List of feminists

This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, originally sorted by surname within each period.

It may include, for instance, earlier authors who did not self-identify as feminists but have been claimed to have furthered "feminist consciousness" by a resistance of male dominance expressed in their works.

No. Period (birth) Name Country Born Died Comments Source
11201–1300Helen of AnjouSerbia12361314Serbian Queen, feminist, establisher of women's schools[1][2]
21201–1300 Bettisia GozzadiniItaly12091261Italian law tutor who taught at the University of Bologna[3]
31201–1300Nicola de la HayeUnited Kingdom1150–561230Castellan of Lincoln for approximately thirty years [4]
41301–1400 JefimijaSerbia13491405Serbian politician, poet, diplomat
51301–1400 Christine de PizanItaly13651430[5]
61301–1400 Jadwiga of PolandPoland1373–741399
71301–1400 Milica of SerbiaSerbia13351405Serbian Empress, feminist, poet
81401–1500 Balaram Das India15th centuryunknownOriya poet; first attempt in India towards feminism
91401–1500 Laura CeretaItaly14691499
101401–1500 La MalincheMexicoc.1496 or c.1501c.1529
111501–1600Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaGermany14861535[6]
121501–1600Jane AngerUnited Kingdomfl.1589fl.1589[6]
131501–1600Marie de GournayFrance15651645Protofeminist[6]
141501–1600Izumo no OkuniJapanc.1571unknown
151501–1600Modesta di Pozzo di ForziItaly1501–1600c.1593
161601–1700 Aphra BehnUnited Kingdom16401689Protofeminist
171601–1700 Anne BradstreetUnited Kingdom16121672
181601–1700 Sophia Elisabet BrennerSweden16591724
191601–1700 Sr. Sor Juana Inés de la CruzMexico16481695
201601–1700 François Poullain de la BarreFrance16471725[6]
211601–1700 Christina of SwedenSweden16261689
221701–1800Abigail AdamsUnited States17441818[7]
231701–1800Catharina AhlgrenSweden17341800
241701–1800Annestine BeyerDenmark17951884Pioneer of women's education
251701–1800Eleanor ButlerUnited Kingdom17391829One of the Ladies of Llangollen
261701–1800Marquis de CondorcetFrance17431794[6]
271701–1800Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de MéricourtFrance17621817Politician[8]
281701–1800Dorothea ErxlebenGermany17151762[5]
291701–1800Charles FourierFrance17721837Socialist feminist; philosopher; credited with coining the (French) word "féministe" [9][10]
301701–1800Jane GomeldonUnited Kingdomc.17201779
311701–1800Olympe de GougesFrance17481793Playwright and political activist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791[11]
321701–1800Sarah GrimkeUnited States17921873First-wave feminist[12]
331701–1800Sarah Moore GrimkéUnited States17921873Suffragette[11]
341701–1800Francis HutchesonIreland16941746Scottish-Irish philosopher, a founding father of the Scottish Enlightenment
351701–1800Christian Isobel JohnstoneUnited Kingdom17811857Journalist and author in Scotland[13]
361701–1800Anne Knight United Kingdom17861862Social reformer; pioneer of feminism[11]
371701–1800Anna Maria LenngrenSweden17541817Writer, poet, and salonist; possibly a feminist[14]
381701–1800Francisco de MirandaVenezuela17501816
391701–1800Lucretia MottUnited States17931880[7]
401701–1800Sarah PonsonbyUnited Kingdom17551831One of the Ladies of Llangollen
411701–1800Madeleine de PuisieuxFrance17201798Writer[15]
421701–1800Mary ShelleyUnited Kingdom17971851Early pioneer feminist[12]
431701–1800Thomas ThorildSweden17591808
441701–1800Sojourner TruthUnited Statesc.17971883First-wave feminist; abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, women's rights speech "Ain't I a Woman?"[7][12]
451701–1800Anna WheelerUnited Kingdom, Ireland17851848Feminist writer[16]
461701–1800Mary WollstonecraftUnited Kingdom17591797Early pioneer feminist; Individualist feminist[7][12]
471701–1800Frances WrightUnited Kingdom17951852First-wave feminist[7][12]
481801–1874Juliette Adam France18361936[11]
491801–1874Jane AddamsUnited States18601935First-wave feminist; suffragette; Major social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom[12]
501801–1874Gertrud AdelborgSweden18531942Teacher and suffragist
511801–1874Sophie AdlersparreSweden18231895Publisher; one of three most notable pioneers of women's rights movement in Sweden[17]
521801–1874Alfhild AgrellSweden18491923[18]
531801–1874Soteria AlibertyGreece18471929[11]
541801–1874Jules AllixFrance 18181897Socialist; male feminist[9]
551801–1874Elisabeth Altmann-GottheinerGermany 18741930
561801–1874Qasim AminEgypt 18631908Muslim feminist; early advocate of women’s rights in Egyptian society[11][19]
571801–1874Ellen AnckarsvärdSweden18331898Co-founded the Married Women Property Right Association[20]
581801–1874Adelaide AndersonUnited Kingdom18631936[21][21]
591801–1874Elizabeth Garrett AndersonUnited Kingdom18361917Feminist, suffragist; suffragette; first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in the UK; co-founder of first hospital staffed by women[22][21]
601801–1874Louisa Garrett AndersonUnited Kingdom18731943 Suffragette[22]
611801–1874Maybanke AndersonAustralia18451927Suffragette
621801–1874Susan AnthonyUnited States18201906Suffragette; played a pivotal role in movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States[7]
631801–1874Lovisa ÅrbergSweden18011881
641801–1874Edith ArchibaldCanada18541936Suffragist; led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union, the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax
651801–1874Concepción ArenalSpain18201893[6]
661801–1874Princess Louise, Duchess of ArgyllUnited Kingdom18481939Suffragette
671801–1874Ottilie AssingGermany18191884
681801–1874Bibi Khanoom AstarabadiIran18591921Writer
691801–1874Louise AstonGermany18141871
701801–1874Hubertine AuclertFrance18481914Feminist activist, suffragette[12]
711801–1874Olympe AudouardFrance18321890[12]
721801–1874Alice Constance AustinUnited States18621955Socialist feminist; radical feminist
731801–1874Rachel Foster AveryUnited States18581919First-wave feminist; suffragette[12]
741801–1874John Goodwyn BarmbyUnited Kingdom18201881[22]
751801–1874Marie BashkirtseffUkraine18581884First-wave feminist; French feminist[12]
761801–1874José Batlle y OrdóñezUruguay18561929
771801–1874Anna BayerováCzech Republic18531924
781801–1874Jean BeadleAustralia18681942Feminist; social worker; political activist
791801–1874August BebelGermany18401913Communist; male[7]
801801–1874Alaide Gualberta BeccariItaly18681930Socialist feminist; radical feminist
811801–1874Lydia BeckerUnited Kingdom18271890Suffragette[11][22]
821801–1874Catharine BeecherUnited States18001878[11]
831801–1874Alva Belmont United States18531933Suffrage leader; speaker; author[11]
841801–1874Louie Bennett Ireland18701956Suffrage leader[11]
851801–1874Victoire Léodile BéraFrance18241900[23]
861801–1874Signe BergmanSweden18691960
871801–1874Annie BesantUnited Kingdom18471933Socialist feminist
881801–1874Alice Stone Blackwell United States18571950Feminist and journalist, editor of Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication[11]
891801–1874Antoinette Brown BlackwellUnited States18251921Founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
901801–1874Elizabeth BlackwellUnited States18211910First-wave feminist[12]
