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Ahmed Mansoor
Ahmed Mansoor (born 1969) is an Emirati engineer, poet, and human rights activist, 2015 Martin Ennals Award laureate and the "million-dollar dissident" targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware; imprisoned in the UAE since 2017.
Ali Hewson
Ali Hewson (Alison Stewart), Irish businesswoman, Bono's wife since 1982; co-founded ethical fashion label Edun in 2005, took LVMH's 49% stake in 2009, and wound the loss-making brand down in 2018.
Alok Dixit
Alok Dixit, Indian activist and former journalist, founded the Stop Acid Attacks campaign (2013) and Chhanv Foundation (2014), Noida-based, and opened the Sheroes Hangout survivor cafés in Agra and Lucknow.
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין)
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין), Israeli activist, co-founder and national co-director of the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together; 2011 social protest leader, former Knesset adviser, TIME100 Next 2024 honoree.
Andy Ngo
Andy Ngo, also known as Andy Cuong Ngô, is an American conservative journalist, photographer, and author known for covering antifa and for his 2021 bestseller Unmasked.
Ann Rockefeller Roberts
Ann Rockefeller Roberts (1934–2024), eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, was a Native American rights activist, founder of the Fund of the Four Directions, first funder of Women's World Banking, and author of Mr. Rockefeller's Roads.
Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare (Kisan Baburao Hazare, born 1940) is an Indian Gandhian social activist from Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra, whose 2011 hunger strikes against corruption led to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.
Annie Glenn
Annie Glenn (Anna Margaret Castor Glenn, 1920-2020), wife of astronaut-senator John Glenn for 73 years and American advocate for people with communication disorders, overcame a severe 85% stutter via Hollins therapy in 1973 and became an Ohio State adjunct speech pathology professor.
Arab Barghouti
Arab Barghouti (Arabic: Arab al-Barghouthi) is a Palestinian campaigner, son of imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, advocating his father's release and Palestinian prisoners' rights; he leads the Free Marwan campaign from Ramallah, an IT entrepreneur.
Arfan Bhatti
Arfan Qadeer Bhatti (born 1977) is a Norwegian Islamist, former head of Profetens Ummah, convicted in 2026 to 30 years forvaring for complicity in the 25 June 2022 Oslo Pride terror shooting; he was extradited from Pakistan and has appealed.
Arlyn Phoenix
Arlyn Phoenix (born Arlyn Sharon Dunetz), known as Heart Phoenix, is an American peacebuilding and animal-rights activist and mother of actors River, Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix.
Arun Manilal Gandhi
Arun Manilal Gandhi (1934-2023), also Arun Gandhi, Indian American peace activist, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and the Season for Nonviolence.
August Spies
August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887), German-born Chicago anarchist, editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, Haymarket affair defendant hanged November 11, 1887 after the 1886 bombing trial.
Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky (born 1957), daughter of Noam Chomsky, is an American historian at Salem State University and author of Undocumented, They Take Our Jobs!, Central America's Forgotten History, and Is Science Enough?, active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights movements since the 1980s.
Baba Amte
Baba Amte (Murlidhar Devidas Amte, 1914–2008), Indian Gandhian lawyer and social activist, founded the leprosy rehabilitation community Anandwan in Maharashtra, led the Knit India marches and Narmada anti-dam campaigns, and won the Magsaysay, Templeton, and Gandhi Peace awards.
Beth Holloway
Beth Holloway, also Beth Holloway Twitty, is the American teacher and advocate, mother of Natalee Holloway, who vanished in Aruba in 2005; she founded the Natalee Holloway Resource Center and International Safe Travels Foundation and faced Joran van der Sloot's 2023 confession.
Brigitte Gabriel (حنان قهوجي)
Brigitte Gabriel (حنان قهوجي), Lebanese-born American activist and founder of ACT for America (2007), an SPLC-designated anti-Muslim group; former Middle East TV anchor, author, and 2025 Menachem Begin Prize recipient.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Camila Batmanghelidjh, also known as Kamylā Batmanghelych, was an Iranian-born British psychotherapist and charity leader who founded Kids Company in London in 1996 and led it until its 2015 closure.
Carlos Eduardo Espina
Carlos Eduardo Espina, Uruguayan-American immigration activist and Spanish-language TikTok creator with over 20 million followers; Vassar 2020, UNLV law 2024; founder of Migrantes Unidos; 2024 DNC speaker.
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning (born 1987), formerly Bradley Manning, is an American former Army intelligence analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was sentenced to 35 years in 2013, and was released in 2017 after Obama commuted her sentence.
Cheryl Thomas
Cheryl Thomas is a Minneapolis human rights lawyer, founder of Global Rights for Women (2014) and former director of the Women's Human Rights Program at The Advocates for Human Rights; distinct from UCL jury scholar Cheryl Thomas.
Daniel Haqiqatjou
Daniel Haqiqatjou, American Muslim writer born in Houston to Iranian parents, founder of The Muslim Skeptic and Alasna Institute, known for anti-feminist, anti-liberal writings and public debates.
Douglas Gowan
Douglas Gowan (c. 1942–2018) was a British NFU consultant and whistleblower who traced deformed livestock near Brofiscin and Maendy quarries in south Wales to Monsanto's PCB dumping, survived a 1970s corporate smear campaign, and gave a final testimony recorded by Michael Sheen.
Ed Roberts (activist)
Ed Roberts (1939–1995), American disability rights activist and father of the Independent Living movement; first severely disabled UC Berkeley student, founder of the Center for Independent Living, and California Rehabilitation director.
Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb (1876–1928) was a British teacher and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Ethel Kennedy
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928-2024), American human rights activist, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, mother of 11 children, founder of RFK Human Rights, and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of Sargent Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968 after starting Camp Shriver in 1962, and received the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922). First League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; creator of the Nansen passport; first to cross Greenland's inland ice; Fram expedition record at 86° 14′ N.
Gary Webb
Gary Webb (1955–2004) was an American investigative journalist whose 1996 San Jose Mercury News series "Dark Alliance" linked Contra cocaine trafficking to the Los Angeles crack epidemic, triggering a media backlash and government investigations.