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 Martín 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 Anckarsvärd (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. Anzaldúa
* Maria Arbatova (born 1957), leading Russian feminist
* Lovisa Årberg (1801–1881), first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden
* Concepción 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
* Mariama Bâ, writer and supporter for women's rights from Senegal.
* Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian
* Marie Bashkirtseff
* Anna Bayerová (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 Broomé, 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 Cederschiöld, 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
* François Poullain de la Barre
* Sor Juana Inés 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 Dentière (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
* André 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 Møller, Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
* Agda Montelius (1850–1920)
* Honor Moore American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
* Cherríe 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 Perón
*Frédérique 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 Sánchez (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.
* Margaret Sanger
* Thomas Sankara, author of ''Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle'' (1987 speech)
* Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), pioneer of women's education in Germany
* Olive Schreiner
* Alice Schwarzer
* Rose Scott
* Barbara Seaman
* Baroness Seear, British
* Séverine
* Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
* Kate Sheppard
* Tarabai Shinde
* Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897), English activist and writer
* Elaine Showalter
* Ruth Simpson
* Barbara Smith
* Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
* Valerie Solanas
* Donita Sparks, musician
* Anna Garlin Spencer
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton
* Gloria Steinem
* Anna Sterky
* Helene Stöcker
* Lucy Stone
* Marie Stopes
* Mary Stott, British feminist journalist
* Karlina Leksono Supelli, Indonesian feminist
* Kazimiera Szczuka, Polish feminist, journalist, and critic and theoretician of the literature
* Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher, and theologian
* Elisabeth Tamm
* Joan Kennedy Taylor
* Thomas Thorild (1759–1808), Swedish poet and feminist
* J. Ann Tickner, International Relations scholar
* Sojourner Truth
* Harriet Tubman
* Urvashi Vaid
* Wil van Gogh
* Peng Wan-ru
* Nesta Helen Webster, early 20th-century U.K. conservative
* Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
* Joss Whedon, writer-director and creator of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*
* Anna Whitlock, Swedish suffragette and school reformer
* Karolina Widerström 
* Frances Willard (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist
* Charlotte Wilson
* Monique Wittig
* Alice Wolfson
* Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*
* Victoria Woodhull
* Virginia Woolf
* Frances Wright
* Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of *Bitch* and *Prozac Nation*
* Cathy Young
* Sande Zeig
* Clara Zetkin
* Rote Zora

## Second-wave feminists 
* Bella Abzug
* Gloria E. Anzaldúa
* Ti-Grace Atkinson
* Lorraine Bethel
* Susan Brownmiller
* Charlotte Bunch
* Beatrix Campbell
* Thérèse Casgrain
* Shirley St. Hill Chisholm
* Sandra Coney
* Sonja Davies
* Angela Davis
* Simone de Beauvoir
* Carol Downer
* Cynthia Enloe
* Myrlie Evers
* Susan Faludi
* Melissa Farley
* Clara Fraser
* Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford
* Gerald Ford
* Jo Freeman (Joreen)
* Marilyn French
* Betty Friedan
* Carol Gilligan
* Heide Göttner-Abendroth, German
* Germaine Greer
* Carol Hanisch
* Donna Haraway
* Bertha Harris
* Nancy Hartsock
* Dorothy Hewett
* bell hooks
* Sheila Jeffreys, Australian radical feminist
*Florynce Kennedy
* Coretta Scott King
* Anne Koedt
* Peggy Kornegger
* Jacqueline Livingston
* Angela Mason (1944-), British
* Kate Millett
* Robin Morgan
* Ann Oakley
* Griselda Pollock
* Erin Pizzey
* Janice Raymond
* Bernice Johnson Reagon
* Helen Reddy
* Sheila Rowbotham, British
* Joanna Russ
* Diana E. H. Russell
* Alice Schwarzer
* Lynne Segal
* Kato Shidzue, Japan
* Ann Simonton
* Eleanor Smeal
* Dale Spender
* Gloria Steinem
* Michele Wallace
* Hilary Wainwright
* Molly Yard

## Third-wave feminists 
* Li Ang (writer)
* Tori Amos
* Gloria E. Anzaldúa
* Margaret Atwood
* Jennifer Baumgardner
* Melissa Benn
* Giannina Braschi
* Augusta Bender
* Susie Bright
* Carrie Brownstein
* Judith Butler
* Margaret Cho
*Meg Waite Clayton
* Patricia Hill Collins, author of *Black Feminist Thought*
* Kimberly Dark
* Ani DiFranco
* Martha Davis
* Donna Dresch
* Betty Dodson
* Johanna Fateman
*Tavi Gevinson
* Emily Haines
* Kathleen Hanna
* Donna Haraway
* bell hooks
* Holly Hunter
* Joan Jett
* Miranda July
* Marcelle Karp
*Jamie Keiles
* Jean Kilbourne
* Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Korean-American theologian
* Barbara Kingsolver
* Ariel Levy
* Rosie Malek-Yonan, activist and author of *The Crimson Field*
* Inga Muscio
* Kathy Najimy
* Sandra Oh
* Alicia Ostriker
* Ellen Page
* Peaches
* Liz Phair
* Maria Raha
* JD Samson
* Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon
* Gudrun Schyman
* Joan Smith
* Annie Sprinkle, American porn actress
* Debbie Stoller
* Nadine Strossen
* Lili Taylor
* Corin Tucker
* Robin Tunney
* Tobi Vail
* Jessica Valenti
* Rebecca Walker
* Natasha Walter
* Kaia Wilson
* Naomi Wolf
* Allison Wolfe
*Julie Zeilinger

## Ecofeminists 
* Carol J. Adams
* Helene Aylon
* Judi Bari
* Bernadette Cozart
* Mary Daly
* Françoise d'Eaubonne
* Lois Marie Gibbs
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* Susan Griffin
* Petra Kelly
* Anna Kingsford
* Winona LaDuke
* Wangari Maathai
* Maria Mies
* Vandana Shiva
* Monica Sjoo
* Charlene Spretnak
* Starhawk

## French feminists 
* Olympe Audouard
* Hubertine Auclert
* Marie Bashkirtseff
* Hélène Cixous
* Simone de Beauvoir
* Olympe de Gouges
* Christine Delphy
* Maria Deraismes
* Fatou Diome
* Marguerite Durand
* Bracha L. Ettinger
* Colette Guillaumin
* Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau
* Gisèle Halimi
* Luce Irigaray
* Julia Kristeva
* André Leo
* Anaïs Nin
* Madeleine Pelletier
* Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
* Pauline Roland
* Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon
* Séverine
* Flora Tristan

## Muslim feminists 
* Leila Ahmed, Egyptian American writer
* Qasim Amin
* Shirin Ebadi
* Nawal el-Sadaawi
* Tahar Haddad, Tunisian writer
* Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
* Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
* Kartini, Indonesian
* Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
* Elaheh Koulaei
* Rabab Al-Kadhimi
* Irshad Manji
* Fatima Mernissi
* Asra Nomani
* Marjane Satrapi
* Huda Shaarawi
* Shahla Sherkat
## Related pages
* World March of Women
* One Billion Rising

## References 
## Other websites 
* National Women's History Project
* FemBio - Notable Women International