This is a partial list of notable female calligraphers.

3rd century

* Xie Daoyun Chinese poet, writer, scholar and calligrapher * Wei Shuo (272–349) Chinese calligrapher

7th-10th centuries

Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah Al-Shifāʾ bint ʿAbd Allāh ( ar, الشفاء بنت عبد الله), whose given name was Laylā, was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Biography She was the daughter of Abdullah ibn Abdshams and Fatima bint WahbMuhammad ibn Saad. ...

Arabic calligrapher * Al-Nuddar (d. 984) Andalusian calligrapher and scholar * Umm al-Darda al-Sughra * Sana (8th Century) Abbasid calligrapher Kazan, H., ''Dünden Bugüne Hanım Hattatlar'' (Female Calligraphers Past And Present), Istanbul, Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2010, Chapter 5 * Fadl (d. 260/873-74) Abbasid poet and calligrapher * Gulsum al-Attabi (d. 220/835) Arabic calligrapher * Fadl (10th Century) * Duhtar-i ibn Mukla Shirazi (10th Century) * Muzna (d. 358/969) * Fadl (d. 260/873-74) * Fatima (?-?) Andalusian calligrapher

11th-12th centuries

* Safiyyah bint Abd al-Rabb (d. 1026) * Fatima bint Zakariya bint Abdullah al-Shebbarp (d. 1036) *

Diemoth Diemoth (latinised as Diemudus, Diemut, Diemud, Diemuth, Diemod or Diemudis) was a recluse at Wessobrunn Abbey in Upper Bavaria, Germany, born around 1060 and died on 30 March, probably in 1130. She worked on 45 manuscripts from 1075 to 1130. Her n ...

(b. 1060-130) Bavarian calligrapher * Fatima al-Baghdadi bint Hasan b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abdullah Attar (d. 480/1087) Iraqi calligrapher * Fakhr-un-Nisa (d. 1112) Iranian calligrapher * Lubna (d. 1003) Abbasid poet and calligrapher Momin, A.R., "The Calligraphic World of Nuria Garcia Masip", ''IOS Minaret'', Vol. 10, No. 8, 1–15 September 201
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/ref> * Zaynab Shahda bint Ahmad b. Al-Faraj b. ‘Omar Al-Abrī (d. 547/1178) Iraqi calligrapher * Sittu'r-Rida bint Nasrallah b. Mas'ud (d. after 567/1171)

13th-14th centuries

* Shuhda Bint Al-‘Ibari (d. 1178) Abbasid calligrapher * Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher * Cao Miaoqing Chinese poet and calligrapher * Sitt Nasim Abbasid calligrapher

15th-16th centuries

Clara Hätzlerin Clara Hätzlerin (c. 1430 – 1476) was a professional scribe in 15th century Augsburg. Her 1471 '' Liederbuch'' (songbook) was among the sources used by Carl Orff for his ''Die Bernauerin''. Clara-Hätzler-Straße in Augsburg Augsburg (; ...

(c. 1430–1476) Bavarian scribe * Jacomina Hondius (1558–1628) Flemish and Dutch calligrapher * Esther Inglis (1571–1624) English miniaturist and calligrapher * Margareta Karthäuserin (b. ?) Bavarian scribe *

Elizabeth Lucar Elizabeth Lucar (née Withypoll; 1510 – 29 October 1537) was an English calligrapher. In addition to her calligraphic skills she was fluent in Latin, Spanish, and Italian, and was an accomplished musician, needleworker and algorism, algoris ...

(1510–1537) British calligrapher *

Marie Pavie Marie Pavie (fl. 1600) was a calligrapher active in France at the beginning of the seventeenth century and possibly the first woman to have published a copybook, ''Le premier essay de la plume de Marie Pavie'', under her own name. Life & wo ...

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1600) French calligrapher * Fatimah bint Quraymazan (d. 1558) * Shin Saimdang (1504–1551) Korean artist, author and calligrapher *

Maria Strick Maria Strick (née Becq; 1577–after 1631) was a Dutch schoolmistress and calligrapher. She published four writing manuals, making her a key figure in the so-called ‘golden age of Dutch calligraphy’ (c. 1590-1650) and virtually unique amon ...

