List of feminists

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.

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|1200–1300||data-sort-value="Anjou, Helen of"|Helen of Anjou||Serbia||1236||1314||Serbian queen, feminist, establisher of women's schools||

|1300–1400 ||data-sort-value="Pizan, Christine de"|Christine de Pizan||Italy||1365||1430||Medieval court writer||

|1400–1499 ||data-sort-value="Cereta, Laura"|Laura Cereta||Italy||1469||1499||Humanist and feminist writer||

|1400–1499 ||data-sort-value="Das, Balaram"|Balaram Das ||India||unknown||unknown||15th century Odia poet; first attempt in India towards feminism||

|1400–1499 ||data-sort-value="Villena, Isabel de"|Isabel de Villena||Spain||1430||1460||Feminist nun||

16th-century feminists

Born between 1500 and 1599.

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|1500–1599||data-sort-value="Juliana"|India Juliana||Present-day Paraguay||||||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||data-sort-value="Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius"|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||data-sort-value="Anger, Jane"|Jane Anger||United Kingdom||data-sort-value="1589"|||data-sort-value="1589"|||Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women||

|1500–1599||data-sort-value="de Gournay, Marie"|Marie de Gournay||France||1565||1645||Protofeminist writer of Egalité des hommes et des femmes (The equality of men and women)||

|1500–1599||data-sort-value="di Pozzo di Forzi, Modesta"|Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi||Italy||1501–1600||data-sort-value="1593"|||Protofeminist writer of The Worth of Women||

|1500–1599||data-sort-value="Marinella, Lucrezia"|Lucrezia Marinella||Italy||data-sort-value="1571"|||1653||Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights||

17th-century feminists

Born between 1600 and 1699.

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|1600–1699 ||data-sort-value="Astell, Mary"|Mary Astell||United Kingdom||data-sort-value="1666"|||1731||English feminist writer and rhetorician||

|1600–1699 ||data-sort-value="Bradstreet, Anne"|Anne Bradstreet||United Kingdom||1612||1672||North American colonial poet||

|1600–1699 ||data-sort-value="Brenner, Sophia Elisabet"|Sophia Elisabet Brenner||Sweden||1659||1724||Writer and women's rights activist||

|1600–1699 ||data-sort-value="de la Barre, François Poullain "|François Poullain de la Barre||France||1647||1725||Male feminist philosopher||

|1600–1699 ||data-sort-value="Ninon de l'Enclos"|Ninon de l'Enclos||France||1620||1795||Author, courtesan, and patron of the arts||

18th-century feminists

Born between 1700 and 1799.

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|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Adams, Abigail"|Abigail Adams||United States||1744||1818||Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Beyer, Annestine"|Annestine Beyer||Denmark||1795||1884||Pioneer of women's education||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Butler, Eleanor"|Eleanor Butler||Ireland||1739||1829||One of the Ladies of Llangollen||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="de Condorcet, Marquis"|Marquis de Condorcet||France||1743||1794||||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="de Puisieux, Madeleine"|Madeleine de Puisieux||France||1720||1798||Writer||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Grimké, Sarah Moore"|Sarah Moore Grimké||United States||1792||1873||Suffragist and abolitionist||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Johnstone, Christian Isobel"|Christian Isobel Johnstone||United Kingdom||1781||1857||Journalist and author in Scotland||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Murray, Judith Sargent"|Judith Sargent Murray||United States||1751||1820||Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Neal, John"|John Neal||United States||1793||1876||Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Ponsonby, Sarah"|Sarah Ponsonby||Ireland||1755||1831||One of the Ladies of Llangollen||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Thorild, Thomas"|Thomas Thorild||Sweden||1759||1808||Male feminist, poet||

