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Results: 147

• Aretaphila
  • Alternative Names: Aretaphila of Cyrene
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 50 BCE
  • Types: Assassin; Beauty, celebrated; Classical Greek; Heroine of rescue; Patriot; Politician; Prisoner or captive; Reformer, political; Royalty; Ruler; Victim of injustice; Widow; Wife of notable man
• Erixo
  • Alternative Names: Eryxo
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 500 BCE
  • Types: Assassin; Beauty, celebrated; Classical Greek; Heroine of rescue; Nationalist; Reformer, political; Representative of region; Royalty
• Anne de Bretagne
  • Alternative Names: Anne of Brittany
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 January 1477 - 9 January 1514
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; French; Heroine of rescue; Medieval; Politician; Reformer, political; Royalty; Ruler; Wife of notable man
• Fannia
  • Alternative Names: Fannia
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Classical Roman; Daughter of notable man; Model of domesticity; Reformer, political
• Madame Roland
  • Alternative Names: Madame Roland; Manon Plipon; Manon Roland; Mme Roland; Marie-Jeanne Phlipon; Mme. Roland; Marie-Jeanne Roland; Madame Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere; The Female Girondist
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 March 1754 – 8 November 1793
  • Types: French; Reformer, political; Role in revolution; Salonniere
• Isabella of Castile
  • Alternative Names: Isabel I; Isabel I de Castilla; Isabella I; Isabella of Spain; Isabella the Catholic; Isabel la Católica; Isabella of Castile; Queen Isabella; Isabella Queen of Castile and León; Isabel the Catholic
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504
  • Types: Reformer, political; Royalty; Ruler
• Susan B. Anthony
  • Alternative Names: Susan Brownell Anthony
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 February 1820 – 13 March 1906
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Editor or publisher; Reformer, political; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Editor or publisher; Reformer, political; Reformer, religious; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker; Writer, Nonfiction
• Lucy Stone
  • Alternative Names: Lucy Stone Blackwell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 August 1818 – 19 October 1893
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Editor or publisher; Educator, teacher; Member of committee or club; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker
• Florence Nightingale
  • Alternative Names: Florence Nightingale; The Lady with the Lamp
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910
  • Types: Heroine in war; Medicine, nurse; Philanthropist; Reformer, nursing; Reformer, political
• Frances E. Willard
  • Alternative Names: Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard; Frances Willard; Frances Elizabeth Willard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 September 1839 – 17 February 1898
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Educational founder, schoolmistress; Politician; Reformer, political; Sexual agency, transgression (homo); Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker
• Lucretia Mott
  • Alternative Names: Lucretia Coffin; Lucretia Coffin Mott
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 January 1793 – 11 November 1880
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Member of committee or club; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Reformer, religious; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Nonfiction
• Harriet Martineau
  • Alternative Names: Miss Martineau
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876
  • Types: English; Financial crisis or bankruptcy; Journalist; Reformer, political; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Social scientist, theorist; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Nonfiction
• Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Alternative Names: Helen Fiske; Helen Maria Hunt Jackson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 18 October 1830 – 12 August 1885
  • Types: Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Poetry
• Elizabeth Fry
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Fry, the Prison Reformer; Elizabeth Fry; Elizabeth Gurney Fry; Mrs. Joseph Fry; Mrs. Fry; Mrs. Elizabeth Fry; Elizabeth Gurney; Betsy Gurney; The Angel of the Prisons; The Female Howard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845
  • Types: Reformer, political
• Helen Keller
  • Alternative Names: Helen Adams Keller
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 June 1880 – 1 June 1968
  • Types: Disabled; Disabled, model of; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  • Alternative Names: Anna Laetitia Aikin; Anna Letitia Barbauld; Anne Laetitia Barbauld; Nancy Barbauld; Mrs. Barbauld
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Educational founder, schoolmistress; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Poetry
• Caroline Bartlett Crane
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 August 1858 – 24 March 1935
  • Types: Journalist; Model of faith, piety; Reformer, political; Suffragette
• Lady Henry Somerset
  • Alternative Names: Lady Isabella Somers-Cocks; Isabella Caroline Somers Cocks; Lady Isabella Somerset
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 August 1851 - 12 March 1921
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Society or High Rank; Temperance worker
• Eliza Chappell Porter
  • Alternative Names: Eliza Emily Chappell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 November 1807 – 1 January 1888
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Frontierswoman; Philanthropist; Reformer, education; Reformer, political
• Margaret Brent
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: c. 1601 - c. 1671
  • Types: Colonial; Reformer, political
• Dorothea Beale
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 March 1831 - 9 November 1906
  • Types: Educational founder, schoolmistress; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Suffragette
• Kate C. Bushnell
  • Alternative Names: Katharine Bushnell; Sophia Caroline Bushnell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 February 1855 - 26 January 1946
