List of suffragists and suffragettes facts for kids

• Maybanke Anderson (1845–1927) – promoter of women's and children's rights, campaigner for women's suffrage and federation
• Eliza Ashton (1851/1852–1900) – journalist and founding member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
• Annette Bear-Crawford (1853–1899) – women's suffragist and federationist in Victoria
• Rosetta Jane Birks (1856–1911) – social reformer, philanthropist and South Australian women's suffragist
• Dora Meeson Coates (1869–1955) – artist, member of British Artists' Suffrage League
• Mary Colton (1822–1898) – president of the Women's Suffrage League from 1892 to 1895
• Edith Cowan (1861–1932) – politician, social campaigner, first woman elected to an Australian parliament
• Henrietta Dugdale (1827–1918) – initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia
• Kate Dwyer (1861–1949) – schoolteacher and Labor leader, member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
• Fanny Furner (1864–1938) – activist, first women to stand for election in local government in Manly
• Belle Theresa Golding (1864–1940) – feminist, suffragist and labor activist
• Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) – feminist politician, first woman in British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament
• Serena Lake (1842–1902) – South Australian evangelical preacher, social reformer, campaigner for women's suffrage
• Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) – poet, writer, publisher, and feminist
• Mary Lee (1821–1909) – suffragist and social reformer in South Australia
• Muriel Matters (1877–1969) – lecturer, journalist, educator, actress, elocutionist, member of the Women's Freedom League
• May Jordan McConnel (1860–1929) – trade unionist and suffragist, member of the Women's Equal Franchise Association
• Emma Miller (1839–1917) – pioneer trade union organiser, co-founder of the Women's Equal Franchise Association
• Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (1850–1943) – campaigner for women's suffrage in South Australia
• Jessie Rooke (1845–1906) – Tasmanian suffragist and temperance reformer
• Rose Scott (1847–1925) – founder of the Women's Political Education League
• Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) – author, teacher, and journalist; commemorated on a special issue of the Australian five-dollar note
• Jessie Street (1889–1970) – feminist, human rights campaigner
• Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) Australian women's rights and trade unionist
• Mary Windeyer (1836–1912) – women's suffrage campaigner in New South Wales

• Elizabeth Bell (1862–1934) – physician, suffragette, pioneer of the feminist movement
• Louie Bennett (1870–1956) – suffragette, trade unionist, writer
• Mary Fleetwood Berry (1865–1956) – suffragist, radical feminist
• Cadiz sisters – Rosie and Lily also known as Jane and Maggie Murphy
• Cissie Cahalan (1876–1948) – trade unionist, feminist, suffragette
• Winifred Carney (1887–1943) – suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist
• Helen Chenevix (1886–1963) – suffragist, trade unionist
• Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) – writer, suffragist, animal advocate, women's suffrage campaigner
• Meg Connery (1879–1956) – suffragist organiser and activist
• Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
• Mabel Sharman Crawford (1820–1912) – Irish adventurer, feminist and writer
• Charlotte Despard
• Margaret Dockrell (1849–1926) – suffragist, philanthropist, councillor
• Marion Duggan (1884–1943) – Irish suffragist and activist
• Norah Elam (1878–?) – Irish-born British suffragette and fascist
• Dr. Maude Glasgow (1876–1955) – early pioneer in public health and preventive medicine as well as an activist for equal rights
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953) – British-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress
• Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) – poet, dramatist, suffragette, labour activist
• Anna Haslam (1829–1922) – founder of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
• Marjorie Hasler (c. 1887–1913) – suffragette, "first martyr"
• Mary Hayden (1862–1942) – suffragist, women's rights activist
• Rosamond Jacob (1888–1960) – writer, suffragist, republican activist
• Marie Johnson (1874–1974) – Irish trade unionist, suffragist and teacher
• Laura Geraldine Lennox (1883–1958) – suffragette and war volunteer in Paris
• Isa Macnie (1869–1958) – croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist
• Mary MacSwiney (1872–1942) – suffragist, politician, educationalist
• Margaret McCoubrey (1880–1955) – Scottish-born Irish suffragist, co-operative movement activist
• Constance Markievicz (1868–1927) – politician, revolutionary, suffragette
• Florence Moon (fl. 1914) – suffragist, member of the Women's National Health Association
• Marguerite Moore (1849–?) – nationalist activist, suffragist, "first suffragette"
• Alicia Adelaide Needham (1863–1945) – song composer, suffragette
• Kathleen Cruise O'Brien (1886–1938) – suffragist, Irish language advocate, teacher
• May O'Callaghan (1881–1973) – suffragette, communist
• Mary Donovan O'Sullivan (1887–1966) – history professor, suffragist
• Alice Oldham (1850–1907) – education campaigner, academic, suffragist
• Sarah Persse (fl. 1899) – suffragist
• Anne Isabella Robertson (c. 1830 – 1910) – writer and suffragist
• Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington – founder-member of the Irish Women's Franchise League
• Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971) – Scottish-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, suffragist
• Isabella Tod (1836–1896) – Scottish-born Irish suffragist and politician
• Catherine Winter (campaigner) – Irish publicist, suffragist and campaigner
• Jenny Wyse Power (1858–1941) – feminist, politician, suffragist
• Edith Young (1882–1974) – Irish suffragist organiser and activist

• Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942) – Secretary and leading member of the suffrage movement, presented the first demand of woman suffrage to the government
• Elsa Alkman (1878–1975) – suffragist, women's rights activist, writer and composer
• Eva Andén (1886–1970) – lawyer, feminist and suffragist
• Carolina Benedicks-Bruce (1856–1935) – sculptor, women's rights activist and suffragist
• Signe Bergman (1869–1960) – co-founder and Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage
• Nina Benner-Anderson (1865–1947) – nurse, pacifist and suffragist
• Ella Billing (1869–1921) – women's rights activist and suffragist
• Hilma Borelius (1869–1932) – literary historian, academic and suffragist
• Kristina Borg (1844–1928) – newspaper publisher, suffragist and peace activist
• Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865) – prominent novelist and early women's rights activist
• Emilia Broomé (1866–1925) – first woman in the legislative assembly, introduced the new laws of equal access to all government posts for both genders
• Märta Bucht (1882–1962) – suffragist and peace activist from Luleå
• Frigga Carlberg (1851–1925) – Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Gothenburg branch)
• Maria Cederschiöld (1856–1935) – journalist, women's rights activist and suffragist
• Lizinka Dyrssen (1866–1952) – women's rights activist and suffragist
• Ebba von Eckermann (1866–1960) – women's rights activist and suffragist
• Lisa Ekedahl (1895–1980) – lawyer and suffragist
• Elin Engström (1860–1956) – politician, trade unionist and suffragist
• Hanna Ferlin (1870–1947) – photographer and suffragist
• Karin Fjällbäck-Holmgren (1881–1963) – politician, social welfare activist and suffragist
• Mia Green (1870–1949) – photographer, human rights activist and suffragist
• Sofia Gumaelius (1840–1915) – Treasurer of the National Association for Women's Suffrage
• Ellen Hagen (1873–1967) – suffragist, women's rights activist and politician
• Gerda Hellberg (1870–1937) – women's rights activist and suffragist
• Lilly Hellström (1866–1930) – schoolteacher, children's newspaper editor and suffragist
• Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) – women's rights activist, suffragist and philanthropist
• Lina Hjort (1881–1959) – suffragist in Kiruna
• Ann-Margret Holmgren (1850–1940) – co-founder and leading campaigner and recruiter for the National Association for Women's Suffrage
• Amanda Horney (1857–1953) – politician, women's rights activist and suffragist
• Ebba Hultkvist (1876–1955) – schoolteacher, suffragist and politician
