This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the

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which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals.

Suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

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suffragette A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members ...

s, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. "Suffragette" in the

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

usage denotes a more " militant" type of campaigner, while suffragettes in the United States organized such

nonviolent Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosoph ...

events as the Suffrage Hikes, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913, and the

Silent Sentinels The Silent Sentinels, also known as the Sentinels of Liberty, were a group of over 2,000 women in favor of women's suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, who protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's ...

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Argentina

Cecilia Grierson Cecilia Grierson (22 November 1859 – 10 April 1934) was an Argentine physician, reformer, and prominent Freethinker. She had the added distinction of being the first woman to receive a Medical Degree in Argentina. Early life Cecilia Grierson ...

(1859–1934) – the first woman physician in Argentina; supporter of women's emancipation, including suffrage *

Julieta Lanteri Julieta Lanteri (born Giulia Maddalena Angela Lanteri, March 22, 1873 — February 25, 1932) was an Italian Argentine physician, leading freethinker, and activist for women's rights in Argentina as well as for social reform generally. Early life ...

(1873–1932) – physician, freethinker, and activist; the first woman to vote in Argentina *

Alicia Moreau de Justo Alicia Moreau de Justo (October 11, 1885 – May 12, 1986) was an Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist. She was a leading figure in feminism and socialism in Argentina. Since the beginning of the 20th century, she ...

(1885–1986) – physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist *

Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón (; ; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita (), was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 19 ...

(1919–1952) – First Lady of Argentina, created the first large female political party in the nation * Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867–1954) – physician, activist for women's and children's rights; co-founder of the ''Association Pro-Derechos de la Mujer''

Australia

Maybanke Anderson Maybanke Susannah Anderson (nee Selfe and also known as Maybanke Wolstenholme; 16 February 1845 – 15 April 1927) was an Australian political reformer involved in women's suffrage and Australian federation. Early life Maybanke Selfe was bor ...

(1845–1927) – promoter of women's and children's rights, campaigner for women's suffrage and federation * Eliza Ashton (1851/1852–1900) – journalist and founding member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales * Annette Bear-Crawford (1853–1899) – women's suffragist and federationist in Victoria *

Rosetta Jane Birks Rosetta Jane "Rose" Birks (1856–1911) was a social reformer and philanthropist who played a key role in South Australian women's suffrage. Birks née Thomas was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 12 March 1856 to English-born parents Willia ...

(1856–1911) – social reformer, philanthropist and South Australian women's suffragist * Dora Meeson Coates (1869–1955) – artist, member of British Artists' Suffrage League *

Mary Colton Mary Colton (née Cutting; from 1891, Lady Colton; 6 December 1822, was an Australian philanthropist and suffragist. Early life and family Colton was born in London, the eldest of three children of Samuel Cutting, bootmaker, and his wife Hanna ...

(1822–1898) – president of the Women's Suffrage League from 1892 to 1895 *

Edith Cowan Edith Dircksey Cowan (' Brown; 2 August 18619 June 1932) was an Australian social reformer who worked for the rights and welfare of women and children. She is best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament. Cowan h ...

(1861–1932) – politician, social campaigner, first woman elected to an Australian parliament *

Henrietta Dugdale Henrietta Augusta Dugdale ( Worrell; 14 May 1827 – 17 June 1918) was a pioneer Australian who initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia. Non-conformist, provocative and quick-witted, her campaigning resulted in breakthroughs ...

(1827–1918) – initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia *

Kate Dwyer Catherine Winifred "Kate" Dwyer (; 13 June 1861 – 3 February 1949) was an Australian educator, suffragist, and labour activist. Life Dwyer née Golding was born at Tambaroora, Wellington County, New South Wales to Joseph Golding (died 18 ...

(1861–1949) – schoolteacher and Labor leader, member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales * Fanny Furner (1864–1938) – activist, first women to stand for election in local government in Manly * Belle Theresa Golding (1864–1940) – feminist, suffragist and labor activist *

Vida Goldstein Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. ) (13 April 186915 August 1949) was an Australian suffragist and social reformer. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to stand. Goldstein wa ...

(1869–1949) – feminist politician, first woman in British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament *

Serena Lake Serena Lake (née Thorne) (28 October 1842 – 9 July 1902) was an English Australian suffragist, temperance activist, and evangelical preacher in South Australia. Early life Serena Thorne was born in England at Shebbear, Devon. She was ...

(1842–1902) – South Australian evangelical preacher, social reformer, campaigner for women's suffrage *

Louisa Lawson Louisa Lawson (née Albury) (17 February 1848 – 12 August 1920) was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson. Early life Louisa Albury was born on 17 February 1 ...

(1848–1920) – poet, writer, publisher, and feminist * Mary Lee (1821–1909) – suffragist and social reformer in South Australia *

Muriel Matters Muriel Lilah Matters (12 November 1877 – 17 November 1969) was an Australian-born suffragist, lecturer, journalist, educator, actress and elocutionist. Based in Britain from 1905 until her death, Matters is best known for her work on behalf of ...

(1877–1969) – lecturer, journalist, educator, actress, elocutionist, member of the

Women's Freedom League The Women's Freedom League was an organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality. It was an offshoot of the militant suffragettes after the Pankhursts decide to rule without democratic support fro ...

May Jordan McConnel Mary Emma "May" Jordan McConnel (6 September 1860 – 28 April 1929) was an Australian trade unionist and suffragist. She was the first paid female trade union organiser in Queensland. Life McConnel née Jordan was born on 6 September 1860 at G ...

(1860–1929) – trade unionist and suffragist, member of the

Women's Equal Franchise Association The Women's Equal Franchise Association (1894–1905) was a Women's suffrage organizations and publications, women's suffrage organisation in Queensland, Australia. The association was founded in March 1894 at a meeting in the First Brisbane Town H ...

Emma Miller Emma Miller (26 June 1839 – 22 January 1917) was an English-born Australian pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist, and key figure in organisations which led to the founding of the Australian Labor Party in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ...

(1839–1917) – pioneer trade union organiser, co-founder of the Women's Equal Franchise Association *

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (21 February 1850 – 3 August 1943) was a key suffragist in the campaign for votes for women (also called ' suffrage') in South Australia during the 1890s. She took on several high-profile roles in the capital of South A ...

(1850–1943) – campaigner for women's suffrage in South Australia * Jessie Rooke (1845–1906) – Tasmanian suffragist and temperance reformer *

Rose Scott Rose Scott (8 October 1847 – 20 April 1925) was an Australian women's rights activist who advocated for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century. She founded the Women's Political Educatio ...

(1847–1925) – founder of the Women's Political Education League *

Catherine Helen Spence Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 – 3 April 1910) was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician, leading suffragist, and Georgist. Spence was also a minister of religion and social worker, and supporter of ...

(1825–1910) – author, teacher, and journalist; commemorated on a special issue of the Australian five-dollar note *

Jessie Street Jessie Mary Grey, Lady Street (née Lillingston; 18 April 1889 – 2 July 1970) was an Australian diplomat, suffragette and campaigner for Indigenous Australian rights, dubbed "Red Jessie" by the media. As Australia's only female delegate to t ...

(1889–1970) – feminist, human rights campaigner * Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) Australian women's rights and trade unionist * Mary Windeyer (1836–1912) – women's suffrage campaigner in New South Wales

Austria

* Marianne Hainisch (1839–1936) – founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement, mother of first President of Austria * Ernestine von Fürth, (1877–1946) – co-founder of the New Viennese Women's Club, chairwoman of the Austrian Women's Suffrage Committee * Friederike Mekler von Traunweis Zeileis (née Mautner von Markhof, 1872–1954) – founding member of the IWSA *

Rosa Welt-Straus Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) was a suffragist and feminist. Born in Austria, she was the first girl in that country to graduate from high school, and the first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree, as well as the first female eye doctor in E ...

(1856–1938) – first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree; representative to the

International Woman Suffrage Alliance The International Alliance of Women (IAW; french: Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international org ...

Bahamas

* Mary Ingraham (1901–1982) – co-founder and president of the Bahamas Women's Suffrage Movement *

Georgianna Kathleen Symonette Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (4 April 1902 – 14 May 1965) a Bahamian suffragist, was the founding chairwoman of the Women's Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party and founding member of the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 2012, The Bahamian gov ...

(1902–1965) – co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement *

Mabel Walker (suffragist) Mabel Cordelia Holloway Walker ( May 2, 1902 – July 8, 1987), an American- Bahamian suffragist, was the founding president of the Bahamas Union of Teachers and the first woman to head a trade union in The Bahamas. Walker along with Mary Ingraha ...

(1902–1987) – co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement

Barbados

* Nellie Weekes (1896–1990) – campaigner for women's involvement in politics, who ran for office in 1942, before women were allowed to vote in the country

Belgium

Jane Brigode Jane Brigode (born Jane Ouwerx; 30 May 1870 – 3 May 1952) was a Belgian liberal and politician. From 1940 until 1945 she was co-president of the Liberal Party. In 1921, she and Marthe Boël founded the ''Union des femmes libérales de l’arro ...

(1870–1952) – politician, member of the

* Léonie de Waha (1836–1926) – Belgian feminist, philanthropist, educator and Walloon activist *

Isabelle Gatti de Gamond Isabelle Laure Gatti de Gamond (28 July 1839 – 11 October 1905) was a Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician. Life Isabelle Gatti was the second of four daughters born to Giovanni Gatti, an Italian artist, and feminist writer Zo� ...

(1839–1905) – Belgian educator, feminist, suffragist and politician * Marie Parent (1853–1934) – journal editor, temperance activist, feminist and suffragist *

Marie Popelin Marie Popelin (16 December 1846 – 5 June 1913) was a Belgian lawyer and early feminist political campaigner. Popelin worked with Isabelle Gatti de Gamond in the development of women's education and, in 1888, became the first Belgian woman to ...

(1846–1913) – lawyer and early feminist political campaigner; worked for universal adult suffrage * Louise van den Plas (1877–1968) – suffragist and founder of the first Christian feminist movement in Belgium

Brazil

* Leolinda de Figueiredo Daltro (1859–1935) – teacher and indigenous' rights activist; co-founder of the Feminine Republican Party * Celina Guimarães Viana (1890–1972) – Brazilian professor and suffragist; first woman to vote in Brazil * Ivone Guimarães (1908–1999) – Brazilian professor and activist for women's suffrage * Jerônima Mesquita (1880–1972) – co-founder of the '' Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino'' * Carlota Pereira de Queirós (1892–1982) – the first woman to vote and be elected to the Brazilian parliament * Marie Rennotte (1852–1942) – Native Belgian, naturalized Brazilian teacher and lawyer who founded the ''Aliança Paulista pelo Sufrágio Feminino'' with Carrie Chapman Catt's help * Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995) – Brazilian writer, poet, and lawyer; challenged the constitutionality of the ban on women voting in Brazil * Maria Werneck de Castro (1909–1993) – lawyer, militant communist, feminist, and supporter of women's suffrage

Bulgaria

* Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva (1878–1955) – teacher, writer, and one of the most active women's rights activists of her era * Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – reform pedagogue, women's rights activist *

Julia Malinova Julia Malinova, née ''Jakovlevna Scheider'' ( bg, Юлия Маринова (Яковлевна Шнайдер)) (1869-1953), was a Bulgarian suffragist and women's rights activist. She was co-founder of the Bulgarian Women's Union, and served a ...

(1869–1953) – women's rights activist

Canada

Edith Archibald Edith Jessie Archibald (7 April 1854 – 11 May 1936) was a Canadian suffragist and writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax. For her many ...

(1854–1936) – writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax *

Francis Marion Beynon Francis Marion Beynon (26 May 1884 – 5 October 1951) was a Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist. She is known for her semi-autobiographical novel ''Aleta Day'' (1919). Early years Francis Marion Beynon was born in Streetsville, Ontario o ...

(1884–1951) – Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist *

Laura Borden Laura Borden, Lady Borden (née Bond; November 26, 1861 – September 7, 1940) was the wife of Robert Borden, Sir Robert Laird Borden who was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada. She was born in Halifax (former city), Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova ...

(1861–1940) – wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada *

Henrietta Muir Edwards Henrietta Muir Edwards (18 December 184910 November 1931) was a Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. She was the eldest of " The Famous Five", along with Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who fought to hav ...

(1849–1931) – women's rights activist and reformer *

Helena Gutteridge Helena Gutteridge (8 April 1879 – 1 October 1960) was a feminist, a suffragist, a trade unionist and the first female city councillor in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Helena was recognized for being a pioneer in pushing for women's right ...

(1879–1960) – first woman elected to city council in Vancouver * Gertrude Harding (1889–1977) – one of the highest-ranking and longest-lasting members of the Women's Social and Political Union * Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator and social activist * Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia *

Nellie McClung Nellie Letitia McClung (; 20 October 18731 September 1951) was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book ''Sowing Seeds ...

(1873–1951) – politician, author, social activist, member of

The Famous Five ''The Famous Five'' is a series of children's Adventure fiction, adventure novels and short stories written by English author Enid Blyton. The first book, ''Five on a Treasure Island'', was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures ...

Louise McKinney Louise McKinney (; 22 September 186810 July 1931) was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women's rights activist. She was the first woman elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman to serve in a legislatur ...

(1868–1931) – politician, women's rights activist, Alberta legislature *

Emily Murphy Emily Murphy (born Emily Gowan Ferguson; 14 March 186827 October 1933) was a Canadian women's rights activist and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributio ...

(1868–1933) – women's rights activist, jurist, author *

Irene Parlby Mary Irene Parlby ( Marryat; 9 January 186812 July 1965) was a Canadian women's farm leader, activist and politician. She served as Minister without portfolio in the Cabinet of Alberta from 1921 to 1935, working to implement social reforms th ...

(1868–1965) – women's farm leader, activist, politician * Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – educator and member of the executive of the Local Council of Women of Halifax *

Octavia Ritchie Octavia Grace Ritchie England (16 January 1868 – 1 February 1948) was a Canadian physician and suffragist. In 1891 she became the first woman to receive a medical degree in Québec. Early life and education Octavia Grace Ritchie was born in Mo ...

(1868–1948) – physician *

Emily Stowe Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings, May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rights and suff ...

(1831–1903) – doctor, campaigned for the country's first medical college for women * Jennie Fowler Willing (1834–1916) – educator, author, preacher, social reformer, suffragist * Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896–1981) – leader of the Quebec suffragist movement

Chile

Celinda Arregui Celinda Arregui de Rodicio (July 25, 1864April 1941) was a Chilean feminist politician, writer, teacher and suffrage activist best known for her work in favor of the rights of women in the political, social and civil spheres in Chile.Gaviola Artiga ...

(1864–1941) – feminist politician, writer, teacher, suffrage activist *

Henrietta Müller Frances Henrietta Müller (1846 – 4 January 1906) was a British women's rights activist and theosophist. Biography Müller was born in Valparaíso, Chile to William Müller, a German businessman, and Maria Henrietta Müller who was English.Eli ...

(1846–1906) – Chilean-British women's rights activist and theosophist *

Marta Vergara Marta Vergara Varas (2 January 1898 – 1995) was a Chilean author, editor, journalist and women's rights activist. Introduced to international feminism in 1930, she became instrumental in the development of the Inter-American Commission of Women ...

(1898–1995) – co-founder of MEMch; Inter-American Commission of Women delegate

China

* Lin Zongsu (1878–1944) – founder of the first suffrage organization in China

Colombia

* Lucila Rubio de Laverde – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia) * María Currea Manrique (1890–1985) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)

Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia)

Františka Plamínková Františka Plamínková (1875–1942) was a Czech feminist and suffrage activist. Trained as a teacher, she became involved in feminism because teachers were forbidden to marry. She transitioned into journalism, writing articles about inequality. ...

(1875–1942) – founded the Committee for Women's Suffrage ( cz, Výbor pro volební právo ženy) in 1905 and served as a vice president of the International Council of Women, as well as the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance * Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova (1868–1915) – founder of the Provincial Organization of Progressive Moravian Women

Denmark

Nanna Aakjær Nielsine Juliane (Nanna) Aakjær née Krog (1874–1962) was a Danish carpenter and woodcarver. She is remembered in particular for contributing to the design and interior decor of , the residence on the Salling Peninsula in northern Jutland whe ...

(1874–1962) – woodcarver, suffragist *

Matilde Bajer Pauline Matilde Theodora Bajer (4 January 1840 – 4 March 1934) was a Danish women's rights activist and pacifist. Life Pauline Matilde Theodora Schlüter was born on 4 January 1840 in Frederikseg, Herlufmagle Sogn, Næstved Municipality, Denma ...

(1840–1934) – women's rights activist, suffragist, pacifist *

Jutta Bojsen-Møller Jutta Bojsen-Møller born Bojsen (1837–1927) was a Danish high school proponent, a women's rights activist and a member of the Danish Women's Society which she headed from 1894 to 1910. Biography Born in Store Heddinge on the Danish island o ...

(1837–1927) – women's rights activist, suffragist, educator * Esther Carstensen (1873–1955) – voting rights campaigner, women's rights activist, journal editor *

Helen Clay Pedersen Helen Clay Pedersen née Helen Clay (1862–1950) was an English-born Danish women's rights activist who from 1910 was president of the Kolding branch of the Danish Women's Society (''Dansk Kvindesamfund'') for a period of 35 years. She is also re ...

(1862–1950) – British-born Danish women's rights activist and suffragist *

Thora Daugaard Theodora (Thora) Frederikke Marie Daugaard (22 October 1874 – 28 June 1951) was a Danish women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator. In 1915, she attended the International Women's Conference in The Hague, together with Clara Tybj ...

(1874–1951) – suffragist, women's rights activist, peace activist, editor * Charlotte Eilersgaard (1858–1922) – novelist, playwright, women's rights activist, suffragist *

Mathilde Fibiger Mathilde Fibiger (13 December 1830 – 17 June 1872) was a Danish feminist, novelist, and telegraphist. Biography Mathilde Fibiger was born in Copenhagen in 1830. Her father, Captain Johan Adolph Fibiger, was an army officer; her mother was ...

(1830–1872) – feminist writer *

Eline Hansen Eline Johanne Frederikke Hansen (22 October 1859 – 6 January 1919), was a Danish feminist and peace leader. Biography Hansen was born 22 October 1859 in Assens, the daughter of Christian Jacob Hansen (1832–1880) and Johanne Margrethe Rasmu ...

(1859–1919) – co-founder of Dansk Kvinderaad, later Danske Kvinders Nationalråd (DKN) *

Meta Hansen Meta Kristine Hansen (1865–1941) was a Danish women's rights activist and politician. In 1893, she became the first woman to graduate in political science from the University of Copenhagen. She co-founded Denmark's Political Women's Association (P ...

(1865–1941) – active in Copenhagen's Women's Suffrage Association and the National Association for Women's Suffrage *

Charlotte Klein Charlotte Bolette Klein née Unna (1834–1915) was a Danish educator and women's rights activist. A motivated teacher, from the mid-1870s until 1907 she was the principal of the Arts and Crafts School for Women in Copenhagen. Klein was a member ...

(1834–1915) – women's rights activist and educator * Kristiane Konstantin-Hansen – textile artist, feminist, suffragist *

Line Luplau Line Luplau (1823–1891) was a Danish feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (Danish Women's Society Suffrage Union) and first chairperson in 1889-1891. Life Line Luplau was born o ...

(1823–1891) – co-founder and chairperson of the

Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund The Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgsretsudvalg (Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Committee) was established in 1898 by Louise Nørlund, with support from Line Luplau, in order to work towards obtaining the vote for women. In 1904, the organizatio ...

or DKV * Elna Munch (1871–1945) – co-founder of the Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret (National Association for Women's Suffrage) or LKV *

Johanne Münter Johanne Elisabeth Münter née Johnson (1844–1921) was a Danish writer and women's rights activist. After travelling to Japan with her husband in 1895, Münter authored several books on Japanese women and her own fascination with the country. ...

(1844–1921) – writer, women's rights activist, suffragist *

Nielsine Nielsen Nielsine Nielsen (10 June 1850 – 8 October 1916) was the first female academic and physician in Denmark. She graduated in 1885 and in 1889 she established her own medical practice and worked as a general practitioner. She was active in the gend ...

(1850–1916) – physician, suffragist, feminist, politician *

Louise Nørlund Marie Sørine ''Louise'' Nørlund (1854–1919) was a Danish feminist and pacifist. She was the founder and chairman of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (the Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Union) in 1898–1907 and 1908–1 ...

(1854–1919) – co-founder and chairperson of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV *

Charlotte Norrie Helga Charlotte Norrie, née Harbou, (12 October 1855–19 December 1940) was a Danish nurse, women's rights activist and educator. She was a major contributor to the development of nursing as an acceptable profession for women and also campaigne ...

