graceful businessperson – a resemblance of her father’s extraordinary business acumen.
Shari Redstone, who can show human face in her business dealings successfully lead the $12 billion mergers of CBS and Viacom last year and now plans to expand the media entertainment business into new technologies, digital streaming, and international markets.
Shari Redstone is a genuine leader, innovator, and entrepreneur and not just one of the most powerful women in Hollywood but one of the 50 most popular women in the world today.
43. Shi Zhengli – a Chinese virologist
Shi Zhengli – a Chinese virologist. Photo credit: asia.nikkei.com
Shi Zhengli’s contributions and how became renowned
Shi Zhengli was the leader of the first scientific team to isolate SARS-CoV-2. Shi Zhengli was able to identify its source – from bats despite being novel to scientists.
She had earlier discovered bats infected with SARS-like viruses in 2003 and even more bat-caused coronaviruses in caves in China, resulting in her warning of an impending coronavirus outbreak in 2015.
The scientific accomplishments and foresight of Shi Zhengli, a Chinese virologist and a director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, are vital bold steps to stopping more coronaviruses from killing people and devastating humanity in the years to come. Foe these achievements, Shi is regarded as one of the 50 most popular women in the world.
44. Shiori Ito – a Japanese journalist
Shiori Ito – a Japanese journalist. Photo credit: vanguardngr.com
What brought her influence and popularity
In December 2019, Shiori Ito won a civil suit against a man close to political power for sexually harassing her.
Her campaign against sexual harassment #MeToo movement has powerfully motivated many Japanese women into promoting the movement, resulting in a national flower protest – a women’s movement against sexual harassment in Japan – some were carried out by high-ranking Japanese officeholders.
Shiori Ito’s movement, with the support of victimized women, also led to activism to reform criminal law. Japan is finally rejecting sexual violence against women. She makes it among the 50 most popular women in the world today.
45. Sister Norma Pimentel – a Catholic Church charity missionary
Sister Norma Pimentel – a Catholic Church charity missionary. Photo credit: globalsistersreport.org
Sister Pimentel’s faithful charity missionary service to mankind
Sister Norma Pimentel has been on the front lines of mercy for three decades, supporting migrants who are seeking refuge in the U.S. along Texas’ border with Mexico – a service that has earned her a position among the top 50 most popular women in the world.
As executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, Sister Norma Pimentel has compassionately directed efforts to provide shelter, food, sanctuary, and comfort to maltreated people. Her organization has housed and assisted well over 100,000 people at the border.
Her charity missionary work has taken on the greater importance of social justice as she has acted and preached with compassion, love, and acceptance to the vulnerable.
Her boundless hope and fearless compassion have earned her the nickname of “the Pope’s favourite nun.” Sister Norma Pimentel will keep changing the world, one act of kindness at a time.
46. Tomi Adeyemi – a Nigerian-American novelist, and writing trainer.
Tomi Adeyemi – a Nigerian-American novelist, and writing trainer. Photo credit: connectnigeria.com
Key qualities and achievement of a great writer and trainer
Tomi Adeyemi who is among the top 5 most influential Africans in 2020 is also listed in the top 50 most popular women in the world. Tomi Adeyemi is a 27-year-old Nigerian-American novelist and writing trainer.
Her first book ‘’ Children of Blood and Bone’’ which won the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Debut Novel remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a record of 90 weeks. Fox 2000 has purchased the film adaptation rights to ‘’Children of Blood and Bone’’. The book was written in 2018.
Another book of hers about the Kingdom of Orisha also won the 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Tomi Adeyemi was described by John Boyega, a British actor as ‘a god of ideas’ and as an inspirator for young people. John Boyega wrote in wrote Adeyemi’s tribute, describing her as a creator of the world of actors for all.
47. Tourmaline – an activist, artist, and film producer
Tourmaline – an activist, artist, and film producer. Photo credit: artnews.com
What Tourmaline has achieved and why she is famous
Tourmaline, an activist, artist, and film producer is renowned for making digital videos and write-ups of forgotten archived materials, making real proof of the cultural intertwine to the communal existence of humans and their contributions to the world. Tourmaline is listed among the top 50 most popular women in 2020
Tourmaline used a short film about the life of a black trans woman – Salacia, to show people themselves, making a strong case that trans people have always been here. Salacia made its way permanently to the Museum of Modern Art’s collection.
48. Tsai Ing-wen – The President of Taiwan
President of Taiwan – Tsai Ing-wen. Photo credit: economictimes.indiatimes.com
Qualities of the influential Tsai Ing-wen and her emergence as a world popular leader
Taiwan’s president, President Tsai Ing-wen, a fearless freedom fighter, has been described as ‘’ a signal lamp casting out China’s looming shadow’’ byTed Cruz, a Republican Senator from Texas, US. She stays in the topmost position in our list of the50 most popular women in the world and one of the most influential and famous presidents.
President Tsai Ing-wen’s government is unprepared to be drawn in or comply with the Chinese Communist Party even though Taiwan is just 100 miles away from mainland China and she does not panic despite China’s offensive capability as the world’s largest communist regime lingers.
The self-made and highly resistant and powerful Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has been firm in not giving in to China’sregional ambitions despite pessimists having a notion that Taiwan is too small to resist Chinese dominance.
The freedom and rights of Taiwan is paramount to her than involve in ‘’political romance’’ with Xi Jinping-led China government.
49. Ursula von der Leyen – The President of the European Commission
Why the European Commission President is famous
Ursula von der Leyen, a top-ranking popular German politician trained medical doctor who has served both her country as Germany’s first female Defence Minister and Europe as the first female President of the European Commission
Ursula von der Leyen is a dogged influential and powerful woman who takes so much delight in turning challenges into opportunities; adversities into posterities and weaknesses into strengths.
She is famous in TIME’s most influential persons 2020 also for aspiring to a Europe-free carbon-neutral by the year 2050, fit for the 21st-century information age, and resilient to global challenges.
Ursula von der Leyen is an accomplished multitasker evidenced in her proposed €750 billion COVID-19 crisis recovery fund, which was endorsed by EU leaders in July – a historic feat she achieved through are calm composure and personality as well as a quality leadership style.
50. Waad-al-Kateab – an assumed Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist.
Waad-al-Kateab – an assumed Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist. Photo credit: timeout.com
How she took a center stage in journalism and became popular
Waad-al-Kateab, a Moslem refugee woman, is influential and famous for two achievements. She took heart-stopping footage from the last hospital in east Aleppo, Syria, which dominated news boards. She also told the story of the Syrian War through a movie – Sama, a multi-award-winning film. She makes it among the 50 most popular women in the world
Waad-al-Kateab’s Sama showed us the endless hope of extremely brutalized people in the name of war.
Even though Sama was criticized for their lack of diversity, Waad-al-Kateab, told a story whose heroes are ordinary people risking everything to live free from oppression: doctors working under fire to save the lives of the injured, teachers educating children in underground classrooms even as bomb explosives blast outside the buildings
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