American (United States)

• Jane Addams
  Jane Addams
  Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace...
  
  
• Susan B. Anthony
  Susan B. Anthony
  Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...
  
  
• Annie Arniel
  Annie Arniel
  Annie Arniel was a suffragist and women's rights advocate. Born in Harrington, Delaware, United States, as Anna L. Melvin, she married George Arniel of Canada and was widowed in 1910. Annie played a key role in helping to win the women's vote in the United States...
  
  
• Bertha Hirsch Baruch
  Bertha Hirsch Baruch
  Bertha Hirsch Baruch was an American writer and suffragette.Bertha Hirsch Baruch was born in the Province of Posen, Germany. She came to New London, Connecticut with her father in 1876. She wrote poetry in her teens and was encouraged by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in her literary efforts. Active in...
  
  
• Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch
• Amelia Bloomer
  Amelia Bloomer
  Amelia Jenks Bloomer was an American women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy.-Early life:Bloomer came from a family of modest means and...
  
  
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
  Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
  Madeline McDowell Breckinridge was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers. She was also known as Madge Breckinridge and Mrs...
  
  
• Sophonisba Breckinridge
  Sophonisba Breckinridge
  Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge was an American activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education.- Background :...
  
  
• Lucy Burns
  Lucy Burns
  Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party.-Early life and education:Lucy Burns was born in...
  
  
• Frances Jennings Casement
  Frances Jennings Casement
  Frances Jennings Casement was a U.S. suffragette and voting advocate from Painesville, Ohio. Her father Charles C. Jennings was a politician active in the abolition movement in the 1830s. Frances married General John S. Casement in 1857...
  
   (1840 – 1928)
• Carrie Chapman Catt
  Carrie Chapman Catt
  Carrie Chapman Catt was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920...
  
  
• Nancy Cook
  Nancy Cook
  Nancy Cook was an American suffragette, teacher, part owner of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt.-Birth and early life:...
  
   (August 26, 1884 – August 16, 1962)
• Tennessee Celeste Claflin
  Tennessee Celeste Claflin
  Tennessee Celeste Claflin , also known as Tennie C. and later Lady Cook, was an American suffragist best known as one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm...
  
   (October 26, 1844 – January 18, 1923)
• Laura Clay
  Laura Clay
  Laura Clay , co-founder and first president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, was a leader of the American women’s suffrage movement...
  
  
• Marion Dickerman
  Marion Dickerman
  Marion Dickerman was an American suffragette, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt.-Birth and early life:...
  
   (April 11, 1890 – May 16, 1983)
• Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...
  
  
• Abigail Scott Duniway
  Abigail Scott Duniway
  Abigail Scott Duniway was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women.-Biography:...
  
  
• Max Eastman
  Max Eastman
  Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. For many years, Eastman was a supporter of socialism, a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes...
  
  
• Helga Estby
  Helga Estby
  Helga Estby was a Norwegian-American immigrant most noted for her walk across the United States during 1896.-Biography:...
  
  
• Janet Ayer Fairbank
  Janet Ayer Fairbank
  Janet Ayer Fairbank was an American author and suffragette, socially and politically active in Chicago and a champion of progressive causes. She attended the University of Chicago and in 1900 married the lawyer Kellogg Fairbank, the son of industrialist N. K. Fairbank...
  
   (June 7, 1878 - December 28, 1951)
• Clara S. Foltz
  Clara S. Foltz
  Clara Shortridge Foltz was the first female lawyer on the West Coast. She was the sister of U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge...
  
  
• Elizabeth Fouse
  Elizabeth Fouse
  Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke Fouse was a Kentucky woman dedicated to gaining equality for African American women on both local and national levels. She founded as well as became the head of many organizations, with the ultimate goal of ending discrimination...
  
  
• Matilda Joslyn Gage
  Matilda Joslyn Gage
  Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression".-Early activities:...
  
  
• Sarah Grimke
  Sarah Grimké
  Sarah Moore Grimké was an American abolitionist, writer, and suffragist.-Early life:Sarah Grimké was born in South Carolina. She was sixth of fourteen children and the second daughter of Mary and John Faucheraud Grimké, a rich plantation owner who was also an attorney and a judge in South Carolina...
  
  
• Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain
  Eliza Calvert Hall
  Eliza Caroline "Lida" Obenchain , was an American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky...
  