911801–1874Henry Browne BlackwellUnited States18251909Businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner
921801–1874Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch United States18561940Suffragist[11][22]
931801–1874Amelia Bloomer United States18181894Suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily, advocated for many women's issues[11]
941801–1874Barbara BodichonUnited Kingdom18271891[11][22]
951801–1874Laura BordenCanada18611940President of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
961801–1874Lily Braun Germany18651916[11]
971801–1874Fredrika BremerSweden18011865Writer, feminist activist and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden[11]
981801–1874Ursula Mellor BrightUnited Kingdom18351915Suffragette
991801–1874Emilia BrooméSweden18661925
1001801–1874Antoinette Brown BlackwellUnited States18251921[11]
1011801–1874Lady Constance Bulwer-LyttonUnited Kingdom18691923Suffragette
1021801–1874Katharine BushnellUnited States18561946
1031801–1874Josephine ButlerUnited Kingdom18281906[11]
1041801–1874Pancha Carrasco Costa Rica18261890[11]
1051801–1874Frances Jennings CasementUnited States18401928Suffragette
1061801–1874Carrie Chapman CattUnited States18591947Suffrage leader, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women[7][11]
1071801–1874Maria CederschiöldSweden18561935Suffragette
1081801–1874William Henry ChanningUnited States18101884Minister, author
1091801–1874Mary Agnes ChaseUnited States18691963Socialist feminist; suffragette
1101801–1874Ada Nield ChewUnited Kingdom18701945Suffragette
1111801–1874Tennessee Celeste ClaflinUnited States18441923 suffragette[7]
1121801–1874Alice ClarkUnited Kingdom18741934
1131801–1874Helen Bright ClarkUnited Kingdom18401972Suffragette
1141801–1874Florence ClaxtonUnited Kingdom18401879
1151801–1874Voltairine de CleyreUnited States18661912Individualist feminist; anarcha-feminist[12]
1161801–1874Francis Power CobbeIreland18221904
1171801–1874Mary Ann ColcloughNew Zealand18361885Feminist; social reformer
1181801–1874Anna "Annie" Julia CooperUnited States18581964Suffragette[6]
1191801–1874Marguerite CoppinBelgium18671931Woman poet laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights
1201801–1874Ida Crouch-HazlettUnited States18701941Socialist feminist; suffragette
1211801–1874Emily Wilding DavisonUnited Kingdom18721913Suffragette
1221801–1874Draga DejanovićSerbia18401871[24]
1231801–1874Josefina DelandSweden18141890Writer, teacher, founded Society for Retired Female Teachers)
1241801–1874Maria DeraismesFrance18281894[23]
1251801–1874Charlotte Despard née FrenchUnited Kingdom18441939Suffragette[11]
1261801–1874Jenny d'Hericourt France 18091875[11]
1271801–1874Louisa Margaret DunkleyAustralia18661927Labour organizer
1281801–1874Marguerite DurandFrance18641936Suffragette[25]
1291801–1874Friedrich EngelsGermany18201895Communist; male[7]
1301801–1874Emily FaithfullUnited Kingdom18351895
1311801–1874Millicent Garrett FawcettUnited Kingdom18471929Long-time president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
1321801–1874Astrid Stampe FeddersenDenmark18521930Chaired the first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights
1331801–1874Anna FilosofovaRussia18371912Early Russian woman's rights activist
1341801–1874Louise FlodinSweden18281923
1351801–1874Mary Sargant FlorenceUnited Kingdom18571954Suffragette
1361801–1874Isabella FordUnited Kingdom18551924Socialist feminist; suffragette
1371801–1874Margaret FullerUnited States18101850Transcendentalist, critic, advocate for women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century[7]
1381801–1874Matilda Joslyn GageUnited States18261898Suffragist, editor, writer, organizer[6]
1391801–1874Eliza GambleUnited States18411820Intellectual and an advocate of the Women's Movement[26]
1401801–1874Edith Margaret GarrudUnited Kingdom18721971Trained the 'Bodyguard' unit of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in jujutsu self-defence techniques
1411801–1874Désirée GayFrance 18101891Socialist feminist[27]
1421801–1874Charlotte Perkins GilmanUnited States18601935Ecofeminist[7]
1431801–1874Wil van GoghNetherlands18621941
1441801–1874Emma GoldmanUnited Kingdom18691940Individualist feminist; Russian-American campaigner for birth control and other rights[7][11][12]
1451801–1874Vida GoldsteinAustralia18691949Early Australian feminist politician; first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament[11]
1461801–1874Grace GreenwoodUnited States18231904First woman reporter on the New York Times payroll, advocate for social reform and women's rights
1471801–1874Angelina Emily GrimkéUnited States18051879First-wave feminist; suffragette[7][12]
1481801–1874Bella GuerinAustralia18581923Socialist feminist; first woman to graduate from an Australian university
1491801–1874Marianne HainischAustria18391936Proponent of women’s right to work and to receive education
1501801–1874Marion Coates HansenUnited Kingdom18701947Suffragette
1511801–1874Jane Ellen HarrisonUnited Kingdom18501928
1521801–1874Anna HaslamIreland18291922Major figure in early women’s movement in Ireland, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
1531801–1874Anna Hierta-RetziusSweden18411924Women's rights activist and philanthropist
1541801–1874Thomas Wentworth HigginsonUnited States18281911Abolitionist, minister, author
1551801–1874Laurence HousmanUnited Kingdom18651959Socialist feminist
1561801–1874Julia Ward HoweUnited States18191910Suffragist, writer, organizer
1571801–1874Louisa HubbardUnited Kingdom18361906
1581801–1874Aletta JacobsNetherlands18541929[6]
1591801–1874Kehajia Kalliopi Greece18391905[11]
1601801–1874Kang Youwei China18581927[11]
1611801–1874Abby KelleyUnited States18111887Suffragist and activist
1621801–1874Grace KimminsUnited Kingdom18711954
1631801–1874Anna KingsfordUnited Kingdom18461888Ecofeminist
1641801–1874Toshiko Kishida Japan18631901[11]
1651801–1874Alexandra KollontaiUSSR18721952Socialist feminist[6]
1661801–1874Lotten von KræmerSweden18281912Baroness, writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of the literary society Samfundet De Nio
1671801–1874Marie Lacoste-Gérin-LajoieCanada18671945Suffragette; self-taught jurist
1681801–1874Louisa LawsonAustralia18481920Suffragette; radical pro-republican federalist; author and publisher [6]
1691801–1874Mary LeeAustralia, Ireland18211909Suffragette
1701801–1874Anna LeonowensUnited Kingdom, India18311915Travel writer, educator, social activist
1711801–1874Fredrika LimnellSweden18161897
1721801–1874Mary LivermoreUnited States18201905Women's rights journalist, suffragist
1731801–1874Belva Lockwood United States18301917[11]
1741801–1874Margaret Bright LucasUnited Kingdom18181890Suffragette
1751801–1874Rosa LuxemburgGermany18711919Socialist feminist
1761801–1874Christian MaclaganUnited Kingdom18111901
1771801–1874Kitty MarionUnited Kingdom18711944Socialist feminist; suffragette
1781801–1874Harriet MartineauUnited Kingdom18021876
1791801–1874Eleanor MarxUnited Kingdom18551898Socialist feminist
1801801–1874Rosa MayrederAustria18581938[6]
1811801–1874Nellie McClungCanada18731951Feminist and suffragist; part of The Famous Five
1821801–1874Helen Priscilla McLarenUnited Kingdom18511934
1831801–1874Louise MichelFrance18301905anarcha-feminist[9]
