Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Grace Abbott |
Activist |
17-Nov-1878 |
19-Jun-1939 |
Advocate against child labor |
Robert S. Abbott |
Publisher |
24-Nov-1868 |
29-Feb-1940 |
Chicago Defender |
Abdu'l-Bahá |
Religion |
23-May-1844 |
28-Nov-1921 |
Baha'i leader |
Ralph Abernathy |
Activist |
21-Mar-1926 |
17-Apr-1990 |
Prominent civil rights activist |
Rachel Abrams |
Activist |
2-Jan-1951 |
7-Jun-2013 |
Conservative activist |
Bella Abzug |
Politician |
24-Jul-1920 |
31-Mar-1998 |
Feminist and former Congresswoman |
Samuel Adams |
Politician |
27-Sep-1722 |
2-Oct-1803 |
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party |
Jane Addams |
Activist |
6-Sep-1860 |
21-May-1935 |
Founder of Hull House |
Mary Cunningham Agee |
Activist |
1951 |
|
The Nurturing Network |
Roberta Green Ahmanson |
Relative |
1949 |
|
Wife of Howard Ahmanson |
Stew Albert |
Activist |
4-Dec-1939 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Founding Yippie |
Gary Aldrich |
Activist |
22-May-1945 |
|
Clinton antagonist |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Activist |
13-Nov-1969 |
|
Submission |
Saul Alinsky |
Activist |
30-Jan-1909 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Rules for Radicals |
Richard Allen |
Religion |
14-Feb-1760 |
26-Mar-1831 |
Founder, African Episcopal Methodist Church |
Richard V. Allen |
Government |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
Reagan National Security Advisor |
Gloria Allred |
Attorney |
3-Jul-1941 |
|
Feminist lawyer |
Cleveland Amory |
Author |
2-Sep-1917 |
14-Oct-1998 |
The Cat Who Came for Christmas |
Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
Tobias Asser |
Activist |
28-Apr-1838 |
29-Jul-1913 |
Hague Court of Arbitration |
Crispus Attucks |
Activist |
1723 |
5-Mar-1770 |
First man killed in the American Revolution |
Sherman Austin |
Activist |
10-Apr-1983 |
|
RaiseTheFist.com, now jailed |
Bill Ayers |
Activist |
26-Dec-1944 |
|
Weather Underground |
Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
Kenneth H. Bacon |
Journalist |
21-Nov-1944 |
15-Aug-2009 |
President of Refugees International, 2001-09 |
Joan Baez |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Jan-1941 |
|
Diamonds and Rust |
Doug Bailey |
Activist |
c. 1934 |
|
President and CEO, Unity08 |
Fredrik Bajer |
Politician |
21-Apr-1837 |
22-Jan-1922 |
Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Brent H. Baker |
Activist |
c. 1963 |
|
VP, Media Research Center |
Mitchell Baker |
Activist |
c. 1957 |
|
Mozilla Foundation |
Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
Steve Baldwin |
Politician |
c. 1957 |
|
Council for National Policy |
John Ball |
Activist |
? |
15-Jul-1381 |
Instigator of 1381 peasant revolt |
Whitney L. Ball |
Activist |
? |
|
Cofounder, DonorsTrust |
Hassan al-Banna |
Activist |
14-Oct-1906 |
12-Feb-1949 |
Founder of The Muslim Brotherhood |
Benjamin Banneker |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1731 |
25-Oct-1806 |
First African-American astronomer |
Brigitte Bardot |
Actor |
28-Sep-1934 |
|
Voulez-vous danser avec moi? |
John Perry Barlow |
Activist |
3-Oct-1947 |
|
Co-Founder, EFF |
Clara Barton |
Activist |
25-Dec-1821 |
12-Apr-1912 |
Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
David Barton |
Activist |
28-Jan-1954 |
|
Opposes separation of church and state |
Gary Bauer |
Government |
4-May-1946 |
|
Family Research Council |
Gordon L. Baum |
Activist |
1940 |
|
Council of Conservative Citizens |
Gregory Baylor |
Religion |
c. 1965 |
|
Christian Legal Society |
Simone de Beauvoir |
Activist |
9-Jan-1908 |
14-Apr-1986 |
The Second Sex |
Jim Bell |
Activist |
6-Apr-1958 |
|
Assassination Politics |
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo |
Activist |
3-Feb-1948 |
|
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Peter Benenson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1921 |
25-Feb-2005 |
Founder of Amnesty International |
Medea Benjamin |
Activist |
10-Sep-1952 |
|
CODEPINK, Global Exchange cofounder |
Richard B. Berman |
Activist |
c. 1942 |
|
Astroturf spindoctor |
J. D. Bernal |
Physicist |
10-May-1901 |
15-Sep-1971 |
X-ray crystallography |
Michelle Bernard |
Activist |
c. 1964 |
|
Conservative commentator |
Daniel J. Bernstein |
Computer Programmer |
29-Oct-1971 |
|
Bernstein v. United States |
Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
Annie Besant |
Activist |
1-Oct-1847 |
20-Sep-1933 |
Theosophist & Social Activist |
Wayne Besen |
Activist |
c. 1971 |
|
Truth Wins OUT |
Mary McLeod Bethune |
Educator |
10-Jul-1875 |
18-May-1955 |
Black activist and educator |
James Bevel |
Activist |
19-Oct-1936 |
19-Dec-2008 |
Civil rights activist, convicted of incest |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
Head of State |
5-Jan-1928 |
4-Apr-1979 |
Head of Pakistan, hanged |
Jello Biafra |
Singer |
17-Jun-1958 |
|
Dead Kennedys |
Bruce Bialosky |
Business |
? |
|
Accountant, GOP activist |
Mary Ann Bickerdyke |
Activist |
19-Jul-1817 |
8-Nov-1901 |
"Mother to the boys in Blue" |
Steve Biko |
Activist |
18-Dec-1946 |
12-Sep-1977 |
Father of Black Consciousness |
Reverend Billy |
Performance Artist |
c. 1952 |
|
Church of Life After Shopping |
Elisabeth Bing |
Activist |
8-Jul-1914 |
15-May-2015 |
Natural childbirth movement |
James G. Birney |
Activist |
4-Feb-1792 |
25-Nov-1857 |
Abolitionist Liberty Party candidate |
Don Black |
Activist |
28-Jul-1953 |
|
Stormfront.org founder |
Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
Morton C. Blackwell |
Activist |
16-Nov-1939 |
|
Influential conservative activist |
Joan Blades |
Activist |
c. 1956 |
|
Cofounder of MoveOn.org |
Richard Bloch |
Business |
15-Feb-1926 |
21-Jul-2004 |
H&R Block, cancer activist |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer |
Activist |
27-May-1818 |
30-Dec-1894 |
Bloomers |
David Boaz |
Activist |
29-Aug-1953 |
|
Cato Institute |
Manute Bol |
Basketball |
16-Oct-1962 |
19-Jun-2010 |
Seven foot seven |
Clint Bolick |
Activist |
26-Dec-1957 |
|
Libertarian school choice activist |
Frank Bond |
Activist |
1934 |
|
U.S. Health, Inc. |
Julian Bond |
Activist |
14-Jan-1940 |
15-Aug-2015 |
NAACP Chairman, 1998-2010 |
Yelena Bonner |
Activist |
15-Feb-1923 |
18-Jun-2011 |
Activist-wife of Andrei Sakharov |
Pat Boone |
Singer |
1-Jun-1934 |
|
Lounge singer, 45-million records sold |
Robert Borosage |
Activist |
? |
|
Founder, Campaign for America's Future |
David N. Bossie |
Activist |
1965 |
|
Citizens United |
Roy Bourgeois |
Activist |
1938 |
|
School of the Americas Watch |
William D. Boyce |
Activist |
16-Jun-1858 |
11-Jun-1929 |
Founder of Boy Scouts of America |
Katherine Boyd |
Business |
11-Feb-1921 |
10-Feb-2009 |
Interior decorator, GOP activist |
Wes Boyd |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
Cofounder of MoveOn.org |
Peter Boyle |
Actor |
18-Oct-1935 |
12-Dec-2006 |
Young Frankenstein |
Brent Bozell |
Activist |
14-Jul-1955 |
|
Media Research Center |
Anne Braden |
Activist |
28-Jul-1924 |
6-Mar-2006 |
Southern Civil Rights Activist |
Charles Bradlaugh |
Activist |
26-Sep-1833 |
30-Jan-1891 |
Atheistic Iconoclast |
Sarah Brady |
Activist |
6-Feb-1942 |
3-Apr-2015 |
Handgun control advocate |
Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
William Lee Brent |
Criminal |
10-Nov-1930 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Black Panther hijacker |
Nancy Goodman Brinker |
Activist |
6-Dec-1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Hungary, 2001-03 |
David Brock |
Activist |
23-Jul-1962 |
|
Founder of Media Matters |
Erin Brockovich |
Activist |
22-Jun-1960 |
|
Paralegal portrayed by Julia Roberts |
Floyd G. Brown |
Activist |
10-Mar-1961 |
|
Ultraconservative smear merchant |
H. Rap Brown |
Activist |
4-Oct-1943 |
|
Die, Nigger, Die! |
Henry Box Brown |
Activist |
1815 |
c. 1879 |
Former slave, escaped via crate |
John Brown |
Activist |
9-May-1800 |
2-Dec-1859 |
Led the raid on Harpers Ferry |
