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This is a list of important participants in the development of [[feminism]].

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== Feminists ==
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* [[Lesley Abdela]], British feminist fl. 2010
* [[Abigail Adams]] (1744–1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
* [[Jane Addams]] (1860–1935)
* [[Sophie Adlersparre]] (1823–1895)
* [[Alfhild Agrell]] (1849–1923)
* [[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
* [[Linda Martín Alcoff]]
* [[Alan Alda]], U.S. actor (''[[M*A*S*H*]]'' and ''[[The West Wing]]'') who campaigned for Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and early 1980s
* [[Soteria Aliberty]], Greek educator and writer
* [[Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner]] (1874–1930), German university lecturer
* [[Ellen Anckarsvärd]] (1833–1898), Swedish feminist
* [[Adelaide Anderson]] (1863–1936), British
* [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]] (1836–1917), British physician and suffragist
* [[Louisa Garrett Anderson]] (1873–1943), British physician and [[suffragette]]
* [[Jane Anger]], author of ''Her Protection for Women'', published 1589 in London
* [[Susan B. Anthony]] (1820–1906), American [[suffragette]]
* [[Anti-Flag]], self-proclaimed feminists, who have written songs including ''Feminism is for Everyone (With a Beating Heart and Functioning Brain)''
* [[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]]
* [[Maria Arbatova]] (born 1957), leading Russian feminist
* [[Lovisa Årberg]] (1801–1881), first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden
* [[Concepción Arenal]] (1820–1893), activist, writer, thinker, pioneer, and founder of the [[feminist movement]] in Spain
* [[Margery Corbett Ashby]] (1882–1981), British
* [[Ottilie Assing]]
* [[Mary Astell]] (c. 1666–1731), author of ''Serious Proposal to the Ladies''
* [[Hubertine Auclert]]
* [[Rachel Foster Avery]]
* [[Lois W. Banner]], U.S. historian
* [[Marie Bashkirtseff]]
* [[Anna Bayerová]] (1853–1924), second [[Czechs|Czech]] female physician
* [[Lydia Becker]] (1827–1890), British suffrage campaigner
* [[Catharine Beecher]] (1800–1878), American educator and [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a2109 author]
* [[Helen Bentwich]] (1892–1972), British Chair of [[London County Council]]
* [[Signe Bergman]] (1869–1960), Swedish suffrage leader
* [[Annie Besant]]
* [[Julie Bindel]], ''Guardian'' columnist and a campaigner against male violence, sex trafficking, and rape
* [[Rosa May Billinghurst]] (1875–1953), British [[suffragette]]
* [[Teresa Billington-Greig]] (1877–1964), British founder of the [[Women's Freedom League]]
* [[Elizabeth Blackwell (doctor)|Elizabeth Blackwell]] (1821–1910), first female [[physician]] in the U.S.
* [[Barbara Bodichon]]
* [[Elsie Bowerman]] (1889–1973)
* [[Anne Bradstreet]]
* [[Fredrika Bremer]]
* [[Sophia Elisabet Brenner]] (1659–1724), Swedish salonist and poet
* [[Ursula Mellor Bright]]<ref>‘Bright, Ursula Mellor (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref>
* [[Emilia Broomé]], Swedish politician
* [[Flora Brovina]]
* [[Antoinette Brown]]
* [[Susan Brownmiller]]
* [[Katherine Burdekin]]
* [[Lucy Burns]]
* [[Katharine Bushnell]]
* [[Josephine Butler]] (1828–1906), British
* [[Lydia Cacho]]
* [[Liz Carpenter]], a founder of the [[National Women's Political Caucus]]
* [[Frances Jennings Casement]]
* [[Ana Castillo]]
* [[Carrie Chapman Catt]] (1859–1947), American women's rights activist
* [[Maria Cederschiöld]], Swedish feminist
* [[Enid Charles]] (1894–1972)
* [[Phyllis Chesler]]
* [[Christina of Sweden]] (1626–1689), Queen
* [[Alice Whitcomb Clark]]
* [[Florence Claxton]] ([[floruit|fl.]] 1840–1879), English artist and author
* [[Voltairine de Cleyre]]
* [[Hillary Clinton]], former [[First Lady]] and now [[Secretary of State]] and U.S. politician
* [[Kurt Cobain]], self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song "[[Rape Me]]", which he described as an "anti-rape song."