• Emma Isakson (1880–1952) – newspaper publisher and suffragist
• Ellen Key (1849–1926) – suffragist, ideologist
• Edit Kindvall (1866–1951) – teacher, photographer, suffragist and women's rights activist
• Anna Kleman (1862–1940) – Swedish suffragist and peace activist
• Sigrid Kruse (1867–1950) – schoolteacher, children's writer and active suffragist
• Klara Lindh (1877–1914) – suffragist, writer, editor
• Anna Lindhagen (1870–1941) – politician, women's rights activist and suffragist
• Cecilia Milow (1856–1946) – writer, educator and suffragist
• Bertha Nordenson (1857–1928) – women's rights activist and suffragist
• Astrid Nyberg (1877–1928) – pioneering newspaper editor and suffragist
• Valborg Olander (1861–1943) – Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (local branch)
• Agda Östlund (1870–1942) – politician and suffragist
• Ebba Palmstierna (1877–1966) – noblewoman and suffragist
• Gulli Petrini (1867–1941) – writer, suffragist, women's rights activist and politician
• Anna Pettersson (1861–1929) – lawyer and suffragist
• Aurore Pihl (1850–1938) – headmistress, women's rights activist and suffragist
• Gerda Planting-Gyllenbåga (1878–1950) – suffragist and social welfare expert
• Emilie Rathou (1862–1948) – journalist, editor, early suffragist
• Anna-Clara Romanus-Alfvén (1874–1947) – physician, suffragist, women's rights activist and educator
• Hilda Sachs (1857–1935) – journalist, writer, women's rights activist
• Ellen Sandelin (1862–1907) – physician and lecturer
• Olga Segerberg (1868–1951) – photographer and suffragist
• Alexandra Skoglund (1862–1938) – suffragist, women's rights activist and politician
• Karolina Själander (1841–1925) – headmistress, women's rights activist, suffragist and politician
• Augusta Tonning (1857–1932) – teacher, suffragist and pacifist
• Elin Wägner (1882–1949) – campaigner for the National Association for Women's Suffrage
• Lydia Wahlström (1869–1954) – co-founder and Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage
• Jenny Wallerstedt (1870–1963) – teacher, suffragist and local politician
• Anna Whitlock (1852–1930) – co-founder and Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage
• Karolina Widerström (1856–1949) – Chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage

• Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (1884–1957) – editor and feminist lecturer, officer of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
• Violet Aitken (1886–1987) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed, editor of The Suffragette
• Margaret Aldersley (1852–1940) – suffragist, feminist and trade unionist
• Mary Ann Aldham (1858–1940) – famously slashed a portrait in the Royal Academy in 1914
• Janie Allan (1868–1968) – suffragette activist and significant financial supporter of the WSPU; imprisoned for suffrage activities
• Doreen Allen (1879–1963) – militant suffragette
• Mary Sophia Allen (1878–1964) – women's rights activist, pioneer policewoman, later involved in far right political activity
• Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (1844–1874) - president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain
• Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
• Helen Archdale (1876–1949) – suffragette and journalist
• Jane Arthur (1827–1907) – educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage
• Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – suffragist, local politician, pacifist
• Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) – politician, socialite, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons
• Barbara Ayrton-Gould (1886–1950) – Labour politician and co-founder of the United Suffragists; jailed for her suffrage activities
• Mary Anne Baikie (1861 - 1950) - Scottish suffragist who established the Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society
• Sarah Jane Baines (1866–1951) – feminist and social reformer; jailed at least fifteen times
• Minnie Baldock (c. 1864 – 1954) – co-founded the first London branch of the WSPU
• Frances Balfour (1858–1931) – president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Florence Balgarnie (1856–1928) – British suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, temperance activist
• Rachel Barrett (1874–1953) – member of the WSPU; editor of The Suffragette
• Janet Barrowman (1879–1955) – Scottish member of the WSPU; jailed for her suffragist activities
• Dorothea Beale (1831–1906) – educational reformer, author, Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College
• Lydia Becker (1827–1890) – biologist and astronomer, founder and publisher of the Women's Suffrage Journal
• Edith Marian Begbie (1866–1932) – militant suffragette who was force-fed
• Mary Bell (1885–1943) – first Scottish women magistrate
• Sarah Benett (1850–1924) – Treasurer of the WFL and suffragette
• Ethel Bentham (1861–1931) – doctor, politician, member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Annie Besant (1847–1933) – socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule
• Rosa May Billinghurst (1875–1953) – member of the WSPU; jailed multiple times
• Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964) – co-founder of Women's Freedom League; jailed for her suffragist activities
• Catherine Hogg Blair (1872–1946) – Scottish suffragette and founder of the Scottish Women's Rural Institute, and member of the WSPU
• Violet Bland (1863–1940) – member of the WSPU, force-fed in prison
• Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – educationalist, artist, feminist, activist for women's rights
• Lillie Boileau (1869–1930) – early member of the Women's Freedom League and the Union of Ethical Societies
• Margaret Bondfield (1873–1953) – politician, chair of the Adult Suffrage Society, first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom

• Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973) – lawyer, member of the WSPU, RMS Titanic survivor
• Janet Boyd (1850–1928) – militant suffragette and hunger-striker
• Jane Esdon Brailsford (1876–1937) – Scottish suffragette
• Agnes Brown (1866–1943) – Scottish suffragist and writer
• Annie Leigh Browne (1851–1936) – co-founder of College Hall, London and of Women's Local Government Society
• Constance Bryer (1870–1952) – suffragette
• Evaline Hilda Burkitt (1876–1955) – first suffragette to be force-fed
• Frances Buss (1827–1894) – headmistress, pioneer of women's education, member of the Kensington Society
• Josephine Butler (1828–1906) – feminist, author, social reformer
• Mary Burton (1819 - 1909), a Scottish social and educational reformer, and supporter of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Edward Caird (1835–1908) – founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Mona Caird (1854–1932) – English novelist and essayist who wrote in support of women's suffrage
• Mabel Capper (1888–1966) – activist in the WSPU; imprisoned many times, and force-fed
• Isabella Carrie (1878–1981) – schoolteacher and safe house keeper for the WSPU
• Dorothea Chalmers Smith (1874–1944) – doctor and suffragist
• Georgina Fanny Cheffins (1863–1932) – arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway, force-fed
• Jane Clapperton (1832–1914) – philosopher, social reformer and suffragist
• Alice Clark (1874-1934), served on the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Mary Jane Clarke (1862–1910) – arrested for window smashing, held in HM Prison Holloway, force-fed
• Anne Clough (1820–1892) – teacher and promoter of higher education for women
• Lila Clunas (1876–1968) – Scottish suffragette and Labour party councillor
• Jane Cobden (1851–1947) – Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes; co-founder of the Women's Franchise League
• Leonora Cohen (1873–1978) – militant British suffragette and trade unionist; bodyguard for Emmeline Pankhurst

• Florence Annie Conybeare (1872–1916) – campaigned in support of women's suffrage, organized a meeting of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Selina Cooper (1864–1946) – textile mill worker, local magistrate, member of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
• Catherine Corbett (1869-1950) - British suffragette
• Jessie Craigen (c. 1835–1899) – working-class suffragist who gave speeches all around the country
• Muriel Craigie (1889 - 1971) - Scottish suffragist, and war volunteer organiser
• Virginia Mary Crawford (1862–1948) – Catholic suffragist, journalist and author, a founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society.
