List of Feminists - Feminists

Feminists

• Lesley Abdela, British feminist fl. 2010
• Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States
• Jane Addams (1860–1935), US leader in the women's suffrage movement
• Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895), Swedish feminist and writer
• Alfhild Agrell (1849–1923), Swedish writer and playwright
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
• Catharina Ahlgren (1734–1783), Swedish journalist and feminist
• Linda Martín Alcoff, US philospher
• Alan Alda, U.S. actor (M*A*S*H* and The West Wing) who campaigned for Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s
• Soteria Aliberty, Greek educator and writer
• Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer
• Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898), Swedish feminist
• Adelaide Anderson (1863–1936), British civil servant and labour activist
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), British physician and suffragist
• Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943), British physician and suffragette
• Jane Anger, author of Her Protection for Women, London: Printed by Richard Jones, and Thomas Orwin. 1589.
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette
• Anti-Flag, self-proclaimed feminists, who have written songs including Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain)
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa, (1942–2004), scholar of Chicano cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory
• Maria Arbatova (born 1957), leading Russian feminist
• Lovisa Årberg (1801–1881), first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden
• Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), activist, writer, thinker, pioneer, and founder of the feminist movement in Spain
• Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British politician, feminist and internationalist
• Ottilie Assing, (1819–1884), German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist
• Mary Astell (c. 1666–1731), author of Serious Proposal to the Ladies
• Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914), leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage
• Rachel Foster Avery (1858–1919), corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Lois W. Banner (born 1939), U.S. historian
• Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), Ukrainian-born diarist, painter and sculptor
• Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician
• Lydia Becker (1827–1890), British suffrage campaigner
• Alison Bechdel (born 1960), American cartoonist, author of Dykes to Watch Out For
• Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator and author
• Helen Bentwich (1892–1972), British Chair of London County Council
• Signe Bergman (1869–1960), Swedish suffrage leader
• Annie Besant (1847–1933), prominent British socialist, Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
• Julie Bindel (born 1962), Guardian columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking, and rape
• Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953), British suffragette
• Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964), British founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S.
• Barbara Bodichon
• Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973)
• Anne Bradstreet
• Dionne Brand, Trinidad and Tobago/Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, documentarian and dramatist
• Fredrika Bremer
• Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1724), Swedish salonist and poet
• Ursula Mellor Bright
• Emilia Broomé, Swedish politician
• Flora Brovina
• Antoinette Brown
• Susan Brownmiller
• Katherine Burdekin
• Lucy Burns
• Katharine Bushnell
• Josephine Butler (1828–1906), British
• Octavia Butler, African-American Science Fiction author
• Lydia Cacho
• Liz Carpenter, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
• Frances Jennings Casement
• Ana Castillo
• Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
• Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish feminist
• Enid Charles (1894–1972)
• Phyllis Chesler
• Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen
• Alice Whitcomb Clark
• Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879), English artist and author
• Voltairine de Cleyre
• Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and now Secretary of State and U.S. politician
• Kurt Cobain, self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as an "anti-rape song."
• Francis Power Cobbe
• Nikki Craft
• Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film maker
• Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) First president of League of Women Voters,First woman from Texas to run for the United States Senate
• Mary Daly, ethicist and theologian
• Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913), British suffragette
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment
• Eoin Conroy
• Olympe de Gouges
• Marie de Gournay
• François Poullain de la Barre
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the Western hemisphere
• Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution
• Christine de Pizan (1365–1430)
• Josefina Deland (1814–1890), Swedish feminist
• Barbara Deming
• Marie Dentière (c. 1495–1561), Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women
• Charlotte Despard (1844–1939), British
• Frederick Douglass
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Marguerite Durand
• Andrea Dworkin
• Norah Elam (1878–1961)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), Communist writer and thinker; wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
• Cynthia Enloe, International Relations scholar
• Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany
• Fern Eyles, New Zealand
• Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929), British leader of the suffragist movement
• Emily Faithfull (1835–1895), British
• Shulamith Firestone
• Louise Flodin, Swedish
• Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954), suffragist, painter, and writer
