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Wu Zetian
founding empress of Zhou dynasty (r. 690–705); de facto ruler of Tang dynasty from 665 to 690
624-02-17
Guangyuan
705-12-16
Luoyang
empress consort poet empress regnant 67
Q9738
Anne Hutchinson
participant in the Antinomian Controversy
1591
Alford
1643
New Netherland
midwife theologian preacher
36
Q11608
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
360
Alexandria
415-03
Alexandria
mathematician philosopher astronomer writer inventor
108
Q11903
Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
1815-12-10
London
1852-11-27
Marylebone
mathematician programmer poet computer scientist inventor translator writer engineer
122
Q7259
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author (1897-1939)
1897-07-24
Atchison
1939-01-05
Howland Island
aircraft pilot memoirist travel writer journalist women's rights activist aviation writer 118
Q3355
Marie de France
medieval poet
12nd century
Brittany
13rd century
No/unknown value
poet writer translator nun fabulist 53
Q5617
Héloïse d’Argenteuil
12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer
1101
Paris
1164-05-15
Oratory of the Paraclete
writer philosopher Christian nun 44
Q5656
Christina of Sweden
Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654
1626-12-07
Stockholm
1689-04-09
Rome
art collector monarch painter writer philosopher
81
Q52937
Anna de Noailles
Romanian-French writer (1876-1933)
1876-11-15
7th arrondissement of Paris
1933-04-30
16th arrondissement of Paris
writer salonnière poet model novelist aristocrat monarch
46
Q6050
George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
1804-07-01
Paris former 6th arrondissement of Paris 1876-06-08
Nohant-Vic
writer journalist salonnière playwright novelist diarist women's rights activist librettist composer author
128
Q3816
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
1882-03-23
Erlangen
1935-04-14
Bryn Mawr
mathematician physicist university teacher 90
Q7099
Ellen Swallow Richards
American chemist (1842-1911)
1842-12-03
Dunstable
1911-03-30
Boston
chemist university teacher economist ecologist environmentalist writer meteorological observer
36
Q7273
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
1776-04-01
Paris
1831-06-27
Paris
mathematician physicist philosopher
68
Q7103
Marie Curie
Polish and French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
1867-11-07
Warsaw
1934-07-04
Sancellemoz
physicist chemist university teacher 229
Q7186
Émilie du Châtelet
French mathematician, physicist, and author (1706-1749)
1706-12-17
Paris
1749-09-10
Lunéville
mathematician physicist philosopher of language essayist salonnière translator philosopher
63
Q7286
Elsa Triolet
French writer (1896–1970)
1896-09-12
Moscow
1970-06-16
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines
writer novelist poet screenwriter French resistance fighter 43
Q4137
Mary-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
French chemist and painter (1758-1836)
1758-01-20
Montbrison
1836-02-10
Paris
chemist illustrator translator
31
Q7229
Rosa Luxemburg
German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919)
1871-03-05
Zamość
1919-01-15
Berlin
politician philosopher revolutionary economist journalist editor political theorist botanical collector economist opinion journalist editing staff docent
176
Q7231
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist (1870-1915)
1870-06-21
Wojczyce
1915-05-02
Dahlem
chemist women's rights activist peace activist
42
Q7490
Emily Dickinson
American poet (1830-1886)
1830-12-10
Amherst
1886-05-15
Amherst
writer poet gardener
139
Q4441
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897-1956)
1897-09-12
13th arrondissement of Paris
1956-03-17
Paris
physicist chemist professor politician nuclear physicist researcher
109
Q7504
Sarah Bernhardt
French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
1844-10-23
Paris
1923-03-26
17th arrondissement of Paris
stage actor film actor dancer writer actor painter sculptor
187
Q4605
Sophia Brahe
Danish horticulturalist
1559-08-24
Knutstorp Castle
1643
Helsingør
astronomer historian estate owner genealogist 36
Q56029
Else Lasker-Schüler
Jewish German poet (1869-1945)
1869-02-11
Elberfeld Elberfeld 1945-01-22
Jerusalem
poet writer salonnière playwright
48
Q58033
Maud Menten
Canadian physician and chemist (1879–1960)
1879-03-20
Port Lambton
1960-07-26
Ontario
chemist physician biochemist pathologist
31
Q7515
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1878-11-07
Vienna
1968-10-27
Cambridge
nuclear physicist university teacher chemist physicist
88
Q56189
Louise Nevelson
American sculptor (1899-1988)
1899-09-23
Pereiaslav
1988-04-17
New York City
sculptor painter printmaker architectural draftsperson artist
30
Q7531
Nelly Sachs
Jewish German poet and playwright
1891-12-10
Schöneberg
1970-05-12
Högalid Parish poet playwright translator writer
107
Q57074
Grazia Deledda
Italian novelist (1871-1936)
1871-09-27
Nuoro
1936-08-15
Rome
writer poet novelist playwright prose writer short story writer
120
Q7728
Thea von Harbou
German actress and writer (1888–1954)
1888-12-27
Tauperlitz
1954-07-01
West Berlin
film director screenwriter writer science fiction writer film actor stage actor
32
Q58866
Josephine Hull
American stage and film actress (1877-1957)
1877-01-03
Newtonville
1957-03-12
The Bronx
film actor stage actor television actor theatrical director actor director
42
Q59525
Anna Magdalena Bach
German singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (1701-1760)
1701-09-22
Zeitz
1760-02-27
Leipzig
singer composer soprano singer 31
Q57212
Bettina von Arnim
German writer and novelist (1785-1859)
1785-04-04
Frankfurt
1859-01-20
Berlin
writer salonnière composer novelist illustrator singer
56
Q57236
Fanny Mendelssohn
German pianist and composer (1805–1847)
1805-11-14
Hamburg
1847-05-14
Berlin
composer pianist university teacher 46
Q57286
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
German composer and writer (1797–1848)
1797-01-12
Burg Hülshoff 1848-05-24
Meersburg Castle
writer poet composer novelist playwright
43
Q57307
Emmy Göring
German actress, art collector (1893-1973)
1893-03-24
Hamburg
1973-06-08
Munich
stage actor film actor autobiographer art collector 30
Q60763
Ricarda Huch
German writer (1864–1947)
1864-07-18
Brunswick
1947-11-17
Schönberg writer poet librarian historian novelist playwright philosopher musician librettist
43
Q60785
Zinaida Gippius
Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945)
1869-11-08
Belyov
1945-09-09
Paris
poet writer playwright literary critic prose writer 54
Q61940
Cosima Wagner
daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930)
1837-12-24
Bellagio
1930-04-01
Bayreuth
composer writer director
36
Q75789
San Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
1891-10-12
Wrocław
1942-08-09
Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp
translator philosopher writer resistance fighter linguist university teacher nun autobiographer
73
Q76749
Elisabeth of Romania
German writer (1843-1916), queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Carol I of Romania
1843-12-29
Schloss Monrepos Neuwied
1916-02-18
Bucharest
poet writer translator novelist playwright
55
Q57629
Clara Zetkin
Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
1857-07-05
Königshain-Wiederau
1933-06-20
Arkhangelskoye politician journalist women's rights activist peace activist suffragette editor teacher writer
103
Q75823
Eleanor Marx
English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)
1855-01-16
Soho
1898-03-31
Sydenham
social activist translator writer trade unionist politician literary translator suffragist 39
Q61412
Marie of Romania
last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
1875-10-29
Eastwell Park
1938-07-18
Peleș Castle
diarist nurse artist
49
Q57666
Caroline Herschel
German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
1750-03-16
Hanover
1848-01-09
Hanover
astronomer mathematician singer violinist
67
Q76948
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet (1892–1950)
1892-02-22
Rockland
1950-10-19
Austerlitz
playwright poet translator librettist writer
57
Q62134
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
1875-12-19
Titel
1948-08-04
Zurich
teacher physicist mathematician
63
Q76346
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
German composer, opera singer and librettist (1724-1780)
1724-07-18
Munich
1780-04-23
Dresden
composer opera singer librettist painter writer harpsichordist pianist
32
Q61649
Katharina von Bora
wife of Martin Luther
1499-01-29
Lippendorf Hirschfeld
1552-12-20
Katharinenstraße 11 Torgau
religious sister theologian homemaker nun
47
Q77239
Gertrude the Great
Roman Catholic Saint
1256-01-06
Lutherstadt Eisleben
1302-11-17
Lutherstadt Eisleben
nun writer mystic 37
Q61934
Maria Sibylla Merian
entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist (1647-1717)
1647-04-02
Frankfurt
1717-01-13
Amsterdam
entomologist lepidopterist botanist naturalist painter illustrator scientific illustrator botanical illustrator graphic artist artist
68
Q62530
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
Sister of Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1935)
1846-07-10
Röcken
1935-11-08
Weimar
archivist literary executor politician
30
Q77377
Mary Anderson
inventor of the windshield wiper blade (1866–1953)
1866-02-19
Greene County
1953-06-27
Monteagle
inventor entrepreneur real estate developer
38
Q17518
Hertha Ayrton
English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923)
1854-04-28
Portsea Island
1923-08-23
Lancing
mathematician electrical engineer physicist inventor women's rights activist suffragette suffragist writer
40
Q17522
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945
1884-10-11
Manhattan
1962-11-07
Upper East Side
diplomat writer autobiographer politician women's rights activist journalist peace activist human rights activist columnist
139
Q83396
Sappho
Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)
7th century BCE
Lesbos
-570
Lefkada
poet composer author writer
143
Q17892
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Austrian explorer and writer, editor (1797-1858)
1797-10-14
Vienna
1858-10-27
Vienna
explorer writer naturalist editor traveler travel writer ethnographer 35
Q78873
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
1843-06-09
Prague
1914-06-21
Vienna
writer novelist translator journalist pacifist science fiction writer editor
101
Q18456
Natalie Clifford Barney
writer and salonist (1876-1972)
1876-10-31
Dayton
1972-02-02
1st arrondissement of Paris
playwright poet writer salonnière novelist
49
Q34782
Alma Karlin
Slovenian academic and poet (1889–1950)
1889-10-12
Celje
1950-01-14
Pečovnik
writer travel writer poet journalist collector traveler theosophist 30
Q79131
Agatha Christie
British author (1890–1976)
1890-09-15
Ashfield
1976-01-12
Winterbrook Wallingford
writer novelist crime fiction writer 186
Q35064
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
British duchess (1660-1744)
1660-06-15
Hertfordshire St Albans
1744-10-18
Marlborough House London
Mistress of the Robes lady-in-waiting politician writer
39
Q19176
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
1775-12-16
Steventon
1817-07-18
Winchester
writer short story writer novelist
190
Q36322
Emma Goldman
Russian anarchist (1869–1940)
1869-06-27
Kaunas
1940-05-14
Toronto
anarchist journalist political philosopher women's rights activist lecturer publisher peace activist autobiographer nurse writer philosopher politician author pacifist
122
Q79969
Catherine II of Russia
The eighth and greatest Emperor of Russia (r. 1762–1796)
1729-05-02
Szczecin
1796-11-06
Saint Petersburg
politician monarch art collector aristocrat
147
Q36450
Katharine Burr Blodgett
American physicist (1898-1979)
1898-01-10
Schenectady
1979-10-12
Schenectady
physicist inventor chemist
31
Q21482
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
1820-05-12
Florence
1910-08-13
London
nurse statistician writer politician teacher sociologist
137
Q37103
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
1818-07-30
The Brontë Birthplace
1848-12-19
Haworth
poet novelist writer teacher governess
124
Q80137
Helen Keller
American author and activist (1880–1968)
1880-06-27
Tuscumbia
1968-06-01
Easton
writer orator essayist political activist trade unionist peace activist suffragette linguist autobiographer
158
Q38203
Pandita Ramabai
Indian feminist historian and social reformer (1858–1922)
1858-04-23
Mangaluru
1922-04-05
Kedgaon, Pune district
