Janelle Commissiong - T&T's and the World's First Non-White Miss Universe 

Wendy Fitzwilliam - T&T's Second Miss Universe Queen

Giselle Laronde - T&T's First Miss World Queen

Camille Wardrop Alleyne (T&T born - October  12, 1966) was a T&T/USA Aerospace Engineer, Space Scientist, and Science Ambassador. She was the Communication Specialist for NASA's First International Space Station and is the Founder, CEO, and President of Arusha Space Company. She was employed with NASA for 29 years. 

Susan L. Weeks was born in T&T and is the Executive Director of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in the USA. She is also a Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in New England USA. She is a co-founder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergrads. 

Safia Hussein is the First Female VIP Helicopter Line Pilot Captain in the World.  Her job is flying  Royalties, dignitaries, etc. A line Pilot she was responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft regulations such as  Federal Aviation Regulations, State regulations, and local regulations. She is the first T&T to reach the South Pole.

Sintra Bronte - T&T's and Caribbean World Famous Model

Linda Martha (Calypso Rose) - T&T's First Calypso Female Monarch

Drupatee Ramgooni - T&T's First Chutney Music Queen

Claudia Jones - T&T's First Britain's Black News Paper publisher and founder of  England's first  Caribbean Carnival (Notting Hill Carnival)

Audrey Jeffers - Created T&T Break-Fast Shed for Poor Children. She was also the First Female Councilor (Port of Spain’s)

Dolly Nicholas - T&T's First woman to receive a National Scientific Invention Award. 

Jean Miles - T&T's First Known Female Activist, Whistle Blower, and Symbol of Resistance 

Thelma Lane - T&T's First woman to record a calypso. She sang under the name Lady Trinidad. (1937)

Isabella Ribeiro De Cabral - T&T's and Caribbean First Female pilot. She paved the way for other women in a  male-dominated field (1948)

Mrs. Beryl Archibald was the first  Female  Mayor in T&T from 1949-1950

Gladys Ramsaram  Born in Guyana became the first female lawyer in T&T - 1932. 

Mona Rigsby James  Born in  T&T was the first native female lawyer.  At 21 she was the youngest female lawyer in the British Empire.   

Paula Mae Weekes was born 23 December 1958 and is a T&T politician and jurist who was the sixth president of T&Tobago from 2018 to 2023. She was the first female President of Trinidad and Tobago 

Beryl Eugenia McBurnie (November 1913 – 30 March 2000) was a Trinidadian dancer. She established the Little Carib Theatre in Woodbrook, Port of Spain, and promoted the culture and arts of  Trinbago.  

Elma Francois (14 October 1897 – 1944) was an Afrocentric Socialist political activist who, on 14 October 1987, was declared as a "national heroine of T&T. She was known for her pro-trade union, anti-war and anti-colonial work. 

T&T Hazel Ward Redman was a popular TV personality. She hosted Teen Dance Party and 12 & Under. She was also known for hosting biology and Art-Themed programs. She was the first weather presenter on TV in 1962. Before that, she was at Radio Trinidad, under the Rediffusion service known as the 'D station'.

Julia Edwards (1933 – May 24, 2017) was a T&T choreographer and dancer. Known as the "Queen of Limbo" or "First Lady of Limbo". She was responsible for popularizing limbo dancing as a performance in the 1950s and invented lowering the Limbo stick instead of rising it as it was done at wakes plus many of its variations. 

Isabel Ursula Teshea, (24 July 1911 – 14 April 1981) was T&T social worker, human rights activist, and politician. She was one of the founders of the People's National Movement (PNM). She served as vice chair of the party and was the first woman to hold the office. She was the first woman politician to become a cabinet Minister and ambassador . 

T&T Mona Baptiste was the First Female Calypsonian in Europe. She sang and acted mostly in London and Germany. She was largely popular for songs such as "Calypso Blues" and "There's Something in the Air". She also acted in multiple musical films, including Dancing in the Sun 

T&T Una Winifred Atwell was a popular pianist in Britain and Australia in the 1950s with Boogie-Woogie and Ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She was the first black woman to have a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and as of 2025, remains the only female instrumentalist to do so 

Daisy Voisin was born in Carapal Erin T&T. A deeply religious person, she received the message to spread the gospel of Parang in a church in Siparia in 1973. She is hailed as the undisputed "Queen of Parang" for her vocal prowess and the many triumphs and popularity of her band  La Divina Pastora Serenaders, 

Patricia Alison "Pat" Bishop was a T&T educator, music director, and artist. She was one of the first women to arrange for steel bands and was the recipient of the Trinity Cross - The highest of the National Awards in T&T. 

T&T Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux is the Vermont State Climatologist and president of the American Association of State Climatologists Inc. She is a professor of Geography at the University of Vermont 

Ella Andall was born in Grenada and moved to Trinidad when she was eight. She is one of the premium Orisha African singers. Her voice is distinct and rhythmic. She is internationally known. 

