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Kim Maria
Kim Maria (김마리아, born Sang-jin; 1892–1944) was a Korean independence activist and educator who led the Korean Patriotic Women's Association and served in the Korean Provisional Government's assembly.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), Japanese American Philadelphia activist; GLF-Philadelphia co-founder, Selma marcher, Black Panther convention delegate, and founder of the Critical Path AIDS Project.
LaSheena Weekly
LaSheena Weekly is a Chicago activist, mother of slain drill rapper FBG Duck (Carlton Weekly), administrator of his estate, and plaintiff in wrongful-death litigation against Lil Durk, OTF, and King Von's estate.
Laura Loomer
Laura Loomer (born 1993, Tucson) is an American far-right activist and conspiracy theorist, informal Trump adviser, twice failed congressional candidate, deplatformed across major platforms, and, after a July 2026 Kyiv trip, a converted Ukraine advocate.
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.
Lauren Southern
Lauren Southern, Canadian far-right and alt-right YouTube commentator, Rebel News and Tenet Media contributor; made Farmlands (2018) and Borderless (2019), denied UK entry 2018, later published 2025 memoir This Is Not Real Life.
Laurie David
Laurie David, American environmental activist and producer of An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and Fed Up (2014), also known for The Biggest Little Farm, the Detroit Project, and climate books.
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.
Lila Rose
Lila Rose, American anti-abortion activist, author, and podcast host; founded Live Action at 15 (2003), known for undercover Planned Parenthood videos, debates, the Baby Olivia video, and contested editing and misinformation criticisms.
Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is a Palestinian-American Muslim activist from Brooklyn, former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, co-founder of MPower Change, and national co-chair of the 2017 Women's March.
Lindsay Mills
Lindsay Mills, born 1985 in Laurel, Maryland, is an American acrobat, pole dancer, and photographer, the girlfriend and later wife of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who joined him in Russia in 2014.
List of civil rights leaders
List of civil rights leaders, also called civil rights activists, covering American figures from NAACP founders (Wells, Du Bois, Ovington) through SCLC, the 1963 March on Washington, Ella Baker, Jesse Jackson, and present-day leaders like Patrisse Khan-Cullors.
List of peace activists
List of peace activists: people who work against war through nonviolent action, advocacy, and organizing, from the 1816 Peace Society to Nobel Peace Prize laureates such as Dunant, Gandhi, King, Karman, Mohammadi, Machado, and Pillay.
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.
Livia Giuggioli Firth
Livia Giuggioli Firth, Italian sustainability campaigner, founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and co-founder of Eco-Age, a consultancy that closed in 2024 after fraud and relaunched in 2025.
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.
Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm Lateef Shabazz (1984–2013), grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X, son of Qubilah Shabazz; pleaded guilty at 12 in the 1997 fire that killed Betty Shabazz; beaten to death in Mexico City at 28.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and Black nationalist leader, Nation of Islam spokesman, hajj pilgrim, Sunni convert, OAAU founder, assassinated at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.
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.
Margaret Brown
Margaret Tobin Brown (1867–1932), Denver philanthropist and reformer mythologized as "Molly Brown" after the Titanic; juvenile justice, Ludlow relief, suffrage, Devastated France; not actually named Molly.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American civil rights lawyer and children's rights activist, first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, and founder and 45-year president of the Children's Defense Fund.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio (1942–1996), American Free Speech Movement leader at UC Berkeley; philosophy student and Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer famous for the 1964 police-car speech and "bodies upon the gears" address.
Mark Dice
Mark Dice (Mark Shouldice, born 1977, Milwaukee) is an American conservative YouTuber, media analyst, and author of Illuminati and fake-news books; his channel began January 24, 2007, reaching about 1.9 million subscribers and 712 million views.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III, born 1957, eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist; Fulton County commissioner 1986, fourth SCLC president 1997-2003, founder of Realizing the Dream, voting rights march organizer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, led the Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham Campaign, 1963 March on Washington, and Selma marches; won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in Memphis.
Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse (1910–2001), British schoolteacher, founded the 1964 Clean Up TV campaign and the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association; her morality campaigns shaped UK censorship law and drew lasting satire and reappraisal.
Mary Williams (activist)
Mary Luana Williams (born 1967), American social activist and author, daughter of Black Panther parents, raised by Jane Fonda; founded the Lost Boys Foundation and wrote The Lost Daughter: A Memoir.
Matt Schlapp
Matt Schlapp (Matthew Schlapp), American political operative and lobbyist, chairman of the American Conservative Union since 2014, runs CPAC; former George W. Bush White House political director, Koch lobbyist, Trump ally, and 2023 sexual assault lawsuit defendant.
Matthew F. Hale
Matthew F. Hale (born 1971), American white supremacist, Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator from 1996; convicted in 2004 of soliciting Judge Joan Lefkow's murder, serving 40 years.