Lester R. Brown |
Activist |
28-Mar-1934 |
|
Earth Policy Institute |
Molly Brown |
Activist |
18-Jul-1867 |
26-Oct-1932 |
Unsinkable |
Olympia Brown |
Activist |
5-Jan-1835 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Lady preacher and suffragette |
Susan Brownmiller |
Activist |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Feminist, Against Our Will |
Dennis Brutus |
Poet |
28-Nov-1924 |
26-Dec-2009 |
Sirens, Knuckles and Boots |
Anita Bryant |
Activist |
25-Mar-1940 |
|
Anti-homosexuality activist |
Ferdinand Buisson |
Activist |
20-Dec-1841 |
16-Feb-1932 |
French pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
George Burdi |
Activist |
1970 |
|
Founded Resistance Records |
Elihu Burritt |
Activist |
8-Dec-1810 |
6-Mar-1879 |
Organized Friends of Peace |
Dan Burros |
Activist |
5-Mar-1937 |
31-Oct-1965 |
Antisemitic Jew outed by NY Times |
Josephine Butler |
Activist |
13-Apr-1828 |
30-Dec-1906 |
Patron saint of English Prostitution |
Richard G. Butler |
Activist |
23-Feb-1918 |
8-Sep-2004 |
Founder of the Aryan Nations |
Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
Stuart Butler |
Activist |
c. 1946 |
|
Heritage Foundation |
George W. Cable |
Author |
12-Oct-1844 |
31-Jan-1925 |
Old Creole Days |
Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
Patrick Califia |
Author |
8-Mar-1954 |
|
FTM transgendered sex writer |
Peter Camejo |
Activist |
31-Dec-1939 |
13-Sep-2008 |
Persistent Green Party candidate |
John Angus Campbell |
Activist |
10-Mar-1942 |
|
Discovery Institute |
Will D. Campbell |
Activist |
18-Jul-1924 |
3-Jun-2013 |
Brother to a Dragonfly |
Annie Jump Cannon |
Astronomer |
11-Dec-1863 |
13-Apr-1941 |
Census-taker of the sky |
Stokely Carmichael |
Activist |
29-Jun-1941 |
15-Nov-1998 |
Black separatist, Pan-Africanist |
Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
Willis Carto |
Activist |
17-Jul-1926 |
26-Oct-2015 |
Founder of Liberty Lobby, IHR |
Roger Casement |
Activist |
1-Sep-1864 |
3-Aug-1916 |
Irish revolutionary, gay diarist |
Camillo Benso di Cavour |
Activist |
10-Aug-1810 |
6-Jun-1861 |
Genius behind a united Italy |
Michel Chartrand |
Labor Leader |
20-Dec-1916 |
12-Apr-2010 |
Quebec nationalist labor activist |
Linda Chavez |
Activist |
17-Jun-1947 |
|
Neoconservative activist, pundit |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
Legal Scholar |
14-May-1953 |
|
Legal Scholar |
Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
Yvon Chouinard |
Business |
9-Nov-1938 |
|
Founder, Patagonia |
Ward Churchill |
Activist |
2-Oct-1947 |
|
Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann |
Joseph Cinqué |
Activist |
c. 1813 |
c. 1879 |
Led the Amistad slave rebellion |
Richard Cizik |
Activist |
? |
|
National Association of Evangelicals |
Joan Claybrook |
Activist |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
Public Citizen |
Eldridge Cleaver |
Activist |
31-Aug-1935 |
1-May-1998 |
Black Panther turned Republican |
Doug Coe |
Religion |
20-Oct-1928 |
21-Feb-2017 |
The Family |
Levi Coffin |
Activist |
28-Oct-1798 |
16-Sep-1877 |
Helped thousands of slaves to freedom |
William Sloane Coffin |
Activist |
1-Jun-1924 |
12-Apr-2006 |
Civilly disobedient chaplain |
Ben Cohen |
Business |
18-Mar-1951 |
|
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. |
Chuck Collins |
Activist |
1960 |
|
United for a Fair Economy |
Michael Collins |
Activist |
16-Oct-1890 |
22-Aug-1922 |
Irish Nationalist, spymaster |
Richard H. Collins |
Publisher |
1-Jun-1947 |
|
Dallas newspaper publisher |
Anthony Comstock |
Activist |
7-Mar-1844 |
21-Sep-1915 |
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice |
Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
Ward Connerly |
Activist |
15-Jun-1939 |
|
Connerly & Associates |
Kenneth L. Connor |
Activist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
President of the Family Research Council, 2000-03 |
Holly Coors |
Activist |
25-Aug-1920 |
18-Jan-2009 |
Ultraconservative beer baroness |
Rachel Corrie |
Activist |
10-Apr-1979 |
16-Mar-2003 |
US activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer |
Mairead Corrigan |
Activist |
27-Jan-1944 |
|
Nobel Prize recipient |
Jerome Corsi |
Activist |
31-Aug-1946 |
|
Co-Author, Unfit for Command |
Kent H. Courtney |
Activist |
23-Oct-1918 |
12-Aug-1997 |
Ultraconservative activist |
Jacques Cousteau |
Activist |
11-Jun-1910 |
25-Jun-1997 |
Oceanographer, environmentalist |
Tim Cox |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
Cofounder, Get Out of Our House |
Edward H. Crane |
Activist |
c. 1944 |
|
Founder, Cato Institute |
T. Kenneth Cribb |
Activist |
7-Aug-1948 |
|
Conservative activist |
Charles B. Curtis |
Activist |
27-Apr-1940 |
|
Nuclear Threat Initiative |
Robert Curvin |
Activist |
23-Feb-1934 |
29-Sep-2015 |
Former Black Power activist |
Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
David Daleiden |
Activist |
c. 1989 |
|
Anti-abortion activist |
Jim Daly |
Activist |
Jul-1961 |
|
President and CEO, Focus on the Family |
Georges Jacques Danton |
Activist |
26-Oct-1759 |
5-Apr-1794 |
Key figure in French Revolution |
Justin Dart, Jr. |
Activist |
29-Aug-1930 |
22-Jun-2002 |
Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
Angela Davis |
Activist |
26-Jan-1944 |
|
Black Panther, teacher, professor |
Garry Davis |
Activist |
27-Jul-1921 |
24-Jul-2013 |
World Passport |
Ossie Davis |
Actor |
18-Dec-1917 |
4-Feb-2005 |
Do The Right Thing |
Bud Day |
Activist |
24-Feb-1925 |
27-Jul-2013 |
Former POW |
Dorothy Day |
Activist |
8-Nov-1897 |
29-Nov-1980 |
Founder of the Catholic Worker movement |
Samuel H. Day |
Activist |
5-Oct-1926 |
26-Jan-2001 |
Antinuke crusader |
Eamon de Valera |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1882 |
29-Aug-1975 |
President of Ireland, 1959-73 |
Midge Decter |
Journalist |
25-Jul-1927 |
|
Neoconservative maven |
Morris Dees |
Activist |
16-Dec-1936 |
|
Bankrupted the Klan |
Margaret Deland |
Author |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
Old Chester Tales |
Martin R. Delany |
Activist |
6-May-1812 |
24-Jan-1885 |
Black nationalist |
Jim DeMint |
Politician |
2-Sep-1951 |
|
US Senator from South Carolina, 2005-12 |
Christopher DeMuth |
Activist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
Kimberly O. Dennis |
Activist |
? |
|
Searle Freedom Trust |
Donald Devine |
Government |
c. 1937 |
|
Director, Office of Personnel Management, 1981-85 |
Betsy DeVos |
Activist |
8-Jan-1958 |
|
Wife of Dick DeVos |
Helen DeVos |
Activist |
c. 1925 |
|
Wife of Amway founder |
Peter Diamandis |
Activist |
20-May-1961 |
|
Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation |
Dorothea Dix |
Activist |
4-Apr-1802 |
17-Jul-1887 |
Activist for the insane |
Milovan Djilas |
Government |
12-Jun-1911 |
20-Apr-1995 |
Yugoslavian revolutionary |
James Dobson |
Radio Personality |
21-Apr-1936 |
|
Focus on the Family |
Bernardine Dohrn |
Activist |
12-Jan-1942 |
|
Weather Underground leader |
Terry Dolan |
Activist |
1950 |
28-Dec-1986 |
Conservative activist |
Frank Donatelli |
Activist |
4-Jul-1949 |
|
McGuireWoods Consulting |
Marion Dönhoff |
Journalist |
2-Dec-1909 |
11-Mar-2002 |
Die Zeit |
William Donohue |
Activist |
18-Jul-1947 |
|
Catholic League president |
Tom Dooley |
Activist |
17-Jan-1927 |
18-Jan-1961 |
Deliver Us from Evil |
Frederick Douglass |
Activist |
Feb-1817 |
20-Feb-1895 |
Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer |
Wiley Drake |
Religion |
c. 1944 |
|
Buena Park, California pastor |
W. E. B. Du Bois |
Sociologist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
Alexander Dubcek |
Head of State |
27-Nov-1921 |
7-Nov-1992 |
Leader of Czechoslovakia, 1968-69 |
Élie Ducommun |
Journalist |
19-Feb-1833 |
7-Dec-1906 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
David Duke |
Activist |
13-Jul-1950 |
|
Former KKK Grand Wizard |
Robin Chandler Duke |
Activist |
13-Oct-1923 |
6-Feb-2016 |
Former president of NARAL |
