Category
page 1French women human rights activists
George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
Catherine Deneuve
French actress (born 1943)
Olympe de Gouges
French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
Simone Veil
French politician (1927–2017)
Amanda Lear
French singer, actress, television presenter
Flora Tristan
French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
Christiane Taubira
French politician

Julie Gayet
French film actress and film producer
Marguerite Durand
French actress and journalist, editor (1864–1936)
Hubertine Auclert
French feminist and suffragist (1848–1914)

Françoise d'Eaubonne
French feminist (1920–2005)
Gisèle Halimi
French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist and politician (1927–2020)
Christine Delphy
French sociologist
Séverine
French anarchist, journalist and feminist (1855–1929)
Princess María Teresa of Parma
Parmese Royal and sociologist
Madeleine Pelletier
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)
Maria Deraismes
French writer and feminist (1828–1894)
Rama Yade
Senegalese and French politician and the author
Marlène Schiappa
French politician and writer
Frédérique Bel
French actress
Agnès Callamard
French human rights activist
Balthild
Wife of Clovis II
Céline Bara
French pornographic actress
Lucie Aubrac
French resistance member (1912-2007)
Eugénie Cotton
French scientist and women's rights activist (1881–1967)
Nina Bouraoui
French novelist and songwriter
Caroline Fourest
French journalist, editor, essayist and antifascist activist
Etta Palm
Dutch feminist and spy
Coccinelle
Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (23 August 1931 – 9 October 2006), better known by her stage name Coccinelle ("ladybird" in French), was a French cabaret entertainer, singer, actress, and transgender activist. A transgender woman, she was the first widely publicized celebrity to undergo gender reassignment in Europe. Coccinelle was an international celebrity and a renowned club singer, styled as a blonde bombshell and sex symbol.
Samira Bellil
French feminist activist and campaigner for the rights of girls and women (1972–2004)
Nathalie Lemel
French activist (1826-1921)
Hélène de Beauvoir
French painter and the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1910-2001)
Eugénie Niboyet
French writer and feminist, editor (1796-1883)
Elisabeth Moreno
French / Cape Verdean business executive and politician
Hélène Bertaux
French sculptor (1825–1909)
Nicole Girard-Mangin
French physician
Yvette Roudy
French politician
Jane Misme
French journalist and feminist, editor (1865–1935)
Maria Pognon
French journalist and feminist
Maria Vérone
French suffragist (1874-1938)
Thérèse Clerc
French activist (1927-2016)
Michèle Causse
French academic
Emmanuelle Cosse
French politician
Cécile Brunschvicg
French politician, editor
Assa Traoré
French anti-racism activist
Blanche Edwards-Pilliet
French physician
Claudine Monteil
French writer, historian and diplomat
Elula Perrin
French writer
Alice Domon
Argentine activist (1937–1977)
Jeanne Schmahl
french-British suffragette and feminist
Léonie Rouzade
French women's rights activist and writer
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger
French suffragist (1853-1924)
Madeleine Barot
French theologian (1909-1995)

Marie Bonnevial
French teacher and feminist (1841–1918)
Maboula Soumahoro
French Anglicist, scholar and Afro-feminist activist
Germaine Poinso-Chapuis
French politician (1901-1981)
Andrée Viénot
French politician (1901–1976)
Sophie Doin
French novelist and essayist
Andrée Michel
French sociologist (1920–2022)
Anne Deraismes Feresse
Feminist activist