Notable Activists and Revolutionaries

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of activism.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Spartacus?-71 BC
William Wallace?-1305
Thomas Paine1737-1809
Elizabeth Fry1780-1845
William Apess1798-1839(Apes)
Panagiotakis Fotilas1800-1824
Frederick Douglass1818-1895
Harriet Tubmanc. 1822-1913
Matilda Joslyn Gage1826-1898
Adolf Daens1839-1907
Carl Feilberg1844-1887
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi1869-1948
Vladimir Lenin1870-1924
Adolf Brand1874-1945
Zitkála-Šá1876-1938(Simmons, Bonnin)
Leon Trotsky1879-1940
Helen Keller1880-1968
Adolph Joffe1883-1927
Babilina Khositashvili1884-1973
Langston Hughes1901-1967
D'Arcy McNickle1904-1977
Bayard Rustin1912-1987
Ljubo Čupić1913-1942
Rosa Parks1913-2005
Florynce Kennedy1916-2000
Nelson Mandela1918-2013
Farley Mowat1921-2014
Malcolm X1925-1965(Little)
Fidel Castro1926-2016(Ruz)
Harry Belafonte1927-2023(Bellanfanti)
Jack Kevorkian1928-2011
Che Guevara1928-1967
Adam Fortunate Eagle1929-(Nordwall)
Martin Luther King Jr.1929-1968
Sheila Kitzinger1929-2015
Rupert Richardson1930-2008
Derek Humphry1930-
Desmond Tutu1931-2021
Vine Deloria Jr.1933-2005
Gloria Steinem1934-
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman1936-2007
Dennis Banks1937-2017
Duke Redbird1939-
Russell Means1939-2012
Buffy Sainte-Marie1941-
Leonard Crow Dog1942-
John Mohawk1945-2006
John Trudell1946-2015
Philip Nitschke1947-
Fred Hampton1948-1969
Margot Kidder1948-2018
Haunani-Kay Trask1949-
Mary Brave Bird1954-2013(Brave Woman, Crow Dog, Moore, Olguin, Richard)
Monte Melkonian1957-1993
Karin Spaink1957-
Julian Assange1971-
Alexei Navalny1976-
Eufrosina Cruz1979-(Mendoza)
Q'orianka Kilcher1990-
Roman Protasevich1995-(Pratasevič)