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Women calligraphers

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Shin Saimdang
calligraphist and noted poet (1504-1551)
Guan Daosheng
Chinese artist and poet (1262-1319)
Fakhr-un-Nisa
Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah or Shuhdah al-Baghdadiyyah (died 1112) was a Kurdish scholar, muhaddith and a calligrapher. Shuhdha was called "the calligrapher, the pride of womanhood, a muhaddithah (female of muhaddith) of Iraq with a high Isnad."
Esther Inglis
Scottish painter, translator and calligrapher (1571-1624)
Yanagiwara Naruko
Japanese lady-in-waiting; concubine of Emperor Meiji; mother of Emperor Taishō
Ike Gyokuran
Japanese painter, calligrapher, and poet (1727–1784)
Toko Shinoda
Japanese artist (1913–2021)
Ōtagaki Rengetsu
Japanese Buddhist nun, poet, potter and artist (1791–1875)
Li Chevalier
French artist
Aisha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya
Andalusian writer and poet
Wei Shuo
Chinese calligrapher (272–349)
Ameena Ahmad Ahuja
Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist
Carol Twombly
American artist and typeface designer
Diemoth
Diemoth (Latinised as Diemudus, Diemut, Diemud, Diemuth, Diemod or Diemudis) was a recluse at Wessobrunn Abbey in Upper Bavaria, Germany, born around 1060 and died on 30 March, probably in 1130. She worked on 45 manuscripts from 1075 to 1130. Her name comes from the Middle High German word for "humility" or "modesty")
Chang Ch'ung-ho
Chinese calligrapher (1914–2015)
Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
German typographer (1918–2019)
Jumana El Husseini
Palestinian contemporary artist (1932-2018)
Clara Hätzlerin
German writer
Maria Strick
schoolmistress and calligrapher (1577–1625)
Ema Saikō
Japanese poet and calligrapher
Margareta Karthäuserin
15th-century German nun and scribe
Lin Xue
Chinese painter
Goharshad Ghazvini
Iranian calligrapher
Ono Otsū
Japanese calligrapher and poet from Sengoku period
Elizabeth Lucar
English calligrapher (1510–1537)
Qamar Dagar
Indian calligrapher
Salma Arastu
American artist
Kris Holmes
American graphic and type designer
Wijdan Ali
Ex-wife of Prince 'Ali bin Naif of Jordan (born 1939)
Fang Weiyi
Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historian (1585–1668)
Samira Kitman
Afghan calligrapher and businesswoman
Ziaʾ al-Saltaneh
Qajar princess, Persian calligrapher and poet (1799–1873)
Tong Yang-tze
Taiwanese calligrapher (b. 1942)
Eva Aschoff
German visual artist
Guan Daogao
Chinese calligrapher, poet, and painter
Linda Stein
American feminist artist (born 1943)