Ana Roqué de Duprey

Ana Roqué de Duprey (1853-1933) was a Puerto Rican educator, writer, feminist, and suffragist who led the fight for women's suffrage in Puerto Rico. A self-taught polymath who began teaching at age 13, she founded the Liga Femínea Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Feminist League) and the Asociación Sufragista de Puerto Rico.

Roqué de Duprey published several newspapers advocating for women's rights, including La Mujer (1894), the first feminist newspaper in Puerto Rico. She was also a noted botanist who identified several new plant species and authored geography textbooks used throughout the island.

Her decades-long suffrage campaign succeeded in 1929 when Puerto Rico granted literate women the right to vote — though universal women's suffrage was not achieved until 1935. Roqué de Duprey lived to cast her own vote in 1932, at age 79.