Henry Dunant |
Activist |
8-May-1828 |
30-Oct-1910 |
Red Cross founder |
Mike Duncan |
Activist |
1951 |
|
RNC Chairman, 2007-09 |
Becky Norton Dunlop |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Conservative activist |
Andrea Dworkin |
Activist |
26-Sep-1946 |
9-Apr-2005 |
Anti-pornography activist |
James C. Early |
Activist |
12-Jan-1947 |
|
Smithsonian Institution |
Michelle Easton |
Government |
12-Aug-1950 |
|
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute |
Shirin Ebadi |
Activist |
1947 |
|
First female judge in Iran |
Myron Ebell |
Activist |
1953 |
|
Global Warming cynic |
Marian Wright Edelman |
Activist |
6-Jun-1939 |
|
Founder, Children's Defense Fund |
Ira Einhorn |
Activist |
15-May-1940 |
|
Earth Day founder turned killer |
Lewis M. Eisenberg |
Activist |
c. 1942 |
|
Granite Capital International Group |
Elihu Embree |
Activist |
11-Nov-1782 |
4-Dec-1820 |
Abolitionist and lifelong slaveholder |
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin |
Religion |
8-Feb-1796 |
1-Sep-1864 |
Saint-Simonist, cult leader |
Eve Ensler |
Playwright |
25-May-1953 |
|
The Vagina Monologues |
Stephen J. Entin |
Activist |
? |
|
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation |
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
Activist |
26-Nov-1931 |
|
Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
Hiram Wesley Evans |
Activist |
26-Sep-1881 |
14-Sep-1966 |
KKK Imperial Wizard, 1922-39 |
M. Stanton Evans |
Activist |
20-Jul-1934 |
3-Mar-2015 |
Conservative activist |
Charles Evers |
Activist |
11-Sep-1922 |
|
Brother of Medgar Evers |
Medgar Evers |
Activist |
2-Jul-1925 |
12-Jun-1963 |
Civil rights activist murdered in 1963 |
Mallory Factor |
Activist |
c. 1950 |
|
Merchant banker |
Patrick F. Fagan |
Activist |
? |
|
Family Research Council |
Susan Faludi |
Activist |
18-Apr-1959 |
|
Backlash |
James Farmer |
Activist |
12-Jan-1920 |
9-Jul-1999 |
Co-Founder, CORE |
Michael Farris |
Activist |
27-Aug-1951 |
|
Founder, Patrick Henry College |
Walter E. Fauntroy |
Activist |
6-Feb-1933 |
|
Congressman from DC, 1971-91 |
Edwin Feulner |
Activist |
12-Aug-1941 |
|
Heritage Foundation founder |
Janet Fielding |
Actor |
9-Sep-1953 |
|
Tegan from Doctor Who |
Bryan Fischer |
Radio Personality |
1951 |
|
Right-wing radio host |
Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
Max M. Fisher |
Business |
15-Jul-1908 |
3-Mar-2005 |
Gas station tycoon |
Tom Fitton |
Activist |
? |
|
Judicial Watch president |
David Flaum |
Activist |
c. 1953 |
|
Flaum Management Company |
Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
Jane Fonda |
Actor |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Barbarella |
Werner Fornos |
Activist |
1933 |
|
The Population Institute |
Michael J. Fox |
Actor |
9-Jun-1961 |
|
Back to the Future |
Michael G. Franc |
Government |
c. 1957 |
|
Heritage Foundation |
Alfred Fried |
Activist |
11-Nov-1864 |
5-May-1921 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
Al From |
Activist |
31-May-1943 |
|
Founder, Democratic Leadership Council |
Elizabeth Fry |
Activist |
21-May-1780 |
12-Oct-1845 |
Prison reformer |
Margaret Fuller |
Author |
23-May-1810 |
19-Jul-1850 |
Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
Brigitte Gabriel |
Activist |
21-Oct-1964 |
|
American Congress for Truth |
April Gaede |
Activist |
1966 |
|
Prussian Blue stage mom |
Dan Gainor |
Activist |
Apr-1961 |
|
VP, Media Research Center |
Arun Gandhi |
Activist |
14-Apr-1934 |
|
Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Activist |
2-Oct-1869 |
30-Jan-1948 |
Proselytizer of nonviolence |
Kim Gandy |
Activist |
25-Jan-1954 |
|
President of NOW |
Peter Garrett |
Musician |
16-Apr-1953 |
|
Frontman, Midnight Oil |
Thomas Garrett |
Activist |
21-Aug-1789 |
25-Jan-1871 |
Underground Railroad |
William Lloyd Garrison |
Activist |
10-Dec-1805 |
24-May-1879 |
Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator |
Amy Jacques Garvey |
Activist |
31-Dec-1885 |
25-Jul-1973 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
Marcus Garvey |
Activist |
17-Aug-1887 |
10-Jun-1940 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
Stephen F. Gates |
Business |
20-May-1946 |
|
Former EVP, Conoco-Phillips |
Dave Gaubatz |
Activist |
? |
|
Muslim Mafia |
Leymah Gbowee |
Activist |
1-Feb-1972 |
|
Helped end Second Liberian Civil War |
Pamela Geller |
Blogger |
14-Jun-1958 |
|
Right-wing blogger |
Kevin L. Gentry |
Activist |
c. 1964 |
|
Koch Industries |
Kurt Gerstein |
Military |
11-Aug-1905 |
25-Jul-1945 |
Holocaust collaborator and whistleblower |
Christopher Gersten |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
|
Husband of Linda Chavez |
Miep Gies |
Activist |
15-Feb-1909 |
11-Jan-2010 |
Sheltered the family of Anne Frank |
Jim Gilchrist |
Activist |
1949 |
|
Minuteman Project founder |
Doug Giles |
Religion |
c. 1962 |
|
Conservative pastor |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Activist |
3-Jul-1860 |
17-Aug-1935 |
Women and Economics |
John Gilmore |
Activist |
Aug-1955 |
|
Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks |
Ira Glasser |
Activist |
1938 |
|
ACLU Executive Director, 1978-2001 |
Erich Gliebe |
Activist |
c. 1964 |
|
Chairman, National Alliance |
Matt Gonzalez |
Politician |
4-Jun-1965 |
|
Progressive politician, activist |
J. Peter Grace |
Business |
25-May-1913 |
19-Apr-1995 |
W.R. Grace scion |
Sylvester Graham |
Activist |
5-Jul-1794 |
11-Sep-1851 |
Graham crackers |
Antonio Gramsci |
Activist |
23-Jan-1891 |
27-Apr-1937 |
Founder of the Italian Communist Party |
Wavy Gravy |
Activist |
15-May-1936 |
|
Some damn hippy |
Mike Gray |
Author |
26-Oct-1935 |
30-Apr-2013 |
The China Syndrome |
William J. Grede |
Business |
24-Feb-1897 |
5-Jun-1989 |
Grede Foundries, Inc. |
Germaine Greer |
Activist |
29-Jan-1939 |
|
Feminism Diva |
Dick Gregory |
Activist |
12-Oct-1932 |
19-Aug-2017 |
Autobiography: NIGGER! |
Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
Alexander Grothendieck |
Mathematician |
28-May-1928 |
13-Nov-2014 |
Grothendieck topologies |
Mandy Grunwald |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Hillary Clinton media adviser |
Che Guevara |
Activist |
14-Jun-1928 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Revolutionary icon |
George Habash |
Activist |
2-Aug-1926 |
26-Jan-2008 |
Founder of the PFLP |
John Hagelin |
Activist |
9-Jun-1954 |
|
Natural Law Party |
David Hager |
Doctor |
c. 1946 |
|
Gynecologist, conservative activist |
Matt Hale |
Religion |
27-Jul-1971 |
|
White supremacist |
Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
Gus Hall |
Activist |
8-Oct-1910 |
13-Oct-2000 |
Leader, Communist Party USA |
Fannie Lou Hamer |
Activist |
6-Oct-1917 |
14-Mar-1977 |
Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer |
Fred Hampton, Sr. |
Activist |
30-Aug-1948 |
4-Dec-1969 |
Black Panther leader assassinated by police |
Ismail Haniyeh |
Activist |
1962 |
|
Prime Minister of Palestine, 2006-07 |
Chuck Hansen |
Activist |
13-May-1947 |
26-Mar-2003 |
Nuclear historian and archivist |
Frances E. W. Harper |
Poet |
24-Sep-1825 |
22-Feb-1911 |
Abolitionist, temperance activist |
Michael Harrington |
Activist |
24-Feb-1928 |
31-Jul-1989 |
The Other America |
Rita E. Hauser |
Activist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
Harry Hay |
Activist |
7-Apr-1912 |
24-Oct-2002 |
Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society |
Tom Hayden |
Activist |
11-Dec-1939 |
23-Oct-2016 |
Jane Fonda's ex |
Jacques René Hébert |
Activist |
15-Nov-1757 |
24-Mar-1794 |
Revolutionary of the Paris Commune |
Dorothy Height |
Activist |
24-Mar-1912 |
20-Apr-2010 |
National Council of Negro Women |
Wade Henderson |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
Jack Herer |
Activist |
18-Jun-1939 |
15-Apr-2010 |
Cannabis evangelist |
Bruce Herschensohn |
Activist |
10-Sep-1932 |
|
Conservative activist |
Theodor Herzl |
Activist |
2-May-1860 |