• Helen Crawfurd (1877–1954) – suffragette, rent strike organiser and communist activist
• Maud Crofts (born 1889) – suffragist, author and first woman accepted as a solicitor

• Mary Crudelius (1839–1877) – early supporter of women's suffrage and campaigner for women's education
• Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) – was a Scottish poet and suffragette
• Emily Davies (1830–1921) – co-founder of Kensington Society and Britain's first women's college, Girton College, Cambridge University
• Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913) – militant activist, key member of the WSPU, died in a protest action at a racetrack
• Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879 - 1978), suffragist, volunteer war nurse, and early leader of Girl Guides
• John McAusland Denny (1858–1922) Scottish businessman, Conservative Party politician and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Charlotte Despard (1844–1939) – novelist, Sinn Féin activist, co-founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Agnes Dollan (1887–1966) – Scottish suffragette, political activist and pacifist
• Violet Mary Doudney (1889–1952) – teacher and militant suffragette
• Katherine Douglas Smith (1878–) – militant suffragette and WSPU organiser
• Flora Drummond (1878–1949) – organiser for WSPU, imprisoned nine times for her activism in Women's Suffrage movement, inspiring orator
• Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – artist and suffragette
• Elsie Duval (1892–1919) – member of WSPU and first woman released under the Cat and Mouse Act
• Louise Eates (1877-1944) - was a British suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist.
• Maude Edwards – suffragette
• Norah Elam (1878–1961) – prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times
• Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – public speaker and writer; formed the first British suffragist society, first paid employee of the British Women's Movement
• Dorothy Evans (1888–1944) – activist and organiser, worked for WSPU; imprisoned several times
• Kate Williams Evans (1866–1961) – suffragette
• Caprina Fahey (1883–1959) – received the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal "for Valour" in 1914
• Margaret Milne Farquharson (1884-c1936) - Scottish suffragette, MP candidate and leader of the National Political League campaigning for Palestine.
• Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929) – feminist, writer, political and union leader; president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• Helen Fraser (1881–1979) – suffragist, speaker and artist
• Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) – prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist
• Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) – first trainer of 'the Bodyguard', formed in response to the Cat and Mouse Act
• Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld (c.1863 - 1941) - suffrage campaigner based in Edinburgh
• Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – journalist, lecturer and militant suffragette for the WSPU
• Mary Gawthorpe (1881–1973) – socialist, trade unionist, editor, active in the suffrage movement in both England and the United States
• Ellison Scotland Gibb (1879–1970) – suffragette and chess player
• Margaret Skirving Gibb (1877–1954) – suffragette and chess player
• Marion Gilchrist (1864–1952) – doctor and suffragist
• Helga Gill (1885–1928) – Norwegian-born British suffragist who spoke at meetings
• Katie Edith Gliddon (1883–1967) – watercolour artist and militant suffragette.
• Frances Gordon (born c. 1874) – prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement; imprisoned and force-fed
• Gerald Gould (1885–1936) – writer, known as a journalist, reviewer, essayist, and poet; co-founder of United Suffragists
• Mary Pollock Grant (1876–1957) – Scottish suffragette, Liberal Party politician, missionary and policewoman.
• Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (1889-1914) - British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union
• Elsa Gye (1881–1943) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned for the cause, led WSPU branches in Nottingham and Newcastle
• Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (Laura Grey) (1888–1914) – suffragette and actress, imprisoned for window smashing
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1883–1967) – actress, lectured and wrote on women's rights
• Edith Hacon (1875 - 1952) suffragist from Dornoch, World War One nursing volunteer and international socialite
• Florence Haig (1856–1952) was a Scottish artist and suffragette who was decorated for imprisonments and hunger strikes.
• Cicely Hale (1884–1981) – health visitor and author; worked for the WSPU and The Suffragette
• Nellie Hall (1895–1929) – god-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, member of the WSPU; imprisoned twice
• Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890–1982)
• Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952) – actress, writer, journalist, feminist
• Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon (1857–1939) – author, philanthropist, and an advocate of woman's interests
• Marion Coates Hansen (1870–1947) – early member of the WSPU, co-founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish founder of the Labour Party, later a campaigner for women's suffrage
• Emily J. Harding (1850–1940) – British artist, illustrator and suffragette
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) – linguist, feminist, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology, supporter of women's suffrage
• Evelina Haverfield (1867–1920) – aid worker and nurse in WWI, member of the WSPU, arrested several times
• Annie Elizabeth Helme – suffragist, JP, first female mayor of Lancaster in 1932.
