# List of women in mathematics

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education,: xii the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests.
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## A

* Karen Aardal (born 1961), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher
* Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator
* Izabela Abramowicz (1889–1973), Polish mathematician and mathematics educator
* Louise Doris Adams (1889–1965), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association
* Rachel Blodgett Adams (1894–1982), American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College
* Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education
* Amandine Aftalion (born 1973), French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing
* Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor
* Ilka Agricola (born 1973), German expert on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics
* Nkechi Agwu (born 1962), African American ethnomathematician
* Dorit Aharonov (born 1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing
* Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), American topologist who became a transportation economist in the US civil service
* Noreen Sher Akbar, Pakistani fluid dynamicist
* Shabnam Akhtari, Iranian number theorist
* Asuman Aksoy, Turkish-American functional analyst
* Meike Akveld, Swiss knot theorist and mathematics educator
* Fatiha Alabau (born 1961), French expert in control of partial differential equations, president of French applied mathematics society
* Mara Alagic, Serbian mathematics educator, editor-in-chief of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
* Lara Alcock, British mathematics educator and author
* Helen Popova Alderson (1924–1972), Russian and British mathematician and translator, wrote on quasigroups and reciprocity laws
* Grace Alele-Williams (1932–2022), first woman to lead a Nigerian university
* Aldona Aleškevičienė-Statulevičienė (1936–2017), Lithuanian probability theorist
* Stephanie B. Alexander, American differential geometer
* Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960), second female and fourth overall mathematics PhD from the University of Wisconsin
* Linda J. S. Allen, American mathematician and mathematical biologist
* Elizabeth S. Allman (born 1965), American mathematical biologist
* Ann S. Almgren, American applied mathematician who works on computational simulations of supernovae and white dwarfs
* Melania Alvarez, Mexican-Canadian mathematics educator, organizer of summer mathematics camps for indigenous students
* Yvette Amice (1936–1993), French expert on p-adic analysis who became president of the French mathematical society
* Divsha Amirà (1899–1966), Israeli geometer and mathematics educator
* T. A. Sarasvati Amma (1918–2000), Historian of ancient Indian mathematics
* Astrid an Huef, New Zealand expert on functional analysis, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
* Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematical physicist, winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize
* Beverly Anderson (born 1943), American mathematician, director of minority programs for Mathematical Sciences Education Board
* Kirsti Andersen (born 1941), Danish historian of mathematics
* Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (1928–2018), Romanian complex analyst
* Hajnal Andréka (born 1947), Hungarian researcher in algebraic logic
* Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), algebraic geometer, first female PhD from the University of California, Berkeley
* Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869–1951), one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science
* Lidia Angeleri Hügel (born 1960), Italian expert on tilting theory and silting theory
* Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini (1908–2015), Chilean mathematician and mathematics educator
* Kathleen Antonelli (1921–2006), Irish-American programmer of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer
* Paola Antonietti (born 1980), Italian numerical analyst, applies domain decomposition methods to geophysical simulation
* Noriko H. Arai (born 1962), Japanese mathematical logician and artificial intelligence researcher
* Crista Arangala, American numerical analyst, textbook author, and international educator
* Carolina Araujo, Brazilian algebraic geometer
* Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Mexican graph theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society
* Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1730–1825), Italian translator of Stephen Hales, mathematician, physicist and noble
* Esther Arkin, Israeli-American researcher in operations research and computational geometry
* Sandra Arlinghaus, founder of the Institute of Mathematical Geography
* Beulah Armstrong (1895–1965), American mathematician, University of Illinois
* Marie-Claude Arnaud, French expert in dynamical systems
* Mary Nicholas Arnoldy (1893–1985), American nun and mathematician
* Fuensanta Aroca, Spanish-Mexican tropical geometer
* Elayne Arrington, American aerospace engineer, expert on Soviet aircraft
* Sharon Arroyo, American operations researcher in aircraft manufacture
* Michèle Artigue (born 1946), French expert in mathematics education
* Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003), German-American mathematician, photographer, and journal editor
* Shiri Artstein (born 1978), Israeli mathematician specializing in convex geometry and asymptotic geometric analysis
* Marcia Ascher (1935–2013), American ethnomathematician
* Winifred Asprey (1917–2007), helped establish the first computer science lab at Vassar
* Hilda Assiyatun, Indonesian graph theorist, president of Indonesian Combinatorial Society
* Michèle Audin (born 1954), French researcher in symplectic geometry
* Bonnie Averbach (1933–2019), American mathematics and actuarial educator and author
* Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (died 2021), American biomathematician and public health scientist
* Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), English engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, winner of the Hughes Medal

## B

* Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist
* Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990), American mathematician, namesake of Kansas University mathematics library
* Christine Bachoc (born 1964), French expert on coding theory and kissing numbers
* Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University
* Jenny Baglivo (born 1948), American mathematician, statistician, and book author
* Hajer Bahouri (born 1958), Franco-Tunisian mathematician interested in partial differential equations
* Ann E. Bailie (born 1935), American mathematician and space scientist, discovered that the earth is pear-shaped
* Frances Ellen Baker (1902–1995), American mathematician and number theorist
* Kitty Baker (1912–2014), American mathematics educator, artist and weaver, and author
* Rose Baker, British physicist, mathematician, and statistician
* Ruth Baker, British mathematical biologist interested in pattern formation and morphogenesis
* Rena Bakhshi (born 1981), Dutch complex network theorist
* Viviane Baladi (born 1963), Swiss-French expert on dynamical systems
* Jennifer Balakrishnan, American number theorist who solved the "cursed curve"
* Deborah Loewenberg Ball, American mathematics education researcher
* Cristina Ballantine, Romanian-born American algebraic combinatorist and number theorist
* Catherine Bandle (born 1943), Swiss expert on differential equations and isoperimetric inequalities
* Selenne Bañuelos (born 1985), Mexican-American mathematician and mathematical biologist
* Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
* Grace Marie Bareis (1875–1962), American group theorist, first mathematics Ph.D. at Ohio State, and founding member of the MAA
* Nina Bari (1901–1961), Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series
* Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005), American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
* Mildred Barnard (1908–2000), Australian biometrician, mathematician and statistician
* Janet Barnett, American mathematician known for integrating the history of mathematics into her teaching
* Ida Barney (1886–1982), American mathematics professor and astronomer
* Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale
* Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics
* Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA
* June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics
* Jean Bartik (1924–2011), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
* Martha Helen Barton (1891–1971), American mathematician and professor
* Estelle Basor (born 1947), American mathematician interested in operator theory and the theory of random matrices
* Marjorie Batchelor, American mathematician known for Batchelor's theorem on supermanifolds
* Grace Bates (1914–1996), one of few women in the United States to be granted a PhD in mathematics in the 1940s
* Lynn Batten (born 1948), Canadian immigrant to Australia, researcher in finite geometries and cryptography
* Helga Baum (born 1954), German differential geometer
* Patricia E. Bauman, studies the mathematics of liquid crystals and superconductors
* Karin Baur, Swiss combinatorial representation theorist
* Agnes Sime Baxter (1870–1917), second Canadian and fourth North American woman to earn a mathematics PhD
* Margaret Bayer, American mathematician working in polyhedral combinatorics
* Pilar Bayer (born 1946), Spanish number theorist
* Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (born 1951), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups
* Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019), British mathematician, contributed to the traveling salesperson problem
* Karine Beauchard (born 1978), French control theorist
* Agnès Beaudry, Canadian-American stable homotopy theorist
* Miriam Becker (1909–2000), American mathematician whose career became a test case for unionization and academic tenure
* Astrid Beckmann (born 1957), German mathematician, mathematics educator, physicist, and academic administrator
* May Beenken (1901–1988), American mathematician
* Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
* Mary Beisiegel, American mathematics educator
* Marion Beiter (1907–1982), American mathematician, expert on cyclotomic polynomials
* sarah-marie belcastro, American algebraic geometer, editor of books on mathematics and fiber arts
* Hélène Bellosta (1946–2011), French historian of mathematics in medieval Islam
* Alexandra Bellow (born 1935), Romanian researcher in ergodic theory, probability and analysis
* Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian researcher in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry
* Amel Ben Abda, Tunisian applied mathematician
* Suzan Rose Benedict (1873–1942), first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Michigan
* Georgia Benkart (1947–2022), American mathematician, expert on Lie algebras
* Alona Ben-Tal, Israeli and New Zealand applied mathematician, models human and bird breathing
* Deborah J. Bennett (born 1950), American mathematics educator and popular mathematics book author
* Sylvie Benzoni (born 1967), French expert in fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, director of the Institut Henri Poincaré
* Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist, researcher in computational molecular biology
* Marsha Berger (born 1953), American researcher in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and parallel computing
* Tanja Bergkvist (born 1974), Swedish mathematician and anti-feminist activist
* Julie Bergner, American expert on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and higher category theory
* Nicole Berline (born 1944), French researcher on index theory of elliptic differential operators
* Natalia Berloff, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge
* Leah Berman (born 1976), American discrete geometer
* Christine Bernardi (1955–2018), French expert on numerical analysis of partial differential equations
* Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), applied mathematician, first female president of the MAA
* Inga Berre (born 1978), Norwegian applied mathematician, models porous media and geothermal systems
* Valérie Berthé (born 1968), French researcher in symbolic dynamics, combinatorics on words, and discrete geometry
* Andrea Bertozzi (born 1965), American researcher in partial differential equations, studies mathematics of urban crime
* Nadine Bezuk, American mathematics educator, president and executive director of Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
* Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (1938–2009), professor of combinatorics and head of mathematics at the University of Mumbai
* Ushadevi Bhosle (born 1949), Indian expert on vector bundles
* Francesca Biagini (born 1973), Italian-German probability theorist and financial mathematician
* Ginestra Bianconi, Italian network scientist
* Lydia Bieri (born 1972), Swiss-American expert on general relativity, gravity waves, and the history of cosmology
* Anna Maria Bigatti, Italian algebraist, developer of CoCoA
* Hester Bijl, Dutch professor of numerical mathematics and academic administrator
* Miggy Biller, British mathematician and mathematics educator
* Sara Billey (born 1968), American algebraic combinatorialist
* Katalin Bimbó (born 1963), Canadian mathematical logician and proof theorist
* Christina Birkenhake (born 1961), German algebraic geometer
* Joan Birman (born 1927), American braid and knot theorist
* Laure Blanc-Féraud (born 1963), French applied mathematician and image processing researcher
* Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American numerical analyst
* Roswitha Blind, German convex geometer and politician
* Karen M. Bliss, American applied mathematician specializing in biomedical applications and materials science
* Lenore Blum (born 1942), distinguished professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
* Jo Boaler (born 1964), British-American promoter of mathematics education reform and equitable mathematics classrooms
* Mary L. Boas (1917–2010), author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
* Christine Böckmann (born 1955), German numerical analyst, expert in atmospheric lidar
* Graciela Boente, Argentine mathematical statistician known for her research in robust statistics
* Neda Bokan (born 1947), Serbian differential geometer
* Natashia Boland (born 1967), Australian mathematician and operations researcher
* Sylvie Boldo, French expert in formal verification of numerical computation
* Aline Bonami, French mathematical analyst, president of the Société mathématique de France
* Petra Bonfert-Taylor, German-American complex analyst and engineering educator
* Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (born 1976), French numerical analyst
* Alicia Boole Stott (1860–1940), Irish-English four-dimensional geometer
* Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), self-taught author of didactic works on mathematics
* Kathleen Booth (1922–2022), British mathematician and pioneer of assembly language computer programming
* Liliana Borcea, Romanian-American applied mathematician, expert on wave propagation
* Valentina Borok (1931–2004), Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who studied partial differential equations
* Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684–1777), Genovese mathematician and scientist, discovered Clélie curve
* Liouba Bortniker (1860 – after 1903), Russian-French mathematician, first woman agrégée in mathematics, first winner of Peccot prize
* Fernanda Botelho (born 1957), Portuguese-American functional analyst
* Julia Böttcher, German graph theorist
* Mary Michel Boulus (1926–2012), American Catholic nun, mathematics teacher, and college president
* Anne Bourlioux, Canadian expert in turbulent combustion and world record holder in indoor rowing
* Élisabeth Bouscaren (born 1956), French mathematician who studies the connections between algebraic geometry and model theory
* Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), French combinatorialist
* Anne Boutet de Monvel (born 1948), French applied mathematician and mathematical physicist
* Debra Boutin, American mathematician, expert on the symmetries of graphs
* Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947), African-American mathematician and academic administrator
* Lis Brack-Bernsen (born 1946), Danish and Swiss mathematician, historian of science, and historian of mathematics
* Mary Bradburn (1923–2000), British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
* Elizabeth Bradley (born 1961), American expert in nonlinear dynamical systems, competed in 1988 Olympics
* Lillian K. Bradley (1921–1995), first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas
* Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist
* Priscilla Braislin (1838–1888), first professor of mathematics at Vassar College
* Leila Bram (1927–1979), head of mathematics for Office of Naval Research
* Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953), Mexican algebraic geometer
* Bodil Branner (born 1943), founder of European Women in Mathematics, chair of the Danish Mathematical Society
* Hel Braun (1914–1986), German number theorist
* Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian researcher in delay differential equations and difference equations
* Loretta Braxton (1934–2019), American mathematician
* Marilyn Breen (born 1944), American geometer
* Tara E. Brendle, American low-dimensional topologist and combinatorial group theorist
* Susanne Brenner, expert in the numerical solution of differential equations
* Sonja Brentjes (born 1951), German historian of Islamic mathematics and cartography
* Diane Briars (born 1951), American mathematics educator, advocate for education reform, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Kathrin Bringmann (born 1977), German number theorist, expert on mock theta functions, winner of SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
* Ruth Britto, American mathematical physicist
* Jill Britton (1944–2016), Canadian mathematics educator, author of educational books on mathematics
* Bárbara M. Brizuela, American researcher on mathematics education in early childhood and elementary school
* Anne Broadbent, Canadian researcher on quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information
* Tamara Broderick, American mathematician and computer scientist who works in machine learning and Bayesian inference
* Lia Bronsard (born 1963), Canadian expert on interface dynamics, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
* Margaret Brown, British mathematics educator
* Susan Brown (1937–2017), English fluid mechanics researcher, possibly second female mathematics professor in UK
* Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics
* Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist, president of l'association femmes et mathématiques
* Karen Brucks (1957–2017), American mathematician, expert on one-dimensional dynamical systems
* Maria Bruna (born 1984), Spanish applied mathematician known for stochastic modelling of multiscale phenomena
* Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
* Ranee Brylinski (born 1957), American mathematician known for her research in representation theory and quantum logic gates
* Evelyn Buckwar, German-Austrian expert on stochastic differential equations
* Alina Bucur, American analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician
* Lilya Budaghyan, Armenian-Norwegian cryptographer
* Annalisa Buffa (born 1973), Italian specialist in numerical analysis for partial differential equations
* Marta Bunge (1938–2022), Argentine-Canadian category theorist
* Angelika Bunse-Gerstner (born 1951), German expert on numerical linear algebra
* Regina S. Burachik, Argentine-Australian researcher in convex analysis, functional analysis and non-smooth analysis
* Almut Burchard, German-Canadian functional analyst, probability theorist, and communication network analyst
* Marilyn Burns (born 1941), American mathematics educator and author of children's books on mathematics
* Ellen Burrell (1850–1938), American mathematician
* Gail F. Burrill, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics
* Edith Bush (1882–1977), American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University
* Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
* Marjorie V. Butcher (1925–2016), American actuarial mathematician, first woman mathematics instructor at Michigan, first woman professor at Trinity College Connecticut
* Lynne Butler (born 1955), American combinatorialist and mathematical statistician
* Margaret K. Butler (1924–2013), computer programmer, director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne
* Helen Byrne, British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist

## C

* María Emilia Caballero, Mexican probability theorist
* Angelina Cabras (1898–1993), Italian mathematician, physicist, and theoretical mechanics professor
* Fioralba Cakoni, Albanian expert on inverse scattering theory
* Maria-Carme Calderer, Spanish-American researcher in applied mathematics
* Nora Calderwood (1896–1985), Scottish mathematician, namesake of Birmingham University's Calderwood Prize
* Helen Calkins (1893–1970), American mathematician and professor
* Daniela Calvetti, Italian-American mathematician whose work connects Bayesian statistics with numerical analysis
* Erika Tatiana Camacho (born 1974), Mexican-American mathematical biologist
* Lucy Campbell, geophysical fluid dynamics researcher from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada
* Sue Ann Campbell, Canadian applied mathematician and computational neuroscientist, president of Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society
* Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883–1968), British mathematician, first woman to complete her PhD in mathematics at the University of Marburg
* Naiomi Cameron, American combinatorist, vice president of National Association of Mathematicians
* Patricia Campbell, American mathematics educator
* María Antònia Canals (1930–2022), Spanish mathematics educator and recreational mathematician
* Sunčica Čanić, Croatian-American expert in modeling the cardiovascular system and devices for treating it
* Ana Cannas da Silva (born 1968), Portuguese mathematician specializing in symplectic geometry and geometric topology
* Barbara Canright (1920–1997), American human computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
* Yaiza Canzani, Spanish and Uruguayan mathematical analysis, known for work in spectral geometry and microlocal analysis
* Mireille Capitaine, French researcher on random matrices and free probability theory
* Lucia Caporaso, Italian algebraic geometer
* Marian Palmer Capps (1901–2001), American mathematician and leader of prominent African-American women's societies
* Ana Caraiani, Romanian-American IMO medalist, Putnam fellow, expert in algebraic number theory and the Langlands program
* Olivia Caramello (born 1984), Italian topos theorist
* Alessandra Carbone, Italian mathematician and computer scientist, studies protein interactions in muscular dystrophy
* Sally Elizabeth Carlson (1896–2000), first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Minnesota
* Debra Carney, American mathematics educator
* Ana Carpio, Spanish applied mathematician
* María J. Carro (born 1961), Spanish mathematical analyst
* Anna Cartan (1878–1923), French mathematician, teacher and textbook author, student of Marie Curie
* Coralia Cartis, Romanian expert on compressed sensing, numerical analysis, and regularization methods in optimization
* Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos
* María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant
* Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
* Emma Castelnuovo (1913–2014), Italian mathematics educator and textbook author
* Eleonora Catsigeras (born 1956), Uruguayan mathematician, applies dynamical systems in neuroscience
* Catherine Cavagnaro (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and aerobatic aviator
* Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947), English pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics
* Frances Cave-Browne-Cave (1876–1965), English mathematician and computer scientist, taught at Girton College, Cambridge
* Anny Cazenave (born 1944), French space geodesist, pioneer in satellite altimetry
* Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian functional analyst, daughter of Communist leader
* Elena Celledoni (born 1967), Italian-Norwegian expert on numerical analysis, Lie groups, and structure-preserving algorithms
* Vivien Challis, Australian Applied mathematician, expert in topology optimization
* Sue Chandler, author of English secondary-school mathematics textbooks
* Melody Chan, American expert in combinatorial commutative algebra, graph theory, and tropical geometry
* Sun-Yung Alice Chang (born 1948), Chinese-American mathematical analyst, member of National Academy of Sciences
* Josephine Chanler (1906–1992), American mathematician
* Mei-Chu Chang, Taiwanese-American expert in algebraic geometry and combinatorial number theory
* Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958), Indian-American expert in quantum algebra
* Ruth Charney (born 1950), American expert on geometric group theory and Artin groups, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
* Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), first woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics in France and second to obtain a faculty position there
* Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French translator and commentator of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica
* Françoise Chatelin (1941–2020), French applied mathematician and numerical analyst
* Indira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian low-dimensional geometer
* Zoé Chatzidakis, French researcher in model theory and differential algebra
* Laura Chaubard, French mathematician, Director General of the École Polytechnique
* Madeleine Chaumont (1896–1973), French mathematician, one of first women at École normale supérieure
* Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), expert on phase transitions in networks, founder of the theory group at Microsoft Research
* Karine Chemla (born 1958), French historian of Chinese mathematics
* Jacqueline Chen, American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer, applies massively parallel computing to simulate combustion
* Xiaojun Chen, Chinese applied mathematician, expert on nonconvex optimization
* Margaret Cheney (born 1955), American expert on inverse problems
* Eugenia Cheng, English category theorist and pianist, uses analogies with food and baking to teach mathematics to non-mathematicians
* Leslie Cheng, American harmonic analyst
* Maggie Cheng, Chinese-American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist
* Miranda Cheng (born 1979), Taiwanese-Dutch mathematician and theoretical physicist, formulated umbral moonshine
* Yingda Cheng (born 1983), Chinese-American applied mathematician, expert in Galerkin methods
* Alina Chertock, mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations modeling flow and chemotaxis
* Amanda Chetwynd, British combinatorist and spatial statistician
* Elaine Chew, Singaporean-American expert in the mathematics and visualization of concepts in music theory
* Tanya Christiansen, American expert on scattering theory and partial differential equations
* Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944), Argentine-American mathematical economist and authority on climate change
* Lauren M. Childs, American mathematician, expert on modeling disease spread
* Phyllis Chinn (born 1941), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics
* Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate
* Sonya Christian, Indian mathematician and American community college administrator
* YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist
* Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French Academy
* Maria Chudnovsky (born 1977), Israeli-American graph theorist, MacArthur Fellow
* Fan Chung (born 1949), Taiwanese-American researcher in random graphs
* Julia Chuzhoy, Israeli expert in approximation algorithms and graph minor theory
* Monique Chyba, applied control theory to autonomous underwater vehicles
* Agata Ciabattoni, Italian non-classical mathematical logician
* Maria Cibrario (1905–1992), Italian specialist in partial differential equations
* Marta Civil, American mathematics educator
* Mónica Clapp, Mexican researcher in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology
* Lisa Orloff Clark, professor of mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand
* Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English code-breaker at Bletchley Park, numismatist
* Jeanne N. Clelland (born 1970), American expert on differential geometry and its applications to differential equations
* Mary Clem (1905–1979), American mathematician and human computer, invented zero check error detection
* Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematician
* Anne Cobbe (1920–1971), British algebraist
* Sally Cockburn (born 1960), Canadian-American mathematician
* Jane Purcell Coffee (1944–2023), one of the first women to earn a mathematics PhD at U. Penn.; founded a teaching academy
* Judita Cofman (1936–2001), Yugoslav-German finite geometer and mathematics educator, first mathematics doctorate from Novi Sad
* Doris Cohen, American mathematician, first female author in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
* Elaine Cohen, American pioneer in the use of splines for geometric modeling
* Marion Cohen (born 1943), American poet and mathematician, teaches the relationship between art and mathematics
* Miriam Cohen (born 1941), Israeli researcher in Hopf algebras, quantum groups and non-commutative rings
* Amy Cohen-Corwin, American expert in the Korteweg–de Vries equation and cubic Schrödinger equation
* Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Romanian number theorist
* Margaret Buchanan Cole, American mathematician at West Virginia University
* Nancy Cole (1902–1991), American mathematician, made pioneering contributions to Morse theory
* Caroline Colijn, Canadian mathematical epidemiologist
* Susan Jane Colley (born 1959), first female editor-in-chief of the American Mathematical Monthly
* Agnes Bell Collier (1860–1930), British mathematician
* Karen L. Collins, American graph theorist and combinatorist
* Sandra Collins (born 1970), Irish fluid dynamicist and librarian
* Coralie Colmez, French writer on legal mathematics
* Maria Colombo (born 1989), Italian mathematical analyst
* Caterina Consani (born 1963), Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry
* Keisha Cook, American mathematical biologist
* Pamela Cook, American expert in fluid dynamics, president of SIAM
* Frances Cope (1902–1983), American researcher on differential equations, namesake of the Thorndike nomogram
* Lennie Copeland (1881–1951), American mathematician and professor at Wellesley College
* Minerva Cordero, Puerto Rican expert on finite geometry
* Lesley Cormack (born 1957), Canadian historian of mathematics and historian of geography
* Leticia Corral (born 1959), Mexican mathematician, astrophysicist and materials scientist
* Sylvie Corteel, French combinatorialist, former editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
* Véronique Cortier, French mathematician and computer scientist, uses mathematical logic to verify cryptographic protocols
* Carla Cotwright-Williams (born 1973), African-American data scientist for the US government
* Pamela G. Coxson, American applied mathematician specializing in disease modeling
* Collette Coullard, American matroid theorist and operations researcher
* Judith Covington, American mathematics educator
* Lenore Cowen, American discrete mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist
* Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley (1874–1945), American mathematician, advocated high school teaching of solid geometry
* Annalisa Crannell, American expert on water waves and geometric perspective
* Alissa Crans, American mathematician specializing in higher-dimensional algebra
* Mary Croarken, British historian of mathematics and of computing
* Marie Crous, 17th-century mathematician who introduced the decimal system to France
* Ana Bela Cruzeiro (born 1957), Portuguese and Swiss stochastic analyst
* Barbara Csima, Canadian computability theorist, president of Canadian Mathematical Society
* Marianna Csörnyei (born 1975), Hungarian researcher in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and functional analysis
* Helen F. Cullen (1919–2007), American topologist
* Jane Cullum (born 1938), American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory
* Linda Cummings, British-American computational complex fluid dynamicist
* Louise Duffield Cummings (1870–1947), Canadian-American expert on Steiner triple systems
* María Cumplido (born 1992), Spanish geometric group theorist
* Susan Jane Cunningham (1842–1921), founded the mathematics and astronomy departments at Swarthmore College
* Serafina Cuomo (born 1966), Italian historian of ancient mathematics
* Antonella Cupillari (born 1955), Italian-American mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and biographer of Agnesi
* Ruth F. Curtain (1941–2018), Australian-Dutch expert in infinite-dimensional linear systems
* Carina Curto (born 1978), American mathematical neuroscientist
* Eleanor P. Cushing (1856–1925), American mathematician
* Elizabeth Cuthill (1923–2011), American applied mathematician and Navy researcher known for sparse matrix ordering
* Annie Cuyt (born 1956), Belgian expert on approximation

## D

* Sophie Dabo-Niang, Senegalese-French mathematician and statistician
* Amy Dahan, French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change
* Mimi Dai, American expert in partial differential equations
* Karma Dajani, Lebanese-Dutch mathematician, applies ergodic theory to number theory
* Anne-Laure Dalibard, French mathematician, expert on fluid dynamics in oceanography
* Ewa Damek (born 1958), Polish mathematical analyst, namesake of Damek–Ricci spaces
* Pallavi Dani, Indian-American geometric group theorist
* Donatella Danielli (born 1966), Italian-American specialist in partial differential equations
* Sofia Danova (1879–1946), Bulgarian teacher and philanthropist, first Bulgarian woman to graduate in mathematics
* Christine Darden (born 1942), American aeronautical engineer who researches sonic booms
* Geraldine Claudette Darden (born 1936), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
* Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Greek-American differential geometer
* Nilanjana Datta, Indian-born British quantum information theorist
* Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician, known for wavelets
* Monique Dauge (born 1956), French mathematician and numerical analyst
* Chantal David (born 1964), Canadian analytic number theorist and arithmetic statistician
* Giuliana Davidoff, American number theorist and expert on expander graphs
* Penny J. Davies, Scottish expert on wave scattering, president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
* Cristiana De Filippis (born 1992), Italian expert in regularity theory for partial differential equations
* Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe (1936–2008), Belgian pioneer in $p$-adic functional analysis
* Christine De Mol (born 1954), Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist
* Ineke De Moortel, Belgian mathematician who studies the Sun's corona; president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
* Valeria de Paiva, Brazilian researcher in categorical logic
* Lisette de Pillis, American researcher on the mathematics of cancer growth
* Kaye A. de Ruiz, American mathematics educator
* Daniela De Silva, Italian mathematician known for her expertise in partial differential equations
* Luz de Teresa (born 1965), Mexican control theorist, president of Mexican Mathematical Society
* Gerda de Vries, Canadian mathematician who studies dynamical systems and mathematical physiology
* Winifred Margaret Deans (1901–1990), British translator of German mathematics and physics texts into English
* Mary Deconge (born 1933), one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in mathematics
* Maria Deijfen (born 1975), Swedish graph theorist and probability theorist
* Huguette Delavault (1924–2003), French mathematical physicist, activist for women in mathematics
* Ermelinda DeLaViña, Hispanic American graph theorist
* Laura DeMarco, American researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
* Beryl May Dent (1900–1977), British mathematical physicist, researcher in molecular forces and computer-aided design
* Darinka Dentcheva, Bulgarian-American convex analyst
* Alicja Derkowska (born 1940), Polish social activist, mathematician and educator.
* Marjorie Devaney (1931–2007), mathematician, electrical engineer, and pioneering computer programmer
* Shakuntala Devi (1939–2013), Indian child prodigy, writer, and mental calculator
* Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017), French founder of l'École de physique des Houches
* Elena Deza (born 1961), French-Russian mathematician, author of books on figurate numbers and metric spaces
* Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (born 1946), Italian expert on type theory, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics
* Eleonora Di Nezza, Italian Kahler geometer
* Giulia Di Nunno (born 1973), Italian expert in stochastic analysis and financial mathematics, promoter of mathematics in Africa
* Sandra Di Rocco (born 1967), Italian-Swedish algebraic geometer
* Daniela di Serafino (1966–2022), Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst
* Carrie Diaz Eaton, American mathematical biologist
* Auguste Dick (1910–1993), Austrian historian of mathematics and biographer of Emmy Noether
* Alicia Dickenstein (born 1955), Argentine algebraic geometer, vice-president of the International Mathematical Union
* Caren Diefenderfer (1952–2017), American mathematician, president of National Numeracy Network
* Susanne Dierolf (1942–2009), German expert on topological vector spaces
* Ada Dietz (1882–1950), American weaver who used algebraic expressions to design textiles
* Alice M. Dimick (1878–1956), American mathematician PhD
* Ulla Dinger (born 1955), Swedish mathematical analyst, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Gothenburg
* Irit Dinur, Israeli researcher in probabilistically checkable proofs and hardness of approximation
* Serena Dipierro, Italian expert on partial differential equations
* Susanne Ditlevsen, Danish mathematical biologist and biostatistician
* Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985), developed modern method for teaching high school algebra in the United States
* Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (1937–2014), Dutch historian of Islamic mathematics
* Rosa Donat (born 1960), Spanish mathematician, uses multiresolution methods for flows with shock waves and high Mach number
* Suzanne Dorée, American group theorist and mathematics educator
* Maria Rita D'Orsogna (born 1972), Italian and American applied mathematician and environmental activist
* Isabel Dotti, Argentine expert on homogeneous manifolds
* Itala D'Ottaviano (born 1944), Brazilian logician
* Yael Dowker (1919–2016), Israeli researcher in measure theory and ergodic theory
* Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889–1971), American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II
* Kathy Driver, South African expert in special functions, orthogonal polynomials and approximation theory
* Suely Druck, Brazilian mathematician, president of Brazilian Mathematical Society
* Cornelia Druțu Romanian mathematician, won Whitehead Prize for research in geometric group theory
* Malgorzata Dubiel, Polish and Canadian mathematics educator
* Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (1905–1972), first woman full professor of mathematics in France, expert in fluid mechanics and abstract algebra
* Moon Duchin, American expert in geometric topology, geometric group theory, and Teichmüller theory
* Marie Duflo (1940–2019), French probability theorist, activist for foreigners in France
* Vida Dujmović (born 1972), Yugoslav-Canadian graph theorist
* Della Dumbaugh, American historian of mathematics, editor-in-chief of American Mathematical Monthly
* Ioana Dumitriu (born 1976), Romanian-American numerical analyst
* Julena Steinheider Duncombe (1911–2003), American mathematics teacher and astronomer
* Elizabeth B. Dussan V. (born 1946), American expert on the behavior of fluids
* Nira Dyn, Israeli expert on subdivision surfaces

## E

* Madeline Early (1912–2001), American mathematician and university professor.
* Annie Easley (1933–2011), African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist
* Sheila May Edmonds (1916–2002), British mathematician, Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
* Josephine D. Edwards (1942–1985), Australian mathematician, founded Australian Mathematics Competition
* Mary Edwards (c. 1750–1815), human computer for the British Nautical Almanac
* Ranthony Edmonds, American postdoctoral algebraist
* Constance van Eeden (1927–2021), Dutch nonparameteric statistician who contributed to the development of statistics in Canada
* Hettie Belle Ege (1861–1942), American mathematician, acting president of Mills College
* Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest (1905–1984), Dutch researcher in combinatorics and graph theory
* Andrée Ehresmann (born 1935), French category theorist
* Gertrude Ehrlich (born 1923), Austrian-American algebraist and number theorist
* Thyra Eibe (1866–1955), first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen, translator of Euclid
* Bettina Eick (born 1968), German computational group theorist
* Ellen Eischen (born 1979), American number theorist
* Carolyn Eisele (1902–2000), American mathematician, historian of mathematics, expert on Charles Sanders Peirce
* Nathalie Eisenbaum, French probability theorist
* Kirsten Eisenträger, German-American researcher in computational number theory
* Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian-German expert on operator theory
* Nicole El Karoui (born 1944), Tunisian-French pioneer in mathematical finance
* Amèle El Mahdi (born 1956), Algerian mathematics professor and writer
* Donna DeEtte Elbert (1928-2019), American human calculator, worked on differential equations modeling magnetohydrodynamics
* Nerida Ellerton (born 1942), Australian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics education
* Joanne Elliott (1925–2023), American mathematician specializing in potential theory
* Jo Ellis-Monaghan, American mathematician interested in graph polynomials and topological graph theory
* Maria Emelianenko, Russian-American expert on centroidal Voronoi tessellation
* Susan Empson, American scholar of mathematics education including childhood development of the concept of fractions
* Gisela Engeln-Müllges (born 1940), escapee from East Germany, expert in numerical algorithms, and abstract artist
* Lyn English, Australian mathematics education scholar
* Susanna S. Epp (born 1943), American researcher in discrete mathematics and mathematical logic
* Karin Erdmann (born 1948), German researcher in modular representation theory and homological algebra
* Viveka Erlandsson, Swedish low-dimensional topologist and geometer
* Anna Erschler (born 1977), Russian-French expert on random walks on groups
* Hélène Esnault (born 1953), French algebraic geometer, winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
* Malena Español, Argentine-American applied and computational mathematician, expert in regularization methods for discrete inverse problems
* Maria J. Esteban (born 1956), Basque-French applied mathematician, president of International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
* Alison Etheridge FRS (born 1964), English researcher in theoretical population genetics and mathematical ecology
* Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
* Bess Marie Eversull (1899–1978), first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati

## F

* Marie Fabianová (1872–1943), Czech PhD mathematician, teacher and school principal, first female to graduate with a PhD in math from Charles University
* Cornelia Fabri (1869–1915), Italian mathematician, first woman to graduate in math from University of Pisa.
* Vera Faddeeva (1906–1983), Russian expert on numerical linear algebra
* Fariba Fahroo, Persian-American expert in pseudospectral optimal control, winner of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award
* Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943), American mathematician and textbook author, secretary of MAA
* Bianca Falcidieno, Italian applied mathematician, pioneer of semantics-driven shape modeling
* Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
* Ruma Falk (1932–2020), Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics specializing in human understanding of probability
* María Falk de Losada, American-born Colombian mathematician, co-founded Colombian Mathematical Olympiad, rector of Antonio Nariño University
* Mary Fama (1938–2021), New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on rock deformation in mining
* Barbara Fantechi (born 1966), Italian algebraic geometer
* Rosa María Farfán, Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education
* Marie Farge (born 1953), French mathematician and physicist known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics
* Fay Farnum (1888–1977), American mathematician, founding member of MAA
* Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), Catholic nun whose research on hypergeometric functions prefigured WZ theory
* Heike Fassbender, German expert in numerical linear algebra, first woman to lead a German mathematical society
* Lisa Fauci (born 1960), American applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
* Patricia Fauring, Argentine mathematician, coach of the Argentine mathematical olympiad team
* Odile Favaron (born 1938), French graph theorist
* Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), English educationalist, first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
* Anita Burdman Feferman (1927–2015), American historian of mathematics and mathematical biographer
* Nina Fefferman, American mathematical biologist
* Eva-Maria Feichtner (born 1972), German algebraic geometer
* Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958), theoretical computer scientist, co-inventor of trust management
* Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (1912–2006), helped decipher Japanese Purple cryptography, worked on Venona counter-intelligence
* Käte Fenchel (1905–1983), Jewish German researcher on non-abelian groups
* Zhilan Feng (born 1959), Chinese-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist
* Elizabeth Fennema (1928–2021), researched attitudes of young women towards mathematics and their classroom interactions
* Anuška Ferligoj (born 1947), Slovenian mathematical sociologist and researcher in network analysis
* Begoña Fernández, Mexican probability theorist and expert in mathematical finance
* Elena Fernández (born 1956), Spanish operations researcher, president of Association of European Operational Research Societies
* Marisa Fernández, Spanish differential geometer
* Jacqueline Ferrand (1918–2014), French researcher on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds
* Daniela Ferrero, Uruguayan and American graph theorist
* Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (1914–2009), Spanish mathematician and first Galician woman astronomer
* Joan Ferrini-Mundy (born 1954), American researcher in mathematics education
* Soheyla Feyzbakhsh, Iranian-British mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry to string theory
* Judith V. Field (born 1943), British historian of mathematics and art
* Anna Fino, Italian differential geometer
* Jessica Fintzen, German p-adic representation theorist
* Farideh Firoozbakht (1962–2019), Iranian number theorist
* Ilse Fischer (born 1975), Austrian combinatorialist
* Irene Fischer (1907–2009), Austrian-American geodesist for Mercury and Apollo spaceflights, member of National Academy of Engineering
* Vera Fischer, Austrian set theorist and mathematical logician
* Naomi Fisher, American mathematics educator, worked to bring together research mathematicians and educators
* Mary Flahive (born 1948), American mathematician, author of books on difference equations and diophantine approximation
* Sarah Flannery (born 1982), winner of the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for her teenage research on cryptography
* Erica Flapan (born 1956), American researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
* Jennifer Flegg, Australian applied mathematician
* Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German aerodynamics researcher, first female engineering professor at Stanford
* Natasha Flyer (born 1969), American earth scientist and applied mathematician, expert on radial basis functions
* Anne Bosworth Focke (1868–1907), first mathematics professor at what is now University of Rhode Island; student of David Hilbert
* Amanda Folsom (born 1979), American number theorist
* Irene Fonseca (born 1956), Portuguese-American director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
* Liliana Forzani, Argentine applied mathematician and statistician, expert in dimensionality reduction
* Phyllis Fox (1923–2017), American mathematician and computer scientist, collaborator on the first LISP interpreter
* Marguerite Frank (born 1927), French-American pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming
* Hélène Frankowska, Polish-French control theorist and set-valued analyst
* Ailana Fraser, Canadian researcher on geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces
* Elena Freda (1890–1978), Italian mathematician, applied mathematical analysis to electromagnetics and biology
* Haya Freedman (1923–2005), Israeli-British mathematician who studied the Tamari lattice and ring theory
* Herta Freitag (1908–2000), Austrian-American expert on Fibonacci numbers
* Nedda Friberti (born 1913), Italian mathematician, refugee from Nazi-occupied Italy
* Susan Friedlander (born 1946), English-American researcher in fluid dynamics, first female editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the AMS
* Joyce Friedman (1928–2018), American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist
* Aline Huke Frink (1904–2000), American mathematician and professor
* Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929–2024), Canadian-American expert on atomic-structure calculations who predicted negative calcium ions
* Cleota Gage Fry (1910–2001), American mathematician, physicist and university professor
* Hannah Fry (born 1984), English complex systems theorist and public speaker
* Shirley M. Frye, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Elza Furtado Gomide (1925–2013), Brazilian mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of São Paulo
* Cohl Furey, Canadian mathematical physicist
* Fumiko Futamura, Japanese-American mathematician, expert on graphical perspective

## G

* Lisl Gaal (1924–2024), Austrian-born American set theorist and Galois theorist
* Isabelle Gallagher (born 1973), French researcher in partial differential equations
* Eva Gallardo (born 1971), president of Spanish Mathematical Society
* Irene M. Gamba (born 1957), Argentine-American applied mathematician
* Svetlana Gannushkina (born 1942), Russian mathematician and human rights activist
* Nina Gantert, Swiss and German probability theorist
* Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982), Soviet-born Canadian mathematics educator, editor of Crux Mathematicorum
* Pascale Garaud, French-American applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics
* Yboon García Ramos, Peruvian mathematician focusing on mathematical optimization
* Laura Gardini (born 1952), Italian mathematician, applies chaotic dynamics to economics
* Manuela Garín (1914–2019), Spanish-born pioneer of Mexican mathematics
* Annie Marie Watkins Garraway (born 1940), American mathematician who worked in telecommunications and electronic data transmission
* Adriana Garroni (born 1966), Italian mathematician, expert on modeling plasticity and fracture
* Mary Cleophas Garvin (1899–1990), American mathematician
* Élisabeth Gassiat (born 1961), French mathematical statistician
* Karin Gatermann (1961–2005), German mathematician, researcher in symbolic computation and dynamical systems
* Geneviève Gauthier (born 1967), Canadian financial mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
* Véronique Gayrard, French probability theorist
* Mai Gehrke (born 1964), Danish lattice theorist and mathematical logician
* Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian researcher on Fourier series, statistics, probability, and plasticity, refugee from Nazi Germany
* Anne Gelb, American mathematician interested in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis of images
* Sue Geller, American mathematician with interdisciplinary interests in algebraic K-theory, bioinformatics, and biostatistics
* Hélyette Geman, French researcher in mathematical finance
* Ruth Gentry (1862–1917), American geometer
* Sommer Gentry, American mathematician, applies dance notation to haptic interaction and operations research to organ transplants
* Penka Georgieva, expert on enumerative geometry, symplectic topology, and Gromov–Witten invariants
* Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), German mathematician and biostatistician who founded the Biometrical Journal
* Ralucca Gera, American graph theorist and mathematics educator
* Teena Gerhardt (born 1980), American algebraic geometer
* Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French number theorist, physicist, and philosopher, correspondent of Gauss
* Marie Gernet (1865–1924), first German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
* Nadeschda Gernet (1877–1943), Russian mathematician, student of David Hilbert, worked in the calculus of variations
* Judith Gersting (born 1940), American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author
* Ellen Gethner, American graph theorist
* Patrizia Gianni (born 1952), Italian expert in computer algebra
* Danuta Gierulanka (1909–1995), Polish mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
* Irène Gijbels, Belgian mathematical statistician and expert in nonparametric statistics
* Olga Gil Medrano (born 1956), Spanish geometric analyst, first female president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
* Anna C. Gilbert (born 1972), American expert in streaming algorithms and matching pursuit
* Jane Piore Gilman (born 1945), topologist and group theorist, distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
* Gloria Ford Gilmer, American ethnomathematician
* Joella Gipson (1929–2012), American music educator and mathematics educator, first African-American student at Mt. St. Mary's College
* Vivette Girault (born 1943), French expert on numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational fluid dynamics
* E. G. Glagoleva (1926–2015), Soviet and Russian mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
* Josephine Burns Glasgow (1887–1969), American group theorist, active in American Association of University Women
* Muriel Glauert (1892–1949), British mathematician and aerodynamicist
* Sarah Glaz (born 1947), Romanian-Israeli-American commutative algebraist and mathematical poet
* Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (born 1961), German mathematician specializing in algebraic coding theory
* Julia Gog, English mathematical biologist, uses mathematics to study the spread of infectious diseases
* Linda Gojak, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer and mathematician, founder of Turkish Mathematical Society
* Bonnie Gold (born 1948), American mathematician, mathematical logician, philosopher of mathematics, and mathematics educator
* Lisa Goldberg, American mathematical finance scholar and statistician
* Rebecca Goldin, American expert in symplectic geometry
* Christina Goldschmidt, British probability theorist
* Catherine Goldstein (born 1958), French number theorist and historian of mathematics
* Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein (born 1958), American expert in partial differential equations, operator theory, and mathematical finance
* Susan Goldstine, American mathematician active in mathematics and fiber arts
* Shafi Goldwasser (born 1958), American-born Israeli theoretical cryptographer
* Concha Gómez, Italian and Cuban-American mathematician and advocate for diversity in STEM
* Patricia Gonçalves, Portuguese probability theorist
* Sherry Gong, second American gold medal winner at International Mathematical Olympiad
* Enriqueta González Baz (1915–2002), first woman to earn a mathematics degree in Mexico, founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society
* Valentina Gorbachuk (born 1937), Ukrainian operator theorist
* Maria Gordina (born 1968), Russian-American mathematical analyst
* Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950), isospectral geometer who proved that you can't hear the shape of a drum
* Julia Gordon, Canadian representation theorist, winner of Michler and Krieger–Nelson prizes
* Pamela Gorkin, American complex analyst and textbook author
* Sigal Gottlieb, American expert in numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics
* Aline Gouget (born 1977), French cryptographer
* Mary de Lellis Gough (1892–1983), American mathematician
* Alice Bache Gould (1858–1953), American mathematician and historian
* Gene Grabeel (1920–2015), American mathematician and cryptanalyst who founded the Venona project
* Judith Grabiner (born 1938), American historian of 18th- and 19th-century mathematics
* Eva-Maria Graefe, German-English mathematical physicist, expert in ultracold atoms and Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
* Christine Graffigne (born 1959), French expert on Markov random fields for image analysis
* Maria Gramegna (1887–1915), Italian mathematician, pioneer of abstraction in functional analysis
* Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023), one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
* Antonella Grassi, mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and string theory
* Mary Graustein (1884–1972), American mathematician, first mathematical doctorate from Radcliffe College
* Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish telephone engineer, discoverer of the Gray graph
* Mary W. Gray (born 1939), author on mathematics, mathematics education, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom
* Judy Green (born 1943), logician and historian of women in mathematics
* Anne Greenbaum (born 1951), American expert in theoretical and numerical linear algebra
* Catherine Greenhill, Australian graph theorist
* Sarah J. Greenwald, American mathematician, studies connections between mathematics and society
* Cindy Greenwood (born 1937), Canadian statistician, winner of Krieger-Nelson Prize
* Sina Greenwood, New Zealand topologist
* Ruth Gregory, British mathematical physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology
* Margaret Greig (1922–1999), English applied mathematician, developed theory for worsted spinning
* Harriet Griffin (1903–1991), American mathematician, author of a textbook on number theory
* Lois Wilfred Griffiths (1899–1981), American expert on polygonal numbers
* Laura Grigori, French applied mathematician, known for communication-avoiding algorithms for numerical linear algebra
* Ellina Grigorieva, Russian expert on mathematical problem solving
* Elisenda Grigsby, American low-dimensional topologist
* Clara Grima (born 1971), Spanish computational geometer, co-discoverer of scutoids, mathematics popularizer
* Margaret Grimshaw (1905–1990), English mathematician at Cambridge and author on Hilbert spaces
* Birgit Grodal (1943–2004), Danish mathematical economist, studied atomless economies
* Ione Grogan (1891–1961), American schoolteacher, mathematics professor, and literary club leader
* Edna Grossman, German-born American designer of the Data Encryption Standard and of the slide attack in cryptography
* Marcia Groszek, American mathematician whose research concerns mathematical logic, set theory, forcing, and recursion theory
* Gerd Grubb (born 1939), Danish expert on pseudodifferential operators
* Helen G. Grundman, American number theorist
* Weiqing Gu, Chinese-American researcher on differential geometry and the mathematics of cancer growth
* Rebeca Guber (1926–2020), Argentine mathematician, founder of Argentine Calculation Society
* Christine Guenther, American expert on the Ricci flow
* Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), American mathematician known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics
* Colette Guillopé, French researcher in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, former president of femmes et mathématiques
* Joséphine Guidy Wandja (born 1945), Ivorian mathematician
* Alice Guionnet (born 1969), French probability theorist
* Geneviève Guitel (1895–1982), French mathematician who studied natural-language numbering systems
* Kanta Gupta (1938–2016), Indian-Canadian researcher on abstract algebra and group theory
* Neena Gupta, Indian mathematician who solved the Zariski cancellation problem
* Rona Gurkewitz, American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work on modular origami
* Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, survey statistician, and pioneering computer programmer
* Rochelle Gutierrez, American education theorist who studies the impacts of race, class and language on mathematics education
* Simone Gutt (born 1956), Belgian differential geometer
* Martha Guzmán Partida, Mexican functional analyst

## H

* Ruth Haas, American mathematician known for mentorship of other women mathematicians
* Violet B. Haas (1926–1986), American control theorist
* Naomi Habib, Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches genomics and genome engineering
* Olga Hadžić (1946–1995), Serbian expert on fixed-point theorems
* Dörte Haftendorn (born 1948), German mathematician, mathematics educator, and textbook author
* Kari Hag (born 1941), Norwegian expert on quasiconformal mappings
* Elisabeth Hagemann (born 1906), early German female doctorate in mathematics
* Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American probability theorist and tennis player
* Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007), Ukrainian-Palestinian-American classical analyst, third female president of the Mathematical Association of America
* Susie W. Håkansson (born 1940), mathematics educator, director of the California Mathematics Project
* Ursula Hamenstädt (born 1961), German differential geometry
* Christine Hamill (1923–1956), English mathematician specializing in group theory and finite geometry
* Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom (1927–2009), American topologist
* Xiaoying Han, Chinese mathematician who studies random dynamical systems and stochastic differential equations
* Gila Hanna (born 1934), Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics
* Anita Hansbo (born 1960), Swedish mathematician, rector of Jönköping University
* Megumi Harada, Canadian expert on equivariant symplectic and algebraic geometry
* Eleonor Harboure (1948–2022), first woman president of the Argentina Mathematical Union
* Alison Harcourt (born 1929), Australian mathematician and statistician known for branch and bound algorithms and quantification of poverty in Australia
* Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), group theorist, one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society
* Kathryn E. Hare (born 1959), Canadian expert in harmonic analysis
* Valentina Harizanov, Serbian-American researcher in computability and model theory
* Dorothee Haroske (born 1968), German expert on function spaces
* Heather Harrington (born 1984), applied mathematician and algebraic systems biologist
* Leona Harris, American mathematician and diversity activist
* Pamela E. Harris, Mexican combinatorist and mathematics blogger
* Jenny Harrison, American expert on generalized functions and minimal surfaces
* Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
* Bertha Hart, American mathematician
* Sarah B. Hart, British group theorist
* Shelly Harvey, American researcher in knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory
* Mary Gertrude Haseman (1889–1979), American knot theorist
* Asma Hassannezhad, Iranian spectral geometer
* Maria Hasse (1921–2014), German graph theorist, set theorist, and category theorist, first female professor in science at TU Dresden
* Rhonda Hatcher, American number theorist, winner of Haimo teaching award
* Deanna Haunsperger, American mathematician, former president of the Mathematical Association of America
* Jane M. Hawkins, American researcher in dynamic systems, complex dynamics, cellular automata, and Julia sets
* Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Linda B. Hayden (born 1949), African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities
* Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
* Margaret Hayman (1923–1994), British mathematics educator, co-founder of British Mathematical Olympiad
* Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics
* Nola Anderson Haynes (1897–1996), American mathematician, professor
* Sarah D. Allen Oren Haynes (1836–1907), first female state librarian of Indiana and first female faculty member at Purdue University
* Teresa W. Haynes (born 1953), American expert on domination in graphs
* Emilie Virginia Haynsworth (1916–1985), American linear algebraist known for Schur complements and Haynsworth inertia additivity formula
* Olive Hazlett (1890–1974), American algebraist at the University of Illinois
* Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi (born 1949), American researcher in graph theory and graph algorithms
* Maria Heep-Altiner (born 1959), German mathematician and actuary
* Jane Heffernan, Canadian mathematician who studies mathematical models for the spread of infectious disease
* Katherine Heinrich (born 1954), Canadian combinatorialist, first female president of Canadian Mathematical Society
* Christine Heitsch, American expert on the mathematics of RNA structure
* Diane Henderson, American applied mathematician and experimental fluid dynamics researcher
* Nadia Heninger (born 1982), American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist
* Cora Barbara Hennel (1888–1947), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the Indiana University
* Dagmar R. Henney (1931–2023), German-American expert on additive set-values and Banach spaces
* Inge Henningsen (born 1941), statistician, writer and feminist
* Allison Henrich (born 1980), American knot theorist
* Shandelle Henson (born 1964), American mathematician and mathematical biologist, expert on population dynamics
* Rebecca A. Herb (born 1948), American researcher in abstract algebra and Lie groups
* Raphaèle Herbin, French expert on the finite volume method
* Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher also noted for her work in physics and education
* Susan Hermiller, American group theorist
* Norma Hernández (born 1934), American mathematics educator, studied factors affecting Mexican-American mathematics students
* Constance Anne Herschel (1855–1939), British lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics
* Patricia Hersh (born 1973), American expert on algebraic and topological combinatorics
* Bobby Hersom (born 1929), British mathematician and computer scientist
* Kathryn Hess (born 1967), American mathematician who uses algebraic topology to understand structures in neurology and materials science
* Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician specializing in enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial game theory, and bioinformatics
* Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935), early African-American female mathematics PhD, MAA governor
* Laurie Heyer, American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics
* Patricia Hiddleston (1933–2017), Scottish and Rhodesian mathematician
* Aparna Higgins, Indian-American graph theorist known for encouraging undergraduate research
* Raegan Higgins, American mathematician, co-director of the EDGE program for Women
* Nancy Hingston, American differential geometer
* Wei Ho, American arithmetic geometer
* Hoàng Xuân Sính (born 1933), first female Vietnamese mathematician, student of Grothendieck, founder of Thang Long University
* Catherine Hobbs (born 1968), British singularity theorist, applies geometry to robotics
* Dorit S. Hochbaum (born 1949), American expert on approximation algorithms for facility location, covering and packing, and scheduling
* Marlis Hochbruck (born 1964), German expert on matrix exponentials and their applications to differential equations
* Maria Hoffmann-Ostenhof (born 1947), Austrian expert on the Schrödinger equation
* Leslie Hogben, American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, known for graduate mentorship
* Nina Holden, Norwegian probability theorist
* Judy A. Holdener (born 1965), American number theorist who simplified the proof of Touchard's theorem on perfect numbers
* Barbara R. Holland (born 1976), New Zealand born Australian phylogeneticist
* Lotte Hollands (born 1981), Dutch mathematical physicist
* Tara S. Holm, American algebraic geometer and symplectic geometer
* Olga Holtz (born 1973), Russian numerical analyst, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
* Betty W. Holz (1919–2005), American mathematician and defense analyst
* Jennifer Hom, American low-dimensional topologist
* Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000), American human computer involved in the design of swept-wing aircraft
* Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
* Eleanor Mollie Horadam (1921–2002), English-Australian mathematician, studied generalized integers, mother of Kathy
* Kathy Horadam (born 1951), Australian mathematician, studies Hadamard matrices, daughter of Eleanor Mollie
* Annick Horiuchi, French historian of Japanese mathematics
* Anette Hosoi, American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, studies fluid dynamics, robotics, and bio-inspired design
* Victoria Howle, American expert in numerical linear algebra, founded AWM essay contest
* Susan Howson (born 1973), British mathematician known for work on algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry
* Rebecca Hoyle, British applied mathematician, expert on pattern formation
* Celia Hoyles (born 1946), British mathematician, president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
* Christine Hrenya, American computational fluid dynamicist, expert in fluidization and multiphase flow
* Pao-sheng Hsu, Mathematics educator, founder of AWM Teacher Partnership Program
* Hu Hesheng (1928–2024), differential geometer, president of Shanghai Mathematical Society, member of Chinese Academy of Science
* Lan-Hsuan Huang, Taiwanese-American geometric analyst and relativity theorist
* Katharina T. Huber (born 1965), German mathematical biologist, expert in the foundations and visualization of phylogeny
* Verena Huber-Dyson (1923–2016), Swiss-American group theorist and logician, expert on undecidability in group theory
* Annette Huber-Klawitter (born 1967), German algebraic geometer, expert in the Bloch–Kato conjectures
* Vera Huckel, American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
* Anne Lester Hudson, American expert in topological semigroups, mathematics educator, and mathematics competition coach
* Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881–1965), English researcher on Cremona transformations in algebraic geometry
* Sabine Van Huffel (born 1958), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on total least squares and applications to medical diagnostics
* Rhonda Hughes (born 1947), American wavelet researcher, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Deborah Hughes Hallett, mathematics education reformer
* Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (born 1946), German-American representation theorist and ring theorist
* Dominique Hulin (born 1959), French differential geometer
* Mabel Gweneth Humphreys (1911–2006), Canadian-American number theorist and namesake of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award
* Eugénie Hunsicker, American mathematician who works at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology
* Fern Hunt (born 1948), American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology
* Bobbie Hunter, New Zealand educational theorist and mathematics educator
* Louise Stokes Hunter (died 1988), American mathematics educator, first African-American woman with a degree from the University of Virginia
* Joan Hutchinson (born 1945), American graph theorist who extended the planar separator theorem to graphs of higher genus
* Marie Hušková (born 1942), Czech mathematician who worked in theoretical statistics and change-point problems
* Hypatia (died 415), head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, murdered by a Christian mob