(1855–1940) – nurse, feminist, suffragist, educator * Johanne Rambusch (1865–1944) – co-founder of the Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret (Country Association for Women's Suffrage) or LKV *

Vibeke Salicath Vibeke Ingeborg Salicath née Frisch (1861–1921) was a Danish philanthropist, feminist and politician. From the 1890s, together with her sister Gyrithe Lemche, she was an active member of the Danish Women's Society where from 1901 she edited ' ...

(1861–1921) – feminist, suffragist and journalist *

Caroline Testman Caroline Sophie Testman (1839 - 1919), was a Danish feminist. She was the co-founder of the Dansk Kvindesamfund or DK (Danish Women's Association) and its chairman 1872-1883. She was the daughter of postmaster and captain Peder Otto Testman (1806� ...

(1839–1919) – co-founder and chairman of the

Dansk Kvindesamfund The Danish Women's Society or DWS ( da, Dansk Kvindesamfund) is Denmark's oldest women's rights organization. It was founded in 1871 by activist Matilde Bajer and her husband Fredrik Bajer; Fredrik was a Member of Parliament and the 1908 Nobel Pea ...

* Ingeborg Tolderlund (1848–1935) – women's rights advocate and suffragist active in Thisted * Clara Tybjerg (1864–1941) – feminist, suffragist, peace activist, educator

Egypt

Doria Shafik Doria Shafik ( ar, درية شفيق‎; 14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975) was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. As a direct result of her ...

(1908–1975) – feminist, poet and editor *

Huda Sha'arawi Huda Sha'arawi or Hoda Sha'rawi ( ar, هدى شعراوي, ; 23 June 1879 – 12 December 1947) was a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader, suffragette, nationalist, and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union. Early life and marriage Huda Sh ...

(1879–1947) – feminist, activist, nationalist, revolutionary, founder of the

Egyptian Feminist Union The Egyptian Feminist Union () was the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt. History and profile The Egyptian Feminist Union was founded at a meeting on 6 March 1923 at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi, who served as its first presiden ...

El Salvador

* María Álvarez de Guillén (1889–1980) – novelist and inaugural member of the

Inter-American Commission of Women The Inter-American Commission of Women ( es, Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres, pt, Comissão Interamericana de Mulheres, french: Commission interaméricaine des femmes), abbreviated CIM, is an organization that falls within the Organization of ...

Rosa Amelia Guzmán Rosa Amelia Guzmán was a El Salvador, Salvadoran journalist, feminist and suffragette. Her 1950 speech to the Constituent Assembly was instrumental in women gaining, not just the right to vote, but the rights of citizenship on 14 September. She wa ...

– one of the first 3 women to gain a seat in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

Finland

Maikki Friberg Maria (Maikki) Elisabeth Friberg (1861–1927) was a Finnish educator, journal editor, suffragist and peace activist. She is remembered for her involvement in the Finnish women's movement, especially as chair of the Finnish women's rights organisa ...

(1861–1927) – educator, journal editor, suffragist and peace activist *

Annie Furuhjelm Annie Fredrika Furuhjelm (11 December 1859 – 17 July 1937) was a Finnish journalist, feminist activist, and writer. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1913 to 1924 and again from 1927 to 1929, representing the Swedish People's P ...

(1859–1937) – journalist, feminist activist and politician *

Alexandra Gripenberg Alexandra Gripenberg, also known as Alexandra van Grippenberg, (1857 – 24 December 1913) was a Finnish social activist, author, editor, newspaper publisher, and elected politician, and was a leading voice within the movement for women's rights ...

(1857–1913) – writer, newspaper publisher, suffragist, women's rights activist *

Lucina Hagman Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Jo ...

(1953–1946) – feminist, suffragist, early politician *

Hilda Käkikoski Hilda Maria Käkikoski (31 January 1864 – 14 November 1912) was a Finnish politician, writer and schoolteacher. She was one of the first nineteen women elected to Finnish parliament in 1907. Life and career Käkikoski was born Hilda Maria Sj� ...

(1864–1912) – women's activist, suffragist, writer, schoolteacher, early politician * Olga Oinola (1865–1949) – President of the Finnish Women Association

France

Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre ( pen names, Jehan des Etrivières and la mère Marthe; 1846–1939) was a French violinist, feminist, nurse and writer, who is remembered for attempting to overturn legislation prohibiting women to wear trousers and ...

(1846–1939) – feminist, suffragist, established the ''Ligue de l'Affranchissement des femmes'' in 1889 *

Hubertine Auclert Hubertine Auclert (; 10 April 1848 – 4 August 1914) was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage. Early life Born in the Allier ''département'' in the Auvergne area of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Aucle ...

(1848–1914) – feminist, campaigner *

Olympe Audouard Olympe Audouard (March 13, 1832 – January 12, 1890)N.N.: Adouard, Olympe'. In French. URL last accessed July 14, 2006. was a French feminist who demanded complete equality for women, including the rights to vote and to stand for election. B ...

(1832–1890) – feminist, women's rights activist, suffragist * Marthe Bray (1884–1949) – feminist, suffragist *

Cécile Brunschvicg Cécile Brunschvicg (), born Cécile Kahn (19 July 1877 in Enghien-les-Bains – 5 October 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French feminist politician. From the 1920s until her death she was regarded as "the ''grande dame'' of the feminist mov ...

(1877–1946) – feminist politician, secretary-general of the French Union for Women's Suffrage *

Maria Deraismes Maria Deraismes (17 August 1828 – 6 February 1894) was a French author, Freemason, and major pioneering force for women's rights. Biography Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts. From a p ...

(1828–1894) – author, major pioneering force for women's rights *

Jeanne Deroin Jeanne Deroin (31 December 1805 – 2 April 1894) was a French socialist feminist. She spent the latter half of her life in exile in London, where she continued her organising activities. Early life Born in Paris, Deroin became a seamstress. In ...

(1805–1894) – socialist feminist *

Marguerite Durand Marguerite Durand (24 January 1864 – 16 March 1936) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, and ran for election. She is also known for having a pet lion. For her contributions to t ...

(1864–1936) – stage actress, journalist, founder of her own newspaper * Blanche Edwards-Pilliet (1858–1941) – physician, activist, suffragist * Nicole Girard-Mangin (1878–1919) – army physician, suffragist *

Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...

(1748–1793) – playwright and political activist * Caroline Kauffmann (1840–1926) – feminist, women's rights activist, suffragette *

Germaine Malaterre-Sellier Germaine Renée Suzanne Malaterre-Sellier (1889–1967) was a French nurse, feminist, suffragist and pacifist. From 1920, she was Vice-President of the ''Union féminine pour la Société des Nations'' (Women's Union for the League of Nations). I ...

(1889–1967) – nurse, suffragist and pacifist *

Louise Michel Louise Michel (; 29 May 1830 – 9 January 1905) was a teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as an important French a ...

(1830–1905) – anarchist, school teacher, medical worker * Héra Mirtel (1868–1931) – writer, feminist, salonnier, suffragist *

Jane Misme Jane Misme (1865–1935) was a French journalist and feminist. She founded the feminist journal ''La Française'' (The Frenchwoman), published from 1906 to 1934, and was a member of the executive of the French Union for Women's Suffrage and the N ...

(1865–1935) – journalist, feminist, suffragist * Jeanne Oddo-Deflou (1846–1915) – translator, educator, feminist and suffragist, founder of ''Groupe français d'Etudes féministes'' in 1891 *

Madeleine Pelletier Madeleine Pelletier (18 May 1874 – 29 December 1939) was a French psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and political activist. Born in Paris, Pelletier frequented socialist and anarchist groups in her adolescence. She became a doctor in her twe ...

(1874–1939) – physician, psychiatrist, socialist activist * Maria Pognon (1844–1925) – writer, feminist, suffragist and pacifist * Léonie Rouzade (1839–1916) – feminist, suffragist, writer and socialist politician * Maria Vérone (1874–1939) – feminist, suffragist, women's rights activist *

Louise Weiss Louise or Luise may refer to: * Louise (given name) Arts Songs * "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013 * "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929 *"Louise", by Clan of ...

(1893–1983) – writer, feminist, politician, suffragist * Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (1853–1924) – proponent of pronatalism and alcoholic abstinence, president of the French Union for Women's Suffrage

Georgia

Ekaterine Gabashvili Ekaterine Gabashvili ( ka, ეკატერინე გაბაშვილი) née Tarkhnishvili (თარხნიშვილი) (16 June 1851 – 7 August 1938) was a Georgian writer, feminist and public figure who called for social ref ...

(1861–1938)) – writer, feminist and suffragist *

Babilina Khositashvili Babilina Khositashvili (1884–1973) was a Georgian poet, feminist and labour rights activist. After a short spell in a monastery, she moved to Tbilisi where, unable to afford higher education, she studied in the library. She found employment in a ...

(1884–1973) – poet, labour rights activist and suffragist * Nino Tkeshelashvili (1874–1956) – feminist, suffragist, writer

Germany

Führerinnen der Frauenbewegung in Deutschland 1894

* Jenny Apolant (1874–1925) – Jewish feminist, suffragist *

Anita Augspurg Anita Theodora Johanna Sophie Augspurg (22 September 1857 – 20 December 1943) was a German jurist, actress, writer, activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist. Biography Augspurg was born the youngest daughter of the lawyer ...

(1857–1943) – jurist, actress, writer, pacifist, suffragist *

Luise Büchner Elisabeth Emma Louise "Luise" Büchner (12 June 1821, Darmstadt – 28 November 1877) was a German women's rights activist and writer of essays, novels, travelogues and poetry. She published ''Die Frauen und ihr Beruf'' (''Woman and Their Voca ...

(1821–1877) – writer, women's rights activist * Marie Calm (1832–1887) – educator, writer *

Minna Cauer Wilhelmine Theodore Marie Cauer, née Schelle, usually known as Minna Cauer (1 November 1841 in Freyenstein – 3 August 1922 in Berlin) was a German pedagogue, activist in the so-called "radical" wing of the German bourgeois feminist movemen ...

(1841–1922) – educator, journalist, women's rights proponent, suffragist *

Adela Coit Adela Stanton Coit (also known as Fanny Adela Coit and Adela Wetzlar, née von Gans, September 11, 1863 – October 7, 1932) was a women's suffragist and social reformer. She was a large proponent of the Ethical Movement, which was a movement that ...

(1863–1932) – suffragist *

Hedwig Dohm Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm (née Schlesinger, later Schleh; 20 September 1831 – 1 June 1919) was a German feminist and author. Family She was born in the Prussian capital Berlin to assimilated Jewish parents, and her father was baptized. ...

(1831–1919) – feminist, writer, pacifist *

Henriette Goldschmidt Henriette Goldschmidt (1825–1920) was a History of the Jews in Germany, German Jewish Feminism in Germany, feminist, pedagogist and social worker. She was one of the founders of the German Association of Female Citizens, German Women's Associati ...

(1825–1920) – feminist, social worker *

Lida Gustava Heymann Lida Gustava Heymann (15 March 1868 – 31 July 1943) was a Germans, German feminist, pacifist and women's rights activist. Together with her partner Anita Augspurg she was one of the most prominent figures in the bourgeois women's movement ...

(1868–1943) – women's rights activist, suffragist * Marie Loeper-Housselle (1837–1916) – educator * Luise Koch (1860–1934) – educator, women's rights activist, suffragist, politician *

Helene Lange Helene Lange (9 April 1848 in Oldenburg – 13 May 1930 in Berlin) was a pedagogue and feminist. She is a symbolic figure of the international and German civil rights feminist movement. In the years from 1919 to 1921 she was a member of the ...

(1848–1930) – educator, pioneering women's rights activist, suffragist * Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow – educator *

Lina Morgenstern Lina Morgenstern (25 November 1830 – 16 December 1909) was a German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist. Biography She was born 25 November 1830 in Wrocław (German Breslau) to a Jewish family committed to social causes. In 1854 she mar ...

(1830–1909) – educator, women's rights activist * Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895) – suffragist, women's rights activist, writer *

Auguste Schmidt Auguste Schmidt, full name, ''Friederike Wilhelmine Auguste Schmidt, ''(3 August 1833, Breslau, then Germany now Poland – 10 June 1902, Leipzig, Germany) was a pioneering German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist. Life ...

(1833–1902) – educator, women's rights activist * Marie Stritt (1855–1928) – women's rights activist, suffragist, leading member of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance * Mathilde Weber (1829–1901) – social worker *

Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...

(1857–1933) – Marxist theorist, women's rights activist, suffragist, politician

Greece

Kalliroi Parren Kallirhoe Parren ( el, Καλλιρρόη Παρρέν; 1861 – January 15, 1940) launched the feminist movement in Greece and was a journalist and writer in the late 19th and early 20th century. Early life Born in Rethymno, Crete, to a middle-cl ...

(1861–1940) – founder of the Greek women's movement *

Avra Theodoropoulou Avra Theodoropoulou ( el, Αύρα Θεοδωροπούλου; 3 November 1880 – 20 January 1963) was a Greek music teacher, pianist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She founded the League for Women's Rights in 1920 and served as its ch ...

(1880–1963) – music critic, pianist, suffragist, women's rights activist, nurse

Haiti

Yvonne Sylvain Yvonne Sylvain (June 28, 1907 – October 3, 1989) was a Haitian physician who was the first female medical doctor from the country. She was also the first woman accepted into the University of Haiti Medical School, and earned her medical degree ...

(1907–1989) – first female doctor from Haiti and advocate for gender equality

Honduras

* Graciela Bográn (1896–2000) – educator, writer, women's rights activist

Hungary

Vilma Glücklich Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927), was a Hungarian educational reformer, pacifist and women's rights activist. In 1896, she became the first woman in Hungary to receive a degree from the Faculty of Philosophy in the Budapest State University, after ...

(1872–1927) – educator, pacifist, suffragist, feminist *

Rosika Schwimmer Rosika Schwimmer ( hu, Schwimmer Rózsa; 11 September 1877 – 3 August 1948) was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist, world federalist, and women's suffragist. A co-founder of the Campaign for World Government with Lola Maverick Lloyd, her ...

(1877–1948) – pacifist, feminist and suffragist *

Adele Zay Adele Zay (29 February 1848 – 29 December 1928) was a Transylvanian Saxons, Transylvanian teacher, feminist and pedagogue. Her family were part of the German-speaking community of the Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Kingdom of Hungary. Becau ...

(1848–1928) – Transylvanian teacher, feminist and suffragist

Iceland

* Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856–1940) – founded the first women's magazine and first suffrage organization in Iceland *

Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason (14 December 1867 – 30 October 1941) was an Icelandic politician, suffragist, schoolteacher and gymnast. She was the first woman to become a member of the Althing, the parliament of Iceland. Early life and education In ...

(1867–1941) – politician, suffragist, schoolteacher, gymnast

India

Annie Besant Annie Besant ( Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human f ...

(1847–1933) – British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, educationist, philanthropist *

Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu (''née'' Chattopadhyay; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist, feminist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important person in Ind ...

(1879–1949) – political activist, poet *

Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh Princess Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (27 October 1871 – 8 November 1942), was the second daughter of Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh and Maharani Bamba (née Müller). She was educated in England and in 1894 she was presented at Court. She becam ...

(1871–1942) – activist, second daughter of H.H. Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh and Maharani Bamba née Müller *

Sophia Duleep Singh Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh (8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948) was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. Her father was Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, who had been taken from his kingdom of Punjab to the British Raj, a ...

(1876–1948) – had a leading role Women's Tax Resistance League, the Women's Social and Political Union *

Herabai Tata Herabai Tata (1879–1941) was an Indian women's rights activist and suffragist. Married in 1895, Tata's husband was progressive and supported the education of his wife and daughter, hiring tutors to help her with her schooling. In 1909, Tata, wh ...

(1879–1941) – argued before British government commissions that suffrage should be extended in India

Indonesia

* Thung Sin Nio (1902–1996) – women's rights activist, physician, economist, politician

Iran

Annie Basil Annie Basil (née Anna Barseghyan; 13 October 1911 in Shiraz - 6 November 1995 in Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capita ...

(1911–1995) – Iranian-Indian activist for Armenian women *

Táhirih Táhirih (Ṭāhira) ( fa, طاهره, "The Pure One," also called Qurrat al-ʿAyn ( "Solace/Consolation of the Eyes") are both titles of Fatimah Baraghani/Umm-i Salmih (1814 or 1817 – August 16–27, 1852), an influential poet, women's rights ...

(1817–1852) – also known as Fatimah Baraghani, renowned poet, removed her veil in public, "first woman suffrage martyr"

Ireland

* Elizabeth Bell (1862–1934) – physician, suffragette, pioneer of the feminist movement *

Louie Bennett Louie Bennett (Louisa Elizabeth Bennett; 1870 – 1956) was an Irish suffragette, trade unionist, journalist and writer. Born and raised in Dublin, she established the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation in 1911. She was a joint editor and contr ...

(1870–1956) – suffragette, trade unionist, writer *

Mary Fleetwood Berry Mary Fleetwood Berry (24 April 1865 – 25 January 1956) was an Irish suffragist who advocated for women's right to vote between 1900–1918. Berry was a member of the Connacht Women's Franchise League, and the wife of James Fleetwood Berry, ...

(1865–1956) – suffragist, radical feminist * Cadiz sisters – Rosie and Lily also known as Jane and Maggie Murphy *

Cissie Cahalan Cissie Cahalan (1876 – 27 August 1948) was an Irish trade unionist, feminist, and suffragette. Biography Cahalan was born in either Cork or Tipperary, and was the daughter of a school teacher. She worked in shops in the city of Dublin, mostly ...

(1876–1948) – trade unionist, feminist, suffragette *

Winifred Carney Maria Winifred Carney (4 December 1887 – 21 November 1943), also known as Winnie Carney, was an Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and Irish independence activist. Early life Born into a lower-middle class Catholic family at Fisher' ...

(1887–1943) – suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist *

Helen Chenevix Helen Sophia Chenevix (13 November 1886 – 4 March 1963) was an Irish suffragist and trade unionist. In 1911, she worked with Louie Bennett to form the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation. The two later founded the Irish Women Workers' Union. Ch ...

(1886–1963) – suffragist, trade unionist *

Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy group ...

(1822–1904) – writer, suffragist, animal advocate, women's suffrage campaigner *

Meg Connery Meg Connery (27 June 1881 – 6 December 1958), was an Irish suffragist organiser and activist. Early life Margaret Knight was born to parents John and Bridget Knight (née Kelly) in Triangle, Aughagower, Westport, County Mayo. She was the t ...

(1879–1956) – suffragist organiser and activist * Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian, established

All India Women's Conference The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Delhi. It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins in order to improve educational efforts for women and children and has expanded its scope to also tackle ...

, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League *

Mabel Sharman Crawford Mabel Sharman Crawford (3 June 1820 – 14 February 1912), was an Irish adventurer, feminist and writer. Life She was born Mabel Sharman Crawford on 3 June 1820 in Dublin to William Sharman M.P. and his wife Mabel Frideswid Crawford, a you ...

(1820–1912) – Irish adventurer, feminist and writer *

Charlotte Despard Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, Women's Peace Crusade, and the ...

Margaret Dockrell Lady Margaret Dockrell (18 March 1849 – 29 June 1926) was an Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor. Early life and family Margaret Dockrell was born Margaret Shannon on 18 March 1849, at 18 Charlotte Street, Dublin. She was the el ...

(1849–1926) – suffragist, philanthropist, councillor * Marion Duggan (1884–1943) – Irish suffragist and activist *

Norah Elam Norah Elam, also known as Norah Dacre Fox (née Norah Doherty, 1878–1961), was a militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist, feminist and fascist in the United Kingdom. Born at 13 Waltham Terrace in Dublin to John Doherty, a partner in a pape ...

(1878–1961) – Irish-born British suffragette and fascist *Dr.

Maude Glasgow Dr. Maude Glasgow (1876–1955) was an early pioneer in public health and preventive medicine as well as an activist for equal rights. Life Maude Glasgow was born in Cookstown, Ireland in 1876. Her father was Silas Glasgow of Killycurragh. She ...

(1876–1955) – early pioneer in public health and preventive medicine as well as an activist for equal rights *

Maud Gonne Maud Gonne MacBride ( ga, Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde; 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism ...

(1866–1953) – British-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress *

Eva Gore-Booth Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet, theologian, and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of C ...

(1870–1926) – poet, dramatist, suffragette, labour activist *

Anna Haslam Anna Maria Haslam (née Fisher; 1829–1922) was a suffragist and a major figure in the 19th and early 20th century women's movement in Ireland. Early life and family Anna Maria Fisher was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland on 6 April 1829. ...

(1829–1922) – founder of the

Dublin Women's Suffrage Association The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association (DSWA), later the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association (IWSLGA), was a women's suffrage organisation based in Dublin from 1876 to 1919, latterly also campaigning for a greater role for wom ...

