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This list of feminists catalogues notable individuals who identify or have been identified as proponents of feminist political, economic, social, and personal principles for gender equality.

## Early feminists

Born before 1499.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1200–1300 | Helen of Anjou | Serbia | 1236 | 1314 | Serbian queen, feminist, establisher of women's schools |
| 1300–1400 | Christine de Pizan | Italy | 1365 | 1430 | Medieval court writer |
| 1300–1400 | Jefimija | Serbia | 1349 | 1405 | Serbian politician, poet, diplomat |
| 1400–1499 | Laura Cereta | Italy | 1469 | 1499 | Humanist and feminist writer |
| 1400–1499 | Balaram Das | India | unknown | unknown | 15th century Odia poet; first attempt in India towards feminism |
| 1400–1499 | Isabel de Villena | Spain | 1430 | 1460 | Feminist nun |

## 16th-century feminists

Born between 1500 and 1599.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1500–1599 | India Juliana | Present-day Paraguay | fl. 1542 | fl. 1542 | Guaraní woman who lived in the newly-founded Asunción, known for killing a Spanish colonist between 1538 and 1542 and urging other indigenous women to do the same. |
| 1500–1599 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | Germany | 1486 | 1535 | Male feminist, wrote Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women |
| 1500–1599 | Jane Anger | United Kingdom | fl. 1589 | fl. 1589 | Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women |
| 1500–1599 | Marie de Gournay | France | 1565 | 1645 | Protofeminist writer of Egalité des hommes et des femmes (The equality of men and women) |
| 1500–1599 | Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi | Italy | 1501–1600 | c. 1593 | Protofeminist writer of The Worth of Women |
| 1500–1599 | Lucrezia Marinella | Italy | c. 1571 | 1653 | Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights |
| 1500–1599 | Izumo no Okuni | Japan | c. 1571 | unknown | Originator of kabuki theater |

## 17th-century feminists

Born between 1600 and 1699.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1600–1699 | Mary Astell | United Kingdom | c. 1666 | 1731 | English feminist writer and rhetorician |
| 1600–1699 | Aphra Behn | United Kingdom | 1640 | 1689 | Writer and protofeminist |
| 1600–1699 | Anne Bradstreet | United Kingdom | 1612 | 1672 | North American colonial poet |
| 1600–1699 | Sophia Elisabet Brenner | Sweden | 1659 | 1724 | Writer and women's rights activist |
| 1600–1699 | François Poullain de la Barre | France | 1647 | 1725 | Male feminist philosopher |
| 1600–1699 | Sr. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Mexico | 1648 | 1695 | Hieronymite nun, scholar and poet |
| 1600–1699 | Ninon de l'Enclos | France | 1620 | 1795 | Author, courtesan, and patron of the arts |

## 18th-century feminists

Born between 1700 and 1799.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1700–1799 | Abigail Adams | United States | 1744 | 1818 | Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams |
| 1700–1799 | Catharina Ahlgren | Sweden | 1734 | 1800 | Female Swedish publisher and writer. |
| 1700–1799 | Annestine Beyer | Denmark | 1795 | 1884 | Pioneer of women's education |
| 1700–1799 | Eleanor Butler | Ireland | 1739 | 1829 | One of the Ladies of Llangollen |
| 1700–1799 | Marquis de Condorcet | France | 1743 | 1794 | |
| 1700–1799 | Olympe de Gouges | France | 1748 | 1793 | Playwright and political activist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791 |
| 1700–1799 | Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt | France | 1762 | 1817 | Politician |
| 1700–1799 | Francisco de Miranda, Gen. | Venezuela | 1750 | 1816 | Published an impassioned plea for women's education. |
| 1700–1799 | Madeleine de Puisieux | France | 1720 | 1798 | Writer |
| 1700–1799 | Dorothea Erxleben | Germany | 1715 | 1762 | First female medical doctor in Germany, argued for the right of women to study medicine and other disciplines at university |
| 1700–1799 | Charles Fourier | France | 1772 | 1837 | Socialist feminist; philosopher; credited with coining the (French) word "féministe" |
| 1700–1799 | Jane Gomeldon | United Kingdom | c. 1720 | 1779 | Writer and first to use the press to gain power through transparency. |
| 1700–1799 | Sarah Moore Grimké | United States | 1792 | 1873 | Suffragist and abolitionist |
| 1700–1799 | Francis Hutcheson | Ireland | 1694 | 1746 | Scottish-Irish philosopher, a founding father of the Scottish Enlightenment |
| 1700–1799 | Christian Isobel Johnstone | United Kingdom | 1781 | 1857 | Journalist and author in Scotland |
| 1700–1799 | Anne Knight | United Kingdom | 1786 | 1862 | Social reformer; pioneer of feminism |
| 1701–1800 | Anna Maria Lenngren | Sweden | 1754 | 1817 | Writer, poet, and salonist; possibly a feminist |
| 1700–1799 | Lucretia Mott | United States | 1793 | 1880 | Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner |
| 1700–1799 | Judith Sargent Murray | United States | 1751 | 1820 | Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes |
| 1700–1799 | John Neal | United States | 1793 | 1876 | Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer |
| 1700–1799 | Sarah Ponsonby | Ireland | 1755 | 1831 | One of the Ladies of Llangollen |
| 1700–1799 | Mary Shelley | United Kingdom | 1797 | 1851 | Early pioneer feminist |
| 1700–1799 | Maria Engelbrecht Stokkenbech | Denmark | 1759 | after 1806 | Dressed as a man to be able to work |
| 1700–1799 | Thomas Thorild | Sweden | 1759 | 1808 | Male feminist, poet |
| 1700–1799 | William Thompson (philosopher) | Ireland | 1775 | 1833 | Pro-feminist, socialist, collaborator of Anna Wheeler, author of "Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery", 1825, first published appeal for equality of women |
| 1700–1799 | Sojourner Truth | United States | c. 1797 | 1883 | First-wave feminist; abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, women's rights speech "Ain't I a Woman?" |
| 1700–1799 | Anna Wheeler | Ireland | 1785 | 1848 | Feminist and socialist writer who networked Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Henri Saint-Simon, William Thompson (philosopher) and Flora Tristan, Desiree Veret |
| 1700–1799 | Mary Wollstonecraft | United Kingdom | 1759 | 1797 | Early pioneer proto-feminist. Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| 1700–1799 | Frances Wright | United Kingdom | 1795 | 1852 | feminist |