3-Jul-1904 |
Lead Zionist |
Miguel Hidalgo |
Religion |
8-May-1753 |
30-Jul-1811 |
Father of Mexican independence |
Heather R. Higgins |
Activist |
1959 |
|
Chairman, Independent Women's Forum |
Betty Hill |
Hoaxer |
28-Jun-1919 |
17-Oct-2004 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
Abbie Hoffman |
Activist |
30-Nov-1936 |
12-Apr-1989 |
Steal This Book |
Amy Holmes |
Columnist |
25-Jul-1973 |
|
BET host, conservative commentator |
Benjamin Hooks |
Activist |
31-Jan-1925 |
15-Apr-2010 |
NAACP Director, 1977-92 |
William Temple Hornaday |
Activist |
1-Dec-1854 |
6-Mar-1937 |
Defender of the American bison |
Christopher C. Horner |
Activist |
? |
|
Competitive Enterprise Institute |
David Horowitz |
Activist |
10-Jan-1939 |
|
Conservative activist |
José Ramos Horta |
Politician |
26-Dec-1949 |
|
President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
Kent Hovind |
Religion |
15-Jan-1953 |
|
Creation Science evangelist |
John Howard |
Activist |
2-Sep-1726 |
20-Jan-1790 |
The State of Prisons |
Julia Ward Howe |
Activist |
27-May-1819 |
17-Oct-1910 |
Battle Hymn of the Republic |
Kathy Hubbard |
Activist |
? |
|
GOP activist |
Dave Hughes |
Journalist |
18-May-1928 |
|
Electronic bulletin boards |
John Hume |
Politician |
18-Jan-1937 |
|
Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient |
Robert P. Hunter |
Activist |
23-Aug-1940 |
|
Mackinac Center for Public Policy |
Heather F. Hurlburt |
Activist |
c. 1967 |
|
Executive Director, National Security Network |
Laura Ingalls |
Aviator |
14-Dec-1893 |
10-Jan-1967 |
Aviatrix and Nazi sympathizer |
Roy Innis |
Activist |
6-Jun-1934 |
8-Jan-2017 |
Congress of Racial Equality |
Patricia Ireland |
Activist |
19-Oct-1945 |
|
NOW president, 1991-2001 |
Peter H. Irons |
Activist |
11-Aug-1940 |
|
A People's History of the Supreme Court |
Reed Irvine |
Activist |
29-Sep-1922 |
16-Nov-2004 |
Founder, Accuracy in Media |
David Irving |
Activist |
24-Mar-1938 |
|
Notorious Holocaust denier |
Jesse Jackson |
Activist |
8-Oct-1941 |
|
Rainbow Coalition |
John E. Jacob |
Business |
16-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Urban League, 1982-94 |
Jane Jacobs |
Author |
4-May-1916 |
25-Apr-2006 |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
Bianca Jagger |
Model |
2-May-1945 |
|
First wife of Mick Jagger |
Howard Jarvis |
Activist |
22-Sep-1903 |
11-Aug-1986 |
Anti-tax crusader |
Benjamin Todd Jealous |
Activist |
c. 1972 |
|
President of the NAACP |
Tom Jennings |
Computer Programmer |
1955 |
|
Author of FidoNet BBS protocols |
Joe the Plumber |
Activist |
3-Dec-1973 |
|
Unlicensed plumber, political operative |
Russell Johnson |
Religion |
? |
|
Ohio Restoration Project |
Angelina Jolie |
Actor |
4-Jun-1975 |
|
Tomb Raider |
Mother Jones |
Activist |
1-Aug-1837 |
30-Nov-1930 |
The grandmother of all agitators |
David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
Leon Jouhaux |
Labor Leader |
1-Jul-1879 |
28-Apr-1954 |
Union leader, Nobel Prize recipient |
Theodore D. Judah |
Engineer |
4-Mar-1826 |
2-Nov-1863 |
American Transcontinental Railroad |
Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
Meir Kahane |
Activist |
1-Aug-1932 |
5-Nov-1990 |
Founder of Jewish Defense League |
Tawakkul Karman |
Activist |
7-Feb-1979 |
|
African free speech activist |
Garry Kasparov |
Chess Player |
13-Apr-1963 |
|
Grand Master chess player |
David Keating |
Activist |
c. 1955 |
|
Club for Growth |
Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
Florence Kelley |
Activist |
12-Sep-1859 |
17-Feb-1932 |
Founder of National Consumers League |
Kerry Kennedy |
Activist |
8-Sep-1959 |
|
Human rights activist |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
Relative |
17-Jan-1954 |
|
Son of Robert F. Kennedy |
Jomo Kenyatta |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1892 |
22-Aug-1978 |
President of Kenya, 1964-78 |
Charles R. Kesler |
Scholar |
c. 1956 |
|
Conservative scholar |
Jack Kevorkian |
Doctor |
26-May-1928 |
3-Jun-2011 |
Euthanasia enthusiast |
Matt Kibbe |
Activist |
c. 1963 |
|
President and CEO of FreedomWorks |
Cliff Kincaid |
Activist |
16-May-1954 |
|
Accuracy in Media |
Coretta Scott King |
Activist |
27-Apr-1927 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King |
Martin Luther King |
Activist |
15-Jan-1929 |
4-Apr-1968 |
Pacifist civil rights activist |
Martin Luther King III |
Activist |
23-Oct-1957 |
|
Former President of the SCLC |
Thomas Starr King |
Religion |
17-Dec-1824 |
4-Mar-1864 |
Saved California to the Union |
Jim Kittle |
Business |
? |
|
Kittle's Furniture |
Marc Klaas |
Activist |
? |
|
Lobbied to get bad Three Strikes law passed |
Larry Klayman |
Activist |
20-Jul-1951 |
|
Founder, Judicial Watch |
Abner Kneeland |
Activist |
7-Apr-1774 |
27-Aug-1844 |
Blasphemous preacher |
Walter Knott |
Business |
11-Dec-1889 |
3-Dec-1981 |
Founder of Knott's Berry Farm |
Fred Korematsu |
Activist |
30-Jan-1919 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Opposed internment camps |
Bruce Kovner |
Activist |
Feb-1945 |
|
Caxton Associates billionaire |
Larry Kramer |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1935 |
|
The Normal Heart |
Gary Kreep |
Activist |
c. 1950 |
|
United States Justice Foundation |
Mike Krempasky |
Activist |
c. 1974 |
|
Co-Founder of RedState.com |
Patrick Kroupa |
Author |
20-Jan-1968 |
|
Lord Digital of LOD, Mindvox |
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
Activist |
8-Jul-1926 |
24-Aug-2004 |
On Death And Dying |
Maggie Kuhn |
Activist |
3-Aug-1905 |
22-Apr-1995 |
Organizer of the Gray Panthers |
Robert Kuttner |
Editor |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
The American Prospect |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
Activist |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
Burmese activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Military |
20-May-1743 |
7-Apr-1803 |
Led the 1791 Slave Rebellion |
Henri La Fontaine |
Activist |
22-Apr-1854 |
14-May-1943 |
Belgian activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Lawrence Lader |
Activist |
6-Aug-1919 |
7-May-2006 |
Father of abortion rights activism |
Andrea Lafferty |
Activist |
c. 1961 |
|
Traditional Values Coalition |
Beverly LaHaye |
Activist |
30-Apr-1929 |
|
Tim LaHaye's wife |
Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
Richard Land |
Religion |
1947 |
|
Southern Baptist Convention |
Christian Lange |
Activist |
17-Sep-1869 |
11-Dec-1938 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Wayne LaPierre |
Activist |
8-Nov-1949 |
|
Spokesman for the NRA |
Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
Timothy Leary |
Activist |
22-Oct-1920 |
31-May-1996 |
Tune in, turn on, drop out |
Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
Judd Legum |
Activist |
8-Dec-1978 |
|
Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress |
Lew Lehrman |
Business |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
Rite Aid drugstore founder |
Leslie Lenkowsky |
Government |
30-Mar-1946 |
|
Philanthropic Studies |
Richard Lessner |
Activist |
c. 1949 |
|
Capital City Partners |
Mark Levin |
Activist |
21-Sep-1957 |
|
Landmark Legal Foundation |
Robert A. Levy |
Activist |
c. 1939 |
|
Cato Institute |
Ann Lewis |
Activist |
19-Dec-1937 |
|
Clinton advisor |
Bertha Lewis |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of ACORN |
Marlo Lewis, Jr. |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Global Warming critic |
Leonard P. Liggio |
Scholar |
5-Jul-1933 |
|
Libertarian |
William S. Lind |
Activist |
9-Jul-1947 |
|
Free Congress Foundation |
Henry Demarest Lloyd |
Journalist |
1-May-1847 |
28-Sep-1903 |
Radical reporter |
Belva Lockwood |
Activist |
24-Oct-1830 |
19-May-1917 |
Feminist |
Nancy B. Loeffler |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
|
Community activist, wife of Tom Loeffler |
Wendy E. Long |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
