Alphabetical List
A
- Aase Goldsmith (1942 – 2015)
- Abigail Heyman (1942 – 2013)
- Agnes Varda (1928 – 2019)
- Alexandra Boulat (1962 – 2007)
- Alice Austin (1866 – 1952)
- Alice Guy Blaché (1873 – 1968)
- Alice Schalek (1874 – 1956)
- Alison Gernsheim (1911 – 1969)
- Amelia Elizabeth Guppy (1808 – 1886)
- Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985)
- Anja Niedringhaus (1965 – 2014)
- Ann Cooke (1796 – 1870)
- Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871)
- Anne Brigman (1869 – 1950)
- Anne Fischer (1915 – 1986)
- Anni Schulz (1897 – N/K)
- Annie Blake (1848 – 1928)
- Anno Wilms (1935 – 2016)
- Arlene Gottfried (1950 – 2017)
B
- 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)
C
- Camilla Koffler/Ylla (1911 – 1955)
- Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019)
- Caroline Emily Nevill, Lady (1829 – 1887)
- Caroline Margaret Kerrison, Lady (1819 – 1895)
- Caroline Taylor (1810 – 1876)
- Catherine Leroy (1944 – 2006)
- Catherine Verschoyle (1800 – 1882)
- Cecilia Glaisher (1828 – 1892)
- Christina Broom (1862 – 1939)
- 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)
D
- Diane Arbus (1923 – 1971)
- Dickey Chapelle (1918 – 1965)
- Dora Horovitz (1897 – 1979)
- Dora Kallmus/Madame D’Ora (1881-1963)
- Doreathea Lange (1895 – 1965)
- Dorothy Frances Edith Wilding (1893 – 1976)
E
- E Lennie (1840 – 1971)
- E Toussaint Welcome, Madame (1885 – 1956)
- Edith Barakovitch (1896 – 1940)
- Edith Glogau (1898 – 1970)
- Edith Tudor Hart (1908 – 1973)
- Elizabeth Anne Finn née McCaul (1825 – 1921)
- Elizabeth Eastlake, Lady (1809 – 1893)
- Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794)
- Elizabeth Louisa How (1821 – 1893)
- Elizabeth Stockdale Wilkinson (1799 – 1871)
- Elizabeth Vignoles (1813 – 1880)
- Elizabeth Withington née Kirby (1825 – 1877)
- Elly Niebuhr (1914 – 2013
- Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon/Yva (1900 – 1944)
- Emily Anne Payne-Frankland,Lady (1821 – 1913)
- Emma Barton (1872 – 1938)
- Emma Frances Johnston (1834 – 1905)
- Emma Thomasina Llewellyn née Talbot (1808 – 1881)
- Emmy Bernatzik (1904 – 1977)
- Erika Hubatschek (1917 – 2010)
- Esther Bubley (1921 – 1998)
- Eugenie Goldstern (1893 – 1942)
- Eva Besnyö (1910 – 2003)
- Eve Arnold (1912 – 2012)
- Evelyn Hofer (1922 – 2009)
F
- Fay Godwin (1931 – 2005)
- Florence Henri (1893 – 1982)
- Florestine Perrault Collins (1895 – 1988)
- Frances Anna Georgiana Kinnaird née Ponsonby, Lady (1817 – 1910)
- 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 – 1995)
- Franziska Möllinger (1817 – 1880)
- Friedl Dicker (1911 – 1944)
* dates not verified
G
- Galina Sanko (1904 – 1981)
- Gerda Taro (1910 – 1937)
- Germaine Krull (1879 – 1985)
- Gerti Deutsch (1908 – 1972)
- Gertrude Käsebier (1852 – 1934)
- Geta Brătescu (1926 – 2018)
- Gisèle Freund (1908 – 2000)
- Gisèle Wulfsohn (1957 – 2011)
- Grete Kolliner (1892 – 1933)
H
- Hanna Maynard (1834 – 1918)
- Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978)
- Hannah Wilke (1940-1993)
- Hansel Mieth (1909 – 1998)
- Harriet Ann Tucker (1808 – 1875)
- Harriet Tytler (1828 – 1907)
- Hazel Larsen Arche (1921 – 2001)
- Helen Chadwick (1953 – 1996)
- Helen Gee (1919 – 2004)
- Helen Levitt (1913 – 2009)
