Mariam Mirzakhani an Iranian-born, Harvard-educated mathematician, and served as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University in California. She was privileged and honored in Popular Science’s fourth annual “Brilliant 10” in 2005. She was acknowledged as one of the top 10 young minds who have pushed their fields in innovative directions. In 2014 Mirza khani was honored with the Fields Medal which is the most prestigious award in mathematics and often considered as the Nobel Prize for Mathematics. She became the first and to date the only woman; also the first Iranian to be honored with Fields Medal. She has won gold medals from International Mathematical Olympiads (from Hong Kong 1994 and Canada 1995). In 2009 she won AMS Blumenthal Award in mathematics. In 2013 she was awarded with AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. This is presented every two years by the American Mathematical Society and recognizes an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the preceding six years. In same year she was bestowed with Simons Investigator Award of 2013. In 2014 Nature Magazine named Mirza khani as one of the “Ten People Who Mattered”. She also received Clay Research Award in 2014. Minor Planet Centre (MPC) gave the official name to ASTERIOD 321357 Mirzakhani, in her memory.