List of feminists

This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism.
Feminists
Lesley Abdela, British feminist fl. 2010
Abigail Adams (1744-1818), First Lady of the United States
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Sophie Adlersparre (1823-1895)
Alfhild Agrell (1849-1923)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Catharina Ahlgren (1734-1783), Swedish journalist and feminist
Linda Martin Alcoff
Alan Alda, U.S. actor (M*A*S*H* and The West Wing) who campaigned for Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s
Soteria Aliberty, Greek educator and writer
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874-1930), German university lecturer
Ellen Anckarsvard (1833-1898), Swedish feminist
Adelaide Anderson (1863-1936), British
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), British physician and suffragist
Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), British physician and suffragette
Jane Anger, author of Her Protection for Women, London: Printed by Richard Jones, and Thomas Orwin. 1589.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), American suffragette
Anti-Flag, self-proclaimed feminists, who have written songs including Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain)
Gloria E. Anzaldua
Maria Arbatova (born 1957), leading Russian feminist
Lovisa Arberg (1801-1881), first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden
Concepcion Arenal (1820-1893), activist, writer, thinker, pioneer, and founder of the feminist movement in Spain
Margery Corbett Ashby (1882-1981), British
Ottilie Assing
Mary Astell (c. 1666-1731), author of Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Hubertine Auclert
Rachel Foster Avery
Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian
Marie Bashkirtseff
Anna Bayerova (1853-1924), second Czech female physician
Lydia Becker (1827-1890), British suffrage campaigner
Catharine Beecher (1800-1878), American educator and author
Helen Bentwich (1892-1972), British Chair of London County Council
Signe Bergman (1869-1960), Swedish suffrage leader
Annie Besant
Julie Bindel, Guardian columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking, and rape
Rosa May Billinghurst (1875-1953), British suffragette
Teresa Billington-Greig (1877-1964), British founder of the Women's Freedom League
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), first female physician in the U.S.
Barbara Bodichon
Elsie Bowerman (1889-1973)
Anne Bradstreet
Fredrika Bremer
Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659-1724), Swedish salonist and poet
Ursula Mellor Bright
Emilia Broome, Swedish politician
Flora Brovina
Antoinette Brown
Susan Brownmiller
Katherine Burdekin
Lucy Burns
Katharine Bushnell
Josephine Butler (1828-1906), British
Lydia Cacho
Liz Carpenter, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
Frances Jennings Casement
Ana Castillo
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), American women's rights activist
Maria Cederschiold, Swedish feminist
Enid Charles (1894-1972)
Phyllis Chesler
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), Queen
Alice Whitcomb Clark
Florence Claxton (fl. 1840-1879), English artist and author
Voltairine de Cleyre
Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and now Secretary of State and U.S. politician
Kurt Cobain, self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as an "anti-rape song."
Francis Power Cobbe
Nikki Craft
Jill Craigie (1911-1999), British film maker
Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882-1964) First president of League of Women Voters,First woman from Texas to run for the United States Senate
Mary Daly, ethicist and theologian
Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913), British suffragette
Simone de Beauvoir
Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment
Eoin Conroy
Olympe de Gouges
Marie de Gournay
Francois Poullain de la Barre
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the Western hemisphere
Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution
Christine de Pizan (1365-1430)
Josefina Deland (1814-1890), Swedish feminist
Barbara Deming
Marie Dentiere (c. 1495-1561), Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women
Charlotte Despard (1844-1939), British
Frederick Douglass
Carol Ann Duffy
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Marguerite Durand
Andrea Dworkin
Norah Elam (1878-1961)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Communist writer and thinker; wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Cynthia Enloe, International Relations scholar
Dorothea Erxleben (1715-1762), first female physician in Germany
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), British leader of the suffragist movement
Emily Faithfull (1835-1895), British
Shulamith Firestone
Louise Flodin, Swedish
Mary Sargant Florence (1857-1954), suffragist, painter, and writer
Betty Ford, former First Lady
Isabella Ford (1855-1924)
Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi
Juliette Frette
Marilyn Frye
Margaret Fuller
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emma Goldman
Vida Goldstein (1869-1949), Australian feminist politician
Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
Jane Goodall
Lois Gould
Bettisia Gozzadini (1209-1261), held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
Jane Grant
Angelina Emily Grimke
Sarah Grimke
Marianne Hainisch
Bertha Harris
Jane Ellen Harrison, British scholar
Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841-1924)
Shere Hite
Sarah Hoagland
Nicole Hollander
Edith How-Martyn (1875-1954), British suffragette
Julia Ward Howe
Mary Howell
Andre A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist
Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929), the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician
Karla Jay
Sheila Jeffreys
Sonia Johnson
Jill Johnston
Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), Scottish journalist, editor, and novelist
Marie Juchacz, German social reformer, feminist, and Member of the Reichstag
Wendy Kaminer
Aoua Keita
Anna Kingsford (1846-1888)
Alexandra Kollontai
Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
Mary Lee, South Australian suffragist
Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817), Swedish phoet
John Lennon, self-proclaimed feminist who with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song Woman is the Nigger of the World and Woman (John Lennon song)
Anna Leonowens
Gerda Lerner, post-Marxist
Fredrika Limnell, Swedish
Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963)
Mary Livermore
Audre Lorde
Mina Loy
Margaret Bright Lucas
Rosa Luxemburg
Constance Lytton, British suffragette
Catharine MacKinnon
Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons and founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
Madonna, entertainer
Soe Tjen Marching, Indonesian feminist
Amanda Marcotte, American blogger and activist
William Moulton Marston
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), British, writer
Else Mayer
Rosa Mayreder
Susan McClary
Nellie McClung
Wendy McElroy
Helen Priscilla McLaren
Page Mellish
Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871-1880 and considered women's labor of comparable worth
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858), English thinker
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
Katti Anker Moller, Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
Agda Montelius (1850-1920)
Honor Moore American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
Cherrie Moraga
Robin Morgan
Lucretia Mott
Anna Maria Mozzoni
Clarina I. H. Nichols
Helena Normanton British, first practising female barrister
Martha Nussbaum
Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
Yoko Ono, Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
Grace Paley
Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette
Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette
Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette
Alice Paul
Eva Peron
Frederique Petrides (1903-1983) Belgian-American; one of the first women orchestral conductors and editor of Women in Music
Marion Phillips
Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
Sharon Presley
Jerilynn Prior
Madeleine de Puisieux (1720-1798), feminist writer
Eleanor Rathbone, British
Janice Raymond
Claire Rayner, British
Adrienne Rich
Abby Rockefeller
Rosalie Roos (1823-1898)
Ernestine Rose
Agnes Maude Royden, British suffrage campaigner
Kathy Rudy
Florence Rush
Gita Sahgal, Indian feminist
Sarojini Sahoo
Celia Sanchez (1920-1980), in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution
George Sand (1804-1876), French Novelist
Flora Sandes, jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.