* Marjorie Hasler (c. 1887–1913) – suffragette, "first martyr" *

Mary Hayden Mary Teresa Hayden (1862 – 12 July 1942) was an Irish historian, Irish-language activist and campaigner for women's causes. Biography Mary Hayden was educated initially at the Dominican College, Eccles Street and then at Alexandra College in ...

(1862–1942) – suffragist, women's rights activist * Rosamond Jacob (1888–1960) – writer, suffragist, republican activist * Marie Johnson (1874–1974) – Irish trade unionist, suffragist and teacher * Laura Geraldine Lennox (1883–1958) – suffragette and war volunteer in Paris *

Isa Macnie Isa Macnie (9 August 1869 – April 1958), was an Irish croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist. Life Isabella Mary Macnie was born one of several children to George Macnie and Frances Leckie, in Clontarf, Dublin on 9 August 1869. ...

(1869–1958) – croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist *

Mary MacSwiney Mary MacSwiney (pronounced 'MacSweeney'; ga, Máire Nic Shuibhne; 27 March 1872 – 8 March 1942) was an Irish politician and educationalist. In 1927 she became deputy leader of Sinn Féin when Éamon de Valera resigned from the presidency of ...

(1872–1942) – suffragist, politician, educationalist *

Margaret McCoubrey Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) was an Irish suffragist and active participant of the co-operative movement. Life McCoubrey nee Mearns was born on 5 January 1880 in Elderslie, near Glasgow in Scotland. McCoubrey married an Irish trade unioni ...

(1880–1955) – Scottish-born Irish suffragist, co-operative movement activist *

Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. Life and career McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High ...

(1871-1944) – suffragette, feminist writer *

Lillian Metge Lillian Margaret Metge (née Grubb; 22 June 1871 – 10 May 1954) was an Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner. She founded the Lisburn Suffrage Society, which she left to become a militant activist, leading on an explosion at th ...

(1871-1954), direct action suffragette *

Constance Markievicz Constance Georgine Markievicz ( pl, Markiewicz ; ' Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the firs ...

(1868–1927) – politician, revolutionary, suffragette *

Florence Moon Florence Moon was an Irish suffragist, born in Birmingham. Early life Florence Moon was from Birmingham, where her mother was involved in suffrage work. Activism Florence Moon attended a speech by Christabel Pankhurst in 1911, and became ...

(fl. 1914) – suffragist, member of the Women's National Health Association *

Marguerite Moore Marguerite Moore (1846 – 6 February 1933) was an Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, and activist. A nationalist and suffragist, she was referred to as the "first suffragette". Early years and education Marguerite Moore was born in Waterford, Ire ...

(1849–1933) – nationalist activist, suffragist, "first suffragette" *

Alicia Adelaide Needham Alicia may refer to: People * Alicia (given name), list of people with this name * Alisha (singer) (born 1968), US pop singer * Melinda Padovano (born 1987), a professional wrestler, known by her ring name, Alicia Places * Alicia, Bohol, Ph ...

(1863–1945) – song composer, suffragette *

Kathleen Cruise O'Brien Kathleen Cruise O'Brien (28 April 1886 – 12 February 1938) was an Irish people, Irish Women's suffrage, suffragist, Irish language advocate, and teacher. Early life and family She was born Katherine Mary Joseph Sheehy in Loughmore, County Tip ...

(1886–1938) – suffragist, Irish language advocate, teacher * May O'Callaghan (1881–1973) – suffragette, communist *

Mary Donovan O'Sullivan Mary Josephine Donovan O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Queens College, Galway (now NUI Galway) from 1914 to 1957. Biography One of ten children, four of whom survived infancy, Donovan was born at Fair Hill Road in Galway on 24 November ...

(1887–1966) – history professor, suffragist *

Alice Oldham Alice Oldham (1850–1907) was one of the '' Nine Graces'', the first nine women to graduate from University with a degree in either Great Britain or Ireland. Oldham was a leader of the campaign for higher education of women in Ireland and in p ...

(1850–1907) – education campaigner, academic, suffragist * Sarah Persse (fl. 1899) – suffragist *

Anne Isabella Robertson Anne Isabella Robertson ( – 21 April 1910) was a writer and leading suffragist in Ireland. Life Born Anne Isabella Robertson in about 1830 to Major Archibald Robertson. Her father was president of the African Institute, established in Paris ...

(c. 1830 – 1910) – writer and suffragist *

Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington Johanna Mary Sheehy Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 – 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband Francis Sheehy Skeffington, Margaret Cousins and James Cousins, she founded the Irish Women's Franchis ...

– founder-member of the Irish Women's Franchise League *

Margaret Skinnider Margaret Frances Skinnider (28 May 1892 – 10 October 1971) was a revolutionary and feminist born in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin as a sniper, among other roles, and was the only woman wounded in ...

(1892–1971) – Scottish-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, suffragist *

Isabella Tod Isabella Maria Susan Tod (18 May 1836 – 8 December 1896) was a Scottish-born campaigner for women’s civil and political equality, active in the north of Ireland. She lobbied for women’s rights to education and to property, for the di ...

(1836–1896) – Scottish-born Irish suffragist and politician *

Catherine Winter (campaigner) Catherine Winter (died 1870) was an Irish publicist and campaigner. Biography Winter was the only daughter of James Nicholas Maillard, a Brigade Major in the army, and Catherine Stubber. Her father's family were from the West Indies and her pare ...

– Irish publicist, suffragist and campaigner *

Jenny Wyse Power Jane Wyse Power ( ga, Siobhán Bean an Phaoraigh; ; 1 May 1858 – 5 January 1941) was an Irish activist, feminist, politician and businesswoman. She was a founder member of Sinn Féin and also of Inghinidhe na hÉireann. She rose in the ranks t ...

(1858–1941) – feminist, politician, suffragist *

Edith Young Edith Young (10 September 1882 – 10 February 1974), was an Irish suffragist organiser and activist. Life Edith Mary O'Connor was born on 10 September 1882 to John O'Connor, a clerk in the Four Courts, and Lizzey Morrissy in Dalkey, County ...

(1882–1974) – Irish suffragist organiser and activist

Italy

* Elisa Agnini Lollini (1858–1922) – pioneering feminist, pacifist, suffragist and politician * Margherita Ancona (1881–1966) – IWSA board member and delegate to the

Inter-Allied Women's Conference The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States) opened in Paris on 10 February 1919. It was convened parallel to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Paris Peace Conferenc ...

* Alma Dolens (1869–1948) – pacifist, suffragist and journalist, founder of several women's organizations *

Anna Kuliscioff Anna Kuliscioff (; rus, Анна Кулишёва, , ˈanːə kʊlʲɪˈʂovə; born Anna Moiseyevna Rozenshtein, ; 9 January 1857 – 27 December 1925) was a Russian-Italian revolutionary of Jewish origin, a prominent feminist, an anarchist in ...

(1857–1925) – Russian-born feminist, suffragist and politician active in Italy * Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – influential women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer *

Anna Maria Mozzoni Anna Maria Mozzoni (5 May 1837 – 14 June 1920) is commonly held as the founder of the woman's movement in Italy. One of the roles she is most known for is her pivotal involvement in gaining woman's suffrage in Italy. Biography Mozzoni was born ...

(1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist *

Eugenia Rasponi Eugenia Rasponi (18 September 1873–1958) was an Italian noblewoman who became a women's suffrage, suffragist and businessperson. Dedicated to social welfare projects, as her mother had been, she opened a furniture manufacturing business to pres ...

(1873–1958) – suffragist, business woman, and early lesbian activist * Ada Sacchi Simonetta (1874–1944) – women's rights activist, founder and leader of women's organizations *

Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti (1853–1931) was an Italian feminist, educator and philanthropist. Keen to improve conditions for women, in 1897 she founded an embroidery school in Quarrata, Tuscany. From 1903, as president of the National Council of ...

(1853–1931) – feminist, educator and philanthropist, founder of the National Council of Italian Women in 1903 *

Alice Schiavoni Bosio Alice Schiavoni Bosio (12 March 1871 - 24 January 1931) was an Italian suffragette. She served as the director of the journal ''Attività Femminile Sociale'' from its founding in 1913 through 1916. Affiliated with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Don ...

(1871–1931) – delegate to both the 1915

Women at the Hague Women at the Hague was an International Congress of Women conference held at The Hague, Netherlands in April 1915. It had over 1,100 delegates and it established an International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP) with Jane Addams as pr ...

Conference and 1919

Japan

* Raicho Hiratsuka (1886–1971) *

Fusae Ichikawa was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Ichikawa was a key supporter of women's suffrage in Japan, and her activism was partially responsible for the extension of the franchise to women in 1945. Early ...

(1893–1981) – founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization, the Women's Suffrage League of Japan; president of the New Japan Women's League *

Shidzue Katō , also published as Shidzue Ishimoto, was a 20th-century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan, best known as a pioneer in the birth control movement. Early life Shidzue Katō was born on March 2, 1897, ...

(1897–2001) * Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) *

Shigeri Yamataka (also Kaneko Shigeri and later Yamataka Shigeri, sometimes incorrectly referred to as Shigeri Takayama) was a Japanese feminist and founder of the League for the Defense of Women's Rights. In 1952 she also took part in Chifuren, when it was form ...

(1899–1977)

Jordan

Emily Bisharat Emily Bisharat (died 2004) was a Jordanian lawyer, political activist and Philanthropy, philanthropist, known for being the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Jordan. She established the Arab Women's Union in the 1950s, fought for women's suff ...

(d. 2004) – first female lawyer in Jordan, fought for women's suffrage

Liechtenstein

Melitta Marxer Melitta Marxer (8 September 1923 – 13 February 2015) was a Liechtensteiner activist who spent decades organizing and fighting for women's suffrage. She is most known for speaking at the Council of Europe in 1983 to gain international support f ...

(1923–2015) – one of the "Sleeping Beauties" who took the issue of women's suffrage to the Council of Europe in 1983

Mexico

Hermila Galindo Hermila Galindo Acosta (also known as ''Hermila Galindo de Topete'') (2June 188618August 1954) was a Mexican feminist and a writer. She was an early supporter of many radical feminist issues, primarily sex education in schools, women's suffrage, ...

(1896–1954) – Mexican feminist, secretary to President

Venustiano Carranza José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was a Mexican wealthy land owner and politician who was Governor of Coahuila when the constitutionally elected president Francisco I. Madero was overthrown in a February ...

and affected his views on women's rights

Netherlands

Jeltje de Bosch Kemper Jkvr. Jeltje de Bosch Kemper (1836 – 1916) was a Dutch feminist. Life Bosch Kemper was born in Amsterdam on 28 April 1836. She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of (1808-1876) and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1810-1844) and ...

(1836–1916) – feminist *

Lizzy van Dorp Elisabeth Carolina "Lizzy" van Dorp (5 September 1872 – 6 September 1945) was a Dutch lawyer, economist, parliamentarian and feminist. Life Elisabeth Carolina van Dorp, often shortened to Lizzy, was the daughter of Adriana Elisabeth Verdam an ...

(1872–1945) – lawyer, economist, politician, feminist *

Wilhelmina Drucker Wilhelmina Drucker (née ''Wilhelmina Elizabeth Lensing''; Amsterdam, 30 September 1847 – Amsterdam, 5 December 1925) was a Dutch politician and writer. One of the first Dutch feminists, she was also known under her pseudonyms Gipsy, Gitano, and ...

(1847–1925) – politician, writer * P. van Heerdt tot Eversberg-Quarles van Ufford (1862–1939) – feminist, artist, and peace activist *

Mariane van Hogendorp jkvr. Mariane Catherine van Hogendorp (August 8, 1834, The Hague – September 17, 1909, Lausanne), a member of the Van Hogendorp family, was a Dutch feminist. She founded the ' (Dutch Women's Union to Increase Moral Consciousness). Life Hog ...

(1834–1909) – feminist * Mietje Hoitsema (1847–1934) *

Cornélie Huygens Cornélie Lydie Huygens (13 June 1848 – 31 October 1902) was a Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist. Biography Huygens was born on 13 June 1848 in Haarlemmerliede. She was the daughter of Gerard William Otto Huygens and Cornelia Adelaide ...

(1848–1902) *

Aletta Jacobs Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (; 9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. I ...

(1854–1929) – Chairperson of

Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht The Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women's Suffrage) was a women's rights organization active in the Netherlands from 1894 to 1919. It was devoted to women's suffrage. It was the main women's suffrage movement in the Netherland ...

, 1903–1919 * Martina Kramers (1863–1934) – feminist *

Rosa Manus Rosette Susanna "Rosa" Manus ( was born 20 August 1881 and died either at Auschwitz or Ravensbruck in 1942. She was a Jewish Dutch pacifist and female suffragist and was involved in women's movements and anti-war movements. She served as the ...

(1881–1943) – pacifist * Catharine van Tussenbroek (1852–1925) – physician, feminist *

Annette Versluys-Poelman Anette Wiea Luka Poelman, (8 June 1853, Holwierde - 10 February 1914, Amsterdam) was a Dutch suffragist and philanthropist. She co-founded the first Woman Suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning i ...

– chairperson of

1894–1902 * Clara Meijer-Wichmann (1885–1922) – lawyer, writer, anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, atheist *

Mien van Wulfften Palthe Mien van Wulfften Palthe (1 April 1875 – 11 November 1960; Broese van Groenou) was a Dutch feminist and pacifist. As a member of the Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Society for Women's Suffrage) and Women's International League for Peace an ...

(1875–1960) – feminist and pacifist

Newfoundland

* Margaret Davidson (1871–1964) – member of Women's Patriotic Association, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her work with the

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and the Scouting and Girl Guides in New South Wales * Margaret Iris Duley (1894–1968) – considered Newfoundland's first novelist, member of Women's Patriotic Association * Julia Salter Earle (1878–1945) – suffragist, trade unionist, one of the first three women to run for St. John's Municipal Council *

Armine Nutting Gosling Armine Nutting Gosling (1861 – December 15, 1942) was a Canadians, Canadian suffragette, best known for her involvement in the nascent Dominion of Newfoundland, Newfoundland women's rights movement. Early life Born in Waterloo, Quebec, Waterl ...

(1861–1942) – member of Women's Patriotic Association,

, founder and first Secretary of the

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, first female member of the Council of Higher Education in Newfoundland * Fannie Knowling McNeil (1869–1928) – suffragist, social activist, member of the Newfoundland Women's Franchise League, and co-founder of the Newfoundland Society of Art, one of the first three women to run for St. John's Municipal Council * Janet Morison Miller (1891–1946) – first woman added to the rolls of the Newfoundland Law Society * Mary Southcott (1862–1943) – nurse, hospital administrator and campaigner *

Helena Squires Helena Squires, née Strong (1879 - 1959) was a Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland politician born in Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Little Bay Islands. Biography Lady Helena E. Squires (née Strong) was born in Little Bay I ...

(1879–1959) – social activist, first woman to win a seat in the

Newfoundland House of Assembly The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly is the unicameral deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It meets in the Confederation Building in St. Jo ...

New Zealand

* Georgina Abernethy (c. 1859–1906) – active in the Wesleyan church and local Women's Franchise League *

Lily Atkinson Lily May Atkinson (née Kirk, 29 March 1866 – 19 July 1921) was a New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist. She served in several leadership roles at the local and national levels including Vice President of the New Zealand ...

(1866–1921) – speaker, writer, active in many

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clubs, president of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) *

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(1861–1927) – suffragist and temperance activist in

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Amey Daldy Amey Daldy ( Hamerton, 1829 – 17 August 1920) was an English-born New Zealand feminist and suffragist. She was an important leader in the movement for women's suffrage in New Zealand, but later resigned as superintendent of the Auckland W. ...

(1829–1920) – major leader and recruiter * Harriet Sophia Cobb (1855–1929) – signer of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition *

Meri Mangakāhia Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (22 May 1868 – 10 October 1920) was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand, who inspired future generations of Māori women. Biography Mangakāhia was born Meri Te Tai in Lower Waihou near Panguru in the Ho ...

(1868–1920) –

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campaigner for women's suffrage *

Harriet Morison Harriet Russell Morison (1862 – 19 August 1925) was a New Zealand tailor, trade unionist, suffragist and public servant. Early life Morison was born in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Ireland in 1862. She came to New Zealand with her parent ...

(1862–1925) – co-founded the Dunedin Franchise League *

Mary Müller Mary Ann Müller ( Wilson and then Griffiths; 22 September 1820 – 18 July 1901) was a New Zealand campaigner for women's suffrage and, more generally, women's rights. She is described by the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'' as "New Zeal ...

(1819/1820?–1901) – "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist", pamphleteer, writer *

Helen Nicol Helen Nicol (later Fox; May 9, 1920 – July 25, 2021) was a Canadian-American baseball pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at , , Nicol batted and threw right-handed. She was ...

(1854–1902) – co-founded the Dunedin Women's Franchise League *

Robina Nicol Robina Nicol (née Sinclair, 7 June 1861 – 17 July 1942) was a New Zealand photographer and suffragist. Life Nicol née Sinclair was born on 7 June 1861 in Shetland, Scotland. Her family emigrated to New Zealand in 1874. In 1885 she married ...

(1861–1942) – signer of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition * Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born British suffragette * Mary Powell (1854–1946) – suffragist and temperance activist * Lizzie Frost Rattray (1855–1931) – journalist, suffragist and welfare worker *

Annie Jane Schnackenberg Annie Jane Schnackenberg ( Allen; 22 November 1835 – 2 May 1905) was a New Zealand Wesleyan missionary, temperance and welfare worker, and suffragist. She served as president of the Auckland branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union N ...

(1835–1905) – founding member of Auckland branch Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand in February 1885; National President 1891–1901; President Auckland WCTU 1889–1897 *

Kate Sheppard Katherine Wilson Sheppard ( Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emig ...

(1848–1934) – served as national Franchise Superintendent for the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) which pushed the petition campaigns to win woman suffrage in 1893; appears on the

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Margaret Sievwright Margaret Home Sievwright ( Richardson; 19 March 1844 – 9 March 1905) was a New Zealand feminist, political activist and community leader. She was particularly active in the temperance and suffrage movements, and became president of the Natio ...

(1844–1905) – helped establish the National Council of Women; President 1901–1904 *

Anna Stout Anna Paterson Stout, Lady Stout (née Logan; 29 September 1858 – 10 May 1931) was a social reformer working for women's rights in New Zealand and Britain. Early life Anna Paterson Stout was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1858 to Scottish Pr ...

(1858–1931) – helped establish the WCTU NZ; 1892 President of the Women's Franchise League of Dunedin; 1896 Vice President for the National Council of Women of New Zealand *

Ada Wells Ada Wells (née Pike, 29 April 1863 – 22 March 1933) was a feminist and social worker in New Zealand. Biography Ada Pike was born near Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, England. Her parents emigrated to New Zealand with their four gir ...

(1863–1933) – 1880s activist who later established the Canterbury Women's Institute

Nicaragua

* Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, also called Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo (1866–1962) – Nicaraguan feminist, writer and reform pedagogue

Nigeria

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON ( /ˌfʊnmiˈlaɪjoʊ ˈrænsəm ˈkuːti/; born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas; 25 October 190013 April 1978), also known as Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suff ...

(1900–1978) – educator and activist who fought for women's enfranchisement and political representation

Norway

Randi Blehr Randi Marie Blehr (née Nilsen; 12 February 1851 – 13 June 1928) was a Norwegian feminist, liberal politician, suffragist, peace activist and women's rights activist. She was married to Prime Minister of Norway Otto Blehr, and was therefore ...

(1851–1928) – chairperson and co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights *

Anna Bugge Anna Wicksell Bugge (17 November 1862 – 19 February 1928) was a Norwegian and Swedish feminist, lawyer, diplomat and politician. She helped found the debate society Skuld in high school, and served as president of the Norwegian Associat ...

(1862–1928) – chairman of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, also active in Sweden *

Gudrun Løchen Drewsen Gudrun Løchen Drewsen (1867–1946) was a Norwegian-born American women's rights activist and painter. A competent organizer and strategist, she was one of the founders and principal figures in New York's Norwegian Suffrage League. She contribute ...

(1867–1946) – Norwegian-born American women's rights activist and painter, promoted women's suffrage in New York City * Betzy Kjelsberg (1866–1950) – co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1884), the National Association for Women's Suffrage (1885) *

Gina Krog Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog (20 June 1847 – 14 April 1916) was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia. She played a central role in the Norwegian l ...

(1847–1916) – co-founder of the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights ( no, italic=no, Norsk Kvinnesaksforening; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights thr ...

Ragna Nielsen Ragna Vilhelmine Nielsen (née Ullmann) (17 July 1845 – 29 September 1924) was a Norwegian pedagogue, school headmistress, publicist, organizer, politician and feminist. Personal life Ragna Nielsen was born in Christiania (now Oslo) to Jø ...

