List of suffragists and suffragettes

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

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Africa

Egypt

Regina Khayatt (1881–?) – educator, philanthropist, feminist, suffragist, and temperance worker; co-founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU)
Saiza Nabarawi (1897–1985) – journalist and attendee of the 9th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) – feminist, poet and editor who went on an eight-day hunger strike at Egypt's press syndicate in protest of the creation of a constitutional committee without any women
Huda Sha'arawi (1879–1947) – feminist, activist, nationalist, revolutionary, co-founder of the EFU

Nigeria

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) – educator and activist who fought for women's enfranchisement and political representation^[8]
Gambo Sawaba (1933–2001) - widely regarded as the pioneer of fighting for the liberation of northern women^[9]
Tanimowo Ogunlesi - co-founder of the National Council of Women's Societies^[10]
Wuraola Esan (1909–1985) - educator and advocate for women in traditional and legislative spaces

South Africa

Annie Botha (1864–1937) – political hostess, wife of the first Prime Minister of South Africa and suffragist, co-founder of the South African Women's Federation^[11]
Zainunnisa Gool (1897–1963) – lawyer and civil rights activist, and after white women only were granted the vote in 1930, founder of the League for the Enfranchisement of Non-European Women in 1938^[12]
Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) – campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s and the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor^[13]
Mary Emma Macintosh (died 1916) – suffragist and the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union^[14]
Mabel Malherbe (1879–1964) – suffragist and politician, first woman mayor of Pretoria and first woman to be a member of the South African Parliament
Charlotte Maxeke (1871–1939) – religious leader, suffragist and the first black South African woman to graduate from a university, founded the Bantu Women’s League
Jessie Rose-Innes (1860–1943) – nurse, social campaigner and suffragist of British descent, elected chair of the Cape Town branch of the National Council for Women^[15]
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) – writer, suffragist and co-founder of the Cape Women's Enfranchisement League,^[16] left the Women's Enfranchisement League (WEL) when they refused to support the vote for black African women
Jessie M. Soga (1870–1954) – singer, music teacher and suffragist
Julia Solly (1862–1953) – British-born South African feminist, temperance activist and suffragist who co-founded Cape Women's Enfranchisement League and helped acquire the vote for white women only in 1930
Daisy Solomon (1882–1978) – suffragist who campaigned in South Africa and Britain,^[17] daughter of Georgiana Solomon
Emilie Solomon (1859–1939) – suffragist and president of the Cape Woman's Christian Temperance Union, niece of Georgiana Solomon
Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933) – Scottish-born educator and suffragist, co-founder of the South African Women's Federation^[11]
Lady Barbara Steel (1857–1943) – suffragist and member of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union,^[18] helped acquire the vote for white women only in 1930

Asia

China

Lin Zongsu (Chinese: 林宗素; 1878–1944) – journalist and founder of the first organization in China seeking women's enfranchisement, the Women's Suffrage Comrades Alliance (Chinese: 女子参政同志会)
Tang Qunying (Chinese: 唐群英; 1871–1937) – co-founder and chairwoman of the Women's Suffrage Alliance (Chinese: 女子参政同盟会) and founder of Women’s Rights Daily, Hunan's first newspaper for women
Wang Changguo (Chinese: 王昌國; 1880–1949) – co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Alliance (Chinese: 女子参政同盟会) and promoter of Hunan Changsha Women's National Association
Zhang Hanying (Chinese: 張漢英; 1872–1915) – co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Alliance (Chinese: 女子参政同盟会)
Zhang Mojun (Chinese: 張默君; 1884–1965) – military commander, suffragist,^[19] and the first female member of the Kuomintang Central Committee

