WOVEN WOMEN COLLECTION: Complete Set of 423 Downloadable 8k Digital Illustrations from VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE™

The complete WOVEN WOMEN COLLECTION from VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE.™

423 of history's most notable women, each rendered in a unique textile-inspired medium that honors the interwoven contributions of women and feminist causes across every era, culture, and discipline. 

From Abigail Adams to Wu Zetian. From ancient queens and philosophers to scientists, artists, activists, and trailblazers of the modern era. Their collective legacy forms the fabric of the world we live in today. And now they are all in one illustrated collection.

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Abigail Adams (1744-1818) Founding Mother · Feminist · Letter Writer
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) World's First Computer Programmer
Adela of Blois (1067-1137) Norman Crusader · Queen · Diplomat
Adelaide Hoodless (1857-1910) Founded Women's Institutes in Canada
Adelaide of Italy (931–999) Holy · Roman Empress · Philanthropist
Adelaide of Maurienne (1092-1154) Queen Consort of France
Adelaide of Savoy (1015-1079) Empress · Mother of Italy
Adelaide of Susa (1016-1091) Italian Marchioness · Powerful Ruler
Adeliza of Louvain (1103-1151) Queen of England · Poet
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803) French Miniaturist and Portrait Painter
Ælfgifu of Northampton (1000-1069) Danish Viking · Queen Consort
Ælfthryth (Elfrida) of Wessex (945-1000) First Crowned English Queen
Aelia Eudocia (Eudocia Athenais) (401-460) Byzantine Empress · Poet · Scholar
Æthelflæd Lady of the Mercians (870–918) Anglo-Saxon Warrior Queen
Agnes d'Harcourt (1200-1250) French Abbess · Biographer · Writer
Agnes of Poitou (1025-1077) Holy Roman Empress · Regent
Ahilyabai Holkar (1725-1795) Maratha Ruler · Saint · Philosopher
Aisha al-Manoubia (1190-1267) Sufi Mystic Poet · Saint
Aisha bint Abu Bakr (613-678) Prophet's Wife · Scholar
Amalasuntha (495-535) Ostrogothic · Regent · Scholar · Linguist
Amanirenas (10 BCE) Nubian Warrior Queen · Kandake
Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) Dress Reformist · Women's Rights
Amelia Denis de Icaza (1836-1911) Panamanian Poet
Amelia Yeomans (1842-1913) Canadian Physician · Suffragist · Reformer
Ana Betancourt (1832-1901) Cuban Independence Activist · Orator
Ana de Jesús (1545-1621) Carmelite Nun · Mystic · Writer
Ana Monterroso de Lavalleja (1791-1858 Uruguay) Uruguayan Independence Heroine
Anacaona (1474-1504) Taino Queen · Poet · Martyr
Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865-1887) and Kadambini Bose Ganguly (1861-1923) First Indian Women Doctors
Angela Merici (1474-1540) Founded Ursuline Teaching Order
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) Neoclassical Painter · Royal Academy
Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1712-1794) Pioneering French Royal Midwife
Anna (Sophia) of Kiev (1030-1075) Queen of France · Scholar
Anna Dalassena (1020-1102) Byzantine Empress · Political Master
Anna Filosofova (1837-1912) Russian Activist · Social Reformer
Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1931) Minister · Pacifist · Writer
Anna Jagiellon (1523-1596) Queen of Poland · Unifier
Anna Komnene (1083-1153) Byzantine Princess · Historian · Author
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) Dissenting Poet · Essayist · Educator
Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) First European Woman Scholar
Anna of Savoy (1306-1365) Byzantine Empress · Regent · Ruler
Anna Wheeler (1780-1848) Irish Socialist
Anne Boleyn (1501-1536) Queen of England · Martyr
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) First American Published Poet
Anne Clifford (1590-1676) English Diarist · Castle Restorer
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) Puritan Dissident · Religious Leader
Anne Neville (1456-1485) Queen of England Consort
Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) Twice Crowned French Queen
Anne of France (1461-1522) Regent · Ruler · Diplomat · Strategist
Anne Pratt (1806-1893) Victorian Botanical Illustrator · Writer
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) First Ordained American Woman
Antonia Nava de Catalán (1779-1843) Mexican Educator · Women's School Founder
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) First Professional English Woman Writer
Arcangela Tarabotti (1609-1652) Venetian Nun · Writer
