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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.
Jerusalem Demsas
Jerusalem Demsas, American journalist on housing and land use policy; Vox policy reporter and The Weeds co-host (2020-2022), Atlantic staff writer and Good on Paper podcast host, founding editor of the liberal magazine The Argument.
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson (Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., born Jesse Louis Burns), 1941-2026, American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, Operation PUSH and Rainbow PUSH founder, and 1984/1988 Democratic presidential candidate; died February 17, 2026, in Chicago.
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.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, Parchman Penitentiary inmate, and first white student at Tougaloo College, subject of An Ordinary Hero.
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.
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 Lewis
John Robert Lewis (1940–2020), American civil rights leader and Georgia congressman: SNCC chairman, original Freedom Rider, Bloody Sunday marcher, 33-year House member known as the conscience of Congress.
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 Pierre Burr
John Pierre Burr (1792-1864) was an African-American Philadelphia barber, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad conductor, son of Vice President Aaron Burr and Mary Emmons of Calcutta; recognized by the Burr family in 2018-2019.
John Stoltenberg
John Stoltenberg, American radical feminist author of Refusing to be a Man (1989) and The End of Manhood (1993), co-founder of Men Against Pornography, and Andrea Dworkin's widower.
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.
Jonathan Daniels
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (1939-1965), New Hampshire-born Episcopal seminarian and VMI valedictorian, joined the Selma voting rights campaign, was jailed in Hayneville, and was killed August 20, 1965 shielding Ruby Sales from deputy Tom Coleman's shotgun; later named an Episcopal Church martyr.
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.
Joshua Caleb Sutter
Joshua Caleb Sutter, also known as Wulfran Hall, is an American neo-Nazi and Satanist who served as a paid FBI informant from 2003 to 2021.
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.
Jyotirao Phule (जोतिराव फुले)
Jyotirao Phule (जोतिराव फुले), Mahatma Phule, 1827–1890, Maharashtrian anti-caste reformer from the Mali community; opened Pune girls' schools from 1848 with Savitribai, wrote Gulamgiri (1873), founded Satyashodhak Samaj 1873.
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.
Kālīnātha Rāya
Kālīnātha Rāya, recorded as Kalinath Munshi (कालीनाथ मुंशी), was a 19th-century collaborator of Rammohan Roy who helped decide that Roy's religious association should take permanent form.
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (ಕಮಲಾದೇವಿ ಚಟ್ಟೋಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯ)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (ಕಮಲಾದೇವಿ ಚಟ್ಟೋಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯ, 1903–1988), Indian freedom fighter, feminist, and Congress Socialist Party founder; first woman to contest a legislative seat in India (1926) and post-independence leader of the handicrafts revival.
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.
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.
Kārśandās Mūljī
Kārśandās Mūljī (Karsandas Mulji) was a Gujarati journalist and social reformer of Bombay, born in 1832, who edited Satya Prakash and won the 1862 Maharaj Libel Case.
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.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (Posie Parker), British anti-trans activist born 1974, founder of Standing for Women and the Let Women Speak rallies; her 2023 Australasia tour drew neo-Nazis in Melbourne and was shut down in Auckland.
Khadijah Farrakhan
Khadijah Farrakhan (Betsy Ross, 1936-2026), Mother Khadijah, First Lady of the Nation of Islam, wife of Louis Farrakhan for 72 years, married 1953, nine children, spoke at the 1997 Million Woman March.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (Harold Moore Jr., 1948–2001), American black nationalist, Nation of Islam spokesman under Louis Farrakhan, later New Black Panther Party chairman; notorious for the 1993 Kean College antisemitic speech and the 1998 Million Youth March.