Carolina Beatriz Ângelo

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo (16 April 1878 – 3 October 1911) was a Portuguese surgeon and the first woman to vote in Portugal.

Life Carolina Beatriz Ângelo was a medical doctor practising in Lisbon. She was a feminist and suffragette who participated in multiple women's associations. She was a leader of the League of Republican Women and, in 1911, she and Adelaide Cabete founded the Portuguese Association of Feminist Propaganda of which Ana de Castro Osório became the head.

Vote Supplement to the newspaper O Século about the suffragettes of the Liga das Mulheres Republicanas, published on May 12, 1910: 5 - Ana de Castro Osório; 6 - Maria Veleda; 7 - Beatriz Pinheiro; 8 - Maria Clara Correia Alves; 13 - Sofia Quintino; 14 - Adelaide Cabete; 15 - Carolina Beatriz Ângelo; 16 - Maria do Carmo Joaquina Lopes. On May 28, 1911 Ângelo cast her vote to elect representatives to the Constituent National Assembly in 1911 in the first elections after the overthrown of the monarchy in the Republican Revolution on 5 October 1910. As a widow and the mother of a daughter, she was a head-of-household. Shortly thereafter, on July 3, 1913, a law was passed to specify the right to vote was only for male citizens, literate and over 21.

Tribute On May 28, 2021, Google celebrated her with a Google Doodle.