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Addams, Jane (1860-1935)
Aebi, Magdalena (1898-1980)
Aedesia (ca. 400)
Aelia Eudocia (ca. 401-460)
Aesara of Lucania (ca. 300 BCE)
Aganice of Thessaly (ca. 100 BCE)
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot (1822-1907)
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718-1799)
Albrecht, Johanne Sophie Dorothea (1757-1840)
Allart de Meritens, Hortense (1801-1879)
Amrapali (ca. 500 BCE)
Andreas-Salome, Lou (1861-1937)
Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret (1919-2001)
Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)
Arete of Cyrene (ca. 400 BCE)
Arnim, Bettina von (1785-1859)
Arnauld, Jacqueline-Marie-Angelique (1591-1661)
Arnauld, Jeanne-Catherine-Agnes (1593-1672)
Asbaje y Ramirez de Santillana, Juana Ines de (1648-1695)
Aspasia of Miletus (470 BCE–400 BCE)
Astell, Mary (1666-1731)
Axiothea of Phlius (ca. 350 BCE)
Bachelard, Suzanne (1919-2007)
Baldinger, Dorothea Friedrika (1739-1786)
Bandemer, Susanne von (1751-1828)
Barzani, Asnat (1590-1670)
Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina (1711-1778)
Beatrice of Nazareth (ca. 1200-1268)
Beecher, Catharine Esther (1800-1878)
Bespaloff, Rachel (1895-1949)
Bibb, Grace (1842-1912)
Blackwell, Antoinette (1825-1921)
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891)
Blochmann, Elisabeth (1892-1972)
Blow, Susan (1843-1916)
Boeuf, Marie (1868-1906)
Brackett, Anna Callender (1836-1911)
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Buehler, Charlotte (1893-1974)
Buschmann, Hildegard (1889-unknown)
Calinich, Margarete (1868-unknown)
Calkins, Mary Whiton (1863-1930)
Catherine of Alexandria (ca. 287-ca. 305)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Cereta, Laura (1469-1499)
Cheney, Ednah Dow (1824-1904)
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
Cleobulina (ca. 600 BCE)
Clodius, Juliane Friederike Henriette (1750-1805)
Cochois, Babette (1725-1780)
Cockburn, Catharine (1679-1749)
Conrad-Martius, Hedwig (1888-1966)
Conway, Anne (1631-1679)
Cornaro Piscopia, Elena (1646-1684)
Dacier, Anne (1647-1720)
Daly, Mary (1928-2010)
Damo (ca. 500 BCE)
Daoyun, Xie (ca. 340-ca. 399)
D’Aubigne, Francoise (1635-1719)
De Beauvoir, Simone (1908-1986)
De Charriere, Isabelle (1740-1805)
De Gouges, Olympe (1748-1793)
De Gournay, Marie (1565-1645)
De Grouchy, Marie-Louise-Sophie (1764-1822)
D’Hericourt, Jenny Poinsard (1801-1875)
De Stael-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine (1766-1817)
Demar, Claire (1799-1833)
Deshoulieres, Antoinette Du Ligier de la Garde (1638-1694)
Deutschbein, Marie Anna (1881-1971)
Dhouda (ca. 802-ca. 843)
Diotima of Mantinea (ca. 440 BCE)
Domna, Julia (160-217)
Druskowitz, Helene von (1856-1918)
Du Chatelet, Emilie (1706-1749)
Duddington, Natalie (1886-1972)
Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa, Tatjana (1876-1964)
Ehrmann, Marianne (1755-1795)
Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680)
Enheduanna (ca. 2285 BCE-ca. 2250 BCE)
Engelhard, Magdalene Philippine (1756-1831)
Erxleben, Dorothea Christiane (1715-1762)
Evans, Mary Anne (1819-1880)
Favre, Julie Velten (1833-1896)
Fedele, Cassandra (ca. 1465-ca. 1558)
Forkel-Liebeskind, Sophie Margarethe Dorothea (1765-1853)
Frenkel-Brunswik, Else (1908-1958)
Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1745-1808)
Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Gallitzin, Amalie von (1748-1806)
Gambara, Veronica (1485-1550)
Geiger, Afra (1896-1945)
Germain, Marie-Sophie (1776-1831)
Gertrude the Great (1256-ca. 1302)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)
Goerke, Lilly (1904-1992)
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)
Gontard, Susette (1768-1802)
Gothe, Erika (1887-1966)
Gottsched, Luise (1713-1762)
Hadewijch of Brabant (ca. 1200-ca. 1260)
Hafkesbrink, Hanna (1902-1996)
Hahn-Neurath, Olga (1882-1937)
Hamburger, Kaete (1896-1992)
Heesch, Elli (1904-1993)
Heimann, Betty (1885-1926)
Heller, Agnes (b. 1929)
Heloise (ca. 1090-1164)
Herbert, Maria Regina Freiin von (1769-1803)
Hermann, Grete (1901-1984)
Herrad of Landsberg (ca. 1130-1195)
Hersch, Jeanne (1910-2000)
Herzberg, Lilly (1891-1957)
Hilda of Whitby (ca. 614-ca. 680)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Hipparchia of Maroneia (350 BCE-280 BCE)
Holst, Amalia (1758-1847)
Hosiasson-Lindenbaum, Janina (1899-1942)
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (ca. 935-ca. 973)
Huber-Forster, Marie Therese (1764-1829)
Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 370-415)
Jaegerschmid, Amelie Adelgundis (1895-1996)
Jones, Katherine (1615-1691)
Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342-ca. 1416)
Kahl-Furthmann, Gertrud (1893-1984)
Kanthack, Katharina (1901-1986)
Katz, Rosa (1885-1976)
Kauppi, Raili Marjatta (1920-1995)
Kies, Marietta (1853-1899)
Koehler, Eva (1888-unknown)
Kollontai, Alexandra Mikhailovna (1872-1952)
Komnena, Anna (1083-ca. 1154)
Krenz, Editha (1915-unknown)
Kuznitzky, Gertrud (1889-1976)
La Roche, Marie Sophie von (1730-1807)
La Sabliere, Marguerite de (1640-1693)
Landmann-Kalischer, Edith (1877-1951)
Langer, Susanne Katherina (1895-1985)
Lastheneia of Mantinea (ca. 385 BCE)
Lopamudra (ca. 1200 BCE)
Lovelace, Ada (1815-1852)
Luxemburg, Rosa (1871-1919)
Macaulay, Catharine (1731-1791)
Macrina the Elder (ca. 270-ca. 340)
Macrina the Younger (ca. 327-379)
Maerten, Lu (1879-1970)
Mahadevi, Akka (1130-1160)
Maitreyi (ca. 800 BCE)
Makin, Bathsua Reginald (1600-1675)
Marcella (ca. 270)
Marinella, Lucrezia (1571-1653)
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
Marx, Eleanor (1855-1898)
Mary the Jewess (ca. 200)
Masham, Damaris (1659-1708)
Matzun, Uta (1907-unknown)
Mayreder, Rosa (1858-1938)
Mead, Lucia Ames (1856-1936)
Mechthild of Magdeburg (ca. 1207-ca. 1294)
Melissa (ca. 300 BCE)
Mereau, Sophie Friederike (1770-1806)
Michel, Louise (1830-1905)
Micic, Zagorka (1903-1982)
Mill, Harriet Taylor (1807-1858)
Mises, Hilda von (1893-1973)
Mitchell, Ellen (1838-1920)
Moers, Martha Franziska Constanze (1877-1965)
Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999)
Murray, Judith Sargent (1751-1820)
Naden, Constance Caroline Woodhill (1858-1889)
Nicarete of Megara (ca. 300 BCE)
Nogarola, Isotta (1418-1466)
Oakeley, Hilda Diana (1867-1950)
Offenberg, Maria (1888-1972)
Ortmann, Margarete (1882-1973)
Paget, Violet (1856-1935)
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928)
Papst, Wilma (1907-1973)
Perictione I (ca. 350 BCE)
Perictione II (ca. 450 BCE)
Phintys (ca. 400 BCE)
Piscopia, Helena Lucretia Cornaro (1646-1684)
Pizan, Christine de (1364-1430)
Pluemacher, Olga (1839-1895)
Porete, Marguerite (ca. 1250-1310)
Pozzo di Forzi, Modesta di (1555-1592)
Ptolemais of Cyrene (ca. 300 BCE)
Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya (714/717/718 — 801)
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982)
Rand, Rose (1903-1980)
Reimarus, Margaretha Elisabeth (1735-1805)
Rodde-Schloezer, Dorothea von (1770-1825)
Rosenbleuth, Amalie (1892-1975)
Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse (1891-1990)
Sabuco de Nantes Barrera, Oliva (1562-1622)
Sachs, Eva Henrietta (1882-1936)
Salis, Barbara Margaretha von (1855-1929)
Salomon, Adelgunde Konkordie (1726-1789)
Schlegel, Dorothea Friederike (1764-1839)
Schlegel-Schelling, Caroline (1763-1809)
Schmitz, Thekla (1890-1960)
Schopenhauer, Johanna Henrietta (1766-1838)
Schurman, Anna Maria van (1607-1678)
Sehl, Erica (1902-unknown)
Shikibu, Murasaki (ca. 973-ca. 1014)
Shklar, Judith Nisse (1928-1992)
Somerville, Mary (1780-1872)
Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714)
Sophie Charlotte of Hanover (1668-1705)
Sosipatra of Ephesus (ca. 330-362)
Souvre, Madeleine de (1599-1678)
Stebbing, Lizzie Susan (1885-1943)
Stein, Edith (1891-1942)
Stowe, Harriet Elisabeth Beecher (1811-1896)
Strozzi, Lorenza (1515-1591)
Suchon, Gabrielle (1632-1703)
Susman, Margarete (1872-1966)
Taubert, Agnes (1844-1877)
Taussky-Todd, Olga (1906-1995)
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Theano of Crotone (ca. 550 BCE)
Themistoclea (ca. 600 BCE)
Theodora (ca. 500-548)
Timycha of Sparta (ca. 400 BCE)
Trabotti, Elena Cassandra (1604-1652)
Tsogyal, Yeshe (757-817)
Tullia d’Aragona (ca. 1510-1556)
Unzer, Johanna Charlotte (1724-1782)
Vachaknavi, Gargi (ca. 700 BCE)
Varnhagen, Rahel (1771-1833)
Voigtländer, Else (1882-1946)
Walther, Gerda (1897-1977)
Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)
Weil, Simone (1909-1943)
Welby, Victoria (1837-1912)
Weyl, Helene (1893-1948)
Wheeler, Anna (1780-1848)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Zetkin, Clara (1857-1933)
Zhao, Ban (45-ca. 116)
Ziegler, Christiana Mariana von (1695-1760)
Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)
Zombrano, Maria (1904-1991)
Sources
Waithe, Mary Ellen.
A History of Women Philosophers
Society for the Study of Women Philosophers
Wikipedia List of Women Philosophers
Deutsche Biographie