  • Types: Medicine, doctor; Missionary; Reformer, political; Temperance worker; Writer, Nonfiction
• Josephine Butler
  • Alternative Names: Josephine Elizabeth Butler; Josephine Elizabeth Grey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Social worker; Writer, Nonfiction
• Julia A Ames
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 14 October 1861 - 12 December 1891
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Journalist; Reformer, political
• Isabel Reaney
  • Alternative Names: Isabella Edis; Isabella Emily Thomasa Edis; Mrs. Isabel Edis Reaney; Mrs. George Sale Reaney
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 July 1847 - 19 June 1929
  • Types: English; Preacher; Reformer, political; Social worker; Temperance worker; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Frances Power Cobbe
  • Alternative Names: Frances Cobbe; Miss Cobbe
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Journalist; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Frederika Bremer
  • Alternative Names: Fredrika Bremer
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 August 1801 - 31 December 1865
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Alternative Names: Emmeline Goulden
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 July 1858 - 14 June 1928
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; English; Mother of notable woman; Reformer, political; Suffragette
• anon00224
  • Alternative Names: Women's Clubs in Oregon
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Anonymous group; Reformer, political
• Caroline Norton
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Norton; Lady Stirling Maxell; Lady Stirling Maxwell of Keir; Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton; Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan; The Honourable Mrs. Norton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Beauty, celebrated; Irish; Reformer, political; Society or High Rank; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Flora Tristan
  • Alternative Names: Flora Tristán; Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 April 1803 - 14 November 1844
  • Types: Activist; American, Latin; French; Reformer, political; Traveler, travel writer
• Emma Goldman
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 June 1869 – 14 May 1940
  • Types: Philosopher; Reformer, political; Role in revolution; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
• Rosa Luxemburg
  • Alternative Names: Rosalia Luxemburg
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919
  • Types: Philosopher; Reformer, political; Role in revolution
• Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner
  • Alternative Names: Bertha Kinsky; Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; Baroness Bertha von Suttner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914
  • Types: Author or presenter; Pacifist; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel
• Lily Hardy Hammond
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. John Hammond
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1859 - 1925
  • Types: Author or presenter; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Amalie Skram
  • Alternative Names: Berthe Amalie Alver; Amalie Müller
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 August 1846 - 15 March 1905
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; Divorced or separated; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Booker T. Washington
  • Alternative Names: Booker Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 5 April 1858 or 59 – 14 November 1915
  • Types: Politician; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Nonfiction
• Dorothea Dix
  • Alternative Names: Miss Dorothea; Dorothea Lynde Dix; Miss D. L. Dix
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 April 1802 – 17 July 1887
  • Types: American (US); Medicine, nurse; Official or Administrator; Philanthropist; Reformer, nursing; Reformer, political
• Frances Dana Gage
  • Alternative Names: Aunt Fanny; Frances Dana Barker; Frances Dana Barker Gage; Frances Dana Barker Gage; Mrs. Frances Dana Gage
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 October 1808 – 10 November 1884
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Journalist; Medicine, nurse; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker; Writer for children; Writer, Poetry
• Lady John Russell
  • Alternative Names: Countess Russell; Francis Anna Maria Elliott; Lady Fanny Elliott
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 November 1815 - 17 January 1898
  • Types: English; Reformer, political; Wife of notable man
• Muriel Lester
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: December 1885 – 11 February 1968
  • Types: Reformer, political; Social worker
• Mabel Howard
  • Alternative Names: Mabel Bowden Howard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 18 April 1894 – 23 June 1972
  • Types: Politician; Reformer, political
• Caroline Macdonald
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1874-1931
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Social worker
• Abby Kelley
  • Alternative Names: Abby Kelley Foster
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 January 1811 – 14 January 1887
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Educator, teacher; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Suffragette; Wife of notable man
• Mrs. Caroline H. Dall
  • Alternative Names: Caroline Wells Healey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 June 1822 – 17 December 1912
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Edwin A. Pratt
  • Alternative Names: Edwin Augustus Pratt
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 23 June 1854 - 27 October 1922
  • Types: Author or presenter; Editor or publisher; English; Journalist; Reformer, political
• Thomas Scot
  • Alternative Names: Thomas Scot, The Regicide
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 1627 - 17 October 1660
  • Types: English; Politician; Reformer, political
• Annie Fields
  • Alternative Names: Annie Adams
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1834 - 1915
