• Source: List of female calligraphers

This is a partial list of notable female calligraphers.




3rd century


Xie Daoyun Chinese poet, writer, scholar and calligrapher
Wei Shuo (272–349) Chinese calligrapher




7th-10th centuries


Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah Arabic calligrapher
Al-Nuddar (d. 984) Andalusian calligrapher and scholar
Umm al-Darda al-Sughra
Sana (8th Century) Abbasid calligrapher
Fadl (d. 260/873-74) Abbasid poet and calligrapher
Gulsum al-Attabi (d. 220/835) Arabic calligrapher
Fadl (10th Century)
Duhtar-i ibn Mukla Shirazi (10th Century)
Muzna (d. 358/969)
Fadl (d. 260/873-74)
Fatima (?-?) Andalusian calligrapher




11th-12th centuries


Safiyyah bint Abd al-Rabb (d. 1026)
Fatima bint Zakariya bint Abdullah al-Shebbarp (d. 1036)
Diemoth (b. 1060-130) Bavarian calligrapher
Fatima al-Baghdadi bint Hasan b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abdullah Attar (d. 480/1087) Iraqi calligrapher
Fakhr-un-Nisa (d. 1112) Iranian calligrapher
Lubna (d. 1003) Abbasid poet and calligrapher
Zaynab Shahda bint Ahmad b. Al-Faraj b. ‘Omar Al-Abrī (d. 547/1178) Iraqi calligrapher
Sittu'r-Rida bint Nasrallah b. Mas'ud (d. after 567/1171)




13th-14th centuries


Shuhda Bint Al-‘Ibari (d. 1178) Abbasid calligrapher
Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) Chinese poet, painter and calligrapher
Cao Miaoqing Chinese poet and calligrapher
Sitt Nasim Abbasid calligrapher




15th-16th centuries


Clara Hätzlerin (c. 1430–1476) Bavarian scribe
Jacomina Hondius (1558–1628) Flemish and Dutch calligrapher
Esther Inglis (1571–1624) English miniaturist and calligrapher
Margareta Karthäuserin (b. ?) Bavarian scribe
Elizabeth Lucar (1510–1537) British calligrapher
Marie Pavie (fl. 1600) French calligrapher
Fatimah bint Quraymazan (d. 1558)
Shin Saimdang (1504–1551) Korean artist, author and calligrapher
Maria Strick (1577-1625) Dutch calligrapher and teacher




17th-18th centuries


Amina (daughter of calligrapher, Mustafa Chelebi) minor calligrapher active in Ottoman Bosnia
Goharshad Ghazvini Persian calligrapher
Ike Gyokuran (1727–1784) Japanese painter and calligrapher
Esmâ Ibret Hanim (b. 1780) Ottoman calligrapher
Marjan al-Katib al-Islami Iranian calligrapher
Fatıma Ânî Hanım (d.1122 / 1710) Ottoman calligrapher
Fatıma Tûtî (d. 1106-1123 / 1694-95)
Fang Weiyi (1585–1668) Chinese poet, calligrapher and historian
Şerife Zehra Hanim Ottoman calligrapher
Im Yunjidang (1721–1793) Korean philosopher and calligrapher
Cao Zhenxiu (b. 1762) Chinese calligrapher




19th-20th centuries


Wijdan Ali (b. 1939) Iraqi calligrapher
Ameena Ahmad Ahuja Indian painter and calligrapher
Leslie Charlotte Benenson (1941–2018) English artist and calligrapher
Mickie Caspi (b. 1961) Israeli calligrapher and artist
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi (b. 1944) American-Iraqi artist and calligrapher
Chang Ch'ung-ho (1914–2015) Chinese poet and calligrapher
Winnie Siu Davies (b. ?) Chinese painter and calligrapher
Elizabeth Friedländer (1903–1984) German calligrapher
Jen Taylor Friedman (b. ?) ritual scribe
Wang Huiqin (b. 1945) Chinese-Slovenian calligrapher
Hu Jieqing (1905–2001) Chinese painter and calligrapher
Pouran Jinchi (b. 1959) Iranian-American artist and calligrapher
Samira Kitman (b. 1984) Afghani-British calligrapher and artist
Hildegard Korger (b. 1935) German calligrapher
Monika Krajewska (b. ?) Polish calligrapher and mizrah artist
Patricia Lovett (b.?) British scribe, calligrapher and illuminator
Ada Louise Powell (b. 1865) British decorative artist and calligrapher
Zahide Selma Hanim (1857–1895) Ottoman calligrapher
Hilal Kazan - Turkish academic, historian and calligrapher
Midori Kono Thiel (b. ?) Japanese-American calligrapher
Huda Totonji (b.?) Arab-American calligrapher
Carol Twombly (b. 1959) American calligrapher
Şerife Fatma "Mevhibe" Hanım Ottoman calligrapher
Ema Saikō (1787–1861) Japanese calligrapher
Zulaykhah Khatimi al-Sa'di (?-?)
Emine Servet Hanim (b. 1859) Ottoman calligrapher
Soraya Syed (b. 1976) English-Pakistani calligrapher
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (1918–2019) German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder
Sheila Waters (1929—2022) English calligrapher
Irene Wellington (1904–1984) British calligrapher
Mary White (ceramicist and calligrapher) (1926–2013) British calligrapher
Hilda Wiseman (1894–1982) Australian calligrapher, artist and designer
Rachel Yallop (b. ?) British calligrapher
Yuan Xiaoyuan (1901–2003) Chinese diplomat, politician, author, linguist, calligrapher and artist
Lou Zhenggang (b. 1966) Chinese artist and calligrapher
Nuria Garcia Masip (b. 1978) Spanish Calligrapher




See also


Calligraphy
Islamic calligraphy




References






Further reading


Salah al-Din al-Munajjid, "Women's Roles in the Art of Arabic Calligraphy" in: George Nicholas Atiyeh (ed.), The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1995, pp 141–149.

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