• Aase Goldsmith (1942 – 2015)
• Abigail Heyman (1942 – 2013)
• Agnes Varda (1928 – 2019)
• Alexandra Boulat (1962 – 2007)
• Alice Austen (1866 – 1952)
• Alice Guy Blaché (1873 – 1968)
• Alice Hughes (1857 – 1939)
• Alice Schalek (1874 – 1956)
• Alison Gernsheim (1911 – 1969)
• Amelia Elizabeth Guppy (1808 – 1886)
• Amélie Galup (1856 – 1943)
• Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985)
• Anja Niedringhaus (1965 – 2014)
• Ann Cooke (1796 – 1870)
• Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871)
• Annapurna Dutta (1894 – 1976)
• Anne Brigman (1869 – 1950)
• Anne Fischer (1915 – 1986)
• Anni Schulz  (1897 – 1943)
• Annie Blake (1848 – 1928)
• Annemarie Minne Renée Schwarzenbach (1908 – 1942)
• Anno Wilms (1935 – 2016)
• Arlene Gottfried (1950 – 2017)
• Astrid Kirchherr (1938 – 2020)
• Aubrey Le Blond, Mrs  (1860-1934)
• Augusta Mostyn/Henrietta Augusta Nevill , Lady (1830 – 1912)

• Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905 – 1993)
• Barbara Morgan (1900-1992)
• Barbara Pflaum  (1912 – 2002)
• Beatrice Freyberger  (1901 – N/K)
• Běla Kolářová (1923 – 2010)
• Berenice Abbott (1898 – 1991)
• Bertha Beckmann (1815 – 1901)
• Bessie Raynor Parkes (1829 – 1925)
• Betti Mautner (1892 – 1988)
• Birgit Jürgenssen (1949 – 2003)
• Blanche Henrietta Pechell née Shelley (1841 – 1898)
• Bobbi Baker Burrows (1945 – 2018)

• Camilla Koffler/Ylla (1911 – 1955)
• Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019)
• Carolina Mathilda Ranch (1860 – 1938)
• Caroline Emily Nevill, Lady  (1829 – 1887)
• Caroline Margaret Kerrison, Lady (1819 – 1895)
• Caroline Taylor (1810 – 1876)
• Catherine Leroy (1944 – 2006)
• (Catherine) Mathilda Ranch (1860 – 1938)
• Catherine Verschoyle (1800 – 1882)
• Catherine Weed Barnes Ward (1851 – 1913)
• Cecilia Glaisher (1828 – 1892)
• Charlotte Perriand (1903 – 1999)
• Christina Broom (1862 – 1939)
• Claire Aho (1925 – 2015)
• Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954)
• Clementina Hawarden, Lady (1822 – 1865)
• Compton Collier (1899 – 19770
• Constance Fox Talbot (1811 – 1880)
• Consuelo Kanaga (1894 – 1978)
• Corinne Day (1962 – 2010)
• Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914 – 2000)
• Cui Xiuwen (1970 – 2018)

• Daisy Edis (1888 – 1964)
• Deborah Turbeville (1932 – 2013)
• Diane Arbus  (1923 – 1971)
• Dickey Chapelle  (1918 – 1965)
• Dora Horovitz (1897 – 1979)
• Dora Kallmus/Madame d’Ora (1881-1963)
• Dora Maar (1907 – 1997)
• Doreathea Lange (1895 – 1965)
• Dorothy Hickling (1880 – 1946)
• Dorothy Frances Edith Wilding (1893 – 1976)