autobiographer Bible translator translator sociologist writer
36
Q94889
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet (1889–1966)
1889-06-11
Odesa
1966-03-05
Domodedovo
writer translator literary critic poet author literary scholar 126
Q80440
Paula von Preradović
Austrian writer, poet (1887-1951)
1887-10-12
Vienna
1951-05-25
Vienna
writer poet composer novelist
31
Q89560
Anne Boleyn
second wife of Henry VIII of England
1507
Blickling Hall
1536-05-19
Tower of London
aristocrat lady-in-waiting monarch
100
Q80823
Bessie Smith
American blues singer (1894–1937)
1894-04-15
Chattanooga
1937-09-26
Clarksdale
street artist musician singer dancer mime artist
55
Q93349
Gabriela Mistral
Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
1889-04-07
Vicuña
1957-01-10
Hempstead
poet diplomat teacher writer
121
Q80871
Vicki Baum
Austrian writer (1888–1960)
1888-01-24
Vienna
1960-08-29
Hollywood
screenwriter writer journalist harpist musician
46
Q93444
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian writer (1882–1949)
1882-05-20
Kalundborg
1949-06-10
Lillehammer Municipality
novelist translator writer screenwriter prose writer poet
115
Q80889
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Austrian writer (1830–1916)
1830-09-13
Schloss Zdislawitz 1916-03-12
Vienna
writer playwright prose writer novelist short story writer
69
Q93525
Lotte Lenya
Austrian singer and actress (1898-1981)
1898-10-18
Vienna
1981-11-27
Manhattan
stage actor film actor monologist actor opera singer
39
Q93604
Pearl S. Buck
American writer (1892–1973)
1892-06-26
Hillsboro
1973-03-06
Danby
translator novelist autobiographer human rights activist screenwriter journalist children's writer writer missionary prose writer 136
Q80900
Lou Andreas-Salomé
German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author
1861-02-12
Saint Petersburg
1937-02-05
Göttingen
writer psychoanalyst essayist autobiographer philosopher
65
Q38873
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
970s
Heian-kyō
11st century
Heian-kyō
lady-in-waiting novelist poet writer diarist philosopher film screenwriter 155
Q81731
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
1878-05-25
Oakland
1972-01-02
Phoenix
industrial engineer psychologist teacher photographer writer businessperson inventor mechanical engineer engineer
37
Q40197
Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
1876-08-07
Leeuwarden
1917-10-15
Vincennes
courtesan spy exotic dancer 84
Q82180
Mary I of England
Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558
1516-02-18
Palace of Placentia
1558-11-17
St James's Palace
politician aristocrat queen regnant
98
Q82674
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
1882-01-25
London
1941-03-28
Lewes
novelist essayist autobiographer short story writer diarist literary critic publisher writer women's rights activist author
158
Q40909
Sojourner Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
1797
Hurley
1883-11-26
Battle Creek
human rights activist writer abolitionist women's rights activist suffragist 72
Q105180
Berthe Morisot
French painter (1841-1895)
1841-01-14
Bourges
1895-03-02
Paris
painter drawer engraver lithographer artist
69
Q105320
Hildegard of Bingen
German Medieval head of monastry, prophet, scientist, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
1098
Bermersheim vor der Höhe
1179-09-17
Kloster Rupertsberg naturalist writer composer philosopher illuminator physician nun poet theologian abbess artist playwright botanist mystic sexologist polymath
107
Q70991
Marie Bonaparte
French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)
1882-07-02
Saint-Cloud
1962-09-21
Gassin
psychologist translator writer psychoanalyst
40
Q115472
Louise Mountbatten
Queen consort of Sweden (1950-1965)
1889-07-13
Darmstadt
1965-03-07
Stockholm
consort aristocrat nurse social worker philanthropist
39
Q115477
Princess Alice of Battenberg
Member of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
1885-02-25
Windsor Castle
1969-12-05
Buckingham Palace
nurse nun charity worker aristocrat
49
Q116062
Anne of Great Britain
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714
1665-02-06
St James's Palace London
1714-08-01
Kensington Palace London
aristocrat politician queen regnant ruler statesperson monarch
92
Q119702
Victoria, Princess Royal
German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840–1901)
1840-11-21
Buckingham Palace London
1901-08-05
Schlosshotel Kronberg
painter sculptor drawer
51
Q116728
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
first wife of Muhammad
6th century
Mecca
619
Mecca
businessperson wholesale merchant merchant
89
Q42034
Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
1893-06-13
Oxford
1957-12-17
Witham
writer translator novelist playwright essayist poet copywriter editor short story writer philologist
51
Q106740
Empress Meishō
empress of Japan (1624-1696)
1624-01-09
Kyoto
1696-12-04
Kyoto
politician monarch aristocrat
41
Q120564
Karen Horney
American-German psychoanalyst
1885-09-16
Blankenese
1952-12-04
New York City
psychiatrist psychoanalyst writer psychotherapist
59
Q71020
Camille Claudel
ptit con sculptor
1864-12-08
Fère-en-Tardenois
1943-10-19
Montfavet
painter art model sculptor architectural draftsperson graphic artist artist
52
Q120582
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish writer (1858–1940)
1858-11-20
Östra Ämtervik church parish 1940-03-16
Östra Ämtervik church parish novelist children's writer biographer teacher poet writer prose writer translator autobiographer author
151
Q44519
Mary Harris Jones
Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
1830-05-01
Cork
1930-11-30
Silver Spring
teacher trade unionist human rights activist writer union organizer community organizer 67
Q107082
Liliʻuokalani
monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
1838-09-02
Honolulu
1917-11-11
Honolulu
writer composer monarch autobiographer
67
Q107288
Anne Brontë
British novelist and poet (1820-1849)
1820-01-17
Thornton
1849-05-28
Scarborough
poet novelist governess writer
104
Q44520
Coco Chanel
French fashion designer (1883–1971)
1883-08-19
Saumur
1971-01-10
Hôtel Ritz Paris
fashion designer textile designer business executive modiste grand couturier costume designer
113
Q45661
Georgia O'Keeffe
American modernist artist (1887–1986)
1887-11-15
Sun Prairie
1986-03-06
Santa Fe
painter drawer graphic artist architectural draftsperson artist
82
Q46408
Sophie of Württemberg
Queen Consort of the Netherlands (1818–1877)
1818-06-17
Stuttgart
1877-06-03
Huis ten Bosch
art collector collector patron of the arts
36
Q168674
Anne Catherine Emmerich
German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)
1774-09-08
Coesfeld
1824-02-09
Dülmen
nun mystic writer
34
Q169321
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
1797-08-30
Somers Town
1851-02-01
Chester Square Bournemouth
travel writer novelist essayist playwright biographer writer science fiction writer poet short story writer
126
Q47152
Victoria Ocampo
Argentine writer and translator (1890-1979)
1890-04-07
Buenos Aires
1979-01-27
Buenos Aires
writer translator publisher critic public figure
35
Q72790
Pauline Viardot
French mezzo-soprano and composer
1821-07-18
Paris
1910-05-18
7th arrondissement of Paris
composer singer opera singer vocal coach pianist
36
Q122998
Louise of Orléans
French princess (1832-1850); queen consort of the Belgians
1812-04-03
Palermo
1850-10-11
Ostend
watercolorist consort aristocrat
39
Q72795
Hrotsvitha
German secular canoness, dramatist, and poet
935
Duchy of Saxony
968
Bad Gandersheim
playwright hagiographer poet writer canoness
37
Q170248
Germaine de Staël
Genevan-French author (1766-1817)
1766-04-22
Paris
1817-07-14
Paris
writer salonnière diarist literary critic politician correspondent philosopher
87
Q123041
Alice Paul
American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)
1885-01-11
Mount Laurel
1977-07-09
Moorestown Township
jurist women's rights activist suffragette
41
Q127328
Charlotte Brontë
British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
1816-04-21
Thornton
1855-03-31
Haworth
poet novelist writer governess teacher
127
Q127332
Juana Spyri
Swiss writer (1827–1901)
1827-06-12
Hirzel
1901-07-07
Zurich
writer novelist children's writer
68
Q123053
Angelica Kauffmann
Swiss artist (1741–1807)
1741-10-30
Chur
1807-11-05
Rome Austria
painter printmaker artist visual artist
51
Q123098
Empress Dowager Cixi
Chinese empress (1835–1908)
1835-11-29
Beijing
1908-11-15
Imperial City
politician queen regnant painter monarch photographer
97
Q47842
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Empress of the French, first wife of Napoleon (1763–1814)
1763-06-23
Les Trois-Îlets
1814-05-29
Rueil-Malmaison
art collector drawer artist patron of the arts
75
Q171480
Isabelle de Charrière
Dutch French-language writer and composer
1740-10-20
Zuylen Castle
1805-12-27
Colombier
translator composer novelist writer playwright poet essayist philosopher
83
Q123386
Mary Cassatt
American painter and printmaker (1844—1926)
1844-05-22
Allegheny
1926-06-14
Le Mesnil-Théribus
painter printmaker graphic artist photographer etcher 83
Q173223
Teresa of Ávila
Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)
1515-03-28
Ávila
1582-10-15
Monastery of the Anunciación writer philosopher founder of Catholic religious community religious sister cloistered nun poet
103
Q174880
Maria Zankovetska
Ukrainian actress (1854–1934)
1854-07-23
Zanky
1934-10-04
Kyiv
stage actor film actor actor
37
Q130376
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
1896-08-15
Prague
1957-10-26
Glendale St. Louis
biochemist psychologist physician chemist physiologist researcher
83
Q204733
Elizabeth I of Russia
The sixth Emperor of Russia (1741–1762)
1709-12-18
Kolomenskoye Moscow
1761-12-25
Saint Petersburg
monarch politician aristocrat
82
Q130752
Ban Zhao
late 1st/early 2nd century Chinese historian, philosopher and scholar
45
Eastern Han
116
Han dynasty
historian philosopher writer politician poet scholar librarian instructor 42
Q177081
Clara Barton
American Civil War nurse
1821-12-25
Oxford
1912-04-12
Glen Echo
nurse diarist philanthropist teacher humanitarian author writer
47
Q188039
Mary II of England
Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 (born 1662 died 1694)
1662-04-30
St James's Palace
1694-12-28
Kensington Palace
aristocrat politician queen regnant monarch
79
Q130812
Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
1874-02-03
Allegheny
1946-07-27
Neuilly-sur-Seine
writer poet art collector salonnière autobiographer librettist playwright author collector 80
Q188385
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
1759-04-27
Spitalfields London
1797-09-10
Somers Town London
translator philosopher historian novelist essayist governess businessperson travel writer children's writer writer
122
Q101638
Bridget of Sweden
Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)
1303
Finsta
1373-07-23
Rome
writer philosopher politician theologian memoirist mystic 65
Q204996
Maria Montessori
Italian pedagogue and physician (1870-1952)
1870-08-31
Chiaravalle
1952-05-06
Noordwijk
physician pedagogue essayist
103
Q131117
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
first female Member of Parliament to take her seat (1879-1964)
1879-05-19
Danville
1964-05-02
Grimsthorpe Castle
politician socialite suffragist 36
Q195013
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
1819-11-22
Nuneaton
1880-12-22
London
novelist translator philosopher writer poet journalist essayist editor
131
Q131333
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
1892-10-08
Moscow
1941-08-31
Yelabuga
poet writer diarist prose writer translator
94
Q188526
Constance Markievicz
Irish politician, first woman elected to the Westminster House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann, and first female Cabinet member in Europe
1868-02-04
Westminster
1927-07-15
Dublin
politician suffragette revolutionary painter stage actor
40
Q195768
Olympe de Gouges
French playwright and political activist
1748-05-07
Montauban
1793-11-03
Paris
playwright journalist philosopher writer politician author
73
Q206972
Madame de Pompadour
chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)
1721-12-29
Paris
1764-04-15
Versailles
salonnière politician lady-in-waiting royal mistress
68
Q188965
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718-1799)
1718-05-16
Milan
1799-01-09
Milan
philosopher mathematician philanthropist theologian pedagogue polyglot
72
Q200392
Wallis Simpson
