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They Really Do Exist! 
Maude Michaud
http://maudemichaud.com/home.html
http://maudemichaud.blogspot.com/
(twitter) quirkfilms
Women in Horror
Independent female horror film maker,
Tis done 😀
Some more webcomics:
Dorothy Gambrell, Cat and Girl.
Kate Beaton, Hark! A Vagrant (also on LiveJournal).
Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan, Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell. Jenn also has a great history blog, Per Omnia Saecula.
Which leads into blogging historians:
There are loads of women blogging about history, including academic staff, grad students, and non-academics. Female history bloggers often cross over with feminist political blogging (which *is* politics no matter what the blokeosphere says!). Some of my favourites include Historiann, Tenured Radical, Bavardess, and A Historian’s Craft, but there are many more. Cliopatria has a very long list of history bloggers (male and female): part 1 and part 2. Natalie Bennett is a journalist and Green activist who also blogs about history at Philobiblon.
Couple of webcomics off the top of my head (the rest are already mentioned *s*);
Danielle Corsetto
Webcomic: Girls with Slingshots (http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html)
Jennie Breeden
Webcomics: Devil’s Panties (http://www.thedevilspanties.com), Geebas on Parade (http://geebasonparade.keenspot.com)
A few suggestions – incidentally, are you counting only living people here? :
Susanna Clarke – writer of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel
Kate Orman – http://kateorman.livejournal.com/ – Doctor Who novelist
Melinda Gebbie – artist of Lost Girls and Cobweb, as well as lots of other stuff
D.C. Fontana – writer of much of Star Trek TOS and TNG, as well as some Trek comics, books and computer games
Anne McCaffrey – author of Dragonlance and others
Diana Schutz – Editor of Sin City, 300, Usagi Yojimbo and others
cat yronwode – writer and former exec. editor of Eclipse comics
Wendy Pini – co-writer/artist of Elfquest, first successful self-published US comic
Joanna Russ – Nebula and Hugo award winning writer
Roz Kaveney – SF author, editor and critic
Jill Thompson – http://twitter.com/thejillthompson – comic writer/artist – Scary Godmother, Dead Boy Detectives, Sandman etc
Lynne Varley – colourist, Dark Knight Returns
And dead ones, if you are including them:
Hope Mirlees – writer of Lud-In-The-Mist, often cited as best fantasy novel ever
Verity Lambert – original producer of Doctor Who
C.L. Moore – one of the greatest SF authors of all time.
Kate Worley – writer, Omaha The Cat Dancer
“James Tiptree, Jr.” – SF writer,
Lee Hoffman – SF and Western writer
Leigh Brackett – SF story writer, co-writer of classic Western scripts, writer of Empire Strikes Back
Politics: Audrey I. Pheffer, United States, New York State Assemblywoman since 1987. I’ve liked her for a long time.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=023&sh=bio
Mary Shelley in Novelists > Horror , if you also take already dead women.
I forgot Jeanne Shaheen – current US Senator from New Hampshire, former Governor of New Hampshire.
http://shaheen.senate.gov/
And I guess I should add Barbara Boxer, Senator from California – http://boxer.senate.gov/
C.S. Friedman (Celia S. Friedman)
Novelist (Scifi/Fantasy), author of the Coldfire trilogy, “This Alien Shore”, and others. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_S._Friedman). I don’t really know much about her background besides having read and loved “This Alien Shore”, but thought I’d contribute the name.
Author’s webpage: http://www.csfriedman.com/home.aspx
Naomi Novik
http://www.temeraire.org/
http://naominovik.livejournal.com/
@naominovik
Novellist -> Fantasy
Author of the Temeraire series, which combines the awesome subjects of Dragons and the Royal Navy
Some female sci-fi/fantasy authors, in no particular order and lacking in detail, so apologies for that. They’re all in Wikipedia at least anyway.
CJ Cherryh
Robin Hobb
Julia Gray
Tricia Sullivan
Julian May
Louise Cooper
Anne McCaffery
Juliet McKenna
Jane Routley
Carol Berg
Margert Weis + Tracy Hickman
Mercedes Lackey
Jean M Auel
Karen Miller
Patricia Kennealy
Katherine Kerr
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Andre Norton
I’m sure there’s a ton more – this is just a quick glance down my collection!
Lois McMaster Bujold, novelist of both fantasy and science fiction.
http://www.dendarii.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold
how about women comedians ?
And some more scientists
Anjana Ford a geologist working in Lyme Regis
http://www.jurassiccoast.com/component/jurassic-team/268/view/jurassic-coast-team-170/anjana-ford-287/index.html
Maggie Aderin-Pocock (space scientist) was on desert island discs today.
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/about_us/about_the_university/doctors/maggie_aderin-pocock.jsp
Ramona Fradon – comic artist in the 60s, co-creator of Metamorpho, worked on Batman and Aquaman among others. Still alive, in her 80s.
Delia Derbyshire – electronic music pioneer, best known for her work with the BBC Radiophonics Workshop (original Dr Who theme tune for a start) and White Sound back in the 60s. http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/
Ann Kroeber – sound designer, creator of weird and wonderful sound effect, maintainer of the Splet-Kroeber library http://soundmountain.com/