Judicial Confirmation Network |
Linda Lovelace |
Pornstar |
10-Jan-1949 |
22-Apr-2002 |
Pornstar turned anti-porn activist |
Mildred Loving |
Activist |
22-Jun-1939 |
2-May-2008 |
Interracial marriage |
Juliette Gordon Low |
Activist |
31-Oct-1860 |
18-Jan-1927 |
Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA |
Joseph Lowery |
Activist |
6-Oct-1921 |
|
Co-Founder of the SCLC |
Bernard Lown |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1921 |
|
Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist |
Carrie Lukas |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
Benjamin Lundy |
Activist |
4-Jan-1789 |
22-Aug-1839 |
The Genius of Universal Emancipation |
Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
Albert Lutuli |
Activist |
c. 1898 |
21-Jul-1967 |
ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient |
Rosa Luxemburg |
Activist |
5-Mar-1871 |
15-Jan-1919 |
Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany |
Staughton Lynd |
Historian |
22-Nov-1929 |
|
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism |
Barry Lynn |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Americans United for Separation of Church and State |
Mary Lyon |
Activist |
28-Feb-1797 |
5-Mar-1849 |
Founder of Mount Holyoke College |
Clara Maass |
Activist |
28-Jun-1876 |
24-Aug-1901 |
Human experiments with yellow fever |
Wangari Maathai |
Activist |
1-Apr-1940 |
25-Sep-2011 |
Planted 12 million trees in Kenya |
Seán MacBride |
Activist |
26-Jan-1904 |
15-Jan-1988 |
Irish revolutionary, Nobel Prize recipient |
Connie Mackey |
Activist |
? |
|
Family Research Council |
Catharine MacKinnon |
Activist |
7-Oct-1946 |
|
Anti-pornography activist |
Carl Malamud |
Activist |
2-Jul-1959 |
|
Founder of Internet Multicasting Service |
Malcolm X |
Activist |
19-May-1925 |
21-Feb-1965 |
Nation of Islam |
Ellen Malcolm |
Activist |
2-Feb-1947 |
|
Founder, EMILY's List |
Jean-Paul Marat |
Activist |
24-May-1743 |
13-Jul-1793 |
French revolutionary |
Subcomandante Marcos |
Activist |
? |
|
Spokesman for Zapatista Army |
José Martí |
Activist |
28-Jan-1853 |
19-May-1895 |
Cuban hero |
David H. Martin |
Activist |
? |
|
Founder, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund |
Gary A. Marx |
Activist |
? |
|
Judicial Confirmation Network |
Moussa Marzook |
Activist |
1951 |
|
Head of the Hamas politburo |
Khaled Mashaal |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Hamas bureau chief in Damascus |
Robert Mathews |
Criminal |
16-Jan-1953 |
8-Dec-1984 |
White supremacist died in shootout with FBI |
Pat Matrisciana |
Activist |
? |
|
Produced The Clinton Chronicles |
Clifford D. May |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
Giuseppe Mazzini |
Activist |
22-Jun-1805 |
10-Mar-1872 |
Italian patriot, agitator |
Betsy McCaughey |
Politician |
20-Oct-1948 |
|
Lt. Governor of New York, 1995-98 |
Norma McCorvey |
Activist |
22-Sep-1947 |
18-Feb-2017 |
Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade |
Heather C. McGhee |
Activist |
c. 1979 |
|
President of Demos |
Alice McGrath |
Activist |
5-Apr-1917 |
27-Nov-2009 |
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee |
Keith McHenry |
Activist |
1957 |
|
Food Not Bombs |
Bill McKibben |
Activist |
8-Dec-1960 |
|
The End of Nature |
J. Miller McKim |
Activist |
14-Nov-1810 |
13-Jun-1874 |
Abolitionist and advocate for freed slaves' rights |
John F. McManus |
Activist |
1935 |
|
President, John Birch Society |
Lucia Ames Mead |
Activist |
5-May-1856 |
1-Nov-1936 |
Swords and Ploughshares |
Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
Russell Means |
Activist |
10-Nov-1939 |
22-Oct-2012 |
American Indian Movement |
Chip Mellor |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
President, Institute for Justice |
Rigoberta Menchú Tum |
Activist |
9-Jan-1959 |
|
Political activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
James Meredith |
Activist |
25-Jun-1933 |
|
First black student at Ole Miss |
Tom Metzger |
Activist |
9-Apr-1938 |
|
White supremacist |
Kate Michelman |
Activist |
? |
|
NARAL President, 1985-2004 |
Adam Michnik |
Activist |
17-Oct-1946 |
|
Gazeta Wyborcza |
Kate Millett |
Activist |
14-Sep-1934 |
|
Sexual Politics |
Steven J. Milloy |
Activist |
? |
|
JunkScience.com |
Heather Mills |
Activist |
12-Jan-1968 |
|
Ex-wife of Paul McCartney |
Ho Chi Minh |
Activist |
19-May-1890 |
2-Sep-1969 |
Uncle Ho |
Manuel Miranda |
Activist |
c. 1959 |
|
Third Branch Conference |
Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
Jessica Mitford |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1917 |
23-Jul-1996 |
The American Way of Death |
Eben Moglen |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Shareware law |
Goenawan Mohammad |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1941 |
|
Muckraking Indonesian journalist |
Thomas Monaghan |
Business |
25-Mar-1937 |
|
Domino's Pizza founder, pro-life activist |
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta |
Activist |
20-Sep-1833 |
10-Feb-1918 |
Founder of the Lombard League |
Queen Mother Moore |
Activist |
27-Jul-1898 |
7-May-1997 |
Republic of New Africa |
Stephen Moore |
Activist |
16-Feb-1960 |
|
Club for Growth |
Melanie Morgan |
Radio Personality |
1956 |
|
Conservative radio host |
Henry Morgentaler |
Doctor |
19-Mar-1923 |
28-May-2013 |
Abortion rights in Canada |
Georgette Mosbacher |
Activist |
16-Jan-1947 |
|
Washington socialite |
Steven W. Mosher |
Scholar |
9-May-1948 |
|
Prominent Sinologist |
John R. Mott |
Activist |
25-May-1865 |
31-Jan-1955 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Lucretia Mott |
Activist |
3-Jan-1793 |
11-Nov-1880 |
Women's rights and anti-slavery advocate |
Markos Moulitsas |
Blogger |
11-Sep-1971 |
|
Daily Kos webmaster |
John Muir |
Activist |
21-Apr-1838 |
24-Dec-1914 |
Patron saint of Yosemite National Park |
Ethan Nadelmann |
Activist |
13-Mar-1957 |
|
Drug Policy Alliance |
Ralph Nader |
Activist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
Unsafe at Any Speed |
Kathy Najimy |
Actor |
6-Feb-1957 |
|
Voice of Peggy on King of the Hill |
James C. Napier |
Government |
9-Jun-1845 |
21-Apr-1940 |
Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank |
Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
Carrie Nation |
Activist |
25-Nov-1846 |
9-Jun-1911 |
Temperance crusader |
Ralph Neas |
Activist |
17-May-1946 |
|
People for the American Way |
Michael A. Needham |
Activist |
c. 1982 |
|
Heritage Action for America |
Gaylord Nelson |
Politician |
4-Jun-1916 |
3-Jul-2005 |
Founded Earth Day in 1970 |
Michael Newdow |
Activist |
24-Jun-1953 |
|
Waged war against "under God" |
Ingrid Newkirk |
Activist |
11-Jul-1949 |
|
President of PETA |
Huey Newton |
Activist |
17-Feb-1942 |
22-Aug-1989 |
Black Panther |
Florence Nightingale |
Activist |
12-May-1820 |
13-Aug-1910 |
Established nursing as a profession |
Patrick Noonan |
Activist |
c. 1943 |
|
Chairman of the Conservation Fund |
David A. Norcross |
Activist |
30-Mar-1937 |
|
Republican National Lawyers Association |
Grover Norquist |
Activist |
19-Oct-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader |
Eric O'Keefe |
Activist |
Dec-1954 |
|
Sam Adams Alliance |
James O'Keefe |
Activist |
28-Jun-1984 |
|
ACORN, Planned Parenthood sting videos |
John E. O'Neill |
Activist |
19-Feb-1946 |
|
Longtime John Kerry antagonist |
Revilo P. Oliver |
Activist |
7-Jul-1908 |
10-Aug-1994 |
Founding member, John Birch Society |
Jane Olson |
Activist |
? |
|
Chairman, Human Rights Watch |
George Oppen |
Poet |
24-Apr-1908 |
7-Jul-1984 |
Objectivist proponent and poet |
Joseph P. Overton |
Activist |
4-Jan-1960 |
30-Jun-2003 |
The Overton Window |
Robert Owen |
Activist |
14-May-1771 |
17-Nov-1858 |
Founder of the Cooperative Movement |
Robert Dale Owen |
Activist |
9-Nov-1801 |
24-Jun-1877 |
The Wrong of Slavery |
Thomas Paine |
Activist |
29-Jan-1737 |
8-Jun-1809 |
Common Sense |
Grace Paley |
Author |
11-Dec-1922 |