## I

* Milagros D. Ibe (born 1931), Filipino mathematics educator, vice chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
* Rosalie Iemhoff (born 1969), Dutch logician
* Mihaela Ignatova, Bulgarian mathematical analyst
* Marina Iliopoulou, Greek harmonic analyst and discrete geometer
* Annette Imhausen (born 1970), German historian of ancient Egyptian mathematics
* Helen Infeld (1907–1993), American-born mathematics professor who fled to Poland because of McCarthyism
* Tasha Inniss, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, director of education for INFORMS
* Eleny Ionel, Romanian-American symplectic geometer
* Alessandra Iozzi (born 1959), Italian-American-Swiss geometric group theorist
* Ilse Ipsen, German-American expert in numerical linear algebra
* Valerie Isham (born 1947), British applied probabilist, president of Royal Statistical Society
* Shihoko Ishii (born 1950), Japanese mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry
* Vanaja Iyengar ( –2001), founding vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a women's university in Andhra Pradesh, India

## J

* Trachette Jackson (born 1972), researcher in mathematical oncology, second African-American woman to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics
* Jessie Marie Jacobs (1890–1954), fired from mathematics instructorship for having a child, aided husband Hermann Muller's Nobel-winning genetic research
* Alex James, British and New Zealand applied mathematician, mathematical biologist, and epidemiologist
* Cathérine Jami (born 1961), French historian of Chinese mathematics
* Jeannette Janssen, Dutch and Canadian graph theorist
* Monique Jeanblanc (born 1947), French financial mathematician
* Lisa Jeffrey FRSC, Canadian expert in symplectic geometry and quantum field theory
* Erica Jen, American applied mathematician, studies mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior
* Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canadian philosopher of mathematics
* Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, American low-dimensional topologist, editor of MAA FOCUS
* Svetlana Jitomirskaya (born 1966), Ukrainian mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics
* Naomi Jochnowitz, American algebraic number theorist known for her mentorship of women in mathematics
* Aimee Johnson, American expert on dynamical systems
* Katherine Johnson (1918–2020), calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon
* Marion Lee Johnson, African-American mathematician, helped calculate trajectories for the Apollo 11 Moon landing
* Roberta Frances Johnson (1902–1988), American mathematics educator
* Antonia J. Jones (1943–2010), British mathematician and computer scientist
* Eleanor Jones (1929–2021), one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
* Shelly M. Jones, American mathematics educator
* Nataša Jonoska (born 1961), Macedonian-American expert in DNA computing
* Kerstin Jordaan, president of South African Mathematical Society
* Artishia Wilkerson Jordan (1901–1974), African-American mathematics educator and clubwoman
* Nicole M. Joseph, American scholar of mathematics education focusing on the experiences of African-American women and girls in mathematics
* Nalini Joshi, researcher in differential equations, Australian Laureate Fellow, Hardy Lecturer, president of Australian Mathematical Society
* Josephine Jue, Chinese-American mathematician, compiler, and programmer, first Asian-American woman at NASA

## K

* Margarethe Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
* Suzan Kahramaner (1913–2006), one of the first female mathematicians in Turkish academia
* Delaram Kahrobaei, Iranian-American applied algebraist and post-quantum cryptographer
* Gabriele Kaiser, German mathematics educator
* Nataliya Kalashnykova, Soviet-Mexican expert on bilevel optimization
* Efstratia Kalfagianni, Greek-American topologist
* Eva Kallin, American researcher in geometric axiom systems, functional algebra, and polynomial convexity
* Gudrun Kalmbach (born 1937), German quantum logician
* Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros, French algebraic geometer
* Barbara Kaltenbacher, Austrian applied analyst, president of Austrian Mathematical Society
* Hermine Agavni Kalustyan (1914–1989), Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician
* Constance Kamii (died 2023), Swiss-Japanese-American mathematics education scholar and psychologist
* Shoshana Kamin (born 1930), Soviet-Israeli mathematical physicist, wrote about parabolic partial differential equations
* Rosella Kanarik (1909–2014), American mathematics professor and educator
* Mihyun Kang, South Korean graph theorist
* Chiu-Yen Kao (born 1974), Taiwanese-American expert in image processing and mathematical biology
* Gizem Karaali, Turkish representation theorist, founding editor of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
* Mary Cordia Karl (1893–1984), American geometer
* Carol Karp (1926–1972), American researcher on infinitary logic, viola player
* Yael Karshon (born 1964), Israeli-Canadian expert on symplectic geometry
* Elaine Kasimatis, American discrete geometer and mathematics educator
* Haya Kaspi (born 1948), Israeli probability theorist
* Fanny Kassel (born 1984), French expert on Lie groups
* Svetlana Katok (born 1947), Russian-American founder of Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS
* Yoshie Katsurada (1911–1980), Japanese differential geometer, first Japanese woman with a doctorate or professorship in mathematics
* Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist who collaborated with Einstein on general relativity
* Kathleen Kavanagh, American mathematician, applies simulation-based engineering to water quality and sustainability
* Elham Kazemi (born 1970), Iranian-American mathematics educator
* Ailsa Keating, French-British symplectic geometer
* Rinat Kedem (born 1965), American mathematician and mathematical physicist
* Linda Keen (born 1940), American mathematician and computer scientist, president of AWM
* Lyudmila Keldysh (1904–1976), Russian set theorist and geometric topologist
* Ruth Kellerhals (born 1957), Swiss expert on hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities
* Christine Kelley, American coding theorist, director of Project NExT
* Julia Kempe, French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing
* Claribel Kendall (1889–1965), one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA
* Juliette Kennedy, mathematical logician in Finland
* Patricia Clark Kenschaft (born 1940), American mathematician, prolific book author, and activist for equity and diversity
* Autumn Kent, American mathematician specializing in topology and geometry, promoter of transgender rights
* Deborah Kent (born 1978), American historian of mathematics
* Leah Keshet, Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist, first female president of the Society for Mathematical Biology
* Radha Kessar, Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups
* Jennifer Key, South African mathematician, expert on group theory, finite geometry, combinatorial designs, and coding theory
* Barbara Keyfitz (born 1944), Canadian-American researcher on nonlinear partial differential equations, president of AWM and ICIAM
* Lily Khadjavi, American mathematician, author on mathematics for social justice
* 'Mamphono Khaketla (born 1960), Lesotho mathematician, senator, and finance minister
* Olga Kharlampovich (born 1958), Russian-Canadian group theorist who solved the Tarski conjecture on first-order theories of free groups
* Carolyn Kieran, Canadian mathematics educator
* Anna Kiesenhofer (born 1991), Austrian cyclist and mathematical physicist
* Misha Kilmer, American applied mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing
* Eun Jung Kim, South Korean researcher in parameterized complexity and graph width
* Ju-Lee Kim (born 1969), Korean-American expert on the representation theory of p-adic groups
* Chawne Kimber (born 1971), African-American mathematician and quilter, incorporates social justice into mathematics teaching
* Amy C. King (1928–2014), American mathematics educator
* Angie Turner King (1905–2004), American mathematics and chemistry educator
* Karen D. King (1971–2019), African-American mathematics educator and Falconer Lecturer
* L. Christine Kinsey, American topologist and textbook author
* Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova (born 1931), Belarusian optimal control theorist
* Vivien Kirk, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist, president of New Zealand Mathematical Society
* Ellen Kirkman, American algebraist
* Denise Kirschner, American mathematical biologist and immunologist
* Frances Kirwan (born 1959), British specialist in algebraic and symplectic geometry
* Virginia Kiryakova, Bulgarian mathematician, expert on fractional calculus and special functions
* Jane Kister, British-American mathematical logician, editor of Mathematical Reviews
* Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Danish researcher in mathematics education and the philosophy and history of mathematics
* Kathrin Klamroth (born 1968), German expert on combinatorial optimization and facility location
* Erica Klarreich (born 1972), American geometer and writer
* Maria Klawe (born 1951), Canadian-American theoretical computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College
* Caroline Klivans, American algebraic combinatorist, expert on chip-firing games
* Małgorzata Klimek (born 1957), Polish mathematician, expert on fractional calculus
* Genevieve M. Knight (1939–2021), African-American mathematics educator
* Julia F. Knight, American specialist in model theory and computability theory
* Sarah Koch (born 1979), American complex analyst and complex dynamicist
* Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (1927–2019), American mathematician, programmer, and astronomer, calculated orbits for the Apollo program
* Tamara G. Kolda, American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories
* Natalia Komarova, Russian-American mathematician, studies cancer, language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems
* Nancy Kopell (born 1942), American researcher in the dynamics of the nervous system
* Elaine Koppelman (1937–2019), American mathematician
* Maria Korovina (born 1962), Russian research on functional spaces and differential equations
* Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (born 1941), French differential geometer, namesake of the Kosmann lift
* Ekaterina Kostina, Belarusian-German expert on nonlinear optimization
* Motoko Kotani (born 1960), Japanese discrete geometric analyst and academic administrator
* Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), first major Russian female mathematician, worked in analysis, differential equations and mechanics
* Bryna Kra (born 1966), American mathematician who applies dynamical systems in number theory and combinatorics
* Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician and author of mathematics books
* Gunilla Kreiss (born 1958), Swedish numerical analyst
* Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), third person and first woman to earn a Canadian mathematics PhD, translator of Sierpiński
* Holly Krieger, American dynamical systems theorist
* Anna Zofia Krygowska (1904–1988), Polish mathematician known for her work in mathematics education
* Ewa Kubicka, Polish-American graph theorist and actuarial scientist
* Vera Kublanovskaya (1920–2012), Russian inventor of the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
* Daniela Kühn (born 1973), German-English combinatorialist, expert on infinite graphs, winner of the Whitehead Prize
* Radhika Kulkarni, Indian-American operations researcher, president of INFORMS
* Angela Kunoth (born 1963), German numerical analyst
* Frances Kuo, Taiwanese-Australian applied mathematician, expert on quasi-Monte Carlo methods
* Krystyna Kuperberg (born 1944), Polish-American topologist who found a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture
* Věra Kůrková (born 1948), Czech expert in neural networks and approximation theory
* Rachel Kuske (born 1965), American-Canadian expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics
* Klavdija Kutnar (born 1980), Slovenian algebraic graph theorist and academic administrator
* Gitta Kutyniok (born 1972), German researcher in harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and image processing

## L

* Izabella Łaba (born 1966), Polish-Canadian specialist in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics
* Carole Lacampagne, American mathematician known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality
* Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930), American psychologist, logician, and mathematician
* Jeanne LaDuke (born 1938), American child actress, mathematical analyst, and historian of mathematics
* Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004), Soviet mathematician, proved convergence of a finite difference method for Navier–Stokes
* V. Lakshmibai, Indian-American expert on flag varieties and Schubert varieties
* Matilde Lalín, Argentine-Canadian number theorist, expert on L-functions and Mahler measure
* Lam Lay Yong (born 1936), Singaporean historian of mathematics, claimed Chinese origin for Hindu-Arabic numerals
* Ailsa Land, British operations researcher known for developing branch and bound algorithms
* Susan Landau (born 1954), American mathematician and computer scientist, known for internet security and denesting radicals
* Mary Landers (1905–1991), American mathematician, activist for academic collective bargaining
* Kerry Landman, Australian applied mathematician
* Alicia Prieto Langarica, American applied mathematician
* Tanja Lange, German number theorist and cryptographer
* Amy Langville (born 1975), American college basketball star and expert on ranking systems
* Loredana Lanzani (born 1965), Italian-American harmonic analyst
* Glenda Lappan (born 1939), developed Connected Mathematics curriculum, led National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Ruth Lara (1936–2000), Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist, briefly first lady of Angola
* Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician, first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become full professor there
* Jean Ann Larson, American set theorist and historian of mathematical logic
* Elisabeth Larsson (born 1971), Swedish researcher in scientific computing
* Joan Lasenby, British applied mathematician, expert on geometric algebra
* Irena Lasiecka (born 1948), Polish-American expert in control theory of partial differential equations
* Renu C. Laskar (born 1932), Indian-American graph theorist, specialist in domination numbers and circular arc graphs
* Klavdiya Latysheva (1897–1956), Soviet mathematician, contributed to differential equations, electrodynamics and probability
* Monique Laurent (born 1960), French-Dutch expert in mathematical optimization
* Kristin Lauter (born 1969), American researcher in elliptic curve cryptography, president of AWM
* Anna Lawniczak (born 1953), Polish-Canadian applied mathematician and cellular automatist
* Emille D. Lawrence, American topological graph theorist
* Ruth Lawrence (born 1971), child prodigy, British-Israeli researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology
* Snezana Lawrence, Yugoslav and British historian of mathematics
* Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician, winner of the George Pólya Award
* Anita Layton, Hong Kong-American applied mathematician who studies mathematical models of kidney function
* Katherine Puckett Layton, American mathematics educator and textbook author
* Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn (born 1970), Vietnamese mathematician, vice rector for Science at Thái Nguyên University, won Kovalevskaya Prize
* Alice Lee (1858–1939), helped discredit craniology
* Heisook Lee (born 1948), South Korean algebraist and algebraic coding theorist
* Hollylynne Lee, American mathematics and statistics educator
* Lee Hyang-sook (born 1963), South Korean mathematician, president of Ewha Womans University
* Joceline Lega, French applied mathematician interested in nonlinear dynamics
* Anne M. Leggett, American mathematical logician, editor of AWM Newsletter
* Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian-American mathematician known for work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory
* Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), pioneer in the use of television to teach mathematics
* Tanya Leise, American biomathematician, expert in circadian rhythms
* Joan Leitzel (born 1936), American mathematics educator and university administrator
* Miriam Leiva, Cuban-American mathematics educator
* Anne Lemaître (born 1957), Belgian applied mathematician, expert on orbital resonance and space debris
* Mary Leng, British philosopher of mathematics
* Frédérique Lenger (1921–2005), Belgian mathematics educator and leader of the New Math movement
* Suzanne Lenhart (born 1954), American researcher in partial differential equations, president of AWM
* Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (born 1949), Austrian mathematical economist, applied mathematician, and operations researcher
* Katrin Leschke (born 1968), German differential geometer, quaternionic analyst, and minimal surface theorist
* Nandi Olive Leslie, American industrial mathematician
* Gail Letzter (1960–2024), American quantum group representation theorist and intelligence agency executive
* Annie Leuch-Reineck (1880–1978), Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist
* Debbie Leung, Canadian expert in quantum communications
* Rachel Levy (born 1968), American applied mathematician, mathematics educator, and blogger
* Sophia Levy (1888–1963), American astronomer, numerical analyst, and mathematics educator
* Marta Lewicka (born 1972), Polish expert in nonlinear elasticity
* Florence Lewis (1877–1964), American mathematician and astronomer
* Marie Lhuissier (born 1989), French mathematical storyteller and children's book author
* Fengyan Li, Chinese and American applied mathematician specializing in computational magnetohydrodynamics
* Jing-Rebecca Li, applied mathematician in France, studies magnetic resonance imaging and Lyapunov equations
* Sherry Li, Chinese-American developer of sparse parallel solvers for systems of linear equations
* Winnie Li (born 1948), Chinese-American researcher in number theory, coding theory, automorphic forms, and spectral graph theory
* Paulette Libermann (1919–2007), French specialist in differential geometry
* Pamela Liebeck (1930–2012), British mathematician and mathematics educator
* Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (1886–1986), American mathematics professor and author of popular books on science and mathematics
* Magnhild Lien, Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory
* Ewa Ligocka (1947–1922), Polish mathematical analyst and political activist
* Nelly Litvak (born 1972), Russian and Dutch complex network theorist
* Elizaveta Litvinova (1845–c. 1919), Russian mathematician and biographer, defied czar's order forbidding women to study abroad
* Bonnie Litwiller (1937–2012), American mathematics educator and textbook author
* Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), American number theorist
* Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (born 1974), Taiwanese-American researcher in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
* Naomi Livesay (1916–2001), human computer and mechanical calculator programmer for the Manhattan Project
* Klara Löbenstein (1883–1968), German researcher in algebraic geometry
* Patti Frazer Lock (born 1953), American mathematics and statistics educator and textbook author
* Deborah Frank Lockhart, administrator at the National Science Foundation
* Susan Loepp (born 1967), American algebraist and cryptographer
* Marina Logares (born 1976), Spanish geometer and LGBT+ activist
* Mayme Logsdon (1881–1967), American algebraic geometer and mathematics educator
* Louise Zung-nyi Loh (1900–1981), Chinese mathematician, physicist, and educator
* Sara Lombardo, Italian mathematician, expert on rogue waves and integrable systems
* Ling Long (mathematician), Chinese-American expert on modular forms, elliptic surfaces, and dessins d'enfants
* Lynette Long, American psychologist, mathematics educator, and textbook author
* Carlotta Longo (1895- after 1959), Italian mathematical physicist and high school teacher
* Maria Longobardi, Italian mathematical statistician, expert in entropy and extropy
* Judith Q. Longyear (1938–1995), American researcher in graph theory and combinatorics
* Maria Laura Moura Mouzinho Leite Lopes (1917–2013), first Brazilian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
* Paola Loreti, Italian researcher in Fourier analysis, control theory, and non-integer bases
* Lisa Lorentzen, Norwegian mathematician and author, specializing in continued fractions
* Dawn Lott, African-American expert on numerical partial differential equations
* Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine
* María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz (born 1946), Spanish low-dimensional topologist
* Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928–2014), Chinese-American commutative algebraist
* Katarzyna Lubnauer (born 1969), Polish probability theorist and politician
* Edith Hirsch Luchins (1921–2002), Polish-American mathematician, experimented on psychology of mathematical problem solving
* Maria Silvia Lucido (1963–2008), Italian mathematician, expert on the prime graphs of finite groups
* Malwina Łuczak, Polish-Australian probability theorist
* Monika Ludwig (born 1966), Austrian researcher in convex geometry, member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
* Alessandra Lunardi (born 1958), Italian mathematical analyst
* Xiaoyu Luo, Chinese and British applied mathematician, applies fluid dynamics and biomechanics to soft tissues
* Élisabeth Lutz (1914–2008), French student of Weil, showed how to compute torsion subgroups of elliptic curves
* Julie Lutz (born 1944), American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars
* Sonja Lyttkens (1919–2014), Swedish mathematician, first Swedish woman to obtain a permanent academic position in mathematics

