Persephone Papadopoulou (Greek: Περσεφόνη Παπαδοπούλου) (Paphos, 1888— Patras, 1948), was a Cypriot feminist, educator and scholar.
Persephone was born in 1888 in Paphos, she graduated from the Arsakeio high school in Athens.
With her return to Cyprus she worked as an educator in Famagusta, she was vice-principal of the Senior Girls' School Between 1905-1919 and later as the principal of the Scholarcheio (Σχολαρχείο) in Larnaca.
In 1937 she was invited by the Greek government to be the principal of the Arsakeio Lyceum of Patras, a position she held for 12 years, until her death.
[2] She belonged to the minority of Cypriot elite women who were educated abroad in a time period when there was not yet a university in Cyprus.