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) Italian Baroque Painter
Artemisia I of Caria (480 BCE) Persian Wars Naval Commander
Aspasia of Miletus (470-410 BCE) Greek Philosopher · Pericles' Partner
Augusta Lewis Troup (1848-1920) Pioneering Typographer · Union Organizer
Auðr Aud the Deep-Minded (9th century) Viking Age Iceland Settler
A'isha Taymur (Aisha Taymuriyya) (1840-1902) Egyptian Feminist · Social Activist · Writer
Baba Petkova (1826-1910) Bulgarian Revolutionary · Educator · Patriot
Ban Zhao (45-116 CE) China's First Female Historian
Barbara (Babette) Ployer (1765-1819) Mozart's Student · Pianist · Composer
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891) Feminist Artist · Education Reformer
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) Baroque Composer · Singer
Bartolina Sisa (1753-1782) Bolivian Indigenous Resistance Leader
Bathsua Makin (1600-1675) First English Feminist Educator
Beatrice of Nazareth (1200-1268) Flemish Mystic · Seven Manners of Loving
Beatriz Galindo La Latina (1465-1534) Humanist · Scholar · Queen's Teacher
Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820-1879) Indian Mutiny Resistance · Queen
Belva Lockwood (1830-1917) First Woman Presidential Candidate
Berengaria of Castile (1180–1246) Castile Queen · Regent · Empress
Berengaria of Navarre (1240-1300) Richard the First's Queen · Crusader
Bertha of Lorraine (845-912) Queen of Germany and France
Bertha of Savoy (1050-1085) German Queen · Holy Roman
Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) Nobel Peace Prize · Author
Bianca Maria Visconti (1425-1468) Milanese Duchess · Shrewd Ruler
Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1858-1921) Iranian Feminist · Writer · Pioneer
Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) French Queen · Regent · Crusader
Blanche of Navarre (1177–1229) Countess of Champagne · Literary Patron
Bluestocking Club (circa 1760) Georgian Women's Intellectual Circle
Bona of Savoy (1449-1503) Milanese Duchess · Regent · Mother
Boudica (30-61 CE) Celtic Warrior Queen
Brontë Sisters Charlotte (1816-1855) Emily (1818-1848) Anne (1820-1849) Sister Authors of Jane Eyre (1847), Wuthering Heights (1847), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Bruriah (fl 2nd century CE) Talmudic Era Woman Scholar
Camilla Collett (1813-1895) Norwegian Feminist · Novelist · Pioneer
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) First Professional Woman Astronomer
Caroline LeCount (1846-1923) Civil Rights Streetcar Activist
Caroline Norton (1808-1877) Victorian Legal Reformer · Writer
Caroline Severance (1820-1914) Women's Club Movement Founder
Carrie Nation (1846-1911) Axe-Wielding Temperance Activist
Caterina Sforza (1463-1509) Renaissance Warrior · Countess · Ruler
Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717–1795) Dutch Botanist · Flora Illustrator
Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) Domestic Science · Education Reformer
Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791) Republican · Historian · Feminist · Writer
Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) Italian-Born French Queen · Mother of Kings
Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796) Russia's Greatest Enlightenment Empress
Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) Henry VIII's First Queen
Catherine of Brescia (1240-1310) Blessed Dominican Nun · Mystic
Catherine of Burgundy (1125-1190) Burgundian Duchess · Diplomat · Ruler
Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510) Mystic · Charity Hospital Founder
Catherine of Habsburg (1320-1385) Austrian Duchess · Political Figure
Catherine of Lancaster (1373–1418) Queen of Castile
Catherine of Navarre (1470–1517) Queen of Navarre
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Dominican Mystic · Church Reformer
Catherine Parr (1512-1548) Last of Henry's Wives
Chand Bibi (1550-1599) Deccan Regent · Warrior · Diplomat
Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) Black Abolitionist · Civil War Educator · Poet
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) Romantic Poet · Novelist · Reformer
Chen Xiefen (1873-1923) Chinese Feminist · Revolutionary · Journalist
Christine de Pizan (1364-c. 1430) Medieval Feminist Writer
Clara Barton (1821-1912) American Red Cross Founder
Clara Cressingham (1854-1906) Colorado's First Woman Legislator
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Romantic Era Pianist/Composer
Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE) Egypt's Last Pharaoh Queen
Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909) Peruvian Novelist · Indigenism Pioneer
Concepción Arenal (1820-1893) Galician Dramatic Author · Law Scholar · Journalist
Constance of Sicily (1249-1302) Queen of Aragon
Constantia Grierson (1704-1732) Irish Classical Scholar · Editor
Dervorguilla of Galloway (1210–1290) Scottish Noblewoman · Balliol College
Dhuoda (803–843) Carolingian Noblewoman · Writer
Didda of Kashmir (958-1003) Kashmir Warrior Queen · Regent
Dido (Elissa) of Carthage (9th century BCE) Founded Carthage · Legendary Queen
Dolores Bedoya de Molina (1783-1853) Guatemalan Independence Movement Heroine
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) Mental Health Reform Crusader
Dorothea Erxleben (1715-1762) First German Woman Doctor
Dr Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) Pioneer Medical Educator
E Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Mohawk Poet · Performer · Writer
Eadgifu of Wessex (902-960) Anglo-Saxon Queen
Edith of Wessex (1025-1075) English Queen · Edward's Wife
Efunroye Tinubu (1810-1887) Lagos Market Queen Trader
Ekaterina Dashkova (1743-1810) Russian Enlightenment Academy President
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) Medieval Europe's Most Powerful Queen
Eleanor of Aragon (1358-1382) Queen of Sardinia and Sicily
Eleanor of England (1162-1214) Queen of Castile · Diplomat
Eleanor of Portugal (1434-1467) Holy Roman Empress · Queen
Eleanor of Provence (1223-1291) Queen of England · Cultural Patroness
Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684) First Woman Doctorate Venice
Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) Florence Duchess Art Patron
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1752–1799) Italian Revolutionary · Journalist · Martyr
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) Indigo Cultivation · Colonial · Pioneer
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) Victorian Journalist · Novelist · Critic
Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910) Polish Novelist · Feminist · Humanist
Elizabeth (Bess) of Hardwick (1527-1608) Elizabethan Era's Wealthiest Woman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Seneca Falls Declaration Founder
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) Bluestocking Classicist · Poet · Translator
Elizabeth Cellier (1640-c. 1700) English Midwife · Catholic Activist
Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816) Scottish Educator · Moral Philosopher
Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Virgin · Queen of England
Elizabeth Melville (1578-1640) First Scottish Woman Published · Poet
Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) Bluestocking Literary Hostess · Critic
Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman (1726–1785) Colonial Portrait Subject Loyalist
Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492) First Commoner English Queen
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) First Woman MIT Scientist
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) Spanish Novelist · Journalist · Literary critic
Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) French Mathematician · Physicist · Philosopher
Emily Blackwell (1826-1910) Women's Medical College Founder
Emily Davies (1830-1921) Girton College Cambridge Founder
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Reclusive American Poet Genius
Emma of Normandy (985-1052) Queen of England Twice
Emma Willard (1787-1870) Women's Higher Education Pioneer
Empress Irene of Athens (752-803) First Solo Byzantine Empress
Empress Jitō of Japan (645-703) Third Woman Empress · Poet
Empress Joséphine (1763-1814) First Wife of Napoléon Bonaparte · First Empress of the French
Empress Kōgyoku (later Saimei) of Japan (594-661) Two-time Monarch of Japan
Empress Kōken (later Shōtoku) of Japan (718-770) Patron of Buddhism · Sponsored Production and Distribution of One Million Dharani
Empress Liu of Song (969-1033) Song Dynasty Dowager Empress
Empress Matilda (1102-1167) England's First Female Ruler
Empress of Ethiopia Taytu Betul (1851-1918) Ethiopian Warrior · Empress · Strategist
Empress Suiko of Japan (554-628) Japan's First Reigning Empress
Empress Theodora (500-548) Byzantine Empress From Circus
Enheduanna (2280 BCE) World's First Named Author
Ernestine Rose (1810-1892) Polish-American Suffragist · Atheist · Activist
Esther Hobart Morris (1814-1902) First US Woman Justice
Euphemia of Poland (1245-1300) Polish Duchess · Convent Founder
Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110-1173) Belarusian Princess · Scholar · Saint