India

Kumudini Basu (1873–1942) – social reformer, freedom fighter and suffragist, one of the leaders of the Nigil Bangiya Nari Votadhikar Samiti (All Bengali Women's Franchise Association) which fought for women's suffrage
Annie Besant (1847–1933) – British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, educationist, philanthropist
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) – secretary of the All-India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the first woman to run for a legislative seat in India
Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian suffragist, founder of the All India Women's Conference and co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League
Amrit Kaur (1887–1964) – political activist and politician who testified before the Lothian Committee on universal Indian franchise and constitutional reforms^[20]
Sheroo Keeka (1921–2006) – campaigned for 'Votes for Married Women' and chair of the Dodoma branch of the Tanganyika Council of Women
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) – political activist and poet who became the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress^[21]
Bhagwati Bhola Nauth (born c. 1882) – suffragist, marcher at the Women's Coronation Procession and honorary secretary of the Indian Women’s Educational Fund^[22]
Lakshmibai Rajwade (1887–1984) – medical doctor, family planning advocate and committee member and secretary of the All India Women's Conference
Hannah Sen (1894–1957) – politician and co-founder of the Indo-British Mutual Welfare League, a women's organization that established a network of British and Indian suffragists also involved in educational projects
Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (1871–1942) – activist
Herabai Tata (1879–1941) – argued before British government commissions that suffrage should be extended in India

Indonesia

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

Iran

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

Iraq

Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923-2007), co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League
Paulina Hassoun (1895–1969) was an Iraqi journalist and teacher, who was the first woman to found and publish a magazine in Iraq.

Japan

Raicho Hiratsuka (1886–1971) co-founder of the New Women's Association
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) – politician who founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization: the Women's Suffrage League of Japan, president of the New Japan Women's League
Shidzue Katō (1897–2001) – politician
Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) – co-founder of the New Women's Association who later served three terms in Japan's Imperial Diet
Shigeri Yamataka (1899–1977) – founder of the League for the Defense of Women's Rights and the Women's Suffrage League

Jordan

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

Kuwait

Lulwah Al-Qatami (born 1933) – suffragist and educator, nominated for the Nobel prize

Lebanon

Emily Fares Ibrahim (1914–2011) was an American-born Lebanese writer, poet, and feminist. She was the first woman to run for the elections in Lebanon after suffrage in 1952.

Philippines

Josefa Llanes Escoda (1898–1945) – civic leader, suffragist and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines who was memorialized on the Philippines' 1,000-Peso banknote
Concepción Felix (1884–1967) – feminist and human rights activist
Pura Villanueva Kalaw (1886–1954) – beauty queen, feminist, journalist, and writer
Pilar Hidalgo-Lim (1893–1973) – educator and civic leader
Natividad Almeda Lopez ( 1892–1977) – suffragist and the first female lawyer in the Philippines
Josefa Jara Martinez (1894–1987) – social worker, suffragist and civic leader^[23]
Geronima Pecson (1896–1989) – suffragist, educator and social worker who became the first woman senator of the Philippines in 1947
Rosa Sevilla (1879–1954) – activist, educator, and journalist

Sri Lanka

Drummond Shiels (1881–1953) – Scottish-born politician who supported the founding of the Women’s Franchise Union of Ceylon
Mary Rutnam – Canadian-born doctor, gynaecologist, and suffragist who emigrated and became a member of the Women’s Franchise Union of Sri Lanka and a co-founder of the All-Ceylon Women's Conference^[24]
Agnes de Silva (1885–1961) – secretary of the Women's Franchise Union of Ceylon then founder of the Women's Franchise Union of Sri Lanka^[24]

Syria

Thuraya Al-Hafez (1911–2000) – suffragist and politician who campaigned against the niqab and founded women's organisations

Turkey

Latife Bekir (1901–1952) – suffragist and president of the Turkish Women's Union
Nezihe Muhiddin (1889–1958) – suffragist and founder of the Turkish Women's People Party, which demanded suffrage for women, and the Turkish Women's Union

Yishuv

Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) – suffragist and feminist

Australia and Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Europe

Albania

Shaqe Çoba (1875–1954) – suffragist and publisher of a magazine that covered women's issues
Parashqevi Qiriazi (1880–1970) – suffragist, teacher and founder of Yll' i Mengjesit, a women's association
Sevasti Qiriazi (1871–1949) – Albanian patriot, suffragist, pioneer of female education and founder of Korça Girls School
Urani Rumbo (1895–1936) – suffragist, teacher, playwright and founder of Lidhja e Gruas (Woman's Union)^[25]

