World's most famous female gangsters of all time

Nov4,2023

Kate Barker, also known as Ma Barker, was a prominent and influential figure during the notorious “public enemy era” of the 1930s. 

Ma Barker

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was a notorious outlaw in the early 1930s. Alongside her partner, Clyde Barrow, she became one of the most infamous criminals in American history.

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker

Sara María Aldrete Villareal, a convicted Mexican serial killer, orchestrated a drug-smuggling and human sacrifice cult with Adolfo Constanzo, resulting in a series of ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. 

Sara Aldrete

Matilda Mary Devine, commonly known as Tilly Devine, was a prominent figure in the criminal underworld of Sydney, Australia during the interwar period. 

Tilly Devine

Kathleen Mary Josephine Leigh also called Kathleen Barry or Kathleen Ryan was an Australian criminal mastermind who gained notoriety as a brothel owner, bootlegger, and cocaine smuggler.

Kate Leigh

Bessie Starkman, also known as Besha Starkman, was a prominent organized crime figure during the early 20th century in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Bessie Starkman

She was one of the most powerful bosses of the Camorra in Naples from 1993 until she was arrested in 2001. She has various reputations and nicknames: her fellow gang members call her the Godmother 

Maria Licciardi

Earning the nickname The Snakehead, Cheng Chiu Ping was the leader of an underground crime group in New York’s Chinatown which was responsible for trafficking some 3,000 illegal immigrants from China to the US.

Sister Ping