Women S Rights Activist

This page lists 2,015 biographies of women s rights activists, covering lives from 1469 to 2005. Featuring Carole Pateman, Shirin Ebadi and Steve Shirley. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Nisha Ayub

b. 1979

Suzuyo Takazato

b. 1940

Ye Haiyan

b. 1975

Freshta Kohistan

1991 – 2020

Mary Atkinson

b. 1850

Gertrude Isabella Morton Horton

1901 – 1978

Pionie Boso

Stella Newsome

1889 – 1969

Tamana Zaryab Paryani

b. 1997

Habiba Menchari

1907 – 1961

Sayaka Osakabe

b. 1977

Vera Houghton

1914 – 2013

Belle Christie Critchett

1868 – 1956

Mathilde Berdenis van Berlekom

1862 – 1952

Josephine Wilkins

1893 – 1977

Mary Ann Colclough

1836 – 1885

Aline Valette

1850 – 1899

Caroline de Barrau

1828 – 1888

Mildred Persinger

1918 – 2018

Salma Maoulidi

b. 1901

Matilda Joslyn Gage

1826 – 1898

Judi Patton

b. 1940

Agnieszka Graff

b. 1970

Janet Chance

1886 – 1953

Hilda Tadria

b. 1945

Marie Hoheisel

1873 – 1947

Sara Hossain

b. 2000

Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach

1854 – 1927

Florence Ada Mary Lamb Polson

1877 – 1941

Camille Vidart

1854 – 1930

Mathilde Fibiger

1830 – 1872

Sigþrúður Friðriksdóttir

1830 – 1912

Sara Hlupekile Longwe

b. 1950

Princess Sophia Kaur of Lahore

1876 – 1948

Else Falk

1872 – 1956

Judith Meuli

1938 – 2007

Josephine Brawley Hughes

1839 – 1926

Agnes Karll

1868 – 1927

Alice Franklin

1885 – 1964

Isabelle Gatti de Gamond

1839 – 1905

Mukhtaran Bibi

b. 1972

Samira Ibrahim

b. 1986

Valentina Sagala

b. 1977

Beata Kitsikis

1907 – 1986

Mies Boissevain-van Lennep

1896 – 1965

Stella Simons

1888 – 1989

Ourida Chouaki

1954 – 2015

Marta Zabaleta

1937 – 2023

Nato Shavlakadze

b. 1966

Joumana Seif

b. 1970

Liang Yu

Jane Hunt

1812 – 1889

Jane Prichard

1936 – 2023

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Fouse

1875 – 1952

Hawa Aden Mohamed

b. 1949

Thung Sin Nio

1902 – 1996

María A. Gámez

1876 – 1940

Julia Rachel Rapke

1886 – 1959

Ochy Curiel

b. 1963

Macedonia Blas Flores

b. 1958

Mariia Argamakova

1866 – 1934

Imelda Molokomme

b. 1942

Madalena Barbosa

1942 – 2008

Giovanna Caleffi

1897 – 1962

Marion Coates Hansen

1870 – 1947

Evelyn Lett

1896 – 1999

Maia Weinstock

b. 1953

Elizabeth Sewell

1940 – 1988

Inna Shevchenko

b. 1990

Ros Sopheap

b. 1962

Fatima Babiker Mahmoud

Shaheen Anam

Sundus Abbas

b. 2000

Anne Dallas Dudley

1876 – 1955

Patricia Caro Maya

b. 1982

Stanislava Staša Zajović

b. 1953

Betsy Warrior

b. 1940

Eline Hansen

1859 – 1919

Peggy Phelan

b. 1948

Emily Patricia Gibson

1864 – 1947

Rose Mukantabana

b. 1961

Nadezhda Stasova

1822 – 1895

Elizabeth Margaret Bang

Sue Lees

1941 – 2002

Palwasha Hassan

b. 1969

Zabib Musa Loro

Nelia Sancho

1951 – 2022

Mini Timmaraju

b. 1973

Begum Anwar Ahmed

1908 – 1973

Ottilie Baader

1847 – 1925

Godiva Akullo

b. 1901

Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi

1985 – 2012

Virginia "Ginny" Montes

1943 – 1994

Wei Tingting

b. 1989

Emma Coradi-Stahl

1846 – 1912

Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani

Nahu Senay Girma

Philippa Strachey

1872 – 1968

Nanfadima Magassouba

Churan Zheng

b. 1989