## Early and mid 19th-century feminists

Born between 1800 and 1874.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1800–1874 | Juliette Adam | France | 1836 | 1936 | |
| 1800–1874 | Jane Addams | United States | 1860 | 1935 | Feminist; Women's Suffrage advocate; Major social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
| 1800–1874 | Gertrud Adelborg | Sweden | 1853 | 1942 | Teacher and suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Sophie Adlersparre | Sweden | 1823 | 1895 | Publisher; one of three most notable pioneers of women's rights movement in Sweden |
| 1800–1874 | Alfhild Agrell | Sweden | 1849 | 1923 | |
| 1800–1874 | Soteria Aliberty | Greece | 1847 | 1929 | |
| 1800–1874 | Jules Allix | France | 1818 | 1897 | Socialist; feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner | Germany | 1874 | 1930 | Woman Suffrage |
| 1800–1874 | Ellen Anckarsvärd | Sweden | 1833 | 1898 | Co-founded the Married Woman's Property Rights Association |
| 1800–1874 | Adelaide Anderson | United Kingdom | 1863 | 1936 | |
| 1800–1874 | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | United Kingdom | 1836 | 1917 | Feminist, suffragist; first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in the UK; co-founder of first hospital staffed by women |
| 1800–1874 | Louisa Garrett Anderson | United Kingdom | 1873 | 1943 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Maybanke Anderson | Australia | 1845 | 1927 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Susan Anthony | United States | 1820 | 1906 | Woman Suffrage advocate; played a pivotal role in movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States |
| 1800–1874 | Lovisa Årberg | Sweden | 1801 | 1881 | First female doctor in Sweden |
| 1800–1874 | Edith Archibald | Canada | 1854 | 1936 | Suffragist; led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union, the National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax |
| 1800–1874 | Concepción Arenal | Spain | 1820 | 1893 | |
| 1800–1874 | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | United Kingdom | 1848 | 1939 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Ottilie Assing | Germany | 1819 | 1884 | |
| 1800–1874 | Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi | Iran | 1859 | 1921 | Writer |
| 1800–1874 | Louise Aston | Germany | 1814 | 1871 | |
| 1800–1874 | Hubertine Auclert | France | 1848 | 1914 | Feminist activist, suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Olympe Audouard | France | 1832 | 1890 | |
| 1800–1874 | Alice Constance Austin | United States | 1862 | 1955 | Socialist feminist; radical feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Rachel Foster Avery | United States | 1858 | 1919 | First-wave feminist; suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | John Goodwyn Barmby | United Kingdom | 1820 | 1881 | |
| 1800–1874 | Marie Bashkirtseff | Ukraine | 1858 | 1884 | feminist; French feminist |
| 1800–1874 | José Batlle y Ordóñez | Uruguay | 1856 | 1929 | |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Bayerová | Czech Republic | 1853 | 1924 | |
| 1800–1874 | Jean Beadle | Australia | 1868 | 1942 | Feminist; social worker; political activist |
| 1800–1874 | August Bebel | Germany | 1840 | 1913 | Communist; male |
| 1800–1874 | Alaide Gualberta Beccari | Italy | 1868 | 1930 | Socialist feminist; radical feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Lydia Becker | United Kingdom | 1827 | 1890 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Catharine Beecher | United States | 1800 | 1878 | |
| 1800–1874 | Alva Belmont | United States | 1853 | 1933 | Suffrage leader; speaker; author |
| 1800–1874 | Louie Bennett | Ireland | 1870 | 1956 | Suffrage leader |
| 1800–1874 | Ethel Bentham | United Kingdom | 1861 | 1931 | Progressive doctor, politician and suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Victoire Léodile Béra | France | 1824 | 1900 | |
| 1800–1874 | Signe Bergman | Sweden | 1869 | 1960 | |
| 1800–1874 | Annie Besant | United Kingdom | 1847 | 1933 | Socialist feminist |
| 1800-1874 | Ottilie von Bistram | German Empire | 1859 | 1931 | education campaigner |
| 1800–1874 | Clementina Black | United Kingdom | 1853 | 1922 | Feminist, writer, trade unionist |
| 1800–1874 | Alice Stone Blackwell | United States | 1857 | 1950 | Feminist and journalist, editor of Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication |
| 1800–1874 | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | United States | 1825 | 1921 | Founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869 |
| 1800–1874 | Elizabeth Blackwell | United States | 1821 | 1910 | First-wave feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Henry Browne Blackwell | United States | 1825 | 1909 | Businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner |
| 1800–1874 | Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch | United States | 1856 | 1940 | Suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Amelia Bloomer | United States | 1818 | 1894 | Suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily, advocated for many women's issues |
| 1800–1874 | Barbara Bodichon | United Kingdom | 1827 | 1891 | |
| 1800–1874 | Laura Borden | Canada | 1861 | 1940 | President of the Local Council of Women of Halifax |
| 1800–1874 | Lily Braun | Germany | 1865 | 1916 | |
| 1800–1874 | Fredrika Bremer | Sweden | 1801 | 1865 | Writer, feminist activist and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden |
| 1800–1874 | Ursula Mellor Bright | United Kingdom | 1835 | 1915 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Emilia Broomé | Sweden | 1866 | 1925 | |
| 1800–1874 | Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton | United Kingdom | 1869 | 1923 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Katharine Bushnell | United States | 1856 | 1946 | |
| 1800–1874 | Josephine Butler | United Kingdom | 1828 | 1906 | |
| 1800–1874 | Pancha Carrasco | Costa Rica | 1826 | 1890 | |
| 1800–1874 | Frances Jennings Casement | United States | 1840 | 1928 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Carrie Chapman Catt | United States | 1859 | 1947 | Suffrage leader, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women |
| 1800–1874 | Maria Cederschiöld | Sweden | 1856 | 1935 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | William Henry Channing | United States | 1810 | 1884 | Minister, author |
| 1800–1874 | Mary Agnes Chase | United States | 1869 | 1963 | Socialist feminist; suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Ada Nield Chew | United Kingdom | 1870 | 1945 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Tennessee Celeste Claflin | United States | 1844 | 1923 | suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Alice Clark | United Kingdom | 1874 | 1934 | |
| 1800–1874 | Helen Bright Clark | United Kingdom | 1840 | 1972 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Florence Claxton | United Kingdom | 1840 | 1879 | |
| 1800–1874 | Francis Power Cobbe | Ireland | 1822 | 1904 | |
| 1800–1874 | Mary Ann Colclough | New Zealand | 1836 | 1885 | Feminist; social reformer |
| 1800–1874 | Anna "Annie" Julia Cooper | United States | 1858 | 1964 | Suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Marguerite Coppin | Belgium | 1867 | 1931 | Woman poet laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights |
| 1800–1874 | Ida Crouch-Hazlett | United States | 1870 | 1941 | Socialist feminist; suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Emily Wilding Davison | United Kingdom | 1872 | 1913 | Suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Jenny d'Hericourt | France | 1809 | 1875 | |
| 1800–1874 | Voltairine de Cleyre | United States | 1866 | 1912 | Individualist feminist; anarcha-feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Isabelle Gatti de Gamond | Belgian | 1839 | 1905 | Educator, feminist, suffragist, politician |
| 1800–1874 | Augustine De Rothmaler | Belgian | 1859 | 1942 | Pedagogue, feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Caroline Rémy de Guebhard | France | 1855 | 1929 | |
| 1800–1874 | Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau | France | 1849 | 1932 | |
| 1800–1874 | Draga Dejanović | Serbia | 1840 | 1871 | |
| 1800–1874 | Josefina Deland | Sweden | 1814 | 1890 | Writer, teacher, founded Society for Retired Female Teachers) |
| 1800–1874 | Maria Deraismes | France | 1828 | 1894 | |
| 1800–1874 | Jeanne Deroin | France | 1805 | 1894 | |
| 1800–1874 | Charlotte Despard née French | United Kingdom | 1844 | 1939 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Wilhelmina Drucker | Netherlands | 1847 | 1925 | First wave feminist, political activist and writer |
| 1800–1874 | Louisa Margaret Dunkley | Australia | 1866 | 1927 | Labour organizer |
| 1800–1874 | Marguerite Durand | France | 1864 | 1936 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Friedrich Engels | Germany | 1820 | 1895 | Communist; male |
| 1800–1874 | Emily Faithfull | United Kingdom | 1835 | 1895 | |
| 1800–1874 | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | United Kingdom | 1847 | 1929 | Long-time president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
| 1800–1874 | Astrid Stampe Feddersen | Denmark | 1852 | 1930 | Chaired the first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Filosofova | Russia | 1837 | 1912 | Early Russian woman's rights activist |
| 1800–1874 | Louise Flodin | Sweden | 1828 | 1923 | |
| 1800–1874 | Mary Sargant Florence | United Kingdom | 1857 | 1954 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Isabella Ford | United Kingdom | 1855 | 1924 | Socialist feminist; suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Margaret Fuller | United States | 1810 | 1850 | Transcendentalist, critic, advocate for women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
| 1800–1874 | Matilda Joslyn Gage | United States | 1826 | 1898 | Suffragist, editor, writer, organizer |
| 1800–1874 | Marie-Louise Gagneur | France | 1832 | 1902 | Feminist writer |
| 1800–1874 | Eliza Gamble | United States | 1841 | 1820 | Intellectual and an advocate of the Women's Movement |
| 1800–1874 | William Lloyd Garrison | United States | 1805 | 1879 | Abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate |
| 1800–1874 | Edith Margaret Garrud | United Kingdom | 1872 | 1971 | Trained the 'Bodyguard' unit of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in jujutsu self-defence techniques |
| 1800–1874 | Désirée Gay | France | 1810 | 1891 | Socialist feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | United States | 1860 | 1935 | Ecofeminist |
| 1800–1874 | Wil van Gogh | Netherlands | 1862 | 1941 | |
| 1800–1874 | Emma Goldman | United Kingdom | 1869 | 1940 | Individualist feminist; Russian-American campaigner for birth control and other rights |
| 1800–1874 | Vida Goldstein | Australia | 1869 | 1949 | Early Australian feminist politician; first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament |
| 1800–1874 | Grace Greenwood | United States | 1823 | 1904 | First woman reporter on the New York Times payroll, advocate for social reform and women's rights |
| 1800–1874 | Angelina Emily Grimké | United States | 1805 | 1879 | First-wave feminist; Woman Suffrage advocate |
| 1800–1874 | Bella Guerin | Australia | 1858 | 1923 | Socialist feminist; first woman to graduate from an Australian university |
| 1800–1874 | Marianne Hainisch | Austria | 1839 | 1936 | Proponent of women's right to work and to receive education |
| 1800–1874 | Marion Coates Hansen | United Kingdom | 1870 | 1947 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Jane Ellen Harrison | United Kingdom | 1850 | 1928 | |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Haslam | Ireland | 1829 | 1922 | Major figure in early women's movement in Ireland, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Hierta-Retzius | Sweden | 1841 | 1924 | Women's rights activist and philanthropist |
| 1800–1874 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson | United States | 1828 | 1911 | Abolitionist, minister, author |
| 1800–1874 | Marie Hoheisel | Austria | 1873 | 1947 | Women's rights activist. Chair of Austrian Mothers' Day Committee |
| 1800–1874 | Laurence Housman | United Kingdom | 1865 | 1959 | Socialist feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Julia Ward Howe | United States | 1819 | 1910 | Suffragist, writer, organizer |
| 1800–1874 | Louisa Hubbard | United Kingdom | 1836 | 1906 | |
| 1800–1874 | Aletta Jacobs | Netherlands | 1854 | 1929 | |
| 1800–1874 | Kang Youwei | China | 1858 | 1927 | |
| 1800–1874 | Abby Kelley | United States | 1811 | 1887 | Suffragist and activist |
| 1800–1874 | Grace Kimmins | United Kingdom | 1871 | 1954 | |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Kingsford | United Kingdom | 1846 | 1888 | Ecofeminist |
| 1800–1874 | Toshiko Kishida | Japan | 1863 | 1901 | |
| 1800–1874 | Evgenia Konradi | Russian Empire | 1838 | 1898 | Socialist feminist, writer, essayist |
| 1800–1874 | Lotten von Kræmer | Sweden | 1828 | 1912 | Baroness, writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of the literary society Samfundet De Nio |
| 1800–1874 | Marie Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie | Canada | 1867 | 1945 | Suffragette; self-taught jurist |
| 1800–1874 | Louisa Lawson | Australia | 1848 | 1920 | Suffragette; radical pro-republican federalist; author and publisher |
| 1800–1874 | Mary Lee | Australia, Ireland | 1821 | 1909 | Reformer |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Leonowens | United Kingdom, India | 1831 | 1915 | Travel writer, educator, social activist |
| 1800–1874 | Fredrika Limnell | Sweden | 1816 | 1897 | |
| 1800–1874 | Mary Livermore | United States | 1820 | 1905 | Women's rights journalist, suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Belva Lockwood | United States | 1830 | 1917 | |
| 1800–1874 | Margaret Bright Lucas | United Kingdom | 1818 | 1890 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Christian Maclagan | United Kingdom | 1811 | 1901 | |
| 1800–1874 | Kitty Marion | United Kingdom | 1871 | 1944 | Socialist feminist; suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Harriet Martineau | United Kingdom | 1802 | 1876 | |
| 1800–1874 | Eleanor Marx | United Kingdom | 1855 | 1898 | Socialist feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Rosa Mayreder | Austria | 1858 | 1938 | |
| 1800–1874 | Nellie McClung | Canada | 1873 | 1951 | Feminist and suffragist; part of The Famous Five |
| 1800–1874 | Helen Priscilla McLaren | United Kingdom | 1851 | 1934 | |
| 1800–1874 | Louise Michel | France | 1830 | 1905 | anarcha-feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Harriet Taylor Mill | United Kingdom | 1807 | 1858 | Early pioneer feminist |
| 1800–1874 | John Stuart Mill | United Kingdom | 1806 | 1873 | Early Pioneer |
| 1800–1874 | Hannah Mitchell | United Kingdom | 1872 | 1956 | Socialist feminist; suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Katti Anker Møller | Norway | 1868 | 1945 | First-wave feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Agda Montelius | Sweden | 1850 | 1920 | Feminist; suffragette; philanthropist, chairman of the Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Maria Mozzoni | Italy | 1837 | 1920 | First-wave feminist; suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Flora Murray | United Kingdom | 1869 | 1923 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Clarina I. H. Nichols | United States | 1810 | 1885 | First-wave feminist; suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Draga Obrenović | Serbia | 1864 | 1903 | Queen consort; |
| 1800–1874 | Louise Otto-Peters | Germany | 1819 | 1895 | |
| 1800–1874 | Emmeline Pankhurst | United Kingdom | 1858 | 1928 | Suffragette; one of the founders and the leader of the British suffragette movement |
| 1800–1874 | Maud Wood Park | United States | 1871 | 1955 | Founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters |
| 1800–1874 | Madeleine Pelletier | France | 1874 | 1939 | French feminist; First-wave feminist; Socialist feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Gabrielle Petit | France | 1860 | 1952 | feminist activist, anticlerical, libertarian socialist |
| 1800–1874 | Wendell Phillips | United States | 1811 | 1884 | Abolitionist, orator, lawyer |
| 1800–1874 | Jyotiba Phule | India | 1827 | 1890 | Critic of the caste system, founded a school for girls, a widow-remarriage initiative, a home for upper caste widows, and a home for infant girls to discourage female infanticide |
| 1800–1874 | Eugénie Potonié-Pierre | France | 1844 | 1898 | |
| 1800–1874 | Eleanor Rathbone | United Kingdom | 1872 | 1946 | |
| 1800–1874 | Élisabeth Renaud | France | 1846 | 1932 | Co-founder Groupe Feministe Socialiste |
| 1800–1874 | Dorothy Richardson | United Kingdom | 1873 | 1957 | |
| 1800–1874 | Edith Rigby | United Kingdom | 1872 | 1948 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Bessie Rischbieth | Australia | 1874 | 1967) | Earliest female appointed to any court; early activist against the practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers |
| 1800–1874 | Eliza Ritchie | Canada | 1856 | 1933 | Prominent suffragist, executive member of the Local Council of Women of Halifax |
| 1800–1874 | Harriet Hanson Robinson | United States | 1825 | 1911 | |
| 1800–1874 | Pauline Roland | France | 1805 | 1852 | |
| 1800–1874 | Rosalie Roos | Sweden | 1823 | 1898 | Writer and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden |
| 1800–1874 | Ernestine Rose | United States, Russia-Poland | 1810 | 1892 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Hilda Sachs | Sweden | 1857 | 1935 | Journalist, writer and feminist |
| 1800–1874 | George Sand | France | 1804 | 1876 | Early pioneer feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Sandström | Sweden | 1854 | 1931 | Educational reformer |
| 1800–1874 | Auguste Schmidt | Germany | 1833 | 1902 | |
| 1800–1874 | Olive Schreiner | South Africa | 1855 | 1920 | |
| 1800–1874 | Rose Scott | Australia | 1847 | 1925 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Howard Shaw | United States | 1847 | 1919 | President of National Women's Suffrage Association 1904–1915 |
| 1800–1874 | Kate Sheppard | New Zealand | 1848 | 1934 | Influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (the first country and national election in which women were allowed to vote) |
| 1800–1874 | Tarabai Shinde | India | 1850 | 1910 | |
| 1800–1874 | Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff | United Kingdom | 1814 | 1897 | Early pioneer feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick | United Kingdom | 1845 | 1936 | |
| 1800–1874 | Dame Ethel Mary Smyth | United Kingdom | 1858 | 1944 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Garlin Spencer | United States | 1851 | 1931 | |
| 1800–1874 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | United States | 1815 | 1902 | Social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the International Council of Women |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Sterky | Sweden, Denmark | 1856 | 1939 | |
| 1800–1874 | Helene Stöcker | Germany | 1869 | 1943 | |
| 1800–1874 | Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja | Serbia | 1828 | 1878 | Feminist; war correspondent; writer; poet |
| 1800–1874 | Lucy Stone | United States | 1818 | 1893 | Orator, organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of the Woman's Journal, and first recorded American woman to retain her surname after marriage |
| 1800–1874 | Emily Howard Stowe | Canada | 1831 | 1903 | Physician, advocate for women's inclusion in the medical professional community, founder of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association |
| 1800–1874 | Helena Swanwick | United Kingdom | 1864 | 1939 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Frances Swiney | United Kingdom | 1847 | 1922 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Táhirih | Iran | 1814/17 | 1852 | Bábí poet, theologian, and proponent of women's rights in 19th-century Iran |
| 1800–1874 | Caroline Testman | Denmark | 1839 | 1919 | Co-founder of the Dansk Kvindesamfund |
| 1800–1874 | Martha Carey Thomas | United States | 1857 | 1935 | |
| 1800–1874 | Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda | United Kingdom | 1857 | 1941 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Flora Tristan | France | 1803 | 1844 | Socialist feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Harriet Tubman | United States | 1820 | 1913 | First-wave feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Thorstein Veblen | United States | 1857 | 1929 | Economist; sociologist; male |
| 1800–1874 | Alice Vickery | United Kingdom | 1844 | 1929 | Physician, supporter of birth control as means of emancipation of women |
| 1800–1874 | Beatrice Webb | United Kingdom | 1858 | 1943 | Socialist feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Ida B. Wells | United States | 1862 | 1931 | Civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragist noted for her refusal to avoid media attention because she was African American |
| 1800–1874 | Anna Whitlock | Sweden | 1852 | 1930 | Feminist, suffragette; school pioneer, journalist |
| 1800–1874 | Karolina Widerström | Sweden | 1856 | 1949 | Suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Frances Willard | United States | 1839 | 1898 | Suffragist and organizer, Socialist feminist; suffragette |
| 1800–1874 | Charlotte Wilson | United Kingdom | 1854 | 1944 | radical feminist |
| 1800–1874 | Victoria Woodhull | United States | 1838 | 1927 | First-wave feminist; suffragist, organizer, innovator, first woman to run for U.S. presidency |
| 1800–1874 | Frederick Douglass | United States | c. 1818 | 1895 | Male suffragist |
| 1800–1874 | Caroline Kauffmann | France | c. 1840s | 1924 | |
| 1800–1874 | Natalie Zahle | Denmark | 1827 | 1913 | Working for women's right to education. |
| 1800–1874 | Puah Rakovsky | Poland - Israel | 1865 | 1955 | Empowerment of women |

