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Lauren Drain
Lauren Drain (born 1985, Tampa, Florida) is an American registered nurse and author of Banished (2013), a New York Times bestselling memoir of her years in the Westboro Baptist Church and her 2007 excommunication.
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف)
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف) is a Saudi-born Muslim linguist, educator, and peace activist based in Abu Dhabi, also called Louay Al Sharif. A Penn State master's graduate and PR company owner, he advocates Muslim-Jewish reconciliation and the Abraham Accords as a self-described Muslim Zionist.
Manoj Jarange
Manoj Jarange Patil (मनोज जरांगे पाटील), Maratha reservation activist from Antarwali Sarati, Jalna, Maharashtra; leads Kunbi-certificate/OBC quota agitation through repeated hunger strikes since 2023, distinct from other Maratha quota leaders.
Maxim Martsinkevich (Максим Сергеевич Марцинкевич)
Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as Tesak, was a Russian neo-Nazi activist and video blogger who founded Format-18 and Restrukt before his death in 2020, which was officially ruled suicide.
Mazdak (مزدک)
Mazdak (مزدک), son of Bāmdād, led Mazdakism, an egalitarian Zoroastrian-derived movement under Sasanian king Kawād I (488–531), preaching common property; suppressed by Khusrau I.
Mohsen Mahdawi (محسن مهداوي)
Mohsen Mahdawi (محسن مهداوي), Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate student, arrested by ICE at his 2025 Vermont naturalization interview, freed by Judge Crawford, and still fighting a 2026 removal order to Jordan.
Narendra Dabholkar
Narendra Dabholkar (1945-2013), Indian medical doctor, rationalist, and founder-president of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS/ANiS), who drafted the Maharashtra anti-superstition bill and was shot dead in Pune on 20 August 2013, days before the ordinance passed.
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow (born 1947), British-American financial journalist, author of Alien Nation (1995), and founder of VDARE.com, a leading anti-immigration and white nationalist-adjacent website suspended in 2024.
Philomena Lee
Philomena Lee, Irish woman separated from her son Anthony at Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, in the 1950s; subject of Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book and the 2013 Oscar-nominated film Philomena; advocate for adoption-record access and Philomena's Law.
Prakash Amte (प्रकाश बाबा आमटे)
Prakash Amte (प्रकाश बाबा आमटे), Indian physician and social worker, born 1948, son of Baba Amte; runs Lok Biradari Prakalp at Hemalkasa, Gadchiroli, with wife Mandakini since 1974; Ramon Magsaysay Award (2008) and Padma Shri recipient.
Rachael Denhollander
Rachael Denhollander, American attorney, author, and advocate, first woman to publicly accuse USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in 2016; author of What Is a Girl Worth?; delivered final sentencing statement.
Rachel Corrie
Rachel Aliene Corrie (1979–2003) was an American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza, while protecting a Palestinian home from demolition.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, American-Israeli educator and activist, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, taken October 7, 2023 from the Nova festival and murdered in Gaza in August 2024; TIME100 2024, Lantos Prize 2025, memoir When We See You Again.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Lebanese-American journalist based in Beirut who hosts Dispatches and co-hosts BT Live on BreakThrough News, reporting on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis (Rennard Cordon Davis, 1940-2021) was an SDS leader, MOBE project director, and Chicago Seven defendant convicted of inciting a riot and later overturned on appeal; he later followed Guru Maharaj Ji and worked on environmental projects.
Ridvan Aydemir
Ridvan Aydemir, known online as Apostate Prophet, is a Turkish-German ex-Muslim YouTuber born in Germany, formerly devout Sunni Muslim, then atheist, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 2025, critiquing Islam and debating apologists.
Roy Jeffs
Roy Jeffs (Leroy Barlow Jeffs, 1992-2019), a son of FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, left the sect in February 2014 and publicly described his father's abuses before dying by suicide at age 26.
Rula Daood
Rula Daood (רולא דאוד), born 1985 in Kafr Yasif, is a Palestinian Christian citizen of Israel, former speech therapist, and national co-director of Standing Together with Alon-Lee Green since 2019; TIME100 Next 2024 honoree and 2026 co-founder of the A Place for Us All party.
Sam Childers
Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American missionary and author who founded Angels of East Africa, an orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, for children affected by the LRA; his armed-rescue claims are disputed by the SPLA.
Somaya Bashir
Somaya Bashir (סומיה בשיר, born 1974) is an Arab-Israeli psychologist and activist from Jatt, founder of We Have No Other Land and Insan, Women Wage Peace leader, and the first Arab woman elected to a realistic slot on Israel's Democrats party Knesset slate.
Tokata Iron Eyes
Tokata (Tokatawin) Iron Eyes, later Gibson, is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota Standing Rock Sioux youth climate activist who led the ReZpect Our Water campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline at age 12 and later worked with Greta Thunberg.
Tushar Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी)
Tushar Arun Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी), born 1960, is an Indian author and activist, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, author of Let's Kill Gandhi, and a critic of the BJP-RSS.
Virginia Giuffre
Virginia Roberts Giuffre (1983–2025), American-born survivor advocate and principal accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew; founded SOAR, settled the 2021 New York civil suit for a reported $16 million, died April 25, 2025 in Western Australia.
Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie (Waris Diiriye), Somali-born model, author and anti-FGM activist; UN special ambassador 1997–2003; author of Desert Flower; founder of the Desert Flower Foundation in Vienna.