• E Lennie (1818 – Unknown)
• E Toussaint Welcome, Madame (1885 – 1956)
• Edith Barakovitch (1896 – 1940)
• Edith Glogau  (1898 – 1970)
• Edith Tudor Hart  (1908 – 1973)
• Eiko Yamazawa (1899 -1995)
• Elfriede Mejchar (1924 – 2020)
• Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis (1935 – 2018)
• Elisabeth Hase (1905 – 1991)
• Elisabeth Meyer (1899-1968)
• Elise Forrest Harleston (1891 – 1970)
• Elizabeth Anne Finn née McCaul  (1825 – 1921)
• Elizabeth Eastlake, Lady  (1809 – 1893)
• Elizabeth Fulhame (1759 – 1810)
• Elizabeth Higgins (1828 – 1899)
• Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Le Blond/Hawkins-Whitshed (1860 – 1934)
• Elizabeth Louisa How  (1821 – 1893)
• Elizabeth Pulman (1836 – 1900)
• Elizabeth Stockdale Wilkinson  (1799 – 1871)
• Elizabeth Vignoles  (1813 – 1880)
• Elizabeth Withington née Kirby  (1825 – 1877)
• Ella Maillart (1903 – 1997)
• Ellen Auerbach (1906 – 2004)
• Elly Niebuhr  (1914 – 2013
• Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon/Yva  (1900 – 1944)
• Emila Medkova (1928 – 1985)
• Emilie Janet Tyrell / Janet Jevons (1887 – 1972)
• Emily Anne Payne-Frankland,Lady (1821 – 1913)
• Emma Frances Johnston  (1834 – 1905)
• Emma Jane Gay (1830 – 1919)
• Emma Rayson Barton  (1872 – 1938)
• Emma Thomasina Llewellyn née Talbot  (1808 – 1881)
• Emmi Fock (1898 – 1983)
• Emmy Andriesse (1914 – 1953)
• Emmy Bernatzik  (1904 – 1977)
• Erika Hubatschek  (1917 – 2010)
• Esther Bubley  (1921 – 1998)
• Esther Parada (1938 – 2005)
• Eugenie Goldstern  (1893 – 1942)
• Eva Besnyö  (1910 – 2003)
• Eve Arnold  (1912 – 2012)
• Eveleen Myers (1856 – 1937)
• Evelyn Hofer  (1922 – 2009)

• Fanny Foster/Georgiana Fanny Julia Foster (1891-1975)
• Fay Godwin (1931 – 2005)
• Florence Henri  (1893 – 1982)
• Florence Vandamn (1883 – 1966)
• Florence Vivienne Mellish aka Vivienne (1889 – 1982)
• Florestine Perrault Collins (1895 – 1988)
• Frances Anna Georgiana Kinnaird née Ponsonby, Lady  (1817 – 1910)
• Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952)
• Frances Elizabeth Bree*  (1795 – 1906)
• Frances Jocelyn, Lady  (1820 – 1880)
• Frances Monteith  (1805 – 1898)
• Frances Sally Day  (1816 – 1892)
• Francesca Woodman (1958 – 1981)
• Franki Raffles (1955 – 1994)
• Franziska Möllinger  (1817 – 1880)
• Friedl Dicker  (1911 – 1944)

* dates not verified

• Galina Sanko  (1904 – 1981)
• Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri (1817 – 1878)
• Genevieve Naylor (1915 – 1989)
• Georgiana Fanny Julia Foster/Fanny Foster (1891-1975)
• Gerda Taro  (1910 – 1937)
• Germaine Krull  (1879 – 1985)
• Gerti Deutsch (1908 – 1972)
• Gertrud Arndt (1903 – 2000)
• Gertrude Käsebier  (1852 – 1934)
• Geta Brătescu  (1926 – 2018)
• Gisèle Freund  (1908 – 2000)
• Gisèle Wulfsohn  (1957 – 2011)
• Grace Robertson  (1930 – 2021)
• Grete Kolliner   (1892 – 1933)
• Grete Stern (1904 – 1999)

• Hanna Maynard  (1834 – 1918)
• Hannah Höch  (1889 – 1978)
• Hannah Wilke  (1940-1993)
• Hansel Mieth (1909 – 1998)
• Harriet Ann Tucker (1808 – 1875)
• Harriet V S Thorne (1843 – 1926)
• Harriet Tytler  (1828 – 1907)
• Hazel Larsen Arche  (1921 – 2001)
• Helena Almeida (1934 – 2018)
• Helen Chadwick  (1953 – 1996)
• Helen Gee  (1919 – 2004)
• Helen Levitt  (1913 – 2009)
• Helen Messinger Murdoch (1862 – 1956)
• Henrietta Augusta Nevill , Lady/Augusta Mostyn  (1830 – 1912)
• Hilde Hubbuch, Hilda Isay (1905 – 1971)
• Hilla Becher (1934 – 2015)
• Hilja Raviniemi (1915 – 1973)
• Homai Vyarawalla  (1913 – 2012)
• Hou Bo (1924 – 2017)

