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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).
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.
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.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, was an American abolitionist who escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and then made about 13 return trips to rescue others.
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.
Hazel Massery
Hazel Bryan Massery (born 1942) is the white student shown shouting at Elizabeth Eckford in Will Counts's iconic September 4, 1957 photograph of the Little Rock Nine; she later apologized, reconciled briefly with Eckford, and is the subject of Margolick's Elizabeth and Hazel.
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).
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam, also known as Homer Hadley Hickam Jr., is an American author and retired NASA engineer known for Rocket Boys, the 1998 memoir filmed as October Sky.
Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000), American civil rights leader, SCLC executive director and King aide; co-led Bloody Sunday in Selma with John Lewis, led the 1987 Forsyth County march, served in Georgia politics, founded Hosea Helps.
Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a St. Croix–born, Harlem-based writer, orator, and activist called "the father of Harlem radicalism" who led socialist and New Negro movements.
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.
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers, 1982), also Ibram Xolani Kendi, American historian of racism and antiracist scholar; National Book Award winner for Stamped from the Beginning, author of How to Be an Antiracist, founding director of BU's Center for Antiracist Research, now at Howard University.
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.
Ishaan Tharoor
Ishaan Tharoor (born 1984, Singapore) is an American foreign-affairs journalist, son of Shashi Tharoor; longtime Washington Post Today's WorldView columnist, now New Yorker Global Notes writer and CFR Murrow Press Fellow.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long is a British journalist, Social Affairs Editor and presenter at Channel 4 News since 2011, after two decades at the BBC including Newsnight; known for the Yarl's Wood undercover investigation.
Jacob Hersant
Jacob Hersant (born c. 1998) is an Australian neo-Nazi who co-leads the National Socialist Network with Thomas Sewell and was the first person convicted, and later jailed, under Victoria's Nazi salute ban.
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.
James Chaney
James Earl Chaney (1943–1964), Meridian, Mississippi CORE civil rights worker murdered with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman during Freedom Summer in Neshoba County; 1967 federal conspiracy convictions, 2005 Killen manslaughter conviction, 2014 posthumous Medal of Freedom.
James Farmer
James Farmer (1920–1999), American civil rights leader, co-founder and national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), architect of the 1961 Freedom Rides, later HEW assistant secretary and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
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.
James Reeb
James Reeb (1927–1965) was a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston beaten to death in Selma, Alabama, on March 9–11, 1965; his killers were acquitted, and his death spurred the Voting Rights Act.
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.
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (born 1933), American teacher from Riceville, Iowa, creator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes discrimination exercise first run with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, later a diversity trainer.
Jared Taylor
Jared Taylor (born 1951) is an American white nationalist writer, founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of American Renaissance, who calls himself a race realist; SPLC and ADL classify him as a white supremacist.
Jason Kessler
Jason Kessler, UVA graduate and Charlottesville resident, white nationalist organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, later a litigant over his revoked permit, consent-decree signatory, and Unite the Right 2 organizer.
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.