1841801–1874Harriet Taylor MillUnited Kingdom18071858Early pioneer feminist[12]
1851801–1874John Stuart MillUnited Kingdom18061873Early Pioneer [7][12]
1861801–1874Hannah MitchellUnited Kingdom18721956Socialist feminist; suffragette
1871801–1874Katti Anker MøllerNorway18681945First-wave feminist[12]
1881801–1874Agda MonteliusSweden18501920Feminist; suffragette; philanthropist, chairman of the Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet
1891801–1874Anna Maria MozzoniItaly18371920First-wave feminist ; suffragette[12]
1901801–1874Flora MurrayUnited Kingdom18691923Suffragette
1911801–1874Clarina I. H. NicholsUnited States18101885First-wave feminist; suffragette[12]
1921801–1874Draga ObrenovićSerbia18641903Queen consort;
1931801–1874Louise Otto-PetersGermany18191895[28][29]
1941801–1874Emmeline PankhurstUnited Kingdom18581928Suffragette; one of the founders and the leader of the British suffragette movement[7]
1951801–1874Maud Wood ParkUnited States18711955Founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters
1961801–1874Madeleine PelletierFrance18741939French feminist; First-wave feminist; Socialist feminist[12]
1971801–1874Wendell PhillipsUnited States18111884Abolitionist, orator, lawyer
1981801–1874Jyotiba PhuleIndia18271890Critic of the caste system, founded a school for girls, a widow-remarriage initiative, a home for upper caste widows, and a home for infant girls to discourage female infanticide[6]
1991801–1874Eugénie Potonié-PierreFrance18441898[9]
2001801–1874Eleanor RathboneUnited Kingdom18721946[6]
2011801–1874Caroline Rémy de GuebhardFrance18551929
2021801–1874Dorothy RichardsonUnited Kingdom18731957
2031801–1874Edith RigbyUnited Kingdom18721948Suffragette
2041801–1874Sibylle Riqueti de MirabeauFrance18491932
2051801–1874Bessie RischbiethAustralia18741967)Earliest female appointed to any court; early activist against the practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers
2061801–1874Eliza RitchieCanada18561933Prominent suffragist, executive member of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
2071801–1874Harriet Hanson RobinsonUnited States18251911[7]
2081801–1874Pauline RolandFrance18051852[12]
2091801–1874Rosalie RoosSweden18231898Writer and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden
2101801–1874Ernestine RoseUnited States, Russia-Poland18101892Suffragette[7]
2111801–1874Hilda SachsSweden18571935Journalist, writer and feminist
2121801–1874Anna SandströmSweden18541931Educational reformer
2131801–1874Auguste SchmidtGermany18331902[30]
2141801–1874Olive SchreinerSouth Africa18551920
2151801–1874Rose ScottAustralia18471925Suffragette
2161801–1874Anna Howard ShawUnited States18471919President of National Women's Suffrage Association 1904–1915
2171801–1874Kate SheppardNew Zealand18471934Influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (the first country and national election in which women were allowed to vote)[6]
2181801–1874Tarabai ShindeIndia18501910
2191801–1874Emily Anne Eliza ShirreffUnited Kingdom18141897Early pioneer feminist[12]
2201801–1874Eleanor Mildred SidgwickUnited Kingdom18451936
2211801–1874Dame Ethel Mary SmythUnited Kingdom18581944Suffragette
2221801–1874Anna Garlin SpencerUnited States18511931[7]
2231801–1874Elizabeth Cady StantonUnited States18151902Social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of the 1848  Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the International Council of Women[7]
2241801–1874Anna SterkySweden, Denmark18561939
2251801–1874Helene StöckerGermany18691943[29]
2261801–1874Milica Stojadinović-SrpkinjaSerbia18281878Feminist; war correspondent; writer; poet
2271801–1874Lucy StoneUnited States18181893Orator, organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of the Woman's Journal, and first recorded American woman to retain her surname after marriage[7]
2281801–1874Emily Howard StoweCanada18311903Physician, advocate for women's inclusion in the medical professional community, founder of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association
2291801–1874Helena SwanwickUnited Kingdom18641939Suffragette
2301801–1874Frances SwineyUnited Kingdom18471922Suffragette
2311801–1874TáhirihIran1814/171852Bábí poet, theologian, and proponent of women's rights in 19th-century Iran[6]
2321801–1874Caroline TestmanDenmark18391919Co-founder of the Dansk Kvindesamfund
2331801–1874Martha Carey Thomas United States18571935[11]
2341801–1874Sybil Thomas, Viscountess RhonddaUnited Kingdom18571941Suffragette
2351801–1874Flora TristanFrance18031844Socialist feminist[6]
2361801–1874Harriet TubmanUnited States18201913First-wave feminist[12]
2371801–1874Thorstein VeblenUnited States18571929Economist; sociologist; male[7]
2381801–1874Alice VickeryUnited Kingdom18441929Physician, supporter of birth control as means of emancipation of women
2391801–1874Beatrice WebbUnited Kingdom18581943Socialist feminist
2401801–1874Ida B. WellsUnited States18621931Civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragist noted for her refusal to avoid media attention because she was African American
2411801–1874Anna WhitlockSweden18521930Feminist, suffragette; school pioneer, journalist
2421801–1874Karolina WiderströmSweden18561949Suffragette
2431801–1874Frances WillardUnited States18391898Suffragist and organizer
2441801–1874Frances WillardUnited States18391898Socialist feminist; suffragette
2451801–1874Charlotte WilsonUnited Kingdom18541944radical feminist
2461801–1874Victoria WoodhullUnited States18381927First-wave feminist; suffragist, organizer, innovator, first woman to run for U.S. presidency[7][12]
2471801–1874Clara ZetkinGermany18571933Socialist feminist[7]
2481875–1939Bella AbzugUnited States19201998Second-wave feminist[11]
2491875–1939Ángela Acuña Costa Rica18881983[11]
2501875–1939Wim Hora AdemaNetherlands19141998Second-wave feminist; radical feminist[31]
2511875–1939Alan AldaUnited States1936
2521875–1939Dolores AlexanderUnited States19312008Anti-pornography feminist[32]
2531875–1939Maya Angelou United States19282014Civil rights activist[11]
2541875–1939Margery Corbett AshbyUnited Kingdom18821981Suffragette[21]
2551875–1939Ksenija AtanasijevićSerbia18941981Suffragette; philosopher; first PhD in a Serbian university
2561875–1939Ti-Grace AtkinsonUnited States1938Second-wave feminist[11][12][32]
2571875–1939Margaret AtwoodCanada1939Third-wave feminist[11][12]
2581875–1939Helene AylonUnited States1931Ecofeminist[12][32]
2591875–1939Eva BaconAustralia19091994Feminist and Socialist
2601875–1939Faith BandlerAustralia1918Feminist and civil rights activist
2611875–1939Lois W. BannerUnited States1939
2621875–1939Thelma BateAustralia19041984Community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginal women in Country Women's Association
2631875–1939Mary Ritter BeardUnited States18761958Feminist; historian[7][11]
2641875–1939Joan BeauchampUnited Kingdom18901964Suffragette
2651875–1939Kay BeauchampUnited Kingdom18991992
2661875–1939Simone de BeauvoirFrance19081986 Second-wave feminist; philosopher; writer[11][12]
2671875–1939Helen BentwichUnited Kingdom18921972
2681875–1939Rosa May BillinghurstUnited Kingdom18751953Suffragette[22]
