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Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार)
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार), born 1936 in Rajasthan, is an Indian-British former Jain monk, peace pilgrim, and ecological educator. He walked 8,000 miles for nuclear disarmament, edited Resurgence for 43 years, and co-founded Schumacher College in Devon.
Sean Eldridge
Sean Eldridge, American political activist, Freedom to Marry communications and political director (2010-2011), OutRight Action International board member, NY LEAD co-founder, and 2014 Democratic House candidate in New York's 19th District; husband of Chris Hughes.
Shabbos Kestenbaum
Shabbos Kestenbaum (Alexander Kestenbaum) is an American Jewish activist and Harvard Divinity School graduate who was lead plaintiff in the 2024 Title VI antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, settled confidentially in May 2025.
Shannon Watts
Shannon Watts, American gun violence prevention activist, founder of Moms Demand Action (originally One Million Moms for Gun Control), started after Sandy Hook 2012, later part of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Shaun King
Shaun King, American activist and writer, rose to prominence in the 2014 Ferguson protests, led The North Star, Real Justice PAC, and Grassroots Law Project, and faces recurring fundraising-accountability disputes.
Shehla Rashid
Shehla Rashid Shora, Indian academic and former JNU students' union vice president (2015), led 2016 sedition-case protests, joined Shah Faesal's J&K People's Movement, faced a 2019 sedition case later withdrawn, and now teaches sociology in Budgam.
Simeon Boikov (Симеон Бойков)
Simeon Boikov (Симеон Бойков), aka "Aussie Cossack", is an Australian-born pro-Russian activist and disinformation distributor, hiding in Sydney's Russian consulate since 2023, granted Russian citizenship in 2023, EU-sanctioned in 2025, and tied to Storm-1516 paid amplification.
Sindhutai Sapkal
Sindhutai Sapkal (सिंधुताई सपकाळ), the 'Mother of Orphans', Indian social worker from Maharashtra who raised over a thousand orphans, founded multiple ashrams, and received the Padma Shri in 2021; died in Pune on 4 January 2022.
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup (born c. 1808) was a free New York carpenter kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841, enslaved twelve years in Louisiana, rescued 1853; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave, edited by David Wilson, inspired the 1984 Gordon Parks and 2013 Steve McQueen films.
Somaya Bashir
Somaya Bashir (סומיה בשיר, born 1974) is an Arab-Israeli psychologist and activist from Jatt, founder of We Have No Other Land and Insan, Women Wage Peace leader, and the first Arab woman elected to a realistic slot on Israel's Democrats party Knesset slate.
Sophie Flay
Sophie Flay (born 1996) is an American broadcast journalist, daughter of chef Bobby Flay, co-anchoring ABC's World News Now and GMA First Look since 2025 after ABC7 Los Angeles reporting and Food Network shows The Flay List and Bobby and Sophie on the Coast.
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael, later Kwame Ture (1941–1998), Trinidadian-born American civil rights activist, SNCC chairman from 1966, popularizer of the slogan "Black Power," Lowndes County Freedom Organization organizer, later Pan-Africanist in Guinea.
Sun Myung Moon (문선명)
Sun Myung Moon (문선명, 1920–2012), Korean founder of the Unification Church (Holy Spirit Association, 1954), messianic claimant, mass-wedding officiant, Washington Times founder, and builder of a global business empire; died 2012, succeeded by his children.
Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा)
Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा, 1927–2021), Gandhian environmentalist of Uttarakhand, Chipko movement leader and anti-Tehri Dam campaigner; slogan "Ecology is permanent economy," 4,870 km Himalayan march, 15-year logging moratorium, Padma Vibhushan.
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल)
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल), Indian activist and Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi since January 2024; former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson (2015-2024), known for anti-rape hunger strikes, the 2024 Bibhav Kumar assault case, and later defection from AAP to the BJP.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who said she took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising and co-founded STAR to shelter homeless queer youth.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Australian-American activist, founded SumOfUs (now Ekō) in 2011, led New Media Ventures 2020-2022, co-founded Golden Gate Institute for AI, and was Aaron Swartz's fiancée.
Thích Quảng Đức
Thích Quảng Đức (釋廣德), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk (1897–1963) who self-immolated in Saigon on 11 June 1963 protesting Ngô Đình Diệm's persecution of Buddhists; Malcolm Browne's photo won World Press Photo of the Year.
Timothy Shriver
Timothy Shriver is an American educator and Chairman of Special Olympics International, founded by his mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver. He co-founded CASEL, founded UNITE.US, co-created the Dignity Index, and produced films including Amistad and Peanut Butter Falcon.
Toby Young
Toby Young (born 1963), Lord Young of Acton, is a British journalist and campaigner, son of Michael Young; founder of the Free Speech Union, co-founder of the West London Free School and the Modern Review.
Tokata Iron Eyes
Tokata (Tokatawin) Iron Eyes, later Gibson, is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota Standing Rock Sioux youth climate activist who led the ReZpect Our Water campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline at age 12 and later worked with Greta Thunberg.
Tom Metzger
Tom Metzger (Thomas Linton Metzger, 1938-2020) was an American white supremacist, California KKK grand dragon, and founder of White Aryan Resistance, known for the cable show Race and Reason and the $12.5 million Seraw judgment.
Tubal Uriah Butler
Tubal Uriah Butler, known as Buzz Butler, was a Grenadian-born oilfield worker and trade union leader in Trinidad whose arrest attempt on June 19, 1937 triggered the Butler Oilfield Riots.
Tushar Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी)
Tushar Arun Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी), born 1960, is an Indian author and activist, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, author of Let's Kill Gandhi, and a critic of the BJP-RSS.
Tyler Shultz
Tyler Shultz, Stanford-trained biologist and grandson of George Shultz, was the Theranos research engineer and whistleblower who exposed the $9 billion blood-testing fraud, then co-founded Flux Biosciences and Healthyr.
Van Jones
Van Jones (Anthony Kapel Jones, born 1968, Jackson, Tennessee) is an American CNN commentator, attorney, and social entrepreneur who founded the Ella Baker Center, Color of Change, Green for All, and Dream Corps, championed the Green Jobs Act of 2007 and First Step Act of 2018, and served briefly as Obama's green jobs adviser in 2009.
Van Lathan
Van Lathan Jr. is an American journalist, podcaster, and producer known for his 2018 on-air confrontation with Kanye West at TMZ, who hosts The Ringer's Higher Learning and produced the Oscar-winning short Two Distant Strangers.
VeryDarkMan
VeryDarkMan (VDM), Martins Vincent Otse, born 1994, is a Nigerian social media commentator and activist known as "online police", famous for call-out videos, defamation suits (Falana, Mercy Chinwo), a fabricated NGO theft claim, and deepfake impersonation scams.
Victoria Roshchyna
Viktoriia Roshchyna (Вікторія Рощина), Ukrainian freelance journalist for Ukrainska Pravda and Hromadske who reported from Russian-occupied Ukraine, was detained in August 2023 and died 19 September 2024 in Russian custody in Kizel, Perm Krai; her returned body showed torture signs and missing organs.
Viola Liuzzo
Viola Liuzzo (Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo), 1925–1965, Detroit civil rights activist and mother of five murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen on Highway 80 after the Selma-to-Montgomery march, with FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe in the killers' car.