|1700–1799||data-sort-value="Thompson, William"|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||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Adlersparre, Sophie"|Sophie Adlersparre||Sweden||1823||1895||Publisher; one of three most notable pioneers of women's rights movement in Sweden||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Anckarsvärd, Ellen"|Ellen Anckarsvärd||Sweden||1833||1898||Co-founded the Married Woman's Property Rights Association||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Anthony, Susan"|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||data-sort-value="Archibald, Edith"|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||data-sort-value="Arenal, Concepción"|Concepción Arenal||Spain||1820||1893||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Assing, Ottilie"|Ottilie Assing||Germany||1819||1884||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Astarabadi, Bibi_Khanoom"|Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi||Iran||1859||1921||Writer||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Aston, Louise"|Louise Aston||Germany||1814||1871||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Auclert, Hubertine"|Hubertine Auclert||France||1848||1914||Feminist activist, suffragette||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Avery, Rachel Foster"|Rachel Foster Avery||United States||1858||1919||First-wave feminist; suffragette||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Bayerová, Anna"|Anna Bayerová||Czech Republic||1853||1924||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Beadle, Jean"|Jean Beadle||Australia||1868||1942||Feminist; social worker; political activist||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Bebel, August"|August Bebel||Germany||1840||1913||Communist; male||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Béra, Victoire Léodile"|Victoire Léodile Béra||France||1824||1900||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="de Cleyre, Voltairine"|Voltairine de Cleyre||United States||1866||1912||Individualist feminist; anarcha-feminist||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Dunkley, Louisa_Margaret"|Louisa Margaret Dunkley||Australia||1866||1927||Labour organizer||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Durand, Marguerite"|Marguerite Durand||France||1864||1936||Suffragette||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Gamble, Eliza"|Eliza Gamble||United States||1841||1820||Intellectual and an advocate of the Women's Movement||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Garrison, William Lloyd"|William Lloyd Garrison||United States||1805||1879||Abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Kræmer, Lotten_von"|Lotten von Kræmer||Sweden||1828||1912||Baroness, writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of the literary society Samfundet De Nio||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie, Marie"|Marie Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie||Canada||1867||1945||Suffragette; self-taught jurist||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Lawson, Louisa"|Louisa Lawson||Australia||1848||1920||Suffragette; radical pro-republican federalist; author and publisher ||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Richardson, Dorothy"|Dorothy Richardson||United Kingdom||1873||1957||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Rigby, Edith"|Edith Rigby||United Kingdom||1872||1948||Suffragette||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Rischbieth, Bessie"|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||data-sort-value="Ritchie, Eliza"|Eliza Ritchie||Canada||1856||1933||Prominent suffragist, executive member of the Local Council of Women of Halifax ||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Robinson, Harriet Hanson"|Harriet Hanson Robinson||United States||1825||1911||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Stöcker, Helene"|Helene Stöcker||Germany||1869||1943||||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Stone, Lucy"|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||data-sort-value="Webb, Beatrice"|Beatrice Webb||United Kingdom||1858||1943||Socialist feminist||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Wells, Ida_B."|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||data-sort-value="Whitlock, Anna"|Anna Whitlock||Sweden||1852||1930||Feminist, suffragette; school pioneer, journalist||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Widerström, Karolina"|Karolina Widerström||Sweden||1856||1949||Suffragette||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Willard, Frances"|Frances Willard||United States||1839||1898||Suffragist and organizer, Socialist feminist; suffragette||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Wilson, Charlotte"|Charlotte Wilson||United Kingdom||1854||1944||radical feminist||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Woodhull, Victoria"|Victoria Woodhull||United States||1838||1927||First-wave feminist; suffragist, organizer, innovator, first woman to run for U.S. presidency||

|1800–1874||data-sort-value="Rakovsky, Puah"|Puah Rakovsky||Poland - Israel||1865||1955||Empowerment of women||

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

Born between 1875 and 1939.

