Polyxeni Loizias (Greek: Πολυξένη Λοϊζιάς) (Limassol, 1855—1942), was a Cypriot educator, writer and feminist.
She was educated first in the Limassol School for Girls, then in Smyrna in the school Agia Fotini under another Cypriot educator, Sappho Leontias and she finished her studies in 1878 in Constantinople at Palladion again under Sappho Leontias.
[2] In 1878 after the transfer of Cyprus from the Ottoman to the British Empire, Loizias returned to Limassol and was employed as the principal of the Limassol School for Girls (Παρθεναγωγείο), which was founded in 1859 as the first school for higher education for women in Cyprus.
At that point, most women were illiterate and it was not until 1895 that the British introduced a public school system, and most Cypriot families outside of the elite upper class long opposed education for girls.
The Cyprus University of Technology named one of its buildings after her and Eleni Autonomou, another pioneering schoolteacher.