* [[Francis Power Cobbe]]
* [[Nikki Craft]]
* [[Jill Craigie]] (1911–1999), British film maker
* [[Mary Daly]], ethicist and theologian
* [[Emily Wilding Davison]] (1872–1913), British [[suffragette]]
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]]
* [[Marquis de Condorcet]] (1743–1794), philosopher and mathematician of the French Enlightenment <ref>http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2003/condorcet0.html</ref>
* [[Eoin Conroy]]
* [[Olympe de Gouges]]
* [[Marie de Gournay]]
* [[François Poullain de la Barre]]
* [[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]] (1648–1695), Mexican nun and pioneer of female education in the Western hemisphere
* [[Francisco de Miranda]] (1750–1816), Precursor of [[Latin American wars of independence|Latin American Independence]] and military figure of the [[French Revolution]]
* [[Christine de Pizan]] (1365–1430)
* [[Josefina Deland]] (1814–1890), Swedish feminist
* [[Barbara Deming]]
* [[Marie Dentière]] (c. 1495–1561), Genevan Protestant theologian who called for the increased religious participation of women
* [[Charlotte Despard]] (1844–1939), British
* [[Frederick Douglass]]<ref>http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/womens.htm</ref>
* [[Carol Ann Duffy]]
* [[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]]
* [[Marguerite Durand]]
* [[Andrea Dworkin]]
* [[Norah Elam]] (1878–1961)<ref name='McPherson & McPherson'>{{cite book | last = McPherson | first = Angela | authorlink = | coauthors = McPherson, Susan| title = Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam | publisher = | year = 2010 | location = | pages =  | url = http://www.oldsuffragette.mcpherson.org.uk| doi = | id = | isbn = 978-1-4452-7308-2}}</ref>
* [[Friedrich Engels]] (1820–1895), [[Communist]] writer and thinker; wrote ''[[The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State]]''
* [[Cynthia Enloe]], [[International Relations]] scholar
* [[Dorothea Erxleben]] (1715–1762), first female [[physician]] in Germany
* [[Millicent Garrett Fawcett]] (1847–1929), British leader of the suffragist movement
* [[Emily Faithfull]] (1835–1895), British
* [[Tina Fey]], actress and writer of the [[NBC]] show [[30 Rock]]
* [[Shulamith Firestone]]
* [[Louise Flodin]], Swedish
* [[Mary Sargant Florence]] (1857–1954), suffragist, painter, and writer
* [[Betty Ford]], former [[First Lady]]
* [[Isabella Ford]] (1855–1924)
* [[Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi]]
* [[Juliette Frette]], American model
* [[Marilyn Frye]]
* [[Margaret Fuller]]
* [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]]
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]
* [[Emma Goldman]]
* [[Vida Goldstein]] (1869–1949), Australian feminist politician
* [[Jane Gomeldon]] (died 1779), English essayist
* [[Jane Goodall]]
* [[Lois Gould]]
* [[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]]
* [[Angelina Emily Grimke]]
* [[Sarah Grimke]]
* [[Marianne Hainisch]]
* [[Bertha Harris]]
* [[Jane Ellen Harrison]], British scholar
* [[Anna Hierta-Retzius]] (1841–1924)
* [[Shere Hite]]
* [[Sarah Hoagland]]
* [[Nicole Hollander]]
* [[Edith How-Martyn]] (1875–1954), British [[suffragette]]
* [[Julia Ward Howe]]
* [[Mary Howell]]
* [[André A. Jackson]], African diamond administrator and philanthropist
* [[Aletta Jacobs]] (1854–1929), the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician
* [[Karla Jay]]
* [[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]]
* [[Aoua Keita]]
* [[Alexandra Kollontai]]
* [[Louisa Lawson]], Australian suffragist and women's rights campaigner
