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A. Philip Randolph

American civil rights activist (1889–1979)

American activist

Abimael Guzmán

Peruvian communist leader

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Argentine activist, architect and sculptor

American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and talk show host

Alex Pacheco (activist)

American animal rights activist

American activist

Alfonso García Robles

Mexican diplomat and politician

Alfred Wagenknecht

American politician (1881-1956)

American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)

American feminist writer

American political activist

American singer and Christian activist (1940–2024)

Law professor; witness in Clarence Thomas controversy

Anthony Comstock

American anti-vice activist (1844–1915)

American domestic terrorist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

Augusta La Torre

Peruvian revolutionary (1946-1988)

Augusto César Sandino

Leader of a rebellion against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua (1927-33)

Barbara Gittings

Librarian, LGBT rights activist

American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

Anti-Canadian insurgent (1813-1858)

Brazilian scientist

Bettina Aptheker

American political activist, feminist, professor and author

American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)

American educator and civil rights advocate

American professor and activist

Labor organizer (1869–1928)

Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (1895–1971)

Co-founder of the Black Panther Party (born 1936)

Booker T. Washington

American educator, author, orator and adviser

American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive

C. E. Ruthenberg

American politician (1882-1927)

Carlos Marighella

Brazilian politician, writer, and guerrilla fighter

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Argentine academic and politician

Carlos the Jackal

Venezuelan-born international terror operative (born 1949)

Carrie Chapman Catt

American social reformer and suffragist (1859–1947)

American temperance advocate (1846–1911)

American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist

Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967)

Chelsea Manning

American activist and whistleblower

Protestors against the Vietnam War

Christine Blasey Ford

American professor of psychology

Christine Jorgensen

First American to become widely known for having sex reassignment surgery

American Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross

Claudette Colvin

African-American civil rights activist (born 1939)

Colin Kaepernick

American football player (born 1987)

Comrade Artemio

Peruvian guerrilla leader

Coretta Scott King

American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

American gay rights activist

American social and political activist

Curaçaoan-American unionist and socialist (1852–1914)

Daniel Ellsberg

American economist and whistleblower known for releasing the Pentagon Papers

American white supremacist (born 1950)

American criminal

American asexual activist (born 1982)

American pro-pedophile activist

Ojibwe co-founder of the American Indian Movement (1937-2017)

American activist

Gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West

American labor leader (born 1930)

Dorothy Ray Healey

American politician

American whistleblower and NSA contractor (born 1983)

Eldridge Cleaver

American activist (1935–1998)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

19th-century American suffragist

Elizabeth Packard

American advocate

Elizabeth Smart

American kidnapping victim and child welfare activist

Emiliano Zapata

Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)

Enrique Gorriarán Merlo

Argentine geurilla leader

Erin Brockovich

American environmental activist (born 1960)

American labor and political leader

18th century Spanish physician

American activist for gay rights

American activist

African-American activist (1948–1969)

Japanese-American interned during World War II

American pastor and activist (1929–2014)

Fred Shuttlesworth

American civil rights activist

Frederick Douglass

American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist, former slave and statesman

Fredric Wertham

German-American psychiatrist

American animal rights activist

George Atzerodt

American assassin

George Jackson (activist)

Activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family

George Lincoln Rockwell

American neo-Nazi activist (1918–1967)

Leader of the Bedonkohe Apache (1829–1909)

American political activist (1947–2011)

American activist and journalist

General Secretary of Communist Party USA

American slave, writer, and abolitionist

African-American abolitionist

American gay rights activist (1930–1978)

American deaf-blind author, political activist and lecturer

Henrietta Edwards

Canadian feminist

Hiram Wesley Evans

Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

Hubert Harrison

United States Virgin Islands writer (1883-1927)

Grenadian revolutionary and politician (1938–2022)

Founder of the Black Panther Party (1942–1989)

American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

Leader of the Mohave Nation

Canadian politician (1868-1965)

J. Stitt Wilson

American politician (1868–1942)

American pathologist and euthanasia activist

Jack Thompson (activist)

American activist and disbarred attorney

James A. Colescott

American Ku Klux Klan leader (1897-1950)

1960s Civil Rights Movement strategist (1936–2008)

American activist, sociologist and writer (1860–1935)

American socialist, communist, anti-Communist and labor/political activist (1897-1990)

American social activist and counterculture icon (1938–1994)

American Baptist minister, activist, and politician (born 1941)

Jessie Daniel Ames

American civil rights activist

American labor union leader (born 1913)

Joaquin Murrieta

Historical figure

American political activist (born 1950)

Joe the Plumber

American conservative activist and commentator

German-American anarchist

John Brown (abolitionist)

American abolitionist (1800–1859)

American labor leader (1880-1969)

John L. Stevens

American politician

American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)

