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
Lady Godiva?-c. 1070
William Wallacec. 1270-1305
Bartolomé de las Casas1484-1566
Thomas Müntzerc. 1489-1525
Thomas Cranmer1489-1556
Willem of Orange1533-1584
Guy Fawkes1570-1606
Paul Revere1734-1818
Thomas Paine1737-1809
Jean-Paul Marat1743-1793
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi1746-1827
Olympe de Gouges1748-1793
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti1749-1791
Jacques Hébert1757-1794
Maximilien Robespierre1758-1794
Georges Danton1759-1794
François-Noël Babeuf1760-1797
Charlotte Corday1768-1793
Robert Owen1771-1858
Elizabeth Fry1780-1845
Sojourner Truth1797-1883(Baumfree)
Emilia Plater1806-1831
Frederick Douglass1818-1895
Susan B. Anthony1820-1906
Harriet Tubmanc. 1822-1913
Ferdinand Lassalle1825-1864
Matilda Joslyn Gage1826-1898
Henri Dunant1828-1910
Pyotr Kropotkin1842-1921
Bertha von Suttner1843-1914
Marcelo H. del Pilar1850-1896
José Martí1853-1895
Ivan Franko1856-1916
Emmeline Pankhurst1858-1928
Omar al-Mukhtar1858-1931
Theodor Herzl1860-1904
Jane Addams1860-1935
José Rizal1861-1896
Ida B. Wells1862-1931(Barnett)
Soh Jaipil1864-1951
Sun Yat-sen1866-1925
Emily Greene Balch1867-1961
Nadezhda Krupskaya1869-1939
Emma Goldman1869-1940
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi1869-1948
Vladimir Lenin1870-1924(Ulyanov)
Alexander Berkman1870-1936
Rosa Luxemburg1871-1919
James Weldon Johnson1871-1938
Adolf Brand1874-1945
Zitkála-Šá1876-1938(Simmons, Bonnin)
Sarojini Naidu1879-1949
Emiliano Zapata1879-1919
Leon Trotsky1879-1940
Helen Keller1880-1968
Adolph Joffe1883-1927
Eleanor Roosevelt1884-1962
Babilina Khositashvili1884-1973
Mikhail Frunze1885-1925(Frunză, Mirsky, Petrov, Shuisky)
Ernst Thälmann1886-1944
Marcus Garvey1887-1940
Nestor Makhno1888-1934
Carl von Ossietzky1889-1938
Martin Niemöller1892-1984
Milena Jesenská1896-1944
Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani?-1897
Halyna Kuzmenko1897-1978
Langston Hughes1901-1967
Ève Curie1904-2007
Sayyid Qutb1906-1966
Simon Wiesenthal1908-2005
Nicholas Winton1909-2015
Irena Sendler1910-2008
Bayard Rustin1912-1987
Ljubo Čupić1913-1942
Rosa Parks1913-2005
Florynce Kennedy1916-2000
Nelson Mandela1918-2013
Sophie Scholl1921-1943
Farley Mowat1921-2014
Frantz Fanon1925-1961
Malcolm X1925-1965(Little)
Fidel Castro1926-2016(Ruz)
Harry Belafonte1927-2023(Bellanfanti)
Jack Kevorkian1928-2011
Che Guevara1928-1967
Martin Luther King Jr.1929-1968
Sheila Kitzinger1929-2015
Derek Humphry1930-
Desmond Tutu1931-2021
Victor Jara1932-1973
Vine Deloria Jr.1933-2005
Audre Lorde1934-1992
Gloria Steinem1934-
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman1936-2007
Dennis Banks1937-2017
Vasyl Stus1938-1985
Russell Means1939-2012
Buffy Sainte-Marie1941-
George Jackson1941-1971
Betty Williams1943-2020
Mustafa Dzhemilev1943-
Mairead Maguire1944-(Corrigan)
John Trudell1946-2015
Steve Biko1946-1977
Shirin Ebadi1947-
Philip Nitschke1947-
Jan Palach1948-1969
Fred Hampton1948-1969
Margot Kidder1948-2018
Haunani-Kay Trask1949-2021
Jody Williams1950-
Kailash Satyarthi1954-
Al Sharpton1954-
Denis Mukwege1955-
Liu Xiaobo1955-2017
Monte Melkonian1957-1993
Rigoberta Menchú1959-
Lawrence Lessig1961-
Taslima Nasrin1962-
Viktar Babaryka1963-
Sung Jae-gi1967-2013
Naomi Klein1970-
Calpernia Addams1971-
Julian Assange1971-
Samantha Smith1972-1985
Alexei Navalny1976-2024
Syarhey Tsikhanouski1978-(Tikhanovsky)
Eufrosina Cruz1979-(Mendoza)
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya1982-(Pilipchuk, Tikhanovskaya)
Edward Snowden1983-
Chelsea Manning1987-
Q'orianka Kilcher1990-
Roman Protasevich1995-(Pratasevič)
Greta Thunberg2003-(Ernman)