2691875–1939Teresa Billington-GreigUnited Kingdom 18771964Suffragette[22]
2701875–1939Elsie BowermanUnited Kingdom18891973Suffragette[22]
2711875–1939Helen Gurley BrownUnited States19222012Author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan
2721875–1939Stella BrowneCanada18801955Socialist feminist
2731875–1939Susan BrownmillerUnited States1935Second-wave feminist ; anti-pornography feminist; radical feminist[12][32]
2741875–1939Katherine BurdekinUnited Kingdom18961963
2751875–1939Lucy BurnsUnited States18791966Suffragette; suffragist and women's rights activist
2761875–1939Karlyn Kohrs Campbell United States1937[11]
2771875–1939Clara Campoamor Spain18881972[11]
2781875–1939Luisa Capetillo Puerto Rico18791922Puerto Rican labor union suffragette; jailed for wearing pants in public[11]
2791875–1939Liz CarpenterUnited States19202010
2801875–1939Elvia Carrillo Puerto Mexico18781967[11]
2811875–1939Thérèse CasgrainCanada18961981Second-wave feminist; suffragette; politician and senator, mostly active in Quebec[11][12]
2821875–1939Jacqueline CeballosUnited States1925Founder of Veteran Feminists of America [32]
2831875–1939Enid CharlesUnited Kingdom18941972radical feminist
2841875–1939Shirley St Hill ChisholmUnited States 19242005Second-wave feminist[11]
2851875–1939Hélène CixousFrance 1937[11][12]
2861875–1939Margaret "Gretta" CousinsIreland18781954Irish-Indian suffragist, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
2871875–1939Eva CoxAustralia1938Sociologist; long-time member of the Women's Electoral Lobby
2881875–1939Jill CraigieUnited Kingdom19111999Socialist feminist
2891875–1939Minnie Fisher CunninghamUnited States18821964
2901875–1939Hamid DalwaiIndia19321977Socialist feminist
2911875–1939Mary DalyUnited States19282010Second-wave feminist; Ecofeminist[12]
2921875–1939Sonja DaviesNew Zealand19232005Second-wave feminist
2931875–1939Barbara DemingUnited States19171984
2941875–1939Ezlynn Deraniyagala Sri Lanka 19081973[11]
2951875–1939Jeanne Deroin France 18051894[11]
2961875–1939Jeanne Deroin France 18051894[11]
2971875–1939Betty DodsonUnited States1929Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist[32]
2981875–1939Sediqeh DowlatabadiIran18821962Journalist and women's rights activist
2991875–1939Carol DownerUnited States1933Second-wave feminist; founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, author, health activist, attorney[12]
3001875–1939Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizUnited States1939Radical feminist
3011875–1939Crystal EastmanUnited States18811928Socialist feminist
3021875–1939Françoise d'EaubonneFrance19202005Ecofeminist[33]
3031875–1939Norah ElamUnited Kingdom, Ireland18781961Radical feminist; suffragette
3041875–1939Nawal el-SaadawiEgypt1931Writer and doctor, advocate for women’s health and equality
3051875–1939Cynthia EnloeUnited States1938Second-wave feminist
3061875–1939Mohtaram EskandariIran18951924Woman's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women
3071875–1939Vilma Espín Cuba 1930[11]
3081875–1939Elizabeth EvattAustralia1933Legal reformist and juror; first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee
3091875–1939Myrlie Evers-WilliamsUnited States1933Second-wave feminist
3101875–1939Lidia Falcón Spain1935[11]
3111875–1939Frances FarrerUnited Kingdom18951977
3121875–1939Geraldine Ferraro United States1935[11]
3131875–1939Ana Figuero Chile19081970[11]
3141875–1939Elizabeth Gurley FlynnUnited States18901964Socialist feminist; suffragette
3151875–1939Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer FordUnited States19182011Second-wave feminist
3161875–1939Gerald FordUnited States19132006Second-wave feminist
3171875–1939Miles FranklinAustralia18791954Feminist; writer
3181875–1939Clara FraserUnited States19231998Second-wave feminist; radical feminist
3191875–1939Elisabeth FreemanUnited States18761942Suffragist and civil rights activist, participated in the Suffrage Hikes
3201875–1939Marilyn FrenchUnited States19292009Second-wave feminist; radical feminist[12]
3211875–1939Betty FriedanUnited States19212006Second-wave feminist; writer[12]
3221875–1939William Lloyd GarrisonUnited States18051879Abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate[7]
3231875–1939Carol GilliganUnited States1936Second-wave feminist[12]
3241875–1939Françoise GiroudFrance19162003Journalist, writer, politician
3251875–1939Judy GoldsmithUnited States1938President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1982 to 1985
3261875–1939Jane GoodallUnited Kingdom1934
3271875–1939Vivian GornickUnited States1935Radical feminist[32]
3281875–1939Lois GouldUnited States19312002
3291875–1939Jane GrantUnited States18921972
3301875–1939Germaine GreerAustralia1939Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Socialist feminist; academic; author of The Female Eunuch [12]
3311875–1939Colette GuillauminFrance1934
3321875–1939Tahar HaddadTunisia18971935Muslim feminist
3331875–1939Lizzy Lind af HagebySweden18781963
3341875–1939Charlotte HaldaneUnited Kingdom18941969
3351875–1939Gisèle HalimiFrance1927
3361875–1939Zaib-un-Nissa HamidullahIndia19212000Muslim feminist
3371875–1939Bertha HarrisUnited States19372005Second-wave feminist
3381875–1939Caroline HaslettUnited Kingdom18951957
3391875–1939Dorothy HewettAustralia19232002Second-wave feminist
3401875–1939Julka Hlapec-ĐorđevićSerbia18821969Suffragette; writer[34]
3411875–1939Nicole HollanderUnited States1939
3421875–1939Pak Hon-yongSouth Korea19001956
3431875–1939Mary HowellUnited States19321998
3441875–1939Edith How-MartynUnited Kingdom18751954Suffragette
3451875–1939Fatima Ahmed IbrahimSudan1933Muslim feminist
3461875–1939Fusae Ichikawa Japan18931981[11]
3471875–1939Luce IrigarayFrance1930[12]
3481875–1939Sonia JohnsonUnited States1936
3491875–1939Jill JohnstonUnited States19292010
3501875–1939Claudia JonesUnited Kingdom, United States, Trinidad and Tobago19151964Suffragette
3511875–1939Rosalie Gardiner JonesUnited States18831978Organizer of the Suffrage Hikes
3521875–1939Marie JuchaczGermany18791956[35]
3531875–1939Alicia Moreau de JustoArgentina18851986Socialist feminist[36]
3541875–1939Raden Adjeng KartiniIndonesia18791904Muslim feminist; Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamous marriages and lack of education opportunities for women[11]
3551875–1939Shidzue KatōJapan18972001Second-wave feminist[11]
3561875–1939Aoua KéitaMali19121980
3571875–1939Florynce KennedyUnited States19162000Second-wave feminist
3581875–1939Annie KenneyUnited Kingdom18791953Suffragette
3591875–1939Yamakawa KikueJapan18901980Socialist feminist; anti-prostitution feminist
3601875–1939Coretta Scott KingUnited States19272006Second-wave feminist
3611875–1939Gerda LernerAustria19202013
3621875–1939Audre LordeUnited States19341992Third-wave feminist[11]
3631875–1939Mina LoyUnited Kingdom18821966
3641875–1939Rae LuckockCanada18931972Socialist feminist
3651875–1939Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess RhonddaUnited Kingdom18831958Suffragette
3661875–1939Agnes MacphailCanada18901954
3671875–1939Dora MarsdenUnited Kingdom18821960
3681875–1939Elizabeth Holloway MarstonUnited Kingdom18931993
3691875–1939William Moulton MarstonUnited States18931947