(1845–1924) – chairperson of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights * Thekla Resvoll (1871–1948) – head of the Norwegian Female Student's Club and on the board of the women's suffrage movement (Kvinnestemmeretsforeningen) *

Anna Rogstad Anna Georgine Rogstad (26 July 1854 – 8 November 1938) was a Norway, Norwegian politician, women's rights activist and educator. A member of the conservative-liberal Liberal Left Party, she was Norway's first female Member of Parliament of N ...

(1854–1938) – vice president of the Association for Women's Suffrage *

Hedevig Rosing Hedevig Rosing (16 May 1827 – 30 November 1913) was a Danish-born Norwegian author, educator, school founder, and suffragist. She specialized in teaching the deaf-mute. She was the first woman to teach in Copenhagen's public schools. Biography D ...

(1827–1913) – co-leader of the movement in Norway; author, educator, school founder

Panama

* Elida Campodónico (1894–1960) – teacher, women's rights advocate, attorney, first woman ambassador in Latin America * Clara González *

Gumercinda Páez Gumercinda Páez (1904-1991) was a teacher, women's rights activist and suffragette, and Constituent Assemblywoman of Panama. She was the first woman deputy to serve the National Assembly for the Panamá Province and was a vice president of the ...

Peru

Aurora Cáceres Zoila Aurora Cáceres Moreno (1877–1958) was a writer associated with the literary movement known as modernismo. This European-based daughter of a Peruvian president wrote novels, essays, travel literature and a biography of her husband, the Guat ...

(1877–1958) – writer and suffragist

Philippines

Josefa Llanes Escoda Josefa Madamba Llanes Escoda (20 September 1898 – 6 January 1945) was a Filipino civic leader, social worker, World War II heroine, and suffragette. She is most known for campaigning for women's suffrage and as a founder of the Girl Scouts ...

(1898–1945) – civic leader and founder of the

Girl Scouts of the Philippines The Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) is the national Girl Scouting association for girls and young women in the Philippines. Its mission is "to help girls and young women realize the ideals of womanhood and prepare themselves for their resp ...

* Concepción Felix (1884–1967) – feminist and human rights activist *

Pura Villanueva Kalaw Purificacion "Pura" Villanueva Kalaw (27 August 1886 – 21 March 1954) was a Filipina beauty queen, feminist, journalist, and writer. Early life Purificacion Garcia Villanueva was born in the town of Arevalo, Iloilo to Emilio Villanueva and E ...

(1886–1954) – beauty queen, feminist, journalist, and writer *

Pilar Hidalgo-Lim Pilar Lardizabal Hidalgo-Lim (May 24, 1893 – December 8, 1973) was a Filipina educator and civic leader. She was married to Brig. Gen. Vicente Lim, World War II hero. Early career and pre-war years Pilar Hidalgo-Lim graduated from the Univer ...

(1893–1973) – educator and civic leader *

Rosa Sevilla Rosa Sevilla de Alvero (4 March 1879 – 11 May 1954) was a Filipino activist, educator, and journalist who advocated for women's suffrage in the Philippines. Biography Sevilla was born on March 4, 1879 in Tondo, Manila to Ambrosio Sevilla, a se ...

(1879–1954) – activist, educator, and journalist

Poland

* Maria Dulębianka (1861–1919) – artist, activist and suffragist

Portugal

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo Carolina Beatriz Ângelo (16 April 1878 – 3 October 1911) was a Portuguese physician and the first woman to vote in Portugal. Life Carolina Beatriz Ângelo was a medical doctor practising in Lisbon. She was a feminist and suffragette who parti ...

(1878–1911) – physician and the first woman to vote in Portugal *

Adelaide Cabete Adelaide Cabete Adelaide Cabete (25 January 1867, Elvas – 14 September 1935), was a Portuguese feminist and republican. In 1909, with Ana de Castro Osorio she created the Republican League of Portuguese Women. She was the founder of the Portug ...

(1867–1935) – feminist *

Ana de Castro Osório Ana de Castro Osório (18 June 1872 – 23 March 1935) was a Portuguese feminist, active in the field of children's literature and political Republicanism. Early life Osório was born into a well-off family on 18 June 1872, her mother being Mari ...

(1872–1935) – political feminist, suffragist * Olga Morais Sarmento (1881–1948) – writer and feminist *

Maria Veleda Maria Veleda, the pseudonym widely used by Maria Carolina Frederico Crispin (1871–1955), was a Portuguese educator, journalist and activist. One of the most effective early feminists in Portugal, she fought for the rights of women factory worker ...

(1871–1955) – educator, writer and suffragist * Maria Evelina de Sousa (1879–1946) – educator, journalist, feminist, suffragist * Maria Lamas (1893–1983) – writer, feminist, political prisoner *

Alice Moderno Alice Moderno (11 August 1867 – 20 February 1946) was a Portuguese writer, feminist and animal welfare activist. An active campaigner for women's rights, she also founded the first association dedicated to animal welfare in the Azores. Early bi ...

(1867–1946) – writer, feminist, active campaigner for women's rights and animals rights

Puerto Rico

* Isabel Andreu de Aguilar (1887–1948) – educator, helped establish the Puerto Rican Feminist League, was president of Puerto Rican Association of Women Suffragists, and first woman to run for Senate in PR * Milagros Benet de Mewton (1868–1948) – teacher who filed a lawsuit to press for suffrage *

Carlota Matienzo Carlota Matienzo Román (1881, in Barcelona – 1926, in Queens, New York) was a Puerto Rican teacher and feminist. She is credited with working for reform of the public school system in Puerto Rico, and as one of the founders in 1917 of the Pue ...

(1881–1926) – teacher, one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Feminine League and the Suffragist Social League *

Felisa Rincón de Gautier Felisa Rincón de Gautier (born Felisa Rincón Marrero)This name uses Spanish marriage naming customs; the first is the maiden family name '' "Rincón"'' and the second or matrimonial family name is ''"Gautier"''. (also known as Doña Fela) (Janua ...

(1897–1994) – mayor of San Juan, first woman to hold post of mayor of a capitol city in the Americas

Romania

* Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941) – Austro-Hungarian born Romanian writer, suffragist and women's rights activist *

Ana Conta-Kernbach Ana Conta-Kernbach (5 November 1865 – 13 December 1921) was a Romanian teacher, writer, and women's rights activist. Educated at the in Iași, she graduated in 1883 and began teaching there that same year. Continuing her studies at the same ...

(1865–1921) – teacher, pedagogue, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist * Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu (1866–1938) – teacher, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist *

Clara Maniu Clara Maniu (born Clara Coroianu; 10 January 1842 – 29 July 1929) was a Romanian feminist and suffragist. She was the president of the Romanian women's movement organisation ''Reuniunea Femeilor Române Sălăjene (R.F.R.S)'' from 1881 to 1897. ...

(1842–1929) – feminist, suffragist *

Elena Meissner Elena Meissner also called Elena Buznea-Meissner, (born Elena Buznea; 1867–1940) was a Romanian feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Romanian women's movement organisation '' Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Fem ...

(1867–1940) – feminist, suffragist, headed ''Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române''

Serbia

* Helen Losanitch Frothingham (1885–1972) – nurse, humanitarian, feminist, suffrage campaigner

South Africa

Anna Petronella van Heerden Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975), was the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor. Her thesis, for which she obtained a doctorate in 1923, was the first medical thesis written in Afrikaans. She practiced as a gynecologist, ...

(1887–1975) – campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s *

Julia Solly Julia Frances Solly (née Muspratt; 21 December 1862 – 1953) was a British suffragist, feminist and temperance activist. After her marriage, she moved to South Africa, where she became one of the most recognisable feminists in the Cape Colony. ...

(1862–1953) – British-born South African feminist and suffragist who helped acquire the vote for white women in 1930 *Lady

Barbara Steel Lady Barbara Steel (commonly known as Lady Steel; 1857 – 22 December 1943) was a Scottish social activist who actively campaigned for Women's Suffrage in both the United Kingdom and South Africa. She was the first woman to stand in an elect ...

(1857–1943) – helped acquire the vote for white women in 1930

Spain

Concepción Arenal Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, sh ...

(1820–1893) – pioneer and founder of the feminist movement in Spain; activist, writer, journalist and lawyer *

Emilia Pardo Bazán Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa (16 September 185112 May 1921), countess of Pardo Bazán, was a Spanish novelist, journalist, literary critic, poet, playwright, translator, editor and professor. She is known for introducing naturalis ...

(1851–1921) – Spanish writer, journalist, university professor and support for women's rights and education *

Carmen de Burgos Carmen de Burgos y Seguí (pseudonyms, Colombine, Gabriel Luna, Perico el de los Palotes, Raquel, Honorine and Marianela; Almería, December 10, 1867 – Madrid, October 9, 1932) was a Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women's rights act ...

(1867–1932) – Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women's rights activist *

Clara Campoamor Clara Campoamor Rodríguez (12 February 1888 – 30 April 1972) was a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer, considered by some the mother of the Spanish feminist movement. She was one of the main promoters for women's suffrage in Spa ...

(1888–1972) – Spanish politician and feminist best known for her advocacy for women's rights and suffrage during the writing of the Spanish constitution of 1931 * María Espinosa de los Monteros (1875–1946) – Spanish women's rights activist, suffragist and business executive *

Victoria Kent Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1891 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Biography Born in Málaga, Spain, Kent was affiliated to the Radical Socialist Republican Party and came to fame in 1930 for defending � ...

(1891–1987) – Spanish lawyer, suffragist and politician

Sweden

Gertrud Adelborg Gertrud Virginia Adelborg (10 September 1853 in Karlskrona – 25 January 1942) was a Swedish teacher, feminist and leading member of the women's rights movement. Biography Gertrud Adelborg was born at Karlskrona in Blekinge County, Sweden. She ...

(1853–1942) – Secretary and leading member of the suffrage movement, presented the first demand of woman suffrage to the government * Elsa Alkman (1878–1975) – suffragist, women's rights activist, writer and composer *

Eva Andén Eva Johanna Andén (23 April 1886 – 26 March 1970) was a Swedish lawyer. She became the first woman member of the Swedish Bar Association on 14 March 1918. Life Eva Andén was born to the merchant Heribert Andén and Elin Forssman. In 1907, s ...

(1886–1970) – lawyer, feminist and suffragist *

Carolina Benedicks-Bruce Carolina Maria Benedicks-Bruce (28 October 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Swedish sculptor. After studies at the Academy of Arts in Sweden she went to France, at first to study and later to live and work at the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loin ...

(1856–1935) – sculptor, women's rights activist and suffragist *

Signe Bergman ''Signe'' Wilhelmina Ulrika Bergman (10 April 1869 – 1960) was a Swedish feminist. She was the chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR) which was then called The Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage in English (see pho ...

(1869–1960) – co-founder and Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage * Nina Benner-Anderson (1865–1947) – nurse, pacifist and suffragist * Ella Billing (1869–1921) – women's rights activist and suffragist *

Hilma Borelius Hilma Johanna Ulrika Borelius (1869–1932) was a literary historian who became the first female docent at Lund University in 1910 and a substitute professor in 1922. In 1931 she published a history of Scandinavian literature in German: ''Die Nord ...

(1869–1932) – literary historian, academic and suffragist * Kristina Borg (1844–1928) – newspaper publisher, suffragist and peace activist *

Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finland, Finnish-born Sweden and Norway, Swedish Swedish literature, writer and feminism in Sweden, feminist reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Bri ...

(1801–1865) – prominent novelist and early women's rights activist *

Emilia Broomé Emilia Augusta Clementina Broomé, née ''Lothigius'' (13 January 1866 – 2 June 1925), was a Swedish politician (liberal), feminist and peace activist. She was the first woman in the Swedish legislative assembly (1914). Life Emilia Broomé ...

(1866–1925) – first woman in the legislative assembly, introduced the new laws of equal access to all government posts for both genders *

Märta Bucht Märta Johanna Bucht (1882–1962) was a Swedish schoolteacher, suffragist and peace activist. From 1908, she chaired the Luleå branch of the Swedish Association for Women's Suffrage (FKPR). She was also active in the peace movement. In 1919, sh ...

(1882–1962) – suffragist and peace activist from Luleå *

Frigga Carlberg Frigga Carlberg, née Anna Fredrika Lundgren (10 August 1851 – 3 October 1925), was a Swedish writer, social worker, feminist and advocate for women's suffrage. She was a member of the central committee of the National Association for Women's ...

(1851–1925) – Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Gothenburg branch) *

Maria Cederschiöld Hedvig ''Maria'' Reddita Cederschiöld (29 June 1856, Stockholm – 19 October 1935, Stockholm), was a Swedish journalist and women's rights activist. She was the chief editor of the foreign office at '' Aftonbladet'' in 1909–1921, and the firs ...

(1856–1935) – journalist, women's rights activist and suffragist * Lizinka Dyrssen (1866–1952) – women's rights activist and suffragist *

Ebba von Eckermann Ebba Johanna Cecilia von Eckermann née ''von Hallwyl'' (21 May 1866 – 16 October 1960) was a Swedish women's rights activist. Ebba von Eckermann was the daughter of Walther and Wilhelmina von Hallwyl and sister of Ellen Roosval von Hallwyl. Sh ...

(1866–1960) – women's rights activist and suffragist * Lisa Ekedahl (1895–1980) – lawyer and suffragist *

Elin Engström Augusta Eleonora "Elin" Engström (1860–1956) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrat) and trade unionist. She belonged to the pioneers of the labour movement, the Social Democratic movement, as well as the trade unionism and women's rights m ...

(1860–1956) – politician, trade unionist and suffragist * Hanna Ferlin (1870–1947) – photographer and suffragist * Karin Fjällbäck-Holmgren (1881–1963) – politician, social welfare activist and suffragist *

Mia Green Maria Amalia "Mia" Green (14 April 1870 – 24 June 1949) was a Sweden, Swedish photographer who has a park in her memory in Haparanda. She documented history in that area, particularly during the First World War. She was also involved in the loc ...

(1870–1949) – photographer, human rights activist and suffragist * Sofia Gumaelius (1840–1915) – Treasurer of the National Association for Women's Suffrage *

Ellen Hagen Ellen Helga Louise Hagen (''née'' Wadström; 1873–1967) was a Swedish suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was a member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage, the chairperson of Liberala kvinnor (Liberal Women) ...

(1873–1967) – suffragist, women's rights activist and politician *

Gerda Hellberg Gerda Hellberg née Lundberg (1870–1937) was a prominent Swedish women's rights activist, contributing to Sweden's fight for women's suffrage. While studying in Uppsala, together with her female student friends, she founded Sweden's first studen ...

(1870–1937) – women's rights activist and suffragist * Lilly Hellström (1866–1930) – schoolteacher, children's newspaper editor and suffragist *

Anna Hierta-Retzius Anna Wilhelmina Hierta-Retzius, née ''Hierta'' (24 August 1841 – 21 December 1924), was a Swedish women's rights activist and philanthropist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the ''Married Woman's Property Rights Association'' (1873), fo ...

(1841–1924) – women's rights activist, suffragist and philanthropist * Lina Hjort (1881–1959) – suffragist in

Kiruna (; se, Giron ; fi, Kiiruna ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norr ...

Ann-Margret Holmgren Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren, ( née Tersmeden; 17February 185012October 1940), was a Swedish author, feminist, suffragist, and pacifist. Life She was born at Hässle Manor in Uppland, Sweden. She was the daughter of Baroness Aug ...

(1850–1940) – co-founder and leading campaigner and recruiter for the National Association for Women's Suffrage * Amanda Horney (1857–1953) – politician, women's rights activist and suffragist *

Ebba Hultkvist Ebba Johanna Birgitta Hultkvist (born 26 September 1983) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily ...

(1876–1955) – schoolteacher, suffragist and politician *

Emma Isakson Emma Josefina Isakson (1880–1952) was a Swedish newspaper publisher and suffragist who is remembered for her activity in Luleå at a time when few women gained positions of influence. From the age of 17, she worked for the daily newspaper ''Norb ...

(1880–1952) – newspaper publisher and suffragist *

Ellen Key Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was ...

(1849–1926) – suffragist, ideologist * Edit Kindvall (1866–1951) – teacher, photographer, suffragist and women's rights activist *

Anna Kleman Anna Kleman at the International Congress of Women in 1915 Anna Sofia Kleman (1862–1940) was a Swedish insurance officer and feminist. She is remembered for her work as a women's rights activist and pacifist, especially in regard to voting right ...

(1862–1940) – Swedish suffragist and peace activist * Sigrid Kruse (1867–1950) – schoolteacher, children's writer and active suffragist * Klara Lindh (1877–1914) – suffragist, writer, editor *

Anna Lindhagen Anna Lindhagen (7 April 1870 in Stockholm – 15 May 1941 in Stockholm) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrat), social reformer and women's rights activist. In collaboration with Anna Åbergsson, she was a leading force in the introduction ...

(1870–1941) – politician, women's rights activist and suffragist * Cecilia Milow (1856–1946) – writer, educator and suffragist *

Bertha Nordenson Bertha Harriet Nordenson (1857–1928) was a devoted Swedish women's rights activist and suffragist. From the late 1880s, she supported women's emancipation, becoming a member and later a board member of the Married Woman's Property Rights Associ ...

(1857–1928) – women's rights activist and suffragist *

Astrid Nyberg Astrid Birgitta Nyberg (5 January 1877 – 9 September 1928) was a pioneering Swedish newspaper editor and suffragist. From 1903, as editor of ''Norra Hallands Tidning Vestkusten'' in Varberg, she campaigned to encourage support for women's suffra ...

(1877–1928) – pioneering newspaper editor and suffragist *

Valborg Olander Valborg Olander (Uddeholm Manor, Värmland 14 May 1861 – 27 February 1943, Stockholm), was a Swedish teacher, politician and suffragette. She is known for her friendship with Selma Lagerlöf. Life and career Valborg Olander was born as one o ...

(1861–1943) – Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (local branch) * Agda Östlund (1870–1942) – politician and suffragist * Ebba Palmstierna (1877–1966) – noblewoman and suffragist *

Gulli Petrini Gulli Charlotta Petrini ( Stockholm, 30 September 1867 – Stockholm, 8 April 1941) was a Swedish Physicist, writer, suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was the chairperson of the local branch of the National Association for ...

(1867–1941) – writer, suffragist, women's rights activist and politician *

Anna Pettersson Anna Maria Pettersson (5 January 1861 – 6 September 1929) was a Swedish lawyer. She was the first woman in Sweden to set up a legal agency, run by a woman, which was aimed primarily at female clients. Pettersson was also active in the Swedish ...

(1861–1929) – lawyer and suffragist *

Aurore Pihl Aurora (Aurore) Marie Pihl (1850–1938) was a Swedish educator and suffragist. She is remembered for establishing a girls' school in Norrköping in 1880 and for contributing significantly to the campaign for women's suffrage. In 1903, she co-foun ...

(1850–1938) – headmistress, women's rights activist and suffragist * Gerda Planting-Gyllenbåga (1878–1950) – suffragist and social welfare expert *

Emilie Rathou Emilie Rathou, née ''Gustafsson'' (8 May 1862 – 12 October 1948) was a Swedish journalist, newspaper editor and elected official. She was a temperance and women's rights activist. On International Workers' Day in Stockholm 1891, she was the f ...

(1862–1948) – journalist, editor, early suffragist *

Anna-Clara Romanus-Alfvén Anna-Clara Romanus-Alfvén (24 November 1874 – 9 November 1947) was a pioneering Swedish female physician, schoolteacher, suffragette and women's rights activist. After graduating as a medical doctor in 1906, she was the first woman to open a pr ...

(1874–1947) – physician, suffragist, women's rights activist and educator *

Hilda Sachs Hilda Gustafva Sachs (13 March 1857, Norrköping – 26 February 1935), was a Swedish journalist, translator, writer and feminist. She was the daughter of merchant Johan Gustaf Engström and Gustafva Augusta Gustafsson in Norrköping. She worked ...

(1857–1935) – journalist, writer, women's rights activist * Ellen Sandelin (1862–1907) – physician and lecturer * Olga Segerberg (1868–1951) – photographer and suffragist *

Alexandra Skoglund Louise Sophie Alexandra Skoglund (1862–1938) was a Swedish suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. Life Skoglund was born 22 October 1862 in Stockholm, Sweden. Skoglund graduated from Högre lärarinneseminariet in 1883. She was ...

(1862–1938) – suffragist, women's rights activist and politician * Karolina Själander (1841–1925) – headmistress, women's rights activist, suffragist and politician * Augusta Tonning (1857–1932) – teacher, suffragist and pacifist *

Elin Wägner Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner (16 May 1882 – 7 January 1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944. Biography Elin Wägner was born in Lund, Sweden as the ...

(1882–1949) – campaigner for the National Association for Women's Suffrage *

Lydia Wahlström ''Lydia'' Katarina Wahlström (28 June 1869 – 2 June 1954) was a Swedish historian, author and feminist. She was one of the founders of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and its chairman in 1909–1911. Life and career Wahlst ...

