Academics and Educators

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Anna Komnene, Greek Physician and Historian, born 1st December 1083

Elena Piscopia, Italian Philosopher and PhD, born 5th June 1646

Elizabeth Carter, British Writer, Classicist & Translator, born 16th December 1717

Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian Mathematician and Philosopher, born 16th May 1718
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Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer and Philosopher, born 27th April 1759

Caroline Schelling, German Intellectual and Writer, born 2nd September 1763

Sophie Germain, French Mathematician & Philosopher, born 1st April 1776
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Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer & polymath, born 26th December 1780
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Rebecca Gratz, American Educator & Philanthropist, born 4th March 1781

Emma Willard, American Women's Rights Activist & Educator, born 23rd February 1787
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Mary Lyon, American Educator & College Principal, born 28th February 1797

Catharine Beecher, American Educator, born 6th September 1800

Harriet Martineau, British Sociologist and Writer, born 12th June 1802
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Mary Peabody Mann, American Educator & Writer, born 16th November 1806
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Mary Carpenter, British Educational & Social Reformer, born 3rd April 1807
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Harriet Taylor Mill, British Philosopher and Feminist, born 8th October 1807

Myrtilla Miner, American Abolitionist & Educator, born 4th March 1815
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Clara Barton, American teacher & Humanitarian, born 25th December 1821
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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American Educator, born 5th December 1822

Frances Buss, British Education Reformer, born 16th August 1827

Dorothea Beale, British Suffragist & College Principal, born 21st March 1831

Amelia Edwards, British Writer & Egyptologist, born 7th June 1831

Kate Harrington, American Teacher, Writer & Poet, born 20th September 1831

Maria Sanford, American Educator, born 19th December 1836

Flora Stevenson, Scottish educationalist, born 30th October 1839

Sophia Jex-Blake, British Physician, Teacher & Feminist, born 21st January 1840

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Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican Teacher, Poet, Feminist, born 22nd May 1846

Alice Stopford Green, Irish Historian & Nationalist, born 30th May 1847

Helene Lange, German Teacher & Women's Rights Advocate, born 9th April 1848

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Caroline Yale, American Educator of the Deaf, born 29th September 1848

Elizabeth Harrison, American educator, born 1st September 1849

Helen Magill White, First female Ph.D. in the USA, born 28th November 1853

Kate Douglas Wiggin, American Educator & Author, born 28th September 1856

Martha Carey Thomas, American Educator and Suffragist, born 2nd January 1857

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Ida Tarbell, American teacher, author and journalist, born 5th November 1857

Charlotte Scott, British Mathematician and Educator, born 8th June 1858

Helen Keller, American Deafblind Writer & Lecturer, born 27th June 1860
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Sociologist & Author, born 3rd July 1860

Mary Calkins, American Philosopher & Psychologist, born 30th March 1863

Margaret Murray Washington, African American Educator and Activist, born 9th March 1865
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Anne Sullivan Macy, Blind Irish-American teacher, born 14th April 1866

Emily Balch, American Economist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, born 8th January 1867 

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Edith Hamilton, German American Educator, born 12th August 1867

Kasturba Gandhi, Indian Activist and Teacher, born 11th April 1869

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Zinaida Hippius, Russian Poet, Writer and Thinker, born 20th November 1869
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Maria Montessori, Italian Physician & Educator, born 31st August 1870

Delilah L. Beasley, African American Historian and Journalist, born 9th September 1871
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Mary Ritter Beard, American Historian and Archivist, born 5th August 1876

Gisela Richter, British Archaeologist and Art Historian, born 14th August 1882

Belle da Costa Greene, African American Librarian, born 13th December 1883

Helen Parkhurst, American Educator, born 3rd January 1887
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Stefi Geyer, Hungarian Violinist & Teacher, born 28th June 1888
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Zerna Sharp, American Educator and Author, born 12th August 1889
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Zora Hurston, African American Folklorist and Anthropologist, born 7th January 1891
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​Isabel Briggs Meyers, American Political Scientist, born 18th October 1897

Yvonne Lefébure, French Pianist and Teacher, born 29th June 1898

Sarah Williamson, African American Missionary, born 8th December 1899

Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and curator, born 16th December 1901
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Hilda Taba, Estonian Architect & Educator, born 7th December 1902

Vera Bradford, Australian Pianist and Teacher, born 5th September 1904

Elizabeth Huckaby, American Educator, born 14th April 1905

Kathleen Major, British Historian, born 10th April 1906

Hannah Arendt, German American Political Theorist, born 14th October 1906

Alice Kober, American Classicist and Archaeologist, born 23rd December 1906

Frances Horwich, American Educator & Presenter, born 16th July 1907

Elspeth Huxley, British Polymath, Environmentalist & Writer, born 23rd July 1907

Elżbieta Zawacka, Polish Freedom Fighter & Professor, born 19th March 1909
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Margaret Clapp, American Writer and Scholar, born 10th April 1910

Veronica Wedgwood, British Historian, born 20th July 1910

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian and author, born 30th January 1912

Virginia Lacy Jones, African American Librarian, born 25th June 1912

Jacqueline de Romilly, Franco-Greek Philologist, born 26th March 1913
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Edith Fowke, Canadian Folklorist, born 30th April 1913

Mae Boren Axton, American Teacher, DJ & Songwriter, born 14th September 1914
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Betty Gathergood, British Curator, born 18th February 1916

Joan Clarke, British Linguist & cryptanalyst, born 24th June 1917

Margaret Burroughs, African American Writer, Artist & Historian, born 1st November 1917
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Gerda Lerner, American Historian, Author & Teacher, born 30th April 1920

Jeanne Manford, American Teacher and Activist, born 4th December 1920
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Bernice Rubens, Welsh Teacher, Film Maker & Author, born 26th July 1923

Gladys Hansen, American Librarian & Archivist, born 12th June 1925

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American Academic, born 13th January 1926

Vina Mazumdar, Indian Academic and Activist, born 28th March 1927

Mary Daly, American Radical Feminist Academic, born 16th October 1928

Sally Liberman Smith, American Educator, born 7th May 1929

June Jordan, African American Writer and Educator, born 9th July 1936
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Glenda Adams, Australian Author and Academic, born 30th December 1939