3701875–1939Nicole-Claude Mathieu France19372014Empress French feminist; material feminist[12]
3711875–1939Else MayerGermany18911962First-wave feminist
3721875–1939Carolyn MerchantUnited States1936Ecofeminist
3731875–1939Maria MiesGermany1931Ecofeminist; professor of sociology and author[37]
3741875–1939Inez MilhollandUnited States18861916Key participant in the National Woman's Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
3751875–1939Kate MillettUnited States1934Second-wave feminist[12]
3761875–1939Laure MoghaizelLebanon19291997Lebanese lawyer and women's rights advocate
3771875–1939Florence NagleUnited Kingdom18941988Feminist; first woman in Britain to officially train racehorses. [38]
3781875–1939Diane NashUnited States19381960s Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights proponent
3791875–1939Anaïs NinUnited States, France19031977
3801875–1939Helena NormantonUnited Kingdom18821957
3811875–1939Alexis NourRomania18771940
3821875–1939Yoko OnoUnited States, Japan1933
3831875–1939Alicia OstrikerUnited States1937Third-wave feminist
3841875–1939Grace PaleyUnited States19222007
3851875–1939Adela PankhurstUnited Kingdom18851961
3861875–1939Christabel PankhurstUnited Kingdom18801958Suffragette; co-founder and leader of the Women's Social and Political Union
3871875–1939Sylvia PankhurstUnited Kingdom18821960Suffragette
3881875–1939Frances ParkerUnited Kingdom18751924
3891875–1939Alice PaulUnited States18851977Main strategist for the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment.; founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of the Silent Sentinels and the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the Equal Rights Amendment
3901875–1939Eva PerónArgentina19191952[6]
3911875–1939Frédérique PetridesUnited States, Belgium19031983Feminist; pioneering orchestral conductor, activist and editor of Women in Music, a series of periodicals chronicling the activities of women in music
3921875–1939Marion PhillipsUnited Kingdom18811932Suffragette
3931875–1939Erin PizzeyUnited Kingdom1939Second-wave feminist
3941875–1939Sylvia PlathUnited States19321963
3951875–1939Letty Cottin PogrebinUnited States1939
3961875–1939Eileen PowellAustralia19131997Trade unionist, women's activist and important contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision
3971875–1939Millicent Preston-StanleyAustralia18831955First female member of the NSW Legislative Assembly; campaigned for the custodial rights of mothers in divorce and women's healthcare
3981875–1939Lorine Livington PruetteUnited States18961977
3991875–1939Funmilayo Ransome-KutiNigeria19001978Foremost Nigerian women's rights activist
4001875–1939Claire RaynerUnited Kingdom19312010
4011875–1939Adrienne RichUnited States19292012
4021875–1939Mary RichardsonUnited Kingdom18891961Suffragette
4031875–1939Léa RobackCanada19032000Feminist; workers' union activist tied with the communist party
4041875–1939Hilary RoseUnited Kingdom1935
4051875–1939Agnes Maude RoydenUnited Kingdom18761956Suffragette
4061875–1939Florence RushUnited States19182008
4071875–1939Joanna RussUnited States19372011Second-wave feminist
4081875–1939Diana E. H. RussellSouth Africa1938Second-wave feminist; radical feminist;anti-pornography feminist
4091875–1939Dora RussellUnited Kingdom18941986Feminist; progressive campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation
4101875–1939Manuel SacristánSpain19251985Socialist feminist
4111875–1939Nawal el-SadaawiEgypt1931Muslim feminist[11]
4121875–1939Idola Saint-JeanCanada18801945Suffragette; journalist
4131875–1939Celia SánchezCuba19201980Early pioneer feminist[12]
4141875–1939George SandFrance18041876Early pioneer feminist[7][12]
4151875–1939Flora SandesUnited Kingdom18761956Feminist Sgt. Major in Serbian Army
4161875–1939Margaret SangerUnited States18791966Socialist feminist; Founder of American Birth Control League; co-founder and long-time president of Planned Parenthood; writer, nurse[7]
4171875–1939Milunka SavićSerbia18881973First European combatant, soldier, feminist
4181875–1939Barbara SeamanUnited States19352008
4191875–1939Baroness SeearUnited Kingdom19131997
4201875–1939Huda ShaarawiEgypt18791947Muslim feminist; organizer for the Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women’s social service organization), the Union of Educated Egyptian Women and the Wafdist Women’s Central Committee, founder and first president of the Egyptian Feminist Union
4211875–1939Alix Kates ShulmanUnited States1932Radical feminist
4221875–1939Ruth SimpsonUnited States19262008
4231875–1939Monica SjööSweden19382005Ecofeminist
4241875–1939Eleanor SmealUnited States1939Second-wave feminist; organizer, initiator, president of N.O.W., founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation
4251875–1939Valerie SolanasUnited States 19361988 Radical feminist
4261875–1939Jo SpenceUnited Kingdom19341992
4271875–1939Gloria SteinemUnited States1934Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist; writer
4281875–1939Doris StevensUnited States18921963Organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author Jailed for Freedom
4291875–1939Marie StopesUnited Kingdom18801958
4301875–1939Mary StottUnited Kingdom19072002
4311875–1939Jessie StreetAustralia18891970Suffragette, feminist; human rights campaigner; influential in labour rights and early days of UN
4321875–1939Edith Summerskill, Baroness SummerskillUnited Kingdom19011980
4331875–1939Elisabeth TammSweden18801958
4341875–1939Mavis TateUnited Kingdom18931947
4351875–1939Joan Kennedy TaylorUnited States19262005
4361875–1939Renee TaylorNew Zealand1929Socialist feminist
4371875–1939Tcheng Yu-hsiuChina18911959Revolutionary
4381875–1939Rini TempletonUnited States19351986Socialist feminist
4391875–1939Dorothy ThompsonUnited States18931961Buffalo and New York suffragist, later an influential journalist and radio broadcaster
4401875–1939Winifred TodhunterUnited Kingdom18771961
4411875–1939Jill TweedieUnited Kingdom19361993
4421875–1939Mabel VernonUnited States18831975Suffragist, principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels
4431875–1939Harriet Shaw WeaverUnited Kingdom18761961Suffragette
4441875–1939Nesta Helen WebsterUnited Kingdom18761960
4451875–1939Louise WeissFrance18931983Journalist, writer, politician[39]
4461875–1939Trude Weiss-RosmarinUnited States, Germany19081989
4471875–1939Clara WichmannNetherlands, Germany,18851922radical feminist
4481875–1939Audrey WiseUnited Kingdom19352000
4491875–1939Monique WittigFrance19352003[40]
4501875–1939Nellie WongUnited States1934Socialist feminist
4511875–1939Virginia WoolfUnited Kingdom18821941First-wave feminist[7][12]
4521875–1939Molly YardUnited States19122005Second-wave feminist
4531940-2015 Lesley AbdelaUnited Kingdom1945[11]
4541940-2015 Carol J. AdamsUnited States1951Ecofeminist[12]
4551940-2015 Haleh Afshar, Baroness AfsharUnited Kingdom1944Muslim feminist, professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords
4561940-2015 Leila AhmedEgypt1940Muslim feminist
4571940-2015 Widad AkrawiDenmark1969Writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality and women's empowerment and participation in peace building and post-conflict governance
4581940-2015 Linda Martín AlcoffUnited States20th century