## M

* Odile Macchi (born 1943), French mathematician and physicist
* Marta Macho Stadler (born 1962), Basque expert on foliations and mathematical blogger
* Barbara MacCluer, American expert on operator theory and author on functional analysis
* Brenda MacGibbon, Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist
* Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910–1960), Scottish researcher on the Whittaker constant, co-author of German–English mathematics dictionary
* Iris Mack (1956–2022), American financial mathematician and edutainment author
* Annie MacKinnon (1868–1940), Canadian-born American mathematician, third woman to earn a mathematics doctorate at an American university
* Diane Maclagan (born 1974), expert on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry
* Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937), Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist, first female honours graduate in mathematics from University of Edinburgh
* Jessie MacWilliams (1917–1990), English researcher on error-correcting codes
* Kathleen Madden, American expert on dynamical systems
* Isabel Maddison (1869–1950), British mathematician known for her work on differential equations
* Penelope Maddy (born 1950), American philosopher of mathematics
* Urmila Mahadev, American quantum computing researcher
* Dorothy Maharam (1917–2014), American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory
* Carolyn A. Maher, American expert in mathematics education
* Carolyn Mahoney (born 1946), African-American combinatorialist, president of Lincoln University of Missouri
* Apala Majumdar, British expert on liquid crystals
* Larisa Maksimova (born 1943), Russian mathematical logician
* Agnieszka Malinowska, Polish expert on fractional calculus and the calculus of variations
* Maryanthe Malliaris, American mathematician specializing in model theory
* Marie-Paule Malliavin (1935–2019), French algebraist
* Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), fifth African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, researcher in functional analysis
* Eugenia Malinnikova (born 1974), Russian-Norwegian expert in functional analysis and partial differential equations
* Claudia Malvenuto (born 1965), Italian mathematician known for her work on the Hopf algebra of permutations
* Michelle Manes, American mathematician interested in number theory, algebraic geometry, and dynamical systems
* Kathryn Mann, geometric topologist and geometric group theorist
* Cristina Manolache, British algebraic geometer
* Renata Mansini (born 1968), Italian applied mathematician, uses mathematical optimization for portfolio balancing
* Elizabeth Mansfield, Australian expert on moving frames and conservation laws
* Lisa Mantini, American mathematician
* Elena Mantovan, Italian-American arithmetic geometer
* María Manzano (born 1950), Spanish mathematical logician
* Elena Marchisotto (born 1945), American mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
* Anna Marciniak-Czochra (born 1974), Polish applied mathematician and mathematical biologist
* Matilde Marcolli (born 1969), Italian mathematical physicist
* Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (born 1971), Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics
* Hannah Markwig (born 1980), German researcher in tropical geometry
* Alison Marr (born 1980), American graph theorist and advocate of inquiry-based learning
* Karen Marrongelle, American mathematics educator and academic administrator
* Bethany Rose Marsh, British expert in cluster algebras and tilting theory
* Susan H. Marshall, American number theorist
* Maia Martcheva, Bulgarian-American mathematical biologist
* Laura Martignon (born 1952), Colombian-Italian researcher in neuroscience and decision-making
* Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American group theorist
* Mireille Martin-Deschamps, French algebraic geometer, president of Société mathématique de France
* Consuelo Martínez (born 1955), Spanish algebraist
* María del Carmen Martínez Sancho (1901–1995), first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics
* Verónica Martínez de la Vega (born 1971), Mexican hypertopologist
* Katalin Marton (1941–2019), Hungarian information and probability theorist
* Susan Martonosi, American mathematician, applies operations research to counter-terrorism, epidemiology, and sports analytics
* Roswitha März (born 1940), German expert on differential-algebraic equations
* Verdiana Masanja (born 1954), first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics
* Joanna Masingila (born 1960), American mathematics educator
* Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova (1926–2000), Russian researcher on partial differential equations, hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and function spaces
* Maura Mast, Irish-American differential geometer, mathematics educator, textbook author, and academic administrator
* Claire Mathieu (born 1965), French algorithms researcher
* Gordana Matic, Croatian-American low-dimensional topologist, expert on contact topology
* Kaisa Matomäki (born 1985), Finnish number theorist known for her work on multiplicative functions over short intervals
* Gretchen Matthews (born 1973), American algebraic coding theorist
* Lilian Matthiesen, applies Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry
* Laura Matusevich, Argentine commutative algebraist
* Margaret Maxfield (1926–2016), American mathematician and mathematics book author
* Lola J. May (1923–2007), American mathematics educator and early proponent of new math
* Svitlana Mayboroda (born 1981), Ukrainian-American expert on boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations
* Ellen Maycock (born 1950), American functional analyst and mathematics educator
* Joanna Isabel Mayer (1904–1991), American mathematician and educator
* Francesca Mazzia (born 1967), Italian numerical analyst
* Anna Mazzucato, American expert on fluid dynamics
* Shirley McBay (1935–2021), first African-American doctorate at the University of Georgia
* Mary McCammon (c. 1928 – 2008), first woman to complete a doctoral degree in mathematics at Imperial College London
* Maeve McCarthy, Irish mathematician interested in inverse problems and biological modeling
* Lynne McClure, British mathematics educator
* Allison McCoy, American bioinformatician specializing in applied clinical informatics
* Dorothy McCoy (1903–2001), American mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Iowa
* Janet McDonald (1905–2006), American geometer
* Dusa McDuff FRS (born 1945), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
* Elizabeth McHarg (1923–1999), Scottish mathematician and translator, first female president of Edinburgh Mathematical Society
* Lois Curfman McInnes, American researcher on numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications
* Camille McKayle (born 1964), Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and academic administrator
* Danica McKellar (born 1975), American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate
* Joyce McLaughlin (1939–2017), American researcher in inverse problems
* Jeanette McLeod, New Zealand combinatorialist, popularizes mathematics through crochet and origami
* Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Cherokee mathematician who discovered the 15th and last class of convex pentagons that tile the plane
* Jenny McNulty, American matroid theorist and academic administrator
* Sallie Pero Mead (1893–1981), American human computer and radar engineer
* Catherine Meadows, American cryptographer who formally verifies cryptographic protocols
* Florence Marie Mears (1896–1995), American specialist in summation methods
* Elizabeth Meckes (1980–2020), American probability theorist
* Nicole Megow, German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, researcher in scheduling algorithms
* Ulrike Meier Yang, German-American expert on numerical algorithms for scientific computing
* Beatrice Meini (born 1968), Italian computational mathematician and numerical analyst
* Sylvie Méléard, French probability theorist
* Pauline Mellon, Irish functional analyst, president of Irish Mathematical Society
* Karin Melnick, American differential geometer
* Teresa Melo (born 1966), Portuguese mathematician and operations researcher
* Florence Merlevède, French probability theorist
* Helen Abbot Merrill (1864–1949), American mathematician, educator and textbook author
* Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951), first woman with a degree from Columbia University and first American female doctorate in mathematics
* Adele Merritt, American applied mathematician and intelligence officer
* Uta Merzbach (1933–2017), German-American historian of mathematics, first Smithsonian curator of mathematical instruments
* Vilma Mesa, Colombian-American mathematics educator
* Chikako Mese, American differential geometer
* Jill P. Mesirov, American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist, president of AWM
* Jaqueline Mesquita (born 1985), Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential equations
* Dora Metcalf (1892–1982), British mathematician and data analysis entrepreneur
* Ida Martha Metcalf (1857–1952), second American female doctorate in mathematics
* Catherine Meusburger (born 1978), German mathematical physicist interested in string theory
* Ariane Mézard, French arithmetic geometer
* Marie-Louise Michelsohn (born 1941), American researcher on complex geometry, spin manifolds, the Dirac operator, and algebraic cycles
* Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), American commutative algebraist and algebraic geometer
* Kaisa Miettinen (born 1965), Finnish industrial optimization researcher and academic administrator
* Ana Millán Gasca (born 1964), Spanish historian of science and scholar of mathematics education
* Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner
* Laura Miller, American mathematician, applies fluid dynamics to insect flight and jellyfish propulsion
* Maggie Miller, American low-dimensional topologist
* Mirka Miller (1949–2016), Czech-Australian graph theorist, data security expert
* Margaret Millington (1944–1973), English expert on modular forms
* Susan Milner, Canadian mathematics educator, popularizer of mathematics through puzzles and games
* Eva Miranda, Spanish expert on symplectic dynamics
* Marie Lynn Miranda, American data scientist and professor of applied computational mathematics and statistics
* Rosa M. Miró-Roig (born 1960), Spanish algebraic geometer and commutative algebraist
* Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), first female Fields medalist; researcher on the symmetry of curved surfaces
* Yuliya Mishura, Ukrainian probability theorist and mathematical finance expert
* Josephine M. Mitchell (1912–2000), Canadian-American mathematical analyst, victim of discriminative application of anti-nepotism rules
* Dorina Mitrea (born 1965), Romanian-American functional analyst and mathematics educator
* Irina Mitrea, Romanian-American researcher in partial differential equations known for outreach to women and minorities
* Yash Mittal (born 1941), first female program director for probability at US National Science Foundation
* Atsuko Miyaji (born 1965), Japanese cryptographer and number theorist
* Reiko Miyaoka (born 1951), Japanese geometer known for her research on hypersurfaces
* Fatma Moalla (born 1939), first Tunisian woman to earn a French doctorate in mathematics
* Colette Moeglin (born 1953), French expert on automorphic forms
* Joanne Moldenhauer (1928–2016), American high school mathematics teacher
* Amanda Montejano, Mexican graph theorist, expert in coloring geometric graphs
* Clemency Montelle (born 1977), New Zealand historian of Indian mathematics and astronomy
* Susan Montgomery (born 1943), American researcher in noncommutative algebra
* Helen Moore, American mathematician who applies control theory to combination therapy in the health industry
* Gisèle Mophou, Cameroonian numerical analyst in the French Antilles
* Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923–2017), Canadian-American researcher on the partial differential equations governing fluid flow
* Anne C. Morel, American logician, order theorist, and algebraist, first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington
* Sophie Morel (born 1979), French number theorist and contributor to the Langlands program, first female tenured mathematics professor at Harvard
* Eugenie Maria Morenus (1881–1966), American mathematician and professor
* Susan Morey, American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra
* Carolyn Morgan, American statistician and applied mathematician
* Hélène Morlon (born 1978), French mathematical biologist, models biodiversity
* Irene Moroz, British applied mathematician
* Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian researcher on groups and graphs
* Kirsten Morris (born 1960), Canadian control theorist
* Rosa M. Morris (1914–2011), Welsh applied mathematician and aerodynamicist
* Jennifer Morse, American algebraic combinatorialist
* Rose Morton (1925–1999), American expert in the mathematical modeling of bubbles
* Joan Moschovakis, American intuitionistic logician
* Ruth Moufang (1905–1977), German researcher on non-associative algebraic structures, namesake of Moufang loops
* Magdalena Mouján (1926–2005), Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, operations researcher, computing pioneer, and science fiction author
* Nežka Mramor–Kosta, Slovenian mathematician
* Jennifer Mueller, American applied mathematician, expert in inverse problems and electrical impedance tomography
* Edith Alice Müller (1918–1995), Swiss mathematician and astronomer, studied the group theory of Moorish tile designs
* Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician, early investigator of point set theory
* Irene Mulvey, American mathematician, president of American Association of University Professors
* Anca Muscholl (born 1967), Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist
* Kieka Mynhardt (born 1953), South African and Canadian expert on dominating sets in graph theory
* Emmy Murphy, American symplectic geometer
* Cecilia Wangechi Mwathi (1963–2011), Kenyan mathematician and union activist, first woman in Kenya to become a mathematics professor
* Valerie Myerscough (1942–1980), British mathematician and astrophysicist
* Vera Myller (1880–1970), Russian mathematician and student of David Hilbert, first female professor in Romania
* Wendy Myrvold, Canadian graph theorist, combinatorist, and algorithms researcher

## N

* Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author in operations management
* Hasibun Naher, Pakistani applied mathematician who studies tsunamis
* Andrea R. Nahmod (born 1964), American expert in nonlinear Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations
* Pia Nalli (1884–1964), Italian researcher in functional analysis and tensor calculus
* Seema Nanda, Indian researcher in applications of mathematics to biology, engineering and finance
* Mangala Narlikar, Indian number theorist, author of Marathi-language mathematics books for schoolchildren
* Tamilla Nasirova (1936–2023), Azerbaijani probability theorist
* Sonia Natale (born 1972), Argentine expert in abstract algebra
* Caryn Navy (born 1953), blind American researcher in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology
* Lyudmyla Nazarova, Ukrainian representation theorist
* Vicky Neale, British number theorist and mathematics popularizer
* Gabriele Nebe (born 1967), German researcher on sphere packings, lattices, and codes
* Deanna Needell, American applied mathematician, won 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications
* Sara Negri (born 1967), Italian-Finnish proof theorist
* Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science
* Gail S. Nelson (born 1959), American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books"
* Nancy Neudauer, American matroid theorist known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America
* Claudia Neuhauser (born 1962), German-American mathematical biologist whose research concerns spatial ecology
* Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician who worked on group theory
* Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, Brazilian expert in interacting particle systems
* Mara Neusel (1964–2014), German-American invariant theorist and advocate for women in mathematics
* Monica Nevins (born 1973), Canadian algebraist
* Virginia Newell (1917–2025), American mathematics educator, author, politician, and centenarian
* Mary Frances Winston Newson (1869–1959), first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university
* Sylvia de Neymet (1939–2013), First Mexican woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Mexico
* Purity Ngina, Kenyan biomathematician
* Giang Nguyen (born 1985), Vietnamese-Australian applied mathematician and chess master
* Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (born 1983), Irish celebrity and mathematics lecturer
* Nancy K. Nichols, British applied mathematician and numerical analyst
* Olympia Nicodemi, American mathematician and mathematics educator interested in wavelets and the history of mathematics
* Phyllis Nicolson (1917–1968), British developer of the Crank–Nicolson method for solving partial differential equations
* Barbara Niethammer (born 1963), German expert on the growth of particles in liquids
* Sofía Nieto (born 1984), Spanish mathematician and actress
* Nilima Nigam, Indian-Canadian applied mathematician and mathematical physiologist
* Stanisława Nikodym (1897–1988), first Polish woman to earn PhD in mathematics, known for research in continuum theory
* Mila Nikolova (1962–2018), Bulgarian researcher in image processing, inverse problems, and compressed sensing
* Kumiko Nishioka (born 1954), Japanese specialist on transcendental numbers and Mahler functions
* Wiesława Nizioł, Polish researcher in arithmetic algebraic geometry
* Emmy Noether (1882–1935), German researcher in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, named "the greatest woman mathematician of all time"
* Margarita Nolasco Santiago, Mathematics textbook author, member of Puerto Rico Senate
* Khalida Inayat Noor, Pakistani mathematical analyst
* Dorothée Normand-Cyrot, French control theorist
* Anne van den Nouweland, Dutch-American cooperative game theorist
* Isabella Novik (born 1971), Israeli-American expert on algebraic and geometric combinatorics
* Frieda Nugel (1884–1966), one of the first German women to obtain a doctorate in mathematics
* Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician known for her research on incompressible Euler equations
* Kaisa Nyberg (born 1948), Finnish cryptographer