   (pen name Eliza Calvert Hall)
• Florence Jaffray Harriman
  Florence Jaffray Harriman
  Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and diplomat...
  
  
• Josephine K. Henry
  Josephine K. Henry
  Josephine Kirby Henry was an American Progressive Era women's rights leader, suffragist, social reformer, and writer from Versailles, Kentucky in the United States. Henry was a strong advocate for women and was a leading proponent of legislation that would grant married women property rights...
  
  
• Katharine Houghton Hepburn
  Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn
  Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association before joining the National Woman's Party. Alongside Margaret Sanger, Hepburn co-founded...
  
  
• Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".-Biography:...
  
  
• Ada James
  Ada James
  Ada Lois James was a suffragist, social worker, and reformer. Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, she graduated from high school in 1894, taught school for several years, and soon became active in the woman's suffrage movement in which both her parents were playing prominent roles.In 1911 she...
  
  
• David G. James
• Kyllie Kempin
• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
  Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
  Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin was an American suffragette, civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitioner whose career spanned over half a century...
  
   (August 9, 1883–March 10, 1965)
• David Francis McNamara Liakos
• Florence Luscomb
  Florence Luscomb
  Florence Hope Luscomb was an American architect and women's suffrage activist in Massachusetts. One of the first women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture, Luscomb became a partner in an early woman-owned architecture firm before work in the...
  
  
• Clara McDiarmid
• Jane Hungerford Milbank
  Jane Hungerford Milbank
  Jane Hungerford Milbank was an American suffragette who organized the Army of Columbians.-Biography:She was born on April 10, 1871 in Sparta, Georgia as Jane Hungerford. She married Charles B. Milbank and they had a son: Charles H. E. Milbank. By an earlier marriage Jane had another son: Cambridge...
  
   (April 10, 1871 - March 6, 1931)
• Inez Milholland
  Inez Milholland
  Inez Milholland Boissevain was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America.-Biography:...
  
  
• Harriet May Mills
  Harriet May Mills House
  The Harriet May Mills House or Harriet May Mills Residence is a historic home on the west side of Syracuse, New York. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002...
  
  
• Abigail Crawford Milton
• Lucretia Mott
  Lucretia Mott
  Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights.- Early life and education:...
  
  
• Rosa Parks
  Rosa Parks
  Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement"....
  
  
• Alice Paul
  Alice Paul
  Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.-Activism: Alice Paul received her undergraduate education from...
  
  
• Wenona Pinkham
• Helen Pitts (1838–1903)
• Margaret Sanger
  Margaret Sanger
  Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood...
  
  
• Julia Sears
  Julia Sears
  Julia Sears was a pioneering academic and suffragette. She achieved a milestone early in her career when in 1872 she became the first woman in the U.S. to head a public college, Minnesota State Normal College at Mankato, now Minnesota State University, Mankato...
  
  
• Dr Anna Howard Shaw
  Anna Howard Shaw
  Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States. Her birthday is celebrated as Anna Howard Shaw Day, as an alternative to St. Valentine's Day.-Early Life:Shaw was...
  
  
• Mary Shaw (1854–1929)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement...
  
  
• Doris Stevens
  Doris Stevens
  Doris Stevens was an American suffragist and author of Jailed for Freedom.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Doris Stevens graduated from Oberlin College in 1911. She worked as a teacher and social worker in Ohio and Michigan before she became a regional organizer with the National American Woman Suffrage...
  
  
• Lucy Stone
  Lucy Stone
  Lucy Stone was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged...
  
  
• Lydia Taft
  Lydia Taft
  Lydia Chapin was the first known legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred in the New England town Town Meeting, at Uxbridge, MA Massachusetts Colony.-Early life:...
  
  
• Melvin Thester
• M. Carey Thomas
  M. Carey Thomas
  Martha Carey Thomas was an American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ruby Cora Thompson
• Sojourner Truth
  Sojourner Truth
  Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she...
  
  
• Harriet Tubman
  Harriet Tubman
  Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; (1820 – 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves...
  
  
• Mina Van Winkle
  Mina Van Winkle
  Mina C. Van Winkle was a crusading social worker, suffragist, and groundbreaking police lieutenant. From 1919 until her death in 1932 she led the Women’s Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia , and became a national leader in the protection of girls and other...
  
  
• Ida B. Wells
  Ida B. Wells
  Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who...
  
