John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth

male, deceased (1865)
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham...
Lucy Burns

Lucy Burns

female, deceased (1966)
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul....
Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe

female, deceased (1904)
Frances Power Cobbe, was an Irish writer who is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist. Born in...
Emily Davies

Emily Davies

female, deceased (1921)
Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 - 13 July 1921) was an English feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university...
Lydia Becker

Lydia Becker

female, deceased (1890)
Lydia Ernestine Becker, was born in Manchester, and was an active leader in the early British suffrage movement. Becker was also an aspiring...
Richard Pankhurst

Richard Pankhurst

male, deceased (1898)
Richard Marsden Pankhurst (May, 1834 - July 5, 1898) was the son of Henry Francis Pankhurst (1806-1873) and Margaret Marsden (1803-1879). He was...
May Arkwright

May Arkwright

female, deceased (1915)
May Hutton née Arkwright was a suffrage leader in the early history of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Hutton was abandoned by her p...
Rosika Schwimmer

Rosika Schwimmer

female
Rosika Schwimmer or Bédy-Schwimmer "Rózsa" Rózsika was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist and female suffragist. Rosika Schwimmer was born on Sep...
Eleanor Rathbone

Eleanor Rathbone

female, deceased (1946)
Eleanor Florence Rathbone (May 12 1872 - January 2 1946) was an Independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's...
Emily Stowe

Emily Stowe

female, deceased (1903)
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe Jennings (May 1, 1831 - April 30, 1903) was the first female doctor to practise in Canada, and an activist for women's...