Katherine Jones
1600s Viscountess Ranelagh and woman of letters
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Sister Nivedita
Irish educator, writer, and political activist in India
Susanne Langer
American philosopher
Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).
Bettina d’Andrea
1300s Italian legal scholar and professor in law and philosophy at the University of Padua
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
1600s Italian scholar, one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy
Ban Zhao
Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician, the earliest known female Chinese historian
Ikram Antaki
Syrian-Mexican essayist, fiction writer, and poet
Christine de Pizan
1300s and 1400s Italian-born French writer, philosopher, composer and feminist
Dr Mary Whiton Calkins
In 1905 she served as the first female President of the American Psychological Association and in 1908 was ranked twelfth on a 1908 list of the top 50 psychologists in the country. Calkins also served as President of the American Philosophical Association in 1918.