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Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (Ronald McKinley Everett, born 1941) is an Africana studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, founder of the Us Organization and Kawaida philosophy, and creator of Kwanzaa in 1966.
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.
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar (born 1954) is an Indian social activist, founder-leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the Sardar Sarovar Dam, National Convenor of NAPM, and Right Livelihood Award (1991) and Goldman Prize (1992) recipient.
Meena Harris
Meena Harris (Meenakshi Ashley Harris), born 1984, is an American lawyer, author, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, and the niece of Kamala Harris.
Meg Mathews
Meg Mathews, British former music and fashion PR, ex-wife of Noel Gallagher, Britpop figure turned menopause campaigner via MegsMenopause, #MegsMenopause, and the book The New Hot.
Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper (born 1986), granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, tweeted for the Topeka church before leaving it in November 2012 with sister Grace; author of Unfollow, TED speaker, producer of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcast.
Michael X
Michael X, born Michael de Freitas, was a Trinidad-born civil rights activist, the most publicized figure of Britain's Black Power movement, hanged in Trinidad in 1975 for murder.
Mike Ma
Mike Ma is the pen name of Mike Mahoney, American far-right ecofascist writer, author of Harassment Architecture and Gothic Violence and founder of the Pine Tree Party movement.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue (née Henderson, born 1941), American author, rice farmer, and anti-human-trafficking advocate; founder of Win This Fight, past president of American Agri-Women, Scripps Howard environmental columnist, and Ukraine war correspondent honored with Ukraine's Order of Princess Olga.
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.
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams, born Myrlie Louise Beasley in 1933, is an American civil rights activist and journalist, widow of Medgar Evers and NAACP chair from 1995 to 1998.
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്)
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്), Kerala labourer from Arattupuzha, real-life subject of Benyamin's novel Aadujeevitham (Goat Days) and the 2024 film; kidnapped in Saudi Arabia 1992, held as an unpaid goatherd, escaped 1995 and deported.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born 1970, Montreal) is a Canadian author and UBC Professor of Climate Justice known for No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, Doppelganger, and the Leap Manifesto.
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.
Neha Bora
Neha Bora is an Indian student activist who leads the All India Students' Association and led a 2026 hunger strike.
Neil Horan
Neil Horan, also known as Cornelius Horan, is an Irish former priest known for disrupting the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Olympic marathon.
Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors, also known as Patrisse Khan-Cullors, is an American artist and activist born in Los Angeles in 1983, best known as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
Pattukkottai Alagiri (பட்டுக்கோட்டை ஆழகிரி)
Pattukkottai Alagiri (பட்டுக்கோட்டை ஆழகிரி), also spelled Azhagiri, 1900–1949, Tamil Self-Respect Movement orator called the 'whirlwind speaker' and 'Anjaa Nenjan', co-led the 1938 Trichy-to-Madras anti-Hindi march.
Patty Wetterling
Patty Wetterling, American child-safety advocate from St. Joseph, Minnesota; mother of abducted Jacob Wetterling; co-founded Jacob Wetterling Foundation, prompted the 1994 federal sex offender registry act, chaired NCMEC, later criticized registries.
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.
Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell (born 1952, Melbourne) is a British human rights campaigner active since 1967, known for the Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!, the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, Mugabe citizen's arrests, and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
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.
Phoebe Plummer
Phoebe Plummer, British Just Stop Oil activist who threw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 2022, jailed two years in 2024, later given suspended M25 conspiracy sentence.
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, 1921–1990), Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher, founded Ananda Marga in 1955 and propounded PROUT; wrote over 100 books and 5,018 songs.
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.
Prince Hall
Prince Hall (c. 1735-1807) was a free Black Bostonian abolitionist who founded African Lodge No. 459 in 1775-1784, the origin of Prince Hall Freemasonry, the oldest continuously active African American organization.
Qandeel Baloch
Qandeel Baloch (Fauzia Azeem), Pakistani social media celebrity murdered by her brother Waseem in Multan in July 2016 in an honor killing; her death prompted Pakistan's 2016 anti-honor-killing law, his 2019 life sentence, and 2022 acquittal.
Qubilah Shabazz
Qubilah Shabazz (born 1960), second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, was indicted in 1995 for plotting to kill Louis Farrakhan via FBI informant Michael Fitzpatrick; charges were settled without trial in 1995.
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.