Austria

Marianne Hainisch (1839–1936) – founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement, mother of first President of Austria^[25]
Ernestine von Fürth, (1877–1946) – co-founder of the New Viennese Women's Club, chairwoman of the Austrian Women's Suffrage Committee^[26]
Friederike Mekler von Traunweis Zeileis (née Mautner von Markhof, 1872–1954) – founding member of the IWSA
Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) – first Austrian woman to earn a medical degree; representative to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance

Belgium

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

Bulgaria

Vela Blagoeva (1859–1921) – journalist, teacher and women's rights activist
Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva (1878–1955) – teacher, writer, and one of the most active women's rights activists of her era
Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – reform pedagogue, women's rights activist
Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – educator, translator, publicist, suffragist
Anna Karima (1871–1949) – suffragist and women's rights activist
Kina Konova (1872–1952) – publicist and suffragist
Julia Malinova (1869–1953) – women's rights activist

Croatia

Adela Milčinović (1878–1968) – Croatian feminist author, critic and suffragette

Cyprus

Polyxeni Loizia (1855–1942)^[27]
Persophone Papadopulou (1887–1948)^[27]

Czechia

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

Denmark

Finland

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

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940) – journalist and founder of the Greek women's movement
Avra Theodoropoulou (1880–1963) – music critic, pianist, suffragist, women's rights activist, nurse
Lina Tsaldari (1887–1981) – suffragist and politician, president of the Greek Federation of Women's Unions and later the first female minister in Greece^[28]

Hungary

Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927) – educator, pacifist, suffragist, feminist
Eugénia Miskolczy Meller (1872– c. 1944/5) suffragist a co-founder of the Feminist Association
Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948) – pacifist, feminist and suffragist
Adele Zay (1848–1928) – Transylvanian teacher, feminist and suffragist

Iceland

Margret Benedictsson (1866–1956) Icelandic-Canadian suffragist and journalist
Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856–1940) – founded Kvennablaðið, the first women's magazine in Iceland and, in 1907, the first suffrage organization in Iceland^[29]^[30]
Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason (1867–1941) – politician, suffragist, schoolteacher, gymnast and leader of Iceland’s Women’s Rights Association
Katrín Magnússon (1858–1932) – suffragist and promoter of women's education^[31]

Ireland

Italy

Elisa Agnini Lollini (1858–1922) – pioneering feminist, pacifist, suffragist and politician
Margherita Ancona (1881–1966) – IWSA board member and delegate to the Inter-Allied Women's Conference
Alma Dolens (1869–1948) – pacifist, suffragist and journalist, founder of several women's organizations
Anna Kuliscioff (1857–1925) – Russian-born feminist, suffragist and politician active in Italy
Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – influential women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer
Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist
Eugenia Rasponi (1873–1958) – suffragist, business woman, and early lesbian activist
Ada Sacchi Simonetta (1874–1944) – women's rights activist, founder and leader of women's organizations
Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti (1853–1931) – feminist, educator and philanthropist, founder of the National Council of Italian Women in 1903
Alice Schiavoni Bosio (1871–1931) – delegate to both the 1915 Women at the Hague Conference and 1919 Inter-Allied Women's Conference

Liechtenstein

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

Luxembourg

Catherine Schleimer-Kill (1884–1973) – suffragist and founder of Action féminine^[32]
Marguerite Thomas-Clement (1886–1979) – politician who spoke in favour of women's suffrage in public debates and who became the first woman to serve in Luxembourg's parliament

Malta

Helen Buhagiar (1888–1975) – suffragist and co-founder of the Women of Malta Association
Mabel Strickland (1899–1988) – Anglo-Maltese journalist, suffragist and member of the Women of Malta Association
Josephine Burns de Bono (1908–1996) – suffragist and co-founder of the Women of Malta Association

Netherlands

Norway

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

Poland

Elżbieta Ciechanowska (1875–1948) - women's rights and labour activist, musician and poet
Maria Dulębianka (1861–1919) – artist, activist and suffragist
Władysława Habicht (1867–1963) – suffragette, social activist, and part of the housing cooperative movement.