  
• Victoria Woodhull
  Victoria Woodhull
  Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement, an advocate of free love; together with her sister, the first women to operate a brokerage in Wall Street; the first women to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms and, in 1872,...
  
  

Australian

• Muriel Matters
  Muriel Matters
  Muriel Lilah Matters was an Australian born suffragist, lecturer, journalist, educator, actress and elocutionist...
  
  
• Edith Cowan
  Edith Cowan
  Edith Dircksey Cowan , MBE was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected to an Australian parliament....
  
  
• Henrietta Dugsdale
• Charlotte Fulton
• Fanny Furner
  Fanny Furner
  Fanny Furner was an activist who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in Sydney.-Accomplishments:...
  
  
• Vida Goldstein
  Vida Goldstein
  Vida Jane Mary Goldstein was an early Australian feminist politician who campaigned for women's suffrage and social reform.-Early years:...
  
  
• Alice Hey
• Serena Lake
• Louisa Lawson
  Louisa Lawson
  Louisa Lawson was an Australian writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mary Lee
• Emma Miller
  Emma Miller
  Emma Miller was a pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist, and founder of the Australian Labor Party in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.-Early life:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Nicholls
• Rose Scott
  Rose Scott
  Rose Scott was an Australian women's rights activist who protested for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century .-Early life:...
  
  
• Catherine Helen Spence
  Catherine Helen Spence
  Catherine Helen Spence was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide...
  
  
• Jessie Street
  Jessie Street
  Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner....
  
  

British and Northern Irish

• Mary Sophia Allen
  Mary Sophia Allen
  Mary Sophia Allen was a Welsh-born British woman who worked for women's rights. She is chiefly noted as one of the founders of the Women's Police Volunteers as well as for her involvement in far right political activity....
  
  
• Romana Alli
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD , was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain and the first female mayor in England.-Early life:...
  
  
• Louisa Garrett Anderson
  Louisa Garrett Anderson
  Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson CBE 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 Garrett Anderson. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Fawcett was a British suffragist...
  
  
• Nancy Astor
  Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
  Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons in December 1918 after running for the Sinn Féin party in 1918 General Election, but in line...
  
  
• Dorothea Beale
  Dorothea Beale
  Dorothea Beale LLD was a suffragist, educational reformer, author and Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College.Born in Bishopsgate, England, she was the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford....
  
  
• Mary Gawthorpe
  Mary Gawthorpe
  Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe was a British suffragette, socialist, trade unionist and editor, described by Rebecca West as "a merry militant saint"....
  
  
• Lydia Becker
  Lydia Becker
  Lydia Ernestine Becker was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy...
  
  
• Ethel Bentham
  Ethel Bentham
  Dr. Ethel Bentham was a progressive doctor, a politician and a suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was born in Ireland, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for Women and the Rotunda Hospital...
  
  
• Fanny Goodsworth
• Annie Besant
  Annie Besant
  Annie Besant was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.She was married at 19 to Frank Besant but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society ...
  
  
• Rosa May Billinghurst
  Rosa May Billinghurst
  Rosa May Billinghurst, a suffragette, was born in Lewisham, London, in 1875.As a child she suffered total paralysis which left her disabled throughout her adult life. However, this did not prevent her becoming active in social work in a Greenwich workhouse, teaching in a Sunday School and joining...
  
  
• Teresa Billington-Greig
  Teresa Billington-Greig
  Teresa Billington-Greig was a suffragette who created the Women's Freedom League. She left another suffrage organisation the WSPU as she considered the leadership too autocratic.-Life:...
  
  
• Margaret Bondfield
  Margaret Bondfield
  Margaret Grace Bondfield was an English Labour politician and feminist, the first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom and one of the first three female Labour MPs...
  
  
• Catherine Booth
  Catherine Booth
  Catherine Booth was the wife of the founder of The Salvation Army, William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Army Mother'....
  
  
• Elsie Bowerman
  Elsie Bowerman
  Elsie Edith Bowerman was a lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.- Early life :Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the daughter of William Bowerman and his wife Edith Martha Barber. Her father died when she was 5 years old...
  
  
• Vera Brittain
  Vera Brittain
  Vera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...
  
  
• Frances Buss
  Frances Buss
  Frances Mary Buss was a headmistress and an English pioneer of women's education.The daughter of Robert William Buss, a painter and etcher, and his wife, Frances Fleetwood, Buss was one of six of their ten children to survive into adulthood...
  
  
• Josephine Butler
  Josephine Butler
  Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes...
  