Yvonne “Bubulups” Smith was T&T's Pioneer or 1st Steel Band Flag Woman. She was a brave, notorious, and dangerous Jamette.  She died at 69 but lived to see Flag-waving move from Disrespectability to Respectability. 

Fay-Ann Lyons was a three-time T&T Carnival Road March champion (2003, 2008, 2009) and the 2009 International Soca Monarch and International Groovy Soca Monarch champion.  

Heather Headley is a T&T-Born US singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album. 

Altheia Jones-LeCointe - T&T born British physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s 

Erla Harewood-Christopher is T&T's first female Commissioner of Police. Before she was the acting Deputy Commissioner of Police – before that she was an assistant commissioner 

T&T Joan L. Latchman was a seismologist who was the first woman to lead the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre.  

T&T Kandice Tanner is a biophysicist researching the metastatic traits that allow tumor cells to colonize secondary organs. She is a Senior Investigator (full tenure) at the National Cancer Institute, where she is head of the Tissue morphodynamics section. 

T&T Marilyn N. Raphael is a climatologist, best known for her work on climate change and variability in the high latitude southern hemisphere. She is a professor and former chair of the Department of Geography at UCLA 

Mavis John's known as the 'Soul Queen' of T&T and the Caribbean. Her unique voice and style draw from calypso, jazz, and soul music. She recorded You Are What Love Is with her then-husband Dave Elcock, which went viral with fame and stardom.

Anya Ayoung Chee is a fashion designer, entrepreneur, and activist. In 2008 she competed in the Miss Universe pageant in Vietnam for T&T during which time she design some of her wardrobe. In 2011 she was the winner of the fashion show Project Runway Season 9, a popular US television fashion series. 

Deborah Thomas Felix is the first female President of the Industrial Court of T&T (19 years). Formally  Chair of the T&T  Securities & Exchange,  President of the United Nations Tribunal, and member of the International Labour Organization of Experts. She was also a judge with the IMF. 

Glenda Morean Phillip was the first female solicitor of the Supreme Court of T&T in 1974. She is the longest-standing Attorney General after holding this position between December 2001 to November 2003 and was the President of the Law Association of T&T from 1989 to 1991. 

 Kamla Persad Bissessar was the T&T's first female Prime Minister, first female Attorney General, first female Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations, and the first woman of Indian origin to be a prime minister of a country outside of India and the wider subcontinent. 

Maciia Ayers Caesar First female to serve as the Chief Magistrate of the High Court of T&T (2017). Certified Mediator with the Mediation Board of T&T in both Family and non Family matters. Holder of a master's Degree in Law and International Dispute from the Queen Mary University of London, College of Commercial Law Studies.   

Muriel Green was a member of Parliament and the First Female Deputy leader in T&T. She was a teacher and lecturer who graduated with a degree in Education from Redding University UK. She introduced many social laws concerning children and females such as a husband can be charged for raping his wife and children can assume their out-of-wedlock proven father's name.

Ms. Occah Seepaul was elected Speaker of the House of the 4th Republican Parliament (1991 - 1995) on January 13, 1992, and was the first woman to be elected to the office of Speaker. Ms. Seepaul was an attorney-at-law. 

Olive Walke was a T&T musician and ethnomusicologist who was one of the first to collect regional Caribbean folk songs. She founded the well-known choir, La Petite Musicale, and directed it for many years. Between 1961 and 1966, she served as a Senator in the first Parliament of T&T established after its independence. 

Pamela Nicholson has the distinction of being the only person to have represented both of the Tobago constituencies in the House of Representatives. 

Pearl Trim became a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service on March 15th, 1974. In 1981, she trained to become the first female motorcyclist.  

T&T's First 12 Female Police (1955) were Jessica Smith Phillip, Doreen Lumpress Noel, Pearl Bruce, Irene Cozier Toussaint, Phyllis Wilson, Merle Payne Bertrand, Cynthia Sealey St Aude, Cynthia Cole Israel, Myrtle Carter, Mavis Griffith, Elsie Cummings, and Sheila Cipriani. 

Wendy Yawching the first female captain of BWIA, the former national airline of Trinidad and Tobago, which by the end of its operations was the largest airline operating out of the Caribbean. 

Beverly Ramsey Moore became Pan Trinbago First Female President in 2018. She has been the manager of the Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra of Tobago since 2013 and is the 17th President of Pan Trinbago   

Agatha Chen (Agatha Azie Aifonsan Gantom) born in Trinidad became First Lady Of China when her T&T husband Eugene Chen became President of China in 1926. They had 8 children, but only 4 survived to adulthood.

Helen Bhagwansingh - T&T's First Known  Female Billionaire. She grew a small hardware company through acquisitions.  She was an iron lady with nerves of steel. In her era she had to compete in what was considered a male profession. What do you know about Hardware? she was often asked.