List of women's rights activists

This article is a list of notable women's rights activists, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed.

Albania

• Enver Hoxha
• Parashqevi Qiriazi
• Sevasti Qiriazi
• Urani Rumbo

Argentina

• Azucena Villaflor

Australia

• Thelma Bate (1904–1984) – community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginals in Country Women's Association
• Sandra Bloodworth – labour historian, socialist activist, co-founder of Trotskyist Socialist Alternative, editor of Marxist Left Review
• Eva Cox (born 1938) – sociologist and feminist active in politics and social services, member of Women's Electoral Lobby, social commentator on women in power and at work, and social justice
• Zelda D'Aprano (born 1928) – trade unionist, feminist, in 1969 chained herself to doors of Commonwealth Building over equal pay.
• Louisa Margaret Dunkley (1866–1927) – telegraphist and labour organizer
• Elizabeth Evatt (born 1933) – legal reformist, jurist, critic of Australia's Sex Discrimination Act, first Australian in United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• Miles Franklin (1879–1954) – writer and feminist
• Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) – early Australian feminist campaigning for women's suffrage and social reform, first woman in British Empire to stand for national election
• Germaine Greer (born 1939) – author of The Female Eunuch, academic and social commentator
• Bella Guerin (1858–1923) – first woman to graduate from an Australian university, Guerin was a socialist feminist prominent (although with periods of public dispute) within the Australian Labor Party.
• Louisa Lawson (1848–1920)) – feminist, suffragist, author, founder of The Dawn, and pro-republican federalist
• Eileen Powell (1913–1997) – trade unionist, women's activist and contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision
• Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955) – first female member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly, campaigner for custodial rights of mothers in divorce and for women's health care
• Elizabeth Anne Reid (born 1942) – world's first women's affairs adviser to head of government (Gough Whitlam), active in UN and on HIV
• Bessie Rischbieth (1874–1967)) – earliest female appointee to any court (honorary, Perth Children's Court, 1915), active against Australian government practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers (Stolen Generation
• Jessie Street (1889–1970) – Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner influential in labour rights and early days of UN
• Anne Summers (born 1945)- women's rights activist in politics and media, women's advisor to Labor premier Paul Keating, editor of Ms. magazine (NY)
• Rosie Batty (born 1962) – 2015 Australian of the Year and family violence campaigner
• Fiona Patten (born 1964) – leader of Australian Sex Party, lobbyist for personal freedoms and progressive lifestyles
• Michelle Payne (born 1985) – first female winner of Melbourne Cup and an advocate of increased presence of women in sport
• Margot Fink (born 1994) – Prominent LGBTIQ activist and nominee for Young Australian of the Year (2016)

Austria

• Marianne Hainisch (1839–1936) – activist, exponent of women’s right to work and education
• Auguste Fickert (1855 - 1910), feminist and social reformer.

Belgium

• Marguerite Coppin (1867–1931) – female Poet Laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights
• Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983) – Belgian-American pioneer female orchestral conductor, activist and editor of Women in Music

Botswana

• Unity Dow (born 1959) – judge and writer, plaintiff in case allowing children of mixed parentage to be deemed nationals

Bulgaria

• Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960), educational reformer and suffragist
• Ekaterina Karavelova
• Lyuben Karavelov
• Anna Karima
• Eugenia Kisimova
• Kina Konova
• Julia Malinova

Brazil

• Clara Ant
• Albertina de Oliveira Costa
• Jaqueline Jesus
• Julia Malinova
• Lily Marinho
• Míriam Martinho
• Lucia Nader
• Matilde Ribeiro
• Alzira Rufino
• Heleieth Saffioti
• Miêtta Santiago
• Viviane Senna
• Yara Yavelberg