American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor (1896-1986)
1896-06-19
Blue Ridge Summit
1986-04-24
Villa Windsor
socialite collector aristocrat
67
Q209417
Helena Blavatsky
Russian occult writer
1831-07-31
Dnipro
1891-04-26
London
philosopher writer journalist occultist editor theosophist 73
Q189454
Emmeline Pankhurst
English suffragist
1858-07-15
Moss Side
1928-06-14
Hampstead
suffragette politician women's rights activist human rights activist writer
75
Q211519
Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567
1542-12-08
Linlithgow Palace
1587-02-08
Fotheringhay Castle
politician sovereign aristocrat queen regnant queen consort
106
Q131412
Margaret of Valois-Angoulême
queen consort of Navarre
1492-04-11
Angoulême
1549-12-21
Odos
writer poet salonnière playwright king
65
Q190058
Mae West
American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)
1893-08-17
Brooklyn
1980-11-22
Los Angeles
playwright television actor film actor screenwriter singer writer stage actor comedian autobiographer actor
103
Q202878
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
French portrait painter (1755–1842)
1755-04-16
Paris
1842-03-30
Paris
painter salonnière writer artist
64
Q213163
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
1811-06-14
Litchfield
1896-07-01
Hartford
novelist poet children's writer short story writer writer abolitionist essayist
114
Q102513
Clare of Assisi
Italian saint
1194-07-16
Assisi
1253-08-11
Assisi
nun author religious writer founder of Catholic religious community mystic philosopher Poor Clare nun 67
Q191107
Maria Theresa of Austria
ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
1717-05-13
Hofburg Palace
1780-11-29
Vienna
aristocrat monarch politician
102
Q131706
Beatrix Potter
British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
1866-07-28
South Kensington West Brompton
1943-12-22
Near Sawrey
writer illustrator painter children's writer mycologist scientific illustrator botanist novelist conservationist artist
81
Q214565
Enid Blyton
English author (1897–1968)
1897-08-11
East Dulwich
1968-11-28
Hampstead
writer novelist poet school teacher children's writer screenwriter teacher
85
Q192069
Clara Schumann
German musician and composer (1819–1896)
1819-09-13
Leipzig
1896-05-20
Frankfurt
pianist composer music educator 79
Q132232
Harriet Tubman
African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
1822-03-06
Dorchester County
1913-03-10
Auburn
writer nurse human rights activist abolitionist political activist spy suffragist feminist
96
Q102870
Irene Dunne
American actress and singer (1898–1990)
1898-12-20
Louisville
1990-09-04
Los Angeles
film actor stage actor television actor singer delegate actor
47
Q230099
Julia Margaret Cameron
British photographer (1815–1879)
1815-06-11
Garden Reach
1879-01-26
Kalutara
photographer artist writer
44
Q230120
Margaret Rutherford
British actress (1892–1972)
1892-05-11
London
1972-05-22
Chalfont St Peter
character actor stage actor film actor
49
Q230143
Susan B. Anthony
American women's rights activist
1820-02-15
Adams
1906-03-13
Rochester
women's rights activist human rights activist abolitionist writer civil rights advocate feminist suffragist 82
Q192245
Ethel Barrymore
American actress (1879–1959)
1879-08-15
Philadelphia
1959-06-18
Beverly Hills
stage actor film actor actor
53
Q230147
Jane Darwell
American actress (1879-1967)
1879-10-15
Marion County
1967-08-13
Woodland Hills
film actor stage actor actor
47
Q230159
Nellie Bly
American journalist
1864-05-05
Burrell Township
1922-01-27
New York City
writer journalist novelist traveler inventor suffragist entrepreneur
66
Q230299
Catherine Parr
sixth wife of Henry VIII; final queen consort of the House of Tudor
1512
Kendal
1548-09-05
Sudeley Castle
writer lady-in-waiting consort 58
Q192943
Judith Anderson
Australian stage and screen actress (1897–1992)
1897-02-10
Adelaide
1992-01-03
Santa Barbara
stage actor film actor television actor
40
Q230415
Alexandra David-Néel
French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
1868-10-24
Saint-Mandé
1969-09-08
Digne-les-Bains Germany
explorer anthropologist writer diarist opera singer anarchist women's rights activist singer cult leader 43
Q230456
Alexandra Kollontai
Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)
1872-03-19
Saint Petersburg
1952-03-09
Moscow
revolutionary diplomat women's rights activist writer political theorist People's Commissar sociologist
83
Q179558
Mary Pickford
Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
1892-04-08
Toronto
1979-05-29
Santa Monica
film producer film actor film director screenwriter writer stage actor actor producer 92
Q104109
Kate Chopin
American author (1850–1904)
1850-02-08
St. Louis
1904-08-22
St. Louis
writer novelist translator
47
Q230476
Mary Anning
British fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
1799-05-21
Lyme Regis
1847-03-12
Lyme Regis
paleontologist trader of naturalia fossil collector 60
Q230491
Ana Pauker
Romanian politician (1893-1960)
1893-12-13
Vaslui County 1960-06-03
Bucharest
politician teacher translator diplomat tailor
38
Q230974
Margaret of Anjou
15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
1430-03-23
Pont-à-Mousson
1482-08-25
Souzay-Champigny
politician aristocrat consort 51
Q231145
Lillian Gish
American actress (1893–1993)
1893-10-14
Springfield
1993-02-27
New York City
film actor film director autobiographer screenwriter stage actor television actor peace activist actor director
87
Q104183
Tamara Karsavina
Russian ballet dancer
1885-02-25
Saint Petersburg
1978-05-26
Beaconsfield
ballet dancer choreographer autobiographer music educator 53
Q231316
Loïe Fuller
American dancer (1862–1928)
1862-01-15
Fullersburg Hinsdale
1928-01-01
8th arrondissement of Paris
lighting designer choreographer dancer stage actor model impresario actor film director
30
Q180505
Pola Negri
Polish actress (1897-1987)
1897-01-03
Lipno
1987-08-01
San Antonio
actor singer writer stage actor film actor
55
Q230633
Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
1867-01-08
Jamaica Plain
1961-01-09
Cambridge
economist pedagogue university teacher sociologist trade unionist journalist peace activist writer
78
Q215139
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer (1863-1941)
1863-12-11
Dover
1941-04-13
Cambridge
astronomer physicist university teacher astrophysicist 64
Q230650
Jenny Lind
Swedish classical singer
1820-10-06
Klara Church Parish 1887-11-02
Malvern
actor opera singer music educator stage actor
58
Q231345
Jane Addams
American activist, sociologist and writer (1860–1935)
1860-09-06
Cedarville
1935-05-22
Chicago
journalist philosopher writer women's rights activist autobiographer social reformer social critic suffragette peace activist human rights activist political theorist sociologist
92
Q180989
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
Mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (1635-1719)
1635-11-27
Niort
1719-04-15
Palace of Versailles
salonnière correspondent philosopher
46
Q230670
Dorothea Lange
American photojournalist (1895-1965)
1895-05-26
Hoboken
1965-10-11
San Francisco
journalist photojournalist photographer documentarian artist
56
Q230673
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Russian revolutionary and politician (1869-1939)
1869-02-14
Saint Petersburg
1939-02-27
Moscow
librarian writer teacher politician
80
Q215637
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
1868-07-14
Washington
1926-07-12
Baghdad
explorer archaeologist writer mountaineer diplomat photographer spy assyriologist politician arabist
56
Q231360
Madame du Barry
French noblewoman by marriage (1743-1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)
1743-08-19
Vaucouleurs
1793-12-08
Paris
royal mistress courtesan art collector modiste salesperson
53
Q230677
Louise Michel
French author and anarchist (1830-1905)
1830-05-29
Vroncourt-la-Côte
1905-01-09
Marseille
teacher poet pedagogue woman of letters journalist communard anarchist politician writer
62
Q216092
Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain
Queen Consort of Spain (1746 - 1758)
1711-12-04
Lisbon
1758-08-27
Aranjuez
composer queen regnant socialite patron of the arts
36
Q230878
Sei Shōnagon
Japanese author and court lady
966
Heian-kyō
1025
Kyoto
lady-in-waiting poet essayist diarist writer historian
68
Q231603
Vera Zasulich
Russian revolutionary, editor (1849-1919)
1849-07-27
Mikhaylovka 1919-05-08
Saint Petersburg
writer journalist politician editor opinion journalist literary critic revolutionary
37
Q234980
Zofia Nałkowska
Polish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954)
1884-11-10
Warsaw
1954-12-17
Warsaw
writer playwright journalist poet essayist politician prose writer 34
Q218319
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist
1623
Colchester
1673-12-15
Kingdom of England
philosopher physicist poet writer essayist science fiction writer lady-in-waiting
42
Q242640
Thérèse of Lisieux
French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897)
1873-01-02
Alençon
1897-09-30
Lisieux
theologian playwright writer master of novices
84
Q181715
Mary Baker Eddy
American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
1821-07-16
Bow
1910-12-03
Chestnut Hill
writer author theologian
48
Q235069
Edith Nesbit
English author and poet (1858–1924)
1858-08-15
London Kennington
1924-05-04
New Romney
writer children's writer poet
42
Q231708
Colette
French novelist
1873-01-28
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye
1954-08-03
Paris
novelist ghostwriter journalist librettist screenwriter short story writer playwright prose writer actor writer
82
Q218679
Mary Wortley Montagu
noblewoman; writer and poet from England, editor (1689-1762)
1689-05-15
Holme Pierrepont
1762-08-21
Westminster
explorer poet playwright editor writer
44
Q235121
Rani Lakshmibai
queen of a princely state in India
1828-11-19
Varanasi
1858-06-17
Gwalior
activist warrior revolutionary freedom fighter
68
Q181878
Beatrice Webb
English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer
1858-01-22
Gloucestershire
1943-04-30
Liphook
economist sociologist politician historian social reformer suffragist writer
36
Q242666
Agnès Sorel
French Royal mistress
1422
Fromenteau Castle 1450-02-09
Le Mesnil-sous-Jumièges
lady-in-waiting royal mistress art model
35
Q231834
Berenice Abbott
American photographer (1898-1991)
1898-07-17
Springfield
1991-12-09
Monson
photographer architectural photographer artist inventor
39
Q231861
Marie de' Medici
Queen of France, second wife of King Henry IV of France (1575-1642)
1575-04-26
Florence
1642-07-03
Cologne
salonnière art collector politician
66
Q182021
Archduchess Gisela of Austria
Austrian Imperial and Royal
1856-07-12
Laxenburg
1932-07-27
Munich
consort philanthropist politician
33
Q231871
Kōgyoku
Empress of Japan
594
661-08-24
Asakura no Tachibana no Hironiwa Palace monarch consort poet writer
41
Q235296
Aphra Behn
British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
1640-07-10
Canterbury
1689-04-16
London
playwright translator poet writer novelist women's rights activist
69
Q231886
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress (1896-1977)
1896-10-31
Chester
1977-09-01
Chatsworth
singer jazz musician stage actor film actor
32
Q242725
Gladys Cooper
British actress (1888-1971)
1888-12-18
Hither Green
1971-11-17
Henley-on-Thames
actor stage actor film actor theatre manager
34
Q235299
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960)
1891-01-07
Notasulga
1960-01-28
Fort Pierce
anthropologist historian novelist writer journalist folklorist civil rights advocate playwright film director
57
Q220480
Elizabeth Bowen
Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist
1899-06-07
Dublin
1973-02-22
London
writer novelist short story writer
40
Q235308
Voltairine de Cleyre
American anarchist writer and feminist
1866-11-17
Leslie
1912-06-20
Chicago
writer poet essayist journalist women's rights activist anarchist peace activist philosopher feminist
38
Q235361
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
1651-11-12
Nepantla de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1695-04-17
Mexico City
poet religious sister writer mathematician philosopher composer playwright cloistered nun nun
68
Q183074
Theano
6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher
6th century BCE
Crotone
5th century BCE
mathematician philosopher astronomer dancer composer poet writer
36
Q235426
Jeanette Jerome
American-born British mother of Winston Churchill (1854–1921)
1854-01-09
Brooklyn
1921-06-29
London
