Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
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Vilma Espín
One of the first women in Cuba to study chemical engineering, graduating from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois was mostly known as one of the leading Cuban revolutionaries, feminist, and wife of Raúl Castro.
Yeo Bee Yin
Malaysian chemical engineer and politician
Dr Eugenia Kumacheva
Ukrainian-Canadian chemical engineer
Fazila Samadova
Azerbaijani academician, chemical engineer-technologist whose career at the Chemistry and Technology of Oils department, Azerbaijan State Institute of Petrochemical Processes led to her becoming a professor (1987), and extremely prolific author of reports and patents.
Dr Izzet Orujova
Initially a film actress, Izzet Khanim Mirzaaga Orujova (1909-1983) graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University in Baku as a petrochemical technologist (1932).
Janez Lawson
She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Dr Judy Raper
Hungarian-Australian chemical engineer
Dr Christine Grant
2022 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Dr Dorothy Quiggle
Petrochemical engineering specialist Dorothy Quiggle (1903-93) may be considered to be the first American woman to have a full career in chemical engineering.