Élisabeth Charlotte Princesse Palatine (1652-1722) Wrote 60,000 Letters
Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913) Pioneering Black Educator · Principal
Fatima al-Fihri (800-880) Founded World's First University
Flora Tristan (1803-1844) French Socialist · Feminist · Writer
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Modern Nursing Founder · Reformer
Frances Boothby (1650-1700) First English Woman Playwright
Frances Burney (1752-1840) Georgian Novelist · Diarist · Satirist
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Black Abolitionist · Poet · Activist
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) Victorian Feminist · Anti-Vivisection Campaigner
Frances Willard (1839-1898) President Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Frances Wright (1795-1852) Radical Scottish-American Freethinker · Reformer
Francesca Caccini (1587-1641) First Woman Opera Composer
Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) Swedish Feminist · Novelist · Reformer
Fujiwara no Shoshi (1025-1100) Japanese Empress · Literary Patron
Galla Placidia (388-450) Western Roman Empress · Regent
Genevieve of Paris (419-512) Patron Saint of Paris
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) French Novelist · Philosopher · Political Theorist
Gertrude of Babenberg (1115-1150) Austrian Duchess · Abbess · Mystic
Gisela of Swabia (990–1043) German Queen · Holy Roman
Giulia Gonzaga (1507-1566) Italian Noblewoman · Religious Reformer
Grace Hoadley Dodge (1856-1914) YWCA Founder · Social Reformer
Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (997-1069) Powerful Danish Noblewoman · Matriarch
Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829) Puritan Feminist Writer · Theologian
Hannah More (1745-1833) Evangelical Reformer · Abolitionist · Writer
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Forten Purvis (1810-1875) Black Abolitionist · Suffragist · Activist
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) Sociologist · Feminist · Political Economist
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858) Philosopher · Feminist Rights Essayist
Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) Underground Railroad Freedom Conductor
Hatshepsut (1479-1458 BCE) Egypt's Greatest Female Pharaoh
Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) German Feminist · Suffragist Writer
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) Native Rights Novelist · Poet
Helen Taylor (1831-1907) Radical Feminist Suffragist · Activist
Hemma of Gurk (995–1045) Austrian Saint · Noblewoman
Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821) Johnson's Friend · Diarist · Writer
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) Mystic · Composer · Healer · Polymath
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (935-1002) First Named German Woman Playwright
Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana) (1505–1558) Former Slave · Powerful Woman in Ottoman History
Hypatia of Alexandria (350-415) Greek Mathematician · Philosopher · Martyr
Ingegerd Olofsdotter Princess of Kiev (1001–1050) Swedish Princess · Kiev Queen
Irmengard of Baden (1200-1260) German Countess · Convent Founder
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) Suffragist · Women's Rights Leader
Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633) Spanish Infanta · Netherlands Regent
Isabella of Angoulême (1188-1246) Queen of England · Secured Plantagenet Lineage
Isabella of France (1295-1358) "She-Wolf" · England's Queen
Isabella of Hainaut (1150-1195) French Queen · Wife of Philip Augustus
Isabella of Portugal (1397-1471) Duchess of Burgundy · Cultural Patron
Isabella Sforza (1448-1509) Milanese Duchess · Writer · Humanist
Jadwiga of Poland (1374-1399) Poland's Beloved Crowned "King"
Jane Loudon (1807-1858) Victorian Botanical Writer · Novelist
Jane Sharp (fl 1671) First English Midwifery Handbook
Jane Swisshelm (1815-1884) Abolitionist · Journalist · Women's Rights
Jeanne Baret (1740-1807) First Woman Around World
Jeanne d'Albret (1555-1572) Protestant Huguenot · Queen of Navarre
Jeanne de Bretagne (1330-1388) Breton Duchess · Noblewoman
Jeanne de Châteaudun (1240-1300) Wife of Two French Noblemen
Jeanne de Lestonnac (1556-1640) Founded Company of Mary
Jeanne Deroin (1805-1894) Eugénie Niboyet (1796-1883) Pauline Roland (1805-1852) French Socialist-Feminists · Saint-Simonian Activists
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) France's Warrior Heroine · Saint · Martyr