  
• Mona Caird
  Mona Caird
  Mona Caird was a Scottish novelist and essayist whose feminist views sparked controversy in the late 19th century...
  
  
• Mabel Capper
  Mabel Capper
  Mabel Henrietta Capper was a Brtish Suffragette. She gave all her time between 1907 and 1913 to the Women's Social and Political Union as a 'soldier' in the struggle for women's Suffrage. She was imprisoned six times, went on hunger strike and was one of the first Suffragettes to be forcibly fed...
  
  
• Ada Churchill-Sawyer
• Anne Clough
  Anne Clough
  Anne Jemima Clough was an early English suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women.Clough was born at Liverpool, the daughter of a cotton merchant. She was the sister of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet and assistant to Florence Nightingale. When two years old she was taken with the rest...
  
  
• Leonora Cohen
  Leonora Cohen
  Leonora Cohen OBE was a British suffragette.She was known for smashing the case of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. She survived a hunger strike in Armley Jail in Leeds....
  
  
• Margaret Cole
  Margaret Cole
  Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, DBE was an English socialist politician.Daughter of John Percival Postgate and Edith Allen, Margaret was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. While at Girton, through her reading of H. G...
  
  
• Selina Cooper
  Selina Cooper
  Selina Cooper was an English Suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian....
  
  
• Richmal Crompton
  Richmal Crompton
  Richmal Crompton Lamburn was a British writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books.-Life:...
  
  
• Mary Crudelius
  Mary Crudelius
  Mary Crudelius 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....
  
  
• Emily Davies
  Emily Davies
  Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigners fore women's rights to university access. She was born in Southampton, England to an evangelical clergyman and a teacher in 1830, although she spent most of her youth in Gateshead...
  
  
• Emily Davison
  Emily Davison
  Emily Wilding Davison was a militant women's suffrage activist who, on 4 June 1913, after a series of actions that were either self-destructive or violent, stepped in front of a horse running in the Epsom Derby, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.-Biography:Davison was...
  
  
• Charlotte Despard
  Charlotte Despard
  Charlotte Despard was a British-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist....
  
  
• Flora Drummond
  Flora Drummond
  Flora McKinnon Drummond , , was a British suffragette...
  
  
• Norah Elam
  Norah Elam
  Norah Elam also known as Norah Dacre Fox, was a radical feminist, militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and fascist in the United Kingdom. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1878 to John and Charlotte Doherty, she emigrated to England with her family and by 1891 was living in London...
  
  
• Millicent Fawcett
  Millicent Fawcett
  Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE was an English suffragist and an early feminist....
  
  
• Elizabeth Fry
  Elizabeth Fry
  Elizabeth Fry , née Gurney, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist...
  
  
• Edith Margaret Garrud
  Edith Margaret Garrud
  Edith Margaret Garrud was among the first female professional martial arts instructors in the Western world. She is remembered for having trained the Bodyguard unit of the Women's Social and Political Union in jujutsu self defence techniques.- Early life :She was born Edith Margaret Williams in...
  
  
• Nellie Hall
  Nellie Hall
  Nellie Hall was a British suffragette and god-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst after whom she was named....
  
  
• Cicely Hamilton
  Cicely Hamilton
  Cicely Mary Hamilton , born Hammill, was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist, lesbian and feminist. She is now best known for the play Diana of Dobson's, with a setting in an Edwardian department store....
  
  
• Jane Ellen Harrison
  Jane Ellen Harrison
  Jane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology. She applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have...
  
  
• Evelina Haverfield
  Evelina Haverfield
  Evelina Haverfield was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early part of the 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage organisation the Women's Social and Political Union...
  
  
• Heather Helsden-Gee
• Emily Hobhouse
  Emily Hobhouse
  Emily Hobhouse was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the poor conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.-Early...
  
  
• Winifred Holtby
  Winifred Holtby
  Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding.-Life and writings:...
  
  
• Clemence Housman
  Clemence Housman
  Clemence Housman was an author, illustrator and activist in the womens’ suffrage movement. She was the sister of A. E. Housman and Laurence Housman. She was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Her novels included The Were-Wolf, Unknown Sea and The Life Of Sir Aglovale De Galis...
  
  
• Laurence Housman
  Laurence Housman
  Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.-Early life:Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children who included the poet A. E. Housman and writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin...
  