22-Aug-2007 |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
Emmeline Pankhurst |
Activist |
14-Jul-1857 |
14-Jun-1928 |
Militant suffragette |
Drazen Pantic |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Micromedia activist |
Duane A. Parde |
Activist |
13-Jun-1963 |
|
National Taxpayers Union |
Eli Pariser |
Activist |
17-Dec-1980 |
|
MoveOn.org |
Everett C. Parker |
Activist |
17-Jan-1913 |
17-Sep-2015 |
Civil rights advocate, UCC official |
Rosa Parks |
Activist |
4-Feb-1913 |
24-Oct-2005 |
Wouldn't sit in the back of the bus |
Rod Parsley |
Religion |
13-Jan-1957 |
|
Pastor, Christian Right activist |
Albert Parsons |
Activist |
20-Jun-1848 |
11-Nov-1887 |
Haymarket Martyr |
Eboo Patel |
Activist |
? |
|
Interfaith Youth Core |
Buzz Patterson |
Radio Personality |
c. 1955 |
|
The Buzz Cut |
Thomas W. Pauken |
Activist |
11-Jun-1944 |
|
Conservative activist |
Alice Paul |
Activist |
11-Jan-1885 |
9-Jul-1977 |
Suffragette |
Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
Leonard Peltier |
Criminal |
12-Sep-1944 |
|
Native American political prisoner |
Sean Penn |
Actor |
17-Aug-1960 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
Frances Perkins |
Government |
10-Apr-1882 |
14-May-1965 |
First female US cabinet member |
John Perkins |
Activist |
28-Jan-1945 |
|
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man |
Tony Perkins |
Activist |
20-Mar-1963 |
|
President, Family Research Council |
Dennis Peron |
Activist |
8-Apr-1945 |
|
Medical marijuana |
Bob Perry |
Business |
30-Oct-1932 |
13-Apr-2013 |
Perry Homes, Republican financier |
Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
Fred Phelps |
Activist |
13-Nov-1929 |
19-Mar-2014 |
Convinced that God hates fags |
Howard Phillips |
Activist |
3-Feb-1941 |
20-Apr-2013 |
Founder, US Taxpayers Party |
Tim Phillips |
Activist |
c. 1963 |
|
President, Americans for Prosperity |
Burton Pines |
Activist |
c. 1940 |
|
Conservative activist |
Sally C. Pipes |
Activist |
? |
|
Pacific Research Institute |
Georges Pire |
Religion |
10-Feb-1910 |
30-Jan-1969 |
Activist monk, Nobel Prize recipient |
Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
Ron Pollack |
Activist |
? |
|
Families USA |
Carl Pope |
Activist |
c. 1945 |
|
Executive Director, The Sierra Club |
Jerzy Popieluszko |
Activist |
23-Sep-1947 |
19-Oct-1984 |
Priest murdered by Polish government |
Janet Folger Porter |
Activist |
? |
|
Founder, Faith2Action Ministry |
Pierre Poujade |
Activist |
1-Dec-1920 |
27-Aug-2003 |
French anti-tax crusader |
Ann Preston |
Doctor |
1-Dec-1813 |
18-Apr-1872 |
Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital |
Hugh B. Price |
Activist |
1941 |
|
President of the Urban League, 1994-2003 |
Edgar Prince |
Business |
3-May-1931 |
2-Mar-1995 |
Prince Manufacturing |
Coy Privette |
Activist |
31-Jan-1933 |
23-Mar-2015 |
President, Christian Action League of North Carolina |
Sarah Pugh |
Activist |
1800 |
1884 |
Abolitionist and suffragette |
Harriet Forten Purvis |
Activist |
1810 |
11-Jun-1875 |
African-American abolitionist |
Robert Purvis |
Activist |
4-Aug-1810 |
15-Apr-1898 |
"President" of the Underground Railroad |
Leyla Qasim |
Activist |
1952 |
5-Dec-1974 |
Kurdish martyr |
Ludwig Quidde |
Activist |
23-Mar-1858 |
4-Mar-1941 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
A. Philip Randolph |
Activist |
15-Apr-1889 |
16-May-1979 |
20th century civil rights leader |
Al Rantel |
Radio Personality |
14-Oct-1955 |
|
Conservative radio host |
Abdel Aziz Rantisi |
Activist |
23-Oct-1947 |
17-Apr-2004 |
Hamas co-founder |
Wade Rathke |
Activist |
5-Aug-1948 |
|
Co-Founder of ACORN |
Robert E. Rector |
Activist |
? |
|
Heritage Foundation |
Jack Reed |
Activist |
22-Oct-1887 |
19-Oct-1920 |
Ten Days That Shook the World |
Lawrence Reed |
Activist |
1953 |
|
Mackinac Center for Public Policy |
Ralph Reed |
Activist |
24-Jun-1961 |
|
Former head of the Christian Coalition |
Dana Reeve |
Activist |
17-Mar-1961 |
6-Mar-2006 |
Christopher Reeve Foundation |
Henry Regnery |
Publisher |
5-Jan-1912 |
18-Jun-1996 |
Regnery Publishing |
William Regnery II |
Activist |
1941 |
|
White Nationalist, Regnery heir |
Rob Reiner |
Actor |
6-Mar-1947 |
|
Meathead |
Michelle Rhee |
Activist |
25-Dec-1969 |
|
DC Public Schools Chancellor, 2007-10 |
Donna Rice |
Activist |
7-Jan-1958 |
|
Anti-porn crusader, slept with Gary Hart |
Frances Rice |
Activist |
c. 1944 |
|
National Black Republican Association |
Howard S. Rich |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Libertarian activist |
Amy Ridenour |
Activist |
1959 |
|
National Center for Public Policy Research |
Jeremy Rifkin |
Activist |
26-Jan-1945 |
|
Foundation on Economic Trends |
Sandy Rios |
Activist |
c. 1949 |
|
Concerned Women for America |
George Ripley |
Journalist |
3-Oct-1802 |
4-Jul-1880 |
The New York Tribune |
Malachi Ritscher |
Jazz Musician |
13-Jan-1954 |
3-Nov-2006 |
Musician who self immolated for peace |
Scott Ritter |
Government |
15-Jul-1961 |
|
UNSCOM weapons inspector 1991-98 |
José Rizal |
Activist |
19-Jun-1861 |
30-Dec-1896 |
Philippine national hero |
John Robbins |
Author |
26-Oct-1947 |
|
Celebrity vegan |
Tim Robbins |
Actor |
16-Oct-1958 |
|
The Player, Jacob's Ladder |
Jane Sullivan Roberts |
Activist |
c. 1955 |
|
Wife of US Chief Justice John Roberts |
Mark Roberts |
Activist |
1945 |
|
UK's most famous drug smuggler |
Paul Robeson, Jr. |
Activist |
2-Nov-1927 |
26-Apr-2014 |
Son of Paul Robeson |
Paul Robeson |
Singer |
9-Apr-1898 |
23-Jan-1976 |
20th Century renaissance man |
Randall Robinson |
Activist |
6-Jul-1941 |
|
What America Owes to Blacks |
George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
Lew Rockwell |
Activist |
1-Jul-1944 |
|
Libertarian activist |
Anthony Romero |
Activist |
9-Jul-1965 |
|
ACLU Executive Director |
J. Patrick Rooney |
Business |
13-Dec-1927 |
15-Sep-2008 |
Golden Rule Insurance |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady |
11-Oct-1884 |
7-Nov-1962 |
First Lady under FDR |
Ernestine Rose |
Activist |
13-Jan-1810 |
4-Aug-1892 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
Susan Rosenberg |
Activist |
1955 |
|
Radical |
Ed Rosenthal |
Activist |
c. 1944 |
|
Advocate for legalizing marijuana |
Nina Rosenwald |
Philanthropist |
? |
|
Sears Roebuck heiress |
Rick Ross |
Activist |
24-Nov-1952 |
|
Cult expert, deprogrammer |
Mstislav Rostropovich |
Cellist |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
Marc Rotenberg |
Activist |
20-Apr-1960 |
|
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
Rob Roy |
Criminal |
7-Mar-1671 |
28-Dec-1734 |
War leader of the Gregor clan |
Jerry Rubin |
Activist |
14-Jul-1938 |
28-Nov-1994 |
Yippie, one of the Chicago 7 |
Muriel Rukeyser |
Poet |
15-Dec-1913 |
12-Feb-1980 |
The Book of the Dead |
Cathy Ruse |
Activist |
c. 1965 |
|
Senior Fellow, Family Research Council |
John Ruskin |
Critic |
8-Feb-1819 |
20-Jan-1900 |
Greatest Victorian art critic |
Bertrand Russell |
Mathematician |
18-May-1872 |
2-Feb-1970 |
Mathematician, atheist, and social critic |
Charles Edward Russell |
Author |
25-Sep-1860 |
23-Apr-1941 |
The Greatest Trust in the World |
Dora Russell |
Activist |
3-Apr-1894 |
31-May-1986 |
Feminist, birth control and peace activist |
Jane Russell |
Actor |
21-Jun-1921 |
28-Feb-2011 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
Aaron Russo |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Feb-1943 |
24-Aug-2007 |
Libertarian filmmaker |
Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
Shabbir Safdar |
Activist |
c. 1965 |
|
Internet PR guru |
Ruben Salazar |
Journalist |
3-Mar-1928 |
29-Aug-1970 |
L.A. Times reporter killed on the job |
Patrick Sammon |
Activist |
1974 |
|
President, Log Cabin Republicans |
Richard Samp |
Activist |
c. 1952 |
|
Chief counsel, Washington Legal Foundation |
Bobby Sands |
Activist |
9-Mar-1954 |
5-May-1981 |
Irish hunger striker |
Margaret Sanger |
Activist |
14-Sep-1879 |
6-Sep-1966 |
