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