Joan of England (1210-1238) Scottish Queen · Diplomat
Joanna I of Naples (1326-1382) Medieval Queen · Diplomat
Johanna Schopenhauer (1766-1838) German Writer · Salon Hostess
Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749-1833) Spanish Feminist Writer of Enlightenment Era
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez (1768-1829) Mexican Independence Leader · La Corregidora
Josephine Butler (1828-1906) Social Purity · Feminist Reformer
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) Black Women's Club Movement
Judith of Flanders (1030-1095) Countess of Flanders · Art Patron
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1797) Early American Feminist · Essayist
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) Battle Hymn · Poet · Suffragist
Juliana de Foix (1341-1406) Countess of Foix · Ruling Noblewoman
Kassia (805-867) Byzantine Poet · Composer · Abbess
Kate Chopin (1850-1904) Feminist Novelist · The Awakening
Katherine Jones Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691) Boyle's Sister · Scientific Patron
Katherine Philips (Orinda) (1632-1664) and Anne Owens (Lucasia) Matchless Orinda · Welsh Poet
Kishida Toshiko (1863-1901) Japanese Feminist · Rights Speaker
Lady Dorothy Nevill (1826-1913) Victorian Horticulturist · Letter Writer
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) First Professional Woman Painter
Li Qingzhao (1084-1155) China's Greatest Woman Poet
Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) Australian Feminist · Publisher · Writer
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women · Beloved Author
Louise de Kéralio (1758-1822) French Revolutionary Journalist · Editor
Louise de Marillac (1591-1660) Co-Founded Daughters of Charity
Louise d'Épinay (1722-1800) French Enlightenment Writer · Salonière
Louise Labé (1524-1566) French Renaissance Poet · La Belle Cordière
Louise Michel (1830-1905) Red Virgin · Paris Commune
Louise Otto-Peters (1819-1895) German Feminist · Women's Newspaper
Lubna of Córdoba (950-984) Caliph's Learned Secretary · Royal Librarian
Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) Quaker · Abolitionist · Suffragist · Preacher
Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) Venetian Feminist · Philosopher · Writer
Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) Puritan · Biographer · Poet · Writer
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) First Woman Massachusetts Degree
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Abolitionist · Author · Editor · Activist
Macrina the Younger (330-379) Christian Philosopher · Ascetic · Theologian
Madame de Sévigné (1626-1696) French Aristocrat · Masterful Letter Writer
Madeleine Brès (1842-1921) France's First Licensed Woman Doctor
Mahaut of Artois (1268–1329) French Countess · Patron · Reformer
Manuela Sáenz (1797-1856) Bolívar's Liberatrix · South American Patriot
Margaret Bentinck Duchess of Portland (1715-1785) Natural History Duchess · Patron
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) Philosopher · Scientist · Blazing World
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Transcendentalist · Feminist · Journalist · Pioneer
Margaret I of Denmark (1353-1412) United Scandinavian Crowns · Ruler
Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482) Wars of the Roses · Queen
Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) Habsburg Regent · Netherlands Diplomat
Margaret of Babenberg (1242-1266) Austrian Duchess · Abbess
Margaret of Blois (1130-1190) Countess of Blois · Medieval Ruler
Margaret of England (1240-1275) Holy Roman Empress · Queen
Margaret of Flanders (1155-1199) Countess of Flanders · Crusade Leader
Margaret of Navarre Queen of Sicily (1135-1183) Norman Queen of Sicily · Patron
Margaret of Provence (1221-1295) French Queen · Wife of Saint Louis
Margaret of Savoy (1441-1483) Monferrat Marchioness · Ruler · Diplomat
Margaret of Valois (1553-1615) Margot · First Bourbon Queen
Margaret of York (1446-1503) Burgundy Duchess · Art Patron
Margaret Roper (1505-1544) Thomas More's Scholar Daughter
Margery Kempe (1373-1438) First English Autobiography · Mystic
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) Canada's First Woman Saint
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Renaissance Queen · Humanist · Writer
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) Irish Realist Novelist · Literary Pioneer
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) Mathematics' Greatest Woman Genius