Birth control advocate |
José Saramago |
Author |
16-Nov-1922 |
18-Jun-2010 |
Brilliant Portuguese novelist |
Paolo Sarpi |
Activist |
14-Aug-1552 |
14-Jan-1623 |
Venetian patriot, church reformer |
Mario Savio |
Activist |
8-Dec-1942 |
6-Nov-1996 |
Free Speech Movement |
Richard Scaife |
Activist |
3-Jul-1932 |
4-Jul-2014 |
The Republican George Soros |
Rick Scarborough |
Religion |
c. 1949 |
|
Conservative Christian activist |
Tom Schatz |
Activist |
c. 1952 |
|
Citizens Against Government Waste |
Robert Scheer |
Columnist |
4-Apr-1936 |
|
Former L.A. Times columnist |
Ellery Schempp |
Activist |
1940 |
|
Abington School District v. Schempp |
Irwin Schiff |
Activist |
24-Feb-1928 |
16-Oct-2015 |
US income tax protester |
Lisa Schiffren |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
Former Quayle speechwriter |
Oskar Schindler |
Activist |
28-Apr-1908 |
9-Oct-1974 |
Saved over 1000 from Nazis |
Andrew Schlafly |
Activist |
27-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservapedia founder |
Phyllis Schlafly |
Activist |
15-Aug-1924 |
5-Sep-2016 |
Opponent of women's liberation |
Rose Schneiderman |
Labor Leader |
16-Apr-1882 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Union leader of the 1920s-'50s |
Peter W. Schramm |
Activist |
23-Dec-1946 |
16-Aug-2015 |
Executive Director, Ashbrook Center |
William F. Schulz |
Activist |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
Director, Amnesty International, 1994-2006 |
Fred C. Schwarz |
Activist |
15-Jan-1913 |
24-Jan-2009 |
Christian Anti-Communist Crusade |
Albert Schweitzer |
Activist |
14-Jan-1875 |
4-Sep-1965 |
Humanitarian and theologian |
Dred Scott |
Victim |
c. 1799 |
17-Sep-1858 |
Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court |
Bobby Seale |
Activist |
22-Oct-1936 |
|
Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party |
Alan Sears |
Activist |
? |
|
CEO, Alliance Defense Fund |
Howard Segermark |
Activist |
? |
|
Howard Segermark Associates |
Jay Sekulow |
Activist |
10-Jun-1956 |
|
American Center for Law and Justice |
Jorge Semprún |
Novelist |
10-Dec-1923 |
7-Jun-2011 |
Screenplay for Z |
Soraya Serajeddini |
Activist |
1960 |
24-Jul-2006 |
Kurdish activist |
Frank Serpico |
Activist |
14-Apr-1936 |
|
The most dangerous man alive - An honest cop |
Giuliana Sgrena |
Activist |
20-Dec-1948 |
|
Marxist journalist, kidnapped in Iraq |
Betty Shabazz |
Activist |
28-May-1936 |
23-Jun-1997 |
Widow of Malcolm X |
Frank Shakespeare |
Diplomat |
9-Apr-1925 |
|
US Ambassador to the Vatican, 1986-89 |
Granville Sharp |
Activist |
21-Nov-1735 |
6-Jul-1813 |
English abolitionist |
Al Sharpton |
Activist |
3-Oct-1954 |
|
Minister, Presidential hopeful |
Anna Howard Shaw |
Activist |
14-Feb-1847 |
2-Jul-1919 |
National American Women's Suffrage Association |
Cindy Sheehan |
Activist |
10-Jul-1957 |
|
Peace Mom |
Daniel P. Sheehan |
Activist |
1946 |
|
Christic Institute |
Martin Sheen |
Actor |
3-Aug-1940 |
|
The West Wing |
Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
12-Sep-2016 |
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
Lou Sheldon |
Activist |
1934 |
|
Traditional Values Coalition |
Vandana Shiva |
Activist |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
Eco-Feminist |
Sargent Shriver |
Activist |
9-Nov-1915 |
18-Jan-2011 |
First Director of the Peace Corps |
William Shurcliff |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1909 |
20-Jun-2006 |
Manhattan Project physicist |
Ricky Silberman |
Activist |
31-Mar-1937 |
18-Feb-2007 |
Cofounder, Independent Women's Forum |
Karen Silkwood |
Victim |
19-Feb-1946 |
13-Nov-1974 |
Nuclear whistleblower |
Chris Simcox |
Activist |
1961 |
|
Founder, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps |
Harold C. Simmons |
Business |
13-May-1931 |
28-Dec-2013 |
Drugstore billionaire |
Cleon Skousen |
Activist |
20-Jan-1913 |
9-Jan-2006 |
The Naked Communist |
Curtis Sliwa |
Activist |
26-Mar-1954 |
|
Founder of the Guardian Angels |
Melanie Sloan |
Activist |
16-Dec-1965 |
|
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington |
Eleanor Smeal |
Activist |
30-Jul-1939 |
|
Founder, Feminist Majority Foundation |
Gerrit Smith |
Activist |
6-Mar-1797 |
28-Dec-1874 |
Anti-slavery and temperance reformer |
R. J. Smith |
Activist |
? |
|
Center for Private Conservation |
Edward Snowden |
Activist |
21-Jun-1983 |
|
NSA Whistleblower |
Charles W. Socarides |
Activist |
24-Jan-1922 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Deprogrammer of homosexuals |
Nathan Söderblom |
Religion |
15-Jan-1866 |
12-Jul-1931 |
Archbishop of Sweden |
Nahum Sokolow |
Activist |
3-Feb-1859 |
17-May-1936 |
World Zionist Organization |
Valerie Solanas |
Activist |
9-Apr-1936 |
26-Apr-1988 |
Shot Andy Warhol |
Lewis C. Solmon |
Economist |
17-Jul-1942 |
17-Dec-2007 |
Education reformer |
Lawrence Solomon |
Activist |
1948 |
|
The Deniers |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Author |
11-Dec-1918 |
3-Aug-2008 |
The Gulag Archipelago |
Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
Flavio Sosa |
Politician |
1953 |
|
Jailed APPO councilman |
Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
Merrie Spaeth |
Business |
23-Aug-1948 |
|
PR guru for Reagan, Swift Boat Vets |
Spartacus |
Military |
c. 110 BC |
71 BC |
Led slave uprising |
Richard B. Spencer |
Activist |
11-May-1978 |
|
White Nationalist, Alt-Right figure |
Robert Spencer |
Activist |
27-Feb-1962 |
|
Jihad Watch |
Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
Henry Spira |
Activist |
19-Jun-1927 |
12-Sep-1998 |
Animal rights activist |
Lysander Spooner |
Activist |
19-Jan-1808 |
14-May-1887 |
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority |
Alex-St. James |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
African American Republican Leadership Council |
Dan Stamper |
Activist |
27-Feb-1969 |
|
Editor of Viscera! vampire webzine |
Owsley Stanley |
Activist |
19-Jan-1935 |
12-Mar-2011 |
Johnny Appleseed of LSD |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Activist |
12-Nov-1815 |
26-Oct-1902 |
National Woman Suffrage Association |
Shelby Steele |
Activist |
1-Jan-1946 |
|
The Content of Our Character |
Elan Steinberg |
Activist |
2-Jun-1952 |
6-Apr-2012 |
World Jewish Congress |
Gloria Steinem |
Activist |
25-Mar-1934 |
|
Founder, Ms. Magazine |
Avraham Stern |
Military |
23-Dec-1907 |
12-Feb-1942 |
Founder of Lohamei Herut Israel |
Walter P. Stern |
Activist |
26-Sep-1928 |
|
Chairman, Hudson Institute |
William Still |
Activist |
7-Oct-1819 |
14-Jul-1902 |
Father of the Underground Railroad |
John R. Stockwell |
Spy |
1937 |
|
CIA whistleblower |
Lucy Stone |
Activist |
13-Aug-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
American Women's Suffrage Association |
Thomas P. Stossel |
Doctor |
c. 1941 |
|
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
Kevin Strom |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Founder, National Vanguard |
Maurice Strong |
Activist |
29-Apr-1929 |
28-Nov-2015 |
Power executive, environmentalist |
Nadine Strossen |
Activist |
18-Aug-1950 |
|
President of the ACLU |
Joseph Sturge |
Activist |
2-Aug-1793 |
14-May-1859 |
Anti-slavery activist |
Sukarno |
Head of State |
6-Jun-1901 |
21-Jun-1970 |
President of Indonesia, 1945-67 |
Deborah Szekely |
Activist |
3-May-1922 |
|
Co-Founder, Golden Door Spa |
Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
Mahmoud Muhammad Taha |
Religion |
c. 1909 |
18-Jan-1985 |
Progressive Islamic theologian |
Orly Taitz |
Activist |
30-Aug-1962 |
|
Defend Our Freedoms Foundation |
Michael D. Tanner |
Activist |
20-Jun-1956 |
|
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute |
Raymond Tanter |
Scholar |
? |
|
Iran Policy Committee founder |
Mother Teresa |
Religion |
26-Aug-1910 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Missionaries of Charity |
Randall Terry |
Activist |
25-Apr-1959 |
|
Operation Rescue founder |
Chad Thevenot |
