Top 30 Fictional Geek Girls (2020)

I love to celebrate the best-written women and girls in fiction. Now I present to you my new, updated list of the current smartest, geekiest, nerdiest, loveliest and most charming and complex females I can think of; ranging from the mediums of books, comics, anime, films, TV shows, musicals, and video games. There are a lot of fangirl characters out there!

For more details and references, including info on some of the geek girls included on here, which I had included also on a previous list, see here. Most notably on that post I stated:

These fabulous females are smart, relatable, brilliant in their own individual ways, and are all-out fangirls in their specialised fields. She's out and proud to be a geek, no matter what anyone thinks, and she is no walking, boring cliche. There's no "She's not like other girls" and "She's one of the guys" crap here, nor do these geek girls exist as some male-gazy fetish fantasy sold as being "feminist". No - I see these women as special because they cannot easily be labelled, they are so complex. They are just fully-rounded and nerdy, their gender has nothing to do with their character.

This list will mainly be just the names of my favourite fictional geek girls, and around half of them will be followed by links to older posts where I talk about them in greater detail. These entries will be sorted in the order according to personal preference, character development, admiration, cultural impact, unconventionality, diversity, and who is: written better, more relatable, smarter, braver, kinder, and/or more feminist.

Here they are, my personal favourite Top 30 Fictional Geek Girls (2020):





30. Bedelia (Princeless) / Hay Lin (W.I.T.C.H.)


29. Cynthia "Mac" Mackenzie (Veronica Mars)


28. Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (Cowboy Bebop)


27. Jillian Holtzmann (Ghostbusters (2016))


26. Yomiko Readman (Read or Die)


25. Coco Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)


24. Sam Sparks (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)

Info here.


23. Asami Sato (The Legend of Korra)


22. Sloane MacBrute (Anti/Hero)

Info here.


21. Connie Maheswaran (Steven Universe)


20. Alphys (Undertale)


19. Entrapta (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)


18. Matilda Wormwood (Matilda)

Info here, and here.


17. Sailor Mercury/Ami Mizuno (Sailor Moon)


16. Barbara "Bobbi" Morse/Mockingbird (Marvel Comics)

Info here.


15. Meg Murray (A Wrinkle in Time (2018))

Info here.


14. Doctor K (Power Rangers: RPM)


13. Washu Hakubi (Tenchi Muyo)


12. Nadia Pym/Wasp (Marvel Comics)

Info here.


11. Lisbeth Salander (Millennium trilogy)

Info here, here, here, and here.


10. Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Info here, and here.


9. Kitty Pryde (Marvel Comics)

Info here, here, and here.


8. Shuri (Marvel Comics)

Info here.


7. Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel (Marvel Comics)

Info here, here, here, here, here, and here.


6. Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics)

Info here, here, here, here, here, and here.


5. Belle (Disney's Beauty and the Beast)

Info here, and here.


4. Elphaba (Wicked the musical)

Info here, here, and here.


3. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

Info here, and here.


2. Barbara Gordon/Batgirl/Oracle (DC Comics)

Info here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.


1. Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)