## Late 19th-century and early 20th-century feminists

Born between 1875 and 1939.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1875–1939 | Bella Abzug | United States | 1920 | 1998 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Ángela Acuña Braun | Costa Rica | 1888 | 1983 | |
| 1875–1939 | Madeleine Albright | United States, Czechoslovakia | 1937 | 2022 | 64th United States Secretary of State, and at the time, the highest ranking woman in US history. She is a staunch supporter of the feminist cause. |
| 1875–1939 | Wim Hora Adema | Netherlands | 1914 | 1998 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Anna Caspari Agerholt | Norway | 1892 | 1943 | Educator on women's rights with Norwegian National Women's Council, women's movement historian |
| 1875–1939 | Alan Alda | United States | 1936 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Dolores Alexander | United States | 1931 | 2008 | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Maya Angelou | United States | 1928 | 2014 | Civil rights activist |
| 1875–1939 | Margery Corbett Ashby | United Kingdom | 1882 | 1981 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Ksenija Atanasijević | Serbia | 1894 | 1981 | Suffragette; philosopher; first PhD in a Serbian university |
| 1875–1939 | Ti-Grace Atkinson | United States | 1938 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Margaret Atwood | Canada | 1939 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Helene Aylon | United States | 1931 | 2020 | Ecofeminist |
| 1875–1939 | Eva Bacon | Australia | 1909 | 1994 | Feminist and Socialist |
| 1875–1939 | Margot Badran | Australia | 1936 | - | Writer on Islamic feminism |
| 1875–1939 | Faith Bandler | Australia | 1918 | 2015 | Feminist and civil rights activist |
| 1875–1939 | Lois W. Banner | United States | 1939 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Thelma Bate | Australia | 1904 | 1984 | Community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginal women in Country Women's Association |
| 1875–1939 | Rosalyn Baxandall | United States | 1939 | 2015 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; New York Radical Women |
| 1875–1939 | Mary Ritter Beard | United States | 1876 | 1958 | Feminist; historian |
| 1875–1939 | Joan Beauchamp | United Kingdom | 1890 | 1964 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Kay Beauchamp | United Kingdom | 1899 | 1992 | |
| 1875–1939 | Simone de Beauvoir | France | 1908 | 1986 | Second-wave feminist; philosopher; writer |
| 1875–1939 | Helen Bentwich | United Kingdom | 1892 | 1972 | |
| 1875–1939 | Rosa May Billinghurst | United Kingdom | 1875 | 1953 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Teresa Billington-Greig | United Kingdom | 1877 | 1964 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Dorothy Lee Bolden | United States | 1923 | 2002 | Trade unionist |
| 1875–1939 | Dulce María Borrero | Cuba | 1883 | 1945 | Poet and journalist, described as "one of the leading feminists of her day" |
| 1865–1964 | Jeanne Bouvier | France | 1865 | 1964 | Feminist; trade unionist |
| 1875–1939 | Elsie Bowerman | United Kingdom | 1889 | 1973 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Helen Gurley Brown | United States | 1922 | 2012 | Author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan |
| 1875–1939 | Stella Browne | Canada | 1880 | 1955 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Susan Brownmiller | United States | 1935 | – | Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist; radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Katherine Burdekin | United Kingdom | 1896 | 1963 | |
| 1875–1939 | Lucy Burns | United States | 1879 | 1966 | Suffragette; suffragist and women's rights activist |
| 1875–1939 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell | United States | 1937 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Clara Campoamor | Spain | 1888 | 1972 | Suffragette, politician |
| 1875–1939 | Luisa Capetillo | Puerto Rico | 1879 | 1922 | Puerto Rican labor union suffragette; jailed for wearing pants in public |
| 1875–1939 | Liz Carpenter | United States | 1920 | 2010 | |
| 1875–1939 | Elvia Carrillo Puerto | Mexico | 1878 | 1967 | |
| 1875–1939 | Florence Fernet-Martel | Canada | 1892 | 1986 | Second-wave feminist; suffragette; educator, mostly active in Quebec |
| 1875–1939 | Thérèse Casgrain | Canada | 1896 | 1981 | Second-wave feminist; suffragette; politician and senator, mostly active in Quebec |
| 1875–1939 | Jacqueline Ceballos | United States | 1925 | – | Founder of Veteran Feminists of America |
| 1875–1939 | Enid Charles | United Kingdom | 1894 | 1972 | radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Shirley St Hill Chisholm | United States | 1924 | 2005 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Hélène Cixous | France | 1937 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Margaret "Gretta" Cousins | Ireland | 1878 | 1954 | Irish-Indian suffragist, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League |
| 1875–1939 | Eva Cox | Australia | 1938 | – | Sociologist; long-time member of the Women's Electoral Lobby |
| 1875–1939 | Jill Craigie | United Kingdom | 1911 | 1999 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Minnie Fisher Cunningham | United States | 1882 | 1964 | |
| 1875–1939 | Thelma Dailey-Stout | United States | 1918 | 2005 | Civil rights activist and organizer |
| 1875–1939 | Hamid Dalwai | India | 1932 | 1977 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Mary Daly | United States | 1928 | 2010 | Second-wave feminist; Ecofeminist |
| 1875-1939 | Hedy d'Ancona | Netherlands | 1937 | - | Second-wave feminist, co-founder of Man Vrouw Maatschappij, sociologist, Minister of Health, Welfare and Culture (1989-1994), senator |
| 1875–1939 | Sonja Davies | New Zealand | 1923 | 2005 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Alicia Moreau de Justo | Argentina | 1885 | 1986 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Agnes de Silva | Sri Lanka | 1885 | 1961 | Pioneered women's suffrage issues in Sri Lanka. |
| 1875–1939 | Ana María Pérez del Campo | Spain | 1936 | | Lawyer, feminist and writer, divorce law |
| 1875–1939 | Barbara Deming | United States | 1917 | 1984 | |
| 1875–1939 | Ezlynn Deraniyagala | Sri Lanka | 1908 | 1973 | |
| 1875–1948 | Zoraida Díaz | Panama | 1881 | 1948 | Poet, educator, founding member of Panama's first feminist organization |
| 1875–1939 | Betty Dodson | United States | 1929 | 2020 | Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Sediqeh Dowlatabadi | Iran | 1882 | 1962 | Journalist and women's rights activist |
| 1875–1939 | Carol Downer | United States | 1933 | – | Second-wave feminist; founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, author, health activist, attorney |
| 1875–1939 | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | United States | 1939 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Crystal Eastman | United States | 1881 | 1928 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Françoise d'Eaubonne | France | 1920 | 2005 | Ecofeminist |
| 1875–1939 | Esther Eillam | Israel | 1939 | 2023 | Second-wave feminist, Mizrahi feminist, major founder of Israel's feminist movement |
| 1875–1939 | Norah Elam | United Kingdom, Ireland | 1878 | 1961 | Radical feminist; suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Cynthia Enloe | United States | 1938 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Mohtaram Eskandari | Iran | 1895 | 1924 | Woman's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women |
| 1875–1939 | Vilma Espín | Cuba | 1930 | 2007 | |
| 1875–1939 | Elizabeth Evatt | Australia | 1933 | – | Legal reformist and juror; first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee |
| 1875–1939 | Myrlie Evers-Williams | United States | 1933 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Leonora Eyles | United Kingdom | 1889 | 1960 | Author, "agony aunt" |
| 1875–1939 | Lidia Falcón | Spain | 1935 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Frances Farrer | United Kingdom | 1895 | 1977 | |
| 1875–1939 | Geraldine Ferraro | United States | 1935 | 2011 | |
| 1875–1939 | Ana Figuero | Chile | 1908 | 1970 | |
| 1875–1939 | Marianne Githens | United States | 1936 | 2018 | Political scientist, author |
| 1875–1939 | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | United States | 1890 | 1964 | Socialist feminist; suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford | United States | 1918 | 2011 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Gerald Ford | United States | 1913 | 2006 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Miles Franklin | Australia | 1879 | 1954 | Feminist; writer |
| 1875–1939 | Clara Fraser | United States | 1923 | 1998 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Elisabeth Freeman | United States | 1876 | 1942 | Suffragist and civil rights activist, participated in the Suffrage Hikes |
| 1875–1939 | Marilyn French | United States | 1929 | 2009 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Betty Friedan | United States | 1921 | 2006 | Second-wave feminist; writer |
| 1875–1939 | Carol Gilligan | United States | 1936 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Françoise Giroud | France | 1916 | 2003 | Journalist, writer, politician |
| 1875–1939 | Judy Goldsmith | United States | 1938 | – | President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1982 to 1985 |
| 1875–1939 | Jane Goodall | United Kingdom | 1934 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Vivian Gornick | United States | 1935 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Lois Gould | United States | 1931 | 2002 | |
| 1875–1939 | Jane Grant | United States | 1892 | 1972 | |
| 1875–1939 | Germaine Greer | Australia | 1939 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Colette Guillaumin | France | 1934 | 2017 | |
| 1875–1939 | Tahar Haddad | Tunisia | 1897 | 1935 | Muslim feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Lizzy Lind af Hageby | Sweden | 1878 | 1963 | |
| 1875–1939 | Charlotte Haldane | United Kingdom | 1894 | 1969 | |
| 1875–1939 | Gisèle Halimi | France | 1927 | 2020 | |
| 1875–1939 | Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah | India | 1921 | 2000 | Muslim feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Bertha Harris | United States | 1937 | 2005 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Caroline Haslett | United Kingdom | 1895 | 1957 | |
| 1875–1939 | He Xiangning | China | 1878 | 1972 | Revolutionary, feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Dorothy Hewett | Australia | 1923 | 2002 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Nicole Hollander | United States | 1939 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Pak Hon-yong | South Korea | 1900 | 1956 | |
| 1875–1939 | Mary Howell | United States | 1932 | 1998 | |
| 1875–1939 | Edith How-Martyn | United Kingdom | 1875 | 1954 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim | Sudan | 1933 | 2017 | Muslim feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Fusae Ichikawa | Japan | 1893 | 1981 | |
| 1875–1939 | Luce Irigaray | France | 1930 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Sonia Johnson | United States | 1936 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Jill Johnston | United States | 1929 | 2010 | |
| 1875–1939 | Claudia Jones | United Kingdom, United States, Trinidad and Tobago | 1915 | 1964 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Rosalie Gardiner Jones | United States | 1883 | 1978 | Organizer of the Suffrage Hikes |
| 1875–1939 | Alice Jouenne | France | 1873 | 1954 | First-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Marie Juchacz | Germany | 1879 | 1956 | |
| 1875–1939 | Raden Adjeng Kartini | Indonesia | 1879 | 1904 | Muslim feminist; Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamous marriages and lack of education opportunities for women |