autobiographer writer socialite editor
32
Q243011
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
English physician and feminist (1836-1917)
1836-06-09
Whitechapel
1917-12-17
Alde House politician physician suffragist writer
37
Q235464
Anna Leonowens
British educator and writer
1831-11-06
Ahilyanagar
1915-01-19
Montreal
teacher autobiographer writer traveler pedagogue memoirist suffragette educator abolitionist 30
Q234244
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia
Swedish queen (1720-1782)
1720-07-24
Berlin
1782-07-16
Svartsjö Palace
salonnière aristocrat consort 33
Q234251
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
1850-01-03
Moscow
1891-02-10
Hedvig Eleonora parish
mathematician physicist novelist university teacher communard writer
87
Q184535
Vita Sackville-West
English writer, poet, and gardener
1892-03-09
Knole House
1962-06-02
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
horticulturist writer poet gardener biographer
39
Q235505
Jitō
Empress of Japan (645-703)
645
703-01-13
Fujiwara-kyō
poet writer urban planner waka poet politician
44
Q232026
Francesca Caccini
Italian composer
1587-09-18
Florence
1640
Florence
composer poet lutenist writer opera singer music teacher actor
31
Q232035
Ellen Axson Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914
1860-05-15
Savannah
1914-08-06
White House
politician artist sunday school teacher 36
Q234283
Halide Edib Adıvar
Turkish activist, writer and politician
1884-06-11
Constantinople
1964-01-09
Istanbul
politician novelist writer university teacher military personnel journalist
43
Q234289
Jean Webster
American novelist (1876-1916)
1876-07-24
Fredonia
1916-06-11
New York City
writer novelist playwright screenwriter journalist children's writer short story writer humorist
31
Q238140
Boudica
queen of the British Iceni tribe
30
Roman Britain
61
Roman Britain
military leader ruler queen regnant resistance fighter 72
Q184634
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832–1888)
1832-11-29
Germantown
1888-03-06
Boston
writer nurse poet novelist children's writer teacher domestic worker suffragist 108
Q185696
Paula Modersohn-Becker
German expressionist painter (1876–1907)
1876-02-08
Dresden
1907-11-20
Worpswede
painter printmaker drawer artist
42
Q234370
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
British princess (1709-1759); eldest daughter of George II
1709-11-02
Hanover
1759-01-12
The Hague
aristocrat regent painter
33
Q239487
Rachel Ruysch
Dutch artist (1664–1750)
1664-06-03
The Hague
1750-08-12
Amsterdam
botanical illustrator painter drawer
34
Q234385
Eudokia Makrembolitissa
Byzantine Empress from 1059 to 1071
1021
1096
writer sovereign Christian nun 39
Q232223
Ma Rainey
American blues singer (1886–1939)
1886-04-26
Columbus
1939-12-22
Columbus
street artist singer songwriter
34
Q239533
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932)
1852-03-15
Loughrea
1932-05-22
Coole Park
linguist poet playwright translator autobiographer diarist writer
41
Q239540
Barbara Strozzi
Italian singer and composer
1619-08-06
Venice
1677-11-11
Padua
composer art model stage actor opera singer lyricist singer
36
Q232235
Ngaio Marsh
New Zealand writer (1895-1982)
1895-04-23
Christchurch
1982-02-18
Christchurch
writer theatrical director novelist autobiographer screenwriter stage actor film actor playwright
32
Q234392
Ellen Key
Swedish writer (1849-1926)
1849-12-11
Gladhammar church parish 1926-04-25
Västra Tollstad church parish translator writer critic pedagogue suffragette women's rights activist
44
Q238443
Sabina Spielrein
Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942)
1885-10-25
Rostov-on-Don
1942-08-11
Zmievskaya Balka
psychiatrist psychoanalyst essayist physician
37
Q232336
Ninette de Valois
British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet
1898-06-06
Blessington
2001-03-08
London
ballet dancer choreographer librettist ballet master writer ballet teacher film director
33
Q234436
Natalia Goncharova
Russian-French artist (1881-1962)
1881-06-21
Nagaevo-Karbonier 1962-10-17
Paris
painter scenographer costume designer illustrator drawer fashion designer writer artist
46
Q232391
Alfonsina Storni
Argentine writer
1892-05-29
Capriasca
1938-10-25
Mar del Plata
diarist poet journalist writer teacher sociologist
52
Q238557
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Polish writer
1841-06-06
Miĺkaŭščyna 1910-05-18
Hrodna
writer essayist translator short story writer
47
Q240174
Louise of Sweden
Queen consort of Denmark; wife of Frederick VIII of Denmark
1851-10-31
Stockholm Palace
1926-03-20
Amalienborg
consort aristocrat philanthropist
43
Q232402
May Whitty
English actress (1865-1948)
1865-06-19
Liverpool
1948-05-29
Beverly Hills
stage actor film actor actor
33
Q240193
Asta Nielsen
Danish actress (1881-1972)
1881-09-11
Gammel Kongevej
1972-05-25
Frederiksberg
actor autobiographer stage actor film actor film director
64
Q232404
Emma Orczy
Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947)
1865-09-23
Tarnaörs
1947-11-12
Henley-on-Thames
translator novelist children's writer writer playwright short story writer crime fiction writer 40
Q234530
Bessie Love
American actress (1898-1986)
1898-09-10
Midland
1986-04-26
London
film actor actor screenwriter stage actor radio drama actor television actor writer
37
Q240238
Jeannette Rankin
American congresswoman for Montana (1880-1973)
1880-06-11
Missoula
1973-05-18
Carmel-by-the-Sea
politician social worker pacifist women's rights activist peace activist suffragist 45
Q232407
Dorothy Gish
American actress (1898–1968)
1898-03-11
Dayton
1968-06-04
Rapallo
film actor stage actor actor film director author
32
Q234536
Dolores Ibárruri
Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
1895-12-09
Gallarta 1989-11-12
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
politician journalist activist
65
Q238955
Sacagawea
Native American woman & companion to Lewis and Clark at age 16
1788-05-16
Salmon
1812-12-12
Fort Lisa
explorer interpreter Aitzindari association football player politician
48
Q238960
Harriet Martineau
English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)
1802-06-12
Norwich
1876-06-27
Ambleside
linguist journalist economist historian translator novelist sociologist essayist women's rights activist philosopher geographer writer suffragist abolitionist 46
Q234570
Nadia Boulanger
French musician, conductor, and teacher (1887–1979)
1887-09-16
9th arrondissement of Paris
1979-10-22
9th arrondissement of Paris
pianist organist conductor composer musicologist pedagogue music educator music theorist university teacher 51
Q140619
Enheduanna
Sumerian high priestess of Inanna
23rd century BCE
Akkadian Empire
23rd century BCE
poet writer priest philosopher
65
Q232505
Elizabeth Blackwell
American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910)
1821-02-03
Bristol
1910-05-31
Hastings
physician medical writer essayist women's rights activist human rights activist writer
63
Q234572
Käthe Kollwitz
German printmaker and sculptor (1867–1945)
1867-07-08
Königsberg
1945-04-22
Moritzburg
printmaker drawer lithographer poster artist illustrator sculptor autobiographer designer graphic artist painter architectural draftsperson artist
57
Q142472
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
1818-08-01
Nantucket
1889-06-29
Lynn
astronomer librarian university teacher writer naturalist
52
Q239229
Ruth Gordon
American actress and writer (1896–1985)
1896-10-30
Quincy
1985-08-28
Edgartown
screenwriter playwright stage actor film actor television actor writer actor
47
Q232562
Vera Mukhina
Soviet sculptor (1889-1953)
1889-06-19
Riga
1953-10-06
Moscow
sculptor costume designer fashion designer textile designer lecturer
53
Q234601
Gracie Allen
American actress and entertainer (1896–1964)
1895-07-26
San Francisco
1964-08-27
Hollywood
actor singer dancer stage actor film actor comedian
31
Q255786
Maria Edgeworth
Irish writer (1768-1849)
1768-01-01
Oxfordshire
1849-05-22
Edgeworthstown
essayist novelist children's writer writer
48
Q237575
Theda Bara
American actress (1885–1955)
1885-07-29
Cincinnati
1955-04-07
Los Angeles
film actor stage actor actor
48
Q234615
Betty Compson
American actress (1897–1974)
1897-03-19
Beaver
1974-04-18
Glendale
stage actor film actor film producer violinist
33
Q255846
Djuna Barnes
American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)
1892-06-12
Cornwall-on-Hudson
1982-06-18
Greenwich Village
poet novelist writer playwright journalist painter
47
Q234721
Radclyffe Hall
British poet and author
1880-08-12
Bournemouth
1943-10-07
London
writer poet novelist
33
Q237639
Erinna
ancient Greek poet
4th century BCE
Rhodes
4th century BCE
poet writer epigrammatist 31
Q256241
Rosalba Carriera
Rococo portrait painter (1675–1757)
1675-10-07
Venice
1757-04-15
Venice
painter drawer architectural draftsperson artist visual artist
35
Q237726
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Russian writer and educator
1899-10-30
Saratov
1980-12-29
Moscow
writer autobiographer biographer poet teacher memoirist linguist lecturer
39
Q234765
Amy Lowell
US writer (1874-1925)
1874-02-09
Brookline
1925-05-12
Brookline
poet writer socialite
39
Q265841
Rabia of Basri
Iraqi sufi and poet
710s
Basra
801
Basra
poet philosopher mystic writer
62
Q256506
Alla Nazimova
Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945)
1879-06-03
Yalta
1945-07-13
Los Angeles
film producer screenwriter writer stage actor film actor actor film director
32
Q234795
Gerda Wegener
Danish artist (1885-1940)
1885-03-15
Hammelev 1940-07-20
Frederiksberg
painter illustrator designer
40
Q266086
Emma, Lady Hamilton
Mistress of Lord Nelson (1765-1815)
1765-04-26
Neston
1815-01-15
Calais
singer model mime artist
34
Q234811
Marie Bashkirtseva
Ukrainian-French artist
1860-11-11
Havrontsi
1884-10-31
Paris
painter sculptor diarist writer biographer artist
45
Q255253
Anna Maria van Schurman
Dutch painter (1607-1678)
1607-11-05
Cologne
1678-05-04
Wiuwert
poet writer philosopher theologian painter printmaker etcher glass engraver calligrapher philologist historian medic artist graphic artist 36
Q255261
Christine de Pizan
French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)
1364-09-11
Venice
1431
Poissy
writer poet translator philosopher women letter writer
72
Q234816
Inge Lehmann
Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993)
1888-05-13
Copenhagen Østerbro
1993-02-21
Copenhagen
seismologist geologist surveyor naturalist geophysicist 57
Q256839
Florence Lawrence
Canadian-American actress (1886-1938)
1886-01-02
Hamilton
1938-12-27
Beverly Hills
actor stage actor film actor patent inventor
32
Q256968
Milena Jesenská
Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944)
1896-08-10
Prague
1944-05-17
Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück writer journalist translator opinion journalist editing staff 41
Q234893
Mina Witkojc
Sorbian poet (1893–1975)
1893-05-28
Burg (Spreewald)
1975-11-11
Papitz journalist poet translator writer
31
Q149516
Louise Abbéma
French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque (1853-1927)
1853-10-30
Étampes
1927-07-10
9th arrondissement of Paris
painter sculptor designer
33
Q237911
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
1897-11-08
Brooklyn Heights
1980-11-29
New York City
journalist writer social activist editor trade unionist peace activist autobiographer suffragist 49
Q150281
Ichiyō Higuchi
Japanese writer
1872-05-02
Tokyo 1896-11-23
Uchisaiwaichō
novelist writer waka poet 36
Q237948
Alexandra of Denmark
Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
1844-12-01
Yellow Palace
1925-11-20
Sandringham House
photographer painter aristocrat
61
Q152260
Fanny Crosby
19th century Christian hymnist
1820-03-24
Brewster
1915-02-12
Bridgeport
composer poet singer writer teacher hymnwriter
30
Q257456
Florence Harding
First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
1860-08-15
Marion
1924-11-21
Marion
politician shop assistant piano teacher business manager
39
Q233634
Vera Figner
Russian political activist (1852-1942)
1852-06-25
Kazan
1942-06-15
Moscow
political activist memoirist biographer writer politician
30
Q266783
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
1874-03-29
Waterloo
1944-01-07
New York City
politician geologist president
47
Q233669
Fay Bainter
American actress (1893–1968)
1893-12-07
Los Angeles
1968-04-16
Los Angeles
actor stage actor film actor
47
Q152888
Mamie Eisenhower
First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961
1896-11-14
Boone
1979-11-01
Washington, D.C.