Scottish-born American naturalist and author

John Perry Barlow

American poet and essayist

John Wesley Hardin

American Old West character

José Matías Delgado

Salvadoran independence leader and Political Chief

American film censor

Joseph E. Vogler

Alaskan politician

American minister and civil rights activist

Juan José Valle

Argentine general (1904–1956)

Juliette Gordon Low

Founder of the Girl Scouts

Labor union activist, chemical technician

Khalid Abdul Muhammad

Black leader in the United States

Lady Bird Johnson

First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969

American labor leader (1922-1999)

Lewis Powell (conspirator)

American Confederate Army soldier and assassination conspirator

American nurse and activist

Little Rock Nine

Politic crisis about a group of nine African Americans who attended a previously all-white school in 1957

Lorrin A. Thurston

Hawaiian politician

Métis leader in Canada (1844–1885)

Louise McKinney

Canadian politician (1868-1931)

Lucien Bouchard

27th Premier of Quebec (1996–2001)

American Quaker abolitionist and suffragist (1793–1880)

American labor organizer (c.1851–1942)

Italian insurrectionary anarchist (1862–1931)

Luís Carlos Prestes

Brazilian politician (1898-1990)

Lyndon LaRouche

American political activist (1922–2019)

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

American atheist activist

American civil rights activist (1925–1965)

Manuel Marulanda

Leader of the Marxist–Leninist FARC-EP (1930–2008)

Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine

Jamaican activist and orator (1887–1940)

Margaret Sanger

American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)

American activist (1942–1996)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

American journalist (1890–1998)

Marsha P. Johnson

Black American gay liberation activist (1945–1992)

Martin Luther King Jr.

American civil rights leader (1929–1968)

Mary Beth Tinker

American free speech activist

Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt

American missionary, activist

American boarding house owner convicted for conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Maulana Karenga

American professor and founder of Kwanzaa (b. 1941)

Grenadian revolutionary and 1979–1983 socialist leader

African-American civil rights activist

Mel and Norma Gabler

Fundamentalists and school textbook reformers

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Mexican Roman Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence (1753–1811)

Moorfield Storey

American lawyer and civil rights leader

Irish-born American labor and community organizer

Mumia Abu-Jamal

American political activist and journalist convicted of the murder of a police officer

Non-profit executive and political appointee

Canadian author and activist (born 1970)

American feminist, journalist, and conspiracy theorist (born 1962)

Canadian author, social activist, suffragette & politician

Early 20th-century Mexican revolutionary general and politician

Passmore Williamson

American abolitionist

Patrisse Cullors

American artist and activist

American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

Phyllis Schlafly

American activist

Ralph Abernathy

American Civil Rights Movement leader

American lawyer and activist from Connecticut

Raoni Metuktire

Indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist

Richard B. Spencer

American white supremacist (born 1978)

Rigoberta Menchú

Guatemalan human rights activist

Roberto D'Aubuisson

Salvadoran politician

Black American victim of police brutality (1965–2012)

American civil rights activist (1913–2005)

American civil rights activist

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people (1939-2012)

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts

American peace activist and child actress (1972-1985)

American labor union leader (1850–1924)

Sanford B. Dole

Sarah Winnemucca

Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher

American community organizer and writer

Sojourner Truth

African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist

Stokely Carmichael

American activist (1941–1998)

American train robber

Susan B. Anthony

19th and 20th-century American women's rights activist

Sydney Possuelo

Brazilian explorer

Sylvester Graham

American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer

American LGBT rights activist (1951–2002)

T. R. M. Howard

American physician

Argentinian revolutionary (1937–1967)

Canadian athlete

Theodore Dwight Weld

American abolitionist

Tiburcio Vásquez

Californian bandit

Timoleón Jiménez

Colombian politician and former guerrilla

Second Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001

American journalist (1945–1978)

American labor leader

Valerie Solanas

American radical feminist, author, stalker and attempted murderer

Victoria Woodhull

American women's suffrage movement leader (1838–1927)

Villas-Bôas brothers

Brazilian activists

Voltairine de Cleyre

American anarchist writer and feminist (1866–1912)

Labor union leader

Walter White (NAACP)

American civil rights activist

American author, spokesperson, and political candidate

American entertainer and peace activist

American gun rights lobbyist

William Joseph Simmons

Ku Klux Klan founder (1880–1945)

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist and abolitionist

William Luther Pierce

American white supremacist (1933–2002)

William Lyon Mackenzie

Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician (1795–1861)

William Monroe Trotter

American newspaper editor, businessman, and civil rights activist

William Quantrill

American Confederate guerilla leader (1837–1865)

American activist, abolitionist, historian, and businessman

William T. Anderson

Confederate guerrilla fighter

Wilma Mankiller

Chief of the Cherokee Nation

American civil rights activist

Student science advocate who has launched a repeal of Louisiana's creationism law