4591940-2015 Ayaan Hirsi AliUnited States, Netherlands, Somalia, 1969Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician
4601940-2015 Pam AllenUnited States1943Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; New York Radical Women[32]
4611940-2015 Isabel Allende Chile1942[11]
4621940-2015 Jane AlpertUnited States1947Radical feminist[11][32]
4631940-2015 Tori AmosUnited States1963Third-wave feminist
4641940-2015 Gloria E. AnzaldúaUnited States19422004Third-wave feminist [12]
4651940-2015 Maria ArbatovaUSSR1957
4661940-2015 Parvin ArdalanIran1967Women's rights activist
4671940-2015 Mary AstellUnited Kingdomc.16661731[6][11][21]
4681940-2015 Élisabeth BadinterFrance1944Dissident / anti-feminist[41][42]
4691940-2015 Judi BariUnited States19491997Ecofeminist[12]
4701940-2015 Kathleen BarryUnited States20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist
4711940-2015 Benedetta BarziniItaly1943Radical feminist
4721940-2015 Jennifer BaumgardnerUnited States1970Third-wave feminist
4731940-2015 Ros BaxandallUnited States20th centurySecond-wave feminist; radical feminist; New York Radical Women
4741940-2015 Alison BechdelUnited States1960
4751940-2015 Melissa BennUnited Kingdom1957Third-wave feminist[12]
4761940-2015 Lorraine BethelUnited States20th centurySecond-wave feminist[12]
4771940-2015 Lauran BethellUnited States20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist
4781940-2015 Julie BindelUnited Kingdom1962Anti-pornography feminist
4791940-2015 Lóa Björk BjörnsdóttirIceland1993Third-wave feminist
4801940-2015 Sandra BloodworthAustralia20th centuryLabour historian, socialist activist, co-founder of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative, editor of Marxist Left Review
4811940-2015 Rosie BoycottUnited Kingdom1951
4821940-2015 María Elísabet BragadóttirIceland1993Third-wave feminist
4831940-2015 Hörður Tryggvi BragasonIceland1997Third-wave feminist; radical feminist; cyberfeminist; anti-pornography feminist
4841940-2015 Dionne BrandCanada1953
4851940-2015 Giannina BraschiPuerto Rico1953Third-wave feminist
4861940-2015 Johanna BrennerUnited States1942Socialist feminist
4871940-2015 Susie BrightUnited States1958Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminism[12]
4881940-2015 Flora BrovinaKosovo1949
4891940-2015 Rita Mae BrownUnited States1944Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings[32]
4901940-2015 Carrie BrownsteinUnited States1974Third-wave feminist
4911940-2015 Tammy BruceUnited States1962Dissident feminist[12]
4921940-2015 Charlotte BunchUnited States1944Second-wave feminist
4931940-2015 Louise Burfitt-DonsUnited Kingdom1953Conservative feminist
4941940-2015 Judith ButlerUnited States1956Third-wave feminist[11][12]
4951940-2015 Octavia ButlerUnited States19472006
4961940-2015 Lydia CachoMexico1963
4971940-2015 Beatrix CampbellUnited Kingdom1947Second-wave feminist
4981940-2015 Angela CarterUnited Kingdom19401992Socialist feminist[11]
4991940-2015 Ana CastilloUnited States1953
5001940-2015 Phyllis CheslerUnited States1940Feminist author, professor[32]
5011940-2015 Margaret ChoUnited States1968Third-wave feminist[12]
5021940-2015 Nancy Chodorow United States1944[11]
5031940-2015 D. A. ClarkeUnited States20th centuryRadical feminist; anti-pornography feminist[12]
5041940-2015 Mary Clark-GlassUnited Kingdom20th century
5051940-2015 Hillary ClintonUnited States1947
5061940-2015 Kurt CobainUnited States19671994
5071940-2015 Carol CohnUnited States20th centuryGender and armed conflict
5081940-2015 Susan G. ColeCanada1952Anti-pornography feminist
5091940-2015 Patricia Hill CollinsUnited States1948Third-wave feminist; Black feminist
5101940-2015 Sandra ConeyNew Zealand1944Second-wave feminist
5111940-2015 Noreen ConnellUnited States1947radical feminist
5121940-2015 Rosalind CowardUnited Kingdom1952
5131940-2015 Bernadette CozartUnited States19492009Ecofeminist[12]
5141940-2015 Nikki CraftUnited States1949Radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist; suffragist; one of the main organizers of the Suffrage Hikes[12]
5151940-2015 Jean CurthoysAustralia1947Dissident / anti-feminist[12]
5161940-2015 Kimberly DarkUnited States1968Third-wave feminist
5171940-2015 Françoise DavidCanada1948Feminist; politician
5181940-2015 Angela DavisUnited States1944 Second-wave feminist; Black feminist[12]
5191940-2015 Martha DavisUnited States1957Third-wave feminist
5201940-2015 Heather DeanUnited States, Canada20th centurySecond-wave feminist[12]
5211940-2015 Christine DelphyFrance1941Socialist feminist; material feminist[43]
5221940-2015 Julie DelpyFrance1969
5231940-2015 Marie DentièreSwitzerlandc.14951561[6]
5241940-2015 Mark DeryUnited States1959Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
5251940-2015 Ani DiFrancoUnited States1970Third-wave feminist[12]
5261940-2015 Gail DinesUnited Kingdomc.1958Anti-pornography feminist
5271940-2015 Fatou DiomeSenegal1968
5281940-2015 Frederick DouglassUnited Statesc.18181895Male suffragist[7]
5291940-2015 Unity DowBotswana 1959Judge and writer; plaintiff in a case that allowed children of Motswana women and foreign men to be considered Batswana
5301940-2015 Danica DraskovicSerbia1945Politician; writer
5311940-2015 Donna DreschUnited States20th centuryThird-wave feminist; Riot grrrl
5321940-2015 Carol Ann DuffyUnited Kingdom1955
5331940-2015 Stephen DurhamUnited States1947Socialist feminist
5341940-2015 Andrea DworkinUnited States19462005Radical feminist ; anti-prostitution feminist; anti-pornography feminist[12][44]
5351940-2015 Shirin EbadiIran1947Muslim feminist; activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for her efforts for the rights of women and children
5361940-2015 Barbara EhrenreichUnited States1941Socialist feminist
5371940-2015 Gunilla EkbergSweden20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist
5381940-2015 Engy GhozlanEgypt1985Coordinator of campaigns against sexual harassment in Egypt
5391940-2015 Bracha L. EttingerIsrael1948
5401940-2015 Susan FaludiUnited States1959Second-wave feminist[12]
5411940-2015 Fadia FaqirUnited Kingdom, Jordan1956
5421940-2015 Melissa FarleyUnited States1942Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist[12]
5431940-2015 Johanna FatemanUnited States1974Third-wave feminist
5441940-2015 Kathy Ferguson United States1950Individualist feminist[12]
5451940-2015 Shulamith FirestoneCanada19452012Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women[12]
5461940-2015 Mary FlanaganUnited States20th centuryThird-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
5471940-2015 Jo Freeman, JoreenUnited States1945Second-wave feminist[12]
5481940-2015 Juliette FrettéUnited Kingdom1983Sex-positive feminist
5491940-2015 Marilyn FryeUnited States1941
5501940-2015 Lindsey GermanUnited Kingdom1951
5511940-2015 Tavi GevinsonUnited States1996Third-wave feminist
5521940-2015 Lois Marie GibbsUnited States1951Ecofeminist
5531940-2015 Stan GoffUnited States1951Socialist feminist
5541940-2015 Lucy GoodisonUnited Kingdomc. 1940s
5551940-2015 Heide Göttner-AbendrothGermany1941Second-wave feminist[45]
5561940-2015 Susan GriffinUnited States1943Ecofeminist; anti-pornography feminist