## O

* Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien (1901–1986), American mathematician, musician and poet
* Vivian O'Brien (1924–2010), American applied mathematician and physicist, expert in fluid dynamics and visual perception
* Hilary Ockendon, British applied mathematician, expert in fluid dynamics
* Ortrud Oellermann, South African and Canadian graph theorist
* Yoshiko Ogata, Japanese quantum mathematical physicist
* Frédérique Oggier, Swiss and Singaporean coding theorist
* Hee Oh (born 1969), Korean-American dynamical systems theorist, expert on equidistribution in fractal structures
* Eve Oja (1948–2019), Estonian functional analyst
* Christine O'Keefe, Australian researcher in finite geometry and information security
* Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965), British-American researcher on differential operators, developed curricula for inner-city children
* Dianne P. O'Leary (born 1951), American expert on scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing
* Janis Oldham (1956–2021), African-American differential geometer and mathematics educator
* Olga Oleinik (1925–2001), Soviet researcher on partial differential equations, elastic media, and boundary layers
* Dorte Olesen (born 1948), first Danish mathematician to be appointed full professor
* Gloria Olive (1923–2006), American-born New Zealand mathematician
* Déborah Oliveros, Mexican discrete and convex geometer
* Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014), British mathematician and politician, mayor of Manchester, educational advisor to Margaret Thatcher
* Yewande Olubummo (born 1960), Nigerian-American functional analyst
* Rebecca Walo Omana (born 1951), first female mathematics professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Cathy O'Neil, American arithmetic algebraic geometer and author on the social hazards of machine learning
* Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro, Mexican algebraic combinatorist
* Rosa Orellana, American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory
* Ewa Orłowska (born 1935), Polish logician
* Omayra Ortega, American mathematical epidemiologist
* Laura Ortíz-Bobadilla, Mexican expert on holomorphic foliations
* Hinke Osinga (born 1969), Dutch expert in dynamical systems, crocheted the Lorenz manifold
* Barbara L. Osofsky (born 1937), American algebraist, first woman in 50 years to address a national AMS meeting, first female AMS journal editor
* Mina Ossiander, American probability theorist
* Sofiya Ostrovska (born 1958), Ukrainian probability theorist and approximation theorist
* Victoria Otero, president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
* Katharine Ott, American harmonic analyst
* Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (born 1967), Burkinabé expert on pseudodifferential operators and superalgebras, president of African Women in Mathematics Association
* Helen Brewster Owens (1881–1968), American suffragette, associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly
* Robyn Owens, Australian applied mathematician, studies computer vision including face recognition and the imaging of lactation

## P

* Ietje Paalman-de Miranda (1936–2020), Surinamese–Dutch mathematician, first female mathematics professor at University of Amsterdam
* Harriet Padberg (1922–2014), mathematician, music therapist, and pioneer of algorithmic music composition
* Mariolina Padula (died 2012), Italian expert on fluid dynamics
* Christina Pagel, British German operations researcher, applies data analysis and mathematical modelling to health care
* Eleanor Pairman (1896–1973), Scottish mathematician, developed methods to teach mathematics to blind students
* Ilona Palásti (1924–1991), Hungarian researcher in discrete geometry, geometric probability, and random graphs
* Pandrosion (4th century AD), ancient Greek mathematician predating Hypatia, developed an approximation for cube roots
* Erika Pannwitz (1904–1975), German geometric topologist who proved that every knot has a quadrisecant
* Anna Panorska, Polish-American expert on extreme events in stochastic processes and on the effect of weather on baseball
* Greta Panova (born 1983), Bulgarian-American algebraic combinatorist
* Theoni Pappas (born 1944), American mathematics teacher and author of books on popular mathematics
* Raman Parimala (born 1948), Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra
* Clare Parnell (born 1970), British astrophysicist and applied mathematician, studies the mathematics of the sun and of magnetic fields
* Haesun Park, Korean-American researcher in numerical analysis and the data sciences
* Jinyoung Park, South Korean combinatorist
* Karen Parshall (born 1955), American historian of mathematics
* Griselda Pascual (1926–2001), Spanish algebraic number theorist and mathematics translator
* Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Polish-American control theorist and mathematics educator
* Maria Pastori (1895–1975), Italian mathematician, specialist in rational mechanics
* Christine Paulin-Mohring (born 1962), French mathematical logician and computer scientist, developer of Coq theorem prover
* Barbara Paulson (1928–2023), American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
* Nataša Pavlović, Serbian–American expert in fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive equations
* Sylvie Paycha (born 1960), French mathematician working in operator theory
* Sandrine Péché (born 1977), French expert on random matrices
* Jean Pedersen (1934–2016), American mathematician and author, expert on mathematical paper folding
* Irena Peeva, American researcher in commutative algebra and its applications
* Jeanne Peiffer (born 1948), Luxembourgian historian of mathematics
* Magda Peligrad, Romanian probability theorist known for her work on stochastic processes
* Beatrice Pelloni (born 1962), Italian expert on partial differential equations
* Rose Peltesohn (1913–1998), German-Israeli researcher in additive combinatorics
* Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician whose interests include differential geometry and the connections between mathematics and art
* Charlotte Elvira Pengra (1875–1916), sixth American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics
* Cristina Pereyra (born 1964), Venezuelan mathematician, author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis
* Hazel Perfect (died 2015), British combinatorialist, author, and translator, inventor of gammoids
* Teri Perl (born 1926), American mathematics educator, educational software designer, and author
* Bernadette Perrin-Riou (born 1955), French number theorist, winner of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
* Mary Perry Smith (1926–2015), American mathematics educator, founder of MESA program for under-privileged students
* Karoline Pershell, American mathematician and roboticist
* Laura Person, American low-dimensional topologist
* Ilaria Perugia (born 1969), Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst
* Adriana Pesci, Argentine fluid dynamicist, expert on flagellar motion, soap films, and the Leidenfrost effect
* Małgorzata Peszyńska (born 1962), Polish-American applied mathematician, models geological flow in porous media
* Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), recursion theorist, first woman elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
* Stefanie Petermichl (born 1971), German-French mathematical analyst, first female winner of the Salem Prize
* Louise Petrén-Overton (1880–1977), first Swedish woman with a doctorate in mathematics
* Guergana Petrova, Bulgarian applied mathematician, uses numerical methods to solve differential equations
* Sonja Petrović, American mathematical statistician
* Linda Petzold (born 1954), researcher in differential algebraic equations and simulation, member of National Academy of Engineering
* Julia Pevtsova, Russian-American representation theorist
* Mamokgethi Phakeng (born 1966), first black female South African to earn a PhD in mathematics education
* Flora Philip (1865–1943), first female member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
* Cynthia A. Phillips, American expert on combinatorial optimization
* Dominique Picard (born 1953), French expert on the statistical applications of wavelets
* Sophie Piccard (1904–1990), Russian-Swiss mathematician, first female full professor in Switzerland
* Lisa Piccirillo, American low-dimensional topologist
* Ragni Piene (born 1947), Norwegian algebraic geometer, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
* Lillian Pierce, American mathematician whose research connects number theory with harmonic analysis
* Johanna Piesch (1898–1992), Austrian pioneer in switching algebra
* Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724–1767), French mathematician, writer, and teacher
* Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785), princess of Colubrano, second woman elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
* Gabriella Pinzari, Italian expert on the n-body problem
* Jill Pipher (born 1955), researcher in harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, differential equations, and cryptography, president of AWM
* Laura Pisati (died 1908), Italian mathematician, first woman invited to speak at International Congress of Mathematicians
* Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Italian philosopher, musician, and mathematics lecturer, first woman to earn a doctorate
* Toniann Pitassi, American-Canadian computational complexity theorist, expert on proof complexity
* Shirley Pledger, New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods
* Vera Pless (1931–2020), American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory
* Kim Plofker (born 1964), American historian of Indian mathematics, winner of the Brouwer Medal
* Gerlind Plonka, German mathematician known for her work on refinable functions and curvelets
* Eileen Poiani, American mathematician, first woman to teach mathematics at Saint Peter's University, first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon
* Claudia Polini, Italian expert on commutative algebra
* Harriet Pollatsek (born 1942), Lie theorist who has applied difference sets to error correcting codes and coding theory
* Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999), Soviet researcher in fluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, and history of mathematics
* Elena Moldovan Popoviciu (1924–2009), Romanian functional analyst
* Freda Porter (born 1957), American applied mathematician, groundwater consultant, and Native American leader
* Claire Postlethwaite, New Zealand dynamical systems theorist
* Yvonne Pothier (born 1937), Canadian mathematics educator, Catholic nun, and activist for refugees
* Marian Pour-El (1928–2009), American mathematical logician and computable analyst
* Victoria Powers (1958–2025), American real algebraic geometer and social choice theorist
* Maria Assunta Pozio (died 2018), Italian expert on partial differential equations
* Cheryl Praeger (born 1948), Australian researcher in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs
* Malabika Pramanik, Indian-Canadian harmonic analyst
* Norma Presmeg, South African and American mathematics education researcher
* Eleanor C. Pressly (1918–2003), American mathematician and sounding rocket engineer
* Emma Previato (1952–2022), researcher in algebraic geometry and partial differential equations
* Candice Renee Price, American mathematician, advocate for greater representation of women and people of color in STEM
* Rachel Justine Pries, American arithmetic geometer and Galois theorist
* Hilary Priestley, British mathematician who used topological methods to study distributive lattices
* Elena Prieto-Rodriguez, Spanish and Australian mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and mathematics educator
* Michela Procesi (born 1973), Italian expert in Hamiltonian partial differential equations
* Dorette Pronk (born 1968), Dutch and Canadian category theorist and mathematics contest leader
* Christine Proust (born 1953), French expert on Babylonian mathematics
* Mileva Prvanović (1929–2016), Serbian differential geometer, first to earn a doctorate in geometry in Serbia
* Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz (1931–2012), Polish mathematician and resistance fighter in World War II
* Mary Pugh, American-Canadian expert on thin films
* Amber L. Puha, American probability theorist
* Jessica Purcell, American and Australian low-dimensional topologist
* Florence Purington (1862–1950), first dean of Mount Holyoke College
* Ulla Pursiheimo (born 1944), Finnish control theorist who became the first female mathematics professor in Finland
* Helena Pycior (born 1947), American historian of mathematics and expert on Marie Curie and human-animal relations

## Q

* Martine Queffélec (born 1949), French expert in substitution dynamical systems and Diophantine approximation
* Jennifer Quinn, American combinatorialist
* Peregrina Quintela Estévez (born 1960), Spanish applied mathematician

## R

* Ami Radunskaya, American mathematician, specializes in dynamical systems and applications to medical problems, president of AWM
* Virginia Ragsdale (1870–1945), American specialist in algebraic curves, formulated the Ragsdale conjecture
* Alison Ramage, British expert in preconditioning methods for numerical linear algebra
* Kavita Ramanan, Indian-American probability theorist
* Mythily Ramaswamy (born 1954), Indian functional analyst and control theorist
* Susan Miller Rambo (1883–1977), second woman awarded a PhD from the University of Michigan, delegate to 1928 ICM
* Danielle Carr Ramdath (born 1966), American applied mathematician, epidemiologist, and academic administrator
* Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962), Indian-Canadian algebraic number theorist, expert on Iwasawa theory
* Saly Ruth Ramler (1894–1993), first woman to earn a mathematics doctorate from Charles University
* Jacqui Ramagge, Australian mathematician and academic administrator, president of Australian Mathematical Society
* Asha Rao, Indian-Australian mathematician and expert in cybersecurity
* Annie Raoult (born 1951), French applied mathematician, models cell membranes and other thin nanostructures
* Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994), Polish researcher in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic
* Marina Ratner (1938–2017), Russian-American ergodic theorist, member of National Academy of Sciences
* Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912–1981), Argentine mathematician and human rights activist
* Geneviève Raugel (1951–2019), French numerical analyst and dynamical systems theorist
* Ethel Raybould (1899–1987), Australian mathematician and mathematics benefactor
* Adrienne Sophie Rayl (1898–1989), American mathematician and professor
* Michèle Raynaud (born 1938), French algebraic geometer
* Margaret Rayner (1929–2019), British expert on isoperimetric inequalities, president of Mathematical Association
* Michela Redivo-Zaglia, Italian numerical analyst
* Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967), American mathematician, intelligence researcher, and short fiction writer
* Mary Rees (born 1953), British specialist in complex dynamical systems
* Mina Rees (1902–1997), first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Sarah Rees (born 1957), British group theorist
* Karin Reich (born 1941), German historian of mathematics and biographer of mathematicians
* M. Henrietta Reilly (1895–1964), American nun and mathematician
* Anna Barbara Reinhart (1730–1796), Swiss mathematician, wrote commentary on Newton's Principia
* Kristina Reiss (born 1952), German mathematics educator
* Idun Reiten (born 1942), Norwegian representation theorist, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
* Kasia Rejzner (born 1985), Polish mathematical physicist
* Yuriko Renardy, Australian-American expert in fluid dynamics
* Rosemary Renaut, British and American computational mathematician
* Barbara Reys (born 1953), American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation
* Karen Rhea, American calculus educator and proponent of flipped classrooms
* Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security
* Pilar Ribeiro (1911–2011), Portuguese mathematician, founded Portuguese Mathematical Society and Gazeta de Matemática
* Marjorie Rice (1923–2017), American amateur mathematician who discovered new pentagon tilings
* Joan L. Richards (born 1948), American historian of mathematics
* Sophia Foster Richardson (1855–1916), American geometer and textbook author
* Bettina Richmond (1958–2009), German-American algebraist, textbook author, and murder victim
* Mary Rickett (1861–1925), British mathematician and educator
* Cicely Ridley (1927–2008), British-American applied mathematician, developed codes for quantum chemistry and climate models
* Christine Riedtmann (born 1952), Swiss algebraist, president of Swiss Mathematical Society
* Eleanor Rieffel (born 1965), American applied mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography
* Carol Jane Anger Rieke (1908–1999), American astronomer and mathematics educator
* Edwina Rissland, American researcher on knowledge representation in mathematics and case-based reasoning in computational law
* Beatrice Rivière (born 1974), French expert on numerical simulation of fluid flow through porous media
* Catherine A. Roberts (born 1965), American applied mathematician and executive director of the American Mathematical Society
* Rachel Roberts, American low-dimensional topologist
* Siobhan Roberts, Canadian mathematical biographer
* Vanessa Robins, Australian computational topologist
* Julia Robinson (1919–1985), American researcher on diophantine equations, contributed to solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem
* Margaret M. Robinson, American number theorist and expert on zeta functions
* Alvany Rocha, American specialist in Lie groups, computed characters of the Virasoro algebra
* Eliane R. Rodrigues, Brazilian-Mexican researcher on stochastic models for pollution and health
* Jana Rodriguez Hertz (born 1970), Argentine and Uruguayan mathematician
* Rosana Rodríguez-López, Spanish expert on the application of fixed-point theorems to differential equations
* Rubí Rodríguez, Chilean complex geometer, president of Chilean Mathematical Society
* Josephine Robinson Roe (1858–1946), American mathematician and university professor
* Sylvie Roelly (born 1960), French probability theorist
* Alice Rogers, English expert on supermanifolds
* Marie Rognes (born 1982), Norwegian researcher in scientific computing and numerical methods
* Judith Roitman (born 1945), American specialist in set theory, topology, Boolean algebra, and mathematics education
* Anna Romanowska, Polish abstract algebraist, first convenor of European Women in Mathematics
* Dolores Romero Morales (born 1971), Spanish operations researcher
* Colva Roney-Dougal, British computational group theorist
* Anna Rönström (1847–1920), Swedish educator, school founder, and mathematician
* Marian P. Roque, Filipina expert on partial differential equations, president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines
* Tatiana Roque, Brazilian historian of mathematics and politician
* Ana Ros Camacho, Spanish mathematical physicist whose work connects superconductivity with quantum field theory
* Frances A. Rosamond (born 1943), Australian researcher in parameterized complexity, advocate for women in computer science and mathematics
* Lauren Lynn Rose, American mathematician active in mathematical outreach
* Margit Rösler, German expert on harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators
* Mary G. Ross (1908–2008), first Native American female engineer, studied mathematics for aeronautics and celestial mechanics
* Alida Rossander (1843–1909) and Jenny Rossander (1837–1887), Swedish mathematics teachers and women's rights activists
* Corinna Rossi (born 1968), Italian Egyptologist and historian of Egyptian mathematics and architecture
* Alice Roth (1905–1977), Swiss mathematician known for her invention of Swiss cheese spaces
* Hildegard Rothe-Ille (1899–1942), German mathematician specializing in Ramsey theory
* Linda Preiss Rothschild (born 1945), president of AWM, vice-president of AMS, co-editor-in-chief of Mathematical Research Letters
* Emma Unson Rotor (1913–1998), Filipino-American physicist and mathematician, helped develop the proximity fuse
* Christel Rotthaus, German-American researcher in commutative algebra
* Svetlana Roudenko, Russian-American functional analyst
* Christiane Rousseau (born 1954), French-Canadian mathematician, president of the Canadian Mathematical Society
* Julie Rowlett (born 1978), American geometric analyst
* Marie-Françoise Roy (born 1950), French expert in real algebraic geometry, co-founder of two organizations for women in mathematics
* Julia Rozanska, Soviet topologist
* Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas (born 1948), Brazilian singularity theorist
* Jean E. Rubin (1926–2002), American expert on the axiom of choice
* Mary Ellen Rudin (1924–2013), constructed many counterexamples in topology
* Adela Ruiz de Royo (1943–2019), first lady of Panama
* Mari-Jo P. Ruiz, Filipina graph theorist and operations researcher
* Iris Runge (1888–1966), German applied mathematician, translator and biographer
* Mary Beth Ruskai (1944–2023), proved subadditivity of quantum entropy, bounded the electrons in an atom, advocate for women in mathematics
* Beulah Russell (1878–1940), American mathematician
* Alma Johanna Ruubel (1899–1990, Estonian mathematician, developed curvilinear representational geometry
* Barbara Falkenbach Ryan, American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive
* Halina Ryffert (1916–1996), Polish cryptographer, mathematician, and professor of acoustics