(1869–1954) – co-founder and Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage * Jenny Wallerstedt (1870–1963) – teacher, suffragist and local politician * Anna Whitlock (1852–1930) – co-founder and Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage *

Karolina Widerström Karolina Olivia Widerström (10 December 1856 – 4 March 1949), was a Swedish doctor and gynecologist. She was the first female physician with a university education in her country. She was also a feminist and a politician, and engaged in the qu ...

(1856–1949) – Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage

Switzerland

Simone Chapuis-Bischof Simone Chapuis-Bischof (16 March 1931 – 9 October 2023) was a Swiss activist. She was an organizer for women's suffrage in Switzerland. She was also the head of the Association Suisse Pour les Droits de la Femme (ADF or in English, the Swiss Asso ...

(born 16 March 1931) – head of the Association Suisse Pour les Droits de la Femme (ADF) and the president of the journal ''Femmes Suisses'' * Caroline Farner (1842–1913) – the second female Swiss doctor *

Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin (1826–1899), was a pioneer in the women's rights movement and women's peace movement in Switzerland. She has been called the first feminist in Switzerland. In 1868, she founded ''Association internationale des femmes'' (IA ...

(1826–1899) – Swiss doctor and campaigner for the Swiss women's movement *

Marthe Gosteli Marthe Gosteli (22 December 1917 – 7 April 2017) was a Swiss suffrage activist and archivist. For thirty years, she led the fight for women's right to vote in Switzerland and then focused her attention on preserving the history of Swiss women. ...

(1917–2017) – Swiss suffrage activist and creator of the Swiss archive of women's history * Ursula Koch (born 1941) – politician, refused the 'male' oath in the Zürich cantonal parliament; first women president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) *

Emilie Lieberherr Emilie Lieberherr (October 14, 1924 in Erstfeld – January 3, 2011 in Zollikerberg; place of origin in Zürich und Nesslau), was a Swiss politician (Social Democratic Party of Switzerland). Early life and education The second of three sisters, ...

(1924–2011) – Swiss politician who was a leading figure in the final struggle for women suffrage in Switzerland, and the famous 1969 March to Bern for women suffrage * Rosa Neuenschwander (1883–1962) – pioneer in vocational education, founder of the Schweizerische Landfrauenverband or SLFV (Swiss Country Association for Women Suffrage) *

Julie von May (von Rued) Julie von May (von Rued) (26 February 1808 – 5 March 1875), was a Swiss feminist. In 1868, she became the chairperson of the first women's organisation in Switzerland: ''Association Internationale des Femmes''. She supported women suffrage, but ...

Helene von Mülinen Helene von Mülinen (27 November 1850 – 11 March 1924) was a Swiss Feminism, feminist regarded as the founder of the organized Swiss women's suffrage movement. She founded the Swiss women's suffrage movement, Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine ...

(1850–1924) – founder of Switzerland's organized suffrage movement; created and served as first president of

Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine alliance F (; by 2011) is the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations. History The presidents of the progressive women's associations from Bern (Helene von Mülinen), Zürich (Emma Boos Jegher), Lausanne (Marguerite Duvillard Chavannes) and Ge ...

(BSF)

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* Beatrice Greig ( b. 1869) – suffragist, writer and advocate

United Kingdom

Mabel Capper and Fellow Suffragettes 1910

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Wilhelmina Hay Abbott Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (; 22 May 1884 – 17 October 1957), also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott. Early life and education Abbott was bor ...

(1884–1957) – editor and feminist lecturer, officer of the

* Violet Aitken (1886–1987) – suffragette activist in the

WSPU The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1918. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership an ...

, imprisoned and force-fed, editor of ''The Suffragette'' *

Margaret Aldersley Margaret Aldersley (1852–1940) was a British suffragist, feminist and trade unionist. Biography Born in 1852 in Burnley in Lancashire into a working-class family, Margaret Aldersley originally worked in the textile industry before becoming invo ...

(1852–1940) – suffragist, feminist and trade unionist *

Mary Ann Aldham Mary Ann Aldham (born Mary Ann Mitchell Wood; 28 September 1858 – 1940) was an English militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who was imprisoned at least seven times.Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

in 1914 *

Janie Allan Janie Allan (born Jane Allan; 28 March 1868 – 29 April 1968)Ewan ''et al.'' (2006), p. 11 was a Scottish activist and fundraiser for the suffragette movement of the early 20th century. Early life and family Janie Allan was born to Jane Smit ...

(1868–1968) – suffragette activist and significant financial supporter of the

; imprisoned for suffrage activities *

Doreen Allen Doreen Allen (1879 – 18 June 1963) was a militant English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), who on being imprisoned was force-fed, for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal For Valour'' ...

(1879–1963) – militant suffragette * Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964) – women's rights activist, pioneer policewoman, later involved in far right political activity *

Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley Katharine Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (née Stanley; 3 April 1842 – 28 June 1874),
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(1844–1874) – early advocate of birth control, president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society *

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, ...

(1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain *

Louisa Garrett Anderson Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Gar ...

(1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities *

Helen Archdale Helen Alexander Archdale (née Russel; 25 August 1876 – 8 December 1949) was a Scottish feminist, suffragette and journalist. Archdale was the Sheffield branch organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union and later its prisoners' sec ...

(1876–1949) – suffragette and journalist *

Jane Arthur Jane Arthur (18 November 1827 – 25 May 1907), was a Scottish feminist, philanthropist and activist. She was the first woman to be elected to a Scottish school board. Life Jane Glen was born in Foxbar in Renfrewshire on 18 November 1827 to Jes ...

(1827–1907) – educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage *

Margaret Ashton Margaret Ashton (19 January 1856 – 15 October 1937) was an English suffragist, local politician, pacifist and philanthropist, and the first woman City Councillor for Manchester. Career Margaret Ashton was the first woman to run for election t ...

(1856–1937) – suffragist, local politician, pacifist *

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor's first husband was America ...

(1879–1964) – politician, socialite, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons *

Barbara Ayrton-Gould Barbara Bodichon Ayrton-Gould (née Ayrton; 3 April 1886 – 14 October 1950) was a British Labour politician and suffragist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hendon North from 1945 to 1950. Background and family life Ayrton-Goul ...

(1886–1950) – Labour politician and co-founder of the

United Suffragists The United Suffragists was a women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. History The group was founded on 6 February 1914, by former members and supporters of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). In contrast to the WSPU, it admit ...

; jailed for her suffrage activities *

Mary Anne Baikie Mary Anne Baikie (1861–1950) was a Scottish suffragist who established the Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society (OWSS) and grew the membership and public interest in the debate, in the Orkney Isles, during the campaigns for Votes for Women. ...

(1861 - 1950) - Scottish suffragist who established the

Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society The Orcadian Women's Suffrage Association was an organisation involved in campaigning for women’s suffrage, based in Orkney, Scotland. Formation The first meeting of the society was held in the house of James and Bina Cursiter on September ...

Sarah Jane Baines Sarah Jane Baines (30 November 1866 – 20 February 1951) was a British-Australian feminist, suffragette and social reformer. She was the first suffragette to be tried by jury, and one of the first hunger strikers. She was known as 'Jennie Ba ...

(1866–1951) – feminist and social reformer; jailed at least fifteen times *

Minnie Baldock Lucy Minnie Baldock (née Rogers; 20 November 1864''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 10 December 1954)''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995'' was a British suffragette. ...

(c. 1864 – 1954) – co-founded the first London branch of the

Frances Balfour Lady Frances Balfour (née Campbell; 22 February 1858 – 25 February 1931) was a British aristocrat and suffragist. She was one of the highest-ranking members of the British nobility, British aristocracy to assume a leadership role in the Women ...

(1858–1931) – president of the

National Society for Women's Suffrage The National Society for Women's Suffrage Manchester Branch The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote. Formed on 6 November 1867, by Lydia Becker, the organis ...

Florence Balgarnie Florence Balgarnie (19 August 1856 – 25 March 1928) was a British suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, and temperance activist. Characterised as a "staunch Liberal", and influenced by Lydia Becker, Balgarnie began her support of women's ...

(1856–1928) – British suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, temperance activist *

Rachel Barrett Rachel Barrett (12 November 1874 – 26 August 1953) was a Welsh suffragette and newspaper editor born in Carmarthen. Educated at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth she became a science teacher, but quit her job in 1906 on hearin ...

(1874–1953) – member of the

; editor of '' The Suffragette'' * Janet Barrowman (1879–1955) – Scottish member of the

; jailed for her suffragist activities *

Dorothea Beale Dorothea Beale LL.D. (21 March 1831 – 9 November 1906) was a suffragist, educational reformer and author. As Principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College, she became the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Early and family life Dorothea Beale ...

(1831–1906) – educational reformer, author, Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College * Harriette Beanland (born 1866) – British textile worker and Suffragette *

Lydia Becker Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a centre for the suffrage mo ...

(1827–1890) – biologist and astronomer, founder and publisher of the ''

Women's Suffrage Journal The ''Women's Suffrage Journal'' was a magazine founded by Lydia Becker and Jessie Boucherett in 1870. Initially titled the ''Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage Journal'' within a year its title was changed reflecting Becker's desir ...

'' *

Edith Marian Begbie Edith Marian Begbie (8 February 1866 – 27 March 1932) was a militant Scottish suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham in 1912 and who was awarded ...

(1866–1932) – militant suffragette who was force-fed * Elizabeth Bell (1862-1934) – first woman to practice medicine in

Ulster Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United King ...

, WPSU militant. *

Mary Bell Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, as a juvenile, murdered two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1968. Bell committed her first murder when she was 10 years old. In both instan ...

(1885–1943) – first Scottish women

magistrate The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a '' magistratus'' was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judici ...

Sarah Benett Sarah Barbara Benett (1850 – 8 February 1924) was a suffragette, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and Treasurer of the Women's Freedom League (WFL). She was one of the "Brown Women" who walked from Edinburgh to Lond ...

(1850–1924) – Treasurer of the WFL and suffragette *

Ethel Bentham Ethel Bentham, (5 January 1861 – 19 January 1931) was a progressive doctor, a politician and a suffragist in the United Kingdom. She was born in London, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for W ...

(1861–1931) – doctor, politician, member of the

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the ''suffragists'' (not to be confused with the suffragettes) was an organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. In 1919 it was ren ...

(1847–1933) – socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule * Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953) – member of the

; jailed multiple times *

Teresa Billington-Greig Teresa Billington-Greig (15 October 1876 – 21 October 1964) was a British suffragette who helped create the Women's Freedom League in 1907. She had left another suffrage organisation – the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) – as s ...

(1877–1964) – co-founder of Women's Freedom League; jailed for her suffragist activities * Catherine Hogg Blair (1872–1946) – Scottish suffragette and founder of the Scottish Women's Rural Institute, and member of the

Violet Bland Violet Ann Bland (17 December 1863 – 21 March 1940) was an English suffragette and hotelier who wrote about her experiences being force fed in prison. Early life and career Bland was born in Bayston Hill, Shropshire, the oldest of nine child ...

(1863–1940) – member of the

, force-fed in prison * Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – educationalist, artist, feminist, activist for women's rights * Lillie Boileau (1869–1930) – early member of the

and the Union of Ethical Societies *

Margaret Bondfield Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in th ...

(1873–1953) – politician, chair of the Adult Suffrage Society, first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom *

Elsie Bowerman Elsie Edith Bowerman (18 December 1889 – 18 October 1973) was a British lawyer, suffragette, political activist, and RMS ''Titanic'' survivor. Early life Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the only daughter of Willia ...

(1889–1973) – lawyer, member of the

, RMS ''Titanic'' survivor *

Janet Boyd Janet Augusta Boyd (née Haig; 1850 – 22 September 1928) was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and militant suffragette who in 1912 went on hunger strike in prison for which action she was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Str ...

(1850–1928) – militant suffragette and hunger-striker * Jane Esdon Brailsford (1876–1937) – Scottish suffragette *

Agnes Brown ''Mrs. Brown's Boys'' is a sitcom produced by BBC Scotland in partnership with BocPix and RTÉ, written by and starring Brendan O'Carroll. Originally a radio series starting in 1992, the series became more and more popular, which led to the tel ...

(1866–1943) – Scottish suffragist and writer *

Annie Leigh Browne Annie Leigh Browne (14 March 1851 – 8 March 1936) was a United Kingdom educationist and suffragist. She co-founded College Hall, London, and funded and worked to get women elected to local government. Life Browne was born in Bridgwater in 185 ...

(1851–1936) – co-founder of

College Hall, London College Hall is a fully catered hall of residence of the University of London. It is situated on Malet Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, United Kingdom. It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time stu ...

and of

Women's Local Government Society The Women's Local Government Society was a British campaign group which aimed to get women into local government. Its initial focus was on county councils but its remit later covered other local government roles such as school boards. History The ...

Constance Bryer Constance Elizabeth Bryer (July 1870 – 12 July 1952) was a British classical violinist and campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of w ...

(1870–1952) – suffragette *

Evaline Hilda Burkitt Evaline Hilda Burkitt (19 July 1876 – 7 March 1955) was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suffra ...

(1876–1955) – first suffragette to be force-fed *

Frances Buss Frances Mary Buss (16 August 1827 – 24 December 1894) was a British headmistress and a pioneer of girls' education. Life The daughter of Robert William Buss, a painter and etcher, and his wife, Frances Fleetwood, Buss was one of six of thei ...

(1827–1894) – headmistress, pioneer of women's education, member of the Kensington Society *

Josephine Butler Josephine Elizabeth Butler (' Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture ...

(1828–1906) – feminist, author, social reformer concerned about the welfare of prostitutes *

Mary Burton Mary Hill Burton (1819-1909) was a Scottish social and educational reformer and the first woman governor of Heriot-Watt College. Biography Mary Burton was born in Aberdeen but moved to Edinburgh in 1832 with her widowed mother and her brother, t ...

(1819 - 1909), a Scottish social and educational reformer, and supporter of the

Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage The Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage was a leading group for women's rights in Scotland. It was one of the first three suffrage societies to be formed in Britain. History The Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society was at one time ...

Edward Caird Edward Caird (; 23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher. He was a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt. Life The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & ...

(1835–1908) – founder member of the

Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage The Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage was an organisation involved in campaigning for women’s suffrage, based in Glasgow, with members from all over the west of Scotland. Formation The association met for t ...

Mona Caird Alice Mona Alison Caird (née Alison; 24 May 1854 – 4 February 1932) was an English novelist and essayist. Her feminist writings and views caused controversy in the late 19th century. She also advocated for animal rights and civil liberties, a ...

(1854–1932) – English novelist and essayist who wrote in support of women's suffrage *

Mabel Capper Mabel Henrietta Capper (23 June 1888 – 1 September 1966) was a British suffragette. She gave all her time between 1907 and 1913 to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as a 'soldier' in the struggle for women's suffrage. She was imp ...

(1888–1966) – activist in the

; imprisoned many times, and force-fed *

Isabella Carrie Isabella Scrimgeour Carrie (3 May 1878 – 29 November 1981) was a Scottish suffragette and schoolteacher. She became a suffragette after bouncers threw her out of a meeting where Winston Churchill was speaking. She was said to have remarked, ...

(1878–1981) – schoolteacher and safe house keeper for the

* Dorothea Chalmers Smith (1874–1944) – doctor and suffragist *

Georgina Fanny Cheffins Georgina Fanny Cheffins (1863 – 29 July 1932) was an English militant suffragette who on her imprisonment in 1912 went on hunger strike for which action she received the Hunger Strike Medal from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) ...

(1863–1932) – arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway, force-fed *

Jane Clapperton Jane Hume Clapperton (22 September 1832 – 30 September 1914) was a British philosopher, birth control pioneer, socialist, social reformer and suffragist. Life Her father was Alexander Clapperton (d. 1849) and mother Anne Clapperton (née ...

(1832–1914) – philosopher, birth control pioneer, social reformer and suffragist *

Alice Clark Alice Clark may refer to: * Alice Clark (historian), British feminist and historian * Alice Clark (singer), American soul singer See also * Alice Clarke, English cricketer {{hndis, Clark, Alice ...

(1874-1934), served on the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies *

Mary Jane Clarke Mary Jane Clarke (''née'' Goulden; 1862– 1910), was a British suffragette. She died on Christmas Day 1910 two days after being released from prison where she had been force fed. She was described in her obituary by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence ...

(1862–1910) – arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway, force-fed *

Anne Clough Anne Jemima Clough (20 January 182027 February 1892) was an early English suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women. She was the first principal of Newnham College. Life Clough was born at Liverpool, Lancashire, the daughter of c ...

(1820–1892) – teacher and promoter of higher education for women *

Lila Clunas Lila Clunas (born Maggie Eliza Clunas, 10 August 1876 – 29 December 1968) was a Scottish suffragette, educator, and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party councillor. She was known as one of the leading suffragettes in Dundee. Biography Early ...

(1876–1968) – Scottish suffragette and Labour party councillor *

Jane Cobden Emma Jane Catherine Cobden (28 April 1851 – 7 July 1947), known as Jane Cobden, was a British Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes. A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an earl ...

(1851–1947) – Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes; co-founder of the

Women's Franchise League The Women's Franchise League was a British organisation created by the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst together with her husband Richard and others in 1889, fourteen years before the creation of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. The Pr ...

Leonora Cohen Leonora Cohen (; 15 June 1873 – 4 September 1978) was a British suffragette and trade unionist, and one of the first female magistrates. She was known as the "Tower Suffragette" after smashing a display case in the Tower of London and acted ...

(1873–1978) – militant British suffragette and trade unionist; bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst *

Florence Annie Conybeare Florence Annie Conybeare (13 September 1872 – 29 February 1916) was a British campaigner for the Women's Suffrage movement.''Women's Suffrage: Some Objections Answered'', an article written by Florence A.V. Conybeare, i''The Commonwealth & Empire ...

(1872–1916) – campaigned in support of women's suffrage, organized a meeting of the

Selina Cooper Selina Cooper Selina Jane Cooper (née Coombe; 4 December 1864 – 11 November 1946) was an English suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian. Early life ...

(1864–1946) – textile mill worker, local magistrate, member of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage *

Catherine Corbett Catherine Isobel Ida Corbett ( Vans Agnew; 1869–1950) was a British suffragette, one of those imprisoned and awarded the Hunger Strike Medal, for the cause of the Women's Social and Political Union. Life Catherine Corbett was born Catherin ...

(1869-1950) - British suffragette *

Jessie Craigen Jessie Hannah Craigen (''c''.1835–5 October 1899), was a working-class suffrage speaker in a movement which was predominantly made up of middle and upper-class activists. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for ...

(c. 1835–1899) – working-class suffragist who gave speeches all around the country * Muriel Craigie (1889 - 1971) - Scottish suffragist, and war volunteer organiser *

Virginia Mary Crawford Virginia Mary Crawford (20 November 1862 -1948) was a British Catholic suffragist, feminist, journalist and author, cited in the publicised Dilke scandal and divorce in 1886, founder of the ''Catholic Women's Suffrage Society''. Life and caree ...

(1862–1948) – Catholic suffragist, journalist and author, a founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society. *

Helen Crawfurd Helen Crawfurd ( Jack, later Anderson; 9 November 1877 – 18 April 1954) was a Scottish suffragette, rent strike organiser, Communist activist and politician. Born in Glasgow, she was brought up there and in London. Biography Born Helen Jack ...

(1877–1954) – suffragette,

rent strike A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants come together and agree to refuse to pay their rent ''en masse'' until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord. This ca ...

organiser and

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

activist Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...

* Maud Crofts (born 1889) – suffragist, author and first woman accepted as a

solicitor A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions. A person must have legally-defined qualifications, which vary from one jurisdiction to another, to be described as a solicitor and ...

Mary Crudelius Mary Crudelius (née McLean) (23 February 1839 – 24 July 1877) was a British campaigner for women's education who lived in Leith, Edinburgh in the 1860s and 1870s, and was a supporter of women's suffrage. She was a founder of the Edinburgh ...

(1839–1877) – early supporter of women's suffrage and campaigner for women's education * Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) – was a Scottish poet and suffragette *

Emily Davies Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is remembered above all as a co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton Coll ...

(1830–1921) – co-founder of Kensington Society and Britain's first women's college, Girton College, Cambridge University *

Emily Wilding Davison Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Polit ...

(1872–1913) – militant activist, key member of the

, died in a protest action at a racetrack * Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879 - 1978), suffragist, volunteer war nurse, and early leader of

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John McAusland Denny Colonel John McAusland Denny (29 November 1858 – 9 December 1922) was a Scottish businessman and Conservative Party politician. Denny was born in Helenslee, Dumbarton, one of eight sons of Dr. Peter Denny. His grandfather William Denny fo ...

(1858–1922) Scottish businessman, Conservative Party politician and founder member of the

(1844–1939) – novelist, Sinn Féin activist, co-founder of the

Agnes Dollan Agnes Johnston Dollan Order of the British Empire, MBE ( Moir; 16 August 1887 – 16 July 1966), also known as Agnes, Lady Dollan, was a Scottish suffragette and political activist. She was a leading campaigner during the Glasgow rent st ...