  
• Elizabeth How-Martyn
• Elsie Inglis
  Elsie Inglis
  Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist.-Education:She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to John Forbes David Inglis who worked in the Indian civil service as Chief Commissioner of Oudh...
  
  
• Jacobs Eleanor
• Sophia Jex-Blake
  Sophia Jex-Blake
  Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher and feminist. She was one of the first female doctors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and in...
  
  
• Ellen Isabel Jones
  Ellen Isabel Jones
  Ellen Isabel Jones was an English Suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts....
  
  
• Annie Kenney
  Annie Kenney
  Annie Kenney was an English working class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union...
  
  
• Grace Kimmins
  Grace Kimmins
  Dame Grace Kimmins, DBE was described in Punch as ... in her quiet practical way is probably as good a friend as London ever had, a description for the driving force behind the Guild of Play and the Guild of the Poor Brave Things.Born Grace Mary Thyrza Hannam, she became a Wesleyan deaconess and...
  
  
• Anne Knight
  Anne Knight
  Anne Knight was a social reformer noted as a pioneer of feminism.-Family background:Anne Knight was the daughter of William Knight , a Chelmsford grocer and his wife Priscilla Allen...
  
  
• Annie Knight
  Annie Knight
  Annie Knight was, at age 111, the United Kingdom's oldest person following the death of fellow 111-year-old Emmeline Brice on 26 July 2006....
  
  
• Jennie Lee
• Lilian Lenton
  Lilian Lenton
  Lilian Ida Lenton was an English dancer, suffragist, arsonist, and winner of a French Red Cross medal for her service as an Orderly in World War I.-Early years:...
  
  
• Lady Constance Lytton
  Constance Lytton
  Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control.Although she was raised as member of the privileged, ruling class elite within British Society, she rejected this...
  
  
• Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
  Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda
  Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda was a Welsh peeress and active suffragette.In 1908 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union , and became secretary of the WSPU's Newport branch...
  
  
• Sarah Mair
  Sarah Mair
  Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, DBE was a Scottish campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage, active in the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women and the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society, which she founded before she was 20.-Life:Born into a well-to-do family...
  
  
• Dora Marsden
  Dora Marsden
  Dora Marsden was an English feminist editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings.-Early life:...
  
  
• Charlotte Marsh
• Selina Martin
  Selina Martin
  Selina Martin was involved in the suffragette movement in the early 20th century. She was arrested several times.- Early life :Selina Martin was born 21 November 1882, in Ulverston, England. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Martin, and was the seventh of eleven living children...
  
  
• Harriet Martineau
  Harriet Martineau
  Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist....
  
  
• Eleanor Marx
  Eleanor Marx
  Jenny Julia Eleanor "Tussy" Marx , also known as Eleanor Marx Aveling, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist, who sometimes worked as a literary translator...
  
  
• Alice Meynell
  Alice Meynell
  Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Stuart Mill
  John Stuart Mill
  John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of...
  
   and Harriet Taylor Mill
  Harriet Taylor Mill
  Harriet Taylor Mill was a philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her second husband was John Stuart Mill, one of the pre-eminent thinkers of the 19th century...
  
  
• Hannah Mitchell
  Hannah Mitchell
  Hannah Mitchell was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor farming family in Derbyshire, Mitchell left home at a young age to work as a seamstress in Bolton, were she became involved in the socialist movement. She worked for many years in organisations related to socialism, women's...
  
  
• Dora Montefiore
  Dora Montefiore
  Dorothy Frances Montefiore was an English-Australian women's suffragist and socialist. She also wrote poetry, and her autobiography.-Early life:...
  
  
• Flora Murray
  Flora Murray
  Dr. Flora Murray, M.D. was a medical pioneer and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes.Murray trained at the London School of Medicine for Women and finished her course at Durham. She then worked in Scotland before returning to London in 1905...
  
  
• Mary Neal
  Mary Neal
  Mary Neal CBE , born Clara Sophia Neal, was an English social worker and collector of English folk dances....
  
  
• Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans was an English suffragette. She was imprisoned three times for her activities; twice, for one month each occurrence, in 1908 and once, for three months, in 1909. Her third prison sentence was for pouring liquid into ballot boxes at a local by-election...
  
  
• Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...
  
  
• Ada Nield Chew
  Ada Nield Chew
  Ada Nield Chew was a British suffragette.Ada Nield was born on a farm near Butt Lane in North Staffordshire on 28 January 1870, daughter of Willam and Jane Nield. She left school at the age of eleven to help her mother take care of house and family...
  
