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This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism. Where an associated biographical page is not available as an internal link, reliable sources should be added establishing notability.

Feminists

Jane Addams (1860–1935)
Abigail Adams (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States
Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), author of Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex.
Catharina Ahlgren(1734–1783), Swedish journalist and feminist.
Jeffner Allen
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German university lecturer
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Jane Anger author of Her Protection for Women published 1589 in London.
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American suffragette
Lovisa Årberg (1803–1866), first female physician in Sweden
Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), Activist, writer, thinker, pioneer and founder of the Feminist Movement in Spain
Ottilie Assing
Mary Astell (c. 1666 – 1731), author of "Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
Hubertine Auclert
Rachel Foster Avery
Marie Bashkirtseff
Anna Bayerová (1853–1924), second Czech female physician
Simone de Beauvoir
Catharine Beecher (1800–1878), American educator, author
Julie Bindel, Guardian columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking and rape.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), first female physician in the U.S.A.
Barbara Bodichon
Anne Bradstreet
Fredrika Bremer
Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1724), Swedish salonist and poet
Ursula Mellor Bright^[1]
Susan Brownmiller
Antoinette Brown
Katherine Burdekin
Lucy Burns
Katharine Bushnell
Lydia Cacho
Frances Jennings Casement
Ana Castillo
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
Maria Cederschiöld
Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), Queen
Enid Charles (1894–1972)
Alice Whitcomb Clark
Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879), English artist and author
Voltairine de Cleyre
Francis Power Cobbe
Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), Philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment [1]
Nikki Craft (Activist from 1970 to 2006 and beyond who does not identify as 2nd or 3rd wave feminist.)
Mary Daly
Marie Dentière - (c. 1495 – 1561)- Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women.
Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Precursor of Latin American Independence and military figure of the French Revolution.
Christine de Pizan (1365–1430)
Guru Nanak Dev (1469–1539), founder of Sikhism.
Frederick Douglass [2]
Carol Ann Duffy
Marguerite Durand
Andrea Dworkin
Norah Elam (1878–1961)^[2]
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) Communist writer and thinker. Wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first female physician in Germany
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Shulamith Firestone
Louise Flodin
Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954) suffragist, painter, writer
Marilyn Frye
Margaret Fuller
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emma Goldman
Jane Gomeldon (died 1779), English essayist
Jane Goodall
Olympe de Gouges
Marie de Gournay
Bettisia Gozzadini (1209–1261) Held a chair in law at the University Bologna, Italy, Probably the first woman ever to hold a university post.
Jane Grant
Sarah Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke
Marianne Hainisch
Bertha Harris
Jane Ellen Harrison - British scholar
Shere Hite
Sarah Hoagland
Julia Ward Howe
Mary Howell
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the new world
Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician ever.
Sheila Jeffreys
Sonia Johnson
Jill Johnston
Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857), Scottish journalist, editor, and novelist
Marie Juchacz - German social reformer, feminist and Member of the Reichstag
Wendy Kaminer
Alexandra Kollontai
Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish phoet
Louisa Lawson - Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
Mary Lee - South Australian suffragist
Anna Leonowens
Mary Livermore
Audre Lorde
Mina Loy
Margaret Bright Lucas^[3]
Rosa Luxemburg
Catharine MacKinnon
Agnes Macphail - first woman elected to Canadian House of Commons; founder of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada
Linda Martín Alcoff
Else Mayer
Rosa Mayreder
Nellie McClung
Wendy McElroy
Helen Priscilla McLaren
Louise Michel, Paris Commune 1871-1880. Considered women's labor of comparable worth.
Katti Anker Møller - Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
Cherríe Moraga
Robin Morgan
Lucretia Mott
Anna Maria Mozzoni
Clarina I. H. Nichols
Emmeline Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst
Alice Paul
Eva Perón
Marion Phillips
François Poullain de la Barre
Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi
Sharon Presley
Jerilynn Prior
Janice Raymond
Adrienne Rich
Rosalie Roos (1823–1898)
Ernestine Rose
Kathy Rudy
Gita Sahgal, Indian feminist
Sarojini Sahoo
Celia Sánchez (1920–1980) - participant in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution.
George Sand (1804–1876), French Novelist
Margaret Sanger
Auguste Schmidt, (1833–1902), Pioneer of women's education in Germany
Olive Schreiner
Alice Schwarzer
Rose Scott
Barbara Seaman
Séverine
Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist
Tarabai Shinde
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Kate Sheppard
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (1814–1897) English activist and writer
Ruth Simpson
Barbara Smith
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
Valerie Solanas
Anna Garlin Spencer
Helene Stöcker
Lucy Stone
Marie Stopes
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
Táhirih (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher and theologian.
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English thinker [3].
Joan Kennedy Taylor
Thomas Thorild (1759–1808), Swedish poet and feminist
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Urvashi Vaid
Wil van Gogh
Peng Wan-ru
Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
Karolina Widerström ‎
Charlotte Wilson
Monique Wittig
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Alice Wolfson
Victoria Woodhull
Virginia Woolf
Frances Wright
Cathy Young
Sande Zeig
Clara Zetkin
Rote Zora