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|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Abzug, Bella"|Bella Abzug||United States||1920||1998||Second-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Alda, Alan"|Alan Alda||United States||1936||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Alexander, Dolores"|Dolores Alexander||United States||1931||2008||Anti-pornography feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Ashby, Margery Corbett"|Margery Corbett Ashby||United Kingdom||1882||1981||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Bandler, Faith"|Faith Bandler||Australia||1918||2015||Feminist and civil rights activist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Banner, Lois W."|Lois W. Banner||United States||1939||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Bate, Thelma"|Thelma Bate||Australia||1904||1984||Community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginal women in Country Women's Association||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Baxandall, Rosalyn"|Rosalyn Baxandall||United States||1939||2015||Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; New York Radical Women||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Beard, Mary Ritter"|Mary Ritter Beard||United States||1876||1958||Feminist; historian||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Biggs, Ione"|Ione Biggs||United States||1916||2005||Advocate for human rights and world peace||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Billinghurst, Rosa May"|Rosa May Billinghurst||United Kingdom||1875||1953||Suffragette||

|1865–1964||data-sort-value="Bouvier, Jeanne"|Jeanne Bouvier||France ||1865||1964||Feminist; trade unionist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Bowerman, Elsie"|Elsie Bowerman||United Kingdom||1889||1973||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Capetillo, Luisa"|Luisa Capetillo ||Puerto Rico||1879||1922||Puerto Rican labor union suffragette; jailed for wearing pants in public||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Casgrain, Thérèse"|Thérèse Casgrain||Canada||1896||1981||Second-wave feminist; suffragette; politician and senator, mostly active in Quebec||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Dodson, Betty"|Betty Dodson||United States||1929||2020||Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley"|Elizabeth Gurley Flynn||United States||1890||1964||Socialist feminist; suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Ford, Betty"|Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford||United States||1918||2011||Second-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Ford, Gerald"|Gerald Ford||United States||1913||2006||Second-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Franklin, Miles"|Miles Franklin||Australia||1879||1954||Feminist; writer||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Fraser, Clara"|Clara Fraser||United States||1923||1998||Second-wave feminist; radical feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Freeman, Elisabeth"|Elisabeth Freeman||United States||1876||1942||Suffragist and civil rights activist, participated in the Suffrage Hikes||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="French, Marilyn"|Marilyn French||United States||1929||2009||Second-wave feminist; radical feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="James, Selma"|Selma James||United States, United Kingdom||1930||–||Social activist, co-founder of International Wages for Housework Campaign||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Johnson, Sonia"|Sonia Johnson||United States||1936||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Johnston, Jill"|Jill Johnston||United States||1929||2010||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Jones, Claudia"|Claudia Jones||United Kingdom, United States, Trinidad and Tobago||1915||1964||Marxist feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Jones, Rosalie_Gardiner"|Rosalie Gardiner Jones||United States||1883||1978||Suffragette. Organizer of the Suffrage Hikes||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Jouenne, Alice"|Alice Jouenne||France||1873||1954||First-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Juchacz, Marie"|Marie Juchacz||Germany||1879||1956||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Kéita, Aoua"|Aoua Kéita||Mali||1912||1980||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Kennedy, Florynce"|Florynce Kennedy||United States||1916||2000||Second-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Kenney, Annie"|Annie Kenney||United Kingdom||1879||1953||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Kikue, Yamakawa"|Yamakawa Kikue||Japan||1890||1980||Socialist feminist; anti-prostitution feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="King, Coretta Scott"|Coretta Scott King||United States||1927||2006||Second-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Lee, Mabel Ping-Hua"|Mabel Ping-Hua Lee||United States||1896||1966||Suffragist; first Chinese woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Lerner, Gerda"|Gerda Lerner||Austria||1920||2013||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Lorde, Audre"|Audre Lorde||United