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) First American Woman Astronomer
Maria of Antioch (1215-1282) Byzantine Empress · Latin Regent
Maria of Castile (1401-1458) Queen of Aragon · Peace Diplomat
Maria of Portugal (1521-1577) Princess · Poet · Patron of Arts
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) Scientific Illustrator · Insect Naturalist
Mariana Grajales Cuello (1815-1893) Cuban Independence · Mother · Revolutionary
Marianne North (1830-1890) Victorian Botanical · Explorer · Painter
Marie de Coucy (1218-1285) Scottish Queen of France
Marie de France (12th century) First French Woman Poet
Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) Montaigne's Feminist Adopted Daughter
Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699-1777) French Enlightenment Salonière · Arts Patron
María de Molina (1265–1321) Castile's Wise Regent · Peacemaker Queen
María de Zayas (1590-1661) Spanish Golden Age · Feminist Novelist
María Parado de Bellido (1777-1822) Peruvian Independence Martyr · Heroine
María Remedios del Valle (1766-1847) Argentina's Mother of the Fatherland
Martha Coffin Wright (1806-1875) Seneca Falls · Suffragist · Organizer
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) First Black Woman · Newspaper Editor
Mary Astell (1666-1731) First English Feminist Philosopher
Mary Davys (1674-1732) Early English · Novelist · Writer
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) Civil War Surgeon · Medal of Honor
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904) Black Civil Rights · Entrepreneur
Mary Hays (1759-1843) British Feminist · Radical Writer
Mary Lee (1821-1909) Australian Women's Suffrage Pioneer
Mary MacKillop (1842-1909) Australia's First Canonized Saint
Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482) Burgundy Heiress · Habsburg Marriage
Mary of Guise (1515-1560) Scotland's French Regent Queen
Mary of the Incarnation (Marie Guyart) (1599-1672) Canada's Mystic · Ursuline Founder
Mary Prince (1788-1833) First Black Woman · Autobiography
Mary Robinson (1757-1800) Perdita · Actress · Poet · Writer
Mary Sidney (1561-1621) Elizabethan Poet · Pembroke Countess
Mary Somerville (1780-1872) Victorian Polymath · Science Popularizer
Mary Ward (1585-1645) Founded Institute of Mary
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Vindication of Women's Rights
Mathilde Fibiger (1830-1872) Danish Feminist · Novelist · Pioneer
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) Suffragist · Indigenous Rights Writer
Matilda of Flanders (1031-1083) Conqueror's Queen · Tapestry Maker
Melisende of Jerusalem (1105–1161) Jerusalem Crusader Queen · Ruler
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) American Revolution · Satirist · Historian
Micaela Bastidas (1744-1781) Túpac Amaru II's Revolutionary Partner
Moderata Fonte (1555-1592) Venetian Feminist · Philosopher · Poet
Murasaki Shikibu (973-1014) World's First Novelist · Japan
Nadezhda Suslova (1843-1918) Russia's First Woman Doctor
Nakano Takeko (1847-1868) Japanese Female Samurai · Warrior
Nana Asma'u (1793-1864) Sokoto's Islamic Scholar · Poet · Teacher
Octavia Hill (1838-1912) Housing Reform · Conservationist · Founder
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) South African Feminist · Novelist
Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) French Revolutionary · Women's Rights
Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526-1555) Ferrara's Protestant Humanist Scholar
Paula of Rome (347-404) Desert Abbess · Jerome's Patron
Petronilla of Aragon (1080-1130) Aragon's First Sovereign Queen
Philippa of England (1394-1430) Queen of Denmark · Sweden · Norway
Philippa of Lancaster (1360-1415) Portugal's English-Born Queen · Reformer
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772) Mother of King George III
Princess Pingyang (598-623) Tang Dynasty Female General
Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832) Quaker · Writer · Botanist · Reformer
Qin Liangyu (1574-1648) Ming Dynasty Female General
Qiu Jin (1875-1907) and Xu Zihua (1873-1935) Chinese Revolutionary · Feminist · Martyrs
Queen Amina of Hausaland (1533-1610) Legendary Nigerian Warrior Queen
Queen Anula of Sri Lanka (47-42 BCE) First Asian Ruling Queen
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) Intellectual Queen · Abdicated for Rome
Queen Himiko (170-248) Japan's First Recorded Ruler
Queen Nzinga (1583-1663) Angola's Warrior Queen · Diplomat
Queen of Sheba (10th century BCE) Ethiopia's Legendary Wise Queen
Queen Seondeok of Silla (595-647) Korea's First Female Monarch