• Mary H. J. Henderson (1874 - 1938) - honorary secretary of Dundee Women's Suffrage Society, and administrator with Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
• Margaret Hills (1882–1967) – teacher, public speaker, feminist and socialist; organizer of the NUWSS Election Fighting Fund
• Edith Mary Hinchley (1870–1940) – artist and member of the Women's Freedom League
• Reverend Claude Hinscliff (1875–1964) – founder of the [Anglican] Church League for Women's Suffrage
• Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – exposed the squalid conditions in concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War; active in the People's Suffrage Federation
• Olive Hockin (1881–1936) – artist and author; imprisoned after arson attacks suspected to be suffragette-related
• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) – feminist, socialist, and writer, including a new voters guide for women in 1929
• Edith Sophia Hooper (1868–1926) – suffragist and biographer of Josephine Butler
• Winifred Horrabin (1887–1971) – socialist activist, journalist, member of the WSPU
• Clemence Housman (1861–1955) – author, illustrator, co-founder of the Suffrage Atelier
• Laurence Housman (1865–1959) – playwright, writer, illustrator, co-founder of the Suffrage Atelier
• Elizabeth How-Martyn (1875–1954) – member of the WSPU and co-founder of the Women's Freedom League
• Ellen Hughes (1867–1927) – Welsh writer, poet, suffragist
• Florence Hull (born 1878) – suffragette, member of WSPU, imprisoned in January 1913
• Agnes Husband (1852–1929) – Scottish politician and suffragette
• Elsie Inglis (1864–1917) – Scottish doctor, secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Margaret Irwin (1858–1940) – trade unionist, suffragist and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) – writer and suffragette

• Maud Joachim (1869–1947) – suffragette
• Jessie Keppie (1868 - 1951) - artist and subscriber to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Ellen Isabel Jones (d.1948) – suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts
• Helena Jones (born 1870) – Welsh doctor and member of the WSPU, later critical of Emmeline Pankhurst
• Mabel Jones (1865–1923) – doctor and suffragette
• Annie Kenney (1879–1953) – leading figure in the WSPU
• Jessie Kenney (1887–1985) – leading suffragette, assaulted the British prime minister and the Home Secretary at golf course
• Nell Kenney (1876–1953) – suffragette
• Jessie Keppie (1868–1951) – artist and subscriber to Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Alice Stewart Ker (1853–1943) – doctor, health educator and suffragette
• Edith Key (1872–1937) – secretary-organiser of the WSPU, Huddersfield branch, and author of the only surviving regional WSPU minute book
• Mary Stewart Kilgour (1851–1955) – educationalist and writer, co-founder of the Union of Practical Suffragists
• Adelaide Knight, (1871–1950) – secretary for the WSPU in Canning Town
• Anne Knight (1786–1862) – social reformer, pioneer of feminism, early suffragette and pamphleteer
• Annie Knight (1895–2006) – suffragette in Aberdeen Scotland
• Aeta Adelaide Lamb (1886–1928) – longest serving organiser in the WSPU
• George Lansbury (1859–1940) – social reformer and politician who allied himself with the WSPU
• Jennie Lee (1904–1988) – Scottish politician, elected MP aged 24 in 1929 by-election before suffrage was extended to women under 30
• Harriet Leisk (1853 - 1921) - chair of the Shetland Women's Suffrage Society
• Lilian Lenton (1891–1972) – active member of the WSPU, winner of a French Red Cross for her service in WWI
• Victoria Lidiard (1889–1992) – WPSU member and reputed to be the longest surviving British Suffragette
• [[Anna Lindsay (activist) (1845 - 1903), Scottish women's rights activist
• Thomas Martin Lindsay (1843–1914) – Scottish historian, professor and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Louisa Lumsden (1840 - 1935) - pioneer of female education and suffrage speaker
• Kathleen Lyttelton (1856–1907) – women's activist, editor and writer
• Lady Constance Lytton (1869–1923) – speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women
• Florence Macfarlane (1867–1947) – nurse and militant member of the WSPU
• Margaret Mackworth (1883–1958) – activist and director of more than thirty companies
• Sarah Mair (1846–1941) – campaigner for women's education and suffrage
• Lavinia Malcolm (1847–1920) – Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and the first woman Lord Provost of a Scottish burgh town, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire
• Flora Masson (1856-1937) - nurse, suffragist, writer and editor
• Edith Mansell Moullin (1859–1941) – suffragist, settlement worker, and Welsh feminist organisation founder
• Kitty Marion (1871–1944) – actress and political activist
• Dora Marsden (1882–1960) – anarcho-feminist, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language
• Charlotte Marsh (1842–1909) – joined the WSPU in March 1907, set up the Independent WSPU in March 1916
• Selina Martin (1882–1972) – activist
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) – social theorist and writer
• Eleanor Marx (1855–1898) – activist and translator
• Flora Masson (1856–1937) – nurse, editor and writer
• Helen Matthews – Scottish suffragette and women's footballer
• Isabella Fyvie Mayo (1843–1914) – poet, novelist, suffragist, and reformer
• Mary Macarthur (1880–1921) – general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federation of Women Workers and National Anti-Sweating League
• Ann Macbeth (1875–1948) – artist and suffragist
• Lilly Maxwell (1800–1876) suffragist
• Elspeth McClelland (1879–1920) – architect and suffragette, 'human letter' sent with Daisy Solomon
• Janet McCallum (1881–1946) – trade unionist and suffragist
• Agnes Syme Macdonald (1882–1966) – Scottish suffragette who served as the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the WSPU before setting up the Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (WCA) in 1918
• Louisa Macdonald (1858 - 1949) - educationalist and suffragist
• Agnes McLaren (1837–1913) – doctor and secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage alongside her stepmother, Priscilla Bright McLaren
• Alice McLaren (1860–1945) – doctor, Gynecologist, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights
• Eva McLaren (1852–1921) – suffragist, writer, and political campaigner
• Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – anti-slavery activist, Scottish suffragist, founder and president of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Chrystal Macmillan (1872–1937) – politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist
• Frances McPhun (1880–1940) – suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Margaret McPhun
• Margaret McPhun (1876–1960) – suffragette who served two months in Holloway prison, sister of Frances McPhun
• Frances Melville (1873–1962) – suffragist, advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, and one of the first women to matriculate at the University of Edinburgh
• Jessie C. Methven (1854–1917) – Scottish suffragist, suffragette, honorary secretary of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, joined WSPU 1906
• Alice Meynell (1847–1922) – editor, writer, and poet
• Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858) – philosopher and women's rights advocate
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) – philosopher, political economist, and civil servant
• Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956) – activist
• Dora Montefiore (1851–1933) – activist and writer
• Ethel Moorhead (1869–1955) – painter
• Graham Moffat (1866–1951) – actor, director, playwright and spiritualist. Husband of Maggie Moffat and founder of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage
• Maggie Moffat (1873–1943) – British actor and suffragette, wife of Graham Moffat
• Ethel Moorhead (1869–1955) – suffragette and painter
• Anna Munro (1881–1962) – activist
• Mary Murdoch (1864 - 1916) - physician and suffragist
• Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – suffragist, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918
• Flora Murray (1869–1923) – medical pioneer and activist
• Frances Murray (1843–1919) – a suffragist raised in Scotland, an advocate of women's education, a lecturer in Scottish music and a writer
• Sylvia Murray (1875–1955) – suffragette and author, the sister of suffragette Eunice Guthrie Murray
• Margaret Mylne (1806–1892) – Scottish suffragette and writer
• Jessie Newbery (1864-1948) - Scottish artist and embroiderer, member of the Women's Social and Political Union
• Mary Neal (1860–1944) – social worker and collector of English folk dances