Portugal

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo (1878–1911) – physician, suffragist and a co-founder of the League of Republican Women which campaigned for women's emancipation and suffrage, became the first woman to vote in Portugal
Adelaide Cabete (1867–1935) – suffragist and a co-founder of the League of Republican Women^[27]
Maria Clara Correia Alves (1869–1948) –co-founder of the National Council of Portuguese Women and member of the League of Republican Women
Maria Lamas (1893–1983) – writer, feminist, political prisoner
Alice Moderno (1867–1946) – writer, feminist, active campaigner for women's rights and animals rights
Ana de Castro Osório (1872–1935) – suffragist and a co-founder of the League of Republican Women^[33]
Olga Morais Sarmento (1881–1948) – writer and feminist
Sime Seruya (1876–1955) – suffragist and socialist, moved to Britain and was a cofounder of the Actresses' Franchise League
Maria Evelina de Sousa (1879–1946) – educator, journalist, feminist, suffragist
Maria Veleda (1871–1955) – educator, writer, suffragist and a co-founder of the League of Republican Women

Romania

Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941) – Austro-Hungarian born Romanian writer, suffragist and the first woman to earn a degree in medicine in Romania
Lotte Binder (1880–1930) – teacher and suffragist in Transylvania
Calypso Botez (1880–1933) – writer and suffragist^[25]
Ana Conta-Kernbach (1865–1921) – teacher, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist
Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu (1866–1938) – teacher, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist
Clara Maniu (1842–1929) – feminist, suffragist
Elena Meissner (1867–1940) – suffragist and professor of law at the University of Bucharest who headed the Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române

Serbia

Draga Dejanović (1840–1871) – dubbed "the first Serbian suffragette"^[25]
Helen Losanitch Frothingham (1885–1972) – nurse, humanitarian, feminist, suffrage campaigner
Savka Subotić (1834–1918) – philanthropist and a leading feminist in the Serbian suffrage movement^[34]

Slovenia

Pavla Hočevar (1889–1972) – teacher, writer, socialist and suffragist
Alojzija Štebi (1883 –1956) – suffragist, founder of the Feminist Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, editor of the journal Ženski pokret (Women’s movement), and writer of paper Demokratizem in ženstvo (Democracy and womanhood) which argued for women's suffrage^[25]

Spain

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

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

North America

Bahamas

Mary Ingraham (1901–1982) – co-founder and president of the Bahamian Women's Suffrage Movement
Eugenia Lockhart (1908 – c. 1986) – secretary of the Bahamian Women’s Suffrage Movement and secretary of the Women’s Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party^[35]
Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (1902–1965) – co-founder of the Bahamian Women's Suffrage Movement^[36]
Mabel Walker (suffragist) (1902–1987) – American-Bahamian suffragist and co-founder of the Bahamian Women's Suffrage Movement

Barbados

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

Bermuda

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

Canada

Cayman Islands

Georgette Ebanks (1927–2023) – suffragist who petitioned demanding women's suffrage in the Cayman Islands
Mary Evelyn Wood (1900–1978) – nurse and suffragist who petitioned demanding women's suffrage in the Cayman Islands; became the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands

Costa Rica

Ana Rosa Chacón (1889–1985) – suffragist and co-founder of Liga Feminista Costarricense (LFC)
Lidia Fernández – suffragist and co-founder of Liga Feminista Costarricense (LFC)
Esther de Mézerville (1885–1971) – Guatemalan-born suffragist who helped women get the vote in Costa Rica