| 1875–1939 | Shidzue Katō | Japan | 1897 | 2001 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Joséphine Nyssens Keelhoff | Belgium | 1833 | 1917 | Feminist, women's rights activist |
| 1875–1939 | Aoua Kéita | Mali | 1912 | 1980 | |
| 1875–1939 | Florynce Kennedy | United States | 1916 | 2000 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Annie Kenney | United Kingdom | 1879 | 1953 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Yamakawa Kikue | Japan | 1890 | 1980 | Socialist feminist; anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Coretta Scott King | United States | 1927 | 2006 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Mabel Ping-Hua Lee | United States | 1896 | 1966 | Suffragist; first Chinese woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University |
| 1875–1939 | Gerda Lerner | Austria | 1920 | 2013 | |
| 1875–1939 | Audre Lorde | United States | 1934 | 1992 | Third-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Mina Loy | United Kingdom | 1882 | 1966 | |
| 1875–1939 | Rae Luckock | Canada | 1893 | 1972 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda | United Kingdom | 1883 | 1958 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Agnes Macphail | Canada | 1890 | 1954 | |
| 1875–1939 | Dora Marsden | United Kingdom | 1882 | 1960 | |
| 1875–1939 | Elizabeth Holloway Marston | United Kingdom | 1893 | 1993 | |
| 1875–1939 | William Moulton Marston | United States | 1893 | 1947 | |
| 1875–1939 | Nicole-Claude Mathieu | France | 1937 | 2014 | Empress French feminist; material feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Else Mayer | Germany | 1891 | 1962 | First-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Antonia Maymón | Spain | 1881 | 1959 | |
| 1875–1939 | Carolyn Merchant | United States | 1936 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1875–1939 | Maria Mies | Germany | 1931 | 2023 | Ecofeminist; professor of sociology and author |
| 1875–1939 | Inez Milholland | United States | 1886 | 1916 | Key participant in the National Woman's Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 |
| 1875–1939 | Kate Millett | United States | 1934 | 2017 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Laure Moghaizel | Lebanon | 1929 | 1997 | Lebanese lawyer and women's rights advocate |
| 1875–1939 | Florence Nagle | United Kingdom | 1894 | 1988 | Feminist; first woman in Britain to officially train racehorses. |
| 1875–1939 | Diane Nash | United States | 1938 | – | 1960s Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights proponent |
| 1875–1939 | Malak Hifni Nasif | Egypt | 1886 | 1918 | Feminist writer |
| 1875–1939 | Anaïs Nin | United States, France | 1903 | 1977 | |
| 1875–1939 | Helena Normanton | United Kingdom | 1882 | 1957 | |
| 1875–1939 | Alexis Nour | Romania | 1877 | 1940 | |
| 1875–1939 | Yoko Ono | United States, Japan | 1933 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Alicia Ostriker | United States | 1937 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Grace Paley | United States | 1922 | 2007 | |
| 1875–1939 | Adela Pankhurst | United Kingdom | 1885 | 1961 | |
| 1875–1939 | Christabel Pankhurst | United Kingdom | 1880 | 1958 | Suffragette; co-founder and leader of the Women's Social and Political Union |
| 1875–1939 | Sylvia Pankhurst | United Kingdom | 1882 | 1960 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Frances Parker | United Kingdom | 1875 | 1924 | |
| 1875–1939 | Alice Paul | United States | 1885 | 1977 | One of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of the Silent Sentinels and the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment |
| 1875–1939 | Eva Perón | Argentina | 1919 | 1952 | |
| 1875–1939 | Frédérique Petrides | United States, Belgium | 1903 | 1983 | Feminist; pioneering orchestral conductor, activist and editor of Women in Music, a series of periodicals chronicling the activities of women in music |
| 1875–1939 | Marion Phillips | United Kingdom | 1881 | 1932 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Sylvia Plath | United States | 1932 | 1963 | |
| 1875–1939 | Val Plumwood | Australia | 1939 | 2008 | Ecofeminism |
| 1875–1939 | Letty Cottin Pogrebin | United States | 1939 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Eileen Powell | Australia | 1913 | 1997 | Trade unionist, women's activist and important contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision |
| 1875–1939 | Millicent Preston-Stanley | Australia | 1883 | 1955 | First female member of the NSW Legislative Assembly; campaigned for the custodial rights of mothers in divorce and women's healthcare |
| 1875–1939 | Lorine Livingston Pruette | United States | 1896 | 1977 | |
| 1875–1939 | Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti | Nigeria | 1900 | 1978 | Foremost Nigerian women's rights activist |
| 1875–1939 | Claire Rayner | United Kingdom | 1931 | 2010 | |
| 1875–1939 | Adrienne Rich | United States | 1929 | 2012 | |
| 1875–1939 | Mary Richardson | United Kingdom | 1889 | 1961 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Léa Roback | Canada | 1903 | 2000 | Feminist; workers' union activist tied with the communist party |
| 1875–1939 | Hilary Rose | United Kingdom | 1935 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Agnes Maude Royden | United Kingdom | 1876 | 1956 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Florence Rush | United States | 1918 | 2008 | |
| 1875–1939 | Joanna Russ | United States | 1937 | 2011 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Diana E. H. Russell | South Africa | 1938 | 2020 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist;anti-pornography feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Dora Russell | United Kingdom | 1894 | 1986 | Feminist; progressive campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation |
| 1875–1939 | Manuel Sacristán | Spain | 1925 | 1985 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Nawal el-Sadaawi | Egypt | 1931 | 2021 | |
| 1875–1939 | Idola Saint-Jean | Canada | 1880 | 1945 | Suffragette; journalist |
| 1875–1939 | Celia Sánchez | Cuba | 1920 | 1980 | Early pioneer feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Ellen Sandelin | Sweden | 1862 | 1907 | Physician, lecturer |
| 1875–1939 | Flora Sandes | United Kingdom | 1876 | 1956 | Feminist Sgt. Major in Serbian Army |
| 1875–1939 | Margaret Sanger | United States | 1879 | 1966 | Socialist feminist; Founder of American Birth Control League; co-founder and long-time president of Planned Parenthood; writer, nurse |
| 1875–1939 | Milunka Savić | Serbia | 1888 | 1973 | First European combatant, soldier, feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Rosika Schwimmer | Hungary | 1877 | 1948 | Pacifist, feminist, suffragist and diplomat |
| 1875–1939 | Barbara Seaman | United States | 1935 | 2008 | |
| 1875–1939 | Baroness Seear | United Kingdom | 1913 | 1997 | |
| 1875–1939 | Huda Shaarawi | Egypt | 1879 | 1947 | Muslim feminist; organizer for the Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women's social service organization), the Union of Educated Egyptian Women and the Wafdist Women's Central Committee, founder and first president of the Egyptian Feminist Union |
| 1875–1939 | Alix Kates Shulman | United States | 1932 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Ruth Simpson | United States | 1926 | 2008 | |
| 1875–1939 | Monica Sjöö | Sweden | 1938 | 2005 | Ecofeminist |
| 1875–1939 | Eleanor Smeal | United States | 1939 | – | Second-wave feminist; organizer, initiator, president of NOW, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation |
| 1875-1939 | Joke Smit | Netherlands | 1933 | 1981 | Second-wave feminist; activist, seminal writer, co-founder of Man Vrouw Maatschappij |
| 1875–1939 | Valerie Solanas | United States | 1936 | 1988 | Radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Jo Spence | United Kingdom | 1934 | 1992 | |
| 1875–1939 | Gloria Steinem | United States | 1934 | – | Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist; writer |
| 1875–1939 | Doris Stevens | United States | 1892 | 1963 | Organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author Jailed for Freedom |
| 1875–1939 | Sandy Stone | United States | 1936 | – | Transfeminist; Second-wave feminist; Theorist, author, and performance artist |
| 1875–1939 | Marie Stopes | United Kingdom | 1880 | 1958 | |
| 1875–1939 | Mary Stott | United Kingdom | 1907 | 2002 | |
| 1875–1939 | Jessie Street | Australia | 1889 | 1970 | Suffragette, feminist; human rights campaigner; influential in labour rights and early days of UN |
| 1875–1939 | Louisa Strittmater | United States | 1896 | 1944 | Feminist whose division of her estate to the National Woman's Party as listed in her will was controversially contested. |
| 1875–1939 | Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill | United Kingdom | 1901 | 1980 | |
| 1875–1939 | Maya Surduts | France | 1937 | 2016 | Human rights activist, feminist and reproductive rights campaigner |
| 1875–1939 | Maria Svolou | Greece | 1890s | 1976 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Elisabeth Tamm | Sweden | 1880 | 1958 | |
| 1875–1939 | Mavis Tate | United Kingdom | 1893 | 1947 | |
| 1875–1939 | Joan Kennedy Taylor | United States | 1926 | 2005 | |
| 1875–1939 | Renee Taylor | New Zealand | 1929 | 2023 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Tcheng Yu-hsiu | China | 1891 | 1959 | Revolutionary |
| 1875–1939 | Rini Templeton | United States | 1935 | 1986 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Dorothy Thompson | United States | 1893 | 1961 | Buffalo and New York suffragist, later an influential journalist and radio broadcaster |
| 1875–1939 | J. Ann Tickner | United States | 1937 | – | |
| 1875–1939 | Winifred Todhunter | United Kingdom | 1877 | 1961 | |
| 1875–1939 | Jill Tweedie | United Kingdom | 1936 | 1993 | |
| 1875–1939 | Mabel Vernon | United States | 1883 | 1975 | Suffragist, principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels |
| 1875–1939 | Roosje Vos | The Netherlands | 1876 | 1961 | Trade unionist, suffragist and politician |
| 1875–1939 | Harriet Shaw Weaver | United Kingdom | 1860 | 1932 | Suffragette |
| 1875–1939 | Nesta Helen Webster | United Kingdom | 1876 | 1960 | |
| 1875–1939 | Louise Weiss | France | 1893 | 1983 | Journalist, writer, politician |
| 1875–1939 | Trude Weiss-Rosmarin | United States, Germany | 1908 | 1989 | |
| 1875–1939 | Clara Wichmann | Netherlands, Germany, | 1885 | 1922 | radical feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Audrey Wise | United Kingdom | 1935 | 2000 | |
| 1875–1939 | Monique Wittig | France | 1935 | 2003 | |
| 1875–1939 | Nellie Wong | United States | 1934 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Virginia Woolf | United Kingdom | 1882 | 1941 | First-wave feminist |
| 1875-1939 | Sylvia Wynter | Jamaica, United States | 1928 | – | Black feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Molly Yard | United States | 1912 | 2005 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Adelina Zendejas | Mexico | 1909 | 1993 | Socialist feminist |
| 1875–1939 | Llibertat Ródenas Rodriguez | Spain | 1892 | 1970 | Anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist and militant, member of the Mujeres Libres group |
| 1875–1939 | Amparo Poch y Gascón | Spain | 1902 | 1968 | Doctor by profession and an anarchist, pacifist and feminist activist, one of the co-founders of the Mujeres Libres group |
| 1875–1939 | Mercè Comaposada | Spain | 1901 | 1994 | Lawyer and pedagogue by profession and an anarcho-feminist, one of the co-founders of the Mujeres Libres group |
| 1875–1939 | Lucía Sánchez Saornil | Spain | 1895 | 1970 | Anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist, poet and one of the co-founders of the Mujeres Libres group |

