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List of suffragists and suffragettes

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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals. Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. Australians called themselves "suffragists" during the nineteenth century while the term "suffragette" was adopted in the earlier twentieth century by some British groups after it was coined as a dismissive term in a newspaper article.[1][2][3][4][5] "Suffragette" in the British or Australian usage can sometimes denote a more "militant" type of campaigner,[6] while suffragists in the United States organized such nonviolent events as the Suffrage Hikes, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913, the Silent Sentinels, and the Selma to Montgomery march. US and Australian activists most often preferred to be called suffragists, though both terms were occasionally used.[7]

British Women's Social and Political Union lapel pin
Madelin "Madge" Breckinridge
Gertrude Foster Brown
Carrie Chapman Catt
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Statue of Esther Hobart Morris, located at the front exterior of the Wyoming State Capitol
Anna Howard Shaw
Sojourner Truth
Victoria Woodhull
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Africa

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Nigeria

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South Africa

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  • Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) – campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s
  • Julia Solly (1862–1953) – British-born South African feminist and suffragist who helped acquire the vote for white women in 1930
  • Lady Barbara Steel (1857–1943) – helped acquire the vote for white women in 1930

Asia

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China

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  • Lin Zongsu (1878–1944) – founder of the first suffrage organization in China

India

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Indonesia

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  • Thung Sin Nio (1902–1996) – women's rights activist, physician, economist, politician

Iran

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  • Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1858/59–1921) – Iranian writer, satirist, founder of the first school for girls in the modern history of Iran and a pioneering figure in the women's movement of Iran
  • Annie Basil (1911–1995) – Iranian-Indian activist for Armenian women
  • Táhirih (1817–1852) – also known as Fatimah Baraghani, renowned poet, removed her veil in public, "first woman suffrage martyr"

Japan

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Jordan

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  • Emily Bisharat (died 2004) – first female lawyer in Jordan, fought for women's suffrage

Philippines

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Yishuv

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Australia and Oceania

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Australia

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Main article: List of Australian suffragists
 
Edith Cowan

New Zealand

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Main article: List of New Zealand suffragists
 
Kate Sheppard

Europe

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Albania

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  • Shaqe Çoba (1875–1954) – suffragist and publisher of a magazine that covered women's issues
  • Parashqevi Qiriazi (1880–1970) – suffragist, teacher and founder of Yll' i Mengjesit, a women's association
  • Sevasti Qiriazi (1871–1949) – Albanian patriot, suffragist, pioneer of female education and founder of Korça Girls School
  • Urani Rumbo (1895–1936) – sufffragist, teacher, playwright and founder of Lidhja e Gruas (Woman's Union)

Austria

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Belgium

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  • Jane Brigode (1870–1952) – politician, member of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
  • Léonie de Waha (1836–1926) – Belgian feminist, philanthropist, educator and Walloon activist
  • Isabelle Gatti de Gamond (1839–1905) – Belgian educator, feminist, suffragist and politician
  • Marie Parent (1853–1934) – journal editor, temperance activist, feminist, suffragist and founder of the Parti Général des Femmes, the women’s party.
  • Marie Popelin (1846–1913) – lawyer and early feminist political campaigner; worked for universal adult suffrage
  • Louise van den Plas (1877–1968) – suffragist and founder of the first Christian feminist movement in Belgium

Bulgaria

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Croatia

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Cyprus

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Czechia

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  • Karla Máchová (1853–1920) – women's rights activist who, in 1908, was among the first three women to run for the Bohemian Diet
  • Františka Plamínková (1875–1942) – founded the Committee for Women's Suffrage (Czech: Výbor pro volební právo ženy) in 1905 and served as a vice president of the International Council of Women, as well as the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance
  • Marie Tůmová (1866–1925) –– women's suffragist who, in 1908, was among the first three women to run for the Bohemian Diet
  • Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčkova (1868–1915) – founder of the Provincial Organization of Progressive Moravian Women
 
Matilde Bajer
 
Eline Hansen

Denmark

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Main article: List of Danish suffragists

