| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Grace Abbott |
Activist |
17-Nov-1878 |
19-Jun-1939 |
Advocate against child labor |
| Robert S. Abbott |
Publisher |
24-Nov-1868 |
29-Feb-1940 |
Chicago Defender |
| Abdu'l-Bahá |
Religion |
23-May-1844 |
28-Nov-1921 |
Baha'i leader |
| Ralph Abernathy |
Activist |
21-Mar-1926 |
17-Apr-1990 |
Prominent civil rights activist |
| Bella Abzug |
Politician |
24-Jul-1920 |
31-Mar-1998 |
Feminist and former Congresswoman |
| Samuel Adams |
Politician |
27-Sep-1722 |
2-Oct-1803 |
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party |
| Jane Addams |
Activist |
6-Sep-1860 |
21-May-1935 |
Founder of Hull House |
| Mary Cunningham Agee |
Activist |
1951 |
|
The Nurturing Network |
| Roberta Green Ahmanson |
Relative |
1949 |
|
Wife of Howard Ahmanson |
| Stew Albert |
Activist |
4-Dec-1939 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Founding Yippie |
| Gary Aldrich |
Activist |
22-May-1945 |
|
Clinton antagonist |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Activist |
13-Nov-1969 |
|
Submission |
| Richard Allen |
Religion |
14-Feb-1760 |
26-Mar-1831 |
Founder, African Episcopal Methodist Church |
| Richard V. Allen |
Government |
? |
|
Reagan National Security Advisor |
| Gloria Allred |
Attorney |
3-Jul-1941 |
|
Feminist lawyer |
| Cleveland Amory |
Author |
2-Sep-1917 |
14-Oct-1998 |
The Cat Who Came for Christmas |
| Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
| Tobias Asser |
Activist |
28-Apr-1838 |
29-Jul-1913 |
Hague Court of Arbitration |
| Crispus Attucks |
Activist |
1723 |
5-Mar-1770 |
First man killed in the American Revolution |
| Sherman Austin |
Activist |
10-Apr-1983 |
|
RaiseTheFist.com, now jailed |
| Bill Ayers |
Activist |
1944 |
|
Weather Underground |
| Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
| Joan Baez |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Jan-1941 |
|
Diamonds and Rust |
| Doug Bailey |
Activist |
c. 1934 |
|
President and CEO, Unity08 |
| Fredrik Bajer |
Politician |
21-Apr-1837 |
22-Jan-1922 |
Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Mitchell Baker |
Activist |
c. 1957 |
|
Mozilla Foundation |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Steve Baldwin |
Politician |
c. 1957 |
|
Council for National Policy |
| John Ball |
Activist |
? |
15-Jul-1381 |
Instigator of 1381 peasant revolt |
| Hassan al-Banna |
Activist |
14-Oct-1906 |
12-Feb-1949 |
Founder of The Muslim Brotherhood |
| Benjamin Banneker |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1731 |
25-Oct-1806 |
First African-American astronomer |
| Brigitte Bardot |
Actor |
28-Sep-1934 |
|
Voulez-vous danser avec moi? |
| John Perry Barlow |
Activist |
3-Oct-1947 |
|
Co-Founder, EFF |
| Clara Barton |
Activist |
25-Dec-1821 |
12-Apr-1912 |
Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
| David Barton |
Activist |
1954 |
|
Opposes separation of church and state |
| Gary Bauer |
Government |
4-May-1946 |
|
Family Research Council |
| Gregory Baylor |
Religion |
c. 1965 |
|
Christian Legal Society |
| Simone de Beauvoir |
Activist |
9-Jan-1908 |
14-Apr-1986 |
The Second Sex |
| Jim Bell |
Activist |
6-Apr-1958 |
|
Assassination Politics |
| Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo |
Activist |
3-Feb-1948 |
|
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Peter Benenson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1921 |
25-Feb-2005 |
Founder of Amnesty International |
| Medea Benjamin |
Activist |
10-Sep-1952 |
|
CODEPINK, Global Exchange cofounder |