Canada

• Nellie McClung (1873–1951) – feminist and suffragist, part of The Famous Five (Canada)
• Jamie McIntosh (21st century) – lawyer and women's rights activist
• Emily Howard Stowe (1831–1903) – physician, advocate of women's inclusion in medical profession, founder of Canadian Women's Suffrage Association
• Edith Archibald (1854–1936) – suffragist, writer, promoter of Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union, National Council of Women of Canada and Local Council of Women of Halifax
• Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator, social activist
• Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – prominent suffragist, executive member of Local Council of Women of Halifax
• Laura Borden (1861–1940) – president of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
• Marie Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie (1867–1945) – suffragette, self-taught jurist
• Idola Saint-Jean (1880–1945) – suffragette, journalist
• Thérèse Casgrain (1896 – 1981) – suffragette, reformer, feminist, politician and senator, mainly active in Quebec
• Léa Roback (1903–2000) – feminist and workers' union activist tied with communist party
• Françoise David (born 1948) – politician, feminist activist

Cape Verde

• Isaura Gomes

Chile

• María Rivera Urquieta

Chinese

• Chen Xiefen
• Qiu Yufang

Croatia

• Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska

Denmark

• Annestine Beyer (1795–1884) – pioneer of women's education
• Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality, women's empowerment and participation in peace-building and post-conflict governance
• Astrid Stampe Feddersen (1852–1930) – chaired first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights
• Caroline Testman (1839–1919) – feminist, co-founder of Dansk Kvindesamfund
• Natalie Zahle (1827–1913) – pioneer of women's education

Egypt

• Qasim Amin (1863–1908) – jurist, early advocate of women’s rights in society
• Nawal el-Saadawi (born 1931) – writer and doctor, advocate of women’s health and equality
• Hoda Shaarawi (1879–1947) – feminist organizer of Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women’s social service organization), Union of Educated Egyptian Women, and Wafdist Women’s Central Committee, founder president of Egyptian Feminist Union
• Engy Ghozlan (born 1985) – coordinator of campaigns against sexual harassment
• Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – Egyptian-Finnish women's rights advocate, social entrepreneur and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard

Estonia

• Elisabeth Howen (1834-1923), women's educational pioneer

Finland

• Hanna Andersin
• Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – see Egypt.
• Alexandra Gripenberg
• Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
• Elisabeth Blomqvist
• Rosina Heikel
• Alma Hjelt
• Lucina Hagman

France

• Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) – playwright and political activist who wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791
• Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817) – politician
• Charles Fourier (1772–1837) – philosopher
• Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914) – feminist activist, suffragette
• Louise Weiss (1893–1983) – journalist, writer, politician
• Jane Vialle (1906-1953) – journalist, politician
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) – philosopher, writer
• Françoise Giroud (1916–2003) – journalist, writer, politician

Germany

• Ruth Bré (c. 1862/67–1911), writer, advocate of matrilineality and women's rights, founder of Bund für Mutterschutz (League for Maternity Leave)
• Alice Schwarzer (born 1942) – journalist and publisher of the magazine Emma

Ghana

• Annie Jiagge (1918–1996), lawyer, judge and women's rights activist, drafted Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, co-founded Women's World Banking

Greece

• Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940), founder of the Greek women's movement

Hungary

• Clotilde Apponyi (1867–1942), suffragist
• Enikő Bollobás (born 1952), academic specializing in women's studies
• Teréz Karacs (1808–1892), writer and women's rights activist
• Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927), educational reformer and women's rights activist
• Éva Takács (1780–1845), writer and feminist
• Blanka Teleki (1806–1862), feminist and advocate of female education
• Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948), feminist and suffragist, World Peace Prize (1937)
• Pálné Veres (1815–1895), founder of Hungarian National Association for Women's Education