Activist |
c. 1979 |
|
COO, Institute for Humane Studies |
Norman Thomas |
Activist |
20-Nov-1884 |
19-Dec-1968 |
American Socialist Party |
Virginia Thomas |
Activist |
23-Feb-1957 |
|
Lobbyist, wife of Clarence Thomas |
Arthur R. Thompson |
Activist |
1938 |
|
CEO, John Birch Society |
Larry Thurlow |
Activist |
? |
|
Vocal John Kerry detractor |
John Tillman |
Activist |
? |
|
CEO, llinois Policy Institute |
Kenneth R. Timmerman |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1953 |
|
Foundation for Democracy in Iran |
Ali Farka Touré |
Guitarist |
1939 |
7-Mar-2006 |
Bluesman of Africa, Talking Timbuktu |
Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
William Monroe Trotter |
Activist |
7-Apr-1872 |
7-Apr-1934 |
Co-founder, Boston Guardian |
Sojourner Truth |
Activist |
c. 1797 |
26-Nov-1883 |
Abolitionist, former slave |
Victoria J. Tschinkel |
Activist |
c. 1948 |
|
Environmental activist |
Harriet Tubman |
Activist |
c. 1821 |
10-Mar-1913 |
Underground Railroad |
C. Delores Tucker |
Activist |
4-Oct-1927 |
12-Oct-2005 |
National Congress of Black Women |
Mary Jean Crenshaw Tully |
Activist |
15-Dec-1925 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Feminism activist |
Hal Turner |
Activist |
15-Mar-1962 |
|
Internet agitator |
Desmond Tutu |
Religion |
7-Oct-1931 |
|
Archbishop of Cape Town |
Emmett Tyrrell |
Columnist |
1943 |
|
Publisher, The American Spectator |
Lynde B. Uihlein |
Activist |
1945 |
|
Schlitz heiress, Founder of Brico Fund |
Mordechai Vanunu |
Activist |
13-Oct-1954 |
|
Blew whistle on Israel's nukes |
Mike Vaska |
Activist |
1960 |
|
Discovery Institute |
Peggy Venable |
Activist |
? |
|
Conservative activist |
Richard Viguerie |
Activist |
23-Sep-1933 |
|
Conservative activist |
John Von Kannon |
Activist |
9-Mar-1949 |
5-Sep-2015 |
Heritage Foundation |
Carl von Ossietzky |
Activist |
3-Oct-1889 |
4-May-1938 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Bertha von Suttner |
Activist |
9-Jun-1843 |
21-Jun-1914 |
Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Wilfrid Voynich |
Activist |
31-Oct-1865 |
19-Mar-1930 |
Voynich manuscript |
Bill W. |
Activist |
26-Nov-1895 |
24-Jan-1971 |
Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder |
George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
Lillian Wald |
Activist |
10-Mar-1867 |
1-Sep-1940 |
Henry Street Settlement |
Anna Walentynowicz |
Activist |
13-Aug-1929 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Catalyst for the Solidarnosc union |
Lech Walesa |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1943 |
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Polish labor leader, president |
Edwin A. Walker |
Military |
10-Nov-1909 |
31-Oct-1993 |
Ultraconservative activist |
Jonathan Walker |
Activist |
22-Mar-1799 |
30-Apr-1878 |
The Man with the Branded Hand |
Mary Edwards Walker |
Doctor |
26-Nov-1832 |
21-Feb-1919 |
First female US Army surgeon |
William Wallace |
Military |
1272 |
23-Aug-1305 |
Basis of fictional biopic Braveheart |
Raoul Wallenberg |
Activist |
4-Aug-1912 |
17-Jul-1947 |
Worked to save Hungarian Jews |
John Walsh |
TV Personality |
26-Dec-1945 |
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America's Most Wanted |
Booker T. Washington |
Educator |
5-Apr-1856 |
14-Nov-1915 |
Founder, Tuskegee Institute |
Paul Watson |
Activist |
2-Dec-1950 |
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Environmental activist |
Faye Wattleton |
Activist |
8-Jul-1943 |
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President, Planned Parenthood, 1978-92 |
Edgar Wayburn |
Activist |
17-Sep-1906 |
5-Mar-2010 |
Conservationist, Sierra Club president |
George Weigel |
Activist |
1951 |
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Ethics and Public Policy Center |
Simone Weil |
Philosopher |
3-Feb-1909 |
24-Aug-1943 |
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force |
Mikey Weinstein |
Activist |
c. 1955 |
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With God on Our Side |
Adam Weishaupt |
Activist |
6-Feb-1748 |
18-Nov-1811 |
Founder of the Bavarian Illuminati |
Cora Weiss |
Activist |
? |
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Samuel Rubin Foundation |
Robert Welch |
Activist |
1-Dec-1899 |
6-Jan-1985 |
Founder, John Birch Society |
Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
Activist |
16-Jul-1862 |
25-Mar-1931 |
Civil rights advocate |
Horst Wessel |
Activist |
9-Oct-1907 |
23-Feb-1930 |
Nazi martyr |
Cornel West |
Activist |
2-Jun-1953 |
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Race Matters |
M. Edward Whelan III |
Activist |
c. 1959 |
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Ethics and Public Policy Center |
Maureen White |
Activist |
? |
|
DNC National Finance Chair |
Ryan White |
Victim |
6-Dec-1971 |
8-Apr-1990 |
Suburban kid, AIDS activist |
Walter White |
Activist |
1-Jul-1893 |
21-Mar-1955 |
Worked against lynchings |
Mary Whitehouse |
Activist |
13-Jun-1910 |
23-Nov-2001 |
British anti-pornography crusader |
Dennis E. Whitfield |
Activist |
c. 1950 |
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American Conservative Union |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
Poet |
17-Dec-1807 |
7-Sep-1892 |
American abolitionist poet |
Otto Wichterle |
Chemist |
27-Oct-1913 |
18-Aug-1998 |
Invented soft contact lenses |
Elie Wiesel |
Activist |
30-Sep-1928 |
2-Jul-2016 |
Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist |
Simon Wiesenthal |
Activist |
31-Dec-1908 |
20-Sep-2005 |
Nazi hunter |
William Wilberforce |
Activist |
24-Aug-1759 |
29-Jul-1833 |
Abolitionist activist and author |
Don Wildmon |
Activist |
18-Jan-1938 |
|
Moral crusader |
Gail R. Wilensky |
Activist |
14-Jun-1943 |
|
Health care official |
George A. Wiley |
Activist |
26-Feb-1931 |
8-Aug-1973 |
Founder, National Welfare Rights Organization |
Betty Williams |
Activist |
22-May-1943 |
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Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Jody Williams |
Activist |
9-Oct-1950 |
|
Anti-landmine activist |
Rev. Cecil Williams |
Religion |
22-Sep-1929 |
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Glide Memorial Church |
Margaret Bush Wilson |
Activist |
30-Jan-1919 |
11-Aug-2009 |
NAACP Chairman, 1975-83 |
John Wohlstetter |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
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Discovery Institute |
Hazel Wolf |
Activist |
10-Mar-1898 |
19-Jan-2000 |
Seattle environmental activist |
Victoria Woodhull |
Activist |
23-Sep-1838 |
9-Jun-1927 |
First woman candidate for US President |
Frances Wright |
Activist |
6-Sep-1795 |
13-Dec-1852 |
Utopian abolitionist |
Wendy Wright |
Activist |
? |
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President, Concerned Women for America |
Harry Wu |
Activist |
8-Feb-1937 |
26-Apr-2016 |
Human rights activist |
Professor X |
Rapper |
4-Aug-1956 |
17-Mar-2006 |
Vanglorious |
Liu Xiaobo |
Activist |
28-Dec-1955 |
13-Jul-2017 |
Chinese human rights activist |
Molly Yard |
Activist |
6-Jul-1912 |
21-Sep-2005 |
President of NOW, 1987-91 |
Sun Yat-sen |
Head of State |
12-Nov-1866 |
12-Mar-1925 |
President of China, 1911-12 |
Francis Parker Yockey |
Author |
18-Sep-1917 |
16-Jun-1960 |
Imperium |
Raul Yzaguirre |
Activist |
22-Jul-1939 |
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National Council of La Raza |
Mahmoud Zahar |
Activist |
1945 |
|
Hamas co-founder, spokesman |
Leyla Zana |
Politician |
3-May-1961 |
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Imprisoned for speaking Kurdish |
Emiliano Zapata |
Activist |
8-Aug-1879 |
10-Apr-1919 |
Mexican patriot, revolutionary |
Frank Zappa |
Composer |
21-Dec-1940 |
4-Dec-1993 |
Joe's Garage |
Kevin Zeese |
Activist |
1955 |
|
Common Sense for Drug Policy |
Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |
Ernst Zundel |
Activist |
24-Apr-1939 |
5-Aug-2017 |
Holocaust denier |