(1577-1625) Dutch calligrapher and teacher

17th-18th centuries

* Amina (daughter of calligrapher, Mustafa Chelebi) minor calligrapher active in Ottoman Bosnia * Goharshad Ghazvini Persian calligrapher *

Ike Gyokuran was a Japanese Bunjinga painter, calligrapher, and poet. She was famous in Kyoto, Japan, during her lifetime, and she remains a celebrated artist in Japan. Gyokuran was born of a decade long affair between her mother, Yuri, and a high ranking ...

(1727–1784) Japanese painter and calligrapher *

Esmâ Ibret Hanim Esmâ Ibret Hanim (born 1780) was an Ottoman calligrapher and poet, noted as the most successful female calligrapher of her day. Life and work In the 18th-century Ottoman period, calligraphy was a male-dominated profession. However, a small nu ...

(b. 1780) Ottoman calligrapher *

Marjan al-Katib al-Islami Marjan al-Katib al-Islami (Persian: Marjan Kateb Islami) a famous female Iranian calligrapher who lived in Safavid Persia under 17th century. She was active in the period around 1670. Works In August 2005 a copy of Koran transcribed by Marjan al-Ka ...

Iranian calligrapher * Fatıma Ânî Hanım (d.1122 / 1710) Ottoman calligrapher * Fatıma Tûtî (d. 1106-1123 / 1694-95) *

Fang Weiyi Fang Weiyi (1585-1668, 方維儀), was a Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historian. Biography Fang Weiyi was the daughter of the landowner and aristocrat courtier Fang Dahzen (d. 1629). Her sister Fang Mengshi, and her female ...

(1585–1668) Chinese poet, calligrapher and historian * Şerife Zehra Hanim Ottoman calligrapher *

Im Yunjidang Im Yunjidang (임윤지당, 任允摯堂; 1721-1793) was a Korean writer and neo-Confucian philosopher. She defended the right for a woman to become a Confucian master and argued that men and women did not differ in their human nature by interpreta ...

(1721–1793) Korean philosopher and calligrapher * Cao Zhenxiu (b. 1762) Chinese calligrapher

19th-20th centuries

Wijdan Ali Princess Wijdan Ali ( ar, وجدان علي) (born 29 August 1939 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a Jordanian artist, art historian, educator and diplomat. She is the ex-wife of Prince 'Ali bin Naif of Jordan. She is best known for her efforts to revive the ...

(b. 1939) Iraqi calligrapher *

Ameena Ahmad Ahuja Ameena Ahmad Ahuja is an Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist, known for her Urdu poetry-inspired art works. Biography Ameena Ahmad Ahuja was born to a British mother and Nuruddin Ahmed, a barrister and litterateur. She did her tra ...

Indian painter and calligrapher * Leslie Charlotte Benenson (1941–2018) English artist and calligrapher * Mickie Caspi (b. 1961) Israeli calligrapher and artist * Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi (b. 1944) American-Iraqi artist and calligrapher * Chang Ch'ung-ho (1914–2015) Chinese poet and calligrapher * Winnie Siu Davies (b. ?) Chinese painter and calligrapher *

Elizabeth Friedländer Elizabeth Friedländer (10 October 1903 – 1984) was a British calligrapher, designer, and typographer. She spent her life producing bookwork, calligraphy, and decorative designs from the 1920s until her death. Elizabeth font Born 10 Octobe ...

(1903–1984) German calligrapher *

Jen Taylor Friedman Jen Taylor Friedman is a '' soferet'' (Jewish ritual scribe). On September 9, 2007, she became the first woman known to have completed a Torah scroll. Taylor Friedman's ''sefer Torah'' was commissioned bUnited Hebrew Congregation a Reform temple in ...

(b. ?) ritual scribe * Wang Huiqin (b. 1945) Chinese-Slovenian calligrapher * Hu Jieqing (1905–2001) Chinese painter and calligrapher *

Pouran Jinchi Pouran Jinchi (born 1959 in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American, New York-based artist. She is best known for her abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art. Biography Pouran Jinchi borrows from her Iranian cultural traditions of ...

(b. 1959) Iranian-American artist and calligrapher *

Samira Kitman Samira Kitman (born 1984) is an Afghanistan/born calligrapher and miniaturist currently residing in Lancaster in northern England. Early life Her parents fled to Pakistan to avoid the troubles, where they lived as refugees during her early childh ...