## Mid to late 20th-century feminists

Born between 1940 and 1999.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1940–1999 | Zsuzsanna Budapest | Hungary | 1940 | – | Founder of the female-only tradition of the Dianic Wicca religion |
| 1940–1999 | Lesley Abdela | United Kingdom | 1945 | – | Expert on women's rights and representation |
| 1940–1999 | Patricia Monaghan | United States | 1946 | 2012 | Proponent of the American Goddess movement |
| 1940–1999 | Brooke Ackerly | United States | 1966 | – | Expert on feminist theory, feminist international relations, and scholar activism |
| 1940–1999 | Carol J. Adams | United States | 1951 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigeria & United States | 1977 | – | Writer, social commentator, feminist author |
| 1940–1999 | Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar | United Kingdom | 1944 | – | Muslim feminist, professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords |
| 1940–1999 | Leila Ahmed | Egypt | 1940 | – | Writer on Islamic feminism |
| 1940–1999 | Sara Ahmed | United Kingdom | 1969 | – | British-Australian academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism |
| 1940–1999 | Widad Akrawi | Denmark | 1969 | – | Writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality and women's empowerment and participation in peace building and post-conflict governance |
| 1940–1999 | Linda Martín Alcoff | United States | 1955 | – | Philosopher at the City University of New York |
| 1940–1999 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | United States, Netherlands, Somalia, | 1969 | – | Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician |
| 1940–1999 | Pam Allen | United States | 1943 | – | A founder of New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Isabel Allende | Chile, United States | 1942 | – | Writer |
| 1940–1999 | Jane Alpert | United States | 1947 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Tori Amos | United States | 1963 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | United States | 1942 | 2004 | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Maria Arbatova | USSR | 1957 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Parvin Ardalan | Iran | 1967 | – | Women's rights activist |
| 1940–1999 | Judith Astelarra | Argentina | 1943 | – | Sociologist specializing in gender studies |
| 1940–1999 | Élisabeth Badinter | France | 1944 | – | Dissident |
| 1940–1999 | Raquel Olea | Chile | 1944 | – | prominent figure of feminism in Chile |
| 1940–1999 | Judi Bari | United States | 1949 | 1997 | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Kathleen Barry | United States | 1941 | – | Anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Benedetta Barzini | Italy | 1943 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Jennifer Baumgardner | United States | 1970 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Alison Bechdel | United States | 1960 | – | Cartoonist, author; creator of the Bechdel test |
| 1940–1999 | Melissa Benn | United Kingdom | 1957 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Julie Bindel | United Kingdom | 1962 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Kat Blaque | United States | 1990 | – | Transfeminist, Third-wave feminist, Vlogger |
| 1940–1999 | Rosie Boycott | United Kingdom | 1951 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Dionne Brand | Canada | 1953 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Giannina Braschi | Puerto Rico | 1953 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Johanna Brenner | United States | 1942 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Susie Bright | United States | 1958 | – | Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminism |
| 1940–1999 | Flora Brovina | Kosovo | 1949 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Rita Mae Brown | United States | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings |
| 1940–1999 | Carrie Brownstein | United States | 1974 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Tammy Bruce | United States | 1962 | – | Dissident feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Charlotte Bunch | United States | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Louise Burfitt-Dons | United Kingdom | 1953 | – | Conservative feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Judith Butler | United States | 1956 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Octavia Butler | United States | 1947 | 2006 | |
| 1940–1999 | Lydia Cacho | Mexico | 1963 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Beatrix Campbell | United Kingdom | 1947 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Angela Carter | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1992 | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Ana Castillo | United States | 1953 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Phyllis Chesler | United States | 1940 | – | Feminist author, professor |
| 1940–1999 | Margaret Cho | United States | 1968 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Nancy Chodorow | United States | 1944 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Adele Clarke | United States | 1940 | 2024 | Feminist sociologist |
| 1940–1999 | Hillary Clinton | United States | 1947 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Kurt Cobain | United States | 1967 | 1994 | Feminist musician |
| 1940–1999 | Susan G. Cole | Canada | 1952 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Patricia Hill Collins | United States | 1948 | – | Third-wave feminist; Black feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sandra Coney | New Zealand | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Noreen Connell | United States | 1947 | – | radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Jeanne Córdova | United States | 1948 | 2016 | Second-wave feminist; lesbian and gay rights activist |
| 1940–1999 | Rosalind Coward | United Kingdom | 1952 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Laverne Cox | United States | 1972 | – | Transfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Bernadette Cozart | United States | 1949 | 2009 | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Nikki Craft | United States | 1949 | – | Radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist; suffragist; one of the main organizers of the Suffrage Hikes |
| 1940–1999 | Jean Curthoys | Australia | 1947 | – | Dissident |
| 1940–1999 | Kimberly Dark | United States | 1968 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Françoise David | Canada | 1948 | – | Feminist; politician |
| 1940–1999 | Angela Davis | United States | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist; Black feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Geena Davis | United States | 1956 | – | Actor, founder of Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media |
| 1940–1999 | Martha Davis | United States | 1957 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon | France | 1962 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Christine Delphy | France | 1941 | – | Socialist feminist; material feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Julie Delpy | France | 1969 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Mark Dery | United States | 1959 | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Ani DiFranco | United States | 1970 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Gail Dines | United Kingdom | 1958 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Unity Dow | Botswana | 1959 | – | Judge and writer; plaintiff in a case that allowed children of Motswana women and foreign men to be considered Batswana |
| 1940–1999 | Carol Ann Duffy | United Kingdom | 1955 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Andrea Dworkin | United States | 1946 | 2005 | Radical feminist; anti-prostitution feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran | 1947 | – | Muslim feminist; activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for her efforts for the rights of women and children |
| 1940–1999 | Barbara Ehrenreich | United States | 1941 | 2022 | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Beth Elliott | United States | 1950 | – | Transfeminist, Second-wave feminist, folk-singer, activist, and writer |
| 1940-1999 | Lindsay Ellis | United States | 1984 | – | Video Essayist |
| 1940–1999 | Misako Enoki | Japan | 1945 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Susan Faludi | United States | 1959 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Fadia Faqir | United Kingdom, Jordan | 1956 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Melissa Farley | United States | 1942 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Johanna Fateman | United States | 1974 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Kathy Ferguson | United States | 1950 | – | Individualist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Shulamith Firestone | Canada | 1945 | 2012 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Estelle Freedman | United States | 1947 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Jo Freeman | United States | 1945 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Juliette Fretté | United States | 1983 | – | Sex-positive feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Marilyn Frye | United States | 1941 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | Australia and Great Britain | 1965 | – | Fourth-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Lindsey German | United Kingdom | 1951 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Tavi Gevinson | United States | 1996 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Lois Marie Gibbs | United States | 1951 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Stan Goff | United States | 1951 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Lucy Goodison | United Kingdom | c. 1940s | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Heide Göttner-Abendroth | Germany | 1941 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | John Green | United States | 1977 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Susan Griffin | United States | 1943 | – | Ecofeminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Miss Major Griffin-Gracy | United States | 1940 | – | Transfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Emily Haines | Canada | 1974 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Daphne Hampson | United Kingdom | 1944 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Kathleen Hanna | United States | 1968 | – | Third-wave feminist; riot grrrl |
| 1940–1999 | Donna Haraway | United States | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Nancy Hartsock | United States | 1943 | 2015 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Rosemary Hennessy | United States | 1950 | – | Material feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Shere Hite | Germany | 1942 | 2020 | |
| 1940–1999 | Sarah Hoagland | United States | 1945 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel | Philippines | 1966 | – | Filipina women's right activist Philippines |
| 1940–1999 | Gillian Howie | United Kingdom | 1955 | 2013 | |
| 1940–1999 | Donna M. Hughes | United States | 1954 | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Holly Hunter | United States | 1958 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Anna Hutsol | UKR | 1984 | – | FEMEN |
| 1940–1999 | Stevi Jackson | United Kingdom | 1951 | – | Material feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Karla Jay | United States | 1947 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Kirthi Jayakumar | India | 1987 | – | Intersectional Feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sheila Jeffreys | Australia | 1948 | – | Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Robert Jensen | United States | 1958 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Joan Jett | United States | 1958 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Claire Johnston | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1987 | |
| 1940–1999 | Miranda July | United States | 1974 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Mohja Kahf | Syria | 1967 | – | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sheema Kalbasi | Iran | 1972 | – | Writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality |
| 1940–1999 | Wendy Kaminer | United States | 1949 | – | Sex-positive feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Marcelle Karp | United States | 1964 | – | Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Roz Kaveney | United Kingdom | 1949 | – | Transfeminist; Writer, critic, and poet |
| 1940–1999 | Jamie Lauren Keiles | United States | 1992 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Lierre Keith | United States | 1964 | – | Anti-pornography feminist; Radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Petra Kelly | Germany | 1947 | 1992 | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Jean Kilbourne | United States | 1943 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Grace Ji-Sun Kim | United States, South Korea | 1969 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sirje Kingsepp | Estonia | 1969 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Barbara Kingsolver | United States | 1955 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Anne Klein | Germany | 1941 | 2011 | Berlin Senator for women, youth and family |
| 1940–1999 | Bonnie Sherr Klein | United States | 1941 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Naomi Klein | Canada | 1970 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Anne Koedt | United States | 1941 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Elaheh Koulaei | Iran | 1956 | – | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sunitha Krishnan | India | 1972 | – | Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala, an institution that assists trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, giving education and employment |
| 1940–1999 | Julia Kristeva | France, Bulgaria | 1941 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Winona LaDuke | United States | 1959 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Laura Lederer | United States | 1951 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Ellie Levenson | United Kingdom | 1978 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Ariel Levy | United States | 1974 | – | Third-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Olga Lipovskaya | Russia | 1954 | 2021 | |