  • Types: American (US); Editor or publisher; Philanthropist; Reformer, political; Wife of notable man; Writer; Writer, Poetry
• Anne Whitney
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1821 - 1915
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Artist, sculptor; Reformer, political; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer, Poetry
• Abby Hopper Gibbons
  • Alternative Names: Abigail Hopper Gibbons
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 December 1801 – 16 January 16 1893
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Daughter of notable man; Educator, teacher; Medicine, nurse; Member of committee or club; Philanthropist; Reformer, political; Temperance worker; Writer, Nonfiction
• Henry Adams Thompson
  • Alternative Names: H.A. Thompson
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 23 March 1837 - 8 July 1920
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Reformer, political
• Emma Martin
  • Alternative Names: Emma Bullock
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1811 - 8 October 1851
  • Types: English; Midwife; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Margaret Reynolds Chappellsmith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1806 - 1883
  • Types: English; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Nonfiction
• Ernestine Louise Rose
  • Alternative Names: Ernestine Louise Polowsky
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1810 - 1892
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Suffragette; Writer, Nonfiction
• Olive Schreiner
  • Alternative Names: Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920
  • Types: Pacifist; Philosopher; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Perkins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 July 1860 – 17 August 1935
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Artist, painter; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Alexandra Kollontai
  • Alternative Names: Alexandra Mikhailovna Domontovich
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 31 March 1872 – 9 March 1952
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Politician; Reformer, political; Role in revolution
• Huda Shaarawi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 June 1879 – 12 December 1947
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Educational founder, schoolmistress; Philanthropist; Reformer, political
• Rose Schneiderman
  • Alternative Names: Rachel Schneiderman
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 April 1882 – 11 August 1972
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Laborer, industrial; Reformer, political
• Jessie Lopez De La Cruz
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1919 - 2 September 2013
  • Types: American, Latin; Reformer, political
• Betty Williams
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 22 May 1943
  • Types: Irish; Reformer, political
• Angelina Grimké
  • Alternative Names: Angelina Emily Grimké; Angelina Grimké Weld
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 February 1805 – 26 October 1879
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Educator, teacher; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Suffragette; Wife of notable man; Writer, Epistolary; Writer, Nonfiction
• Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
  • Alternative Names: Suzanne La Flesche Picotte
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 June 1865 - 18 September 1915
  • Types: Activist; American, Native; Medicine, doctor; Reformer, political; Temperance worker
• Elaine Abraham Ramos
  • Alternative Names: Elaine Elizabeth Abraham; Chuu Shah
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 June 1929 - 18 May 2016
  • Types: American, Native; American (US); Educator, teacher; Medicine, nurse; Reformer, political
• Frances Wright
  • Alternative Names: Frances Wright D'Arusmont; Fanny Wright
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 September 1795 - 13 December 1852
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; Divorced or separated; Editor or publisher; Reformer, political; Scottish; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Epistolary; Writer, Nonfiction
• Lillian D. Wald
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 March 1867 – 1 September 1940
  • Types: Medicine, nurse; Reformer, nursing; Reformer, political
• Madame Chiang Kai-shek
  • Alternative Names: Madame Chiang; May-ling Soong; May-ling Soong Chiang; Soong Mei-ling
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 March 1898 - 23 October 2003
  • Types: Asian, East; Daughter of notable man; Philanthropist; Politician; Reformer, political; Ruler; Society or High Rank; Wife of notable man; Wife with Great Influence on Husband
• Dorothy Irene Height
  • Alternative Names: Dorothy Height
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 March 1912 - 20 April 2010
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American, African; American (US); Member of committee or club; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Social worker
• Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Alternative Names: Fannie Lou Townsend
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 October 1917 - 12 March 1977
  • Types: Activist; American, African; American (US); Member of committee or club; Model of race; Philanthropist; Reformer, political
• Bernadette Devlin
  • Alternative Names: Josephine Bernadette McAliskey; Bernadette McAliskey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 23 April 1947
  • Types: Activist; Irish; Politician; Reformer, political
• Kasturbai Gandhi
  • Alternative Names: Kasturbai Mohandas Gandhi; Kasturba Gandhi; Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 April 1869 - 22 February 1944
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Indian; Reformer, political; Role in revolution; Wife, Honorable and Dedicated; Wife of notable man
• Empress Menen Asfaw
  • Alternative Names: Waizeru Menin; Walatta Giyorgis; Itege Menen Asfaw; The Empress of Abyssinia
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 April 1891 - 15 February 1962
  • Types: African; Model of faith, piety; Model of family life, motherhood; Philanthropist; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Representative of state, historical; Royalty; Ruler; Wife of notable man; Wife with Great Influence on Husband
