Notable Female Educators and Scholars

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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A-C

• Arendt, Hannah, German-American political theorist
• Beecher, Catharine Esther, American educator
• Beauvoir, Simone de, French author
• Benedict, Ruth Fulton, American anthropologist
• Berry, Martha McChesney, American educator and philanthropist
• Bethune, Mary McLeod, American educator
• Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, Russian theosophist and occultist
• Blow, Susan Elizabeth, American educator
• Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette, French educator and author
• Carpenter, Mary, English educator
• Chase, Mary Ellen, American educator and writer
• Crandell, Prudence, American educator and abolitionist

D-H

• Davies, Emily (Sarah Emily Davies), British feminist, co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge
• Duchesne, Rose Philippine French educator in the United States
• Épinay, Louise Florence Pétronille (de Tardieu d'Esclavelles) La Live d', French woman of letters
• Germain, Sophie, French mathematician
• Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, American educator
• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, educator
• Goodall, Jane, English ethologist
• Gray, Hanna Holborn, American historian
• Greer, Germaine, Australian author
• Hamilton, Alice, American educator and physician
• Harrison, Jane Ellen, English classical scholar
• Huxtable, Ada Louise, American architecture critic
• Hypatia, Alexandrian Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician

I-M

• Isaacs, Susan Sutherland, British educator
• Jordan, Barbara, American politician and educator
• Knight, Sarah Kemble, American teacher
• Kovalevsky, Sonya , Russian mathematician
• LaDuke, Winona, American scholar
• Langer, Susanne Knauth, American philosopher
• Lyon, Mary, American educator
• Macy, Anne Sullivan, American educator
• Mead, Margaret, American anthropologist
• Millett, Kate, writer, political activist, artist
• Montessori, Maria, Italian educator and physician

N-S

• Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, American educator
• Pagels, Elaine Hiesey, American religious historian
• Palmer, Alice Freeman, American educator
• Park, Rosemary, American educator
• Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, American educator, lecturer, and reformer
• Peterson, Martha, American educator
• Randolph, Virginia, American educator
• Roberts, J. Catherine, American science teacher
• Sontag, Susan, American writer and critic
• Spencer, Anna Garlin, American educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister
• Staël, Germaine de, French-Swiss woman of letters

T-Y

• Thomas, Martha Carey, American educator and feminist
• Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim, American historian
• Vendler, Helen, poetry critic
• Weil, Simone, French philosopher and mystic
• Willard, Emma, American educator, pioneer in woman's education
• Winnemucca, Sarah, Paiute lecturer, educator, and writer
• Woolley, Mary Emma, American educator
• Young, Ella Flagg, American educator

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