dancer writer politician
53
Q233686
Maria Konopnicka
Polish writer and activist (1842-1910)
1842-05-23
Suwałki
1910-10-08
Lviv
poet writer essayist children's writer literary critic translator children's rights activist editor
55
Q257852
Lucretia Mott
American suffragist (1793–1880)
1793-01-03
Nantucket
1880-11-11
Philadelphia
women's rights activist abolitionist preacher peace activist teacher writer suffragist 42
Q267107
Saint Rita of Cascia
Italian Augustinian nun
1381
Roccaporena
1457-05-22
Cascia
Christian nun philosopher nun
41
Q153024
Anna Pavlova
Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
1881-02-12
Saint Petersburg
1931-01-23
The Hague
ballet dancer choreographer editor silent film actor 79
Q151874
Aspazija
Latvian poet and playwright (1865–1943)
1865-03-04
Zaļenieki Parish Mitava parish 1943-11-05
Dubulti
poet playwright politician translator writer journalist
32
Q257872
Olha Kobylianska
Ukrainian writer and feminist (1863–1942)
1863-11-27
Gura Humorului
1942-03-21
Chernivtsi
writer women's rights activist opinion journalist translator
30
Q267137
Peggy Guggenheim
American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite
1898-08-26
New York City
1979-12-23
Venice Camposampiero
art collector patron of the arts art dealer socialite
35
Q233806
Alexandra Feodorovna
Empress consort of Russia from 1894 to 1917
1872-06-06
Darmstadt
1918-07-17
Yekaterinburg
consort regent painter nurse
65
Q152094
Mae Marsh
American actress (1894-1968)
1894-11-09
Madrid
1968-02-13
Hermosa Beach
actor film actor television actor
30
Q153332
Margaret Fuller
American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
1810-05-23
Cambridge
1850-07-19
Fire Island
journalist translator reporter essayist autobiographer writer philosopher women's rights activist literary critic abolitionist 52
Q257953
Fanny Brice
American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)
1891-10-29
Manhattan
1951-05-29
Hollywood
musician singer stage actor film actor model radio personality actor
33
Q153358
Gale Sondergaard
American actress (1899–1985)
1899-02-15
Litchfield
1985-08-14
Woodland Hills
actor stage actor television actor film actor
46
Q233845
Maria Feodorovna
Empress consort of Russia from 1881 to 1894
1847-11-26
Yellow Palace Copenhagen
1928-10-13
Hvidøre
consort aristocrat painter nurse
54
Q153601
Louise Bryant
American activist and journalist (1885–1936)
1885-12-05
San Francisco
1936-01-06
Sèvres
journalist writer suffragette
32
Q267629
Catherine of Aragon
first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536)
1485-12-16
Alcalá de Henares
1536-01-07
Kimbolton Castle
diplomat aristocrat queen consort
82
Q162819
Marie Under
Estonian poet (1883-1980)
1883-03-27
Tallinn
1980-09-25
Stockholm
poet archivist translator writer journalist
49
Q154410
Eleanor Farjeon
English children's writer
1881-02-13
London
1965-06-05
Hampstead
poet writer children's writer novelist biographer playwright
38
Q258669
Anna Sewell
English novelist
1820-03-30
Great Yarmouth
1878-04-25
Norwich
writer novelist children's writer
42
Q258741
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
1851-09-03
Pavlovsk
1926-06-18
Rome Pau
consort aristocrat charity worker philanthropist
44
Q155178
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
Member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
1882-06-01
Petergof
1960-11-24
Toronto
painter philanthropist aristocrat
37
Q163176
Harriet Taylor Mill
British philosopher (1807–1858)
1807-10-08
London
1858-11-03
Avignon
philosopher poet writer economist suffragist 37
Q240782
Ida Tarbell
American journalist (1857-1944)
1857-11-05
Erie County
1944-01-06
Bridgeport
journalist writer biographer historian investigative journalist 32
Q271712
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
1843-04-25
Buckingham Palace
1878-12-14
Darmstadt
nurse politician painter aristocrat
46
Q155566
Emma Lazarus
American poet (1849–1887)
1849-07-22
New York City
1887-11-19
New York City
poet writer journalist translator
38
Q240959
Annette Kellermann
Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer (1887–1975)
1886-07-06
Sydney
1975-11-06
Southport
synchronized swimmer film actor writer
31
Q274172
Corrie ten Boom
Dutch resistance hero and writer
1892-04-15
Amsterdam
1983-04-15
Placentia
writer autobiographer resistance fighter 32
Q241097
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet (1806–1861)
1806-03-06
Coxhoe Hall Durham
1861-06-29
Florence
poet screenwriter essayist pamphleteer translator writer abolitionist 89
Q228494
Aspasia
5th-century BC partner of Athenian statesman Pericles
-470
Miletus
-400
Athens
rhetorician philosopher orator writer
58
Q228564
Julia Ward Howe
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
1819-05-27
New York City
1910-10-17
Portsmouth
poet writer peace activist songwriter lyricist suffragist 34
Q241299
Isabelle Eberhardt
Swiss explorer and author (1877-1904)
1877-02-17
Geneva Switzerland
1904-10-21
Aïn Séfra Algeria
explorer journalist writer
30
Q271903
Maria Malibran
Spanish opera singer and composer
1808-03-24
Paris
1836-09-23
Manchester
opera singer composer actor stage actor
34
Q232783
P. L. Travers
Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899-1996)
1899-08-09
Maryborough
1996-04-23
London
poet writer novelist children's writer journalist actor
54
Q228901
Geraldine Farrar
American soprano opera singer and film actress (1882–1967)
1882-02-28
Melrose
1967-03-11
Ridgefield
actor opera singer writer film actor
32
Q241498
Hattie McDaniel
American actress (1895-1952)
1893-06-10
Wichita
1952-10-26
Woodland Hills
actor singer-songwriter composer musician television actor film actor comedian fundraiser philanthropist
60
Q228904
Sonia Delaunay
French painter (1885–1979)
1885-11-14
Hradyzk
1979-12-05
Paris
painter designer fashion designer graphic artist printmaker tapestry designer drawer artist bookbinder visual artist
42
Q232972
Catherine of Siena
Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)
1347-03-25
Siena
1380-04-29
Rome
religious sister politician philosopher diplomat memoirist writer
80
Q229190
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian writer (1874–1942)
1874-11-30
Prince Edward Island
1942-04-24
Toronto
writer novelist children's writer poet diarist biographer short story writer journalist teacher
64
Q273034
Marie Laurencin
French painter, poet and printmaker
1883-10-31
10th arrondissement of Paris
1956-06-08
7th arrondissement of Paris
painter printmaker scenographer illustrator poet artist graphic artist 39
Q233088
Laura Marx
daughter of Karl Marx (1845–1911)
1845-09-26
City of Brussels
1911-11-25
Draveil
militant translator writer
30
Q259334
Frances Burney
English satirical novelist, diarist, playwright (1752-1840)
1752-06-13
King's Lynn
1840-01-06
London
writer novelist diarist essayist playwright tragedy writer 42
Q259530
Lyubov Popova
Russian artist (1889-1924)
1889-04-24
Ivanovskoe 1924-05-25
Moscow
painter university teacher graphic artist illustrator drawer scenographer collagist designer typographer architectural draftsperson fashion designer artist
33
Q259594
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
British author
1810-09-29
Cheyne Walk
1865-11-12
Holybourne House writer novelist biographer
67
Q229226
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
English author (1743–1825)
1743-06-20
Kibworth Harcourt 1825-03-09
Stoke Newington
poet children's writer literary critic essayist writer
31
Q268305
Gloria Swanson
American actress (1899–1983)
1899-03-27
Chicago
1983-04-04
Weill Cornell Medical Center
actor film producer autobiographer stage actor television actor film actor producer 83
Q229232
Inessa Armand
French communist politician, editor
1874-04-26
Paris
1920-09-24
Nalchik
revolutionary editor politician communist feminist
45
Q233514
Edith Sitwell
British poet (1887-1964)
1887-09-07
Scarborough
1964-12-09
St Thomas' Hospital
poet essayist literary critic writer biographer
41
Q259921
Jeanne d'Albret
Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572
1528-01-07
Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1572-06-09
Paris
politician poet writer
45
Q229286
Madame d'Aulnoy
French writer
1652
Barneville-la-Bertran
1705-01-14
Paris
writer salonnière novelist collector of fairy tales 37
Q260006
Aelia Eudocia
Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (c.401-460)
400s
Athens
460-10-21
Jerusalem
poet writer sovereign
39
Q229307
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
1780-12-26
Jedburgh
1872-11-28
Naples
mathematician writer scientist physicist geologist
51
Q268702
Mabel Normand
American actress (1893–1930)
1892-11-10
Staten Island
1930-02-23
Monrovia
film producer film director screenwriter comedian model film actor actor writer
37
Q235918
Sofonisba Anguissola
Italian painter (c.1532-1625)
1532
Cremona
1625-11-16
Palermo
painter artist visual artist designer
61
Q236038
Margaret Brown
survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867–1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist
1867-07-18
Hannibal
1932-10-26
New York City
philanthropist actor socialite suffragist 47
Q229631
Elizabeth Magie
American board game designer (1866–1948)
1866-05-09
Macomb
1948-03-02
Arlington County
game designer stenographer writer
30
Q273459
Victoria Woodhull
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
1838-09-23
Homer
1927-06-09
Bredon
stockbroker suffragist editor politician journalist women's rights activist writer
50
Q260378
Lavinia Fontana
Italian painter (1552–1614)
1553-08-24
Bologna
1614-08-11
Rome
painter architectural draftsperson artist altarpiece painter portraitist 43
Q236050
Sophia Tolstaya
Russian writer (1844–1919)
1844-08-22
Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo
1919-11-04
Yasnaya Polyana
writer autobiographer diarist biographer photographer
37
Q271934
Alexine Tinne
Dutch explorer in Africa and photographer (1835-1869)
1835-10-17
The Hague
1869-08-01
Fezzan Libya
explorer photographer adventurer scientific collector botanical collector 30
Q255347
Agrippina Vaganova
Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951)
1879-06-14
Saint Petersburg
1951-11-05
Saint Petersburg
ballet dancer choreographer music educator ballet master ballet teacher 30
Q236413
Cécile Chaminade
French composer and pianist
1857-08-08
Batignolles-Monceau 1944-04-13
Monte Carlo
pianist composer flautist
31
Q236438
Corinne Griffith
American actress, film producer, author (1894–1979)
1894-11-21
Waco
1979-07-13
Santa Monica
actor film producer film actor writer
33
Q272079
Juliette Récamier
French salon-holder
1777-12-03
Lyon
1849-05-11
Paris
salonnière writer socialite
38
Q236442
Suzanne Valadon
French painter (1865—1938)
1865-09-23
Bessines-sur-Gartempe
1938-04-07
16th arrondissement of Paris
painter art model model drawer printmaker artist
44
Q156889
H.D.