States||1934||1992||Third-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Nin, Anaïs"|Anaïs Nin||United States, France||1903||1977||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Normanton, Helena"|Helena Normanton||United Kingdom||1882||1957||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Nour, Alexis"|Alexis Nour||Romania||1877||1940||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Ono, Yoko"|Yoko Ono||United States, Japan||1933||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Ostriker, Alicia"|Alicia Ostriker||United States||1937||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Paley, Grace"|Grace Paley||United States||1922||2007||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Pankhurst, Adela"|Adela Pankhurst||United Kingdom||1885||1961||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Pankhurst, Christabel"|Christabel Pankhurst||United Kingdom||1880||1958||Suffragette; co-founder and leader of the Women's Social and Political Union||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Pankhurst, Sylvia"|Sylvia Pankhurst||United Kingdom||1882||1960||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Parker, Frances"|Frances Parker||United Kingdom||1875||1924||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Paul, Alice"|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||data-sort-value="Perón, Eva"|Eva Perón||Argentina||1919||1952||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Pogrebin, Letty Cottin"|Letty Cottin Pogrebin||United States||1939||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Powell, Eileen"|Eileen Powell||Australia||1913||1997||Trade unionist, women's activist and important contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Preston-Stanley, Millicent"|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||data-sort-value="Pruette, Lorine Livingston"|Lorine Livingston Pruette||United States||1896||1977||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Ransome-Kuti, Funmilayo"|Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti||Nigeria||1900||1978||Foremost Nigerian women's rights activist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Rayner, Claire"|Claire Rayner||United Kingdom||1931||2010||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Rich, Adrienne"|Adrienne Rich||United States||1929||2012||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Richardson, Mary"|Mary Richardson||United Kingdom||1889||1961||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Roback, Léa"|Léa Roback||Canada||1903||2000||Feminist; workers' union activist tied with the communist party||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Rose, Hilary"|Hilary Rose||United Kingdom||1935||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Royden, Agnes Maude"|Agnes Maude Royden||United Kingdom||1876||1956||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Rush, Florence"|Florence Rush||United States||1918||2008||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Russ, Joanna"|Joanna Russ||United States||1937||2011||Second-wave feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Russell, Diana E. H."|Diana E. H. Russell||South Africa||1938||2020||Second-wave feminist; radical feminist;anti-pornography feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Russell, Dora"|Dora Russell||United Kingdom||1894||1986||Feminist; progressive campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Sacristán, Manuel"|Manuel Sacristán||Spain||1925||1985||Socialist feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Sadaawi, Nawal el-"|Nawal el-Sadaawi||Egypt||1931||2021||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill, Edith"|Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill||United Kingdom||1901||1980||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Surduts, Maya"|Maya Surduts||France||1937||2016||Human rights activist, feminist and reproductive rights campaigner||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Svolou, Maria"|Maria Svolou||Greece||1890s||1976||Socialist feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Tamm, Elisabeth"|Elisabeth Tamm||Sweden||1880||1958||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Tate, Mavis"|Mavis Tate||United Kingdom||1893||1947||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Taylor, Joan Kennedy"|Joan Kennedy Taylor||United States||1926||2005||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Taylor, Renee"|Renee Taylor||New Zealand||1929||2023||Socialist feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Tcheng Yu-hsiu"|Tcheng Yu-hsiu||China||1891||1959||Revolutionary ||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Templeton, Rini"|Rini Templeton||United States||1935||1986||Socialist feminist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Thompson, Dorothy"|Dorothy Thompson||United States||1893||1961||Buffalo and New York suffragist, later an influential journalist and radio broadcaster ||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Tickner, J. Ann"|J. Ann Tickner||United States||1937||–||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Todhunter, Winifred"|Winifred Todhunter||United Kingdom||1877||1961||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Tweedie, Jill"|Jill Tweedie||United Kingdom||1936||1993||||