5571940-2015 Emily HainesCanada1974Third-wave feminist
5581940-2015 Daphne HampsonUnited Kingdom1944
5591940-2015 Carol HanischUnited States20th centurySecond-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women[12]
5601940-2015 Kathleen HannaUnited States1968Third-wave feminist; riot grrrl
5611940-2015 Donna HarawayUnited States1944Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist[12]
5621940-2015 Nancy HartsockUnited States1943Second-wave feminist
5631940-2015 Rosemary HennessyUnited States20th centuryMaterial feminist
5641940-2015 Shere HiteGermany1942
5651940-2015 Sarah HoaglandUnited States20th centuryAnti-pornography feminist[46]
5661940-2015 Risa Hontiveros-BaraquelPhilippines 1966Filipina women's right activist Philippines
5671940-2015 'bell hooks' Gloria Jean WatkinsUnited States1952Third-wave feminist; Socialist feminist; Black feminist[12]
5681940-2015 Gillian HowieUnited Kingdom19552013
5691940-2015 Donna M. HughesUnited States1954Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist; anti-pornography feminist
5701940-2015 Holly HunterUnited States1958Third-wave feminist
5711940-2015 Anna HutsolUKR1984FEMEN
5721940-2015 Luzviminda IlaganPhilippines20th centurySocialist feminist
5731940-2015 Stevi JacksonUnited Kingdom20th centuryMaterial feminist
5741940-2015 Karla JayUnited States1947
5751940-2015 Sheila JeffreysAustralia1948Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist
5761940-2015 Robert JensenUnited States1958Anti-pornography feminist
5771940-2015 Joan JettUnited States1958Third-wave feminist
5781940-2015 Claire JohnstonUnited Kingdom19401987
5791940-2015 Miranda JulyUnited States1974Third-wave feminist
5801940-2015 Mohja KahfSyria1967Muslim feminist
5811940-2015 Sheema KalbasiIran1972Writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality
5821940-2015 Wendy KaminerUnited States1949Anti-pornography feminist
5831940-2015 Marcelle KarpUnited States1962Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist
5841940-2015 Caroline Kauffmann Francec. 1840s1924[11]
5851940-2015 Jamie KeilesUnited States1992Third-wave feminist
5861940-2015 Lierre KeithUnited States1964Anti-pornography feminist; Radical feminist
5871940-2015 Petra KellyGermany19471992Ecofeminist[11]
5881940-2015 Carol KeyesUnited States20th centuryRadical feminist[12]
5891940-2015 Noushin Ahmadi KhorasaniIran20th centuryMuslim feminist
5901940-2015 Jean KilbourneUnited States1943Third-wave feminist
5911940-2015 Grace Ji-Sun KimUnited States, South Korea1969Third-wave feminist
5921940-2015 Sirje KingseppEstonia1969Socialist feminist
5931940-2015 Barbara KingsolverUnited States1955Third-wave feminist
5941940-2015 Bonnie Sherr KleinUnited States1941Anti-pornography feminist
5951940-2015 Naomi KleinCanada1970Socialist feminist
5961940-2015 Anne KoedtUnited States1941Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women
5971940-2015 Andrew KoomanCanada20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist; anti-pornography feminist
5981940-2015 Peggy KorneggerUnited States20th century
5991940-2015 Elaheh KoulaeiIran20th centuryMuslim feminist
6001940-2015 Sunitha KrishnanIndia1972Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, an institution that assists trafficked women, girls and transgenders in finding shelter, giving education and employment
6011940-2015 Julia KristevaFrance, Bulgaria1941[12]
6021940-2015 Winona LaDukeUnited States1959Ecofeminist[6]
6031940-2015 Donna LaframboiseCanada20th century Dissident feminist[12]
6041940-2015 Laura LedererUnited States1951Anti-pornography feminist
6051940-2015 Dorchen LeidholdtUnited States20th centuryAnti-pornography feminist
6061940-2015 John LennonUnited Kingdom19401980
6071940-2015 Barbara LeonUnited States20th centurySecond-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings[47]
6081940-2015 Ellie LevensonUnited Kingdom1978
6091940-2015 Ariel LevyUnited States20th centuryThird-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist
6101940-2015 Olga Lipovskaya Russia1954[11]
6111940-2015 Jacqueline LivingstonUnited States1943Second-wave feminist
6121940-2015 Sara Hlupekile LongweZambia20th centuryradical feminist
6131940-2015 Linda LovelaceUnited States19492002Anti-pornography feminist
6141940-2015 Wangari MaathaiKenya19402011Ecofeminist
6151940-2015 Catharine MacKinnonUnited States1946Anti-pornography feminist
6161940-2015 MadonnaUnited States1958sex-positive feminist
6171940-2015 Patricia MainardiUnited States20th centurySecond-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women[11]
6181940-2015 Sara MaitlandUnited Kingdom1950
6191940-2015 Catherine MalabouFrance1959
6201940-2015 Rosie Malek-YonanIran1965Third-wave feminist
6211940-2015 Irshad ManjiCanada1968Muslim feminist
6221940-2015 Soe Tjen MarchingIndonesia1971
6231940-2015 Amanda MarcotteUnited States1977
6241940-2015 Lucrezia MarinellaItalyc.15711653[6]
6251940-2015 Mirjana MarkovićSerbia1942Politician; writer
6261940-2015 Angela MasonUnited Kingdom1944Second-wave feminist
6271940-2015 Liza MazaPhilippines1957Socialist feminist
6281940-2015 Susan McClaryUnited States1946
6291940-2015 Wendy McElroyCanada1951
6301940-2015 Patricia McFaddenSwaziland1952Radical feminist
6311940-2015 Jamie McIntoshCanada20th centuryLawyer and women's rights activist
6321940-2015 Niamh McLoughlinUnited States21st centuryThird-wave feminist
6331940-2015 Angela McRobbieUnited Kingdom1951
6341940-2015 Page MellishUnited States20th centuryAnti-pornography feminist
6351940-2015 Rigoberta Menchu Guatemala19591917[11]
6361940-2015 Fatima MernissiMorocco1940Muslim feminist
6371940-2015 Juliet MitchellUnited Kingdom1940Socialist feminist
6381940-2015 Hayao MiyazakiJapan1941Socialist feminist
6391940-2015 Tracey MoberlyUnited Kingdom1964
6401940-2015 Maxine MolyneuxUnited Kingdom1948
6411940-2015 Carol MooreUnited States20th centuryIndividualist feminist; radical libertarian[12][44]
6421940-2015 Honor MooreUnited States20th century
6431940-2015 Cherríe MoragaUnited States 1952
6441940-2015 Caitlin MoranUnited Kingdom1975
6451940-2015 Robin MorganUnited States1941Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist; New York Radical Women[44]
6461940-2015 Laura MulveyUnited Kingdom1941
6471940-2015 Sally Rowena MuntUnited Kingdom20th century
6481940-2015 Jenni MurrayUnited Kingdom1950
6491940-2015 Inga MuscioUnited Statesc.1966Third-wave feminist
6501940-2015 Kathy NajimyUnited States1957Third-wave feminist
6511940-2015 Suniti NamjoshiIndia1941Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
6521940-2015 Taslima NasrinBangladesh1962Feminist of Muslim origin
6531940-2015 Benjamin NolotUnited States20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist
6541940-2015 Asra NomaniIndia1965Muslim feminist
6551940-2015 Martha NussbaumUnited States1947
6561940-2015 Ann OakleyUnited Kingdom1944Second-wave feminist
6571940-2015 Sandra OhCanada, United States1971Third-wave feminist
6581940-2015 Lars OhlySweden1957Socialist feminist
6591940-2015 Terry O'NeillUnited Statesc.1953
6601940-2015 Ellen PageCanada1987Third-wave feminist
6611940-2015 Camille PagliaUnited States1947Dissident feminist>[12]
6621940-2015 Amanda PalmerUnited States1976Third-wave feminist
