List of New Zealand suffragists

A

• Georgina Shorland Abernethy, president of the Gore Women's Franchise League
• Stella May Henderson Allan, of Christchurch, as a university graduate and later became a journalist
• Lily May Kirk Atkinson of Wellington, president of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ) 1901–1905
• Ruth Atkinson, suffragist and temperance activist in Nelson

B

• Ann Parkes Brame of Auckland, charter president in February 1885 of the Auckland chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand.
• Eliza Annie Palmer Brown of Invercargill, charter president in 1884 of New Zealand's first Woman's Christian Temperance Union club - it was not officially connected to any other organisation at that time.
• Margaret Carson Bullock, also known as Tua-o-rangi,, co-founder of the Wanganui Women's Franchise League and later the Women's Political League; she also served as vice-president of the WCTU NZ in 1900.

C

• Dolce Ann Cabot Duncan of Christchurch, the first woman to join the staff of a New Zealand newspaper, advocating women's suffrage in her articles in The Canterbury Times
• Elizabeth Russell Caradus of Auckland, founding member of the Auckland branch of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and member of the Auckland branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand
• Harriet Sophia Day Cobb of Napier, businesswoman
• Mary Ann Barnes Colclough aka "Polly Plum" of Auckland, teacher, writer and orator
• Fanny Buttery Cole of Christchurch, president of WCTU NZ 1906–1913, anti-war activist

D

• Amey Hamerton Daldy of Auckland, member of Auckland Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand and then president of local Women's Franchise League, philanthropist
• Learmonth White Dalrymple of Levin and Dunedin, active in the women's suffrage movement while living in Feilding where she signed the 1893 suffrage petition; organizing president of the Levin WCTU NZ; served as WCTU NZ Superintendent of the Bible in Schools as well as WCTU NZ Superintendent of Peace and Arbitration
• Rachel Hull Don of Dunedin, president of WCTU NZ 1914–1926

E

• Kate Milligan Edger Evans of Wellington, member of local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand and held many national offices, including White Ribbon associate editor for 11 years

F

• Jane Foley of Rotorua, organiser for Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand and honorary secretary for the Māori district of Rotorua
• Priscilla Andrews Froggatt of Invercargill, founding treasurer of 1884 WCTU branch before Mary Leavitt arrived in 1885; signed the
• Catherine Henrietta Elliot Valpy Fulton of Dunedin, founding member of local chapter of WCTU NZ in 1885, national president of WCTU NZ 1889–1892

G

• Edith Howitt Searle Grossmann of Christchurch, in 1892 she co-founded the Canterbury Women's Institute which worked to organise suffrage advocacy work

H

• Matehaere Arapata Tiria "Ripeka" Brown Halbert of Manutuke, elected Vice President of Māori District Union of WCTU NZ in 1911 at convention held in Pakipaki
• Marion Hanover Hatton of Dunedin, president of the Dunedin Franchise League in 1892-93.
• Alice Henderson of Christchurch, signed the along with .
• Christina Kirk Henderson of Christchurch, member of the Christchurch WCTU and worked for women's suffrage with the Canterbury Liberal Association

K

• Hēni Te Kiri Karamū of Rotorua, see Jane Foley above
• Cybele Ethel Kirk of Wellington, president of the local chapter of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand, president of National Council of Women of New Zealand 1934–1937, president of WCTU NZ 1946–1949
• Sarah Jane Mattocks Kirk of Wellington, president of the local chapter of WCTU NZ

L

• Catherine "Kate" Wilson Malcolm Sheppard Lovell-Smith of Christchurch, New Zealand - see also Kate Sheppard below
• Lucy M. Lovell-Smith of Christchurch, editor and business manager of WCTU NZ's ''White Ribbon''

