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Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್)
Gauri Lankesh (ಗೌರಿ ಲಂಕೇಶ್), Kannada journalist and activist, editor of Lankesh Patrike and Gauri Lankesh Patrike, critic of right-wing politics, shot dead in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017; trial ongoing, no convictions as of 2025.
Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy Gongadze (Георгій Гонгадзе), Ukrainian investigative journalist, Georgian-born, founder of Ukrayinska Pravda; kidnapped and murdered in September 2000; Melnychenko tapes implicated President Kuchma; ECHR ruled against Ukraine; General Pukach convicted.
Georgy Gapon
Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (Георгий Аполлонович Гапон, 1870–1906), Russian Orthodox priest and police-linked labor organizer, founded the Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers, led the 9 January 1905 Bloody Sunday march, and was hanged by SR militants in 1906 after exposure as an Okhrana agent.
Gerard Menuhin
Gerard Menuhin (born 1948), British-American writer and film producer, son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Holocaust denier, removed from the Menuhin foundations in 2005 and 2007, author of Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil (2015).
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ)
Hardik Patel (હાર્દિક પટેલ) is an Indian politician from Gujarat who rose to prominence leading the 2015 Patidar quota agitation and now serves as a BJP MLA from Viramgam.
Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask (1949-2021), Native Hawaiian scholar, poet, and sovereignty activist; founding director of the UH Manoa Center for Hawaiian Studies, founder of Ka Lahui Hawaii, author of From a Native Daughter.
Heather Mills
Heather Mills (born 1968) is an English campaigner, former model, and vegan business owner (VBites), distinct from Heather McCartney, Paul McCartney's adopted daughter. Known for her 1993 leg amputation, landmine charity work, 2002-2008 marriage to McCartney, and 166.84 km/h speed skiing record.
Henry Dunant
Henry Dunant (Jean-Henri Dunant, 1828-1910), Swiss businessman and founder of the ICRC; witnessed Solferino 1859, wrote A Memory of Solferino (1862), initiated the first Geneva Convention (1864), won the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901).
Iqbal Masih
Iqbal Masih (اقبال مسیح), 1983–1995, Pakistani Christian boy sold into bonded carpet-weaving at age 4, escaped via the BLLF, helped free thousands of child laborers, won the 1994 Reebok Human Rights Award, and was murdered at 12 in Muridke.
James O'Keefe
James O'Keefe, American conservative activist, founder of Project Veritas (2010) and O'Keefe Media Group; known for ACORN and NPR hidden-camera stings, a 2010 misdemeanor conviction, civil judgments, and his 2023 removal from Veritas.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pacifist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima (born 1963) is a Burundian HIV/AIDS and human rights activist who in 1994 became the first woman in Burundi to disclose publicly she was living with HIV.
Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand, American biochemist and former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco, whistleblower on nicotine manipulation exposed in 60 Minutes and The Insider.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
Jenna Miscavige Hill (born 1984), American former Scientologist, niece of church leader David Miscavige, daughter of Ron Miscavige Jr.; author of the 2013 memoir Beyond Belief and co-founder of ExScientologyKids.com after leaving the Sea Org in 2005.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin (1938-1994), American counterculture activist, co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, organized the 1967 Pentagon march, was a Chicago Seven defendant, then became a Wall Street venture banker.
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford (Decca, 1917-1996), English-born American muckraking author and Mitford sister, wrote The American Way of Death (1963), exposing the US funeral industry, plus Kind and Usual Punishment and The American Way of Birth.
John Froines
John Froines (1939–2022) was an American chemist and Chicago Seven defendant, acquitted of all charges in the 1969–70 trial, later OSHA Director of Toxic Substances and a UCLA public health professor.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (1947-2018), Wyoming rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist, and EFF co-founder, wrote the 1996 Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the defining cyberlibertarian manifesto against government control of the internet.
John Trudell
Santee Dakota activist, poet, and actor (1946–2015); spokesman for the 1969–1971 Alcatraz occupation, national chairman of the American Indian Movement 1973–1979, and spoken-word artist with more than a dozen albums.
Joseph Zen
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, cardinal and retired Bishop of Hong Kong (2002–2009), Salesian priest, critic of the 2018 Vatican–China bishops agreement, democracy advocate, convicted 2022 over the 612 fund registration.
Kailash Satyarthi (कैलाश सत्यार्थी)
Kailash Satyarthi (कैलाश सत्यार्थी), born 1954 in Vidisha, India, is a children's rights activist who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai for the fight against child labor, founding Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980.
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer (Karen Gordon), Canadian philanthropist, founder of Whole Child International (2004), third wife of the 9th Earl Spencer from 2011, chatelaine of Althorp, Ashoka Fellow, and party to the Jarman MS privacy settlement.
Kayla Mueller
Kayla Jean Mueller (1988–2015) was an American humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, kidnapped by ISIS in Aleppo on August 4, 2013, held about 18 months, and confirmed dead in February 2015 after ISIS claimed a Jordanian airstrike killed her.
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.
Léo Taxil
Léo Taxil, pen name of Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès (1854-1907), was a French journalist whose 1885-1897 Palladium hoax fabricated a Luciferian inner circle of Freemasonry and the convert Diana Vaughan, confessed in 1897.
List of philanthropists
List of philanthropists: ranked rosters such as the Chronicle's Philanthropy 50 and the Giving Pledge, covering top givers like Bloomberg, MacKenzie Scott, and Buffett, compilation methods, and criticisms.
Lizzie Velásquez
Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989, Austin, Texas) is an American motivational speaker, author, and anti-bullying activist with a rare fat-accumulation disorder, known for her viral TEDxAustinWomen talk and the documentary A Brave Heart.
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.