• Kamala Nehru
  • Alternative Names: Kamala Kaul Nehru
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 August 1899 - 28 February 1936
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; Indian; Politician; Reformer, political; Wife of notable man; Wife with Great Influence on Husband
• Victoria Woodhull
  • Alternative Names: Victoria Woodhull Martin; Victoria C. Woodhull; Victoria Claflin Woodhull
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 September 1838 – 9 June 1927
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Businesswoman; Performer, other entertainment; Politician; Reformer, political; Sexual agency, transgression (hetero); Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
• Eglantyne Jebb
  • Alternative Names: Eglantyne Louisa Jebb
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928
  • Types: Reformer, political
• Olympe d' Audouard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 March 1830 – 12 January 1890
  • Types: Activist; Adventure, physical feat or survival; Cross-dresser; Reformer, political; Traveler, travel writer
• Princess Catherine Dashkov
  • Alternative Names: Princess Catherine Vorontsov Dashkov; Princess Dashkova; Yekaterine Vorontsova-Dashkova
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 March 1743 – 15 January 1810
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Educational founder, schoolmistress; Learning, sciences; Reformer, political; Russian; Scholar of literatures, classics; Society or High Rank; Traveler, travel writer; Wife of notable man; Writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Plays
• Mrs. Alice McLellan Birney
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 October 1858 - 20 December 1907
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Reformer, political
• Woman as Enthusiast and Social Reformer
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Anonymous set; Reformer, political
• Ethel Lilian Voynich
  • Alternative Names: Ethel Lilian Boole; Mrs. Voynich
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 May 1864 - 27 July 1960
  • Types: Irish; Performer, musician; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel
• The Maharani of Travancore
  • Alternative Names: Sethu Lakshmi Bayi; Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 November 1895 - February 1985
  • Types: Asian, South; Reformer, political; Regent; Royalty
• Mrs. Helen Morton Barker
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 December 1834 - 6 May 1910
  • Types: American (US); Member of committee or club; Model of faith, piety; Official or Administrator; Reformer, political; Representative of region; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker
• Mairead Maguire
  • Alternative Names: Mairead Maguire Corrigan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 27 January 1944
  • Types: Irish; Reformer, political
• Miss Pellet
  • Alternative Names: Sarah Pellet
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1824 - 16 March 1898
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; Adventuress, self-promoting entrepreneur; American (US); Educator, teacher; Journalist; Reformer, political; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Temperance worker
• Mrs. Naomi Bowman Talbert Anderson
  • Alternative Names: Naomi Anderson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 1 March 1843
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American, African; American (US); Reformer, political; Suffragette; Temperance worker; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Mary Eleanor Britton
  • Alternative Names: Miss Mary E. Britton; Mary Ellen Britton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 April 1855-27 August 1925
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; American, African; American (US); Educator, teacher; Journalist; Medicine, doctor; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Suffragette; Writer, Nonfiction
• Mary Virginia Cook Parrish
  • Alternative Names: Prof Mary V. Cook A.B., A.M.; Mary V. Cook; Mary Virginia Cooke; Grace Ermine; Mary V. Cooke Parrish
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1868 - 1945
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; American, African; American (US); Educational founder, schoolmistress; Educator, teacher; Journalist; Member of committee or club; Member of local society; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
• Ella Sheppard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 February 1851 - 9 June 1914
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; American, African; Educator, teacher; Enslaved person, bondservant, former enslaved person; Performer, singer; Reformer, political
• Joyce Sikhakane
  • Alternative Names: Joyce Nomafa Sikhakane; Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 1943
  • Types: African; Journalist; Reformer, political; Scottish; Writer
• Winnie Mandela
  • Alternative Names: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela; Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 26 September 1936
  • Types: African; Politician; Reformer, political
• Miriam Makeba
  • Alternative Names: Zenzile Miriam Makeba; Mama Africa
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008
  • Types: African; Performer, singer; Reformer, political
• Claudia Jones
  • Alternative Names: Claudia Vera Cumberbatch; Claudia Cumberbatch Jones
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; American, African; Caribbean; Expatriated, exiled person; Journalist; Reformer, political
• Fannie B. Ames
  • Alternative Names: Fannie Baker Ames
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 14 June 1840 – 21 August 1931
  • Types: Educator, teacher; Philanthropist; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Suffragette
• Rosa Miller Avery
  • Alternative Names: Rosa Mary Avery; Rosa Mary Miller; Sue Smith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 May 1830 - 9 November 1894
  • Types: Abolitionist; Reformer, political; Suffragette; Writer
• Mary Ashton Livermore
  • Alternative Names: Mary Ashton Rice
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 December 1820 - 23 May 1905
  • Types: Abolitionist; Journalist; Medicine, nurse; Reformer, political; Suffragette; Temperance worker