## S

* Irene Sabadini, Italian hypercomplex analyst
* Flora Sadler (1912–2000), Scottish mathematician and astronomer
* Cora Sadosky (1940–2010), Argentine-American analyst, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Claudia Sagastizábal, Argentine-Brazilian researcher in convex optimization and energy management
* Ayşe Şahin, Turkish-American expert on dynamical systems
* Laure Saint-Raymond (born 1975), French specialist in partial differential equations, member of the French Academy of Sciences
* Reiko Sakamoto (born 1939), Japanese expert in hyperbolic boundary value problems
* Adriana Salerno (born 1979), Venezuelan-American arithmetic geometer
* Graciela Salicrup (1935–1982), Mexican pioneer in categorical topology
* Judith D. Sally (1937–2024), American researcher in commutative algebra, Noether lecturer
* Sema Salur, Turkish-American differential geometer
* Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017), supervised the first scientific programming group, helped develop COBOL
* Mildred Sanderson (1889–1914), American mathematician, established a correspondence between modular and formal invariants
* Mary Sandoval, American global analyst and spectral geometer
* Marta Sanz-Solé (born 1952), Catalan researcher on stochastic processes, president of the European Mathematical Society
* Winifred Sargent (1905–1979), English researcher on integration theory and BK-spaces
* Alessandra Sarti (born 1974), Italian algebraic geometer, namesake of Sarti surfaces
* Keri Sather-Wagstaff, American commutative algebraist, academic administrator, and LGBTQ+ activist
* Ruth Lyttle Satter (1923–1989), American researcher on circadian rhythms, namesake of Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
* Linda Gilbert Saucier (born 1948), American mathematician, prolific textbook author
* Lisa Sauermann (born 1992), German mathematician ranked third in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame
* Bonita V. Saunders, American expert on mathematical visualization
* Carla Savage, American researcher on parallel algorithms and combinatorial generation, secretary of AMS
* Cami Sawyer, American and New Zealand expert on distance learning in mathematics
* Karen Saxe, American expert on functional analysis and social choice theory
* Najiba Sbihi (born 1953), Moroccan graph theorist and operations researcher
* Renate Scheidler (born 1960), German and Canadian computational number theorist
* Jacquelien Scherpen, Dutch nonlinear control theorist
* Carol Schumacher (born 1960), Bolivian-born American mathematician, author of inquiry-based learning textbooks
* Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922–2018), American researcher in partial differential equations and mathematical biology
* Alice T. Schafer (1915–2009), American differential geometer, founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German mathematical physicist
* Mary Schaps (born 1948), Israeli mathematician and academic administrator, researcher in deformation theory, group theory, and representation theory
* Doris Schattschneider (born 1939), American mathematician known for writing about tessellations and the art of M. C. Escher
* Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010), French numerical analyst
* Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American expert on derivative-free continuous optimization
* Anne Schilling, American algebraic combinatorialist, representation theorist, and mathematical physicist
* Tamar Schlick, American applied mathematician who develops and applies tools for biomolecule modeling and simulation
* Anja Schlömerkemper (born 1973), German applied mathematician, president of International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
* Karin Schnass (born 1980), Austrian expert on sparse dictionary learning
* Leila Schneps (born 1961), American-French analytic number theorist and arithmetic geometer, archivist of Grothendieck's works
* Anita Schöbel (born 1969), German operations researcher, expert on optimization for public transportation
* Maria E. Schonbek (born 1979), Argentine-American researcher in fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations
* Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (born 1979), Austrian mathematician known for her research in image analysis
* Ida May Schottenfels (1869–1942), American group theorist
* Lynn Schreyer, American applied mathematician, models porous media
* Mary Leontius Schulte (1901–2000), American nun, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics
* Jennifer Schultens (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist
* Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
* Irene Sciriha, Maltese graph theorist
* Jeanette Scissum, American mathematician known for her work on sunspot prediction
* Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), British mathematician who promoted mathematical education of American women
* Elizabeth Scott, American statistician
* Jennifer Scott (born 1960), British numerical analyst
* Catherine Searle, American differential geometer
* Ruthmae Sears, Bahamian-American mathematics educator
* Jennifer Seberry (born 1944), Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, one of the founders of Asiacrypt
* Alexandra Seceleanu, Romanian commutative algebraist
* Rose Whelan Sedgewick (c. 1904–2000), first person to earn a PhD in mathematics from Brown University
* Esther Seiden (1908–2014), Polish-Israeli-American mathematical statistician known for her research on design of experiments and combinatorial design
* Anna Seigal, British applied algebraic geometer
* Annie Selden, American mathematics educator, one of the founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Svetlana Selezneva (born 1963), Russian expert on discrete functions
* Helaine Selin (born 1946), American librarian, historian of science, and ethnomathematician
* Muriel Seltman (1927–2019), British left-wing activist, mathematics educator, historian of mathematics, and author
* Marjorie Senechal (born 1939), American expert on quasicrystals, author on history of science, editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer
* Adélia Sequeira, Portuguese applied mathematician specializing in modeling blood flow
* Sylvia Serfaty (born 1975), French expert on superconductivity, winner of the European Mathematical Society Prize
* Vera Serganova, Russian-American researcher on superalgebras and their representations
* Caroline Series (born 1951), English specialist in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems
* Lily Serna (born 1986), Israeli-Australian arithmetical guru of the SBS game show Letters and Numbers
* Maria Serna, Spanish expert on graph layout and adversarial queueing theory
* Cristina Sernadas (born 1951), Portuguese mathematical logician
* Brigitte Servatius (born 1954), Austrian-American expert on matroids and structural rigidity
* Nataša Šešum, expert in geometric flows
* Lena L. Severance (1855–1942), American mathematician, expert on equipollences
* Ingeborg Seynsche (1905–1994), one of the earliest women to earn a doctorate at the University of Göttingen
* Jeanette Shakalli (born 1985), promoter of mathematics in Panama
* Chehrzad Shakiban (born 1951), first Iranian woman with a Ph.D. in mathematics
* Sara Shakulova (1887–1964), Russian mathematician, first mathematician of Tatar descent
* Betty Shannon (1922–2017), mathematician and human computer, collaborator with husband Claude Shannon
* Zorya Shapiro (1914–2013), Soviet mathematician, educator and translator
* Tatyana Shaposhnikova (born 1946), Russian-Swedish researcher on multipliers in function spaces, partial differential operators, and history of mathematics
* Mei-Chi Shaw (born 1955), Taiwanese-American researcher on partial differential equations
* Mariya Shcherbina (born 1958), Ukrainian expert on random matrices
* Amy Shell-Gellasch, American historian of mathematics and book author
* Diana Shelstad (born 1947), Australian-American mathematician, formulated the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program
* Wenxian Shen, Chinese-American dynamical systems theorist
* Irina Shevtsova (born 1983), Russian probability theorist
* Brooke Shipley, American expert in homotopy theory and homological algebra
* Rebecca Shipley, British applied mathematician and healthcare engineer
* Tatiana Shubin, Soviet-American mathematician, founder of several mathematics circles
* Patricia D. Shure, American mathematics educator and calculus reformer
* Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), American differential geometer and Hodge theorist, produced a constructive proof of the Riemann–Roch theorem
* Martha Siegel, American probability theorist and mathematics educator
* Anna Sierpińska (born 1947), Polish-Canadian scholar of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education
* Mary Silber, American expert in bifurcation theory and pattern formation
* Alice Silverberg (born 1958), American number theorist and cryptographer
* Ruth Silverman (c. 1936–2011), American computational geometer, founder of Association for Women in Mathematics
* Evelyn Silvia (1948–2006), American functional analyst and mathematics educator
* Rodica Simion (1955–2000), Romanian-American pioneer in the study of permutation patterns
* Valeria Simoncini (born 1966), Italian numerical analyst
* Lao Genevra Simons (1870–1949), American mathematician and historian of mathematics
* Hourya Benis Sinaceur (born 1940), Moroccan expert in the theory and history of mathematics
* Margaret P. Sinclair (1950–2012), Canadian mathematics educator
* Mary Emily Sinclair (1878–1955), American mathematician, first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Chicago
* Nathalie Sinclair (born 1970), Canadian researcher in mathematics education
* Stephanie Singer, American mathematician and politician, author of books on symmetry
* Sue Singer, British mathematics educator, president of Girls' Schools Association and Mathematical Association
* Ajit Iqbal Singh (born 1943), Indian researcher in functional analysis and harmonic analysis
* Sylvia Skan (1897–1972), British applied mathematician known for the Falkner–Skan boundary layer in fluid mechanics
* Jessica Sklar (born 1973), American mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, and the popularization of mathematics
* Anna Skripka, Ukrainian-American noncommutative analyst
* Gillian Slater, British mathematician and academic administrator, vice chancellor of Bournemouth University
* Lucy Joan Slater (1922–2008), British expert on hypergeometric functions and the Rogers–Ramanujan identities
* Angela Slavova, Bulgarian expert on waves and cellular neural networks, chair of SIAM
* Alice Slotsky, American historian of mathematics and Assyriologist
* Marian Small (born 1948), Canadian proponent of constructivist mathematical instruction
* Ionica Smeets (born 1979), Dutch number theorist and science communicator
* Deirdre Smeltzer (born 1964), American mathematician, mathematics educator, academic administrator, and textbook author
* Sonja Smets, Belgian and Dutch mathematical logician, works on quantum logic and belief revision
* Adelaide Smith (1878–1938), American mathematician, studied and taught internationally
* Clara Eliza Smith (1865–1943), American mathematician specializing in complex analysis
* Daphne L. Smith, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology
* Karen E. Smith (born 1965), American specialist in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry
* Kate Smith-Miles, Australian applied mathematician, president of Australian Mathematical Society
* Leslie M. Smith (born 1961), American applied mathematician and engineering physicist working in turbulence
* Martha K. Smith, American mathematics educator and non-commutative algebraist
* Stacey Smith?, Australian-Canadian mathematician known for her scientific work on zombies
* Agata Smoktunowicz (born 1973), Polish-Scottish researcher in abstract algebra, constructed noncommutative nil rings
* Nina Snaith (born 1974), British researcher in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and zeta functions
* Vera Šnajder (1904–1976), Bosnian mathematician, first Bosnian to publish in mathematics, first female dean in Yugoslavia
* Alena Šolcová (born 1950), Czech applied mathematician and historian of mathematics
* Priyanshi Somani (born 1998), Indian mental calculator
* Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish science writer and polymath, one of two first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society
* Christina Sormani, American researcher on Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature
* Vera T. Sós (1930–2023), Hungarian number theorist and combinatorialist
* Chris Soteros, Canadian applied mathematician, studies biomolecules and the knot theory of random space curves
* Hortensia Soto, Mexican-American mathematics educator
* Marilda Sotomayor (born 1944), Brazilian mathematician, economist, and game theorist
* Laila Soueif (born 1956), Egyptian mathematics professor and women's rights activist
* Diane Souvaine (born 1954), American computational geometer, advocate for women and minorities in mathematics and gender neutrality in teaching
* Ayşe Soysal (born 1948), Turkish mathematician, president of Boğaziçi University
* Angela Spalsbury (born 1967), American functional analyst and academic administrator
* Mary Margaret Speer (1906–1996), American mathematician
* Birgit Speh (born 1949), American expert in Lie groups, namesake of Speh representations
* Domina Eberle Spencer (1920–2022), researcher on electrodynamics and field theory, founded fringe science organization Natural Philosophy Alliance
* M. Grazia Speranza, Italian operations researcher, president of EURO and IFORS
* Pauline Sperry (1885–1967), mathematician, musician, and astronomer, unconstitutionally fired from UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a loyalty oath
* Dolores Richard Spikes (1936–2015), African-American mathematician, first female university chancellor and first female president of a university system in the US
* Nicole Spillane (born 1988), French and Irish applied mathematician
* Vera W. de Spinadel (1929–2017), Argentine-Austrian researcher on metallic means
* Jean Springer (1939–2007), Jamaican-Canadian specialist in abstract algebra and academic administrator
* Jane Squire (bap. 1686 – 1743), English mathematician studied solutions to finding longitude at sea
* Bhama Srinivasan (born 1935), representation theorist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Hema Srinivasan (born 1959), Indian-American mathematician specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic geometry
* Kaye Stacey (born 1948), Australian mathematics educator
* Tanja Stadler (born 1981), German mathematician, expert in phylogenetics
* Gigliola Staffilani (born 1966), Italian-American researcher on harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
* Anna Stafford (1905–2004), one of the first postdoctoral researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study
* Helene Stähelin (1891–1970), Swiss mathematician, editor of Bernoulli family letters, and pacifist
* Gwyneth Stallard, British expert on complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions
* Katherine E. Stange, Canadian-American number theorist
* Zvezdelina Stankova (born 1969), Bulgarian-American expert on permutation patterns, founder of the Berkeley Math Circle
* Nancy K. Stanton, American researcher on complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
* Marion Elizabeth Stark (1894—1982), one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate
* Anastasia Stavrova, Russian expert in algebraic groups, non-associative algebra, and algebraic K-theory
* Jackie Stedall (1950–2014), British historian of mathematics
* Angelika Steger (born 1962), German-Swiss expert on graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms
* Irene Stegun (1919–2008), American mathematician who edited a classic book of mathematical tables
* Gabriele Steidl (born 1963), German researcher in computational harmonic analysis, convex optimization, and image processing
* Mary Kay Stein, American mathematics educator
* Maya Stein, German-Chilean graph theorist
* Berit Stensønes (born 1956), Norwegian mathematician specializing in complex analysis and complex dynamics
* Elizabeth Stephansen (1872–1961), first Norwegian woman to receive a mathematics doctorate
* Edith Stern (born 1952), child prodigy in mathematics and IBM engineer
* Chris Stevens, American topological group theorist, historian of mathematics, and mathematics educator
* Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British algebraist, theoretical computer scientist, and software engineer
* Lorna Stewart, Canadian graph theorist and graph algorithms researcher
* Alice Christine Stickland (1906–1987), British applied mathematician, expert on radio propagation
* Angeline Stickney (1830–1892), American suffragist, abolitionist, and mathematician, namesake of the largest crater on Phobos
* Doris Stockton (1924–2018), American mathematician and textbook author
* Ruth Stokes (1890–1968), American mathematician, astronomer, and cryptologer, pioneer of linear programming, and founder of Pi Mu Epsilon journal
* Yvonne Stokes, Australian expert on fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics
* Emily Stone, American mathematician, works in fluid mechanics and dynamical systems
* Betsy Stovall, American harmonic analyst
* Anita Straker, British mathematics educator, president of the Mathematical Association
* Dona Strauss (born 1934), British mathematician, founder of pointless topology and European Women in Mathematics
* Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016), Australian combinatorialist, third woman mathematics professor in Australia
* Ileana Streinu, Romanian-American computational geometer, expert on kinematics and structural rigidity
* Catharina Stroppel (born 1971), German researcher on representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory
* Marilyn Strutchens (born 1962), African-American mathematics educator
* Tatjana Stykel, Russian-German expert on numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic equations
* Dorothy Geneva Styles (1922–1984), American organist, choir director, composer, poet, and mathematician
* Bella Subbotovskaya (1938–1982), Soviet founder of the Jewish People's University
* Indulata Sukla (born 1944), Indian researcher on Fourier series, author of textbook on number theory and cryptography
* Agnès Sulem (born 1959), French applied mathematician, control theorist, and mathematical finance expert
* Catherine Sulem (born 1957), Algerian-born Canadian mathematician and violinist, expert on singularities in wave propagation
* Nike Sun, American probability theorist studying phase transitions and counting complexity
* Iryna Sushko (born 1967), Ukrainian mathematician, applies nonlinear dynamical systems to economics
* Rosamund Sutherland (1947–2019), British mathematics educator
* Louise Nixon Sutton (1925–2006), first African-American woman to earn a mathematics PhD at New York University
* Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), African-American mathematician, donated entire salary to support African-American women in mathematics
* Márta Svéd (–2005), Hungarian-Australian mathematician, wrote about non-Euclidean geometry
* Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), executive director of the Mathematical Association of America
* Lorna Swain (1891–1936), British fluid dynamics researcher, early female lecturer at Cambridge
* Irena Swanson, Yugoslav-born American commutative algebraist and mathematical quilter
* Henda Swart (1939–2016), South African geometer and graph theorist, editor-in-chief of Utilitas Mathematica
* Adela Świątek (1945–2019), Polish mathematician and a popularizer of mathematics
* Jennifer Switkes, American mathematics educator and volunteer prison mathematics instructor
* Polly Sy, Filipino functional analyst
* Esther Szekeres (1910–2005), Hungarian-Australian mathematician posed the happy ending problem in discrete geometry
* Ágnes Szendrei, Hungarian-American expert on universal algebra
* Wanda Szmielew (1918–1976), Polish logician who proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups
* Zofia Szmydt (1923–2010), Polish researcher on differential equations, potential theory and distributions

