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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organizations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals. Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. For example, suffragettes in the British usage denotes a more "militant" type of campaigner, and suffragettes in the United States organized such nonviolent events as the Silent Sentinels, the Suffrage Hikes, and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913.
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) - women's rights and temperance advocate. Her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers
Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) - professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham
Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) - American journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) - African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman
Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955) - suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with Abby Crawford Milton and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[1][2]
Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) - suffragette, and the first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate. [3]
Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) - active with the National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada. Crossed the U.S. to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson
Clara S. Foltz (1849–1934) - lawyer, sister of U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge
Ada James (1876–1952) - social worker and reformer
Izetta Jewel (1883–1978) - stage actress, women's rights activist, politician and the first woman to address a major American political party convention
Belle Kearney (1863–1939) - speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate
Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) - National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum)
Helen Keller (1880–1968) - Author and political activist
Abby Kelley (1811–1887) - abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for American Anti-Slavery Society
Caroline Burnham Kilgore (1838-1909) - the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965) - civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitioner
Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) - first Chinese American to register to vote in the U.S., November 8, 1911[4]
Dora Lewis (born 1862) - in 1913 she became an executive member of the National Women's Party, in 1918 she became their chairwoman of finance, and in 1919 she became their national treasurer; in 1920 she headed their ratification committee
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) - journalist and advocate of women's rights
Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) - architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists
Arabella Mansfield (1846-1911) - the first female lawyer in the United States, chaired the Iowa Women’s Suffrage Convention in 1870, and worked with Susan B. Anthony
Anne Henrietta Martin (1875–1951) - Vice-chairman National Woman's Party, arrested as a Silent Sentinel, president Nevada Equal Franchise Society, first U.S. woman to run for Senate
Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) - prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement
Abby Crawford Milton (1881-1991) - traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities. In 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.[5][6]
Virginia Minor (1824–1894) - co-founder, president, Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri, she unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.
Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) - first female Justice of the Peace in the United States
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) - Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer
Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) - founder College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG), worked for passage of the 19th Amendment
Juno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864-1954) - An African-American suffragist[7][8][9][10]
Helen Pitts (1838–1903) - active in women's rights movement and co-edited The Alpha
Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975) - photographer, served as National Chairman in the National Woman's Party
Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) - first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio and the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) - birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Julia Sears (1840–1929) - pioneering academic and first woman in the U.S. to head a public college, now Minnesota State University
May Wright Sewall (1844-1920) - chairperson of the National Woman's Suffrage Association's executive committee from 1882 to 1890
Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) - president of National Women's Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915
Mary Shaw (1854–1929) - early feminist, playwright and actress
May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) - educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in Philosophy in the United States
Doris Stevens (1892–1963) organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author Jailed for Freedom
Lucy Stone (1818–1893) - prominent orator, abolitionist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women
Helen Taft (1891–1987) - daughter of President William Howard Taft, she traveled the nation giving pro-suffrage speeches.
Lydia Taft (1712–1778) - first woman known to legally vote in colonial America
Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) - African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil War
Mina Van Winkle (1875–1932) - crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the law enforcement and judicial process
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) - leader of woman's suffrage movement, first female candidate for President of the United States, first woman to start a weekly newspaper, activist for women's rights and labor reforms, advocate of free love
Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) - feminist politician, first woman in British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament
Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) - poet, writer, publisher, feminist, mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson
Mary Lee (1821–1909) - Irish-Australian social reformer
Muriel Matters (1877–1969) - lecturer, journalist, educator, actress, elocutionist, best known for her work on behalf of Women's Freedom League
Emma Miller (1839–1917) - pioneer trade union organiser, key figure in organisations which led to the founding of the Australian Labor Party in Brisbane, Queensland
Rose Scott (1847–1925) - women's rights activist in New South Wales
Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) - Scottish-born author, teacher, journalist, politician, called the "Greatest Australian Woman," commemorated on the Australian five-dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation of Australia
Jessie Street (1889–1970) - feminist, human rights campaigner
Serena Lake - English-born, South Australian evangelical preacher, social reformer, campaigner for women's suffrage
Emily Davison (1872-1913) - She is best known for stepping in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later. Emily Davison's funeral on 14 June 1913 was organised by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