• Margaret Dreier Robins
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Dreier Robbins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 September 1868 - 21 February 1945
  • Types: American (US); Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Corinne Stubbs Brown
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1849 - 1914
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Educator, teacher; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Helena Dudley
  • Alternative Names: Helena Stuart Dudley
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 31 August 1858 - 29 September 1932
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Pacifist; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist; Social worker
• Diana Belais
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1858 - 1944
  • Types: Activist; Editor or publisher; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Martha Parmelee Rose
  • Alternative Names: Martha Emily Parmelee; Martha Emily Rose
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 March 1834 - 1923
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Journalist; Philanthropist; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist; Wife of notable man
• Anna Byford Leonard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 31 July 1843
  • Types: American (US); Businesswoman; Daughter of notable man; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Ida Whipple Benham
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 January 1849 - 21 May 1903
  • Types: Pacifist; Reformer, political; Writer, Poetry
• Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 14 May 1847 - 11 September 1892
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Prisoner or captive; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Charlotte Everett Hopkins
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Archibald Hopkins; Charlotte Everett Wise Hopkins; Charlotte Everett Wise
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 June 1851 - 6 September 1935
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; American (US); Philanthropist; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Mrs. Elizabeth Gerberding
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Sears Gerberding
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 September 1857 - 5 February 1937
  • Types: American (US); Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist; Suffragette
• Ada Bittenbender
  • Alternative Names: Ada M. Bittenbender; Ada Matilda Cole
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 August 1848 - 15 December 1925
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Author or presenter; Lawyer, attorney, judge; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist; Temperance worker
• Helen Marot
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 June 1865 - 3 June 1940
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Lesbian; Librarian; Reformer, education; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist; Writer, Nonfiction
• Julia Barnett Rice
  • Alternative Names: Julia Hyneman Barnett; Mrs. Isaac L. Rice
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 May 1860 - 5 November 1929
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Philanthropist; Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Mary Van Kleeck
  • Alternative Names: Mary Abby Van Kleeck
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 June 1883 - 8 June 1972
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Reformer, political; Social scientist, theorist
• Mrs. Sarah Jane Woodson Early
  • Alternative Names: Sarah Jane Early; Mrs. S. J. W. Early; Mrs. Sarah J.W. Early; Sarah Jane Woodson Early; Sarah W. Early; Sarah Jane Woodson; Sarah Woodson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 November 1825 - 15 August 1907
  • Types: American, African; Educator, professor; Educator, teacher; Reformer, political; Temperance worker; Writer, Nonfiction
• Abadi Bano Begum
  • Alternative Names: Bi Amman; Abadi Banu
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1850 - 3 November 1924
  • Types: Asian, South; Mother of notable man; Reformer, political
• Janaki Devi Bajaj
  • Alternative Names: Jankidevi Bajaj
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 January 1893 - 21 May 1979
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Perin Ben Captain
  • Alternative Names: Perin Ben
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 October 1888 - 1958
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political
• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 April 1903 - 29 October 1988
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Bina Das
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 August 1911 - 26 December 1986
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Duvvuri Subbamma
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 November 1881 - 31 May 1964
  • Types: Activist; Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political
• Avantika Bai Gokhale
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1882 - 1949
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Midwife; Reformer, political; Social worker; Writer, Nonfiction
• Rajpati Kaul
  • Alternative Names: Rajpati Topa
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1882 -.1949
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Mother of notable woman; Reformer, political
• Sucheta Kripalani
  • Alternative Names: Sucheta Mazumdar
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974
  • Types: Asian, South; Official or Administrator; Politician; Reformer, political
• Rukmini Laxmipath
  • Alternative Names: Rukmani Lakshmipathi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 December 1892 - 6 August 1951
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Official or Administrator; Politician; Reformer, political
• Annie Mascarene
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 June 1902 - 19 July 1963
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Lawyer, attorney, judge; Official or Administrator; Politician; Reformer, political
• Hema Prabha Mazumdar
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1882 - 1962
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political
• Madeleine Slade P.V.