  
• Christabel Pankhurst
  Christabel Pankhurst
  Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE , was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914 she became a fervent supporter of the war against Germany...
  
  
• Emmeline Pankhurst
  Emmeline Pankhurst
  Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote...
  
  
• Sylvia Pankhurst
  Sylvia Pankhurst
  Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English campaigner for the suffragist movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent left communist who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism.-Early life:...
  
  
• Adela Pankhurst
  Adela Pankhurst
  Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh was a British-Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement....
  
  
• Edith Pechey
  Edith Pechey
  Edith Pechey-Phipson was one of the first women doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor at a women's hospital and was involved in a range of social causes....
  
  
• Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence was a Britishwomen's rights activist.Her father was a businessman...
  
  
• Sona Patterson-Jasmin
• Eleanor Rathbone
  Eleanor Rathbone
  Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.-Life:...
  
  
• Mary Reid
  Mary Reid
  Mary Reid aka Mary Reid MacArthur was a Scottish suffragette and trades unionist. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father's drapers shop...
  
  
• Mary Richardson
  Mary Richardson
  Mary Raleigh Richardson was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom and later the head of the women's section of British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosley....
  
  
• Edith Rigby
  Edith Rigby
  Edith Rigby was an English suffragette. She was a contemporary of Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst.-Biography:Born Edith Rayner on St Luke's Day in 1872 in Preston, Lancashire, she was one of seven children of Dr Alexander Clement Rayner and was educated at Penrhos College in North Wales. She...
  
  
• Elizabeth Robins
  Elizabeth Robins
  Elizabeth Robins was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette.- Early life :Elizabeth Robins, the first child of Charles Robins and Hannah Crow, and was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After financial difficulties, her father left for Colorado, leaving the children in the care of Hannah...
  
  
• Rona Robinson
  Rona Robinson
  Rona Robinson was a British suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry. It was awarded to her by Owen's College, Victoria University of Manchester....
  
  
• Esther Roper
  Esther Roper
  Esther Roper was an English suffragist who was one of the first women to graduate and gain her BA at Owens College in Manchester.Esther was the daughter of a Manchester factory worker who later became a missionary in Africa....
  
  
• Agnes Royden
  Agnes Royden
  [Agnes] Maude Royden, CH was a preacher and suffragist.Always known as Maude Royden, she was born at Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet, of Frankby Hall, Birkenhead...
  
  
• Ethel Smyth
  Ethel Smyth
  Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...
  
  
• Ethel Snowden
  Ethel Snowden
  Ethel Snowden, Viscountess Snowden, born Ethel Annakin , was a British socialist and feminist politician. From a middle-class background, she became a Christian Socialist through a radical preacher and initially promoted temperance and teetotalism in the slums of Liverpool...
  
  
• Flora Stevenson
  Flora Stevenson
  Flora Clift Stevenson was a Scottish social reformer with a special interest in education for poor or neglected children, and in education for girls. She was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to be elected to a school board...
  
  
• Louisa Stevenson
  Louisa Stevenson
  Louisa Stevenson was a Scottish campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and effective, well-organised nursing.-Family:...
  
  
• Helena Swanwick
  Helena Swanwick
  Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick, née Sickert CH was a British feminist and pacifist.-Life:Helena Sickert was the only daughter of the painter Oswald Sickert and the Englishwoman Eleanor Louisa Henry, an illegitimate daughter of astronomer...
  
  
• Elizabeth Thompson
  Elizabeth Thompson
  Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition...
  
  
• Marion Wallace Dunlop
  Marion Wallace Dunlop
  Marion Wallace Dunlop was the first British suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 for militancy....
  
  
• Harriet Shaw Weaver
  Harriet Shaw Weaver
  Harriet Shaw Weaver was a political activist and a magazine editor. She also became the patron of James Joyce....
  
  
• Beatrice Webb
  Beatrice Webb
  Martha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield...
  
  
• Rebecca West
  Rebecca West
  Cicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public...
  
  
• Olive Wharry
  Olive Wharry
  Olive Wharry was an English artist, arsonist and suffragist who in 1913 was imprisoned with Lilian Lenton for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anna Doyle Wheeler
  Anna Doyle Wheeler
  Anna Doyle Wheeler was a writer and advocate of political rights for women and the benefits of contraception. She married Francis Massey Wheeler when she was aged 15 and they separated 12 years later...
  
