JK Rowling has made it into Good Housekeeping‘s  list of the Top 125 Women who Changed the World! The May anniversary issue, which features the 125 women, is on newsstands April 13.

JK Rowling makes the arts and entertainment section of the list of 125 women. The 44-year-old Harry Potter author is listed because: ‘Anyone who gets hundreds of millions of kids around the globe to love reading is a world-changer in our book.’

The Top 10 are:

  1. Oprah Winfrey: Queen of all media
  2. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Secretary of State, former First Lady, former U.S. senator
  3. Mother Teresa: Missionaries of charity founder
  4. Rosa Parks: Civil rights activist
  5. Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, human rights activist
  6. Michelle Obama (May cover star): First African-American First Lady
  7. Amelia Earhart: First woman to fly across the Atlantic
  8. Princess Diana: Royal and humanitarian
  9. Marie Curie: First woman to receive a Nobel Prize
  10. Margaret Thatcher: First female Prime Minister of Britain
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