  • Alternative Names: Meera Behn; Mirabehn
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 November 1892 - 20 July 1982
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; English; Expatriated, exiled person; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Sharada Behn Mehta
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1882 - 1970
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political; Writer, Nonfiction
• Usha Mehta
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 March 1920 - 11 August 2000
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Celibate, chaste or virginal; Prisoner or captive; Reformer, political
• Lakshmi N. Menon
  • Alternative Names: Lakshmi Nandan Menon
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 March 1899 - 30 November 1994
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political
• Padmaja Naidu
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 November 1900 - 2 May 1975
  • Types: Asian, South; Official or Administrator; Politician; Reformer, political
• Sarojini Naidu
  • Alternative Names: Sarojini Chattopadhyay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 February 1879 - 2 March 1949
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Activist, Women's Rights; Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political; Writer, Poetry
• Nanibala Devi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1898 - 1967
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Prisoner or captive; Reformer, political
• Khurshedben Naoroji
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1894 - 1966
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Asian, South; Performer, singer; Reformer, political
• Sushila Nayyar
  • Alternative Names: Sushila Nayar
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1914 - 2001
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Medicine, doctor; Politician; Reformer, political
• Rameshwari Nehru
  • Alternative Names: Rameshwari Raina
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 December 1886 - 8 November 1966
  • Types: Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political; Social worker
• Uma Nehru
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 March 1884 - 28 August 1963
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Prisoner or captive; Reformer, political
• Prabhavati Devi Narayan
  • Alternative Names: Prabhavati Devi Prasad
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1906 - 15 April 1973
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Ramadevi Choudhury
  • Alternative Names: Rama Devi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 December 1899 - 22 July 1985
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political; Social worker
• Rambai Ranade
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 January 1862 - 25 January 1924
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political; Social worker
• Leela Roy
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 October 1900 - 11 June 1970
  • Types: Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political
• Satyavati Devi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1904 - 1945
  • Types: Asian, South; Reformer, political; Writer, Poetry
• Savita Behn
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 1919
  • Types: Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Lakshmi Sahgal
  • Alternative Names: Captain Lakshmi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 October 1914 - 23 July 2012
  • Types: Asian, South; Military; Reformer, political
• Nellie Sengupta
  • Alternative Names: Edith Ellen Gray
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 January 1884 - 23 October 1973
  • Types: English; Reformer, political
• Sushila Devi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1904 - 1963
  • Types: Activist, Civil Rights; Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Ammu Swaminathan
  • Alternative Names: Ammukutty Swaminathan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 April 1894 - 4 July 1978
  • Types: Asian, South; Politician; Reformer, political
• Pritilata Waddedar
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 May 1911 - 24 September 1932
  • Types: Asian, South; Educator, teacher; Reformer, political
• Lado Rani Zutshi
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1882 - 1968
  • Types: Activist; Asian, South; Reformer, political
• Wife of Pythes
  • Alternative Names: Wife of Pythius
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 500 BCE - ca. 400 BCE
  • Types: Anonymous individual; Classical Greek; Mother who has lost a child; Reformer, political; Ruler; Victim of injustice; Widow; Wife, Honorable and Dedicated