  
• Ellen Wilkinson
  Ellen Wilkinson
  Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...
  
  
• Alice Zimmern
  Alice Zimmern
  Alice Zimmern was an English writer, translator and suffragist.-Background and education:Zimmern was born in Nottingham, the youngest of the three daughters of the lace merchant Hermann Theodore Zimmern, a German Jewish immigrant, and his wife Antonia Marie Therese Regina, née Leo...
  
  

Canadian

• Nellie McClung
  Nellie McClung
  Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney , was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s...
  
   and the rest of the Famous Five
• Emily Stowe
  Emily Stowe
  Dr. Emily Howard Stowe was the first female doctor to practice in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Emily Stowe was born in Norwich Township, Oxford County, Ontario...
  
  

French

• Hubertine Auclert
  Hubertine Auclert
  Hubertine Auclert was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.Born in the Allier département in the Auvergne area of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Auclert's father died when she was thirteen years old and her mother sent her to live and study in a Roman...
  
  
• Maria Deraismes
  Maria Deraismes
  Maria Deraismes was a French author and major pioneering force for women's rights.- Biography :Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts...
  
  
• Jeanne Deroin
  Jeanne Deroin
  Jeanne Deroin was a French socialist feminist.Born in Paris, Deroin became a seamstress. In 1831, she joined the followers of utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon...
  
  
• Marguerite Durand
  Marguerite Durand
  Marguerite Durand was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.-Biography:Born into a middle-class family, Marguerite Durand was sent to study at a Roman Catholic convent...
  
  
• Olympe de Gouges
  Olympe de Gouges
  Olympe de Gouges , born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience....
  
  
• Madeleine Pelletier
  Madeleine Pelletier
  Madeleine Pelletier was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist.Pelletier originally trained as an anthropologist studying the relationship between skull size and intelligence after Paul Broca with Charles Letourneau and Léonce Manouvrier...
  
  
• Pauline Roland
  Pauline Roland
  Pauline Roland was a French feminist and socialist.Upon her mother's insistence, Roland received a good education and was introduced to the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the founder of French socialism, by one of her teachers. She became an enthusiastic supporter of his...
  
  
• Séverine
  Severine
  Severine or Séverine can refer to:* the nom de plume of the French journalist Caroline Rémy de Guebhard* a pseudonym of the Hungarian model Eve Angel...
  
  
• Flora Tristan
  Flora Tristan
  Flora Tristan was a socialist writer and activist. She was also one of the founders of modern feminism...
  
  

German

• Hedwig Dohm
  Hedwig Dohm
  Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm born Schlesinger, later Schleh was a German feminist, and author. She was one of the first feminist thinkers to see gender roles as a result of socialization and not biological determinism.-Family:She was born in Berlin to Jewish parents, as a daughter of Wilhelmine...
  
  
• Gretchen Neidles
• Isliket Hardee
• Clara Zetkin
  Clara Zetkin
  Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and fighter for women's rights. In 1910, she organized the first International Women's Day....
  
  

Irish

• Louie Bennett
  Louie Bennett
  Louie Bennett was an Irish suffragette, Trades Unionist and journalist and writer born in Ireland. In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Conference and in the same year was elected to the executive committee of the Labour Party. She was also the founder...
  
  
• Norah Elam
  Norah Elam
  Norah Elam also known as Norah Dacre Fox, was a radical feminist, militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and fascist in the United Kingdom. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1878 to John and Charlotte Doherty, she emigrated to England with her family and by 1891 was living in London...
  
   aka Norah Dacre Fox
• Eva Gore-Booth
  Eva Gore-Booth
  Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist...
  
  
• Kathleen Lynn
  Kathleen Lynn
  Kathleen Florence Lynn was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, activist and medical doctor. She was born to a Dublin Church of Ireland family and educated in England and Germany before graduating as a doctor in 1899 from the Royal University of Ireland.An active suffragette, labour activist and...
  
  
• Constance Markievicz
• Helena Moloney
  Helena Moloney
  Helena Moloney was a prominent Irish republican, feminist and labor activist. She fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and later became the second woman president of the Irish Trade Union Congress....
  
  
• Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
  Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
  Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington, was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband and Margaret Cousins and James Cousins she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights...
  
  
• Anna Maria Haslam
• Sopia Newhman