Austrian
Marianne Hainisch (1839–1936) - founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement, mother of first President of Austria
Ernestine von Fürth, née Kisch (1877–1946) - Austrian-Jewish women's activist, founder and leader of the women's suffrage movement in Austria
Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) - feminist, first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree
Belgian
Marie Popelin (1846–1913) - founded the Belgian League for Women's Rights in 1892
Isala Van Diest (1842–1916) - first female medical doctor and first female university graduate in Belgium
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) - physician, feminist, co-founder of first hospital staffed by women, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor and magistrate in Britain
Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) - medical pioneer, member of Women's Social and Political Union, social reformer, Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) - politician, socialite, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the English House of Commons
Frances Balfour (1858–1931) - highest-ranking members of British aristocracy to assume a leadership role in the women's suffrage movement
Dorothea Beale (1831–1906) - educational reformer, author, Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College
Mary Gawthorpe (1881–1973) - socialist, trade unionist, editor
Lydia Becker (1827–1890) - amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy, best remembered for founding and publishing the Women's Suffrage Journal
Mabel Capper (1888–1966) - activist in the Women's Social and Political Union, devoted to the struggle against bad luck and discrimination
Anne Clough (1820–1892) - promoter of higher education for women
Jane Cobden (1851–1947) - Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes
Leonora Cohen (1873–1978) - regional activist who was also an appointed OBE
Margaret Cole (1893–1980) - socialist politician, champion of comprehensive education
Selina Cooper (1864–1946) - local magistrate, campaigner against fascism, first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party in 1901 when elected as Poor Law Guardian
Richmal Crompton (1890–1969) - schoolmistress, writer who is best known for her humorous short stories
Mary Crudelius (1839–1877) - campaigner for women's education
Emily Davies (1830–1921) - feminist, campaigner for women's rights to university access, co-founder and first Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University
Charlotte Despard (1844–1939) - novelist, Sinn Féin activist, vegetarian, anti-vivisection advocate
Flora Drummond (1878–1949) - organiser for Women's Social and Political Union, imprisoned nine times for her activism in Women's Suffrage movement, inspiring orator
Norah Elam(1878–1961) - radical feminist, militant suffragette, anti-vivisectionist and fascist
Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) - feminist, intellectual, political leader, Union leader, writer
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) - prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist
Annie Kenney (1879–1953) - leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union
Grace Kimmins (1871–1954) - active in the foundation of charitable foundations, particularly those concerned with the welfare of poor and disabled children
Anne Knight (1786–1862) - social reformer, pioneer of feminism
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) - founded nation's first women's suffrage organization - the Women's Suffrage League of Japan - and was president of the New Japan Women's League
Ragna Nielsen (1845-1924) - Chairperson, Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
Thekla Resvoll (1871-1948) - head of the Norwegian Female Student’s Club and on the board of the women's suffrage movement (Kvinnestemmeretsforeningen)
Anna Rogstad (1854-1938) - vicepresident of the Association for Women's Suffrage
Marianne Ehrmann (1755–1795) - one of the first women novelists and publicists in the German-speaking countries
Caroline Farner (1842–1913) - the second female Swiss doctor
Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin (1842–1913) - Swiss doctor and campaigner for the Swiss women's movement.
Rosa Neuenschwander (1883–1962) - pioneer in vocational education, founder of the Schweizerische Landfrauenverband or SLFV (Swiss Country Association for Women Suffrage)
Emilie Lieberherr (1924–2011) - Swiss politician who was a leading figure in the final struggle for women suffrage in Switzerland, and the famous 1969 March to Bern for women suffrage.
Ursula Koch (born 1941) - politician, refused the 'male' oath in the Zürich cantonal parliament, and the first women president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP)
National Woman's Party - major United States organization founded in 1915 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a constitutional amendment. Organized the Silent Sentinels. From 1913-1915 the same core group's name was the Congressional Union.
National Woman Suffrage Association - American organization founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton after the split in the American Equal Rights Association, joined NAWSA in 1890.
New England Woman Suffrage Association (NEWSA) - formed in 1868 as the first major political organization with women's suffrage as its goal, active until 1920, principal leaders were Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone, played key role in forming the American Woman Suffrage Association
Women's Freedom League - British group founded in 1907 by 70 members of the Women's Social and Political Union in a breakaway following rules changes by Christabel Pankhurst.
Women's Social and Political Union - a major suffrage organization in United Kingdom (breakaway from the National Union for Women's Suffrage).
Women's Trade Union League - American organization formed in 1903, later involved with the campaign for the 19th amendment.
Women's suffrage publications
Back cover of The Woman Citizen magazine from Jan 19, 1918
Declaration of Sentiments - major statement for women's rights, including the right to vote, passed and signed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Mainly written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Suffrage Atelier - publishing collective in England, founded 1909
The Freewoman, a feminist weekly which, among other topics, covered the suffrage movement, was published between November, 1911 and October, 1912 and edited by Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe.
The Liberator - weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison which, although primarily supporting abolition of slavery, also took up the suffrage cause from 1838 until it closed in 1865.
^"Services For Mrs. Dudley To Be Held Thursday". Nashville Banner. September 14, 1955.
^Anastatia Sims (1998). "Woman Suffrage Movement". In Carroll Van West. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society. ISBN 1-55853-599-3.
^Yung, Judy (1995). Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. University of California Press.
^"Services For Mrs. Dudley To Be Held Thursday". Nashville Banner. September 14, 1955.
^Anastatia Sims (1998). "Woman Suffrage Movement". In Carroll Van West. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society. ISBN 1-55853-599-3.
^The African-American history of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: elites and dilemmas, by Bobby L. Lovett, University of Arkansas Press, 1999, page 232
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