American Imagist poet (1886–1961)
1886-09-10
Bethlehem
1961-09-27
Klinik Hirslanden poet writer autobiographer actor
42
Q236469
Anita Loos
American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress and television producer (1888-1981)
1889-04-26
Mount Shasta
1981-08-18
New York City
writer screenwriter novelist autobiographer film actor memoirist 39
Q272088
Alma Mahler
Austrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite (1879-1964)
1879-08-31
Vienna
1964-12-11
New York City
composer painter biographer model writer art collector 49
Q156898
Christina Rossetti
English poet
1830-12-05
London
1894-12-29
London
poet writer hymnwriter
60
Q236596
Ethel Smyth
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)
1858-04-22
Sidcup
1944-05-08
Woking
composer librettist conductor autobiographer suffragist writer women's rights activist suffragette nurse
36
Q236599
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)
1480-01-10
Brussels 1530-12-01
Mechelen
dignitary patron of the arts collector painter composer
44
Q157100
Rebecca West
British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist (1892-1983)
1892-12-21
London
1983-03-15
London
journalist writer literary critic essayist suffragette prose writer opinion journalist novelist
54
Q236669
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
Empress Consort of France (1810–1814) and Monarch of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (1814-1847)
1791-12-12
Vienna
1847-12-17
Parma
ruler consort politician
65
Q157491
Maria Anna Mozart
Austrian musician
1751-07-30
Salzburg
1829-10-29
Salzburg
pianist composer harpsichordist
45
Q157928
Julian of Norwich
English theologian and anchoress
1342-11-08
Norwich
15th century
Norwich
theologian writer anchorite hermit Christian mystic philosopher
41
Q236699
Christabel Pankhurst
suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958)
1880-09-22
Manchester
1958-02-13
Santa Monica
suffragist women's rights activist architect editor activist suffragette feminist
39
Q269863
Božena Němcová
Czech writer (1820-1862)
1820-02-04
Vienna
1862-01-21
Prague
writer poet children's writer collector of fairy tales editor national revival activist opinion journalist novelist
58
Q157970
Edith Evans
British actress (1888–1976)
1888-02-08
London
1976-10-14
Cranbrook
stage actor film actor actor
46
Q236718
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess of Russia (1897–1918)
1897-06-10
Petergof
1918-07-17
Ipatiev House
aristocrat nurse chairperson
49
Q158148
Princess Margaret of Connaught
British princess (1882-1920); Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf
1882-01-15
Bagshot Park
1920-05-01
Stockholm
painter bandy player aristocrat philanthropist fundraiser
36
Q158173
Mistinguett
French actress and singer
1875-04-04
Enghien-les-Bains
1956-01-05
Bougival
actor singer stage actor film actor dancer screenwriter
30
Q235507
Anne of Denmark
Queen consort of James VI of Scots, I of England (1574-1619)
1574-12-12
Skanderborg Slot Skanderborg
1619-03-02
Hampton Court Palace
consort aristocrat philanthropist patron of the arts
49
Q158248
Mary Kingsley
British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer
1862-10-13
Islington
1900-06-03
Cape Town
explorer nurse anthropologist botanical collector writer suffragist 38
Q235525
Sarojini Naidu
Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
1879-02-13
Hyderabad
1949-03-02
Lucknow
poet politician independence activist freedom fighter
64
Q250165
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662)
1596-08-19
Fife
1662-02-13
London
patron of the arts consort aristocrat
47
Q158252
Angelica Balabanoff
Russian-Jewish-Italian dissident writer, social activist, politician, editor
1876
Chernihiv
1965-11-25
Rome
politician writer editor political activist
33
Q235537
Carrie Chapman Catt
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
1859-01-09
Ripon
1947-03-09
New Rochelle
journalist politician peace activist women's rights activist writer suffragist 37
Q270207
Lilya Brik
muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky
1891-10-30
Moscow
1978-08-04
Peredelkino
film director sculptor film actor writer prose writer translator memoirist 34
Q260537
Marie Dressler
Canadian-American actress (1868-1934)
1868-11-09
Cobourg
1934-07-28
Santa Barbara
film actor film producer stage actor screenwriter film director
55
Q253282
Ana Aslan
Romanian biologist and physician (1897–1988)
1897-01-01
Brăila
1988-05-21
Bucharest
physician gerontologist biologist inventor university teacher 35
Q270262
Shirley Booth
American actress (1898–1992)
1898-08-30
Brooklyn
1992-10-16
Chatham
voice actor stage actor film actor television actor radio personality
58
Q253308
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
1743-03-17
Saint Petersburg
1810-01-04
Moscow
linguist politician writer lady-in-waiting
31
Q235611
Arletty
French actress (1898–1992)
1898-05-15
Courbevoie
1992-07-23
16th arrondissement of Paris
actor singer model film actor stage actor
36
Q235617
Marie d'Agoult
Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805-1876)
1805-12-31
Frankfurt
1876-03-05
Paris
writer salonnière historian diarist poet essayist composer novelist
39
Q253453
Wanda Landowska
(1879-1959) Polish-French harpsichordist
1879-07-05
Warsaw
1959-08-16
Lakeville
harpsichordist music educator pianist musicologist composer
38
Q160257
Grandma Moses
American artist (1860-1961)
1860-09-07
Greenwich
1961-12-13
Hoosick Falls
painter illustrator embroiderer artist
36
Q260683
Olga Rozanova
Russian artist (1886-1918)
1886-06-21
Melenki
1918-11-07
Moscow
poet illustrator drawer painter collagist writer visual artist artist textile artist 30
Q270460
Billie Burke
American stage and film actress (1884–1970)
1884-08-07
Washington, D.C.
1970-05-14
Los Angeles
film actor stage actor television actor radio personality actor
40
Q235639
Grace Moore
American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (1898-1947)
1898-12-05
Cocke County
1947-01-26
Copenhagen Airport
actor opera singer musician film actor stage actor
33
Q253757
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
English socialite, style icon, author, and activist
1757-06-07
Althorp
1806-03-30
Devonshire House
salonnière novelist socialite writer activist political activist aristocrat
32
Q235644
Lola Montez
Irish dancer and actress (1821–1861)
1821-02-17
Grange
1861-01-17
New York City
dancer stage actor socialite
42
Q161154
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III
1744-05-19
Mirow
1818-11-17
Kew London
art collector consort aristocrat artist politician
47
Q161159
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
French painter (1749-1803)
1749-04-11
Paris
1803-04-24
Paris
painter visual artist miniaturist artist
35
Q235647
Lady Caroline Lamb
English writer
1785-11-13
Dorset
1828-01-26
London
poet writer novelist
32
Q235665
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Viceregal consort of Canada from 1878 to 1883
1848-03-18
Buckingham Palace
1939-12-03
Kensington Palace London
painter sculptor artist aristocrat
37
Q161167
Juliette Adam
Author, salonnière (1836–1936)
1836-10-04
Verberie
1936-08-23
Callian
writer salonnière novelist memoirist essayist poet editor
31
Q270617
Norma Talmadge
American actress and film producer (1894–1957)
1894-05-02
Jersey City
1957-12-24
Las Vegas
actor film producer film actor
31
Q261133
Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand author (1888–1923)
1888-10-14
Wellington
1923-01-09
Avon
writer diarist poet prose writer 67
Q270632
Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
1890-05-15
Indian Creek
1980-09-18
Silver Spring
journalist novelist essayist writer screenwriter
45
Q236958
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
1893-08-22
West End
1967-06-07
New York City
columnist poet screenwriter writer literary critic journalist songwriter dialogue writer 70
Q270707
Radegund
Frankish queen consort
518
Erfurt
587-08-13
Poitiers
poet monarch writer nun
38
Q236974
Marie Corelli
British writer (1855-1924)
1855-05-01
London
1924-04-21
Stratford-upon-Avon
writer poet novelist
30
Q263254
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1837
1774-11-18
Potsdam
1837-10-12
The Hague
consort aristocrat photographer
33
Q236978
Alice Guy-Blaché
French film director (1873–1968)
1873-07-01
Saint-Mandé
1968-03-24
Mahwah
film producer film director screenwriter author director film actor theatrical director
38
Q263367
Rosa Bonheur
French artist
1822-03-16
Bordeaux
1899-05-25
Thomery
painter sculptor drawer artist head teacher
48
Q241732
Ninon de Lenclos
French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts
1620-11-10
Paris
1705-10-17
Paris
salonnière writer patron of the arts
57
Q237045
Kassia
Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer
810
Istanbul
865
Istanbul
composer poet hymnwriter nun
37
Q263592
Lydia Koidula
Estonian poet
1843-12-12
Vändra
1886-07-30
Kronstadt
poet translator journalist writer
50
Q237056
Agnodice
Athenian physician, midwife and gynecologist
4th century BCE
Athens
4th century BCE
gynecologist midwife physician obstetrician 33
Q263812
Madame de Lafayette
French writer (1634-1693)
1634-03-18
Paris
1693-05-25
Paris
writer salonnière novelist historian correspondent lady-in-waiting
52
Q237090
Ellen Terry
English actress (1847–1928)
1847-02-27
Coventry
1928-07-21
Small Hythe
stage actor film actor impresario writer
36
Q241966
Hedda Hopper
American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
1885-05-02
Hollidaysburg
1966-02-01
Hollywood
journalist stage actor film actor television actor radio personality film critic writer
41
Q271324
Anna Atkins
English botanist and photographer (1799-1871)
1799-03-16
Tonbridge
1871-06-09
Halstead Place photographer illustrator botanist writer botanical collector 41
Q264269
Madeleine de Scudéry
French writer (1607–1701)
1607-11-15
Le Havre
1701-06-02
Paris
writer salonnière literary novelist poet French moralist philosopher
54
Q237095
Aleksandra Ekster
Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)
1882-01-06
Białystok
1949-03-17
Fontenay-aux-Roses
painter costume designer illustrator scenographer graphic artist designer artist textile artist 39
Q242121
Nadežda Petrović
Serbian artist (1873-1915)
1873-10-12
Čačak
1915-04-03
Valjevo
art critic painter visual artist
41
Q264453
Louise Labé
French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon
1524
Lyon
1566-04-25
Parcieux
poet salonnière writer
48
Q237098
Madame de Sévigné
French noble and epistolarian writer (1626–1695 or 1696)
1626-02-05
Paris
1696-04-17
Grignan
correspondent writer philosopher
58
Q237103
Elisabetta Sirani
Italian painter (1638-1665)
1638-01-08
Bologna
1665-08-28
Bologna
painter printmaker etcher 34
Q271475
Freya Madeline Stark
British travel writer (1893-1993)
1893-01-31
Paris
1993-05-09
Asolo
explorer travel writer photographer essayist mountaineer
30
Q292480
Elizabeth Fry
social reformer from England (1780-1845)
1780-05-21
Norwich
1845-10-12
Ramsgate
nurse philanthropist diarist politician suffragist writer
32
Q271477
Kasturba Gandhi
wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944)
1869-04-11
Porbandar
1944-02-22
Aga Khan Palace
