Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
---|---|---|---|
Spartacus | ?-71 BC | ||
Lady Godiva | ?-c. 1070 | ||
William Wallace | c. 1270-1305 | ||
Bartolomé de las Casas | 1484-1566 | ||
Thomas Müntzer | c. 1489-1525 | ||
Thomas Cranmer | 1489-1556 | ||
Willem of Orange | 1533-1584 | ||
Guy Fawkes | 1570-1606 | ||
Paul Revere | 1734-1818 | ||
Thomas Paine | 1737-1809 | ||
Jean-Paul Marat | 1743-1793 | ||
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | 1746-1827 | ||
Olympe de Gouges | 1748-1793 | ||
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti | 1749-1791 | ||
Jacques Hébert | 1757-1794 | ||
Maximilien Robespierre | 1758-1794 | ||
Georges Danton | 1759-1794 | ||
François-Noël Babeuf | 1760-1797 | ||
Charlotte Corday | 1768-1793 | ||
Robert Owen | 1771-1858 | ||
Elizabeth Fry | 1780-1845 | ||
Sojourner Truth | 1797-1883 | (Baumfree) | |
Emilia Plater | 1806-1831 | ||
Frederick Douglass | 1818-1895 | ||
Susan B. Anthony | 1820-1906 | ||
Harriet Tubman | c. 1822-1913 | ||
Ferdinand Lassalle | 1825-1864 | ||
Matilda Joslyn Gage | 1826-1898 | ||
Henri Dunant | 1828-1910 | ||
Pyotr Kropotkin | 1842-1921 | ||
Bertha von Suttner | 1843-1914 | ||
Marcelo H. del Pilar | 1850-1896 | ||
José Martí | 1853-1895 | ||
Emmeline Pankhurst | 1858-1928 | ||
Omar al-Mukhtar | 1858-1931 | ||
Theodor Herzl | 1860-1904 | ||
Jane Addams | 1860-1935 | ||
José Rizal | 1861-1896 | ||
Ida B. Wells | 1862-1931 | (Barnett) | |
Soh Jaipil | 1864-1951 | ||
Sun Yat-sen | 1866-1925 | ||
Emily Greene Balch | 1867-1961 | ||
Emma Goldman | 1869-1940 | ||
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1869-1948 | ||
Vladimir Lenin | 1870-1924 | ||
Alexander Berkman | 1870-1936 | ||
Rosa Luxemburg | 1871-1919 | ||
James Weldon Johnson | 1871-1938 | ||
Adolf Brand | 1874-1945 | ||
Zitkála-Šá | 1876-1938 | (Simmons, Bonnin) | |
Sarojini Naidu | 1879-1949 | ||
Emiliano Zapata | 1879-1919 | ||
Leon Trotsky | 1879-1940 | ||
Helen Keller | 1880-1968 | ||
Adolph Joffe | 1883-1927 | ||
Eleanor Roosevelt | 1884-1962 | ||
Babilina Khositashvili | 1884-1973 | ||
Marcus Garvey | 1887-1940 | ||
Carl von Ossietzky | 1889-1938 | ||
Martin Niemöller | 1892-1984 | ||
Milena Jesenská | 1896-1944 | ||
Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani | ?-1897 | ||
Langston Hughes | 1901-1967 | ||
Ève Curie | 1904-2007 | ||
Sayyid Qutb | 1906-1966 | ||
Simon Wiesenthal | 1908-2005 | ||
Nicholas Winton | 1909-2015 | ||
Irena Sendler | 1910-2008 | ||
Bayard Rustin | 1912-1987 | ||
Ljubo Čupić | 1913-1942 | ||
Rosa Parks | 1913-2005 | ||
Florynce Kennedy | 1916-2000 | ||
Nelson Mandela | 1918-2013 | ||
Sophie Scholl | 1921-1943 | ||
Farley Mowat | 1921-2014 | ||
Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ||
Malcolm X | 1925-1965 | (Little) | |
Fidel Castro | 1926-2016 | (Ruz) | |
Harry Belafonte | 1927-2023 | (Bellanfanti) | |
Jack Kevorkian | 1928-2011 | ||
Che Guevara | 1928-1967 | ||
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929-1968 | ||
Sheila Kitzinger | 1929-2015 | ||
Derek Humphry | 1930- | ||
Desmond Tutu | 1931-2021 | ||
Victor Jara | 1932-1973 | ||
Vine Deloria Jr. | 1933-2005 | ||
Audre Lorde | 1934-1992 | ||
Gloria Steinem | 1934- | ||
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman | 1936-2007 | ||
Dennis Banks | 1937-2017 | ||
Russell Means | 1939-2012 | ||
Buffy Sainte-Marie | 1941- | ||
George Jackson | 1941-1971 | ||
Betty Williams | 1943-2020 | ||
Mairead Maguire | 1944- | (Corrigan) | |
John Trudell | 1946-2015 | ||
Steve Biko | 1946-1977 | ||
Shirin Ebadi | 1947- | ||
Philip Nitschke | 1947- | ||
Jan Palach | 1948-1969 | ||
Fred Hampton | 1948-1969 | ||
Margot Kidder | 1948-2018 | ||
Haunani-Kay Trask | 1949-2021 | ||
Jody Williams | 1950- | ||
Kailash Satyarthi | 1954- | ||
Al Sharpton | 1954- | ||
Denis Mukwege | 1955- | ||
Liu Xiaobo | 1955-2017 | ||
Monte Melkonian | 1957-1993 | ||
Rigoberta Menchú | 1959- | ||
Lawrence Lessig | 1961- | ||
Taslima Nasrin | 1962- | ||
Sung Jae-gi | 1967-2013 | ||
Naomi Klein | 1970- | ||
Calpernia Addams | 1971- | ||
Julian Assange | 1971- | ||
Samantha Smith | 1972-1985 | ||
Alexei Navalny | 1976-2024 | ||
Syarhey Tsikhanouski | 1978- | (Tikhanovsky) | |
Eufrosina Cruz | 1979- | (Mendoza) | |
Edward Snowden | 1983- | ||
Chelsea Manning | 1987- | ||
Q'orianka Kilcher | 1990- | ||
Roman Protasevich | 1995- | (Pratasevič) | |
Greta Thunberg | 2003- | (Ernman) |