Notable Activists and Revolutionaries
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of activism.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spartacus | ?-71 BC |  | |
| William Wallace | ?-1305 | | |
| Thomas Paine | 1737-1809 | | |
| Elizabeth Fry | 1780-1845 | | |
| William Apess | 1798-1839 | (Apes) | |
| Panagiotakis Fotilas | 1800-1824 | | |
| Frederick Douglass | 1818-1895 | | |
| Harriet Tubman | c. 1822-1913 | | |
| Matilda Joslyn Gage | 1826-1898 | | |
| Adolf Daens | 1839-1907 | | |
| Carl Feilberg | 1844-1887 | | |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1869-1948 | | |
| Vladimir Lenin | 1870-1924 | | |
| Adolf Brand | 1874-1945 | | |
| Zitkála-Šá | 1876-1938 | (Simmons, Bonnin) | |
| Leon Trotsky | 1879-1940 | | |
| Helen Keller | 1880-1968 | | |
| Adolph Joffe | 1883-1927 | | |
| Babilina Khositashvili | 1884-1973 | | |
| Langston Hughes | 1901-1967 | | |
| D'Arcy McNickle | 1904-1977 | | |
| Bayard Rustin | 1912-1987 | | |
| Ljubo Čupić | 1913-1942 | | |
| Rosa Parks | 1913-2005 | | |
| Florynce Kennedy | 1916-2000 | | |
| Nelson Mandela | 1918-2013 | | |
| Farley Mowat | 1921-2014 | | |
| Malcolm X | 1925-1965 | (Little) | |
| Fidel Castro | 1926-2016 | (Ruz) | |
| Harry Belafonte | 1927-2023 | (Bellanfanti) | |
| Jack Kevorkian | 1928-2011 | | |
| Che Guevara | 1928-1967 | | |
| Adam Fortunate Eagle | 1929- | (Nordwall) | |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929-1968 | | |
| Sheila Kitzinger | 1929-2015 | | |
| Rupert Richardson | 1930-2008 | | |
| Derek Humphry | 1930- | | |
| Desmond Tutu | 1931-2021 | | |
| Vine Deloria Jr. | 1933-2005 | | |
| Gloria Steinem | 1934- | | |
| Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman | 1936-2007 | | |
| Dennis Banks | 1937-2017 | | |
| Duke Redbird | 1939- | | |
| Russell Means | 1939-2012 | | |
| Buffy Sainte-Marie | 1941- | | |
| Leonard Crow Dog | 1942- | | |
| John Mohawk | 1945-2006 | | |
| John Trudell | 1946-2015 | | |
| Philip Nitschke | 1947- | | |
| Fred Hampton | 1948-1969 | | |
| Margot Kidder | 1948-2018 | | |
| Haunani-Kay Trask | 1949- | | |
| Mary Brave Bird | 1954-2013 | (Brave Woman, Crow Dog, Moore, Olguin, Richard) | |
| Monte Melkonian | 1957-1993 | | |
| Karin Spaink | 1957- | | |
| Julian Assange | 1971- | | |
| Alexei Navalny | 1976- | | |
| Eufrosina Cruz | 1979- | (Mendoza) | |
| Q'orianka Kilcher | 1990- | | |
| Roman Protasevich | 1995- | (Pratasevič) | |