Cuba

Berta Arocena de Martínez Márquez (1899–1956) – journalist, suffragist and feminist^[37]
María Collado Romero (1885– c. 1968) – journalist, vice-president of the National Suffragist Party, then founder and president of the Democratic Suffragist Party of Cuba^[37]
Hortensia Lamar (1888–1967) – suffragist and president of the Club Femenino de Cuba and the Federación Nacional de Asociaciones Femeninas^[38]
Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia (1895–1923) – writer, journalist and suffragist who published "Necesidad del voto para la mujer" (Necessity of the vote for women) in El Sufragista magazine
Pilar Jorge de Tella (1884–1967) – suffragist who presented petitions to the Cuban legislature and constitutional conventions demanding suffrage^[39]

Dominican Republic

Minerva Bernardino (1907–1998) – Dominican suffragist and diplomat who campaigned internationally to improve women's suffrage in Latin American states and who was involved in creating and later chairing the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)^[40]
Isabel Mayer (1885–1961) – suffragist, politician and socialite who was a member of Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD)
Abigail Mejia (1895 –1941) – suffragist, educator and founder of Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD)^[41]

El Salvador

Prudencia Ayala (1885–1936) – writer and suffragist who attempted to run as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic, even though the Salvadoran legislation did not recognize women's right to vote
María Álvarez de Guillén (1889–1980) – novelist and inaugural member of the Inter-American Commission of Women
Rosa Amelia Guzmán (1922–2011) – journalist, suffragist, and co-founder of the Liga Femenina Salvadoreña (LFS) (Salvadoran Feminist League) whose 1950 speech to the Constituent Assembly was instrumental in women gaining the vote; later one of the first 3 women to gain a seat in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

Haiti

Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall (1918–1997) – writer and member of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale (Women's Social Action League)
Alice Garoute (1874–1950) – co-founder of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale
Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau (1905–1970) – sociologist and co-founder of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale
Yvonne Sylvain (1907–1989) – first female doctor from Haiti, advocate for gender equality, and co-founder of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale

Honduras

Graciela Bográn (1896–2000) – educator, writer, trade unionist and women's rights activist
María Trinidad del Cid (1899–1966) – journalist, feminist and suffragist considered a foundational figure in the fight for women's rights in Honduras
Lucila Gamero de Medina (1873–1964) – novelist and suffragist
Paca Navas (1883–1971) – journalist, feminist and suffragist, exiled for her political views
Alba Alonso de Quesada (1924–2020) – lawyer, academic and politician who submitted petitions to the legislature which granted partial suffrage and granted votes to women who could read and write

Mexico

Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón (1898–1986) – politician, founder of Club Internacional de Mujeres, and founder of the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres
Esther Chapa (1904–1970) – medical surgeon, suffragist and member of the Single Front Pro-Women's Rights group (FUPDM)
Emma Catalina Encinas Aguayo (1909–1990) – suffragist, translator and the first Mexican woman to attain a pilot's license
Hermila Galindo (1896–1954) – feminist and secretary to President Venustiano Carranza, she influenced his views on women's rights
Margarita Robles de Mendoza (1896–1954) – suffragist, journalist and founder of the Unión de Mujeres Americanas (UMA) (Union of American Women)
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela (1900–1950) – silent film actress, archivist and suffragist
Paulina Ana María Zapata Portillo (1915–2010) – politician and member of the UMA

Newfoundland

Margaret Davidson (1871–1964) – member of Women's Patriotic Association, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross Society and the Scouting and Girl Guides in New South Wales
Margaret Iris Duley (1894–1968) – considered Newfoundland's first novelist, member of Women's Patriotic Association
Julia Salter Earle (1878–1945) – suffragist, trade unionist, one of the first three women to run for St. John's Municipal Council
Armine Nutting Gosling (1861–1942) – member of Women's Patriotic Association, suffragette, founder and first Secretary of the Ladies Reading Room and Current Events Club, first female member of the Council of Higher Education in Newfoundland
Fannie Knowling McNeil (1869–1928) – suffragist, social activist, member of the Newfoundland Women's Franchise League, and co-founder of the Newfoundland Society of Art, one of the first three women to run for St. John's Municipal Council
Janet Morison Miller (1891–1946) – first woman added to the rolls of the Newfoundland Law Society
Mary Southcott (1862–1943) – nurse, hospital administrator and campaigner
Helena Squires (1879–1959) – social activist, first woman to win a seat in the Newfoundland House of Assembly