(b. 1984) Afghani-British calligrapher and artist * Hildegard Korger (b. 1935) German calligrapher *

Monika Krajewska Monika Krajewska is a Polish activist, mizrah artist, writer, photographer, and Jewish gravestone art and Hebrew language calligraphy specialist. Biography Monika Krajewska was born in Warsaw. She is married to a philosopher and Polish consult ...

(b. ?) Polish calligrapher and mizrah artist *

Patricia Lovett Patricia Lovett is a British scribe, calligrapher and illuminator from Kent. She is the author of several books and teaches calligraphy, illumination and manuscript skills in the UK and worldwide. She was chair of the Heritage Crafts Associati ...

(b.?) British scribe, calligrapher and illuminator * Ada Louise Powell (b. 1865) British decorative artist and calligrapher * Zahide Selma Hanim (1857–1895) Ottoman calligrapher * Hilal Kazan - Turkish academic, historian and calligrapher *

Midori Kono Thiel Midori Kono Thiel (born June 7, 1933 in Berkeley, California) is a Japanese American calligrapher based in Seattle. She grew up on Maui. She received her bachelor of arts and master of fine arts from the University of California, Berkeley. She h ...

(b. ?) Japanese-American calligrapher *

Huda Totonji Huda Ahmad Totonji is a Saudi-born American visual artist, designer, and educator. Totonji is also a master calligrapher and is certified to teach Arabic Calligraphy. In addition to her calligraphic work, she also creates mixed media art, insta ...

(b.?) Arab-American calligrapher *

Carol Twombly Carol Twombly (born June 13, 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type design. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces, in ...

(b. 1959) American calligrapher * Şerife Fatma "Mevhibe" Hanım Ottoman calligrapher *

Ema Saikō was a Japanese painter, poet and calligrapher celebrated for her Chinese-style art in the late Edo period. Her specialisation as a bunjin, a painter of Chinese-style art using monochrome ink, was the bamboo plant which she perfected and which ...

(1787–1861) Japanese calligrapher * Zulaykhah Khatimi al-Sa'di (?-?) * Emine Servet Hanim (b. 1859) Ottoman calligrapher Schick, T.C., ''M. Uğur Derman 65th birthday Festschrift'' Sabancı Universitesi, 2000, p. 347 *

Soraya Syed Soraya Syed Sanders (born 1976) is an English classically trained Islamic calligrapher and artist. She uses classical Arabic calligraphy with new technologies such as holography, placing a traditional art-form into contemporary context. Earl ...

(b. 1976) English-Pakistani calligrapher *

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse (2 January 1918 – 13 December 2019) was a German book-binder, calligrapher and typographer. She also designed several typefaces. She was the 1991 winner of the Frederic W. Goudy Award. To mark her hundredth birthday in ...

(1918–2019) German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder * Sheila Waters (1929—2022) English calligrapher * Irene Wellington (1904–1984) British calligrapher *

Mary White (ceramicist and calligrapher) Mary White née Rollinson (1926–2013) was a ceramic artist and calligrapher. Biography White was born in 1926 in Croesyceiliog, Wales. From 1949 to 1950 she studied at Goldsmiths' College and in 1951 she married the painter Charles White (d. ...

(1926–2013) British calligrapher * Hilda Wiseman (1894–1982) Australian calligrapher, artist and designer * Rachel Yallop (b. ?) British calligrapher * Yuan Xiaoyuan (1901–2003) Chinese diplomat, politician, author, linguist, calligrapher and artist *

Lou Zhenggang Lou Zhenggang (, pronounced "Lo Jeng Gong" in English, "Ro Sei Ko" in Japanese; born July 8, 1966 in Heilongjiang, China) is a prominent contemporary Chinese artist. Trained in calligraphy from an early age, she attained national fame as a child ...

(b. 1966) Chinese artist and calligrapher *

Nuria Garcia Masip Nuria Garcia Masip (born in 1978) is a Spanish calligrapher of Arabic calligraphy. She started to learn Arabic calligraphy when she visited Morocco. In 2000, she learned Arabic calligraphy under the tutelage of calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya. He ...

(b. 1978) Spanish Calligrapher

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