| 1940–1999 | Jacqueline Livingston | United States | 1943 | 2013 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Linda Lovelace | United States | 1949 | 2002 | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya | 1940 | 2011 | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Catharine MacKinnon | United States | 1946 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Madonna | United States | 1958 | – | sex-positive feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Patricia Mainardi | United States | 1942 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Sara Maitland | United Kingdom | 1950 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Catherine Malabou | France | 1959 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Irshad Manji | Canada | 1968 | – | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Soe Tjen Marching | Indonesia | 1971 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Amanda Marcotte | United States | 1977 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Mirjana Marković | Serbia | 1942 | 2019 | Politician; writer |
| 1940–1999 | Angela Mason | United Kingdom | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Liza Maza | Philippines | 1957 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Susan McClary | United States | 1946 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Deirdre McCloskey | United States | 1942 | – | Feminist economist |
| 1940–1999 | Wendy McElroy | Canada | 1951 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Patricia McFadden | Swaziland | 1952 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Angela McRobbie | United Kingdom | 1951 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala | 1959 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Fatima Mernissi | Morocco | 1940 | 2015 | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Juliet Mitchell | United Kingdom | 1940 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | 1941 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Tracey Moberly | United Kingdom | 1964 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Janet Mock | United States | 1983 | – | Transfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Chandra Talpade Mohanty | India | 1955 | – | Postcolonial and Transnational feminism theorist |
| 1940–1999 | Maxine Molyneux | United Kingdom | 1948 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Cherríe Moraga | United States | 1952 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Caitlin Moran | United Kingdom | 1975 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Robin Morgan | United States | 1941 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Bonnie J. Morris | United States | 1961 | – | Feminist scholar, author; women's movement, lesbian culture, and women's music historian |
| 1940–1999 | Laura Mulvey | United Kingdom | 1941 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Sally Rowena Munt | United Kingdom | 1960 | – | Feminist academic and lesbian theorist, author of Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998) |
| 1940–1999 | Jenni Murray | United Kingdom | 1950 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Inga Muscio | United States | c. 1966 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Kathy Najimy | United States | 1957 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Suniti Namjoshi | India | 1941 | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Uma Narayan | United States | 1958 | – | Postcolonial feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Taslima Nasrin | Bangladesh | 1962 | – | Feminist of Muslim origin |
| 1940–1999 | Asra Nomani | India | 1965 | – | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Isa Noyola | United States | 1978 | – | Transfeminist, Latina transgender activist and national leader in the LGBT immigrant rights movement |
| 1940–1999 | Martha Nussbaum | United States | 1947 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Ann Oakley | United Kingdom | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sandra Oh | Canada, United States | 1971 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Lars Ohly | Sweden | 1957 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Terry O'Neill | United States | c. 1953 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Elliot Page | Canada | 1987 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Camille Paglia | United States | 1947 | – | Dissident feminist, academic, author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) |
| 1940–1999 | Amanda Palmer | United States | 1976 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Carole Pateman | United Kingdom | 1940 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Nancy Paterson (artist) | United States | 1953 | 2010 | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Peaches | Canada | 1966 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Sue Perlgut | United States | | – | Second-wave feminist; poet |
| 1940–1999 | Vesna Pešić | Serbia | 1940 | – | Feminist; diplomat; politician |
| 1940–1999 | Irene Peslikis | United States | 1943 | 2002 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Liz Phair | United States | 1967 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Mary Pipher | United States | 1947 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Katha Pollitt | United States | 1949 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Griselda Pollock | Canada | 1949 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Soraya Post | Sweden | 1956 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Anastasia Powell | Australia | 1982 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Manasi Pradhan | India | 1962 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Sharon Presley | United States | 1943 | – | Individualist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Maria Raha | United States | 1972 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Janice Raymond | United States | 1943 | – | Second-wave feminist; anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Bernice Johnson Reagon | United States | 1942 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Helen Reddy | United States, Australia, | 1941 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Tucker Reed | United States | 1989 | – | Student leader in the Title IX and campus rape awareness movement, founder of the national organization Student Coalition Against Rape; author of books notable for their realistic depiction of characters with social development disorders |
| 1940–1999 | Elizabeth Anne Reid | Australia | 1942 | – | World's first advisor on women's affairs to a head of state (Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and active on women's development for the UN; also prominent in HIV activism |
| 1940–1999 | Abby Rockefeller | United States | 1943 | – | Radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Ninotchka Rosca | Philippines | 1946 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Jacqueline Rose | United Kingdom | 1949 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Sheila Rowbotham | United Kingdom | 1943 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Gayle Rubin | United States | 1949 | – | Sex-positive feminist; Queer theorist |
| 1940–1999 | Alzira Rufino | Brazil | 1949 | – | Feminist and activist associated with the Black Movement |
| 1940–1999 | Shadi Sadr | Iran | 1975 | – | Women's rights activist |
| 1940–1999 | Gita Sahgal | United Kingdom, India | 1956/7 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Sarojini Sahoo | India | 1956 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | JD Samson | United States | 1978 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Michael Sandel | United States | 1953 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Justin Sane | United States, Ireland | 1973 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Thomas Sankara | Burkina Faso | 1949 | 1987 | |
| 1940–1999 | Kathie Sarachild | United States | 1943 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Anita Sarkeesian | United States, Canada | 1983 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Marjane Satrapi | France, Iran | 1969 | – | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–1999 | John Scalzi | United States | 1969 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Alice Schwarzer | Germany | 1942 | – | Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist; journalist and publisher of the magazine Emma |
| 1940–1999 | Gudrun Schyman | Sweden | 1948 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Lynne Segal | Australia | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Julia Serano | United States | 1967 | – | Transfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Shamima Shaikh | South Africa | 1960 | 1998 | South African activist, member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, proponent of Islamic gender equality |
| 1940–1999 | Shahla Sherkat | Iran | 1956 | – | Muslim feminist; journalist |
| 1940–1999 | Vicki Shiran | Israel | 1947 | 2004 | Mizrahi feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Vandana Shiva | India | 1952 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Elaine Showalter | United States | 1941 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Ann Simonton | United States | 1952 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Carol Smart | United Kingdom | 1948 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Barbara Smith | United States | 1946 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Joan Smith | United Kingdom | 1953 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Valerie Smith | Canada | 1956 | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Kate Smurthwaite | United Kingdom | 1975 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Cornelia Sollfrank | Germany | 1960 | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Patricia Soltysik | United States | 1950 | 1974 | Radical feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Christina Hoff Sommers | United States | 1950 | – | Dissident |
| 1940–1999 | Kate Soper | United Kingdom | 1943 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Donita Sparks | United States | 1963 | – | Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl |
| 1940–1999 | Dale Spender | Australia | 1943 | 2023 | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Charlene Spretnak | United States | 1946 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Annie Sprinkle | United States | 1954 | – | Third-wave feminist; Sex-positive feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Starhawk | United States | 1951 | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Patrick Stewart | United Kingdom | 1940 | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | John Stoltenberg | United States | 1944 | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Nadine Strossen | United States | 1950 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Anne Summers | Australia | 1945 | – | Women's rights activist; women's advisor to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating and editor of Ms. magazine (New York) |
| 1940–1999 | Cathy Harkin | Northern Ireland | 1942 | 1985 | Women's refuge |
| 1940–1999 | Karlina Leksono Supelli | Indonesia | 1958 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Kazimiera Szczuka | Poland | 1966 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Lili Taylor | United States | 1967 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940-1999 | Twie Tjoa | Netherlands | 1943 | - | Women's rights activist for black, migrant and refugee women, high Suriname civil servant, sociologist and author |
| 1940–1999 | Roya Toloui | Iran | 1966 | – | Women's rights activist |
| 1940–1999 | Corin Tucker | United States | 1972 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Robin Tunney | United States | 1972 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Urvashi Vaid | United States, India | 1958 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Tobi Vail | United States | 1969 | – | Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl |
| 1940–1999 | Jessica Valenti | United States | 1978 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Virginia Vargas | Peru | 1945 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Norah Vincent | United States | 1968 | – | Dissident feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Hilary Wainwright | United Kingdom | 1949 | – | Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Alice Walker | United States | 1944 | – | radical feminist; Black feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Rebecca Walker | United States | 1969 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Michele Wallace | United States | 1952 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Natasha Walter | United Kingdom | 1967 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Peng Wan-ru | Taiwan | 1949 | 1996 | |
| 1940–1999 | Betsy Warrior | United States | 1940 | – | Founding member of the Boston-area women's liberation group Cell 16 |
| 1940–1999 | Gloria Jean Watkins | United States | 1952 | – | Third-wave feminist; Socialist feminist; Black feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Emma Watson | England | 1990 | – | Actor, feminist, United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador |
| 1940–1999 | Joss Whedon | United States | 1964 | – | Previously listed as a male feminist, he generated a toxic work environment for many women in his shows |
| 1940–1999 | Faith Wilding | United States, Paraguay | 1943 | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–1999 | Ellen Willis | United States | 1941 | 2006 | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; sex-positive feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–1999 | Oprah Winfrey | United States | 1954 | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Valerie Wise | United Kingdom | 1955 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Naomi Wolf | United States | 1962 | – | Dissident feminist; Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Allison Wolfe | United States | 1969 | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–1999 | Elizabeth Wurtzel | United States | 1967 | 2020 | |
| 1940–1999 | Cathy Young | United States, Russia | 1963 | – | |
| 1940–1999 | Malala Yousafzai | Pakistan | 1997 | – | Pakistani feminist activist for female education |
| 1940–1999 | Stasa Zajovic | Serbia | 1953 | – | Co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black |
| 1940–1999 | Julie Zeilinger | United States | 1993 | – | Third-wave feminist |