* [[Mary Lee (suffragette)|Mary Lee]], South Australian suffragist
* [[Anna Maria Lenngren]] (1754–1817), Swedish phoet
* [[John Lennon]], self-proclaimed feminist who with wife Yoko Ono wrote the feminist song ''[[Woman is the Nigger of the World]]'' and ''[[Woman (John Lennon song)]]''
* [[Anna Leonowens]]
* [[Gerda Lerner]], post-Marxist
* [[Fredrika Limnell]], Swedish
* [[Mary Livermore]]
* [[Audre Lorde]]
* [[Mina Loy]]
* [[Margaret Bright Lucas]]<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies.</ref>
* [[Rosa Luxemburg]]
* [[Constance Lytton]], British [[suffragette]]
* [[Catharine MacKinnon]]
* [[Agnes Macphail]], first woman elected to [[Canadian House of Commons]] and founder of the [[Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada]]
* [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], American singer and actress who has brought feminism into her lyrics and music videos<ref>[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30613F73A5B0C758DDDAB0994D8494D81 ''N.Y. Times''].</ref>
* [[Soe Tjen Marching]], Indonesian feminist
* [[Amanda Marcotte]], American blogger and activist
* [[William Moulton Marston]]
* [[Harriet Martineau]] (1802–1876), British, writer
* [[Else Mayer]]
* [[Rosa Mayreder]]
* [[Susan McClary]]
* [[Nellie McClung]]
* [[Wendy McElroy]]
* [[Helen Priscilla McLaren]]
* [[Feminists Fighting Pornography|Page Mellish]]<!-- If she becomes the subject of her own article, this line should be edited to reflect that. -->
* [[Louise Michel]], Paris Commune 1871–1880 and considered women's labor of comparable worth
* [[Harriet Taylor Mill]] (1807–1858), English thinker<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wtaylor.htm</ref>
* [[John Stuart Mill]] (1806–1873), English thinker and women's rights advocate
* [[Katti Anker Møller]], Norwegian activist on behalf of single mothers and reproductive rights
* [[Agda Montelius]] (1850–1920)
* [[Honor Moore]] [[United States|American]] writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
* [[Cherríe Moraga]]
* [[Robin Morgan]]
* [[Lucretia Mott]]
* [[Anna Maria Mozzoni]]
* [[Clarina I. H. Nichols]]
* [[Helena Normanton]] British, first practising female barrister
* [[Martha Nussbaum]]
* [[Terry O'Neill (feminist)|Terry O'Neill]], president of the [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW)
* [[Yoko Ono]], Japanese American artist, filmmaker, and musician
* [[Grace Paley]]
* [[Christabel Pankhurst]], British [[suffragette]]
* [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], British [[suffragette]]
* [[Sylvia Pankhurst]], British [[suffragette]]
* [[Alice Paul]]
* [[Eva Perón]]
*[[Frédérique Petrides]]  (1903-1983) [[Belgian]]-[[United States|American]]; one of the first women orchestral conductors and editor of ''[[Women in Music]]''
* [[Marion Phillips]]
* [[Sylvia Plath]], author of ''[[The Bell Jar]]''
* [[Letty Cottin Pogrebin]]
* [[Katha Pollitt]], author of ''Reasonable Creatures''
* [[Sharon Presley]]
* [[Jerilynn Prior]]
* [[Madeleine de Puisieux]] (1720-1798), feminist writer
* [[Eleanor Rathbone]], British
* [[Janice Raymond]]
* [[Claire Rayner]], British
* [[Adrienne Rich]]
* [[Abby Rockefeller]]
* [[Rosalie Roos]] (1823–1898)
* [[Ernestine Rose]]
* [[Agnes Maude Royden]], British suffrage campaigner
* [[Kathy Rudy]]
* [[Florence Rush]]
* [[Gita Sahgal]], Indian feminist
* [[Sarojini Sahoo]]
* [[Celia Sánchez]] (1920–1980), in Cuban revolution and one of first women to comprise a combat squad during the revolution
* [[George Sand]] (1804–1876), French Novelist
* [[Flora Sandes]], jingoistic female participant in Serbian conflicts during the First World War.