• Betty Ford, former First Lady
• Isabella Ford (1855–1924)
• Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi
• Juliette Frette
• Marilyn Frye
• Margaret Fuller
• Matilda Joslyn Gage
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Emma Goldman
• Vida Goldstein (1869–1949), Australian feminist politician
• Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
• Jane Goodall
• Lois Gould
• Bettisia Gozzadini (1209–1261), held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
• Jane Grant
• Angelina Emily Grimke
• Sarah Grimke
• Marianne Hainisch
• Bertha Harris
• Jane Ellen Harrison, British scholar
• Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924)
• Shere Hite
• Sarah Hoagland
• Nicole Hollander
• Edith How-Martyn (1875–1954), British suffragette
• Julia Ward Howe
• Mary Howell
• André A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist
• Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929), the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician
• Karla Jay
• Sheila Jeffreys
• Sonia Johnson
• Jill Johnston
• Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857), Scottish journalist, editor, and novelist
• Marie Juchacz, German social reformer, feminist, and Member of the Reichstag
• Wendy Kaminer
• Aoua Keita
• Anna Kingsford (1846–1888)
• Alexandra Kollontai
• Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
• Mary Lee, South Australian suffragist
• Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish phoet
• John Lennon, self-proclaimed feminist who with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song Woman is the Nigger of the World and Woman (John Lennon song)
• Anna Leonowens
• Gerda Lerner, post-Marxist
• Fredrika Limnell, Swedish
• Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878–1963)
• Mary Livermore
• Audre Lorde
• Mina Loy
• Margaret Bright Lucas
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Constance Lytton, British suffragette
• Catharine MacKinnon
• Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons and founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
• Madonna, entertainer
• Soe Tjen Marching, Indonesian feminist
• Amanda Marcotte, American blogger and activist
• William Moulton Marston
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), British, writer
• Else Mayer
• Rosa Mayreder
• Susan McClary
• Nellie McClung
• Wendy McElroy
• Helen Priscilla McLaren
• Page Mellish
• Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871–1880 and considered women's labor of comparable worth
• Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
• Katti Anker Møller, Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
• Agda Montelius (1850–1920)
• Honor Moore American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
• Cherríe Moraga
• Robin Morgan
• Lucretia Mott
• Anna Maria Mozzoni
• Clarina I. H. Nichols
• Helena Normanton British, first practising female barrister
• Martha Nussbaum
• Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Yoko Ono, Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
• Grace Paley
• Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette
• Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette
• Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette
• Alice Paul
• Eva Perón
• Frédérique Petrides (1903-1983) Belgian-American; one of the first women orchestral conductors and editor of Women in Music
• Marion Phillips
• Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar
• Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
• Sharon Presley
• Jerilynn Prior
• Madeleine de Puisieux (1720-1798), feminist writer
• Eleanor Rathbone, British
• Janice Raymond
• Claire Rayner, British
• Adrienne Rich
• Abby Rockefeller
• Rosalie Roos (1823–1898)
• Ernestine Rose
• Agnes Maude Royden, British suffrage campaigner
• Kathy Rudy
• Florence Rush
• Gita Sahgal, Indian feminist
• Sarojini Sahoo
• Celia Sánchez (1920–1980), in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution
• George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist
• Flora Sandes, the only western woman to have enlisted and fought as a soldier in the First World War.
• Margaret Sanger
• Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech)
• Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), pioneer of women's education in Germany
• Olive Schreiner
• Alice Schwarzer
• Rose Scott
• Barbara Seaman
• Baroness Seear, British
• Séverine
• Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
• Kate Sheppard
• Tarabai Shinde
• Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897), English activist and writer
• Elaine Showalter
• Ruth Simpson
• Barbara Smith
• Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
• Valerie Solanas
• Donita Sparks, musician
• Anna Garlin Spencer
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Gloria Steinem
• Anna Sterky
• Helene Stöcker
• Lucy Stone
• Marie Stopes
• Mary Stott, British feminist journalist
• Karlina Leksono Supelli, Indonesian feminist
• Kazimiera Szczuka, Polish feminist, journalist, and critic and theoretician of the literature
• Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher, and theologian
• Elisabeth Tamm
• Joan Kennedy Taylor
• Thomas Thorild (1759–1808), Swedish poet and feminist
• J. Ann Tickner, International Relations scholar
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Urvashi Vaid
• Wil van Gogh
• Peng Wan-ru
• Nesta Helen Webster, early 20th-century U.K. conservative
• Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
• Joss Whedon, writer-director and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Anna Whitlock, Swedish suffragette and school reformer
• Karolina Widerström
• Frances Willard (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist
• Charlotte Wilson
• Monique Wittig
• Alice Wolfson
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Victoria Woodhull
• Virginia Woolf
• Frances Wright
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Bitch and Prozac Nation
• Cathy Young
• Sande Zeig
• Clara Zetkin
• Rote Zora