Finland

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  • Maikki Friberg (1861–1927) – educator, journal editor, suffragist and peace activist
  • Annie Furuhjelm (1859–1937) – journalist, feminist activist and politician
  • Alexandra Gripenberg (1857–1913) – writer, newspaper publisher, suffragist, women's rights activist
  • Lucina Hagman (1953–1946) – feminist, suffragist, early politician
  • Hilda Käkikoski (1864–1912) – women's activist, suffragist, writer, schoolteacher, early politician
  • Olga Oinola (1865–1949) – President of the Finnish Women Association
 
Marguerite Durand

France

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Main article: List of French suffragists

Georgia

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Bust of Clara Zetkin
 
Leaders of the women's movement in Germany, 1894

Germany

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Main article: List of German suffragists

Greece

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  • Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940) – founder of the Greek women's movement
  • Avra Theodoropoulou (1880–1963) – music critic, pianist, suffragist, women's rights activist, nurse

Hungary

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  • Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927) – educator, pacifist, suffragist, feminist
  • Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948) – pacifist, feminist and suffragist
  • Adele Zay (1848–1928) – Transylvanian teacher, feminist and suffragist
 
Constance Markievicz

Ireland

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Main article: List of Irish suffragists and suffragettes

Italy

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Liechtenstein

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  • Melitta Marxer (1923–2015) – one of the "Sleeping Beauties" who took the issue of women's suffrage to the Council of Europe in 1983

Malta

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Netherlands

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Main article: List of Dutch suffragists and suffragettes

Norway

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  • Randi Blehr (1851–1928) – chairperson and co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
  • Anna Bugge (1862–1928) – chairman of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, also active in Sweden
  • Gudrun Løchen Drewsen (1867–1946) – Norwegian-born American women's rights activist and painter, promoted women's suffrage in New York City
  • Betzy Kjelsberg (1866–1950) – co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1884), the National Association for Women's Suffrage (1885)
  • Gina Krog (1847–1916) – co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
  • Ragna Nielsen (1845–1924) – chairperson of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
  • Thekla Resvoll (1871–1948) – head of the Norwegian Female Student's Club and on the board of the women's suffrage movement (Kvinnestemmeretsforeningen)
  • Anna Rogstad (1854–1938) – vice president of the Association for Women's Suffrage and Norway’s first female Member of Parliament
  • Hedevig Rosing (1827–1913) – co-leader of the movement in Norway; author, educator, school founder

Poland

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Portugal

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Romania

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  • Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941) – Austro-Hungarian born Romanian writer, suffragist and women's rights activist
  • Ana Conta-Kernbach (1865–1921) – teacher, pedagogue, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist
  • Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu (1866–1938) – teacher, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist
  • Clara Maniu (1842–1929) – feminist, suffragist
  • Elena Meissner (1867–1940) – feminist, suffragist, headed Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române

Serbia

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Spain

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  • Concepción Arenal (1820–1893) – pioneer and founder of the feminist movement in Spain; activist, writer, journalist and lawyer
  • Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) – Spanish writer, journalist, university professor and support for women's rights and education
  • Carmen de Burgos (1867–1932) – Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women's rights activist
  • Clara Campoamor (1888–1972) – Spanish politician and feminist best known for her advocacy for women's rights and suffrage during the writing of the Spanish constitution of 1931
  • María Espinosa de los Monteros (1875–1946) – Spanish women's rights activist, suffragist and business executive
  • Victoria Kent (1891–1987) – Spanish lawyer, suffragist and politician
 
Signe Bergman

Sweden

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Main article: List of Swedish suffragists and suffragettes

Switzerland

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Main article: List of Swiss suffragists and suffragettes

United Kingdom

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North America

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Bahamas

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Barbados

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  • Nellie Weekes (1896–1990) – campaigner for women's involvement in politics, who ran for office in 1942, before women were allowed to vote in the country

Bermuda

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  • Gladys Morrell (1888–1969) – suffragette leader and secretary of the Bermuda Women's Suffrage Society
 
Edith Archibald

Canada

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Main article: List of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes

Cuba

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  • Berta Arocena de Martínez Márquez (1899–1956) – journalist, suffragist and feminist
  • María Collado Romero (1885– c. 1968) – journalist, vice-president of the National Suffragist Party, then founder and president of the Democratic Suffragist Party of Cuba
  • Hortensia Lamar (1888–1967) – suffragist and president of the Club Femenino de Cuba and the Federación Nacional de Asociaciones Femeninas
  • Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia (1895–1923) – writer, journalist and suffragist who published "Necesidad del voto para la mujer" (Necessity of the vote for women) in El Sufragista magazine
  • Pilar Jorge de Tella (1884–1967) – suffragist who presented petitions to the Cuban legislature and constitutional conventions demanding suffrage