India

• Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian suffragist, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
• Madhusree Dutta (born 1959) – co-founder of Majlis, Mumbai, author, cultural activist, filmmaker and curator
• Kirthi Jayakumar (born 1987) - founder of The Red Elephant Foundation, rights activist, campaigner against violence against women.
• Shruti Kapoor – women's rights activist, economist, social entrepreneur
• Sunitha Krishnan (born 1972) – Indian social activist, co-founder of Prajwala, to assist trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, education and employment
• Subodh Markandeya – senior advocate
• Jyotiba Phule (1827–1890) – social reformer, critic of caste system, founded school for girls, widow-remarriage initiative, home for upper-caste widows, and home for infant girls to curb female infanticide
• Manasi Pradhan (born 1962) – founder of nationwide Honour for Women National Campaign against violence to women
• Mamatha Raghuveer Achanta – women's and child rights activist, chair of Child Welfare Committee, Warangal District, active in A.P. State Commission for Protection Child Rights, founder director of Tharuni, focusing on girl-child and women empowerment
• Idrees Ul Haq (born 1988) – founder of Social Royal Voluntary Environmental Service, rights activist, campaigner against violence to women in Jammu and Kashmir

Indonesia

• Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879–1904) – Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamy and lack of women's education

Iran

• Parvin Ardalan (born 1967) – women's rights activist
• Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh (born 1958) – women's rights activist, founder of ZananTV and NGO Training Center
• Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1859–1921) – writer
• Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882–1962) – journalist and women's rights activist
• Shirin Ebadi (born 1947) – activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for efforts for rights of women and children
• Mohtaram Eskandari (1895–1924) – woman's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women)
• Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972) – writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality
• Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani (born 1970) – women's rights activist
• Shadi Sadr (born 1975) – women's rights activist
• Shahla Sherkat (born 1956) – journalist
• Táhirih (died 1852) – Bábí poet, theologian, and exponent of women's rights in 19th century
• Roya Toloui (born 1966) – women's rights activist

Ireland

• Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954): see India.
• Anna Haslam (1829–1922) – early women’s movement figure, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
• Francis Hutcheson (8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) – philosopher born to activist family of Scots Presbyterians, opponent of slavery and advocate of women's rights

Italy

• Alma Dolens
• Anna Maria Mozzoni

Lebanon

• Lydia Canaan
• Laure Moghaizel (1929–1997) – lawyer and women's rights advocate

Libya

• Alaa Murabit (born 1989) – physician, advocate of inclusive security, peace-building and post-conflict governance

Luxembourg

• Catherine Schleimer-Kill
• Netty Probst
• Marguerite Mongenast-Servais
• Marguerite Thomas-Clement

Netherlands

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) – see Somalia.
• Wilhelmina Drucker
• Mariane van Hogendorp
• Mietje Hoitsema
• Cornélie Huygens
• Aletta Jacobs
• Charlotte Jacobs
• Jeltje Kemper
• Anette Poelman

Namibia

• Rosa Namises
• Gwen Lister
• Monica Geingos

New Zealand

• Kate Sheppard (1847–1934) – suffragette, influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (first country and national election in which women have vote)

Nigeria

• Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) – women's rights activist
• Opeyemi Yeyetunde Fadimu-www.sophiafoundation.wordpress.com

Norway

• Aasta Hansteen
• Anniken Huitfeldt
• Mimi Sverdrup Lunden
• Amalie Øvergaard
• Clara Tschudi
• Margrethe Vullum

Pakistan

• Fatima Lodhi (born 1989) – Pakistani women's rights activist who addressed colorism
• Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – Pakistani women's rights activist shot in assassination attempt by Taliban for advocating for girls' education, now in UK
• Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola (1917–2015) – member of All Pakistan Women's Association

Peru

• María Jesús Alvarado Rivera

Philippines

• Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel – women's right activities
• Liza Maza

Poland

• Maria Konopnicka

Portugal

• Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
• Adelaide Cabete
• Ana de Castro Osório

Puerto Rico

• Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922) – labor union suffragette jailed for wearing pants in public

Romania

• Maria Baiulescu
• Calypso Botez
• Alexandrina Cantacuzino
• Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu
• Clara Maniu
• Elena Meissner
• Sofia Nădejde
• Ella Negruzzi
• Elena Pop-Hossu-Longin
• Ilona Stetina
• Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan

Russia

• Anna Filosofova (1837–1912) – early woman's rights activist

Serbia

• Ksenija Atanasijević (1894–1981) – philosopher, suffragette, first PhD Doctor in Serbian universities
• Helen of Anjou (1236–1314) – queen, feminist, establisher of women schools
• Jefimija (1349–1405) – Serbian politician, poet, diplomat, feminist
• Draga Ljočić
• Milica of Serbia (1335–1405) – empress, feminist, poet
• Katarina Milovuk
• Milunka Savić (1888–1973) – first female combatant, soldier, feminist
• Stasa Zajovic (born 1953) – co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black

Somalia

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) – Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician

South Africa

• Shamima Shaikh (1960–1998) – member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, exponent of Islamic gender equality

Spain

• Concepción Arenal

Sweden

• Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895) – publisher, women's rights activist and pioneer
• Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942) – teacher, active in women's rights movement and women's suffrage
• Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898) – women's rights activist, co-founded Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt (Married Woman's Property Rights Association)
• Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865) – writer, feminist activist and pioneer
• Josefina Deland (1814–1890) – feminist, writer, teacher, founded Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening (Society for Retired Female Teachers)
• Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) – women's rights activist and philanthropist
• Lotten von Kræmer (1828–1912) – writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of literary society Samfundet De Nio
• Agda Montelius (1850–1920) – philanthropist feminist, chairman of the Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet.
• Rosalie Roos (1823–1898) – feminist activist, writer and pioneer
• Hilda Sachs (1857–1935) – journalist, writer and feminist
• Sophie Sager, (1825 – 1902) – women's rights activist and writer
• Anna Sandström (1854–1931) – educational reformer
• Kajsa Wahlberg – Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities
• Anna Whitlock (1852–1930) – school pioneer, journalist and feminist

Switzerland

• Marianne Ehrmann (1755–1795) – among first women novelists and publicists in German-speaking countries
• Margarethe Faas-Hardegger
• Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin (1826-1899), founder of the Swiss women's movement

United Kingdom

• Clementina Black (1853–1922) – writer prominent in the Women's Trade Union League and the forerunner of the Women's Industrial Council
• Helen Blackburn (1842–1903) – suffragist and campaigner for women's employment rights
• Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – active in the Langham Place Circle, promoter of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
• Jessie Boucherett (1825–1905) – co-founder of Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859, editor of Englishwoman's Review (1866–70), co-founder of Women's Employment Defence League in 1891
• Ida Craft (fl. 1910s) – suffragist, among main organizers of Suffrage Hikes
• June Eric-Udorie, Anti-FGM campaigner
• Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) – suffragist and feminist, president of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Mary Fildes (1789–1876) – political activist and founder of Manchester Female Reform Society
• Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) – trained "Bodyguard" unit of Women's Social and Political Union in jujutsu techniques
• Diana Reader Harris (1912–1996) – educator and advocate of female ordination in the Church of England
• Matilda Hays (1820–1897) – co-founder of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
• Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884) – feminist prominent in the campaign that led to the Married Women's Property Act 1870
• Anne Knight (1786–1862) – feminist and social reformer
• Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – women's rights campaigner
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) – philosopher, political economist, author of The Subjection of Women
• Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) – social reformer and Bluestocking
• Olive Morris (1952–1979) feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights activist
• Caroline Norton (1808–1877) – social campaigner influencing the Custody of Infants Act 1839, Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and Married Women's Property Act 1870
• Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – suffragette, co-founder and leader of Women's Social and Political Union
• Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – founder leader of suffragette movement
• Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) – editor of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
• Dora Russell (1894–1986) – campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation
• Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – author and campaigner for women's rights, mother of Marie Stopes
• Marie Stopes (1880–1958) – advocate of birth control and equality in marriage
• Alice Vickery (1844–1929) – physician, supporter of birth control as means of women's emancipation
• Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878) – translator and women's rights activist, secretary of the Clifton Association for Higher Education for Women
• Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) – see Pakistan.
• Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – writer and suffragist