• Alison Roberta Noble Neilans (1884–1942) – activist, member of the executive committee of the Women's Freedom League
• Margaret Nevinson (1858–1932) – JP, Poor Law guardian, playwright, member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage
• Jessie Newbery (1864–1948) – artist and suffragist
• Elizabeth Pease Nicholl (1807–1897) – abolitionist, anti-segregationist, suffragist, chartist and anti-vivisectionist
• Helen Ogston – suffragette
• Ada Nield Chew (1870–1945) – organiser
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) – celebrated social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
• Emily Rosaline Orme (1835–1915) – member of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
• Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1866–1957) – Scottish doctor, suffragist and advocate for women's health and women's rights
• Adela Pankhurst (1885–1961) – political organizer, co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement
• Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958) – co-founder and leader of the WSPU
• Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – a main founder and the leader of the British Suffragette Movement
• Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) – campaigner and anti-fascism activist
• Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly imprisoned for her actions
• Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
• Isabella Bream Pearce (1859–1929) – Scottish socialist propagandist and suffrage campaigner
• Annie Seymour Pearson (born 1878) – work based suffrage activist who ran a safe house for suffragettes evading police
• Edith Pechey (1845–1908) – campaigner for women's rights, involved in a range of social causes
• Pleasance Pendred (1864–1948) – suffragette
• Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867–1954) – member Suffrage Society, secretary WSPU
• Leonora Philipps (1862–1915) – Liberal suffragist, president of Welsh Union of Women's Liberal Associations and co-founder of the Pioneer Club
• Caroline Philips (1874–1956) – feminist, suffragette and journalist
• Catherine Pine (1864–1941) – nurse, suffragette
• Isabella Potbury (1890–1965) – portrait painter, suffragette
• Clara Rackham (1875–1966) – magistrate, prison reformer, factory inspector, long-serving alderman and city councillor in Cambridge
• Jane Rae (1872–1959) – political activist, suffragette, councillor and Justice of the peace
• Eleanor Rathbone (1872–1946) – campaigner for women's rights
• Marion Kirkland Reid (1815–1902) – feminist and writer
• Mary Reid (1880–1921) – Scottish trades unionist
• Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1955) – WSPU member, journalist, businesswoman, founder of the feminist periodical Time and Tide
• Mary Richardson (1882–1961) – Canadian suffragette, arsonist, head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists
• Edith Rigby (1872–1948) – founder of St. Peter's School, prominent activist
• Margaret Robertson (1892–1967) – campaigner; organiser of the Election Fighting Fund
• Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) – Ibsen actress, playwright, public speaker, novelist
• Annot Robinson (1874–1925) – née Wilkie, nicknamed Annie, pacifist and suffragette
• Rona Robinson (1881–1973) – suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry
• Esther Roper (1868–1938) – social justice campaigner
• Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (1872–1951) – MP, philanthropist, and suffragist
• Lolita Roy – believed to have been an important organizer of the Women's Coronation Procession (a suffrage march in London) in 1911, and marched as part of it with either her sisters or her daughters
• Agnes Royden (1876–1956) – preacher
• Bertha Ryland (1882–1977) – militant suffragette
• Myra Sadd Brown (1872–1938) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed
• Amy Sanderson (born c1875-6) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned twice, executive member of WFL
• Margaret Sandhurst (1828–1892) – one of the first women elected to a city council in the United Kingdom
• Jessie Saxby (1842-1940) - author, folklorist and suffragette
• Arabella Scott (1886–1980) – Scottish suffragette who endured five weeks of solitary confinement in Perth prison and force feeding twice a day
• Evelyn Sharp (suffragist) (1869–1955) – journalist on The Manchester Guardian, short story writer, tax resister, founder of the United Suffragists
• Genie Sheppard (1863–1953) – medical doctor and militant suffragette
• Alice Maud Shipley (1869–1951) – suffragist who went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison and who was force fed
• Frances Simson (1854–1938) – suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh
• May Sinclair (1863-1946) – member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League
• Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) – had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League, and the WSPU
• Margaret Skinnider (1892–1971)
• Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) – composer, writer
• Mary Anderson Snodgrass (1862–1945) – politician, suffragist and advocate for women's rights, member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
• Ethel Snowden (1881–1951) – socialist, human rights activist, feminist politician
• Jessie M. Soga (1870-1954) - Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist. She was described as the only black suffrage campaigner based in Scotland.
• Daisy Solomon (1882–1978) – South African born, member of WSPU, sent as 'human letter' with Elspeth McClelland, daughter of Georgiana Solomon
• Georgiana Solomon (1844–1933) – Scottish member of the WSPU, South African temperance activist
• Mary Somerville (1780–1872) – science writer and polymath
• Emma Sproson (1867–1936)- women's rights activist
• Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) - Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician & leading suffragist
• Emily Spender (1841–1922) – novelist and suffragette
• Lady Barbara Steel (1857–1943) – Scottish suffragist and tax resister
• Jessie Stephen – (1893–1979) – working class suffragette and trade union activist
• Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) – Scottish social reformer with interest in education for poor or neglected children
• Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) – Scottish campaigner for women's university education, effective, well-organised nursing
• Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – scholar, author, and campaigner for women's rights
• Una Harriet Ella Stratford Duval (née Dugdale) (1879–1975) – suffragette and marriage reformer
• Lucy Deane Streatfeild (1865–1950) – civil servant, social worker, one of the first female factory inspectors in UK
• Ann Swaine (<1821–1883) – writer and advocate for women's higher education
• Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – journalist, novelist and story writer
• Helena Swanwick (1864–1939) – feminist, pacifist
• Jane Taylour (1827–1905) – suffragist and women's movement campaigner
• Janie Terrero (1858–1944) – militant suffragette
• Dora Thewlis (1890–1976) – activist
• Agnes Thomson (born 1846) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh WSPU, missionary in India
• Elizabeth Thomson (born 1848) – Scottish suffragette, member of Edinburgh WSPU, hunger striker, missionary in India
• Elizabeth Thompson (1846–1933) – prominent painter
• Muriel Thompson (1875–1939) – World War I ambulance driver, racing driver and suffragist
• Violet Tillard (1874–1922) – nurse, pacifist, supporter of conscientious objectors, relief worker
• Isabella Tod (1836–1896) – Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner and unionist politician in Ireland
• Catherine Tolson (1890–1924) – suffragette
• Helen Tolson (1888–1955) – suffragette
• Florence Tunks (1891–1985) – suffragette
• Minnie Turner (1866–1948) – ran a guest house, the "Sea View", in Brighton
• Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864–1942) – suffragette went on hunger strike after being arrested for militancy
• Olive Grace Walton (1886–1937) – suffragette
• Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson (1900–1992) – child suffragette and piper
• Mona Chalmers Watson (1872–1936) – physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
• Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961) – political activist, magazine editor
• Beatrice Webb (1858–1943) – sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian, social reformer
• Vera Wentworth (1890–1957) – went to Holloway for the cause and was force fed. She door stepped and then assaulted the Prime Minister twice. She wrote "Three Months in Holloway".