* [[Margaret Sanger]]
* [[Thomas Sankara]], author of ''Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle'' (1987 speech)
* [[Auguste Schmidt]] (1833–1902), pioneer of women's education in Germany
* [[Olive Schreiner]]
* [[Alice Schwarzer]]
* [[Rose Scott]]
* [[Barbara Seaman]]
* [[Baroness Seear]], British
* [[Séverine]]
* [[Mary Shelley]] (1797–1851), English novelist
* [[Kate Sheppard]]
* [[Tarabai Shinde]]
* [[Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff]] (1814–1897), English activist and writer
* [[Elaine Showalter]]
* [[Ruth Simpson]]
* [[Barbara Smith]]
* [[Dame Ethel Mary Smyth]]
* [[Valerie Solanas]]
* [[Donita Sparks]], musician
* [[Anna Garlin Spencer]]
* [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]
* [[Gloria Steinem]]
* [[Anna Sterky]]
* [[Helene Stöcker]]
* [[Lucy Stone]]
* [[Marie Stopes]]
* [[Mary Stott]], British feminist journalist
* [[Karlina Leksono Supelli]], Indonesian feminist
* [[Kazimiera Szczuka]], Polish feminist, journalist, and critic and theoretician of the literature
* [[Táhirih]] (1814/20–1852), Bahá'í poet, philosopher, and theologian
* [[Elisabeth Tamm]]
* [[Joan Kennedy Taylor]]
* [[Thomas Thorild]] (1759–1808), Swedish poet and feminist
* [[J. Ann Tickner]], [[International Relations]] scholar
* [[Sojourner Truth]]
* [[Harriet Tubman]]
* [[Urvashi Vaid]]
* [[Wil van Gogh]]
* [[Peng Wan-ru]]
* [[Nesta Helen Webster]], early 20th-century [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] conservative
* [[Trude Weiss-Rosmarin]]
* [[Joss Whedon]], writer-director and creator of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* [[Anna Whitlock]], Swedish suffragette and school reformer
* [[Karolina Widerström]] ‎
* [[Frances Willard (suffragist)|Frances Willard]] (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist
* [[Charlotte Wilson]]
* [[Monique Wittig]]
* [[Alice Wolfson]]
* [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1759–1797), author of ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]''
* [[Victoria Woodhull]]
* [[Virginia Woolf]]
* [[Frances Wright]]
* [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]], author of ''Bitch'' and ''Prozac Nation''
* [[Cathy Young]]
* [[Sande Zeig]]
* [[Clara Zetkin]]
* [[Rote Zora]]

== Second-wave feminists ==
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* [[Bella Abzug]]
* [[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]]
* [[Ti-Grace Atkinson]]
* [[Lorraine Bethel]]
* [[Susan Brownmiller]]
* [[Charlotte Bunch]]
* [[Beatrix Campbell]]
* [[Thérèse Casgrain]]
* [[Shirley Chisholm|Shirley St. Hill Chisholm]]
* [[Sandra Coney]]
* [[Sonja Davies]]
* [[Angela Davis]]
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]]
* [[Carol Downer]]
* [[Cynthia Enloe]]
* [[Myrlie Evers-Williams|Myrlie Evers]]
* [[Susan Faludi]]
* [[Melissa Farley]]
* [[Clara Fraser]]
* [[Betty Ford|Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford]]
* [[Gerald Ford]]
* [[Jo Freeman]] ([[Jo Freeman|Joreen]])
* [[Marilyn French]]
* [[Betty Friedan]]
* [[Carol Gilligan]]
* [[Heide Göttner-Abendroth]], German
* [[Germaine Greer]]
* [[Carol Hanisch]]
* [[Donna Haraway]]
* [[Bertha Harris]]
* [[Nancy Hartsock]]
* [[Dorothy Hewett]]
* [[bell hooks]]
* [[Sheila Jeffreys]]
*[[Florynce Kennedy]]
* [[Coretta Scott King]]
* [[Anne Koedt]]
* [[Peggy Kornegger]]
* [[Jacqueline Livingston]]
* [[Angela Mason]] (1944-), British
* [[Kate Millett]]
* [[Robin Morgan]]
* [[Ann Oakley]]
* [[Griselda Pollock]]
* [[Erin Pizzey]]
* [[Janice Raymond]]
* [[Bernice Johnson Reagon]]
* [[Helen Reddy]]
* [[Sheila Rowbotham]], British
* [[Joanna Russ]]
* [[Diana E. H. Russell]]
* [[Alice Schwarzer]]
* [[Lynne Segal]]
* [[Kato Shidzue]], Japan
* [[Ann Simonton]]
* [[Eleanor Smeal]]
* [[Dale Spender]]
