Fatima Sheikh

Recognition In 2014, the state of Maharashtra included a brief profile of Fatima Sheikh in Urdu language textbooks.

Many people regard 9 January as the date of her birth, using it for remembrance. On 9 January 2022, Google commemorated Sheikh with a Google Doodle marking what it referred to as her 191st birth anniversary, describing her as being "widely considered to be India's first Muslim woman teacher". However, Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, author of a 2023 biography of Savitribai Phule, later commented for a 2025 ThePrint article that "there is no evidence to suggest that she was born on the 9th of January".

In 2022, the Andhra Pradesh government introduced Sheikh into its textbooks. In 2023, a statue of Sheikh was unveiled at an Urdu school in a town in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, recognising her pioneering role in women's education in India. During the 2019–2020 Shaheen Bagh protests in Delhi, a library set up at the protest site was named after Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh. Reading circles were also set up in Fatima Sheikh's name.