| Richard B. Berman |
Activist |
c. 1942 |
|
Astroturf spindoctor |
| Wayne L. Berman |
Activist |
8-Nov-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist |
| Michelle Bernard |
Activist |
c. 1964 |
|
Conservative commentator |
| Daniel J. Bernstein |
Computer Programmer |
29-Oct-1971 |
|
Bernstein v. United States |
| Annie Besant |
Activist |
1-Oct-1847 |
20-Sep-1933 |
Theosophist & Social Activist |
| Wayne Besen |
Activist |
c. 1971 |
|
Truth Wins OUT |
| James Bevel |
Activist |
19-Oct-1936 |
19-Dec-2008 |
Civil rights activist, convicted of incest |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
Head of State |
5-Jan-1928 |
4-Apr-1979 |
Head of Pakistan, hanged |
| Bruce Bialosky |
Business |
? |
|
Accountant, GOP activist |
| Steve Biko |
Activist |
18-Dec-1946 |
12-Sep-1977 |
Father of Black Consciousness |
| Reverend Billy |
Performance Artist |
c. 1952 |
|
Church of Stop Shopping |
| James G. Birney |
Activist |
4-Feb-1792 |
25-Nov-1857 |
Abolitionist Liberty Party candidate |
| Don Black |
Activist |
28-Jul-1953 |
|
Stormfront.org founder |
| Morton C. Blackwell |
Activist |
16-Nov-1939 |
|
Influential conservative activist |
| Joan Blades |
Activist |
c. 1956 |
|
Cofounder of MoveOn.org |
| Amelia Jenks Bloomer |
Activist |
27-May-1818 |
30-Dec-1894 |
Bloomers |
| David Boaz |
Activist |
c. 1953 |
|
Cato Institute |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
Activist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
| Clint Bolick |
Activist |
26-Dec-1957 |
|
Libertarian school choice activist |
| Julian Bond |
Activist |
14-Jan-1940 |
|
NAACP Chairman |
| Yelena Bonner |
Activist |
15-Feb-1923 |
|
Activist-wife of Andrei Sakharov |
| Robert Borosage |
Activist |
? |
|
Founder, Campaign for America's Future |
| Katherine Boyd |
Business |
1-Feb-1921 |
|
Interior decorator, GOP activist |
| Wes Boyd |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
Cofounder of MoveOn.org |
| Peter Boyle |
Actor |
18-Oct-1935 |
12-Dec-2006 |
Young Frankenstein |
| Brent Bozell |
Activist |
14-Jul-1955 |
|
Media Research Center |
| Anne Braden |
Activist |
28-Jul-1924 |
6-Mar-2006 |
Southern Civil Rights Activist |
| Charles Bradlaugh |
Activist |
26-Sep-1833 |
30-Jan-1891 |
Atheistic Iconoclast |
| Sarah Brady |
Activist |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
Handgun control advocate |
| Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
| William Lee Brent |
Criminal |
10-Nov-1930 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Black Panther hijacker |
| Nancy Goodman Brinker |
Activist |
6-Dec-1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Hungary, 2001-03 |
| Erin Brockovich |
Activist |
22-Jun-1960 |
|
Paralegal portrayed by Julia Roberts |
| Floyd G. Brown |
Activist |
1961 |
|
Ultraconservative smear merchant |
| H. Rap Brown |
Activist |
4-Oct-1943 |
|
Die, Nigger, Die! |
| Henry Box Brown |
Activist |
1815 |
? |
Former slave, escaped via crate |
| John Brown |
Activist |
9-May-1800 |
2-Dec-1859 |
Led the raid on Harper's Ferry |
| Lester R. Brown |
Activist |
28-Mar-1934 |
|
Earth Policy Institute |
| Molly Brown |
Activist |
18-Jul-1867 |
26-Oct-1932 |
Unsinkable |
| Olympia Brown |
Activist |
5-Jan-1835 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Lady preacher and suffragette |
| Susan Brownmiller |
Activist |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Feminist, Against Our Will |
| Anita Bryant |
Activist |
25-Mar-1940 |
|
Anti-homosexuality activist |
| Ferdinand Buisson |
Activist |