## T

* Laura Taalman, American mathematician known for work on the mathematics of Sudoku and mathematical 3D printing
* Daina Taimiņa (born 1954), Latvian-American mathematician, crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
* Martha Takane, Mexican algebraist and algebraic combinatorist
* Christiane Tammer, German expert in set-valued optimization
* Tan Lei (1963–2016), Chinese-French specialist in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers
* Betül Tanbay (born 1960), first female president of the Turkish Mathematical Society
* Yunqing Tang, Chinese-American number theorist and arithmetic geometer
* Rosalind Tanner (1900–1992), English mathematician and a historian of mathematics
* Jing Tao, low-dimensional topologist and geometric group theorist
* Anne Taormina, Belgian mathematical physicist interested in string theory, moonshine, and the symmetry of virus capsids
* Gabriella Tarantello (born 1958), Italian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, differential geometry, and gauge theory
* Éva Tardos (born 1957), Hungarian-American researcher in combinatorial optimization algorithms
* Corina Tarnita, Romanian-American mathematician and theoretical biologist
* Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), Austrian and later Czech-American advocate of matrix theory
* Jean Taylor (born 1944), American mathematician known for her work on soap bubbles and crystals
* Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (born 1974), American mathematical biologist using ordinary and partial differential equations and statistical methods for modeling the dynamics and transmission of mosquito-borne infectious diseases
* Aretha Teckentrup, British mathematician, data scientist, and numerical analyst
* Mina Teicher, Israeli algebraic geometer
* Monique Teillaud, French computational geometer
* Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, Spanish-American expert on moduli of vector bundles on curves
* Keti Tenenblat (born 1944), Turkish-Brazilian differential geometer
* Bridget Tenner, American mathematician, expert in permutation patterns
* Katrin Tent (born 1963), German mathematician, expert in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry
* M. B. W. Tent, American mathematics educator, mathematical biographer
* Chuu-Lian Terng (born 1949), Taiwanese-American differential geometer
* Susanna Terracini (born 1963), Italian mathematician known for her research on chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems
* Audrey Terras (born 1942), American number theorist specializing in quantum chaos and zeta functions
* Susanne Teschl (born 1971), Austrian expert on mathematical modeling of breath analysis
* Donna Testerman (born 1960), expert in the representation theory of algebraic groups
* Ngamta Thamwattana, Thai-Australian expert in granular materials and nanotechnology
* Theano (6th century BC), one or possibly two different Pythagorean philosophers
* Diana Thomas, American mathematician who studies nutrition and body weight
* Doreen Thomas, South African and Australian mathematician and engineer
* Janet Thomas, founder of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
* Rekha R. Thomas, American mathematician and operations researcher
* Abigail Thompson (born 1958), American low-dimensional topologist, educational reformer
* Frances McBroom Thompson (1942–2014), American mathematics educator and textbook author
* Gillian Thornley (born 1940), New Zealand differential geometer, first woman president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
* Heidi Thornquist, American applied mathematician, expert on numerical linear algebra and circuit simulation
* Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880–1977), American mathematician, founder of Thomas More College, Kentucky
* Ene-Margit Tiit (born 1934), Estonian mathematician and statistician, founding president of Estonian Statistical Society
* Mary Tiles (born 1946), writer on the philosophy and history of set theory
* Ulrike Tillmann FRS (born 1962), German-English algebraic topologist
* Sheila Tinney (1918–2010), Irish mathematical physicist, first Irishwoman with a mathematical doctorate
* Maryanne Tipler, New Zealand mathematics textbook author
* Françoise Tisseur, French-English numerical analyst
* Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta (1935–2017), French-Norwegian researcher in kinetics, magnetohydrodynamics and theoretical acoustics
* Renate Tobies (born 1947), German historian of mathematics
* Magdalena Toda, Romanian-American differential geometer
* Gordana Todorov (born 1949), American representation theorist and noncommutative algebraist
* Susan Tolman, American symplectic geometer
* Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC, Polish-Canadian geometric functional analyst
* Alison Tomlin, British physical chemist and applied mathematician, develops detailed models of combustion
* Cristina Toninelli, Italian probability theorist
* Christina Tønnesen-Friedman, Danish-American Riemannian geometer
* Virginia Torczon, American applied mathematician, computer scientist, and expert in nonlinear optimization
* Antoinette Tordesillas, Australian applied mathematician
* Marie Torhorst (1888–1989), German mathematician, school teacher, and politician
* Anna-Karin Tornberg, Swedish computational mathematician
* Eve Torrence (born 1963), American mathematician, president of Pi Mu Epsilon
* Laura Toti Rigatelli (born 1941), Italian historian of mathematics and biographer of Galois
* Vera Traub, German expert on approximation algorithms in network optimization
* Paula Tretkoff, Australian-American researcher in number theory, noncommutative geometry, and hypergeometric functions
* Christiane Tretter (born 1964), German expert in spectral theory and differential operators
* Věra Trnková (1934–2018) Czech category theorist
* Konstantina Trivisa, Greek-American expert in fluid dynamics and flocking
* A. Mary Tropper (1917–2009), British mathematician, textbook author, and translator
* Mary Esther Trueblood (1872–1939), American mathematician, studied with Felix Klein
* Chrysoula Tsogka, Greek applied mathematician, expert in wave propagation through complex media
* Olga Tsuberbiller (1885–1975), Russian analytical geometer and textbook author
* Virginia Tucker (1909–1985), American human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
* Laurette Tuckerman (born 1956), American and French researcher in computational fluid dynamics
* Annita Tuller (1910–1994), American geometer and textbook author
* Reidun Twarock, German-born mathematical biologist
* Julianna Tymoczko (born 1975), American algebraic geometer and algebraic combinatorist
* Regina Tyshkevich (1929–2019), Belarusian graph theorist, co-invented split graphs
* Galina Tyurina (1938–1970), Soviet algebraic geometer

## U

* Olabisi Ugbebor (born 1951), first female mathematics professor in Nigeria
* Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), American mathematician, MacArthur Fellow, National Medal of Science, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Abel Prize
* Corinna Ulcigrai (born 1980), Italian researcher on dynamical systems, won European Mathematical Society Prize and Whitehead Prize
* Kristin Umland, American mathematics educator
* Nina Uraltseva (born 1935), Russian mathematical physicist, specialist in nonlinear partial differential equations
* Arantza Urkaregi (born 1954), Spanish mathematician and Basque separatist and feminist politician

## V

* Brigitte Vallée (born 1950), French mathematician and computer scientist, expert in lattice basis reduction algorithms
* Clàudia Valls, Spanish and Portuguese mathematician specializing in dynamical systems
* Pauline van den Driessche (born 1941), British-Canadian pioneer in combinatorial matrix theory and mathematical biology
* Monica VanDieren, American model theorist and academic administrator
* Olena Vaneeva (born 1982), Ukrainian mathematician specializing in group analysis of differential equations
* Ursula van Rienen (born 1957), German applied mathematician, expert in simulating electrical brain stimulation
* Michela Varagnolo, Italian-French representation theorist
* Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian expert in stochastic processes
* Laura Vargas Koch (born 1990), German algorithmic game theorist and Olympic medal winning judoka
* Alena Varmužová (1939–1997), Czech mathematics educator
* Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African-American mathematician at NASA
* Elena Vázquez Cendón, Spanish expert in modeling waves and shallow water, and numerical solution of hyperbolic problems
* Mariel Vázquez, Mexican mathematical biologist specializing in DNA topology
* Eva Vedel Jensen (born 1951), Danish spatial statistician, stereologist, and stochastic geometer
* Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (born 1936), Black Cuban-American differential geometer
* Tatyana Velikanova (1932–2002), Soviet mathematician, computer programmer, dissident, and political prisoner
* Luitgard Veraart, German financial mathematician
* Michèle Vergne (born 1943), French specialist in analysis and representation theory, member of French Academy of Sciences
* Siobhán Vernon (1932–2002), first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland
* Luminița Vese, Romanian specialist in image processing
* Katalin Vesztergombi (born 1948), Hungarian graph theorist and discrete geometer
* Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Ukrainian mathematician, solved the sphere packing problems in dimensions 8 and 24
* Eva Viehmann (born 1980), German arithmetic geometer
* Marie-France Vignéras (born 1946), French mathematician who proved that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum
* Maria Cristina Villalobos, American applied mathematician recognized for her mentorship
* Cynthia Vinzant, American real algebraic geometer
* Bianca Viray, American arithmetic geometer
* Nina Virchenko (born 1930), Ukrainian mathematician and anti-Soviet activist
* Monica Vișan (born 1979), Romanian expert on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
* Begoña Vitoriano (born 1967), Spanish applied mathematician, uses operations research for humanitarian disaster relief
* Marie A. Vitulli, American algebraic geometer, union organizer, and proponent for women in mathematics on Wikipedia
* Roxana Vivian (1871–1961), first female mathematics doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
* Karen Vogtmann (born 1949), American geometric group theorist, namesake of Culler–Vogtmann outer space
* Margit Voigt, German expert on graph coloring
* Claire Voisin (born 1962), French expert on Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, member of French Academy of Sciences
* Elisabeth Vreede (1879–1943), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and Anthroposophist
* Kristina Vušković (born 1967), Serbian graph theorist

## W

* Michelle L. Wachs, American specialist in algebraic combinatorics
* Aissa Wade (born 1967), Senegalese symplectic geometer, president of African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
* Grace Wahba (born 1934), American pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data
* Nathalie Wahl (born 1976), Belgian topologist
* Yoshiko Wakabayashi (born 1950), Brazilian researcher in combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics
* Sarah Wakes, New Zealand mathematician and engineer, first female head of mathematics at University of Otago
* Rebecca Waldecker (born 1979), German group theorist
* Irène Waldspurger, French mathematician, expert on phase retrieval
* Muriel Kennett Wales (1913–2009), Irish-Canadian mathematician
* Carol Walker (born 1935), American group theorist and fuzzy set theorist
* Erica N. Walker, American mathematician, studies racial and gender equity in mathematics education
* Janice B. Walker, American mathematician at Xavier University
* Judy L. Walker, American algebraic coding theorist
* Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952), American mathematician, first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri
* Dorothy Wallace, American number theorist, mathematical biologist, and mathematics educator
* Lynne H. Walling, British number theorist
* Joan E. Walsh (1932–2017), British numerical analyst
* Marion Walter (1928–2021), German-born mathematician who wrote about using mirrors to explore symmetry
* Andrea Walther (born 1970), German expert in automatic differentiation
* Chelsea Walton (born 1983), African-American researcher in noncommutative algebra
* Hong Wang, Chinese mathematical analyst known for work on Kakeya conjecture
* Yilin Wang, French and Swiss expert in complex analysis and probability theory
* Yuan Wang, Chinese-American control theorist
* Yusu Wang, Chinese computational geometer and computational topologist
* Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer
* Lesley Ward, Australian harmonic and complex analyst
* Rachel Ward, American applied mathematician who researches machine learning and signal processing
* Virginia Warfield, American mathematics educator
* Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998), British pioneer in fuzzy topology
* Simone Warzel (born 1973), German mathematical physicist, expert on the many-body problem
* Talitha Washington (born 1974), American applied mathematician and mathematics educator
* Sarah L. Waters, British expert in fluid mechanics and tissue engineering
* Ann E. Watkins, American statistics educator, president of Mathematical Association of America
* Anne Watson, British mathematics educator
* Charlotte Watts (born 1962), British mathematical epidemiologist
* Johanna Weber (1910–2014), German-British mathematician and aerodynamicist, contributed to supersonic aircraft design
* Charlotte Wedell (1862–1953), one of four women at the first International Congress of Mathematicians
* Suzanne Weekes, American mathematician, cofounder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program
* Katrin Wehrheim (born 1974), American symplectic topologist and gauge theorist
* Guofang Wei (born 1965), Chinese-American differential geometer, found new positively-curved manifolds
* Tilla Weinstein (1934–2002), American differential geometer
* Marie Johanna Weiss (1903–1952), American mathematics researcher and textbook author
* Florence Weldon (1858–1936), British human computer, analysed biological variation
* Katrin Wendland (born 1970), German mathematical physicist, expert on singularities in quantum field theories
* Annette Werner (born 1966), German expert on diophantine geometry and non-Archimedean algebraic geometry
* Elisabeth M. Werner, researcher on convex geometry, functional analysis, and probability theory
* Eléna Wexler-Kreindler (1931–2002), Romanian-French algebraist
* Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883–1966), American researcher on infinite-dimensional linear algebra
* Mary Wheeler (born 1931), American expert on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations
* Marion Ballantyne White (1871–1958), American mathematician and university professor
* Sue Whitesides, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, expert in computational geometry and graph drawing
* Alice S. Whittemore, American group theorist, biostatistician, and epidemiologist who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer
* Kirsten Wickelgren, American number theorist and geometer
* Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher, expert on multi-objective optimization
* Sylvia Wiegand (born 1945), American algebraist, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics
* Anna Wienhard (born 1977), German differential geometer
* Lynda Wiest, American mathematics education researcher
* Evelyn Prescott Wiggin (1900–1964), American mathematician and university professor
* Geertruida Wijthoff (1859–1953), Dutch mathematician and teacher
* Marie S. Wilcox (died 1995), American high school mathematics teacher, textbook author, and president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Trena Wilkerson, American mathematics educator, president of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* Amie Wilkinson (born 1968), American researcher in ergodic theory and smooth dynamical systems
* Emily Willbanks (1930–2007), American mathematician who contributed to defense weapons applications and high performance storage
* Margaret Willerding (1919–2003), American mathematician and textbook author
* Karen Willcox, New Zealand applied mathematician, expert on reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity methods
* Elizabeth Williams (1895–1986), British mathematician and educationist
* Emily Coddington Williams (1873–1952), American historian of mathematics, translator, novelist, playwright, and biographer
* Kim Williams, scholar of connections between mathematics and architecture
* Lauren Williams, American expert on cluster algebras and tropical geometry
* Roselyn E. Williams, American mathematician, founder of National Math Alliance
* Ruth J. Williams, American probability theorist, president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
* Ruth Margaret Williams (born 1945), British mathematical physicist, researches discrete gravity
* Sheila Oates Williams (1939–2024), British and Australian abstract algebraist
* Talithia Williams, American statistician and mathematician who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data
* Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Bulgarian-American researcher on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication
* Stephanie van Willigenburg, Canadian researcher in algebraic combinatorics and quasisymmetric functions
* Elizabeth Wilmer, American expert on Markov chain mixing times
* Helen Wilson (mathematician) (born 1973), British expert on non-Newtonian fluids, president of British Society of Rheology
* Ulrica Wilson, African-American mathematician specializing in noncommutative rings and the combinatorics of matrices
* Helen Wily (1921–2009), New Zealand mathematician and statistician
* Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician interested in abstract algebra
* Emily E. Witt, American commutative algebraist and representation theorist
* Barbara Wohlmuth, German expert on the numerical solution of partial differential equations
* Julia Wolf, British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics
* Louise Adelaide Wolf (1898–1962), American mathematician and university professor
* Gail Wolkowicz, Canadian mathematical biologist known for her work on the competitive exclusion principle
* Maria Wonenburger (1927–2014), Galician-American group theorist, first Spanish Fulbright scholar in mathematics
* Carol Wood (born 1945), American expert in model-theoretic algebra, president of American Women in Mathematics
* Melanie Wood (born 1981), first female American to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad
* Ruth Goulding Wood (1875–1935), American non-Euclidean geometer
* Sarah Woodhead (1851–1912), first woman to pass the Cambridge University mathematical Tripos examination
* Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017), British mathematician and computer programmer
* Carol S. Woodward, American expert in numerical algorithms and software
* Margaret H. Wright (born 1944), American researcher in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing
* Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), Argentine-English mathematician and biochemical theorist, expert in protein structure
* Jang-Mei Wu, Taiwanese-American complex analyst
* Sijue Wu (born 1964), Chinese-American expert in the mathematics of water waves
* Emily Kathryn Wyant (1897–1942), American mathematician, founder of honor society Kappa Mu Epsilon
* Lucy R. Wyatt, British mathematician and oceanographer, studies high frequency radar oceanography and ocean surface waves
* Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (born 1940), Polish logician
* Cynthia Wyels, American mathematician known for her mentorship of Latino students

## X

* Dianna Xu, American mathematician and computer scientist who studies computational problems on curves and surfaces
* Xu Ruiyun, first Chinese woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics

## Y

* Carolyn Yackel, American commutative algebraist and mathematical fiber artist
* Erna Beth Yackel (1939–2022), American mathematics educator
* Mayuko Yamashita, Japanese mathematician and mathematical physicist
* Catherine Yan, Chinese-American mathematician interested in algebraic combinatorics
* Grace Yang, Chinese-American expert on stochastic processes in the physical sciences, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis
* Betsy Yanik, American mathematics educator, president of Women and Mathematics Education
* Elena Yanovskaya (born 1938), Soviet and Russian game theorist
* Sofya Yanovskaya (1896–1966), restored mathematical logic research in Soviet Union, edited mathematical works of Karl Marx
* Jane Ye, Chinese-Canadian researcher in variational analysis
* Karen Yeats (born 1980), Canadian mathematician whose research connects combinatorics to quantum field theory
* Florence Yeldham (1877–1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic
* Yiqun Lisa Yin, Chinese-American cryptographer, broke the SHA-1 hash scheme and helped develop the RC6 block cipher
* Ruriko Yoshida, Japanese-American combinatorist, statistician, phylogeneticist, and operations researcher
* Anna Irwin Young (1873–1920), charter member of the Mathematical Association of America
* Cynthia Y. Young, American applied mathematician, textbook author, and academic administrator
* Lai-Sang Young (born 1952), Hong Kong born dynamical systems theorist
* Mabel Minerva Young (1872–1963), American geometer
* Virginia R. Young, American expert on the mathematics of insurance
* Noriko Yui, Japanese-Canadian researcher on arithmetic geometry, mathematical physics, and mirror symmetry
* Mariette Yvinec, French computational geometer

## Z

* Sara Zahedi (born 1981), Iranian-Swedish researcher in computational fluid dynamics, former child refugee, and winner of EMS Prize
* Martina Zähle (born 1950), German stochastic geometer and geometric measure theorist
* Frieda Zames (1932–2005), American mathematician and disability rights activist
* Antonella Zanna, Italian-Norwegian numerical analyst
* Thaleia Zariphopoulou (born 1962), Greek-American expert in mathematical finance
* Claudia Zaslavsky (1917–2006), American mathematics educator and ethnomathematician
* Anna Zdunik, Polish researcher on dynamical systems
* Mary Lou Zeeman, British expert on dynamical systems and their application to mathematical biology
* Sarah Zerbes (born 1978), German and British algebraic number theorist
* Ping Zhang, graph theorist and textbook author
* Tianyi Zheng, Chinese-American probability and geometric group theorist
* Rozetta Zhilina (1933–2003), Soviet expert in computational problems for nuclear weapons
* Tamar Ziegler (born 1971), Israeli researcher in ergodic theory and arithmetic combinatorics, won Erdős Prize
* Magdolna Zimányi (1934–2016), pioneer of Hungarian computing