|1875-1939||data-sort-value="Veloz, Livia|Livia Veloz||Dominican Republic||1892||1980||Suffragist, feminist activist||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Vernon, Mabel"|Mabel Vernon||United States||1883||1975||Suffragist, principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels ||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Vos, Roosje"|Roosje Vos||The Netherlands||1876||1961||Trade unionist, suffragist and politician||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Weaver, Harriet Shaw"|Harriet Shaw Weaver||United Kingdom||1860||1932||Suffragette||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Webster, Nesta Helen"|Nesta Helen Webster||United Kingdom||1876||1960||||

|1875–1939||data-sort-value="Weiss, Louise"|Louise Weiss||France||1893||1983||Journalist, writer, politician||

|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.

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|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Zsuzanna Budapest"|Zsuzsanna Budapest||Hungary||1940||–||Founder of the female-only tradition of the Dianic Wicca religion||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Abdela, Lesley"|Lesley Abdela||United Kingdom||1945||–||Expert on women's rights and representation||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Ackerly, Brooke"|Brooke Ackerly||United States||1966||–||Expert on feminist theory, feminist international relations, and scholar activism||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Adams, Carol J."|Carol J. Adams||United States||1951||–||Ecofeminist||

|1940–1999 ||Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ||Nigeria & United States ||1977||– ||Writer, social commentator, feminist author||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Afshar, Haleh"|Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar||United Kingdom||1944||2022||Muslim feminist, professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Ahmed, Leila"|Leila Ahmed||Egypt||1940||–||Writer on Islamic feminism||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Ahmed, Sara"|Sara Ahmed||United Kingdom||1969||–||British-Australian academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Akrawi, Widad"|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||data-sort-value="Alcoff, Linda Martín"|Linda Martín Alcoff||United States||1955||–||Philosopher at the City University of New York||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Ali, Ayaan_Hirsi"|Ayaan Hirsi Ali||United States, Netherlands, Somalia, ||1969||–||Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Allen, Chude Pamela"|Pam Allen||United States||1943||–||A founder of New York Radical Women||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Allende, Isabel"|Isabel Allende ||Chile, United States||1942||–||Writer||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Alpert, Jane"|Jane Alpert||United States||1947||–||Radical feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Amos, Tori"|Tori Amos||United States||1963||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Anzaldúa, Gloria E."|Gloria E. Anzaldúa||United States||1942||2004||Third-wave feminist ||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Bari, Judi"|Judi Bari||United States||1949||1997||Ecofeminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Clinton, Hillary"|Hillary Clinton||United States||1947||–||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Cobain, Kurt"|Kurt Cobain||United States||1967||1994||Feminist musician||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Cole, Susan G."|Susan G. Cole||Canada||1952||–||Anti-pornography feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Collins, Patricia Hill"|Patricia Hill Collins||United States||1948||–||Third-wave feminist; Black feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Coney, Sandra"|Sandra Coney||New Zealand||1944||–||Second-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Connell, Noreen"|Noreen Connell||United States||1947||–||radical feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Córdova, Jeanne"|Jeanne Córdova||United States||1948||2016||Second-wave feminist; lesbian and gay rights activist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Coward, Rosalind"|Rosalind Coward||United Kingdom||1952||–||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Cox, Laverne"|Laverne Cox||United States||1972||–||Transfeminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Davis, Martha"|Martha Davis||United States||1957||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="de Chalon, Marie-Laure Sauty"|Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon||France||1962||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Delphy, Christine"|Christine Delphy||France||1941||–||Socialist feminist; material feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Faludi, Susan"|Susan Faludi||United States||1959||–||Second-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Freedman, Estelle B."|Estelle Freedman||United States||1947||–||Second-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Freeman, Jo"|Jo Freeman ||United States||1945||–||Second-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Griffin, Susan"|Susan Griffin||United States||1943||2025||Ecofeminist; anti-pornography feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major"|Miss Major Griffin-Gracy||United States||1940||2025||Transfeminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Haines, Emily"|Emily Haines||Canada||1974||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Hampson, Daphne"|Daphne Hampson||United Kingdom||1944||–||||