• Ida Kar  (1908 – 1974)
• Ilsa Stern  (1912 – 1970)
• Ilse Bing  (1899 – 1998)
• Imogen Cunningham  (1883 – 1976)
• Inge Breder (1855 – 1933)
• Inge Morath  (1923 – 2002)
• Ingeborg Strobl  (1949 – 2017)
• Ira Wright Martin  (1886 – 1960)
• Irena Blühová (1904 – 1991)
• Isabel Agnes Cowper  (1826 – 1911)

• Jan Groover  (1943 – 2012)
• Jane Bown  (1925 – 2014)
• Jane Martha St. John (1801 – 1882)
• Jane Wigley (1820 – 1883)
• Janet Jevons (1894-1974/1887-1972)
• Jennie Louise Van Der Zee/Madame E Toussaint Welcome  (1885 – 1956)
• Jessica Piazzi Smyth (1815 – 1896)
• Jessie Fergus (1794 – 1863)
• Jessie Mann (1805 – 1867)
• Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942)
• Jo Spence (1934 – 1992)
• Joan Leigh Fermor (1912-2003)
• Judit Kárász (1912 – 1977)
• Judy Seigel (1930 – 2017)
• Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1870)
• Julia Pirotte (1908 – 2000)
• Julia Shannon (1812 – 1852)
• Justine Henrietta Ross née Macrae (1813 – 1894)

• Karimeh Abbud  (1893 – 1940)
• Käthe Buchler (1876 – 1930)
• Kati Horna  (1912 – 2000)
• Katt Both (1905 – 1985)
• Khadija Saye  (1992 – 2017)

• Lallie Charles (1869 – 1919)
• Laura Aguilar  (1959 – 2018)
• Laura Gilpin  (1891 – 1979)
• Laure Albin-Guillot (1879 -1962)
• Lee Miller  (1907 – 1977)
• Lena Connell  (1875 – 1949)
• Letizia Battaglia (1935 – 2022)
• Lilian Maria Fayer  (1917 – 2014)
• Lillian Bassman  (1917 – 2012)
• Linda McCartney (1941 – 1998)
• Lisa Larsen (1925 – 1959)
• Lisa Sheridan
• Lisalotte Grschebina (1908 – 1994)
• Lisette Model  (1901 – 1983)
• Lizzie Le Blond/Elizabeth Le Blond (1860-1934)
• Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903 – 1993)
• Lora Webb Nichols  (1883 – 1962)
• Lotte Hendrich-Hassman (1932 – 2007)
• Lotte Jacobi  (1896 – 1990)
• Lotte Stam-Beese (1903 – 1988)
• Lou Landauer (1897 – 1991)
• Louise Dahl-Wolf (1895 – 1989)
• Lourdes Grobet (1940 – 2022)
• Lucia Moholy/Schulz (1894 – 1989)