20-Dec-1841 |
16-Feb-1932 |
French pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| George Burdi |
Activist |
1970 |
|
Founded Resistance Records |
| Elihu Burritt |
Activist |
8-Dec-1810 |
6-Mar-1879 |
Organized Friends of Peace |
| Dan Burros |
Activist |
5-Mar-1937 |
31-Oct-1965 |
Antisemitic Jew outed by NY Times |
| Richard G. Butler |
Activist |
23-Feb-1918 |
8-Sep-2004 |
Founder of the Aryan Nations |
| Stuart Butler |
Activist |
c. 1946 |
|
Heritage Foundation |
| George W. Cable |
Author |
12-Oct-1844 |
31-Jan-1925 |
Old Creole Days |
| Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
| Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
| Pat Califia |
Author |
8-Mar-1954 |
|
FTM transgendered sex writer |
| Peter Camejo |
Activist |
31-Dec-1939 |
13-Sep-2008 |
Persistent Green Party candidate |
| John Angus Campbell |
Activist |
10-Mar-1942 |
|
Discovery Institute |
| Annie Jump Cannon |
Astronomer |
11-Dec-1863 |
13-Apr-1941 |
Census-taker of the sky |
| Stokely Carmichael |
Activist |
29-Jun-1941 |
15-Nov-1998 |
Black separatist, Pan-Africanist |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Silent Spring |
| Willis Carto |
Activist |
17-Jul-1926 |
|
Founder of Liberty Lobby, IHR |
| Roger Casement |
Activist |
1-Sep-1864 |
3-Aug-1916 |
Irish revolutionary, gay diarist |
| Camillo Benso di Cavour |
Activist |
10-Aug-1810 |
6-Jun-1861 |
Genius behind a united Italy |
| Linda Chavez |
Activist |
17-Jun-1947 |
|
Neoconservative activist, pundit |
| Erwin Chemerinsky |
Scholar |
14-May-1953 |
|
Legal Scholar |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Ward Churchill |
Activist |
2-Oct-1947 |
|
Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann |
| Joseph Cinqué |
Activist |
c. 1813 |
c. 1879 |
Led the Amistad slave rebellion |
| Richard Cizik |
Activist |
? |
|
National Association of Evangelicals |
| Joan Claybrook |
Activist |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
Public Citizen |
| Eldridge Cleaver |
Activist |
31-Aug-1935 |
1-May-1998 |
Black Panther turned Republican |
| Doug Coe |
Religion |
c. 1930 |
|
The Family |
| William Sloane Coffin |
Activist |
1-Jun-1924 |
12-Apr-2006 |
Civilly disobedient chaplain |
| Ben Cohen |
Business |
18-Mar-1951 |
|
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. |
| Chuck Collins |
Activist |
1960 |
|
United for a Fair Economy |
| Michael Collins |
Activist |
16-Oct-1890 |
22-Aug-1922 |
Irish Nationalist, spymaster |
| Richard H. Collins |
Publisher |
1-Jun-1947 |
|
Dallas newspaper publisher |
| Anthony Comstock |
Activist |
7-Mar-1844 |
21-Sep-1915 |
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice |
| Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
| Ward Connerly |
Activist |
15-Jun-1939 |
|
Connerly & Associates |
| Holly Coors |
Activist |
? |
|
Ultraconservative beer baroness |
| Rachel Corrie |
Activist |
10-Apr-1979 |
16-Mar-2003 |
US activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer |
| Mairead Corrigan |
Activist |
27-Jan-1944 |
|
Nobel Prize recipient |
| Jerome Corsi |
Activist |
31-Aug-1946 |
|
Co-Author, Unfit for Command |
| Jacques Cousteau |
Scientist |
11-Jun-1910 |
25-Jun-1997 |
Oceanographer, environmentalist |
| Edward H. Crane |
Activist |
c. 1944 |
|
Founder, Cato Institute |
| T. Kenneth Cribb |
Activist |
7-Aug-1948 |
|
Conservative activist |
| Charles B. Curtis |
Activist |
27-Apr-1940 |
|
Nuclear Threat Initiative |
| Robert Curvin |
Activist |
23-Feb-1934 |
|
Former Black Power activist |
| Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