Nicaragua

Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, also called Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo (1866–1962) – Nicaraguan feminist, writer and reform pedagogue
Juanita Molina de Fromen (1893–1934) – teacher and suffragist

Panama

Elida Campodónico (1894–1960) – teacher, women's rights advocate, attorney, first woman ambassador in Latin America
Tomasa Ester Casís (1878 – 1962) – teacher and suffragist
Clara González (1898–1990) – feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist
Gumercinda Páez (1904–1991) – teacher, women's rights activist and suffragette, and Constituent Assemblywoman of Panama

Puerto Rico

Isabel Andreu de Aguilar (1887–1948) – educator, helped establish the Puerto Rican Feminist League, was president of Puerto Rican Association of Women Suffragists, and first woman to run for Senate in PR
Rosario Bellber González (1881–1948) - educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico (Spanish: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico)^[42]^[43]^[44]^[45]
Milagros Benet de Mewton (1868–1948) – teacher who filed a lawsuit to press for suffrage
Carlota Matienzo (1881–1926) – teacher, one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Feminine League and the Suffragist Social League
Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994) – mayor of San Juan, first woman to hold post of mayor of a capitol city in the Americas

Trinidad

Beatrice Greig (born 1869) – suffragist, writer and advocate

United States

United States Virgin Islands

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

South America

Argentina

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

Belize

Gwendolyn Lizarraga (1901–1975) – politician who, when only landowners were eligible as voters, supported women to obtain land grants from the Lands Department
Elfreda Reyes (1901–1992) – labor organizer, suffragette and member of the Women’s League

Brazil

Leolinda de Figueiredo Daltro (1859–1935) – teacher and indigenous' rights activist; co-founder of the Feminine Republican Party
Celina Guimarães Viana (1890–1972) – Brazilian professor and suffragist; first woman to vote in Brazil
Ivone Guimarães (1908–1999) – Brazilian professor and activist for women's suffrage
Jerônima Mesquita (1880–1972) – co-founder of the Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino
Carlota Pereira de Queirós (1892–1982) – the first woman to vote and be elected to the Brazilian parliament
Marie Rennotte (1852–1942) – Native Belgian, naturalized Brazilian teacher and lawyer who founded the Aliança Paulista pelo Sufrágio Feminino with Carrie Chapman Catt's help
Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995) – Brazilian writer, poet, and lawyer; challenged the constitutionality of the ban on women voting in Brazil
Nathercia da Cunha Silveira (1905–1993) – suffragist, lawyer and Assistant Attorney General of the National Labor Council
Maria Werneck de Castro (1909–1993) – lawyer, militant communist, feminist, and supporter of women's suffrage

Chile

Celinda Arregui (1864–1941) – feminist politician, writer, teacher, suffrage activist
María de la Cruz (1912–1995) – political activist, journalist, writer, political commentator, first woman elected to the Chilean senate
Carolina Huidobro (1859–1909) – teacher and the Chilian Delegate to the First International National American Woman Suffrage Association conference
Henrietta Müller (1846–1906) – Chilean-British women's rights activist and theosophist
Marta Vergara (1898–1995) – co-founder of MEMch; Inter-American Commission of Women delegate

Colombia

Ofelia Uribe de Acosta (1900–1988) – suffragist who published the book Una voz insurgente (An Insurgent Voice)
Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid (1921–1997) – suffragist, politician and the first woman elected to the Senate of Colombia
Lucila Rubio de Laverde (1908–1970) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)
María Currea Manrique (1890–1985) – co-founder of the suffrage organizations, Unión Femenina de Colombia (Women's Union of Colombia) (UFC) and the Alianza Femenina de Colombia (Women's Alliance of Colombia)

Ecuador

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

Peru

Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958) – writer and suffragist

Uruguay

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

Venezuela

Argelia Laya (1926–1997) – educator and suffragist
Carmen Clemente Travieso (1900–1983) – journalist and women's rights activist

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