(1887–1966) – Scottish suffragette, political activist and pacifist *

Violet Mary Doudney Violet Mary Doudney (5 March 1889 – 14 January 1952) was a teacher and militant suffragette who went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison where she was force-fed. She was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal by the Women's Social and Political U ...

(1889–1952) – teacher and militant suffragette *

Katherine Douglas Smith Katherine Douglas Smith (1878 – after 1947) was a militant British suffragette and from 1908 a paid organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was also a member of the International Suffrage Club. Activism Douglas Smit ...

(1878–) – militant suffragette and WSPU organiser *

Flora Drummond Flora McKinnon Drummond (née Gibson) (born 4 August 1878, Manchester – died 17 January 1949, Carradale), was a British suffragette. Nicknamed 'The General' for her habit of leading Women's Rights marches wearing a military style uniform 'wit ...

(1878–1949) – organiser for

, imprisoned nine times for her activism in Women's Suffrage movement, inspiring orator *

Marion Wallace Dunlop Marion Wallace Dunlop (22 December 1864 – 12 September 1942) was a Scottish artist and author. She was the first and one of the most well known British suffragettes to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 fo ...

(1864–1942) – artist and suffragette *

Elsie Duval Elsie Diederichs Duval (1892–1919) was a British suffragette. She was arrested many times throughout her life and in 1913 became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill He ...

(1892–1919) – member of

and first woman released under the

Cat and Mouse Act The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act, commonly referred to as the Cat and Mouse Act, was an Act of Parliament passed in Britain under H. H. Asquith's Liberal government in 1913. Some members of the Women's Social and Political ...

* Louise Eates (1877-1944) - was a British suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist. *

Maude Edwards Maude Edwards was a Scottish feminist and suffragette. She was imprisoned in Perth Prison in 1914 for slashing John Lavery’s portrait of King George V hanging in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. She was force-fed in prison despite h ...

– suffragette *

(1878–1961) – prominent member of the

; imprisoned three times *

Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy (died 12 March 1918) was a life-long campaigner and organiser, significant in the history of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She wrote essays and some poetry, using the pseudonyms E and Ignota. Early ...

(1833–1918) – public speaker and writer; formed the first British suffragist society, first paid employee of the British Women's Movement *

Dorothy Evans Dorothy Elizabeth Evans (6 May 1888 – 28 August 1944) was a British feminist activist and suffragette. On the eve of World War I she was a militant organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union twice arrested in Belfast on explosiv ...

(1888–1944) – activist and organiser, worked for

in England and the north of Ireland; imprisoned several times * Kate Williams Evans (1866–1961) – suffragette * Caprina Fahey (1883–1959) – received the

Women's Social and Political Union The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1918. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership an ...

(WSPU)

Hunger Strike Medal The Hunger Strike Medal was a silver medal awarded between August 1909 and 1914 to suffragette prisoners by the leadership of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). During their imprisonment, they went on hunger strike while serving t ...

"for Valour" in 1914 * Margaret Milne Farquharson (1884-c1936) - Scottish suffragette, MP candidate and leader of the National Political League campaigning for Palestine. *

Millicent Fawcett Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English politician, writer and feminist. She campaigned for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, women's suffrage by Law reform, legal change and in 1897– ...

(1847–1929) – feminist, writer, political and union leader; president of the

* Helen Fraser (1881–1979) – suffragist, speaker and artist *

Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the tr ...

(1780–1845) – prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist *

Edith Margaret Garrud Edith Margaret Garrud (''née'' Williams; 1872–1971) was a British martial artist, suffragist and playwright. She was the first British female teacher of jujutsu and one of the first female martial arts instructors in the western world. ...

(1872–1971) – first trainer of 'the Bodyguard', formed in response to the

Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld ( - 1941) was a leading suffrage campaigner in Edinburgh devoted to working for women’s franchise for many years, convening meetings, taking part in the Women’s March from Edinburgh to London, working with some of ...

(c.1863 - 1941) - suffrage campaigner based in Edinburgh * Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – journalist, lecturer and militant suffragette for the WSPU *

Mary Gawthorpe Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe (12 January 1881 – 12 March 1973) was an English suffragette, socialist, trade unionist and editor. She was described by Rebecca West as "a merry militant saint". Life Gawthorpe was born in Woodhouse, Leeds to John Ga ...

(1881–1973) – socialist, trade unionist, editor, active in the suffrage movement in both England and the United States *

Ellison Scotland Gibb Ellison Scotland Gibb (6 March 1879 – 1970) was a Scottish suffragette and chess player. She was an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union. In 1910, she was appointed as the honorary secretary of the Actresses' Franchise Leagu ...

(1879–1970) – suffragette and

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player *

Margaret Skirving Gibb Margaret Skirving Gibb (1877–1954) was a Scottish suffragette and chess player. She was involved in several suffragette activities including slashing a portrait of one of the founders of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 1914. Invol ...

(1877–1954) – suffragette and

player * Marion Gilchrist (1864–1952) – doctor and suffragist *

Helga Gill Helga Gill (1885-1928) was a Norwegian-British suffragette. She was an organiser for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and campaigned on behalf of Women's Suffrage across the UK. Early life Helga Gill was born in 1885 in Bergen, ...

(1885–1928) – Norwegian-born British suffragist who spoke at meetings * Katie Edith Gliddon (1883–1967) – watercolour artist and militant suffragette. *

Frances Gordon Frances Graves aka Frances Gordon (born around 1874) was a British suffragette who became prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement prior to the First World War and was imprisoned and force-fed for her actions. ...

(born c. 1874) – prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement; imprisoned and force-fed *

Gerald Gould Gerald Gould (1885 – 2 November 1936) was an English writer, known as a journalist and reviewer, essayist and poet. Life He was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and brought up in Norwich, and studied at University College London and Magdalen C ...

(1885–1936) – writer, known as a journalist, reviewer, essayist, and poet; co-founder of

Mary Pollock Grant Mary Pollock Grant (2 December 1876 - August 1957), also known as Marion Pollock, was a Scottish suffragette,A Guid Cause: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland, by Leah Leneman (1991) Liberal Party politician, missionary and policewoman. ...

(1876–1957) – Scottish suffragette,

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politician, missionary and policewoman. *

Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie or Laura Grey (1889–1914) was a British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Life Guthrie was born in 1889 in Caistor, Lincolnshire Suffragist Guthrie joined the WSPU at the ...

(1889-1914) - British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union *

Elsa Gye Elsa Gye (1881–1943) was a music student at Guildhall who became a suffragette and involved in disruptive events in London and Scotland and was imprisoned for the cause of women's suffrage. She married the brother of fellow suffragette Dais ...

(1881–1943) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned for the cause, led

branches in Nottingham and Newcastle *

Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (Laura Grey) Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie or Laura Grey (1889–1914) was a British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Life Guthrie was born in 1889 in Caistor, Lincolnshire Suffragist Guthrie joined the WSPU at the ...

(1888–1914) – suffragette and actress, imprisoned for window smashing *

Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1883 – 5 September 1967) was an English actress, lecturer, writer, and suffragist. Early life Beatrice Forbes-Robertson was born in England, the daughter of Gertrude Knight and Ian Forbes-Robertson, and the gran ...

(1883–1967) – actress, lectured and wrote on women's rights * Edith Hacon (1875 - 1952) suffragist from

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, World War One nursing volunteer and international socialite *

Florence Haig Florence Eliza Haig (1856–1952) was a Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes. Biography Haig was born in 1856. Her father was a Berwickshire barrister and she had two sisters, Cecilia and Evelyn. ...

(1856–1952) was a Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes. *

Cicely Hale Cicely Bertha Hale (5 September 1884 – June 1981) was an English suffragette, health visitor, and author. In 1908, having been inspired by hearing Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst speak, she became an assistant to Mary Howe in the ...

(1884–1981) – health visitor and author; worked for the

and ''The Suffragette'' *

Nellie Hall Nellie Hall (1895 – 26 July 1976), later known as Nell Hall-Humpherson, was a British suffragette, arrested and imprisoned several times for her activities with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Early life Nellie Hall was bor ...

(1895–1929) – god-daughter of

Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst ('' née'' Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an English political activist who organised the UK suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, ''Time'' named her as one of the 100 Most Impo ...

, member of the

; imprisoned twice * Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890–1982) *

Cicely Hamilton Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist ...

(1872–1952) – actress, writer, journalist, feminist * Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon (1857–1939) – author, philanthropist, and an advocate of woman's interests *

Marion Coates Hansen Marion Coates Hansen (''née'' Coates; 3 June 1870 – 2 January 1947) was an English feminist and women's suffrage campaigner, an early member of the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a founder member of the Women's Freedom ...

(1870–1947) – early member of the

, co-founder of the

Keir Hardie James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908. Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. ...

(1856–1915) – Scottish founder of the Labour Party, later a campaigner for women's suffrage *

Emily J. Harding Emily Jane Harding Andrews (1850–1940) was a British artist, illustrator and suffragette. She was a member of the Artists' Suffrage League. Early life Harding was born in 1850 in Bristol, England. She studied at Clifton Ladies' College and th ...

(1850–1940) – British artist, illustrator and suffragette * Lillian Mary Harris (1887-1964) - English militant suffragette *

Jane Ellen Harrison Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar and linguist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology. She ...

(1850–1928) – linguist, feminist, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology, supporter of women's suffrage *

Evelina Haverfield Evelina Haverfield ( Scarlett; 9 August 1867 – 21 March 1920) was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage organisation the Women's Social and Pol ...

(1867–1920) – aid worker and nurse in WWI, member of the

, arrested several times *

Annie Elizabeth Helme Annie Elizabeth Helme (1874-1963) was the first female mayor of the City of Lancaster The City of Lancaster () is a local government district of Lancashire, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after ...

– suffragist, JP, first female mayor of Lancaster in 1932. * Mary H. J. Henderson (1874 - 1938) - honorary secretary of Dundee Women's Suffrage Society, and administrator with

Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Services (SWH) was founded in 1914. It was led by Dr. Elsie Inglis and provided nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, cooks and orderlies. By the end of World War I, 14 medical units had been outfitted an ...

Margaret Hills Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist. She was first female councillor on Stroud Urban District Council and later served as a Councillor on Gloucestershire County Counci ...

(1882–1967) – teacher, public speaker, feminist and socialist; organizer of the NUWSS Election Fighting Fund * Edith Mary Hinchley (1870–1940) – artist and member of the Women's Freedom League * Reverend

Claude Hinscliff Reverend Claude Hinscliff (1875–1964) was a British suffragist. Education and early career Hinscliff studied for his licentiate in theology at Durham University. He matriculated in 1893 and was awarded a scholarship after performing well in t ...

(1875–1964) – founder of the nglican Church League for Women's Suffrage *

Emily Hobhouse Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, anti-war activist, and pacifist. She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions in ...

(1860–1926) – exposed the squalid conditions in concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War; active in the

People's Suffrage Federation The People's Suffrage Federation (The PSF) was a British Adult Suffrage organisation. Led by the former Co-operative Women's Guild general secretary Margaret Llewelyn Davies, it was created in 1909 by a merger of the Co-operative Women's Guild and ...

Olive Hockin Olive Hockin (married name Olive Leared) (1881–1936) was a British suffragette, arsonist, author and artist. Life Between 1904 and 1911 she studied at the Slade. Her work was shown at the Royal Academy, by the Society of Women Artists and ...

(1881–1936) – artist and author; imprisoned after arson attacks suspected to be suffragette-related *

Winifred Holtby Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel '' South Riding'', which was posthumously published in 1936. Biography Holtby was born to a prosperous farming family in ...

(1898–1935) – feminist, socialist, and writer, including a new voters guide for women in 1929 * Edith Sophia Hooper (1868–1926) – suffragist and biographer of Josephine Butler *

Winifred Horrabin Winifred Horrabin, née Batho (1887–1971), was a British socialist activist and journalist. She was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 9 August 1887, daughter of Arthur John Batho, a postal telegraph clerk, and his wife Lilian, ...

(1887–1971) – socialist activist, journalist, member of the

* Clemence Housman (1861–1955) – author, illustrator, co-founder of the

Suffrage Atelier Suffrage Atelier was an artists' collective campaigning for women's suffrage in England. It was founded in February 1909 by Laurence Housman, Clemence Housman and Alfred Pearse. Clemence was a writer, illustrator, and wood engraver, and her brot ...

Laurence Housman Laurence Housman (; 18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his ...

(1865–1959) – playwright, writer, illustrator, co-founder of the

* Elizabeth How-Martyn (1875–1954) – member of the

and co-founder of the

Ellen Hughes Ellen Hughes (1867–1927) was a Welsh-language writer, temperance reformer and suffragist from Llanengan in North Wales. Strongly influenced by Sarah Jane Rees, she had a poem published in the Welsh-language women's periodical ''Y Frythones'' i ...

(1867–1927) – Welsh writer, poet, suffragist * Florence Hull (born 1878) – suffragette, member of

, imprisoned in January 1913 *

Agnes Husband Agnes Husband (20 May 1852 – 30 April 1929) was one of Dundee's first female councillors and was a suffragette. She was awarded Freedom of the City at the age of 74 and has a plaque to her memory in the Dundee City Chambers and a portrait by ...

(1852–1929) – Scottish politician and suffragette *

Elsie Inglis Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was a Scottish doctor, surgeon, teacher, Women's suffrage, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the ...

(1864–1917) – Scottish doctor, secretary of the

* Margaret Irwin (1858–1940) – trade unionist, suffragist and founder member of the

* Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) – writer and suffragette *

Maud Joachim Maud Joachim (1869 – 1947) was born in 1869 and was educated at Girton College., she was one of the groups of suffragettes that fought to grant women the right to vote in the U.K., she was jailed several times for her protests. Activism She ...

(1869–1947) – suffragette * Jessie Keppie (1868 - 1951) - artist and subscriber to the

Ellen Isabel Jones Ellen Isabel Jones (born Ellen Isabel Cotton; – 1946) was an English suffragette. Ellen, known as "Nell", was a close associate of Emmeline Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst, leaders of the Suffragette movement. She was also an acquaint ...

(d.1948) – suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts *

Helena Jones Helena Gertrude Jones (14 July 1870 – 4 September 1946) was a British doctor and suffragette who campaigned for women's vote during the early twentieth century. Although sharing the platform with many notable suffragists, including Emmeline ...

(1870–1946) – Welsh doctor and member of the WSPU, later critical of Emmeline Pankhurst *

Mabel Jones Mabel Jones (c. 1865–1923) was a British physician and a sympathizer to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Medical career Trained in London and from 1898, she worked in a practice with her fellow student, Dr Helen Boyle in Brig ...

(1865–1923) – doctor and suffragette *

Annie Kenney Ann "Annie" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie ...

(1879–1953) – leading figure in the

Jessie Kenney Jessica "Jessie" Kenney (1887 – 1985) was an English suffragette who was jailed for assaulting the Prime Minister and Home Secretary in a protest to gain suffrage for women in the UK. Details of a bombing campaign to support their cause were ...

(1887–1985) – leading suffragette, assaulted the British prime minister and the Home Secretary at golf course * Nell Kenney (1876–1953) – suffragette * Jessie Keppie (1868–1951) – artist and subscriber to

Alice Stewart Ker Alice Stewart Ker or Alice Jane Shannan Ker MRCPI (2 December 1853 – 20 March 1943) was a Scottish physician, health educator, and suffragette. She was the 13th woman on the registry of the British Medical Association. Early life and educ ...

(1853–1943) – doctor, health educator and suffragette * Edith Key (1872–1937) – secretary-organiser of the

, Huddersfield branch, and author of the only surviving regional WSPU minute book * Mary Stewart Kilgour (1851–1955) – educationalist and writer, co-founder of the Union of Practical Suffragists *

Adelaide Knight Adelaide Knight, also known as Eliza Adelaide Knight, (1871–1950), was a British suffragette. Biography Born in Tower Hamlets in 1871, Eliza Adelaide ("Addy") Knight was a frail child, born with deformed thumbs, who had two accidents in ch ...

, (1871–1950) – secretary for the

in Canning TownAdelaide Knight, leader of the first east London suffragettes – East End Women's Museum
/ref> * Anne Knight (1786–1862) – social reformer, pioneer of feminism, early suffragette and pamphleteer *

Annie Knight , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 154 British citizens who have become " supercentenarians", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age. This number including 23 emigrants who died in other nations. The ...

(1895–2006) – suffragette in Aberdeen Scotland *

Aeta Adelaide Lamb Aeta Adelaide Lamb (1886–June 1928) was one of the longest serving organizers in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the leading militant organization campaigning for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. Early life and education ...

(1886–1928) – longest serving organiser in the

George Lansbury George Lansbury (22 February 1859 – 7 May 1940) was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929–31, he spe ...

(1859–1940) – social reformer and politician who allied himself with the

* Jennie Lee (1904–1988) – Scottish politician, elected MP aged 24 in 1929

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

before suffrage was extended to women under 30 * Harriet Leisk (1853 - 1921) - chair of the

Shetland Women's Suffrage Society The Shetland Women's Suffrage Association was an organisation involved in campaigning for women’s suffrage, based in Shetland. Formation The association was formed in 1909. Their first meeting was held in the home of Christina Jamieson on 23 ...

* Lilian Lenton (1891–1972) – active member of the

, winner of a French Red Cross for her service in WWI * Victoria Lidiard (1889–1992) – WPSU member and reputed to be the longest surviving British Suffragette * Anna Lindsay (activist) (1845 - 1903), Scottish women's rights activist *

Thomas Martin Lindsay Thomas Martin Lindsay FRSE (1843–1914) was a Scottish historian, professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow. He wrote chiefly on church history, his major works including ''Luther and the German Reformation'' (1900), and ''A His ...

(1843–1914) – Scottish historian, professor and founder member of the

Louisa Lumsden Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden (31 December 1840 – 2 January 1935) born in Aberdeen, Scotland, was a pioneer of female education. Lumsden was one of the first five students Hitchen College, later Girton College, Cambridge in 1869 and one of the fi ...

(1840 - 1935) - pioneer of female education and suffrage speaker *

Kathleen Lyttelton Mary Kathleen Lyttelton (''née'' Clive; 27 February 1856 – 12 January 1907) was a British activist, editor and writer. She devoted much of her life to fighting for women's suffrage and for the improvement of women's lives in general. After ...

(1856–1907) – women's activist, editor and writer * Lady

Constance Lytton Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton (12 February 1869 – 2 May 1923), usually known as Constance Lytton, was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control. Sh ...

(1869–1923) – speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control *

Florence Macfarlane Florence Geraldine Macfarlane aka "Muriel Muir" (5 October 1867 – 28 October 1944) was a nurse, militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham ...

(1867–1947) – nurse and militant member of the WSPU * Margaret Mackworth (1883–1958) – activist and director of more than thirty companies * Sarah Mair (1846–1941) – campaigner for women's education and suffrage *

Lavinia Malcolm Lavinia Malcolm ''nee'' Lavinia Laing (c. 1847 – 2 November 1920) was a Scottish suffragist and local Liberal politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and one of the first women 'mayors' in the UK, as th ...

(1847–1920) – Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and the first woman Lord Provost of a Scottish burgh town, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire *

Flora Masson Flora Masson Royal Red Cross, RRC (1856 – 1937) was a Scottish-born nurse, suffragist, writer and editor. Early life Flora Masson was born in Edinburgh. She was first of three daughters of professor David Masson and suffrage campaigner E ...

(1856-1937) - nurse, suffragist, writer and editor *

Edith Mansell Moullin Edith Mansell-Moullin (September 1858–5 March 1941) was an English suffragist of Welsh heritage and social activist. Proud of her Welsh roots, she founded the Cymric Suffrage Union, which was dedicated to gaining women's suffrage for Welsh wo ...

(1859–1941) – suffragist, settlement worker, and Welsh feminist organisation founder *

Kitty Marion Kitty Marion 12 March 1871 – 9 October 1944) was born Katherina Maria Schäfer in Germany. She emigrated to London in 1886 when she was fifteen, and she grew to minor prominence when she sang in music halls throughout the United Kingdom during ...

(1871–1944) – actress and political activist *

Dora Marsden Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 – 13 December 1960) was an English suffragette, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language. Beginning her career as an activist in the Women's Social and Political Union, Marsden eventually broke ...

(1882–1960) – anarcho-feminist, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language *

Charlotte Marsh Charlotte Augusta Leopoldine Marsh (3 March 1887 – 21 April 1961), known as Charlie Marsh, was a militant British suffragette. She was a paid organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union and is one of the first women to be force fed d ...

(1842–1909) – joined the

in March 1907, set up the Independent WSPU in March 1916 *

Selina Martin Selina Martin (21 November 1882 – 1972) was a member of the suffragette movement in the early 20th century. She was arrested several times. Her Hunger Strike Medal given 'for Valour' by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was sold at ...