6631940-2015 Carole PatemanUnited Kingdom1940
6641940-2015 Nancy PatersonUnited States19532010Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
6651940-2015 PeachesCanada1966Third-wave feminist
6661940-2015 Vesna PešićSerbia1940Feminist; diplomat; politician
6671940-2015 Irene PeslikisUnited States20th centurySecond-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women
6681940-2015 Liz PhairUnited States1967Third-wave feminist
6691940-2015 Mary PipherUnited States1947Second-wave feminist
6701940-2015 PocahontasUnited Statesc.15951617Early pioneer feminist[12]
6711940-2015 Katha PollittUnited States1949
6721940-2015 Griselda PollockCanada1949Second-wave feminist
6731940-2015 Soraya PostSweden1956
6741940-2015 Anastasia PowellAustralia1982Third-wave feminist
6751940-2015 Sharon PresleyUnited States1943Individualist feminist[12]
6761940-2015 Jerilynn PriorCanada20th century
6771940-2015 Maria RahaUnited States1972Third-wave feminist
6781940-2015 Janice RaymondUnited States1943Second-wave feminist; anti-prostitution feminist
6791940-2015 Bernice Johnson ReagonUnited States1942Second-wave feminist
6801940-2015 Helen ReddyUnited States, Australia, 1941Second-wave feminist
6811940-2015 Elizabeth Anne ReidAustralia1942World's first advisor on women's affairs to a head of state (Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and active on women's development for the UN; also prominent in HIV activism
6821940-2015 Abby RockefellerUnited States1943Radical feminist
6831940-2015 Ninotchka RoscaPhilippines1946Socialist feminist
6841940-2015 Jacqueline RoseUnited Kingdom1949
6851940-2015 Sheila Rowbotham United Kingdom1943Second-wave feminist
6861940-2015 Gayle RubinUnited States1949Sex-positive feminist; Queer theorist
6871940-2015 Kathy RudyUnited States20th centuryEcofeminist
6881940-2015 Shadi SadrIran1975Women's rights activist
6891940-2015 Gita SahgalUnited Kingdom, India1956/7
6901940-2015 Sarojini SahooIndia1956
6911940-2015 JD SamsonUnited States1978Third-wave feminist
6921940-2015 Michael SandelUnited States1953
6931940-2015 Justin SaneUnited States, Ireland1973Socialist feminist
6941940-2015 Thomas SankaraBurkina Faso19491987
6951940-2015 Kathie SarachildUnited States1943Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women
6961940-2015 Anita SarkeesianUnited States, Canadac.1984
6971940-2015 Marjane SatrapiFrance, Iran1969Muslim feminist[48]
6981940-2015 Marie-Laure Sauty de ChalonFrance1962Third-wave feminist
6991940-2015 Alice SchwarzerGermany1942Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist; journalist and publisher of the magazine "Emma"
7001940-2015 Gudrun SchymanSweden1948Third-wave feminist
7011940-2015 Lynne SegalAustralia1944Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist
7021940-2015 Shamima ShaikhSouth Africa 19601998South African activist, member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, proponent of Islamic gender equality
7031940-2015 Shahla SherkatIran1956Muslim feminist; journalist
7041940-2015 Vandana ShivaIndia1952Ecofeminist
7051940-2015 Elaine ShowalterUnited States1941
7061940-2015 Agnes de Silva Sri Lanka20th century[11]
7071940-2015 Ann SimontonUnited States1952Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist
7081940-2015 Carol SmartUnited Kingdom20th century
7091940-2015 Barbara SmithUnited States1946
7101940-2015 Joan SmithUnited Kingdom1953Third-wave feminist
7111940-2015 Valerie SmithCanada20th centuryAnti-pornography feminist
7121940-2015 Kate SmurthwaiteUnited Kingdom1975
7131940-2015 Cornelia SollfrankGermany1960Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
7141940-2015 Patricia SoltysikUnited States19501974Radical feminist
7151940-2015 Christina Hoff SommersUnited States1950Dissident / anti-feminist[12]
7161940-2015 Kate SoperUnited Kingdom1943
7171940-2015 Donita SparksUnited States1963Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl
7181940-2015 Dale SpenderAustralia1943Second-wave feminist
7191940-2015 Charlene SpretnakUnited States1946Ecofeminist
7201940-2015 Annie SprinkleUnited States1954Third-wave feminist; Sex-positive feminist
7211940-2015 StarhawkUnited States1951Ecofeminist
7221940-2015 Patrick StewartUnited Kingdom1940Socialist feminist
7231940-2015 Debbie StollerUnited States20th centuryThird-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist
7241940-2015 John StoltenbergUnited States1945Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist
7251940-2015 Nadine StrossenUnited States1950Third-wave feminist
7261940-2015 Lucy SuchmanUnited Kingdom20th centuryThird-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
7271940-2015 Anne SummersAustralia1945Women's rights activist; women's advisor to Labour Prime Minister Paul Keating and editor of Ms. magazine (New York)
7281940-2015 Karlina Leksono SupelliIndonesia1958
7291940-2015 Helen SwornUnited Kingdom20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist
7301940-2015 Kazimiera SzczukaPoland1966
7311940-2015 Lili TaylorUnited States1967Third-wave feminist[12]
7321940-2015 J. Ann TicknerUnited States20th century
7331940-2015 Roya TolouiIran1966Women's rights activist
7341940-2015 Corin TuckerUnited States1972Third-wave feminist[12]
7351940-2015 Robin TunneyUnited States1972Third-wave feminist
7361940-2015 Urvashi VaidUnited States, India1958
7371940-2015 Tobi VailUnited States1969Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl
7381940-2015 Jessica ValentiUnited States1978Third-wave feminist
7391940-2015 Norah VincentUnited States1968 Dissident feminist[12]
7401940-2015 Kajsa WahlbergSweden20th centuryAnti-prostitution feminist; Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities
7411940-2015 Hilary WainwrightUnited Kingdom1949Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist
7421940-2015 Alice WalkerUnited States1944radical feminist; Black feminist
7431940-2015 Rebecca WalkerUnited States1969Third-wave feminist
7441940-2015 Michele WallaceUnited States1952Second-wave feminist
7451940-2015 Natasha WalterUnited Kingdom1967Third-wave feminist
7461940-2015 Peng Wan-ruTaiwan19491996
7471940-2015 WarcryUnited States20th centuryRadical feminist
7481940-2015 Joss WhedonUnited States1964
7491940-2015 Faith WildingUnited States, Paraguay1943Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist
7501940-2015 Ellen WillisUnited States19412006Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; sex-positive feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women
7511940-2015 Kaia WilsonUnited States20th centuryThird-wave feminist
7521940-2015 Oprah WinfreyUnited States1954Second-wave feminist[12]
7531940-2015 Valerie WiseUnited Kingdom1955
7541940-2015 Naomi WolfUnited States1962Dissident feminist; Third-wave feminist[12]
7551940-2015 Allison WolfeUnited States1969Third-wave feminist
7561940-2015 Alice WolfsonUnited States20th century
7571940-2015 Elizabeth WurtzelUnited States1967
7581940-2015 Cathy YoungUnited States, Russia1963[49]
7591940-2015 Stasa ZajovicSerbia1953Co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black
7601940-2015 Sande ZeigUnited States20th century
7611940-2015 Julie ZeilingerUnited States1993Third-wave feminist

See also

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