Forbes Magazine 
| 1 | Rice, Condoleezza | U.S. | Secretary of state |
| 2 | Wu Yi | China | Vice Premier, minister of health |
| 3 | Tymoshenko, Yulia | Ukraine | Prime minister |
| 4 | Arroyo, Gloria | Philippines | President |
| 5 | Whitman, Margaret | U.S. | Chief executive, eBay |
| 6 | Mulcahy, Anne | U.S. | Chief executive officer, Xerox |
| 7 | Krawcheck, Sallie | U.S. | Chief financial officer, Citigroup |
| 8 | Barnes, Brenda | U.S. | Chief executive officer, Sara Lee |
| 9 | Winfrey, Oprah | U.S. | Chairman, Harpo |
| 10 | Gates, Melinda | U.S. | Co-founder, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 11 | Lauvergeon, Anne | France | Chairman, The Areva Group |
| 12 | Gerberding, Julie | U.S. | Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 13 | Russo, Patricia | U.S. | Chief executive, Lucent Technologies |
| 14 | Xie Qihua | China | Chairman, president, Shanghai Baosteel |
| 15 | Suu Kyi, Aung San | Myanmar | Nobel Peace Laureate |
| 16 | Cruz, Zoe | U.S. | Acting president, Morgan Stanley |
| 17 | Dunn, Patricia | U.S. | Nonexecutive chairman, Hewlett-Packard; Global chief executive, Barclays Global Investors |
| 18 | Scardino, Marjorie | England | Chief executive, Pearson |
| 19 | Cohen, Abby Joseph | U.S. | Chief U.S. portfolio strategist, Goldman Sachs Group |
| 20 | Livermore, Ann | U.S. | Executive vice president, technology solutions group, Hewlett-Packard |
| 21 | McAleese, Mary | Ireland | President |
| 22 | Catz, Safra | U.S. | President, Oracle |
| 23 | Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | U.S. | U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| 24 | Clark, Helen | New Zealand | Prime Minister |
| 25 | Kumaratunga, Chandrika | Sri Lanka | President |
| 26 | Clinton, Hillary Rodham | U.S. | U.S. Senator |
| 27 | Sammons, Mary | U.S. | Chief executive, president, Rite Aid |
| 28 | Nooyi, Indra | U.S. | President and chief financial officer, PepsiCo |
| 29 | Zia, Khaleda | Bangladesh | Prime minister |
| 30 | Ho Ching | Singapore | Chief Executive, Temasek |
| 31 | Halonen, Tarja | Finland | President |
| 32 | Cico, Carla | Brazil | Chief executive, Brasil Telecom |
| 33 | Sweeney, Anne | U.S. | Co-chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group |
| 34 | Magner, Marjorie | U.S. | Chairman and chief executive, global consumer group, Citigroup |
| 35 | Jung, Andrea | U.S. | Chairman and chief executive, Avon |
| 36 | O’Connor, Sandra Day | U.S. | Supreme Court Justice |
| 37 | Johnson, Abigail | U.S. | President, Fidelity Management & Research |
| 38 | Moore, Ann | U.S. | Chairman and chief executive, Time Inc. |
| 39 | Bettencourt, Liliane | France | Majority owner, L’Oréal |
| 40 | Rowling, Joanne | England | Author |
| 41 | Marshall, Ruth Ann | U.S. | President, Americas region, MasterCard |
| 42 | Feinstein, Dianne | U.S. | U.S. Senator |
| 43 | Poon, Christine | U.S. | Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson |
| 44 | Kroes, Neelie | Netherlands | European competition commissioner |
| 45 | McKinstry, Nancy | U.S. | Chief executive officer, Wolters Kluwer |
| 46 | Bush, Laura | U.S. | First lady |
| 47 | Couric, Katie | U.S. | Co-anchor, NBC’s Today Show, contributing anchor, Dateline NBC |
| 48 | Vike-Freiberga, Vaira | Latvia | President |
| 49 | McGrath, Judy | U.S. | Chief executive, MTV Networks |
| 50 | Pascal, Amy | U.S. | Chairman, Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment; vice chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainm |
| 51 | Alliot-Marie, Michèle | France | Minister of defense |
| 52 | Barrett, Colleen | U.S. | President, Southwest Airlines |
| 53 | Aramburuzabala, Maria Asunción | Mexico | Vice chairman, Grupo Modelo |
| 54 | Snowe, Olympia | U.S. | U.S. Senator |
| 55 | Sawyer, Diane | U.S. | Co-anchor, ABC’s Good Morning America, Primetime Live |
| 56 | Arnold, Susan | U.S. | Vice chairman, global beauty care, Procter & Gamble |
| 57 | Ma, Mary | China | Chief financial officer, Lenovo Group |
| 58 | Dole, Elizabeth | U.S. | U.S. Senator |
| 59 | Snider, Stacey | U.S. | Chairman, Universal Pictures |
| 60 | Fisher, Doris | U.S. | Billionaire, co-founder, The Gap |
| 61 | Johnson, Antonia Ax:son | Sweden | Chairman, owner, The Axel Johnson Group |
| 62 | Blair, Cherie Booth | England | Wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair; lawyer |
| 63 | Bravo, Rose Marie | U.S. | Chief executive, the Burberry Group |
| 64 | Castagna, Vanessa | U.S. | Executive chairman, Mervyns |
| 65 | Fréchette, Louise | Canada | Deputy secretary-general, United Nations |
| 66 | Hayashi, Fumiko | Japan | Chief executive, Daiei |
| 67 | Hudson, Dawn | U.S. | Chief executive, Pepsi-Cola North America |
| 68 | Maathai, Wangari | Kenya | Nobel laureate, deputy minister of environment |
| 69 | Berman, Gail | U.S. | President, Paramount Pictures |
| 70 | Banta, Vivian | U.S. | Vice chairman, insurance, Prudential Financial |
| 71 | Klatten, Susanne | Germany | Deputy chairman of the supervisory board, Altana AG |
| 72 | Amanpour, Christiane | U.S. | Chief international correspondent, CNN |
| 73 | House, Karen Elliott | U.S. | Publisher, The Wall Street Journal; senior vice president, Dow Jones & Co. |
| 74 | Berlusconi, Marina | Italy | Chairman, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore |
| 75 | Queen Elizabeth II | England | Queen of England |