This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organizations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize – their goals. Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. For example, "suffragette" in the British usage denotes a more "militant" type of campaigner, and suffragettes in the United States organized such nonviolent events as the Suffrage Hikes, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913, and the Silent Sentinels.
Jane Addams (1860–1935) - social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and FreedomNina E. Allender (1873–1957) - speaker, organizer and cartoonistNaomi Anderson (b. 1863) - black suffragist, temperance advocateSusan B. Anthony (1820–1906) - co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association, one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in honor of her work for its passage.Annie Arniel (1873–1924) - member of the Silent Sentinels, arrested eight times in direct actionsIda B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) - African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movementBertha Hirsch Baruch - writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage AssociationHelen Valeska Bary (1888-1973) - suffragist, researcher, and social reformerAlva Belmont (1853–1933) - founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman SuffrageAlice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) - journalist, activistAntoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) - co-founder, with Lucy Stone, of the American Woman Suffrage AssociationHenry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) - founded Woman's Journal with Lucy StoneHarriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) - writer (contributor to History of Woman Suffrage), founded Women's Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady StantonAmelia Bloomer (1818–1894) - women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomersLucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) - professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne BranhamMadeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) - suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformersSophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) - activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher educationGertrude Foster Brown (1867-1956) - pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it (1918).Olympia Brown (1835–1926) - activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained ministerEmma Bugbee (1888–1981) - journalistLucy Burns (1879–1966) - women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's PartyZina Young Williams Card (1850-1931) - American advocate for women and children; midwifeFrances Jennings Casement (1840–1928) - voting advocate, married General John S. Casement, who lobbied for voting rights for womenCarrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) - president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enfranchised women.Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) - one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitutionLaura Clay (1849–1941) - co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women's suffrage movement, active in the Democratic PartyMary Barr Clay (1839-1924) - first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman’s organization (American Woman Suffrage Association, and the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women's rightsJennie Collins (1828-1887) - labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragistIda Craft - known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage HikesMinnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) - first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, member of the National American Women's Suffrage AssociationLucile Atcherson Curtis (1894-1986) - the first woman in what became the US Foreign ServiceLucinda Lee Dalton (1847–1925) - Mormon feminist and writerPaulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813-1876) - a founder of the New England Woman Suffrage Association; active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; co-arranged and presided at the first National Women's Rights ConventionMary L. Doe (1836-?), first president of the Michigan State Equal Suffrage AssociationRheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) - American journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activistFrederick Douglass (1818–1895) - African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesmanAnne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955) - suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with Abby Crawford Milton and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionAbigail Scott Duniway (1834–1915) - women's rights advocate, editor, writerMax Eastman (1883–1969) - writer, philosopher, poet, prominent political activistKatherine Philips Edson (1870-1933) - social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State ConstitutionElizabeth Piper Ensley (1848-1919) - Caribbean-American woman who was the treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage AssociationHelga Estby (1860–1942) - Norwegian immigrant, noted for her walk across the United States during 1896 to save her family farmJanet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) - author and champion of progressive causesLillian Feickert (1877–1945) - suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States SenateSara Bard Field (1882–1974) - active with the National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President WilsonMargaret Foley (1875-1957) - active with the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage AssociationJessica Garretson Finch - president of the New York Equal Franchise SocietyClara S. Foltz (1849–1934) - lawyer, sister of US Senator Samuel M. ShortridgeElisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) - Suffrage Hike participantAntoinette Funk (1869-1942) - lawyer and executive secretary of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; supporter of the women's movement in WWIMatilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) - activist, freethinker, authorEdna Fischel Gellhorn (1878–1970) - reformer, co-founder of the National League of Women VotersJosephine Sophia White Griffing (1814-1872) - active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage AssociationSarah Grimke (1792–1873) - abolitionist, writerEliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) - author, women's rights advocateIda Husted Harper (1851–1931) - organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movementFlorence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) - social reformer, organiser and diplomatMary Garrett Hay (1857-1928) - companion to Carrie Chapman Catt and suffrage organizer in New YorkSallie Davis Hayden (1842-1907) - one of the founders of the suffrage movement in ArizonaJosephine K. Henry (1846–1928) - Progressive Era women's rights leader, social reformer and writerKatharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951) - social reformerElsie Hill (1883-1970) - activistHelena Hill (1875-1958) - activist, geologistJulia Ward Howe (1819–1910) - prominent abolitionist, social activist and poetEmily Howland (1827–1929) - philanthropist, educatorJosephine Brawley Hughes (1839-1926) - established the Arizona Suffrage Association in 1891Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970) - co-founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, active in National Woman's Party, wrote the party's historyAda James (1876–1952) - social worker and reformerHester C. Jeffrey (1842-1934) - African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubsIzetta Jewel (1883–1978) - stage actress, women's rights activist, politician and first woman to second the nomination of a presidential candidate at a major American political party conventionRosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) - socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones"Belle Kearney (1863–1939) - speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State SenateEdna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) - National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum)Mary Morton Kehew (1859-1918) - labor/social reformer and suffragist from BostonHelen Keller (1880–1968) - author and political activistAbby Kelley (1811–1887) - abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery SocietyCaroline Burnham Kilgore (1838-1909) - the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaDaisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965) - civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitionerClara Chan Lee (1886–1993) - first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, November 8, 1911Dora Lewis (1862-1928) - in 1913 became an executive member of the National Women's Party; in 1918 became their chairwoman of finance; in 1919 became their national treasurer; in 1920 headed their ratification committeeLena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) - organizer in South Dakota and Oregon; enlisted the support of labor unionsMary Livermore (1820–1905) - journalist and advocate of women's rightsFlorence Luscomb (1887–1985) - architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragistsKatherine Duer Mackay (1878-1930) - founder of the Equal Franchise SocietyTheresa Malkiel (1874-1949), labor organizer and suffragistArabella Mansfield (1846-1911) - first female lawyer in the United States, chaired the Iowa Women’s Suffrage Convention in 1870, and worked with Susan B. AnthonyWenona Marlin - New York suffragist from OhioAnne Henrietta Martin (1875–1951) - Vice-chairman of National Woman's Party, arrested as a Silent Sentinel, president Nevada Equal Franchise Society, first US woman to run for SenateEllis Meredith (1865–1955) - journalistJane Hungerford Milbank (1871–1931) - author and poetInez Milholland (1886–1916) - key participant in the National Woman's Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) - prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movementAbby Crawford Milton (1881-1991) - traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US ConstitutionVirginia Minor (1824–1894) - co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to voteEsther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) - first female Justice of the Peace in the United StatesMary Foulke Morrisson (1879-1971) - organizer of 1916 suffrage parade in Chicago at the Republican national Convention; founder of chapters of the League of Women VotersLucretia Mott (1793–1880) - Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformerFrances Lillian Willard "Fannie" Munds (1866-1948) - leader of the suffrage movement in Arizona and member of the Arizona SenateSarah Massey Overton (1850-1914) - women's rights activist and black rights activistMaud Wood Park (1871–1955) - founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG); worked for passage of the 19th AmendmentAlice Paul (1885–1977) - one of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of the National Woman's Party; initiator of the Silent Sentinels and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913; author of the proposed Equal Rights AmendmentJuno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864-1954) - African-American suffragistHelen Pitts (1838–1903) - active in women's rights movement and co-edited The AlphaAnita Pollitzer (1894–1975) - photographer, served as National Chairman in the National Woman's PartyMarjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) - philanthropist, heiress to the Post Cereal company fortuneFlorence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) - first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio and the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) - African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from BostonJosephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) - African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editorRuth Logan Roberts (1891-1968) - suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in HarlemMargaret Sanger (1879–1966) - birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaJulia Sears (1840–1929) - pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State UniversityMay Wright Sewall (1844-1920) - chairperson of the National Woman's Suffrage Association's executive committee from 1882 to 1890Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) - president of National Women's Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915Mary Shaw (1854–1929) - early feminist, playwright and actressPauline Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) - co-founder and first president of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good GovernmentMay Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) - educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in Philosophy in the United StatesThe Smiths of Glastonbury - a family of 6 women in Connectictut who were active in championing suffrage, property rights, and education for womenLouise Southgate, M.D. (1857-1941) - physician and suffragist in Covington, Kentucky, a leader in both the Ohio and the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and an early proponent for women's reproductive healthElizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) - initiator of the Seneca Falls Convention, author of the Declaration of Sentiments, co-founder of National Women's Suffrage Association, major pioneer of women's rights in AmericaHelen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920) - Illinois Woman's Press Association; author, educator, editor, business owner, early suffragist, and one of the two delegates from the 1869 National Convention to attend the Victory Convention in 1920Doris Stevens (1892–1963) organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for FreedomLucy Stone (1818–1893) - prominent orator, abolitionist, and a vocal advocate and organizer for the rights for women. She was the main force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal.Helen Taft (1891–1987) - daughter of President William Howard Taft; traveled the nation giving pro-suffrage speechesLydia Taft (1712–1778) - first woman known to legally vote in colonial AmericaM. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) - educator, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr CollegeGrace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1872-1959) - American authorDorothy Thompson (1893–1961) - Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcasterSojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) - abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, gave women's rights speech "Ain't I a Woman?"Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) - African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil WarMina Van Winkle (1875–1932) - crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the law enforcement and judicial processMabel Vernon (1883–1975) - principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent SentinelsSarah E. Wall (1825–1907) - organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representationEmmeline B. Wells (1828–1921) - American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diaristRosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) - feminist, born in Austria, first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree, first female eye doctor in EuropeRuza Wenclawska (1889-1977) - factory inspector and trade union organizerMarion Craig Wentworth (1872-1942), playwrightFrances Willard (1839–1898) - leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writerVictoria Woodhull (1838–1927) - women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,) activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love