## Notable 20th and 21st-century feminists

Birth years for the following entries are currently unavailable.
| Period (birth) | Name | Country | Born | Died | Comments |
| 1940–2025 | Lorraine Bethel | United States | 20th century | – | Second-wave feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Lauran Bethell | United States | 20th century | – | Anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1940–2025 | D. A. Clarke | United States | 20th century | – | Radical feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Mary Clark-Glass | United Kingdom | 20th century | – | |
| 1940–2025 | Carol Cohn | United States | 20th century | – | Gender and armed conflict |
| 1940–2025 | Donna Dresch | United States | 20th century | – | Third-wave feminist; Riot grrrl |
| 1940–2025 | Gunilla Ekberg | Sweden | 20th century | – | Anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Mary Flanagan | United States | 20th century | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–2025 | Deborah Frances-White | Australia and Great Britain | 20th century | – | Stand-up comedian; Feminist in the community of Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses |
| 1940–2025 | Carol Hanisch | United States | 20th century | – | Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women |
| 1940–2025 | Luzviminda Ilagan | Philippines | 20th century | – | Socialist feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani | Iran | 20th century | – | Muslim feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Andrew Kooman | Canada | 20th century | – | Anti-prostitution feminist; anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Peggy Kornegger | United States | 20th century | – | |
| 1940–2025 | Donna Laframboise | Canada | 20th century | – | Dissident feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Paris Lees | United Kingdom | 20th century | – | Transfeminist, journalist, presenter, and transgender rights activist |
| 1940–2025 | Dorchen Leidholdt | United States | 20th century | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Kristin Lems | United States | 20th century | – | Activist, singer/songwriter |
| 1940–2025 | Sara Hlupekile Longwe | Zambia | 20th century | – | radical feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Joanna Maycock | Belgium and Great Britain | 20th century | – | European women's rights campaigner |
| 1940–2025 | Jamie McIntosh | Canada | 20th century | – | Lawyer and women's rights activist |
| 1940–2025 | Page Mellish | United States | 20th century | – | Anti-pornography feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Honor Moore | United States | 20th century | – | |
| 1940–2025 | Meghan Murphy | Canada | 20th century | – | Journalist; radical feminist; anti-sex industry feminist |
| 1940-2025 | Nalini Nayak | India | 20th century | — | |
| 1940–2025 | Benjamin Nolot | United States | 20th century | – | Anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Jerilynn Prior | Canada | 20th century | – | |
| 1940–2025 | Kathy Rudy | United States | 20th century | – | Ecofeminist |
| 1940–2025 | Debbie Stoller | United States | 20th century | – | Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Lucy Suchman | United Kingdom | 20th century | – | Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist |
| 1940–2025 | Helen Sworn | United Kingdom | 20th century | – | Anti-prostitution feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Kajsa Wahlberg | Sweden | 20th century | – | Anti-prostitution feminist; Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities |
| 1940–2025 | Warcry | United States | 20th century | – | Radical feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Kaia Wilson | United States | 20th century | – | Third-wave feminist |
| 1940–2025 | Alice Wolfson | United States | 20th century | – | |
| 1940–2025 | Sande Zeig | United States | 20th century | – | |
Jackie Weaver