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Second-wave feminists

For main article, see: Feminist Movement in the United States

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Third-wave feminists

For main article, see Third-wave feminism

Tori Amos
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Margaret Atwood
Jennifer Baumgardner
Melissa Benn
Giannina Braschi
Carrie Brownstein
Judith Butler
Susie Bright
Margaret Cho
Patricia Hill Collins (author of Black Feminist Thought). ISBN 0415924839. OCLC 41211570. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Johanna Fateman
Ani DiFranco
Martha Davis
Donna Dresch
Corin Tucker
Betty Dodson
Emily Haines
Kathleen Hanna
Donna Haraway
bell hooks
Holly Hunter
Joan Jett
Miranda July
Marcelle Karp
Jean Kilbourne
Barbara Kingsolver
Ariel Levy
Rosie Malek-Yonan (activist and author of The Crimson Field )
Inga Muscio
Kathy Najimy
Mimi Nguyen
Sandra Oh
Alicia Ostriker
Ellen Page
Liz Phair
Maria Raha
JD Samson
Gudrun Schyman
Joan Smith
Annie Sprinkle
Debbie Stoller
Nadine Strossen
Lili Taylor
Robin Tunney
Tobi Vail
Jessica Valenti
Rebecca Walker
Natasha Walter
Kaia Wilson
Naomi Wolf
Allison Wolfe

Ecofeminists

For main article, see Ecofeminism

French feminists

For main article, see French feminism

Muslim feminists

For main article, see Islamic feminism

Leila Ahmed
Qasim Amin
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
Shirin Ebadi
Fatima Mernissi
Nawal el-Sadaawi
Huda Shaarawi
Kartini (Indonesian)
Irshad Manji
Asra Nomani
Shahla Sherkat
Elaheh Koulaei
Taslima Nasrin (secular but of Muslim origin)
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
Tahar Haddad

Other feminists

Alan Alda U.S. Actor (M*A*S*H*, (The West Wing) who campaigned extensively on behalf of Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Soteria Aliberty, Greek educator and writer
Lois W. Banner, U.S. historian
Annie Besant
Kurt Cobain self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "Rape Me", which he described as "anti-rape".
Anti-Flag self proclaimed feminists. Have written songs about feminism including "Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain)
Flora Brovina
Liz Carpenter one of the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus
Hillary Clinton, Former First Lady, Secretary of State, U.S. Politician
Cynthia Enloe feminist International Relations scholar
Tina Fey Actress and writer of the NBC show 30 Rock
Betty Ford, Former First Lady
Juliette Frette, American model
André A. Jackson, African diamond administrator and philanthropist
Aoua Keita
Gerda Lerner post-Marxist feminist
Karlina Leksono Supelli Indonesian feminist
Amanda Marcotte American blogger and activist
Susan McClary
Yoko Ono Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
John Lennon self-proclaimed feminist, along with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song "Woman is the Nigger of the World" and Woman (John Lennon song)
Soe Tjen Marching Indonesian feminist
William Moulton Marston
Martha Nussbaum
Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
Sylvia Plath author of The Bell Jar
Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures
Thomas Sankara, author of Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1987 speech)
Flora Sandes jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.
Donita Sparks Musician
J. Ann Tickner, feminist International Relations scholar
Joss Whedon, writer-director, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Frances Willard (1839–1898), an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Bitch and Prozac Nation
Kazimiera Szczuka - Polish feminist, journalist and critic and theoretician of the literature

References

^ ‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ McPherson, Angela (2010). Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam. ISBN 978-1-4452-7308-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies

External links

[1] ‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[McPherson_&_McPherson-2] McPherson, Angela (2010). Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam. ISBN 978-1-4452-7308-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

[3] Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies

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