Every year 10 women are inducted into the Outstanding Women of Scotland Community at a special event at Glasgow Women's Library. You can find out more about our inductees below.

 

   

 

 Elish Angiolini

Principal of St Hugh’s College, University of   Oxford

 2015
   

 

Winnifed Ewing

Lawyer and Politician

 2015
   

 

Bashabi Fraser

Poet, children’s writer, editor, translator and academic.

 2015
   

 

 Jackie Kay

Poet & Novelist

 2015
   

 

Dr. Doris Littlejohn

The UK’s first female Industrial Tribunal Chairman

 2015
   

 

Liz Lochhead

Poet & Dramatist

 2015
   

 

Dr. Anne Lorne Gillies

Singer, writer and Gaelic activist

 2015
   

 

Prof. Rebecca Lunn

Professor of Engineering Geosciences

 2015
   

 

Karine Polwart

Singer

 2015
   

 

Nicola Sturgeon

Politician

 2015
       
   

 

Sarah Jane Brown

Children's Education Advocate

 

 2016
   

 Lady Cosgrove

Lawyer and first woman to be appointed a Senator of the College of Justice

 2016
   

 

Annie Lennox

Singer-songwriter, Political Activist and Philanthropist

 2016
   

 

Lesley Riddoch

Broadcaster and Journalist

 2016
   

 

J.K. Rowling

Author

 2016
   

 

Magdalena Sargarzazu

Archivist

 2016
   

 

Alice Strang

Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

 2016
   

 

Dame Joan Stringer

Political Scientist

 2016
   

 

Prof. Karen Vousden

Medical Researcher

 2016
 

 

 

 

Dr. Philippa Whitford

Surgeon and Politician

 2016
 

 

Amal Azzudin

Young Outstanding Woman of the Year

Special Award for Saltire Society's 80th Anniversary 

 2016
       
 

 

Horse MacDonald

Singer, Sonwriter and Producer

2017
 

 

Rosina Bonsu

Freelance Dance Artist

2017
 

 

Joyce McMillan

Theatre Critic and Writer

2017
 

 

Myrtle Simpson

Radiographer, Skier and Climber

2017
 

 

Professor Dame Sue Black

Forensic Anthropologist, Anatomist and Academic

2017
 

 

Jo Clifford

Writer, Performer, Poet and Teacher

2017
   

Roza Salih

Co-founder of Glasgow Girls

2017
 

 

Caroline Bowditch

Performance Artist and Choreographer

2017
 

 

Renzije Sherifi

Journalist, Writer, producer and community leader

2017
 

Sam Ainsley

Artist and Teacher

2017