El Salvador

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Haiti

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  • Yvonne Sylvain (1907–1989) – first female doctor from Haiti and advocate for gender equality

Honduras

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Iceland

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Mexico

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Newfoundland

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Nicaragua

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  • Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, also called Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo (1866–1962) – Nicaraguan feminist, writer and reform pedagogue

Panama

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  • Elida Campodónico (1894–1960) – teacher, women's rights advocate, attorney, first woman ambassador in Latin America
  • Clara González (1898–1990) – feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist
  • Gumercinda Páez (1904–1991) – teacher, women's rights activist and suffragette, and Constituent Assemblywoman of Panama

Puerto Rico

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  • Isabel Andreu de Aguilar (1887–1948) – educator, helped establish the Puerto Rican Feminist League, was president of Puerto Rican Association of Women Suffragists, and first woman to run for Senate in PR
  • Rosario Bellber González (1881–1948) - educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico (Spanish: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico)[27][28][29][30]
  • Milagros Benet de Mewton (1868–1948) – teacher who filed a lawsuit to press for suffrage
  • Carlota Matienzo (1881–1926) – teacher, one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Feminine League and the Suffragist Social League
  • Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994) – mayor of San Juan, first woman to hold post of mayor of a capitol city in the Americas

Trinidad

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
 
Frances Buss
 
Mabel Capper (3rd from right, with petition) and fellow suffragettes, 1910
 
Millicent Fawcett
 
Lilian Lenton
 
Kathleen Lyttelton
 
Harriet Taylor Mill
 
Christabel Pankhurst
 
Ethel Smyth
 
Beatrice Webb
 
Rebecca West
 
Margaret McPhun
 
Dr Elizabeth Pace
 
Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09812, Jessie Stephen no-text
 
Jessie Newbery
 
Ethel Cox under arrest, 1914

United States

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Main article: List of American suffragists

United States Virgin Islands

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  • Bertha C. Boschulte (1906–2004) – Secretary of the St. Thomas Teacher's Association, which sued for women's suffrage in the territory in 1935
  • Edith L. Williams (1887–1987) – first woman to attempt to register to vote in the US Virgin Islands

South America

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Argentina

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  • Cecilia Grierson (1859–1934) – the first woman physician in Argentina; supporter of women's emancipation, including suffrage
  • Julieta Lanteri (1873–1932) – physician, freethinker, and activist; the first woman to vote in Argentina
  • Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885–1986) – physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist
  • Eva Perón (1919–1952) – First Lady of Argentina, created the first large female political party in the nation
  • Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867–1954) – physician, activist for women's and children's rights; co-founder of the Association Pro-Derechos de la Mujer

Brazil

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Chile

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  • Celinda Arregui (1864–1941) – feminist politician, writer, teacher, suffrage activist
  • María de la Cruz (1912-1995) – political activist, journalist, writer, political commentator, first woman elected to the Chilean senate
  • Henrietta Müller (1846–1906) – Chilean-British women's rights activist and theosophist
  • Marta Vergara (1898–1995) – co-founder of MEMch; Inter-American Commission of Women delegate

Colombia

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  • Lucila Rubio de Laverde (1908–1970) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)
  • María Currea Manrique (1890–1985) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)

Ecuador

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  • Hipatia Cárdenas de Bustamante (1889–1972) – writer, suffragist and the first female presidential candidate in Ecuador
  • Matilde Hidalgo (1889–1974) – physician, poet, and activist who was the first woman in Latin America to exercise her constitutional right to vote in a national election
  • Zoila Ugarte de Landívar (1864–1969) – writer, journalist, librarian and suffragist
  • María Piedad Castillo de Levi (1888–1962) – poet, journalist, suffragist and a participant in a demonstration on the streets of Guayaquil in 1924

Peru

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Uruguay

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  • Paulina Luisi Janicki (1875–1949) – leader of the feminist movement in Uruguay, first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree in Uruguay (1909)

Venezuela

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See also

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References

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