• Rebecca West (1892–1983) – author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer
• Olive Wharry (1886–1947) – artist, arsonist
• Eliza Wigham (1820–1899) – suffragist and abolitionist
• Jane Wigham (1801–1888) – suffragist and abolitionist
• Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) – politician, Member of Parliament, served as Minister of Education
• Gertrude Wilkinson (1851–1929) – militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union
• Laetitia Withall (1881–1963) – poet, author and militant suffragette
• Celia Wray (1872–1954) – suffragette and architect
• I.A.R. Wylie (1885–1959) – Australian writer, suffragette in UK, working on The Suffragette
• Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – teacher, writer

• Mary Newbury Adams (1837–1901) – suffragist and education advocate
• Sadie L. Adams (1872–1945) – African-American suffragist and child welfare advocate
• Jane Addams (1860–1935) – social activist, president Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Edith Ainge (1873–1948) – member of Silent Sentinels, Treasurer for NWP, jailed five times
• Mary A. Ahrens (1836–after 1907) – Chicago lawyer, plaintiff in lawsuit to enforce 1891 suffrage law for school elections
• Mary Long Alderson (1860–1937) – Montana suffragist
• Nina E. Allender (1873–1957) – speaker, organizer and cartoonist
• Naomi Anderson (born 1863) – black suffragist, temperance advocate
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association, one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment
• Annie Arniel (1873–1924) – member of the Silent Sentinels, arrested eight times in direct actions
• Sarah Louise Arnold (1859-1943) - Massachusetts suffragist; first dean of Simmons College; national president, Girls Scouts
• Helen Vickroy Austin (1829–1921) – journalist, horticulturist, suffragist
• Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer
• Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the National Woman Suffrage Association's press department
• Eugenia M. Bacon (1853–1933) – suffragist
• Adella Brown Bailey (1860–1937) – politician and suffragist
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement
• Bertha Hirsch Baruch – writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association
• Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer
• Octavia Williams Bates (1846–1911) – suffragist, clubwoman, author
• Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858-1923) – educator, lecturer, author; chair, Moral Education Department, Boston Equal Suffrage Association
• Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923) - Kentucky temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist
• Alva Belmont (1853–1933) – founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
• Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885–1970), suffragist leader representing Colorado for the Women's Right to Vote
• Kate Himrod Biggers (1849–1935) – president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association
• Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist
• Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York
• Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – journalist, activist
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – co-founder, with Lucy Stone, of the American Woman Suffrage Association
• Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – founded Woman's Journal with Lucy Stone
• Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist
• Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913) – writer, suffragist, reformer
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (1845–1937) – suffragist, reformer
• Isabella Williams Blaney (1854–1933) – suffragist, politician
• Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) – writer (contributor to History of Woman Suffrage), founded Women's Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers
• Anna Whitehead Bodeker (1826–1904) – leader of the earliest attempts to organize for suffrage in Virginia; co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia
• Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist
• Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs
• Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) – professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) – suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers
• Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education
• Minerva Kline Brooks (1883–1929) – suffragist
• Gertrude 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 minister
• Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist
• Emeline S. Burlingame (1836–1923) – editor, evangelist, suffragist
• Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party
• Martha Callanan (1826–1901) – activist, editor and publisher of The Standard, Iowa suffragist journal
• Mary Edith Campbell (1876–1962) – first woman elected to the Board of Education in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Susan E. Cannon Allen (1859–1935) – African American suffragist
• Marion Hamilton Carter (1865–1937) – educator, journalist, suffragist author
• Frances Jennings Casement (1840–1928) – voting advocate, married General John S. Casement, who lobbied for voting rights for women
• Nettie Sanford Chapin (1830–1901) – represented Iowa at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention of 1893
• Carrie 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
• Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist
• Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder
• Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm
• Adele Goodman Clark (1882–1983) – artist, suffragist, and co-founder of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
• Laura Clay (1849–1941) – co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women's suffrage movement, active in the Democratic Party
• Mary 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 rights
• Lillian Exum Clement (1894–1925) – first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States
• H. Maria George Colby (1844–1910) – journalist, activist, suffragist
• Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights
• Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist
• Mattie E. Coleman (1870–1943) – physician, suffragist
• Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949) – chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the National Woman's Party, arrested during the "Watchfire for Freedom" demonstrations
• Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement
• Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes
• Emma Amelia Cranmer (1858–1937) – reformer, suffragist, writer
• Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) – first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association
• Lucile Atcherson Curtis (1894–1986) – first woman in what became the US Foreign Service
• Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915) – president, Woburn (Massachusetts) Equal Suffrage League; State lecturer, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
• Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1825–1889) – writer, translator, anti-suffragist
• Lucinda Lee Dalton (1847–1925) – Mormon feminist and writer
• Maria Thompson Daviess (1872–1924) – co-founder and vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Nashville, Tennessee; organizer of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Madison, Tennessee.
• Carrie Chase Davis (1863–1953) – physician, suffragist
• Paulina 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 Convention
• Jesse Leech Davisson (1860–1940) – suffragist active in Ohio
• Cornelia De Bey (1860–1948) – homeopath, politician, suffragist, educator
• Emma Smith DeVoe (1848–1927) – leading Washington State suffragist, founded the National Council of Women Voters
• Addie Whiteman Dickerson (1878–1940) – African American clubwoman and suffragist
• Mamie Dillard (1874–1954) – African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist
• Mary L. Doe (1836–?) – first president of the Michigan State Equal Suffrage Association
• Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) – journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist
• Eva Craig Graves Doughty (1852–1929) – president, Grand Rapids (Michigan) Equal Suffrage Association
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) – African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman
• Wilhelmine Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett (1861–1929) – Native Hawaiian suffragist, organized the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaii
• Anne 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 Constitution
• Abigail Scott Duniway (1834–1915) – women's rights advocate, editor, writer
• Zara DuPont (1869–1946) – first vice president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association
• Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) – lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist
• Mary F. Eastman – educator, lecturer, writer, and suffragette
• Max Eastman (1883–1969) – writer, philosopher, poet, prominent political activist
• Sarah Stoddard Eddy (1831-1904) – social reformer, clubwoman; Massachusetts suffragist
• Mary G. Charlton Edholm (1854–1935) – reformer and journalist
• Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution
• Julia Emory (1885–1979) – suffragist from Maryland
• Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1848–1919) – Caribbean-American woman who was the treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association
• Helga Estby (1860–1942) – Norwegian immigrant, noted for her walk across the United States during 1896 to save her family farm
• Caroline McCullough Everhard (1843–1902) – American banker and suffragist, president of the Ohio Suffrage Association
• Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937) – social reformer and suffragist
• Elizabeth Hawley Everett (1857–1940), Recording Secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
• Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) – author and champion of progressive causes
• Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate
• Mary Fels (1863-1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist
• Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919) – journalist, activist, suffragist
• Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) – active with the National Advisory Council, National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson
• Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – active with the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
• Jessica Garretson Finch – president of the New York Equal Franchise Society
• Mariana Thompson Folsom (1845–1909) – Universalist minister and lecturer for Iowa Suffrage Association and Texas Equal Rights
• Clara S. Foltz (1849–1934) – lawyer, sister of US Senator Samuel M. Shortridge
• Nellie Griswold Francis (1874–1969) – founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group in Minnesota, civil rights and anti-lynching activist
• Ellen Sulley Fray (1832–1903) – one of the district presidents of the Ohio Women's Suffrage Association
• Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – Suffrage Hike participant
• Antoinette 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 WWI
• Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – activist, freethinker, author
• Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878–1970) – reformer, co-founder of the National League of Women Voters
• Sallie Topkis Ginns (1880–1976) – inductee in the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women
• Mary Tenney Gray (1833–1904) – writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, suffragist
• Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC
• Jean Brooks Greenleaf (1832–1918) – president, New York State Suffrage Association (1890–96)
• Irene W. Griffin (d. 2012) – first black woman to register to vote in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
• Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association
• Sarah Grimke (1792–1873) – abolitionist, writer
• Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb (1834–1902), temperance activist; Kansas suffragist
• Eliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) – author, women's rights advocate
• Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement
• Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – social reformer, organiser and diplomat
• Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper
• Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – companion to Carrie Chapman Catt and suffrage organizer in New York
• Gillette Hayden (1880–1929) – dentist and periodontist
• Sallie Davis Hayden (1842–1907) – one of the founders of the suffrage movement in Arizona
• Josephine K. Henry (1846–1928) – Progressive Era women's rights leader, social reformer and writer
• Jane Lord Hersom (1840–1928) – American physician; president, Portland, Maine Equal Suffrage Club
• Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951) – social reformer, National Women's Party chairman in Connecticut. Graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Mother of Katharine Hepburn.
• Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – activist
• Helena Hill (1875–1958) – activist, geologist
• Edith Houghton Hooker (1879–1948) – activist, editor The Suffragist
• Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – prominent abolitionist, social activist and poet
• Emily Howland (1827–1929) – philanthropist, educator
• Florence Frances Huberwald – singer, teacher, suffragist, national leader of the women's movement
• Josephine Brawley Hughes (1839–1926) – established the Arizona Suffrage Association in 1891
• Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907) – author, suffragist
• Addie Waites Hunton (1866–1943) – suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, educator
• Cornelia Collins Hussey (1827–1902) – philanthropist, writer; left a bequest of US$10,000 to the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• May Arkwright Hutton (1860–1915) – suffrage leader and labor rights advocate in the Pacific Northwest
• Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970) – co-founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, active in National Woman's Party, wrote the party's history
• Lottie Wilson Jackson (1854–1914) – painter and suffragist
• Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906) – American medical physician, teacher, scientist, and writer
• Ada James (1876–1952) – social worker and reformer
• Martha Waldron Janes (1832–?) – minister, suffragist, columnist
• Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs
• Izetta 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 convention
• Laura M. Johns (1849–1935) – suffragist, journalist
• Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) – sculptor who created a monument for suffragists in Washington D.C.
• Harriet C. Johnson (1845–1907) – suffragist, educator
• Lucy Browne Johnston (1846–1937) – president of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, and was involved in the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
• Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – American Universalist minister and suffragist
• Jane Elizabeth Jones (1813–1896) – suffragist, abolitionist, member of the early women's rights movement
• Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819-1909) – black suffragist, abolitionist, and philanthropist
• Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones"
• Caroline Katzenstein (1888–1968) – American suffragist and author from Philadelphia, helped form the National Woman's Party
• Belle Kearney (1863–1939) – speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate
• Edna 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 Boston
• Eliza D. Keith (1854–1939) – educator, suffragist, journalist
• Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist
• Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society
• Elizabeth Thacher Kent (1868–1952) – feminist, suffragist, environmentalist
• Caroline Burnham Kilgore (1838–1909) – the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Janette Hill Knox (1845–1920) – vice-president of the Equal Suffrage Association of North Dakota; educator, temperance reformer
• Sarah Knox-Goodrich (1826–1903) – women's rights activist from San Jose, California
• Florence E. Kollock (1848–1925) – Universalist minister and lecturer
• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965) – civil rights activist, organization executive, and community practitioner
• Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne (1841–1904) – suffragist, founder of Virginia Suffrage Society
• Mary Torrans Lathrap (1838–1895) – poet, preacher, suffragist, social reformer
• Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) – first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, 8 November 1911
• Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community
• Dora 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 committee
• Miriam Leslie (1836–1914) – publisher, author; namesake of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission
• Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) – organizer in South Dakota and Oregon; enlisted the support of labor unions
• Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – journalist and advocate of women's rights
• Sarah Hunt Lockrey (1863–1929) – physician and suffragist
• Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club
• Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) – architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists
• Katherine Duer Mackay (1878–1930) – founder of the Equal Franchise Society
• Theresa Malkiel (1874–1949) – labor organizer and suffragist
• Arabella Mansfield (1846–1911) – first female lawyer in the United States, chaired the Iowa Women's Suffrage Convention in 1870, and worked with Susan B. Anthony
• Wenona Marlin – New York suffragist from Ohio
• Anne 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 Senate
• Ellen A. Martin (1847–1916) – first woman to successful cast a vote in Illinois in 1891, under a loophole in the local law
• Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch(1862–1945) – Chicago lawyer, active in the Illinois 1913 effort and legal adviser for the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist
• Mary Ann M'Clintock (1800–1884) – suffragist who helped plan the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
• Thomas M'Clintock (1792–1876) – abolitionist and suffragist, husband of Mary Ann M'Clintock
• Nell Mercer (1893–1979) – member of the Silent Sentinels
• Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) – journalist
• Jane Hungerford Milbank (1871–1931) – author and poet
• Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – key participant in the National Woman's Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
• Lucy Kennedy Miller, also known as Mrs. John O. Miller (1880–1962) – first president of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, and "the woman to whom, more than to any other" was "owe[d] the triumph of" women's suffrage in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement
• Abby 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 Constitution
• Virginia 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 vote
• Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician
• Lilla Day Monroe (1858–1929) – Kansas suffragist, lawyer
• J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) – zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist
• Mary L. Moreland (1859–1918) – minister, evangelist, suffragist, author
• Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) – first female Justice of the Peace in the United States
• Mary Foulke Morrisson (1879–1971) – organizer of 1916 suffrage parade in Chicago at the Republican national Convention; founder of chapters of the League of Women Voters
• Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer
• Martha H. Mowry (1818–1899) – Rhode Island physician and suffragist
• Ella Uphay Mowry (1865–1923) – Kansas suffragist and the first female gubernatorial candidate in Kansas
• Frances Lillian Willard "Fannie" Munds (1866–1948) – leader of the suffrage movement in Arizona and member of the Arizona Senate
• John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturer
• A. Viola Neblett (1842–1897) – American activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer
• Anna E. Nicholes (1865-1917) – social reformer, civil servant, clubwoman; suffragist from Chicago
• S. Grace Nicholes (1870-1922) - secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
• Frances Nacke Noel (1873–1963) – women's labor activist and suffragist
• Mary A. Nolan (d. 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines
• Eunice Rockwood Oberly (1878–1921) – librarian
• Adelina Otero-Warren (1881–1965) – Congressional Union leader in New Mexico, to be honored on a 2022 American Women quarter.