activist politician freedom fighter
43
Q264908
Anne Bradstreet
Anglo-American poet (1612-1672)
1612-03-20
Northampton
1672-09-16
Andover
poet writer philosopher
37
Q242332
Harriet Quimby
American aviator, screenwriter (1875-1912)
1875-05-11
Michigan
1912-07-01
Squantum
aircraft pilot journalist screenwriter
34
Q254352
Bessie Coleman
American aviator (1892–1926)
1892-01-26
Atlanta
1926-04-30
Jacksonville
aircraft pilot human rights activist stunt pilot 41
Q254376
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Croatian writer (1874–1938)
1874-04-18
Ogulin
1938-09-21
Zagreb
poet writer children's writer
43
Q254383
Agnes Arber
British botanist (1879-1960)
1879-02-23
Primrose Hill
1960-03-22
Cambridge
biologist botanist translator geneticist historian plant morphologist botanical collector illustrator
30
Q394451
Marion Davies
American actress, producer, screenwriter and socialite (1897–1961)
1897-01-03
Brooklyn
1961-09-22
Hollywood
actor film producer screenwriter model film actor
34
Q242416
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Swiss artist (1889–1943)
1889-01-19
Davos
1943-01-13
Zurich
painter sculptor architect dancer teacher illustrator textile artist artist
31
Q254395
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
1867-02-07
Pepin County
1957-02-10
Mansfield
writer novelist teacher reporter journalist children's writer autobiographer
55
Q237514
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish writer (1889-1965)
1889-10-06
Russów
1965-05-19
Warsaw
novelist diarist translator journalist writer dramaturge
45
Q242423
Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
1880-04-10
Boston
1965-05-14
New York City
politician sociologist factory inspector writer social worker official suffragist 33
Q254478
Edith Cavell
British nurse (1865-1915)
1865-12-04
Swardeston
1915-10-12
Schaerbeek
nurse matron governess
50
Q237564
Lynn Fontanne
British actress (1887–1983)
1887-12-06
London Woodford
1983-07-30
Genesee Depot
stage actor film actor television actor actor
32
Q242484
Margaret Murray
Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
1863-07-13
Kolkata
1963-11-13
Welwyn
anthropologist archaeologist egyptologist
35
Q242542
Marianne Moore
American poet (1887–1972)
1887-11-15
Kirkwood St. Louis
1972-02-05
New York City
poet writer essayist translator literary critic 44
Q278495
Emily Davison
British activist who fought for women's suffrage
1872-10-11
Blackheath
1913-06-08
Epsom
suffragist women's rights activist suffragette teacher
39
Q254858
Táhirih
influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran (1814–1852)
1817
Qazvin
1852-08-27
Tehran
poet theologian women's rights activist writer teacher
31
Q255221
Edna Ferber
American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)
1885-08-15
Kalamazoo
1968-04-16
New York City
playwright novelist writer screenwriter journalist poet
42
Q283496
Dodie Smith
English children's novelist and playwright (1896–1990)
1896-05-03
Whitefield
1990-11-24
Finchingfield
writer autobiographer novelist playwright screenwriter children's writer television writer film screenwriter 37
Q449085
Ida Kamińska
Polish actress (1899-1980)
1899-09-18
Odesa
1980-05-21
New York City
actor stage actor film actor theatrical director film director
32
Q284087
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist, educator and nurse (1879-1966)
1879-09-14
Corning
1966-09-06
Tucson
nurse sex columnist activist trade unionist women's rights activist film director writer educator
58
Q285514
Lotte Reiniger
German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
1899-06-02
Charlottenburg
1981-06-19
Dettenhausen
film director animator silhouette artist screenwriter director
36
Q444011
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
English politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929)
1847-06-11
Aldeburgh
1929-08-05
Gower Street
politician women's rights activist writer economist
34
Q442818
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
1862-07-16
Holly Springs
1931-03-25
Chicago
journalist sociologist suffragist writer human rights activist
46
Q289428
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
1802-02-11
Medford
1880-10-20
Wayland
novelist poet journalist writer geologist philosopher
32
Q443132
Emily Carr
Canadian painter and writer (1871–1945)
1871-12-13
Victoria
1945-03-02
Victoria
painter autobiographer writer ceramicist artist
35
Q289624
Minna Canth
Finnish writer, editor
1844-03-19
Tampere
1897-05-12
Kuopio
writer journalist playwright businessperson editor short story writer
44
Q298027
Fanny Elssler
Austrian ballerina (1810-1884)
1810-06-23
Gumpendorf 1884-11-27
Vienna
dancer choreographer ballet dancer
45
Q435304
Lesya Ukrainka
Ukrainian poet and writer (1871–1913)
1871-02-13
Zviahel
1913-08-01
Surami
poet translator writer playwright
89
Q298033
Tomoe Gozen
Female Samurai
1157
Japan
1247
samurai military personnel onna-musha
34
Q450780
Manuela Sáenz
Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine (1797-1856)
1797-12-27
Quito
1856-11-23
Paita
military officer political activist politician
30
Q372074
Vera Brittain
English writer (1893-1970)
1893-12-29
Newcastle-under-Lyme
1970-03-29
Wimbledon
nurse writer poet novelist women's rights activist pacifist journalist peace activist suffragist 33
Q450802
Sylvia Pankhurst
English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)
1882-05-05
Manchester
1960-09-27
Addis Ababa
anti-imperialist journalist women's rights activist editor oil painter suffragist artist writer feminist
39
Q298213
Fernán Caballero
Spanish women novelist
1796-12-24
Morges
1877-04-07
Seville
writer folklorist novelist
34
Q291397
Matilde Serao
Italian journalist and writer, editor (1856–1927)
1856-03-07
Patras
1927-07-25
Naples
writer journalist novelist editor
30
Q384594
Ruth Chatterton
American actress (1892–1961)
1892-12-24
New York City
1961-11-24
Norwalk
stage actor film actor television actor novelist writer aircraft pilot
32
Q287713
Sibilla Aleramo
Italian writer and feminist, editor (1876-1960)
1876-08-14
Alessandria
1960-01-13
Rome
writer poet editor
32
Q287741
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
1860-07-03
Hartford
1935-08-17
Pasadena
poet novelist philosopher sociologist writer artist economist women's rights activist editor suffragist 49
Q287752
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American politician (1890-1964)
1890-08-07
Concord
1964-09-05
Moscow
women's rights activist activist suffragist trade unionist politician party chair journalist writer autobiographer
37
Q463265
Hannah Höch
German artist (1889–1978)
1889-11-01
Gotha
1978-05-31
West Berlin
photographer painter drawer graphic artist collagist artist
37
Q463411
Isabella Bird
British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)
1831-10-15
Boroughbridge
1904-10-08
Edinburgh
explorer writer naturalist geographer photographer traveler botanical collector 36
Q288210
Aletta Jacobs
Dutch physician and feminist, editor (1854–1929)
1854-02-09
Sappemeer
1929-08-10
Baarn
physician women's rights activist peace activist editor suffragist 35
Q463478
Tatyana Afanasyeva
Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist (1876-1964)
1876-11-19
Kyiv
1964-04-14
Leiden
mathematician physicist architect
31
Q463530
Madam C. J. Walker
Amerika entrepreneur (1867-1919)
1867-12-23
Delta
1919-05-25
Irvington
businessperson philanthropist inventor entrepreneur
38
Q447716
Frances Marion
American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973)
1888-11-18
San Francisco
1973-05-12
Los Angeles
screenwriter novelist journalist writer film actor actor film director film screenwriter 51
Q463883
Gabriele Münter
German painter (1877–1962)
1877-02-19
Berlin
1962-05-19
Murnau am Staffelsee
painter drawer printmaker artist
37
Q463978
Elsa Schiaparelli
Italian fashion designer and couturier (1890-1973)
1890-09-10
Rome
1973-11-13
8th arrondissement of Paris Paris
fashion designer businessperson jewelry designer
36
Q464023
Nettie Stevens
American geneticist (1861–1912)
1861-07-07
Cavendish
1912-05-04
Baltimore
biologist geneticist zoologist librarian
38
Q433487
Akiko Yosano
Japanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
1878-12-07
Sakai
1942-05-29
Ogikubo
poet translator waka poet essayist writer
49
Q464104
Susanne Langer
American philosopher (1895–1985)
1895-12-20
Manhattan
1985-07-17
Old Lyme
philosopher university teacher writer
32
Q466026
Matilda of Tuscany
Canossian dynasty countess of Tuscany (c.1046–1115)
1040s
Mantua
1115-07-24
Bondeno di Roncore feudatory politician aristocrat
43
Q464162
Rosalía de Castro
Galician poet and writer (1837-1885)
1837-02-23
Conxo, Santiago de Compostela 1885-07-22
A Matanza writer poet novelist short story writer
58
Q464264
Eva Gonzalès
French painter (1849-1883)
1849-04-19
Marruecos Paris
1883-05-05
Paris
painter art model pastellist artist
32
Q464300
Annie Besant
British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)
1847-10-01
Clapham
1933-09-20
Adyar
essayist writer orator journalist editor politician feminist theosophist suffragist women's rights activist civil rights advocate freedom fighter
74
Q464318
Li Qingzhao
Chinese Song Dynasty poet, known as "the most talented woman in all ages"
1084-03-19
Zhangqiu District
1155-05-19
Hangzhou
writer poet essayist ci lyric writer 41
Q464470
Alice Hamilton
American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
1869-02-27
Manhattan
1970-09-22
Hadlyme North Historic District
toxicologist pathologist university teacher physician bacteriologist writer
33
Q275600
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
1880-10-15
Edinburgh
1958-10-02
Dorking
botanist paleontologist curator writer suffragette biologist sexologist botanical collector 44
Q442231
Margaret Chase Smith
member of the United States Senate from Maine (1897-1995)
1897-12-14
Skowhegan
1995-05-29
Skowhegan
politician teacher business executive
32
Q456750
Elizabeth Ann Seton
first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)
1774-08-28
New York City
1821-01-04
Emmitsburg
teacher abbess memoirist nun nurse
33
Q459032
Ethel Lilian Voynich
British writer and musician (1864–1960)
1864-05-11
Ballintemple
1960-07-27
New York City
writer novelist activist composer prose writer translator suffragist 43
Q466068
Jeanne Baret
French explorer, naturalist and botanist (1740-1807)
1740-07-27
La Comelle
1807-08-05
Brest
botanist explorer naturalist housekeeper
39
Q437168
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spanish author, editor (1851–1922)
1851-09-16
A Coruña
1921-05-12
Madrid
essayist literary critic novelist journalist salonnière writer poet editor gastronomist short story writer
41
Q275929
Eleonora Duse
Italian stage actress (1858-1924)
1858-10-03
Vigevano
1924-04-21
Pittsburgh
actor screenwriter stage actor film actor
50
Q275970
Louise Dresser
American actress (1878–1965)
1878-10-05
Evansville
1965-04-24
Woodland Hills
stage actor film actor television actor actor
33
Q275952
Meera
16th-century Hindu mystic poet, saint and devotee of the god Krishna
1498
Merta City Kudki
1546
Dwarka
poet writer mystic 56
Q466330
Florence Foster Jenkins