(1882–1972) – activist *

Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (; 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist, focusing on race relations within much of her published material.Michael R. Hill (2002''Harriet Martineau: Theoretic ...

(1802–1876) – social theorist and writer *

Eleanor Marx Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist who sometimes worked as a ...

(1855–1898) – activist and translator *

(1856–1937) – nurse, editor and writer *

Helen Matthews Helen Matthews, real name probably Helen Matthew ( – ), also known by her pseudonym Mrs Graham, was a Scottish footballer, artist, and suffragette. Matthew (or Graham) is known as a leading player and team captain from the 1890s, and for rec ...

– Scottish suffragette and women's footballer * Isabella Fyvie Mayo (1843–1914) – poet, novelist, suffragist, and reformer * Mary Macarthur (1880–1921) – general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federation of Women Workers and

National Anti-Sweating League The National Anti-Sweating League is the name adopted by two groups of social reformers in Australia and Britain at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both campaigned against the poor conditions endured by many workers in so-ca ...

* Ann Macbeth (1875–1948) – artist and suffragist * Lilly Maxwell (1800–1876) suffragist * Elspeth McClelland (1879–1920) – architect and suffragette, 'human letter' sent with Daisy Solomon * Janet McCallum (1881–1946) – trade unionist and suffragist *

(1980-1955) – Belfast WSPU militant, pacifist, co-operatist. *

(1871-1944) – feminist writer (" L.A.M. Priestley"), Belfast WSPU militant, refused wartime political truce with the government. *

Agnes Syme Macdonald Agnes Syme Macdonald (8 September 1882 – 21 October 1966) was a Scottish suffragette who served as the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) before setting up the Edinburgh Women Citizens Associatio ...

(1882–1966) – Scottish suffragette who served as the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the WSPU before setting up the Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (WCA) in 1918 *

Louisa Macdonald Louisa Macdonald (10 December 1858 – 28 November 1949) was an educationist and women's suffragist. Early life and education Louisa Macdonald was born in 1858 in Arbroath, Scotland, the eleventh child of Ann (née Kid) and John Macdonald, to ...

(1858 - 1949) - educationalist and suffragist *

Agnes McLaren Agnes McLaren (4 July 1837 – 17 April 1913) FRCPI was a respected Scottish doctor who was one of the first to give medical assistance to women in India who, because of custom, were unable to access medical help from male doctors. Agnes was a ...

(1837–1913) – doctor and secretary of the

alongside her stepmother, Priscilla Bright McLaren * Alice McLaren (1860–1945) – doctor, Gynecologist, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights * Eva McLaren (1852–1921) – suffragist, writer, and political campaigner * Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – anti-slavery activist, Scottish suffragist, founder and president of

* Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937) – politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist * Frances McPhun (1880–1940) – suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Margaret McPhun * Margaret McPhun (1876–1960) – suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Frances McPhun * Frances Melville (1873–1962) – suffragist, advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, and one of the first women to matriculate at the University of Edinburgh *

(1871-1954) – bombed Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, WSPU Hunger Strike medalist. * Jessie C. Methven (1854–1917) – Scottish suffragist, suffragette, honorary secretary of

, joined

1906 * Alice Meynell (1847–1922) – editor, writer, and poet * Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858) – philosopher and women's rights advocate * John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) – philosopher, political economist, and civil servant * Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956) – activist * Dora Montefiore (1851–1933) – activist and writer * Ethel Moorhead (1869–1955) – painter * Graham Moffat (1866–1951) – actor, director, playwright and spiritualist. Husband of Maggie Moffat and founder of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage (United Kingdom), Men's League for Women's Suffrage * Maggie Moffat (1873–1943) – British actor and suffragette, wife of Graham Moffat * Ethel Moorhead (1869–1955) – suffragette and painter * Anna Munro (1881–1962) – activist * Mary Murdoch (Hull), Mary Murdoch (1864 - 1916) - physician and suffragist * Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – suffragist, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918 * Flora Murray (1869–1923) – medical pioneer and activist * Frances Murray (suffragist), Frances Murray (1843–1919) – a suffragist raised in Scotland, an advocate of women's education, a lecturer in Scottish music and a writer * Sylvia Murray (1875–1955) – suffragette and author, the sister of suffragette Eunice Guthrie Murray * Margaret Mylne (1806–1892) – Scottish suffragette and writer * Jessie Newbery (1864-1948) - Scottish artist and embroiderer, member of the

* Mary Neal (1860–1944) – social worker and collector of English folk dances * Alison Roberta Noble Neilans (1884–1942) – activist, member of the executive committee of the Women's Freedom League * Margaret Nevinson (1858–1932) – JP, Poor Law guardian, playwright, member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage * Jessie Newbery (1864–1948) – artist and suffragist * Elizabeth Pease Nicholl (1807–1897) – abolitionist, anti-segregationist, suffragist, chartist and anti-vivisectionist * Helen Ogston – suffragette * Ada Nield Chew (1870–1945) – organiser * Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) – celebrated social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing * Emily Rosaline Orme (1835–1915) – member of the

* Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1866–1957) – Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights * Adela Pankhurst (1885–1961) – political organizer, co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement * Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – co-founder and leader of the

(1858–1928) – a main founder and the leader of the British Suffragette Movement * Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) – campaigner and anti-fascism activist * Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly imprisoned for her actions *Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery * Isabella Bream Pearce (1859–1929) – Scottish socialist propagandist and suffrage campaigner * Annie Seymour Pearson (born 1878) – work based suffrage activist who ran a safe house for suffragettes evading police * Edith Pechey (1845–1908) – campaigner for women's rights, involved in a range of social causes * Pleasance Pendred (1864–1948) – suffragette * Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867–1954) – member Suffrage Society, secretary

* Leonora Philipps (1862–1915) – Liberal suffragist, president of Welsh Union of Women's Liberal Associations and co-founder of the Pioneer Club (women's club), Pioneer Club * Caroline Philips (1874–1956) – feminist, suffragette and journalist * Catherine Pine (1864–1941) – nurse, suffragette * Isabella Potbury (1890–1965) – portrait painter, suffragette * Clara Rackham (1875–1966) – magistrate, prison reformer, factory inspector, long-serving alderman and city councillor in Cambridge * Jane Rae (1872–1959) – political activist, suffragette, councillor and Justice of the peace * Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946) – campaigner for women's rights * Marion Kirkland Reid (1815–1902) – feminist and writer * Mary Reid Macarthur, Mary Reid (1880–1921) – Scottish trades unionist * Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1955) – WSPU member, journalist, businesswoman, founder of the feminist periodical ''Time and Tide'' * Mary Richardson (1882–1961) – Canadian suffragette, arsonist, head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists * Edith Rigby (1872–1948) – founder of St. Peter's School, prominent activist * Margaret Hills, Margaret Robertson (1892–1967) – campaigner; organiser of the Election Fighting Fund * Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) – Ibsen actress, playwright, public speaker, novelist * Annot Robinson (1874–1925) – née Wilkie, nicknamed Annie, pacifist and suffragette * Rona Robinson (1881–1973) – suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry * Esther Roper (1868–1938) – social justice campaigner * Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (1872–1951) – MP, philanthropist, and suffragist * Lolita Roy – believed to have been an important organizer of the Women's Coronation Procession (a suffrage march in London) in 1911, and marched as part of it with either her sisters or her daughters * Agnes Royden (1876–1956) – preacher * Bertha Ryland (1882–1977) – militant suffragette * Myra Sadd Brown (1872–1938) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed * Amy Sanderson (suffragette), Amy Sanderson (born c1875-6) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned twice, executive member of Women's Freedom League, WFL * Margaret Sandhurst (1828–1892) – one of the first women elected to a city council in the United Kingdom * Jessie Saxby (1842-1940) - author, folklorist and suffragette * Arabella Scott (1886–1980) – Scottish suffragette who endured five weeks of solitary confinement in Perth prison and force feeding twice a day * Evelyn Sharp (suffragist) (1869–1955) – journalist on ''The Manchester Guardian'', short story writer, tax resister, founder of the

* Genie Sheppard (1863–1953) – medical doctor and militant suffragette * Alice Maud Shipley (1869–1951) – suffragist who went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison and who was force fed * Frances Simson (1854–1938) – suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh * May Sinclair (1863-1946) – member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League *

(1876–1948) – had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League, and the

(1892–1971) * Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) – composer, writer * Mary Anderson Snodgrass (1862–1945) – politician, suffragist and advocate for women's rights, member of the

* Ethel Snowden (1881–1951) – socialist, human rights activist, feminist politician * Jessie M. Soga (1870-1954) - Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist. She was described as the only black suffrage campaigner based in Scotland. * Daisy Solomon (1882–1978) – South African born, member of

, sent as 'human letter' with Elspeth McClelland, daughter of Georgiana Solomon * Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933) – Scottish member of the

, South African temperance activist * Mary Somerville (1780–1872) – science writer and polymath * Emma Sproson (1867–1936)- women's rights activist *

(1825-1910) - Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician & leading suffragist * Emily Spender (1841–1922) – novelist and suffragette * Lady

(1857–1943) – Scottish suffragist and tax resister * Jessie Stephen – (1893–1979) – working class suffragette and trade union activist * Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) – Scottish social reformer with interest in education for poor or neglected children * Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) – Scottish campaigner for women's university education, effective, well-organised nursing * Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – scholar, author, and campaigner for women's rights * Una Dugdale, Una Harriet Ella Stratford Duval (née Dugdale) (1879–1975) – suffragette and marriage reformer * Lucy Deane Streatfeild (1865–1950) – civil servant, social worker, one of the first female factory inspectors in UK * Ann Swaine (<1821–1883) – writer and advocate for women's higher education * Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – journalist, novelist and story writer * Helena Swanwick (1864–1939) – feminist, pacifist * Jane Taylour (1827–1905) – suffragist and women's movement campaigner * Janie Terrero (1858–1944) – militant suffragette * Dora Thewlis (1890–1976) – activist * Agnes Thomson (suffragist), Agnes Thomson (born 1846) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh

, missionary in India * Elizabeth Thomson (suffragist), Elizabeth Thomson (born 1848) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh

, hunger striker, missionary in India * Elizabeth Thompson (1846–1933) – prominent painter * Muriel Thompson (1875–1939) – World War I ambulance driver, racing driver and suffragist * Violet Tillard (1874–1922) – nurse, pacifist, supporter of conscientious objectors, relief worker *

(1836–1896) – Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner in the north of Ireland, helped women secure the municipal franchise in Belfast. * Catherine Tolson (1890–1924) – suffragette * Helen Tolson (1888–1955) – suffragette * Florence Tunks (1891–1985) – suffragette * Minnie Turner (1866–1948) – ran a guest house, the "Sea View", in Brighton *

(1864–1942) – suffragette went on hunger strike after being arrested for militancy * Olive Grace Walton (1886–1937) – suffragette * Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson (1900–1992) – child suffragette and piper * Mona Chalmers Watson (1872–1936) – physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain), Women's Army Auxiliary Corps * Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961) – political activist, magazine editor * Edith Splatt (1873?-1945) - dressmaker, journalist, councillor in Devon * Beatrice Webb (1858–1943) – sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian, social reformer * Vera Wentworth (1890–1957) – went to Holloway for the cause and was force fed. She door stepped and then assaulted the Prime Minister twice. She wrote "Three Months in Holloway". * Rebecca West (1892–1983) – author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer * Olive Wharry (1886–1947) – artist, arsonist * Eliza Wigham (1820–1899) – suffragist and abolitionist * Jane Wigham (1801–1888) – suffragist and abolitionist * Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) – politician, Member of Parliament, served as Minister of Education * Gertrude Wilkinson (1851–1929) – militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union * Laetitia Withall (1881–1963) – poet, author and militant suffragette * Celia Wray (1872–1954) – suffragette and architect * I.A.R. Wylie (1885–1959) – Australian writer, suffragette in UK, working on The Suffragette * Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – teacher, writer

United States

*Jane Kelley Adams (1852-1924) — educator; chair of the Woburn, Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League *Mary Newbury Adams (1837–1901) – suffragist and education advocate *Sadie L. Adams (1872–1945) – African-American suffragist and child welfare advocate *Jane Addams (1860–1935) – social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom *Edith Ainge (1873–1948) – member of

, Treasurer for NWP, jailed five times *Mary A. Ahrens (1836–after 1907) – Chicago lawyer, plaintiff in lawsuit to enforce 1891 suffrage law for school elections *Mary Long Alderson (1860–1937) – Montana suffragist *Nina E. Allender (1873–1957) – speaker, organizer and cartoonist *Naomi Anderson (born 1863) – black suffragist, temperance advocate *Mary Garard Andrews (1852-1936) - president, Nebraska Suffrage Association *Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association, one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment *Annie Arniel (1873–1924) – member of the

, arrested eight times in direct actions *Sarah Louise Arnold (1859-1943) - Massachusetts suffragist; first dean of Simmons College; national president, Girls Scouts *Helen Vickroy Austin (1829–1921) – journalist, horticulturist, suffragist *Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer *Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the National Woman Suffrage Association's press department *Eugenia M. Bacon (1853–1933) – suffragist *Adella Brown Bailey (1860–1937) – politician and suffragist *Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement *Bertha Hirsch Baruch – writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association *Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer *Octavia Williams Bates (1846–1911) – suffragist, clubwoman, author *Martia L. Davis Berry (1844-1894) – treasurer, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association *Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858-1923) – educator, lecturer, author; chair, Moral Education Department, Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, Boston Equal Suffrage Association *Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923) - Kentucky temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist *Alva Belmont (1853–1933) – founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage *Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885–1970), suffragist leader representing Colorado for the Women's Right to Vote *Kate Himrod Biggers (1849–1935) – president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association *Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist *Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York *Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – journalist, activist *Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – co-founder, with Lucy Stone, of the American Woman Suffrage Association *Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – founded ''Woman's Journal'' with Lucy Stone *Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist *Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913) – writer, suffragist, reformer *Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (1845–1937) – suffragist, reformer *Isabella Williams Blaney (1854–1933) – suffragist, politician *Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) – writer (contributor to ''History of Woman Suffrage''), founded Women's Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton *Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers *Anna Whitehead Bodeker (1826–1904) – leader of the earliest attempts to organize for suffrage in Virginia; co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia *Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist *Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs *Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) – professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham *Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) – suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers *Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education *Minerva Kline Brooks (1883–1929) – suffragist *Gertrude Foster Brown (1867–1956) – pianist, suffragette, author of ''Your vote and how to use it'' (1918) *Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister *Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist *Emeline S. Burlingame (1836–1923) – editor, evangelist, suffragist *Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party *Martha Callanan (1826–1901) – activist, editor and publisher of ''The Standard'', Iowa suffragist journal *Mary Edith Campbell (1876–1962) – first woman elected to the Board of Education in Cincinnati, Ohio *Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association *Susan E. Cannon Allen (1859–1935) – African American suffragist *Marion Hamilton Carter (1865–1937) – educator, journalist, suffragist author *Frances Jennings Casement (1840–1928) – voting advocate, married General John S. Casement, who lobbied for voting rights for women *Nettie Sanford Chapin (1830–1901) – represented Iowa at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention of 1893 *Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution * Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist *Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder *Mamie Claflin (1867-1929) – Nebraska temperance and suffrage leader; newspaper editor and publisher *Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution *Adele Goodman Clark (1882–1983) – artist, suffragist, and co-founder of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia *Laura Clay (1849–1941) – co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of