United States

• Jane Addams (1860–1935) – major social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – prominent civil rights leader, played a pivotal role in the 19th-century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States
• Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – feminist and journalist, editor of the Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
• Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner
• Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – advocate of women's issues, suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily
• Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) – author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan, advocate of women's self-fulfillment
• Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – suffragist and women's rights activist
• Jacqueline Ceballos – feminist and founder of Veteran Feminists of America
• Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – suffragist leader, president of National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
• William Henry Channing (1810–1884) – minister, author
• Grace Julian Clarke (1865–1938) – suffragist, journalist, author
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) – abolitionist, writer, speaker
• Carol Downer (1933) – founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, author, health activist, attorney
• Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – suffragist, civil rights activist, participated in Suffrage Hikes
• Betty Friedan (1921–2006) – writer, activist, feminist
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) – Transcendentalist, advocate of women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – suffragist, editor, writer, organizer
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) – abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) – academic and lawyer for several women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court
• Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – campaigner for birth control and other rights
• Judy Goldsmith (born 1938) – feminist activist, President of National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Helen M. Gougar (1843–1907) – lawyer, temperance and women's rights advocate
• Grace Greenwood (1823–1904) – first woman reporter on New York Times, advocate of social reform and women's rights
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1828–1911) – abolitionist, minister, author
• Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907) – leader, lecturer and activist in the American Suffragist movement
• Julia Ward Howe (1818–1910) – suffragist, writer, organizer
• Jane Hunt (1812-1889) – philanthropist
• Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – suffragist and organizer of the Suffrage Hikes
• Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – women's rights journalist, suffragist
• Kate Kelly (1980)- feminist and human rights lawyer, founder of Ordain Women, works for Planned Parenthood.
• Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – suffragist and activist
• Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – suffragist, key participant in National Woman's Party and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
• Robin Morgan (born 1941) – poet, political theorist, journalist and lecturer
• Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, who helped write Declaration of Sentiments during 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
• Pauli Murray (1910–1985) – civil and women's rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest
• Diane Nash (born 1938) – Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights exponent
• Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger (b. 1932) – catalyst of first rape reform laws
• Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters
• Alice Paul (1885–1977) – strategist for 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for 19th Amendment, founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of Silent Sentinels and 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of Equal Rights Amendment
• Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983) – see Belgium.
• Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) – abolitionist, orator, lawyer
• Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – writer, nurse, founder American Birth Control League, founder president of Planned Parenthood
• May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – educator, feminist, president of National Council of Women for the United States, president of the International Council of Women
• Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association
• Eleanor Smeal (born 1939) – organizer, initiator, president of NOW, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association and International Council of Women
• Gloria Steinem (born 1934) – writer, activist, feminist, women's rights journalist
• Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and National Woman's Party, Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
• Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – founder president of Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
• Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – orator, organizer of first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of Woman's Journal, and first recorded American woman to retain surname after marriage
• Roshini Thinakaran – film-maker focussing on lives of women in post-conflict zones
• Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York suffragist, later influential journalist and radio broadcaster
• Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, women's rights speech: "Ain't I a Woman?"
• Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – suffragist, member of Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, organizer for Silent Sentinels
• Harry S. Weeks – suffragist, civil rights activist, founder of Wheeling, WV's Democratic-Socialist Union
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragist noted for refusal to avoid media attention as an African American
• Frances Willard (1839–1898) – suffragist and organizer
• Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – suffragist, organizer, innovator, first woman to run for U.S. presidency

Uruguay

• María Abella de Ramírez

Images

• Susan B. Anthony
  Susan B. Anthony
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  Board of directors of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women) – a radical women's rights association in Tehran (1923–33)

See also

• History of Feminism
• List of civil rights leaders
• List of feminists
• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• List of women's rights organizations
• Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
• Timeline of women's rights (other than voting)
• Timeline of women's suffrage
• Women's suffrage organizations