|
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
| Georges Jacques Danton |
Activist |
26-Oct-1759 |
5-Apr-1794 |
Key figure in French Revolution |
| Justin Dart, Jr. |
Activist |
29-Aug-1930 |
22-Jun-2002 |
Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
| Angela Davis |
Activist |
26-Jan-1944 |
|
Black Panther, teacher, professor |
| Ossie Davis |
Actor |
18-Dec-1917 |
4-Feb-2005 |
Do The Right Thing |
| Bud Day |
Activist |
24-Feb-1925 |
|
Former POW |
| Dorothy Day |
Activist |
8-Nov-1897 |
29-Nov-1980 |
Founder of the Catholic Worker movement |
| Samuel H. Day |
Activist |
5-Oct-1926 |
26-Jan-2001 |
Antinuke crusader |
| Eamon de Valera |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1882 |
29-Aug-1975 |
President of Ireland, 1959-73 |
| Midge Decter |
Journalist |
25-Jul-1927 |
|
Neoconservative maven |
| Morris Dees |
Activist |
16-Dec-1936 |
|
Bankrupted the Klan |
| Margaret Deland |
Author |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
Old Chester Tales |
| Martin R. Delany |
Activist |
6-May-1812 |
24-Jan-1885 |
Black nationalist |
| Christopher DeMuth |
Activist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Donald Devine |
Government |
c. 1937 |
|
Director, Office of Personnel Management, 1981-85 |
| Betsy DeVos |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Wife of Dick DeVos |
| Helen DeVos |
Activist |
c. 1925 |
|
Wife of Amway founder |
| Peter Diamandis |
Activist |
20-May-1961 |
|
Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation |
| Dorothea Dix |
Activist |
4-Apr-1802 |
17-Jul-1887 |
Activist for the insane |
| Assia Djebar |
Author |
4-Aug-1936 |
|
So Vast the Prison |
| James Dobson |
Radio Personality |
21-Apr-1936 |
|
Focus on the Family |
| Bernardine Dohrn |
Activist |
12-Jan-1942 |
|
Weather Underground leader |
| Frank Donatelli |
Activist |
4-Jul-1949 |
|
McGuireWoods Consulting |
| Marion Dönhoff |
Journalist |
2-Dec-1909 |
11-Mar-2002 |
Die Zeit |
| William Donohue |
Activist |
18-Jul-1947 |
|
Catholic League president |
| Tom Dooley |
Activist |
17-Jan-1927 |
18-Jan-1961 |
Deliver Us from Evil |
| Frederick Douglass |
Activist |
7-Feb-1817 |
20-Feb-1895 |
Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer |
| Alexander Dubcek |
Head of State |
27-Nov-1921 |
7-Nov-1992 |
Leader of Czechoslovakia, 1968-69 |
| Élie Ducommun |
Journalist |
19-Feb-1833 |
7-Dec-1906 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| David Duke |
Activist |
13-Jul-1950 |
|
Former KKK Grand Wizard |
| Robin Chandler Duke |
Activist |
13-Oct-1923 |
|
Former president of NARAL |
| Henry Dunant |
Activist |
8-May-1828 |
30-Oct-1910 |
Red Cross founder |
| Mike Duncan |
Activist |
1951 |
|
RNC Chairman |
| Becky Norton Dunlop |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Conservative activist |
| Andrea Dworkin |
Activist |
26-Sep-1946 |
9-Apr-2005 |
Anti-pornography activist |
| James C. Early |
Activist |
12-Jan-1947 |
|
Smithsonian Institution |
| Shirin Ebadi |
Activist |
1947 |
|
First female judge in Iran |
| Myron Ebell |
Activist |
c. 1953 |
|
Global Warming cynic |
| Marian Wright Edelman |
Activist |
6-Jun-1939 |
|
Founder, Children's Defense Fund |
| Ira Einhorn |
Activist |
15-May-1940 |
|
Earth Day founder turned killer |
| Lewis M. Eisenberg |
Activist |
c. 1942 |
|
Granite Capital International Group |
| Elihu Embree |
Activist |
11-Nov-1782 |
4-Dec-1820 |
Abolitionist and lifelong slaveholder |
| Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin |
Religion |