American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill and singing ability (1868–1944)
1868-07-19
Wilkes-Barre
1944-11-26
New York City
musician opera singer pianist socialite songwriter
38
Q275982
La Belle Otero
Spanish dancer, actress and courtesan in France
1868-11-04
Valga
1965-04-10
Nice
actor vedette singer prostitute stage actor courtesan dancer screenwriter
31
Q275991
Beulah Bondi
American actress (1888/1889–1981)
1888-05-03
Valparaiso
1981-01-11
Hollywood
character actor stage actor film actor television actor
36
Q466440
Na Hye-sok
writer and painter from Korea (1896-1948)
1896-04-18
Suwon
1948-12-10
Seoul
poet journalist philosopher painter writer politician printmaker sculptor activist
36
Q466477
Frances Hodgson Burnett
English-American playwright and author
1849-11-24
Manchester
1924-10-29
Plandome Manor
dramaturge writer children's writer novelist short story writer playwright
71
Q276028
Gabriela Zapolska
Polish novelist, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress (1857–1921)
1857-03-30
Pidhaitsi 1921-12-21
Lviv
translator playwright journalist stage actor writer opinion journalist
32
Q454870
Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, designer (1862–1937)
1862-01-24
New York City
1937-08-11
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
writer novelist poet translator prose writer art historian
82
Q276032
Lucy Stone
American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)
1818-08-13
West Brookfield
1893-10-19
Boston
journalist women's rights activist editor abolitionist suffragist writer
39
Q452281
Shin Saimdang
calligraphist and noted poet (1504-1551)
1504-10-29
Gangneung
1551-05-17
Paju
painter poet writer
31
Q464485
Hwang Jini
Korean gisaeng, poet, dancer and philosopher (1506-1544)
1506
Kaesong
1544
Kaesong
poet dancer philosopher painter writer
32
Q464510
Gertrude Jekyll
garden designer, artist, editor (1843-1932)
1843-11-29
London
1932-12-08
Surrey
horticulturist painter gardener non-fiction writer botanist architect landscape architect garden designer photographer editor
31
Q452354
Mirra Alfassa
spiritual guru and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo (1878–1973)
1878-02-21
9th arrondissement of Paris
1973-11-17
Pondicherry
mystic writer occultist yogi teacher translator painter
33
Q464879
Fatima Jinnah
Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)
1893-07-31
Karachi
1967-07-09
Karachi
dentist politician biographer writer
41
Q464947
Dorothea Dix
American author and social reformer (1802–1887)
1802-04-04
Hampden
1887-07-17
Trenton
social reformer public figure writer
32
Q452469
Qiu Jin
Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907)
1875-11-08
Xiamen
1907-07-15
Shaoxing
writer poet journalist women's rights activist revolutionary feminist
41
Q465324
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist (1815–1902)
1815-11-12
Johnstown
1902-10-26
New York City
writer actor women's rights activist abolitionist 72
Q465335
Faina Ranevskaya
Soviet actress (1896-1984)
1896-08-15
Taganrog
1984-07-19
Moscow
stage actor film actor actor
53
Q470466
Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
French author
1711-04-26
Rouen
1776-12-06
Avallon
journalist writer children's writer collector of fairy tales editor novelist
34
Q466788
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)
1646-06-05
Venice
1684-07-26
Padua
mathematician philosopher theologian university teacher medic
48
Q466851
Tina Modotti
Italian photographer and actress (1896–1942)
1896-08-17
Udine
1942-01-05
Mexico City
photographer activist model actor film actor stage actor artist
34
Q466946
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
French poet and novelist
1786-06-20
Douai
1859-07-23
Paris
poet opera singer writer actor stage actor
41
Q466987
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
1880-12-09
Rangpur District
1932-12-09
Kolkata
writer science fiction writer social reformer
37
Q467083
Lola Anglada
Spanish writer, comics artist and illustrator (1892–1984)
1892-10-28
Barcelona
1984-09-12
Tiana
writer comics artist painter illustrator drawer collector 30
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Princess Eugénie of Sweden
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1830-04-24
Stockholm City
1889-04-23
Stockholm City
composer painter sculptor philanthropist writer aristocrat watercolorist 32
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Annie Scott Dill Maunder
British astronomer (1868-1947)
1868-04-14
Strabane
1947-09-15
Wandsworth London
astronomer mathematician human computer scientist
31
Q539093
Yaa Asantewaa
Ashanti Queen Mother and military leader
1832
Besease
1921-10-17
Seychelles
ruler military leader resistance fighter 32
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Kate Sheppard
prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1847-1934)
1847-03-10
Liverpool
1934-07-13
Christchurch
women's rights activist political activist suffragette economist publisher journalist suffragist 43
Q455072
Nur Jahan
Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire (1577-1645)
1577-05-31
Kandahar
1645-12-19
Lahore
poet queen consort Power behind the throne
44
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Catherine of Bologna
Italian cloistered nun (1413-1463)
1413-09-08
Bologna
1463-03-09
Bologna
painter nun teacher mystic illuminator artist writer musician
33
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Laura Bassi
Italian physicist (1711-1778)
1711-10-29
Bologna
1778-02-20
Bologna
physicist university teacher mathematician anatomist professor of philosophy philosopher biologist
54
Q541652
Isadora Duncan
American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
1877-05-26
San Francisco
1927-09-14
Nice
dancer choreographer autobiographer screenwriter ballet dancer writer
104
Q483512
Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)
1894-05-11
Allegheny
1991-04-01
New York
ballet dancer choreographer music educator ballet master costume designer dancer film director
55
Q487604
Beatrice d’Este
duchess of Milan and Bari
1475-06-29
Ferrara
1497-01-03
Milan
duke statesperson fashion designer politician patron of the arts ambassador hunter equestrian luogotenente
31
Q813280
Mary Seacole
British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse
1805
Kingston
1881-05-14
London
nurse autobiographer writer traditional healer 34
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Rosika Schwimmer
Hungarian activist, editor (1877-1948)
1877-09-11
Budapest
1948-08-03
New York City
journalist non-fiction writer politician peace activist editor lecturer suffragist 36
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Fatma Aliye Topuz
Turkish feminist writer (1862-1936)
1862-10-09
Istanbul
1936-07-13
Istanbul
novelist essayist columnist writer journalist
35
Q1136761
Isidora Sekulić
Serbian writer (1877–1958)
1877-02-16
Mošorin
1958-04-05
Belgrade
writer literary critic art critic
35
Q1279865
Desanka Maksimović
Serbian writer (1898-1993)
1898-05-16
Divci
1993-02-11
Belgrade
professor poet writer children's writer teacher translator
33
Q1280792
Eva Ekeblad
Swedish scientist (1724-1786)
1724-07-10
Stockholm
1786-05-15
Lidköping
salonnière land owner botanist chemist agronomist
42
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Marko Vovchok
Ukrainian writer (1833–1907)
1833-12-10
Yekaterininskoye 1907-07-28
Nalchik
translator writer children's writer editor short story writer
36
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Huda Sha'rawi
Egyptian feminist and nationalist (1879–1947)
1879-06-23
Minya
1947-12-12
Cairo
politician social activist poet journalist
40
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Dinah Craik
British novelist and poet (1826–1887)
1826-04-20
Stoke-on-Trent
1887-10-12
Shortlands
writer novelist poet essayist children's writer
31
Q2331155
Sister Nivedita
Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
1867-10-28
County Tyrone
1911-10-13
Darjeeling
writer social worker teacher priest
39
Q2353846
Mary Astell
English feminist writer (1666-1731)
1666-11-12
Newcastle upon Tyne
1731-05-11
London
writer philosopher women's rights activist
30
Q2359434
Zitkala-Sa
Yankton Dakota writer (1876-1938)
1876-02-22
Yankton Indian Reservation
1938-01-28
Washington, D.C.
writer poet violinist human rights activist
31
Q2668090
Agnes Mary Clerke
British astronomer (1842–1907)
1842-02-10
Skibbereen
1907-01-20
London
astronomer science writer writer
31
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Anne Lister
English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)
1791-04-03
Halifax
1840-09-22
Kutaisi
mountaineer land owner traveler diarist writer
30
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Caterina Albert
Spanish writer (1869-1966)
1869-09-11
L'Escala
1966-01-27
L'Escala
writer sculptor illustrator painter
44
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May Ziadeh
Lebanese-Palestinian writer (1886-1941)
1886-02-11
Palestine Nazareth
1941-10-17
Cairo
salonnière poet writer novelist translator
37
Q2919042
Catherine Breshkovsky
Russian politician
1844-01-13
Ivanovo 1934-09-12
Horní Počernice politician aristocrat revolutionary
30
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
American abolitionist, writer
1826-03-24
Cicero
1898-03-18
Chicago
writer women's rights activist editor journalist suffragist activism suffragette
32
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Clara Campoamor
Spanish politician, feminist (1888-1972)
1888-02-12
Madrid
1972-04-30
Lausanne
politician lawyer writer jurist suffragist 31
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Zabel Yesayan
Armenian writer (1878–1943)
1878-02-04
Üsküdar
1943
South Caucasus
writer translator opinion journalist novelist literary poet university teacher 31
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Diana Abgar
Armenia ambassador (1859–1937)
1859-10-12
Yangon
1937-07-08
Yokohama
politician writer diplomat opinion journalist prose writer 33
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Nataliya Kobrynska
Ukrainian writer, editor (1855-1920)
1855-06-08
Beleluia
1920-01-22
Bolekhiv
writer women's rights activist editor feminist
33
Q4225202
Janaki Ammal
Indian botanist (1897-1984)
1897-11-04
Thalassery
1984-02-07
Chennai
botanist biologist university teacher cell biologist lecturer
34
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Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych
Ukrainian pianist, composer, and musicologist (1898-1977)
1898-04-25
Lviv
1977-04-08
Cambridge
composer pianist musicologist music educator 102
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Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
1819-07-17
Goshen
1888-09-30
Lenox
physicist climatologist inventor women's rights activist
33
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Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis
French writer, editor and botanical historian (1746-1830)
1746-01-25
Issy-l'Évêque
1830-12-31
Paris
harpist lady-in-waiting salonnière novelist children's writer editor composer educator aristocrat historian philosopher
31
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