The Queen, Margaret Thatcher and J.K. Rowling have been celebrated in a list of the top 40 women who changed the world. The list, which also includes Marilyn Monroe and 17-year-old girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, was topped by pioneering Polish chemist Marie Curie, who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize – and won it twice. British nurse Florence Nightingale came second and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was third. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and Mother Teresa completed the top five. See the full list after the break
1. Marie Curie
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Emmeline Pankhurst
5. Mother Teresa
6. Princess Diana
7. Queen Victoria
8. Anne Frank
9. Joan of Arc
10. Queen Elizabeth I
11. Rosa Parks
12. Queen Elizabeth II
13. Indira Gandhi
14. Amelia Earhart
15. Amy Johnson
16. J.K. Rowling
17. Marilyn Monroe
18. Jane Austen
19. Mary, Queen of Scots
20. Queen Mother
21. Coco Chanel
22. Benazir Bhutto
23. Enid Blyton
24. Marie Antoinette
25. Helen Keller
26. Oprah Winfrey
27. Germaine Greer
28. Eva Peron
29. Hilary Clinton
30. Malala Yousafzai
31. Linda McCartney
32. Audrey Hepburn
33. Eleanor Roosevelt
34. Maya Angelou
35. Michelle Obama
36. Kate Middleton Duchess of Cambridge
37. Billie Jean King
38. Katharine Hepburn
39. Ingrid Bergman
40. Simone de Beauvoir