Australian Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in the World [May 4, 1996]

Status Celebrities

Missing: Alicia Koplowit * Alice Mitchell Rivlin * Anson Chang * Aung San Suu Kyi * Begum Khaleda Zia * Bodil Nyboe Andersen * Carol Bellamy * Carol Galley * Catherine Bertini * Chandrika Kumaratunga * Charlotte Beers * Cheryl Kernot * Christine Ockrent * Countess Marion Donhoff * Dai Qing * Dame Leonie Kramer * Elisabeth Guigou * Elizabeth Dowdeswell * Emily Lau * Erika Emmerich * Esther Koplowitz * Francoise Bare * Gro Harlem Brundtland * Hanna Suchocka * Hanan Ashrawi * Heide Simonis * Helen Clark * Ilda Boccassini * Irene Pivetti * Irina Khakamada * Janet Holmes a Court * Jana Wendt * Jennie George * Jutta Limbach * Laura d'Andrea Tyson * Liliana Ferraro * Megawati Sukarno * Mirjana Markovic * Miriam Defensor Santiago * Nadine Gordimer * Nafis Sadik * Nguyen Thi Binh * Pauline Green * Queen Sirikit * Rachel Lomax * Ritt Bjerregaard * Rita Sussmuth * Rosalyn Higgins * Rosabeth Moss Kanter * Sadako Ogata * Sheila Widnall * Sheila Maureen Copps * Sirkka Hamalainen * Susanna Agnelli * Sylvia Toth * Takako Doi * Tansu Ciller * Tatyana Mitkova * Tutut Suharto * Wandira Kazibwe * Wu Yi

Vote Ranking  

1

Anita Roddick

Entrepreneur

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

Aung San Suu Kyi

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

3

Donna Karan

Designer

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

Oprah Winfrey

TV Personality

61.72% (208 of 337 votes)

5

Xuxa

TV Personality

60.0% (3 of 5 votes)

6

Christy Turlington

Model

60.0% (3 of 5 votes)

7

Imelda Marcos

Politician

59.72% (169 of 283 votes)

8

Roseanne Barr

Comedienne

58.43% (52 of 89 votes)

9

Queen Elizabeth II Windsor

Monarch

57.96% (91 of 157 votes)

10

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Religious Figure

57.52% (88 of 153 votes)

11

Janet Reno

U.S. Attorney General

56.63% (47 of 83 votes)

12

Madeleine Albright

U.S. Secretary of State

56.52% (13 of 23 votes)

13

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

14

Princess Diana Spencer

Royalty

52.22% (200 of 383 votes)

15

Hanan Ashrawi

Advocate

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

16

Sherry Lansing

Entrepreneur

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

17

Christine Todd Whitman

U.S. Governor

48.21% (135 of 280 votes)

18

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

19

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

44.74% (200 of 447 votes)

20

Jodie Foster

Actress

38.71% (12 of 31 votes)

21

Dianne Feinstein

U.S. Senator

34.04% (16 of 47 votes)

22

Barbara Walters

Commentator

32.79% (20 of 61 votes)

23

Madonna (Ciccone)

Vocalist

31.58% (54 of 171 votes)

24

Gloria Steinem

Publisher

30.0% (3 of 10 votes)

25

Helen Gurley Brown

Author

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

26

Sandra Day O'Connor

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

23.08% (9 of 39 votes)

27

Elizabeth Dole

U.S. Senator

0% (0 of 5 votes)

28

Irene Saez

Beauty Contestant

0% (0 of 0 votes)

29

Betty Boothroyd

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

Estee Lauder

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

31

Katharine Graham

Publisher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

Tina Brown

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

Simone Veil

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

34

Benazir Bhutto

World Leader

0% (0 of 2 votes)

35

Violeta Chamorro

World Leader

0% (0 of 3 votes)

36

Winnie Mandela

Advocate

0% (0 of 1 votes)

37

Vigdis Finnbogadottir

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

38

Mary Robinson

World Leader

0% (0 of 2 votes)

39

Germaine Greer

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

40

Anita DeFrantz

Athlete

0% (0 of 1 votes)

41

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

Monarch

0% (0 of 1 votes)