|1940–1999

|Carol Hanisch

|United States

|1942

|–

|Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Jeffreys, Sheila"|Sheila Jeffreys||Australia||1948||–||Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Jensen, Robert"|Robert Jensen||United States||1958||–||Anti-pornography feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Jett, Joan"|Joan Jett||United States||1958||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Johnston, Claire"|Claire Johnston||United Kingdom||1940||1987||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="July, Miranda"|Miranda July||United States||1974||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Kahf, Mohja"|Mohja Kahf||Syria||1967||–||Muslim feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Kalbasi, Sheema"|Sheema Kalbasi||Iran||1972||–||Writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Kaminer, Wendy"|Wendy Kaminer||United States||1949||–||Sex-positive feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Karp, Marcelle"|Marcelle Karp||United States||1964||–||Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Kaveney, Roz"|Roz Kaveney||United Kingdom||1949||–||Transfeminist; Writer, critic, and poet||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Keiles, Jamie"|Jamie Lauren Keiles||United States||1992||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Keith, Lierre"|Lierre Keith||United States||1964||–||Anti-pornography feminist; Radical feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Kelly, Petra"|Petra Kelly||Germany||1947||1992||Ecofeminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Maza, Liza"|Liza Maza||Philippines||1957||–||Socialist feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="McClary, Susan"|Susan McClary||United States||1946||–||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="McCloskey, Deirdre"|Deirdre McCloskey||United States||1942||–||Feminist economist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="McElroy, Wendy"|Wendy McElroy||Canada||1951||–||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="McFadden, Patricia"|Patricia McFadden||Swaziland||1952||–||Radical feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="McRobbie, Angela"|Angela McRobbie||United Kingdom||1951||–||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Menchú, Rigoberta"|Rigoberta Menchú ||Guatemala||1959||–||||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Schwarzer, Alice"|Alice Schwarzer||Germany||1942||–||Second-wave feminist; anti-pornography feminist; journalist and publisher of the magazine Emma||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Schyman, Gudrun"|Gudrun Schyman||Sweden||1948||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Segal, Lynne"|Lynne Segal||Australia||1944||–||Second-wave feminist; Socialist feminist ||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Serano, Julia"|Julia Serano||United States||1967||–||Transfeminist ||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Vincent, Norah"|Norah Vincent||United States||1968||2022||Dissident feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Watkins, Jean Gloria"|Gloria Jean Watkins ||United States||1952||2021||Third-wave feminist; Socialist feminist; Black feminist||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Whedon, Joss"|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||data-sort-value="Zajovic, Stasa"|Stasa Zajovic||Serbia||1953||–||Co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black||

|1940–1999||data-sort-value="Zeilinger, Julie"|Julie Zeilinger||United States||1993||–||Third-wave feminist||

|1980-1996

|Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

|Iceland

|1980

|1996

|First democratically elected woman president

|1940–1999

|Itziar Ziga

|Spain

|1974

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Notable 20th and 21st-century feminists

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|1940–

|Gia Abrassart

|Belgium

|20th century

|–

|Decolonial journalist and feminist owner of literary cafe

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Bethel, Lorraine"|Lorraine Bethel||United States||20th century||–||Second-wave feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Leidholdt, Dorchen"|Dorchen Leidholdt||United States||20th century||–||Anti-pornography feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Lems, Kristin"|Kristin Lems||United States||20th century||–||Activist, singer/songwriter||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="McIntosh, Jamie"|Jamie McIntosh||Canada||20th century||–||Lawyer and women's rights activist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Mellish, Page"|Page Mellish||United States||20th century||–||Anti-pornography feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Murphy, Meghan"|Meghan Murphy||Canada||20th century||–||Journalist; radical feminist; anti-sex industry feminist||

|1940- ||data-sort-value="Nayak, Nalini"|Nalini Nayak||India||20th century||—||||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Nolot, Benjamin"|Benjamin Nolot||United States||20th century||–||Anti-prostitution feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Prior, Jerilynn"|Jerilynn Prior||Canada||20th century||–||||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Stoller, Debbie"|Debbie Stoller||United States||20th century||–||Third-wave feminist; sex-positive feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Suchman, Lucy"|Lucy Suchman||United Kingdom||20th century||–||Third-wave feminist; cyberfeminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Sworn, Helen"|Helen Sworn||United Kingdom||20th century||–||Anti-prostitution feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Wahlberg, Kajsa"|Kajsa Wahlberg||Sweden||20th century||–||Anti-prostitution feminist; Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Warcry"|Warcry||United States||20th century||–||Radical feminist||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Wolfson, Alice"|Alice Wolfson||United States||20th century||–||||

|1940– ||data-sort-value="Zeig, Sande"|Sande Zeig||United States||20th century||–||||

References

External links

National Women's History Project
FemBio – Notable Women International

Early feminists

16th-century feminists

17th-century feminists

18th-century feminists

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

Mid to late 20th-century feminists

Notable 20th and 21st-century feminists

See also

References

External links