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Abby Johnson (activist)
Abby Johnson, American anti-abortion activist and author of Unplanned; former Planned Parenthood clinic director in Bryan, Texas (Employee of the Year 2008) who left in 2009, founded And Then There Were None in 2012 and ProLove Ministries in 2019; her conversion account is disputed.
Alex Clark (commentator)
Alex Clark (Alexandra Clark) is an American conservative podcast host at Turning Point USA, hosting Culture Apothecary and formerly POPlitics, and a leading MAHA wellness influencer; distinct from Guardian and CBS journalists of the same name.
Alveda King
Alveda King (born 1951), American evangelist and anti-abortion activist, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.; twice elected Georgia state representative, Priests for Life outreach director, Fox News contributor, AFPI American Dream chair.
Amrita Devi
Amrita Devi (Imarta Devi), Bishnoi woman of Khejarli village near Jodhpur, killed in September 1730 defending khejri trees from Maharaja Abhay Singh's soldiers; her death began the Khejarli massacre of 363 Bishnois and inspired India's wildlife awards and Chipko.
Anne Marie Hochhalter
Anne Marie Hochhalter, Columbine High School shooting survivor paralyzed in the April 20, 1999 attack; forgave Sue Klebold in a 2016 letter; died February 16, 2025 of sepsis, ruled a homicide, raising Columbine's death toll to 14.
Barbara Bush (born 1981)
Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1981), daughter of George W. Bush, is an American social entrepreneur who co-founded Global Health Corps in 2009 and served as its CEO for nine years; author of Sisters First with her twin sister.
Camille Étienne
Camille Étienne (born 1998) is a French climate and social justice activist, Sciences Po and Oxford alumna, spokesperson of On Est Prêt, author of Pour un soulèvement écologique (2023), and PFAS campaigner.
Carrie Nation
Carrie Nation (Carry A. Nation, 1846–1911), American temperance activist known as the saloon smasher who attacked Kansas bars with a hatchet, was arrested 30 times, sold souvenir hatchets, and lectured until 1911.
Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards (1957–2025), American political organizer and activist, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Action Fund 2006–2018; daughter of Texas Governor Ann Richards; grew supporters from 3 to 11 million; later co-founded Supermajority; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024.
Chad Varah
Chad Varah (Edward Chad Varah, 1911–2007), Anglican priest and founder of the Samaritans, the 1953 London crisis telephone helpline for people considering suicide, pioneer of confidential volunteer befriening spread worldwide via Befrienders International.
Charlotte Laws
Charlotte Laws, American author and anti-revenge porn activist, 'Erin Brockovich of revenge porn'; fought Hunter Moore's isanyoneup.com after her daughter's hacked photo appeared there, and championed California SB 255.
Claire Wineland
Claire Wineland, also known as Claire Lucia Wineland, was an American activist with cystic fibrosis who founded Claire's Place Foundation and died in 2018 at age 21.
David Hogg
David Hogg (born 2000) is an American gun control activist, Parkland shooting survivor, and March for Our Lives co-founder who later served briefly as DNC vice chair in 2025 and founded Leaders We Deserve.
Donna Rice Hughes
Donna Rice Hughes, American Internet safety advocate, president and CEO of Enough Is Enough; formerly the woman at the center of the 1987 Gary Hart presidential campaign scandal.
Gianna Beretta Molla
Gianna Beretta Molla (1922–1962), Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother from Magenta; died 1962 after choosing her unborn child's life over her own; beatified 1994, canonized 2004, feast April 28.
Grace Tame
Grace Tame (born 1994) is a Tasmanian survivor-advocate who overturned Tasmania's sexual assault gag laws via #LetHerSpeak, was 2021 Australian of the Year, and founded the Grace Tame Foundation, which closed in 2026.
Hydeia Broadbent
Hydeia Loren Broadbent (1984–2024), American HIV/AIDS activist born HIV-positive, nationally known from a 1992 Nickelodeon special with Magic Johnson, Oprah appearance, and 1996 Republican Convention speech; died February 20, 2024, in Las Vegas at 39.
Jacqueline Saburido
Jacqueline "Jacqui" Saburido (1978–2019), Venezuelan survivor of a September 19, 1999 drunk-driving crash near Austin, Texas, that burned over 60% of her body; her image anchored TxDOT's Before and After and Faces of Drunk Driving campaigns from 2002 onward.
John Alexander Dowie
John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish-born faith healer and Congregational minister, founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion and built Zion City, Illinois, a theocratic planned community, before his 1906 deposition.
John Bartholomew Gough
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) was an English-born American temperance lecturer who rose from destitute drunkard to international celebrity, delivering thousands of testimony lectures across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill (Julia Lorraine Hill, born 1974) is an American environmentalist who lived 738 days, December 1997 to December 1999, in the 180-foot-high canopy of Luna, a 1,000-year-old redwood near Stafford, California, saving it from Pacific Lumber in exchange for a $50,000 payment and buffer zone.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al and Tipper Gore, is an American lawyer, author, and environmental advocate; she founded the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in 2015 and organized the 2014 Religions for the Earth conference.
LaSheena Weekly
LaSheena Weekly is a Chicago activist, mother of slain drill rapper FBG Duck (Carlton Weekly), administrator of his estate, and plaintiff in wrongful-death litigation against Lil Durk, OTF, and King Von's estate.
Laurie David
Laurie David, American environmental activist and producer of An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and Fed Up (2014), also known for The Biggest Little Farm, the Detroit Project, and climate books.
Lila Rose
Lila Rose, American anti-abortion activist, author, and podcast host; founded Live Action at 15 (2003), known for undercover Planned Parenthood videos, debates, the Baby Olivia video, and contested editing and misinformation criticisms.
Livia Giuggioli Firth
Livia Giuggioli Firth, Italian sustainability campaigner, founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and co-founder of Eco-Age, a consultancy that closed in 2024 after fraud and relaunched in 2025.
Mike Ma
Mike Ma is the pen name of Mike Mahoney, American far-right ecofascist writer, author of Harassment Architecture and Gothic Violence and founder of the Pine Tree Party movement.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born 1970, Montreal) is a Canadian author and UBC Professor of Climate Justice known for No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, Doppelganger, and the Leap Manifesto.
Patty Wetterling
Patty Wetterling, American child-safety advocate from St. Joseph, Minnesota; mother of abducted Jacob Wetterling; co-founded Jacob Wetterling Foundation, prompted the 1994 federal sex offender registry act, chaired NCMEC, later criticized registries.
Phoebe Plummer
Phoebe Plummer, British Just Stop Oil activist who threw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 2022, jailed two years in 2024, later given suspended M25 conspiracy sentence.