M

• Jessie Mackay of Christchurch, poet and activist for women's suffrage in the Canterbury region, then working as a journalist and with the National Council of Women of New Zealand to further the cause of women's rights.
• Meri Mangakāhia of Panguru, campaigner for Māori women's suffrage in the Kotahitanga Parliament, writer
• Isabella May of Christchurch, leader in Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand and co-founder of the Canterbury Women's Institute, advocate for dress reform, wholefoods reform and cycling
• Harriet Russell Morison of Dunedin trade unionist, co-founded the Dunedin Women's Franchise League
• Mary Ann Wilson Griffiths Müller aka "Fémmina" of Nelson, pamphleteer, writer
• Sarah "Hera" Mary Catherine Stirling Munro aka Hera Manaro of Rotorua, national organiser for Māori women in WCTU NZ, founder of several local clubs and founding president of Māori District Union elected at WCTU NZ convention in 1911 at Pakipaki

N

• Helen Lyster Nicol of Dunedin co-founded the Dunedin Women's Franchise League
• Robina Sinclair Nicol of Wellington, friend of the Kirk family suffragists who feature in many of her photographs

P

• Emma E. de Winton Packe of Christchurch, second president of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand 1887–1889
• Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE of Kurow, active as a suffragette in Scotland and imprisoned in England
• Mary Sadler Powell of Invercargill, president of local WCTU NZ branch, life member of World WCTU

R

• Lizzie Frost Fenton Rattray of Auckland, journalist, member of Auckland Women's Franchise League
• Rachel Selina Pinkerton Reynolds of Dunedin, vice-president of Dunedin Women's Franchise League

S

• Annie Jane Allen Schnackenberg of Auckland, founding education superintendent of Auckland chapter of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand 1885; President Auckland WCTU NZ 1889–1897; National President WCTU NZ 1892–1900
• Catherine "Kate" Wilson Malcolm Sheppard Lovell-Smith of Christchurch, national Franchise Superintendent for the WCTU NZ, founding editor of the WCTU NZ White Ribbon, founding president of National Council of Women of New Zealand ; featured on the New Zealand ten-dollar note
• Margaret Home Richardson Sievwright of Gisborne, president of local WCTU NZ chapter, NCWNZ President 1901–1904
• Eleanor Phoebe McLeod Smith of Christchurch, founding member of Christchurch WCTU, Canterbury Women's Institute, and National Council of Women of New Zealand, signed the along with her two daughters, and Lucy Masey Smith who lived with her.
• Sarah "Hera" Mary Catherine Stirling Munro of Rotorua, national organiser for Māori women in WCTU NZ, founder of several local clubs and programme coordinator for first Māori WCTU NZ convention in 1911 at Pakipaki
• Anna Paterson Logan Stout of Dunedin, founding member of Dunedin WCTU NZ 1885, 1892 President of the Dunedin Women's Franchise League; 1896 Vice President for the NCWNZ

T

• Elizabeth Best Ellison Taylor, OBE., JP. of Christchurch, member of local Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand, founding member of the National Council of Women of New Zealand, president of Christchurch WCTU NZ 1918 then national president 1926–1935, peace activist
• Ākenehi Tōmoana, Māori woman leader of chiefly status, landowner, suffragist and women's rights activist

W

• Anne Titboald Ward of Christchurch, New Zealand, provisional president in 1885 then elected founding president of Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand in February 1886
• Ada Pike Wells of Christchurch, New Zealand, member of Christchurch WCTU NZ, founder of the Canterbury Women's Institute, charter secretary of the NCWNZ
• Eliza White of Auckland, Wesleyan missionary and founder of Ladies Christian Association in Auckland, credited for recruiting Annie Jane Schnackenberg to her mission work in Kawhia in 1861.
• Jessie Marguerite McAllan Williamson of Auckland, was a leader in the Wanganui Women's Franchise League and later the National Council of Women of New Zealand ; when she moved to Remuera she helped form the Auckland Civic League and which she represented when an Auckland branch of the revived NCW NZ

Y

• Elizabeth Oman Yates of Onehunga, first female mayor in British Empire