movement, active in the Democratic Party *Mary Barr Clay (1839–1924) – first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman's organization (American Woman Suffrage Association), and the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women's rights *Lillian Exum Clement (1894–1925) – first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States *H. Maria George Colby (1844–1910) – journalist, activist, suffragist *Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights *Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist *Mattie E. Coleman (1870–1943) – physician, suffragist *Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949) – chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the National Woman's Party, arrested during the "Watchfire for Freedom" demonstrations *Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement *Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes *Emma Amelia Cranmer (1858–1937) – reformer, suffragist, writer *Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) – first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association *Lucile Atcherson Curtis (1894–1986) – first woman in what became the US Foreign Service *Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915) – president, Woburn (Massachusetts) Equal Suffrage League; State lecturer, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association *Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1825–1889) – writer, translator, anti-suffragist *Lucinda Lee Dalton (1847–1925) – Mormon feminist and writer *Maria Thompson Daviess (1872–1924) – co-founder and vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Nashville, Tennessee; organizer of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Madison, Tennessee. *Carrie Chase Davis (1863–1953) – physician, suffragist *Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813–1876) – a founder of the New England Woman Suffrage Association; active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; co-arranged and presided at the first National Women's Rights Convention *Jesse Leech Davisson (1860–1940) – suffragist active in Ohio *Cornelia De Bey (1860–1948) – homeopath, politician, suffragist, educator *Emma Smith DeVoe (1848–1927) – leading Washington State suffragist, founded the National Council of Women Voters *Addie Whiteman Dickerson (1878–1940) – African American clubwoman and suffragist *Mamie Dillard (1874–1954) – African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist *Mary L. Doe (1836–1913) – first president of the Michigan State Equal Suffrage Association *Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) – journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist *Julia Dorsey (1850-1919) — African-American suffragist from Maryland *Eva Craig Graves Doughty (1852–1929) – president, Grand Rapids (Michigan) Equal Suffrage Association *Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) – African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman *Wilhelmine Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett (1861–1929) – Native Hawaiian suffragist, organized the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaii *Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955) – suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with Abby Crawford Milton and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution"Services For Mrs. Dudley To Be Held Thursday". Nashville Banner. 14 September 1955.Anastatia Sims (1998). "Woman Suffrage Movement". In Carroll Van West. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society. . *Marion Howard Dunham (1842–1921), teacher, temperance activist, Iowa suffragist *Abigail Scott Duniway (1834–1915) – women's rights advocate, editor, writer *Zara DuPont (1869–1946) – first vice president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association *Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) – lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist *Mary F. Eastman – educator, lecturer, writer, and suffragette *Max Eastman (1883–1969) – writer, philosopher, poet, prominent political activist *Sarah Stoddard Eddy (1831-1904) – social reformer, clubwoman; Massachusetts suffragist *Mary G. Charlton Edholm (1854–1935) – reformer and journalist *Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution *Julia Emory (1885–1979) – suffragist from Maryland *Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1848–1919) – Caribbean-American woman who was the treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association *Helga Estby (1860–1942) – Norwegian immigrant, noted for her walk across the United States during 1896 to save her family farm *Caroline McCullough Everhard (1843–1902) – American banker and suffragist, president of the Ohio Suffrage Association *Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937) – social reformer and suffragist *Elizabeth Hawley Everett (1857–1940), Recording Secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association *Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) – author and champion of progressive causes *Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate *Mary Fels (1863-1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist *Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919) – journalist, activist, suffragist *Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) – vice-president, Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association *Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) – active with the National Advisory Council, National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson *Margaret Foley (suffragist), Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – active with the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association *Jessica Garretson Finch – president of the New York Equal Franchise Society *Mariana Thompson Folsom (1845–1909) – Universalist minister and lecturer for Iowa Suffrage Association and Texas Equal Rights *Clara S. Foltz (1849–1934) – lawyer, sister of US Senator Samuel M. Shortridge *Nellie Griswold Francis (1874–1969) – founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group in Minnesota, civil rights and anti-lynching activist *Ellen Sulley Fray (1832–1903) – one of the district presidents of the Ohio Women's Suffrage Association *Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – Suffrage Hike participant *Antoinette Funk (1869–1942) – lawyer and executive secretary of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; supporter of the women's movement in WWI *Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – activist, freethinker, author *Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878–1970) – reformer, co-founder of the National League of Women Voters *Sallie Topkis Ginns (1880–1976) – inductee in the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women *Mary Tenney Gray (1833–1904) – writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, suffragist *Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speech, stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC *Jean Brooks Greenleaf (1832–1918) – president, New York State Suffrage Association (1890–96) *Cordelia A. Greene (1831-1905), physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association *Irene Griffin (activist), Irene W. Griffin (d. 2012) – first black woman to register to vote in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana *Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association *Sarah Moore Grimké, Sarah Grimke (1792–1873) – abolitionist, writer *Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb (1834–1902), temperance activist; Kansas suffragist *Eliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) – author, women's rights advocate *Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement *Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – social reformer, organiser and diplomat *Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper *Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – companion to Carrie Chapman Catt and suffrage organizer in New York *Gillette Hayden (1880–1929) – dentist and periodontistGillette Hayden, Nationally Acclaimed Woman Dentist, Dies, The Columbus Dispatch, 27 March 1929 pz 1 *Sallie Davis Hayden (1842–1907) – one of the founders of the suffrage movement in Arizona *Mary E. Smith Hayward (1842-1938) – businesswoman; honorary president of the Nebraska Equal Suffrage Association *Josephine K. Henry (1846–1928) – Progressive Era women's rights leader, social reformer and writer *Jane Lord Hersom (1840–1928) – physician; president, Portland, Maine Equal Suffrage Club *Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951) – social reformer, National Women's Party chairman in Connecticut. Graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Mother of Katharine Hepburn. *Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – activist *Helena Hill (1875–1958) – activist, geologist *Jennie Florella Holmes (1842-1892) — temperance activist; chair, executive committee, Nebraska State Suffrage Society *Mary Emma Holmes (1839-1937), reformer, educator; president, Equal Suffrage Association of Illinois *Edith Houghton Hooker (1879–1948) – activist, editor ''The Suffragist'' *Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – prominent abolitionist, social activist and poet *Emily Howland (1827–1929) – philanthropist, educator *Florence Frances Huberwald – singer, teacher, suffragist, national leader of the women's movement *Josephine Brawley Hughes (1839–1926) – established the Arizona Suffrage Association in 1891 *Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907) – author, suffragist *Addie Waites Hunton (1866–1943) – suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, educator *Cornelia Collins Hussey (1827–1902) – philanthropist, writer; left a bequest of to the National American Woman Suffrage Association *May Arkwright Hutton (1860–1915) – suffrage leader and labor rights advocate in the Pacific Northwest *Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970) – co-founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, active in National Woman's Party, wrote the party's history *Lucie Fulton Isaacs (1841-1916) — American writer, philanthropist; president of Walla Walla, Washington's suffrage association *Lottie Wilson Jackson (1854–1914) – painter and suffragist *Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906) – medical physician, teacher, scientist, and writer *Ada James (1876–1952) – social worker and reformer *Martha Waldron Janes (1832–1913) – minister, suffragist, columnist *Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs *Frances C. Jenkins (1826-1915) - evangelist, Quaker minister, social reformer; president, first equal suffrage organization in Kansas City, Missouri *Izetta Jewel (1883–1978) – stage actress, women's rights activist, politician and first woman to second the nomination of a presidential candidate at a major American political party convention *Laura M. Johns (1849–1935) – suffragist, journalist *Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) – sculptor who created a monument for suffragists in Washington D.C. *Harriet C. Johnson (1845–1907) – suffragist, educator *Lucy Browne Johnston (1846–1937) – president of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, and was involved in the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association *Maria I. Johnston (1835-1921) — author, journalist, editor and lecturer from Virginia *Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – Universalist minister and suffragist *Jane Elizabeth Jones (1813–1896) – suffragist, abolitionist, member of the early women's rights movement *Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819-1909) – black suffragist, abolitionist, and philanthropist *Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones" *Caroline Katzenstein (1888–1968) – suffragist and author from Philadelphia, helped form the National Woman's Party *Belle Kearney (1863–1939) – speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate *Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) – National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum) *Mary Morton Kehew (1859–1918) – labor/social reformer and suffragist from Boston *Eliza D. Keith (1854–1939) – educator, writer, journalist; founding member/officer, Susan B. Anthony Club, San Francisco, California *Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist *Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society *Elizabeth Thacher Kent (1868–1952) – feminist, suffragist, environmentalist *Harriette A. Keyser (1841-1936), industrial reformer, social worker, author; co-organizer, New York Woman Suffrage Association *Caroline Burnham Kilgore (1838–1909) – the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania *Janette Hill Knox (1845–1920) – vice-president of the Equal Suffrage Association of North Dakota; educator, temperance reformer *Sarah Knox-Goodrich (1826–1903) – women's rights activist from San Jose, California *Florence E. Kollock (1848–1925) – Universalist minister and lecturer *Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965) – civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitioner *Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne (1841–1904) – suffragist, founder of Virginia Suffrage Society *Mary Torrans Lathrap (1838–1895) – poet, preacher, suffragist, social reformer *Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee, Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) – first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, 8 November 1911 *Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community *Dora Lewis (1862–1928) – in 1913 became an executive member of the National Women's Party; in 1918 became their chairwoman of finance; in 1919 became their national treasurer; in 1920 headed their ratification committee *Miriam Leslie (1836–1914) – publisher, author; namesake of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission *Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) – organizer in South Dakota and Oregon; enlisted the support of Labor unions in the United States, labor unions *Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – journalist and advocate of women's rights *Sarah Hunt Lockrey (1863–1929) – physician and suffragist *Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club *Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) – architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists *Katherine Duer Mackay (1878–1930) – founder of the Equal Franchise Society * Theresa Malkiel (1874–1949) – labor organizer and suffragist *Arabella Mansfield (1846–1911) – first female lawyer in the United States, chaired the Iowa Women's Suffrage Convention in 1870, and worked with Susan B. Anthony *Ella M. S. Marble (1850-1929) – physician; president, Minnesota State Suffrage Association *Wenona Marlin – New York suffragist from Ohio *Anne Henrietta Martin (1875–1951) – Vice-chairman of National Woman's Party, arrested as a Silent Sentinels, Silent Sentinel, president Nevada Equal Franchise Society, first US woman to run for Senate *Ellen A. Martin (1847–1916) – first woman to successful cast a vote in Illinois in 1891, under a loophole in the local law *Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist *Catharine Waugh McCulloch(1862–1945) – Chicago lawyer, active in the Illinois 1913 effort and legal adviser for the National American Woman Suffrage Association *Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist *Mary Ann M'Clintock (1800–1884) – suffragist who helped plan the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention *Thomas M'Clintock (1792–1876) – abolitionist and suffragist, husband of Mary Ann M'Clintock *Nell Mercer (1893–1979) – member of the Silent Sentinels *Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) – journalist *Jane Hungerford Milbank (1871–1931) – author and poet *Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – key participant in the National Woman's Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 *Lucy Kennedy Miller, also known as Mrs. John O. Miller (1880–1962) – first president of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, and "the woman to whom, more than to any other" was "owe[d] the triumph of" women's suffrage in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. *Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement *Abby Crawford Milton (1881–1991) – traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution *Virginia Minor (1824–1894) – co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in ''Minor v. Happersett'' (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote *Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician *Lilla Day Monroe (1858–1929) – Kansas suffragist, lawyer *J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) – zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist *Mary L. Moreland (1859–1918) – minister, evangelist, suffragist, author *Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) – first female Justice of the Peace in the United States *Mary Foulke Morrisson (1879–1971) – organizer of 1916 suffrage parade in Chicago at the Republican national Convention; founder of chapters of the League of Women Voters *Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer *Martha H. Mowry (1818–1899) – Rhode Island physician and suffragist *Ella Uphay Mowry (1865–1923) – Kansas suffragist and the first female gubernatorial candidate in Kansas *Frances Munds, Frances Lillian Willard "Fannie" Munds (1866–1948) – leader of the suffrage movement in Arizona and member of the Arizona Senate *John Neal (writer), John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturer *A. Viola Neblett (1842–1897) – activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer *Anna E. Nicholes (1865-1917) – social reformer, civil servant, clubwoman; suffragist from Chicago *S. Grace Nicholes (1870-1922) - secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association *Frances Nacke Noel (1873–1963) – women's labor activist and suffragist *Mary A. Nolan (d. 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines *Eunice Rockwood Oberly (1878–1921) – librarian *Adelina Otero-Warren (1881–1965) – Congressional Union leader in New Mexico, to be honored on a 2022 American Women quarters, American Women quarter. *Sarah Massey Overton (1850–1914) – women's rights activist and black rights activist *Fanny Purdy Palmer (1839–1923) – secretary, Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association; author, lecturer, activist *Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG); worked for passage of the 19th Amendment *Alice Paul (1885–1977) – one of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of the National Woman's Party; initiator of the

and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913; author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment *Mary Hutcheson Page – Member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. 1910 President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. *Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton – civic leader and suffragist, organizer of the Colored Women's Republican Club of Roanoke, c. 1920 *Mary Gray Peck (1867–1957) – journalist, suffragist, clubwoman *Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins (1824-1905) - minister, social reformer, editor, author; president, Equal Franchise Club, Cleveland, Ohio *Juno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864–1954) – African-American suffragist *Helen Pitts Douglass, Helen Pitts (1838–1903) – active in women's rights movement and co-edited The Alpha *Livia Simpson Poffenbarger (1862–1937) – state director for the women's suffrage campaign in West Virginia *Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975) – photographer, served as National Chairman in the National Woman's Party *Cora Scott Pond Pope (1856-?), Massachusetts suffragist; teacher, pageant writer, real estate developer *Amalia Post (1836–1897) – largely instrumental in having the franchise granted women in Wyoming Territory by the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature in 1869. *Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) – philanthropist, heiress to the Post Cereal company fortune *Jennie Phelps Purvis (1831–1924) – writer, temperance reformer; secretary of the California state suffrage association *Mamie Shields Pyle (1866–1949) – suffrage leader in South Dakota *Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana. Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment. *Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) – first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio and the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930 *Harriet Redmond (c. 1862–1952) – Oregon suffragist *Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1897–1987) – author and lecturer *Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) – African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston *Emma Winner Rogers (1855–1922) – treasurer, National American Woman Suffrage Association; also writer, speaker *Joy Young Rogers (1891–1953) – assistant editor of the Suffragist *Ellen Alida Rose (1843–?) – Wisconsin agriculturist, suffragist *Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966) – birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer *Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) – African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor *Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968) – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem *Nina Samorodin (1892–1981) – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League *Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America *Annie Nowlin Savery (1831–1891) – English-born Iowa suffragist active from the 1860s *Julia Sears (1840–1929) – pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State University *Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883–1979) – author *May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – chairperson of the National Woman's Suffrage Association's executive committee from 1882 to 1890 *Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck (1850–1937), president of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts *Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915 *Mary Shaw (actress), Mary Shaw (1854–1929) – early feminist, playwright and actress *Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – co-founder and first president of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government *Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945) – writer, editor, suffragist *Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862–1939) – writer, suffragist *Katherine Call Simonds (1865–1946) – musician, author, suffragist *Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1879) – early American suffragist from Connecticut who campaigned for property and voting rights *Eliza Kennedy Smith, also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith (1889–1964) – suffragist, civic activist, and government watchdog in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and president of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters *Judith Winsor Smith (1821–1921) – president of the East Boston Woman Suffrage League *May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in Philosophy in the United States *The Smiths of Glastonbury – family of 6 women in Connecticut who were active in championing suffrage, property rights, and education for women *Louise Southgate, M.D. (1857–1941) – physician and suffragist in Covington, Kentucky, a leader in both the Ohio and the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and an early proponent for women's reproductive health *Caroline Spencer (suffragist), Caroline Spencer (1861–1928) – physician and suffragist; inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2006. *Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – initiator of the Seneca Falls Convention, author of the Declaration of Sentiments, co-founder of National Women's Suffrage Association, major pioneer of women's rights in America *Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920) – author, journalist, educator, editor, business owner, lecturer, inventor, poet, pioneer suffragist, and one of the two state delegates from the 1869 National Convention to attend the Victory Convention in 1920 *Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904) – first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association *Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901) – advocate of woman suffrage, as a speaker and writer *Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent

participant, author of ''Jailed for Freedom'' *Sara Yorke Stevenson (1847–1921) – archaeologist and Egyptologist, active in the Philadelphia suffrage movement *Jane Agnes Stewart (1860-1944), author, editor; inventor of the first equal rights calendar *Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – prominent orator, abolitionist, and a vocal advocate and organizer for the rights for women; the main force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal *Flora E. Strout (1867-1962) – Maryland delegate at American Woman Suffrage Association conventions *Adeline Morrison Swain (1820–1899) – first woman to run for public office in Iowa *Lucy Robbins Messer Switzer (1844–1922) – established the suffrage movement in eastern Washington *Beatrice Sumner Thompson (1874–1938) – African-American suffragist and education advocate *Helen Taft Manning, Helen Taft (1891–1987) – daughter of President William Howard Taft; traveled the nation giving pro-suffrage speeches *Lydia Taft (1712–1778) – first woman known to legally vote in colonial America *Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911) – wrote the lyrics to the National Suffrage Anthem *Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) – African-American educator, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, National Association of Colored Women's League *Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) – author, advocate for women's suffrage, education reform and social justice in Arkansas *Helen Rand Thayer (1863-1935) - member, Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Equal Suffrage Association *M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) – educator, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College *Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1872–1959) – author *Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcaster *Ella St. Clair Thompson (1870–1944) *Minnie J. Terrell Todd (1844–1929) – Nebraska suffragist *Elizabeth Richards Tilton (28 May 1834 – 13 April 1897) – suffragist, founder of the Brooklyn Women's Club, poetry editor of ''The Revolution'', hellish scandal *Augusta Lewis Troup (1848–1920) – women's rights activist and journalist who advocated for equal pay, better working conditions for women, and women's right to vote *Grace Wilbur Trout (1864–1955) – President of the Illinois Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, spearheaded the 1913 effort granting Illinois women the right to vote *Sojourner Truth (–1883) – Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, gave women's rights speech "Ain't I a Woman?" *Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) – African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil War *Lila Meade Valentine (1865–1921) – education and health care reformer, women's rights activist, and the first president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia *Narcissa Cox Vanderlip, née Mabel Narcissa Cox (1879–1966) – leading New York suffragist and co-founder of the New York State League of Women Voters *Amelie Veiller Van Norman (1844–1920), educator; president, Joan of Arc Suffrage League; vice-president, New York County Suffrage League; member, Suffrage Party, New York City *Mina Van Winkle (1875–1932) – crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the law enforcement and judicial process *Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the

*Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party *Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association *Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation *Elizabeth Lowe Watson (1842–1927), president, California Equal Suffrage Association *Emmeline B. Wells (1828–1921) – journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist *Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement *Lilian Welsh (1858–1938) – physician, educator, and advocate for women's health *Ruza Wenclawska (1889–1977) – factory inspector and trade union organizer *Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942) – playwright *Nettie L. White (c. 1850 – 1921), president of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association *Margaret Fay Whittemore (1884–1937) – vice-president of the National Woman's Party 1925 *Emma Howard Wight (1863–1935) – Virginia suffragist; author *Mary Holloway Wilhite (1831–1892) – physician, philanthropist; woman's suffrage and women's rights leader *Frances Willard (suffragist), Frances Willard (1839–1898) – leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writer *Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League *Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams (1880–1958) – suffragette from Texas; formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League *Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838-1913), social reformer; Kansas suffragist *Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944) – litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist *Emma Wold (1871–1950) – president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, later headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party *Clara Snell Wolfe (1872–1970) – 1st Vice Chairman National Woman's Party and Chairman Ohio Branch *Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (''Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,'') activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love

United States Virgin Islands

*Bertha C. Boschulte (1906–2004) – Secretary of the St. Thomas Teacher's Association, which sued for women's suffrage in the territory in 1935 *Edith L. Williams (1887–1987) – first woman to attempt to register to vote in the US Virgin Islands

Uruguay

*Paulina Luisi Janicki (1875–1949) – leader of the feminist movement in Uruguay, first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree in Uruguay (1909)

Venezuela

* Carmen Clemente Travieso

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Major suffrage organizations

* Alpha Suffrage Club – believed to be the first black Women's suffrage in the United States, women's suffrage association in the United States; began in Chicago, Illinois, in 1913 under the initiative of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Belle Squire * American Equal Rights Association – from 1866 to 1869, early attempt at a national organization by Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony and others * American Woman Suffrage Association – American suffrage organization formed in 1869 by Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell after a split in the American Equal Rights Association; it joined NAWSA in 1890 * Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas – Spanish organization from 1918 to 1936 * Associazione per la donna – early Italian organization founded in 1896 with an emphasis on defending women's rights * Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government – American organization devoted to women's suffrage in Massachusetts; active from 1901 to 1920 * Bulgarskiat Zhenski Suyut – Bulgarian organization from 1901 to 1944 * Canadian Women's Suffrage Association – founded in 1877, name changed in 1883 to Toronto Women's Suffrage Association * College Equal Suffrage League – U.S. group founded in 1900 by Maud Wood Park and Inez Haynes Irwin to attract younger women to the movement; merged with the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1908 * Congressional Union – radical U.S. organization formed in 1913 to campaign for a constitutional amendment for women's voting rights; led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns; in 1915 changed its name to National Woman's Party *

(Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Union) – founded in 1898 *

– major Irish organization * Equal Franchise Society – created and joined by American women of wealth, a politically active organization conducted within a socially comfortable milieu * Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino – Brazilian organisation from 1922 * French Union for Women's Suffrage – founded in 1909 to promote women's suffrage * Fusen Kakutoku Domei – Japanese organisation from 1923 * Greek League for Women's Rights – founded 1920 to promote women's political rights and suffrage * Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association – founded in 1852 to help women gain the right to vote * International Alliance of Women – founded in 1904 to promote women's suffrage * Irish Women's Franchise League – founded in 1908, more radical than the Dublin Association * Irish Women's Suffrage Society – founded by

as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872; it was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north * Kvindevalgretsforeningen (Women's Suffrage Association) – Danish women's organization (1889–1898) specifically focused on suffrage * Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening (Women's Progress Association) – Danish organization (1885–1893) with a focus on women's voting rights * Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret – Danish organization * Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission – formed by Carrie Chapman Catt in March 1917 using funds willed for the purpose by Miriam Leslie. The commission, based in New York City, promoted woman's suffrage by educating the public and was affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). * Ligue belge du droit des femmes – Belgian organization founded in 1892 in support of women's rights * Naisasialiitto Unioni – founded 1892, Finnish arm of the International Alliance of Women * National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) – formed in 1890 by the joining of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association * National Association for Women's Suffrage (Norway) – Norwegian organization from 1898 to 1913 * National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden) – Swedish organization from 1902 to 1921 *

– Britain's first large suffrage organization, founded in 1867 by

– major United Kingdom organization * National Woman's Party – major United States organization founded in 1915 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a constitutional amendment; organized the

; from 1913 to 1915 the same core group's name was the Congressional Union * National Women's Rights Convention – series of major US organizing conventions, held from 1850 to 1869 * National Woman Suffrage Association – American organization founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton after the split in the American Equal Rights Association; joined NAWSA in 1890 * New England Woman Suffrage Association (NEWSA) – formed in 1868 as the first major political organization with women's suffrage as its goal, active until 1920, principal leaders were Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone, played key role in forming the American Woman Suffrage Association * Nüzi canzheng tongmenghui – Chinese organisation from 1912 *

– Members of the National Woman's Party who picketed America's White House from January 1917 to June 1919 during Woodrow Wilson's presidency and until the 19th Amendment was passed; initiated and led by Alice Paul * Türk Kadinlar Birligi – main suffrage organization in Turkey, founded 1924 * Union des femmes de Wallonie – Belgian organization founded in 1912 for women in the French-speaking province of Wallonia *

– Dutch organization from 1894 to 1919 * Woman's Christian Temperance Union – active in the suffrage movement, especially in the US and created the World WCTU which sent missionaries around the world, including to New Zealand * Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand – led the petition campaign that successfully led in 1893 to the first self-governing nation to grant woman suffrage *

– major British group created in 1889 by

– British group founded in 1907 by 70 members of the Women's Social and Political Union in a breakaway following rules changes by Christabel Pankhurst *

– major suffrage organization in United Kingdom (breakaway from the National Union for Women's Suffrage) * Women's Trade Union League – American organization formed in 1903, later involved with the campaign for the 19th amendment

Women's suffrage publications

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*Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1878, ratified in 1920 *Declaration of Sentiments – major statement for women's rights, including the right to vote, passed and signed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848; mainly written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton *''History of Woman Suffrage'' – six books produced from 1881 to 1922 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper *''Jus Suffragii'' – official journal of the International Alliance of Women, International Woman Suffrage Alliance, published monthly from 1906 to 1924 *

– publishing collective in England, founded in 1909 *''The Freewoman'' – feminist weekly which, among other topics, covered the suffrage movement; published between November 1911 and October 1912 and edited by

and

*The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper), ''The Liberator'' – weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison which, although primarily supporting abolition of slavery, also took up the suffrage cause from 1838 until it closed in 1865 *The Revolution (newspaper), ''The Revolution'' – weekly US newspaper, 1868–1872; official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association *''The Suffragist'' – 1913–1920 newspaper of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage *''Suffragette Sally'' – 1911 Woman's suffrage, suffrage novel by Gertrude Colmore *Women's Freedom League#The Vote and the Growth in the Women's Freedom League, ''The Vote'' – publication of British

*''The Una'' – 1853 paper devoted to the enfranchisement of woman, owned and edited by Paulina Wright Davis, and first published in Providence, Rhode Island. ''The Una'' was the first paper focused on woman suffrage, and the first distinctively woman's rights journal. *''Votes for Women (newspaper), Votes for Women'' – 1907–1918 newspaper, the official paper of the

, United Kingdom *''Woman's Journal, Woman's Journal and Suffrage News'' – major weekly newspaper founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Henry Blackwell in 1870, eventually absorbed other suffrage publications *''

'' – magazine published 1870–1890 in the United Kingdom *''The Woman's Tribune'' – newspaper published from 1883 to 1909 by Clara Bewick Colby

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