* [[Gloria Steinem]]
* [[Michele Wallace]]
* [[Hilary Wainwright]]
* [[Molly Yard]]

== Third-wave feminists ==
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* [[Tori Amos]]
* [[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]]
* [[Margaret Atwood]]
* [[Jennifer Baumgardner]]
* [[Melissa Benn]]
* [[Giannina Braschi]]
* [[Susie Bright]]
* [[Carrie Brownstein]]
* [[Judith Butler]]
* [[Margaret Cho]]
*[[Meg Waite Clayton]]
* [[Patricia Hill Collins]], author of ''Black Feminist Thought''{{cite book|title= |isbn=0-415-92483-9|oclc=41211570}}
* [[Kimberly Dark]]
* [[Ani DiFranco]]
* [[Martha Davis (author)|Martha Davis]]
* [[Donna Dresch]]
* [[Betty Dodson]]
* [[Johanna Fateman]]
*[[Tavi Gevinson]]
* [[Emily Haines]]
* [[Kathleen Hanna]]
* [[Donna Haraway]]
* [[bell hooks]]
* [[Holly Hunter]]
* [[Joan Jett]]
* [[Miranda July]]
* [[Marcelle Karp]]
*[[Jamie Keiles]]
* [[Jean Kilbourne]]
* [[Barbara Kingsolver]]
* [[Ariel Levy]]
* [[Rosie Malek-Yonan]], activist and author of [http://www.thecrimsonfield.com ''The Crimson Field'']
*[[Miranda Mammen]]
* [[Inga Muscio]]
* [[Kathy Najimy]]
* [[Sandra Oh]]
* [[Alicia Ostriker]]
* [[Ellen Page]]
* [[Peaches (musician)|Peaches]]
* [[Liz Phair]]
* [[Maria Raha]]
* [[JD Samson]]
* [[Fia-Stina Sandlund]]
* [[Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon]]
* [[Gudrun Schyman]]
* [[Joan Smith (novelist and journalist)|Joan Smith]]
* [[Rickie Solinger]]
* [[Annie Sprinkle]]
* [[Debbie Stoller]]
* [[Nadine Strossen]]
* [[Lili Taylor]]
* [[Corin Tucker]]
* [[Robin Tunney]]
* [[Tobi Vail]]
* [[Jessica Valenti]]
* [[Rebecca Walker]]
* [[Natasha Walter]]
* [[Kaia Wilson]]
* [[Naomi Wolf]]
* [[Allison Wolfe]]
*[[Julie Zeilinger]]
*[[Priya Madhok]]

== Ecofeminists ==
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* [[Carol J. Adams]]
* [[Helene Aylon]]
* [[Judi Bari]]
* [[Bernadette Cozart]]
* [[Mary Daly]]
* [[Françoise d'Eaubonne]]
* [[Lois Marie Gibbs]]
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]
* [[Susan Griffin]]
* [[Petra Kelly]]
* [[Anna Kingsford]]
* [[Winona LaDuke]]
* [[Wangari Maathai]]
* [[Maria Mies]]
* [[Vandana Shiva]]
* [[Monica Sjoo]]
* [[Charlene Spretnak]]
* [[Starhawk]]

== French feminists ==
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* [[Olympe Audouard]]
* [[Hubertine Auclert]]
* [[Marie Bashkirtseff]]
* [[Hélène Cixous]]
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]]
* [[Olympe de Gouges]]
* [[Christine Delphy]]
* [[Maria Deraismes]]
* [[Fatou Diome]]
* [[Marguerite Durand]]
* [[Bracha L. Ettinger]]
* [[Colette Guillaumin]]
* [[Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau]]
* [[Gisèle Halimi]]
* [[Luce Irigaray]]
* [[Julia Kristeva]]
* [[André Leo]]
* [[Anaïs Nin]]
* [[Madeleine Pelletier]]
* [[Eugenie Potonie-Pierre]]
* [[Pauline Roland]]
* [[Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon]]
* [[Séverine]]
* [[Flora Tristan]]

== Muslim feminists ==
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{{Main|Islamic feminism}}
* [[Leila Ahmed]]
* [[Qasim Amin]]
* [[Shirin Ebadi]]
* [[Nawal el-Sadaawi]]
* [[Tahar Haddad]]
* [[Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah]]
* [[Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim]]
* [[Kartini]], Indonesian
* [[Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani]]
* [[Elaheh Koulaei]]
* [[Irshad Manji]]
* [[Fatima Mernissi]]
* [[Taslima Nasrin]], secular but of Muslim origin
* [[Asra Nomani]]
* [[Marjane Satrapi]]
* [[Huda Shaarawi]]
* [[Shahla Sherkat]]
* [[Angela Connock]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.nwhp.org/ National Women's History Project]
* [http://www.fembio.org/default.shtml FemBio - Notable Women International]

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