• Sarah Massey Overton (1850–1914) – women's rights activist and black rights activist
• Fanny Purdy Palmer (1839–1923) – secretary, Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association; author, lecturer, activist
• Maud 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 Amendment
• Alice 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 Amendment
• Mary Hutcheson Page – Member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. 1910 President of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton – civic leader and suffragist, organizer of the Colored Women's Republican Club of Roanoke, c. 1920
• Mary Gray Peck (1867–1957) – journalist, suffragist, clubwoman
• Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins (1824-1905) - minister, social reformer, editor, author; president, Equal Franchise Club, Cleveland, Ohio
• Juno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864–1954) – African-American suffragist
• Helen Pitts (1838–1903) – active in women's rights movement and co-edited The Alpha
• Livia Simpson Poffenbarger (1862–1937) – state director for the women's suffrage campaign in West Virginia
• Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975) – photographer, served as National Chairman in the National Woman's Party
• Amalia Post (1836–1897) – largely instrumental in having the franchise granted women in Wyoming Territory by the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature in 1869.
• Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) – philanthropist, heiress to the Post Cereal company fortune
• Jennie Phelps Purvis (1831–1924) – writer, temperance reformer; secretary of the California state suffrage association
• Mamie Shields Pyle (1866–1949) – suffrage leader in South Dakota
• Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana. Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment.
• Florence 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 1930
• Harriet Redmond (c. 1862–1952) – Oregon suffragist
• Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1897–1987) – author and lecturer
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) – African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston
• Emma Winner Rogers (1855–1922) – treasurer, National American Woman Suffrage Association; also writer, speaker
• Joy Young Rogers (1891–1953) – assistant editor of the Suffragist
• Ellen Alida Rose (1843–?) – Wisconsin agriculturist, suffragist
• Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966) – suffragist, and film producer
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) – African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
• Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968) – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem
• Nina Samorodin (1892–1981) – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League
• Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – nurse
• Annie Nowlin Savery (1831–1891) – English-born Iowa suffragist active from the 1860s
• Julia Sears (1840–1929) – pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State University
• Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883–1979) – American author
• May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – chairperson of the National Woman's Suffrage Association's executive committee from 1882 to 1890
• Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck (1850–1937), president of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts
• Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915
• Mary Shaw (1854–1929) – early feminist, playwright and actress
• Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – co-founder and first president of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
• Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945) – writer, editor, suffragist
• Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862–1939) – writer, suffragist
• Katherine Call Simonds (1865–?) – American musician, author, suffragist
• Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1879) – early American suffragist from Connecticut who campaigned for property and voting rights
• Eliza Kennedy Smith, also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith (1889–1964) – suffragist, civic activist, and government watchdog in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and president of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters
• Judith Winsor Smith (1821–1921) – president of the East Boston Woman Suffrage League
• May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in Philosophy in the United States
• The Smiths of Glastonbury – family of 6 women in Connecticut who were active in championing suffrage, property rights, and education for women
• Louise 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 health
• Caroline Spencer (1861–1928) – American physician and suffragist; inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.
• Elizabeth 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 America
• Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920) – author, journalist, educator, editor, business owner, lecturer, inventor, poet, pioneer suffragist, and one of the two state delegates from the 1869 National Convention to attend the Victory Convention in 1920
• Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904) – first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
• Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901) – advocate of woman suffrage, as a speaker and writer
• Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
• Sara Yorke Stevenson (1847–1921) – American archaeologist and Egyptologist, active in the Philadelphia suffrage movement
• Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – prominent orator, abolitionist, and a vocal advocate and organizer for the rights for women; the main force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal
• Flora E. Strout (1867-1962) – Maryland delegate at American Woman Suffrage Association conventions
• Adeline Morrison Swain (1820–1899) – first woman to run for public office in Iowa
• Lucy Robbins Messer Switzer (1844–1922) – established the suffrage movement in eastern Washington
• Beatrice Sumner Thompson (1874–1938) – African-American suffragist and education advocate
• Helen Taft (1891–1987) – daughter of President William Howard Taft; traveled the nation giving pro-suffrage speeches
• Lydia Taft (1712–1778) – first woman known to legally vote in colonial America
• Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911) – wrote the lyrics to the National Suffrage Anthem
• Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) – African-American educator, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women's League
• Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) – author, advocate for women's suffrage, education reform and social justice in Arkansas
• Helen Rand Thayer (1863-1935) - member, Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Equal Suffrage Association
• M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) – educator, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College
• Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1872–1959) – American author
• Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcaster
• Ella St. Clair Thompson (1870–1944)
• Minnie J. Terrell Todd (1844–1929) – Nebraska suffragist
• Elizabeth Richards Tilton (28 May 1834 – 13 April 1897) – suffragist, founder of the Brooklyn Women's Club, poetry editor of The Revolution, hellish scandal
• Augusta Lewis Troup (1848–1920) – women's rights activist and journalist who advocated for equal pay, better working conditions for women, and women's right to vote
• Grace Wilbur Trout (1864–1955) – President of the Illinois Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, spearheaded the 1913 effort granting Illinois women the right to vote
• Sojourner 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 War
• Lila Meade Valentine (1865–1921) – education and health care reformer, women's rights activist, and the first president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
• Narcissa Cox Vanderlip, née Mabel Narcissa Cox (1879–1966) – leading New York suffragist and co-founder of the New York State League of Women Voters
• Mina 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 process
• Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels
• Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party
• Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
• Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation
• Elizabeth Lowe Watson (1842–1927), president, California Equal Suffrage Association
• Emmeline B. Wells (1828–1921) – journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement
• Lilian Welsh (1858–1938) – physician, educator, and advocate for women's health
• Ruza Wenclawska (1889–1977) – factory inspector and trade union organizer
• Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942) – playwright

Nettie L. White (c. 1850 – 1921), president of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association

• Margaret Fay Whittemore (1884–1937) – vice-president of the National Woman's Party 1925
• Emma Howard Wight (1863–1935) – Virginia suffragist; author
• Mary Holloway Wilhite (1831–1892) – physician, philanthropist; woman's suffrage and women's rights leader
• Frances Willard (1839–1898) – leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writer
• Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League
• Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams (1880–1958) – suffragette from Texas; formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League
• Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838-1913), social reformer; Kansas suffragist
• Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944) – litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist
• Emma Wold (1871–1950) – president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, later headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party
• Clara Snell Wolfe (1872–1970) – 1st Vice Chairman National Woman's Party and Chairman Ohio Branch
• Victoria 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