- Henrietta Augusta Nevill , Lady (1830 – 1912)
- Hilla Becher (1934 – 2015)
- Homai Vyarawalla (1913 – 2012)
I
- Ida Kar (1908 – 1974)
- Ilsa Stern (1912 – 1970)
- Ilse Bing (1899 – 1998)
- Imogen Cunningham (1883 – 1976)
- Inge Morath (1923 – 2002)
- Ingeborg Strobl (1949 – 2017)
- Ira Wright Martin (1886 – 1960)
- Isabel Agnes Cowper (1826 – 1911)
J
- Jan Groover (1943 – 2012)
- Jane Bown (1925 – 2014)
- Jane Martha (1801 – 1882)
- Jane Wigley (1820 – 1883)
- 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)
- Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1870)
- Julia Pirotte (1907 – 2000)
- Julia Shannon (1812 – 1852)
- Justine Henrietta Ross née Macrae (1813 – 1894)
K
- Karimeh Abbud (1893 – 1940)
- Kati Horna (1912 – 2000)
- Khadija Saye (1992 – 2017)
L
- 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)
- Lilian Maria Fayer (1917 – 2014)
- Lillian Bassman (1917 – 2012)
- Linda McCartney (1941 – 1998)
- Lisa Larsen (1925 – 1959)
- Lisalotte Grschebina (1908 – 1994)
- Lisette Model (1901 – 1983)
- Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903 – 1993)
- Lora Webb Nichols (1883 – 1962)
- Lotte Hendrich-Hassman (1932 – 2007)
- Lotte Jacobi (1896 – 1990)
- Louise Dahl-Wolf (1895 – 1989)
- Lucia Moholy/Schulz (1894 – 1989)
M
- 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)
- Margarethe Gross (1902 – 1985)
- Margarita “Rita” Weir Martin (1875 – 1958)
- Maria Chambefort (1818 – 1875)
- Mariana Yampolsky (1925 – 2002)
- Marianne Bergler (1897 – 1980)
- Marie Cosindas (1923 – 2017)
- Marie Hansen (1918 – 1969)
- Marion Palfi (1907 – 1978)
- Marion Post Wolcott (1910 – 1990)
- 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)
- Maud Sulter (1960 – 2008)
N
- Nancy Newhall (1908 – 1974)
- Nancy Sheung (1914 – 1979)
- Nina Leen (1909 – 1995)
- Norah Lyle-Smyth (1874 – 1963)
O
- Olive Cotton ( 1911 – 2003)
- Olive Edis (1876 – 1955)
- Ottilia Reizman (1914 – 1986)
P
- Pauline Trevelyan, Lady (1816 – 1866)
- Penny Tweedie (1940 – 2011)
- Pepa Feldscharek (1899 – 1962)
- Polixeni Papapetrou (1960 – 2018)
Q
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R
- Rita (Margarita) Weir Martin (1875 – 1958)
- Rosa Jenik (1853 – 1913)
- Ruby Washington (1952 – 2018)
- Ruth Bernhard (1905 – 2006)
- Ruth Orkin (1921 – 1985)
S
- Sarah Holcomb (early 19th C.)
- Sarah Louise Judd (1802 – 1886)
- Shima Ryū (1823 – 1900)
- Shirley Baker (1932 – 2014)
- Susan Eliza Evans née Gisborne (1834 – 1891)
- Sibylle Bergemann (1941 – 2010)
T
- 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)
U
Why not be the first to nominate a historical or legacy Heroine whose name begins with U?
V
- Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009)
- Vera Chytilova (1929 – 2014)
- Vera Jackson (1912 – 1999)
W
- Winifred Casson (1908 – 1969)
XYZ
- Yevonde Middleton/Madame Yevonde (1895 – 1975)
- Ylla/Camilla Koffler (1911 – 1955)
- Yva/Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon (1900 – 1944)
- Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869 -1933)
- Zofia Rydet (1911 – 1997)
Historical Heroines
Active at some point between the late 18th Century
and the mid-20th Century
In 2019, we asked the public to choose their top Hundred from this list. The results can be found here