# List of female calligraphers

This is a partial list of notable female calligraphers.

## 3rd century

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

## 7th-10th centuries

* Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah Arabic calligrapher
* Al-Nuddar (d. 984) Andalusian calligrapher and scholar
* Umm al-Darda al-Sughra
* Sana (8th Century) Abbasid calligrapher
* Fadl (d. 260/873-74) Abbasid poet and calligrapher
* Gulsum al-Attabi (d. 220/835) Arabic calligrapher
* Fadl (10th Century)
* Duhtar-i ibn Mukla Shirazi (10th Century)
* Muzna (d. 358/969)
* Fadl (d. 260/873-74)
* Fatima (?-?) Andalusian calligrapher

## 11th-12th centuries

* Safiyyah bint Abd al-Rabb (d. 1026)
* Fatima bint Zakariya bint Abdullah al-Shebbarp (d. 1036)
* Diemoth (b. 1060-130) Bavarian calligrapher
* Fatima al-Baghdadi bint Hasan b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abdullah Attar (d. 480/1087) Iraqi calligrapher
* Fakhr-un-Nisa (d. 1112) Iranian calligrapher
* Lubna (d. 1003) Abbasid poet and calligrapher
* Zaynab Shahda bint Ahmad b. Al-Faraj b. ‘Omar Al-Abrī (d. 547/1178) Iraqi calligrapher
* Sittu'r-Rida bint Nasrallah b. Mas'ud (d. after 567/1171)

## 13th-14th centuries

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

## 15th-16th centuries

* Clara Hätzlerin (c. 1430–1476) Bavarian scribe
* Jacomina Hondius (1558–1628) Flemish and Dutch calligrapher
* Esther Inglis (1571–1624) English miniaturist and calligrapher
* Margareta Karthäuserin (b. ?) Bavarian scribe
* Elizabeth Lucar (1510–1537) British calligrapher
* Marie Pavie (fl. 1600) French calligrapher
* Fatimah bint Quraymazan (d. 1558)
* Shin Saimdang (1504–1551) Korean artist, author and calligrapher
* Maria Strick (1577-1625) Dutch calligrapher and teacher

## 17th-18th centuries

* Amina (daughter of calligrapher, Mustafa Chelebi) minor calligrapher active in Ottoman Bosnia
* Goharshad Ghazvini Persian calligrapher
* Ike Gyokuran (1727–1784) Japanese painter and calligrapher
* Esmâ Ibret Hanim (b. 1780) Ottoman calligrapher
* Marjan al-Katib al-Islami Iranian calligrapher
* Fatıma Ânî Hanım (d.1122 / 1710) Ottoman calligrapher
* Fatıma Tûtî (d. 1106-1123 / 1694-95)
* Fang Weiyi (1585–1668) Chinese poet, calligrapher and historian
* Şerife Zehra Hanim Ottoman calligrapher
* Im Yunjidang (1721–1793) Korean philosopher and calligrapher
* Cao Zhenxiu (b. 1762) Chinese calligrapher

## 19th-20th centuries

* Wijdan Ali (b. 1939) Iraqi calligrapher
* Ameena Ahmad Ahuja Indian painter and calligrapher
* Leslie Charlotte Benenson (1941–2018) English artist and calligrapher
* Mickie Caspi (b. 1961) Israeli calligrapher and artist
* Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi (b. 1944) American-Iraqi artist and calligrapher
* Chang Ch'ung-ho (1914–2015) Chinese poet and calligrapher
* Winnie Siu Davies (b. ?) Chinese painter and calligrapher
* Elizabeth Friedländer (1903–1984) German calligrapher
* Jen Taylor Friedman (b. ?) ritual scribe
* Wang Huiqin (b. 1945) Chinese-Slovenian calligrapher
* Hu Jieqing (1905–2001) Chinese painter and calligrapher
* Pouran Jinchi (b. 1959) Iranian-American artist and calligrapher
* Samira Kitman (b. 1984) Afghani-British calligrapher and artist
* Hildegard Korger (b. 1935) German calligrapher
* Monika Krajewska (b. ?) Polish calligrapher and mizrah artist
* Patricia Lovett (b.?) British scribe, calligrapher and illuminator
* Ada Louise Powell (b. 1865) British decorative artist and calligrapher
* Zahide Selma Hanim (1857–1895) Ottoman calligrapher
* Hilal Kazan - Turkish academic, historian and calligrapher
* Midori Kono Thiel (b. ?) Japanese-American calligrapher
* Huda Totonji (b.?) Arab-American calligrapher
* Carol Twombly (b. 1959) American calligrapher
* Şerife Fatma "Mevhibe" Hanım Ottoman calligrapher
* Ema Saikō (1787–1861) Japanese calligrapher
* Zulaykhah Khatimi al-Sa'di (?-?)
* Emine Servet Hanim (b. 1859) Ottoman calligrapher
* Soraya Syed (b. 1976) English-Pakistani calligrapher
* Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (1918–2019) German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder
* Sheila Waters (1929—2022) English calligrapher
* Irene Wellington (1904–1984) British calligrapher
* Mary White (ceramicist and calligrapher) (1926–2013) British calligrapher
* Hilda Wiseman (1894–1982) Australian calligrapher, artist and designer
* Rachel Yallop (b. ?) British calligrapher
* Yuan Xiaoyuan (1901–2003) Chinese diplomat, politician, author, linguist, calligrapher and artist
* Lou Zhenggang (b. 1966) Chinese artist and calligrapher
* Nuria Garcia Masip (b. 1978) Spanish Calligrapher