Late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai have been named in a list of the 50 most inspirational women of all time beating former presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The first woman to lead a Muslim majority nation, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007 is the front runner of that list. The Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton was also listed as more inspiring than a woman widely regarded as the greatest female athlete of all time, Serena Williams. Topping the list of the fierce females was Marie Curie, the Polish physicist and chemist who is known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, she beat one of the founders of modern nursing and keen statistician Florence Nightingale into second place in a poll of 2,000 people. The teenager Anne Frank, whose memory lives in through the diary she kept of her life during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, came third in the list, ahead of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, Queen Elizabeth II and author JK Rowling. The survey was conducted by Your Life, the campaign to encourage more teenagers to study Maths and Physics post 16. Your Life campaign chair Edwina Dunn said, “Marie Curie and Florence Nightingale deserve this accolade of being named the most inspirational women of all time. They are two brilliant icons whose determination, intelligence and altruism, led incredible scientific advances that changed the world. We want a new generation to be inspired to follow in their footsteps.” Margaret Thatcher was the highest-ranking politician at ninth, whilst current UK Prime Minister Theresa May came 20th. Dame Kelly Holmes, Jessica Ennis-Hill CBE and Serena Williams were voted the most inspirational female athletes. Seven in 10 said the success and prominence of high profile figures like Angela Merkel, Theresa May and Michelle Obama made them feel top political jobs were now more open to women. But over half of those surveyed still think there are many career fields still not open to women.