The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World

Soure of list (except for religious affiliation column): The Australian Magazine, a supplement of the Weekend Australian, May 4-5, 1996.

Rank	Name - Country, age	Religious Affiliation
1	Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan, 42	Islam
2	Hillary Clinton - US, 48	Methodist
3	Queen Elizabeth II - UK, 70	Anglican
4	Margaret Thatcher - UK, 70
5	Alice Mitchell Rivlin - US, 65
6	Tansu Ciller - Turkey, 49
7	Gro Harlem Brundtland - Norway, 57
8	Wu Yi - China, 57
9	Germaine Greer - Australia, 57
10	Oprah Winfrey - US, 42	Protestant
11	Sadako Ogata - Japan, 68
12	Christine Todd Whitman - US, 49	Presbyterian
13	Anson Chang - Hong Kong, 55
14	Katharine Graham - US, 78	Catholic
15	Laura d'Andrea Tyson - US, 49
16	Rachel Lomax - UK, 50
17	Madeleine Korbel Albright - US, 58	Episcopalian
18	Tutut Suharto - Indonesia, 47
19	Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma, 50	Buddhist
20	Mary Robinson - Ireland, 51
21	Vidgis Finnbogadottir - Iceland, 66
22	Janet Reno - US, 58
23	Nafis Sadik - Pakistan, 61
24	Hanan Ashrawi - Palestine, 49
25	Queen Beatrix - The Netherlands, 58
26	Charlotte Beers - US, 59
27	Sheila Widnall - US, 58
28	Sheila Maureen Copps - Canada, 43
29	Nguyen Thi Binh - Vietnam, 69
30	Dianne Feinstein - US, 63	Jewish
31	Violeta Chamorro - Nicaragua, 65
32	Chandrika Kumaratunga - Sri Lanka, 50
33	Begum Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh, 50
34	Rita Sussmuth - Germany, 59
35	Mirjana Markovic - former Yugoslavia, 53
36	Christine Ockrent - France, 51
37	Sherry Lansing - US, 51
38	Gloria Steinem - US, 61	half-Jewish; Feminist, Humanist
39	Jodie Foster - US, 33
40	Estee Lauder - US, 87	Jewish
41	Rosabeth Moss Kanter - US, 53
42	Pauline Green - UK, 47
43	Barbara Walters - US, 64
44	Sandra Day O'Connor - US, 66	Episcopalian
45	Anita Roddick - UK, 53
46	Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US, 63	Jewish
47	Nadine Gordimer - South Africa, 73
48	Tina Brown - US, 42
49	Princess Diana - UK, 34	Anglican
50	Susanna Agnelli - Italy, 73
51	Carol Bellamy - US, 54
52	Liliana Ferraro - Italy, 52
53	Carol Galley - UK, 47
54	Madonna - US, 38	Catholic; Kabbalah
55	Countess Marion Donhoff - Germany, 86
56	Jana Wendt - Australia, 39
57	Sylvia Toth - The Netherlands, 52
58	Imelda Marcos - Philippines, 67
59	Queen Sirikit - Thailand, 63	Buddhist
60	Irene Pivetti - Italy, 33
61	Cheryl Kernot - Australia, 47
62	Catherine Bertini - US, 46
63	Ritt Bjerregaard - Denmark, 54
64	Elizabeth Dole - US, 59	Presbyterian
65	Elizabeth Dowdeswell - Canada, 50
66	Takako Doi - Japan, 67
67	Anita DeFrantz - US, 43
68	Donna Karan - US, 47
69	Miriam Defensor Santiago - Philippines, 51
70	Helen Gurley Brown - US, 74
71	Elisabeth Guigou - France, 49
72	Janet Holmes a Court - Australia, 52
73	Bodil Nyboe Andersen - Denmark, 55
74	Heide Simonis - Germany, 52
75	Jutta Limbach - Germany, 61
76	Hanna Suchocka - Poland, 50
77	Wandira Kazibwe - Uganda, 42
78	Simone Veil - France, 68
79	Jennie George - Australia, 48
80	Rosalyn Higgins - UK, 58
81	Dame Leonie Kramer - Australia, 71
82	Irene Saez - Venezuela, 34
83	Megawati Sukarno - Indonesia, 49
84	Erika Emmerich - Germany, 52
85	Dai Qing - China, 55
86	Sirkka Hamalainen - Finland, 57
87	Roseanne - US, 42	Judaism; Latter-day Saint; Kabbalah
88	Winnie Mandela - South Africa, 61
89	Xuxa - Brazil, 32	Catholic
90	Irina Khakamada - Russia, 40
91	Helen Clark - New Zealand , 46
92	Esther Koplowitz - Spain, 44
93	Alicia Koplowitz - Spain, 42
94	Tatyana Mitkova - Russia, 40
95	Ilda Boccassini - Italy, 46
96	Francoise Baree-Sinoussi - France, 48
97	Emily Lau - China, 43
98	Mother Teresa - India, 85	Catholic
99	Betty Boothroyd - UK, 66
100	Christy Turlington - US, 27

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