Rachel Speght (1597-1630s) First English Feminist Polemicist
Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904) Indonesian Women's Education Pioneer
Rani Lakshmibai (1828-1858) India's Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Razia Sultan (1205-1240) Delhi Sultanate's Only Empress
Raziya Sultan (1236-1240) Delhi Sultanate's Only Empress
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1906) First Black American Woman Doctor
Richeza of Lotharingia (995-1063) Polish Queen · Holy Roman Empress
Richeza of Poland (1116-1156) Castile Queen · Polish Princess
Rosa de Luz (1245-1300) Medieval Castile · Blessed Figure
Rose of Lima (1586-1617) First American-Born Saint
Sacagawea (1788-1812) Lewis & Clark Expedition Guide
Safiye Sultan (1550-1619) Ottoman Queen Mother · Regent
Saint Agnes of Bohemia (1211-1282) Bohemian Princess · Franciscan Founder
Saint Brigid of Kildare (451-525) Ireland's Patron Saint · Abbess
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Dominican Mystic · Church Reformer
Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) Poor Clares Founder · Francis's Friend
Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg (975-1040) Holy Roman Empress · Saint
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) Charity Worker · Franciscan Tertiary
Saint Hedwig of Silesia (1174-1243) Polish Duchess · Charity Saint
Saint Helena (250-330) Constantine's Mother · Jerusalem Pilgrim
Saint Hilda of Whitby (614-680) Anglo-Saxon Abbess · Synod of Whitby
Saint Ida of Burgundian (1010-1075) Crusader Era Blessed · Founder
Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242-1270) Dominican Princess · Mystic · Saint
Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) Scotland's Queen · Church Reform Saint
Saint Scholastica (480-543) Benedict's Twin · Benedictine Founder
Saint Teresa of Portugal (1150-1218) Portuguese Queen · Cistercian Blessed
Saint Thecla (1st century CE) Paul's Disciple · First Female Martyr
Saints Perpetua and Felicity Carthage's Christian Martyrs · 203 CE
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) Divine Sarah · Greatest Stage Actress
Sarah Drake (1803-1857) Victorian Botanical Illustrator · Naturalist
Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) Early English · Novelist · Writer
Sarah G Bagley (1806-1889) First US Woman Telegrapher
Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké (1805-1879) Grimké Sisters · Abolitionist Pioneers
Sarah Hewley (1657-1727) Dissenter Charity Foundation Pioneer
Savitribai Phule (1831-1897) India's First Women's School
Shajar al-Durr (1257) Egypt's Only Mamluk Sultana
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) First Major Woman Mathematician
Sofia of Lithuania (1397-1461) Russian Grand Duchess · Regent
Sofonisba Anguissola (1535-1625) Spanish Court · Renaissance Painter
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Ain't I a Woman · Abolitionist
Sophie de Condorcet (1764-1822) French Revolutionary · Salon Hostess
Sophie Germain (1776-1831) Mathematical Physicist · Elasticity Pioneer
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) First Feminist Poet of the Americas
Sulṭāna Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612-1675) Aceh's Female Sultan · Sumatra Ruler
Susan B Anthony (1820-1906) Women's Suffrage Champion · Leader
Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) First Native American Doctor
Tarabai Shinde (1850-1910) Indian Feminist · Brahmin Critic
Táhirih (1817-1852) Persian Poet · Theologian · Women's Rights Activist
Teresa Mulally (1728–1803) Irish Catholic Education Founder
Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) Spanish Carmelite Nun · Mystic · Counter-Reformation Leader
Trota of Salerno (12th-13th century) Medieval Women's Medicine Writer
Trotula of Salerno (1080-1150) Medieval Gynecology Text Author
Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị (d. 43 CE) Formidable Vietnamese Military Leaders · National Heroines
Urraca of León-Castile (1079-1126) First Reigning Queen in European History
Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) Michelangelo's Friend · Renaissance Poet
Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) Qing Dynasty Polymath · Astronomer
Wu Zetian (624-705) China's Only Female Emperor
Yaroslavna (Olga) of Kiev (940-1010) Princess Igor's Devoted Wife
Yolanda of Jerusalem (1220-1260) Jerusalem Queen Crusader Era
Zenobia of Palmyra (240-274) Palmyra's Warrior Queen · Rebel
Zoe Porphyrogenita (978-1050) Byzantine Empress