• Madame d’Ora/Dora Kallmus (1881 – 1963)
• Madame E Toussaint Welcome/Jennie Louise Van Der Zee (1885 – 1956)
• Madame Yevonde/Yevonde Middleton  (1893 – 1975)
• Margaret Bourke-White  (1904 – 1971)
• Margaret Dreghorn Baillie  (1821 – 1870)
• Margaret Harker  (1920 – 2013)
• Margaret J Newton (fl. 1849)
• Margaret Watkins (1884 – 1969)
• Margarethe (Margaret) Gross  (1902 – 1985)
• Margarita “Rita” Weir Martin (1875 – 1958)
• Maria Austria (1915 – 1975)
• Maria Chambefort  (1818 – 1875)
• Mariana Yampolsky (1925 – 2002)
• Marianne Bergler (1897 – 1980)
• Marianne Brandt (1893-1983)
• Marie Lydie Cabannis Bonfils (1837 – 1918)
• Marie Cosindas  (1923 – 2017)
• Marie Hansen (1918 – 1969)
• Marie Høeg (1866 – 1949)
• Marion Palfi  (1907 – 1978)
• Marion Post Wolcott  (1910 – 1990)
• Marjory L Wight (1889 – 1973)
• Marta Astfalck-Vietz (1901 – 1993)
• Marta Hoepffner  (1912 – 2000)
• Martha Holmes (1923 – 2006)
• Martine Franck  (1938 – 2012)
• Mary Ann Robb  (1829 – 1912)
• Mary Dillwyn  (1816 – 1906)
• Mary Ellen Mark  (1940 – 2015)
• Mary Emma Lynn  (1813 – 1903)
• Mary Jane Matheson née Percival, Lady  (1821 – 1896)
• Mary Rosse, Lady (1813 – 1885)
• (Catherine) Mathilda Ranch (1860 – 1938)
• Maud Sulter  (1960 – 2008)
• Minna Keene  (1861 – 1943)

• Nadja Massün (1963 – 2022)
• Nancy Newhall  (1908 – 1974)
• Nancy Sheung  (1914 – 1979)
• Nina Leen (1909 – 1995)
• Norah Lyle-Smyth  (1874 – 1963)

• Olive Cotton ( 1911 – 2003)
• Olive Edis  (1876 – 1955)
• Ottilia Reizman  (1914 – 1986)

• Pamela Chandler (1928 – 1993)
• Pauline Trevelyan, Lady (1816 – 1866)
• Pearl Freeman (active 1930 – 1960)
• Penny Tweedie  (1940 – 2011)
• Pepa Feldscharek  (1899 – 1962)
• Polixeni Papapetrou   (1960 – 2018)

Why not be the first to nominate a historical or legacy Heroine whose name begins with Q?

• Reva Brooks (1913 – 2001)
• Rita (Margarita) Weir Martin (1875 – 1958)
• Rollie McKenna (1918 – 2003)
• Rosa Jenik  (1853 – 1913)
• Rose Mandel (1910 – 2002)
• Ruby Caroline Jevons/ Janet Jevons (1894 – 1974)
• Ruby Washington  (1952 – 2018)
• Ruth Bernhard  (1905 – 2006)
• Ruth Harriet Louise (1903 – 1940)
• Ruth Orkin  (1921 – 1985)

• Sarah Angeline Acland (1849 – 1930)
• Sarah Anne Bright (1793 – 1866)
• Sarah Holcomb (early 19^th C.)
• Sarah Louise Judd  (1802 – 1886)
• Shima Ryū  (1823 – 1900)
• Shirley Baker  (1932 – 2014)
• Solveig Lund (1868 – 1943)
• Susan Eliza Evans née Gisborne  (1834 – 1891)
• Sibylle Bergemann (1941 – 2010)

• Tee Corinne (1943 – 2006)
• Tessa Boffin (1960 – 1993)
• Thérèse Bonney (1894 – 1978)
• Thereza Story-Maskelyne (1834 – 1926)
• Tina Modotti (1896 – 1942)
• Tish Murtha (1956 – 2013)
• Toni Frissell (1907 – 1988)
• Trude Fleischmann (1895 – 1990)
• Trude Geiringer (1890 – 1981)

Ursula Pariser (1917 – 2010)

Ursula Powys-Lybbe (1910 – 1977)

• Vivian Maier  (1926 – 2009)
• Vera Chytilova (1929 – 2014)
• Vera Jackson (1912 – 1999)
• Virginia Oldoini (1837 – 1899)
• Vivienne – Florence Vivienne Mellish (1889 – 1982)

• Winifred Casson  (1908 – 1969)
• Winifred Hall Allen (Active 1930s)

• Yevonde Middleton/Madame Yevonde (1895 – 1975)
• Ylla/Camilla Koffler (1911 – 1955)
• Yva/Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon  (1900 – 1944)
• Yvonne Gregory (1889 – 1970)
• Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869 -1933)
• Zofia Rydet (1911 – 1997)