8-Feb-1796 |
1-Sep-1864 |
Saint-Simonist, cult leader |
| Eve Ensler |
Playwright |
25-May-1953 |
|
The Vagina Monologues |
| Stephen J. Entin |
Activist |
? |
|
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation |
| Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
Activist |
26-Nov-1931 |
|
Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
| Hiram Wesley Evans |
Activist |
26-Sep-1881 |
Sep-1966 |
KKK Imperial Wizard, 1922-39 |
| M. Stanton Evans |
Activist |
20-Jul-1934 |
|
Conservative activist |
| Charles Evers |
Activist |
11-Sep-1922 |
|
Brother of Medgar Evers |
| Medgar Evers |
Activist |
2-Jul-1925 |
12-Jun-1963 |
Civil rights activist murdered in 1963 |
| Susan Faludi |
Activist |
18-Apr-1959 |
|
Backlash |
| James Farmer |
Activist |
12-Jan-1920 |
9-Jul-1999 |
Co-Founder, CORE |
| Michael Farris |
Activist |
27-Aug-1951 |
|
Founder, Patrick Henry College |
| Walter E. Fauntroy |
Activist |
6-Feb-1933 |
|
Congressman from DC, 1971-91 |
| Edwin Feulner |
Activist |
12-Aug-1941 |
|
Heritage Foundation founder |
| Janet Fielding |
Actor |
1957 |
|
Tegan from Doctor Who |
| Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
| Max M. Fisher |
Business |
15-Jul-1908 |
3-Mar-2005 |
Gas station tycoon |
| Tom Fitton |
Activist |
? |
|
Judicial Watch president |
| David Flaum |
Activist |
c. 1953 |
|
Flaum Management Company |
| Jane Fonda |
Actor |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Prominent Vietnam War protester |
| Werner Fornos |
Activist |
1933 |
|
The Population Institute |
| Michael J. Fox |
Actor |
9-Jun-1961 |
|
Back to the Future |
| Michael G. Franc |
Government |
c. 1957 |
|
Heritage Foundation |
| Alfred Fried |
Activist |
11-Nov-1864 |
5-May-1921 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
| Al From |
Activist |
31-May-1943 |
|
Founder, Democratic Leadership Council |
| Brigitte Gabriel |
Activist |
1965 |
|
American Congress for Truth |
| April Gaede |
Activist |
1966 |
|
Prussian Blue stage mom |
| Arun Gandhi |
Activist |
14-Apr-1934 |
|
Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
Activist |
2-Oct-1869 |
30-Jan-1948 |
Proselytizer of nonviolence |
| Kim Gandy |
Activist |
25-Jan-1954 |
|
President of NOW |
| Peter Garrett |
Musician |
1953 |
|
Bald Midnight Oil frontman |
| William Lloyd Garrison |
Activist |
10-Dec-1805 |
24-May-1879 |
Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator |
| Amy Jacques Garvey |
Activist |
31-Dec-1885 |
25-Jul-1973 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
| Marcus Garvey |
Activist |
17-Aug-1887 |
10-Jun-1940 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
| Stephen F. Gates |
Business |
1946 |
|
Former EVP, Conoco-Phillips |
| Kurt Gerstein |
Military |
11-Aug-1905 |
25-Jul-1945 |
Holocaust collaborator and whistleblower |
| Christopher Gersten |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
|
Husband of Linda Chavez |
| Miep Gies |
Activist |
15-Feb-1909 |
|
Sheltered the family of Anne Frank |
| Jim Gilchrist |
Activist |
1949 |
|
Minuteman Project founder |
| Doug Giles |
Religion |
c. 1962 |
|
Conservative pastor |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Activist |
3-Jul-1860 |
17-Aug-1935 |
Women and Economics |
| John Gilmore |
Activist |
Aug-1955 |
|
Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks |
| Ira Glasser |
Activist |
1938 |
|
ACLU Executive Director, 1978-2001 |
| Erich Gliebe |
Activist |
c. 1964 |
|
Chairman, National Alliance |
| Matt Gonzalez |
Politician |
4-Jun-1965 |
|
Progressive politician, activist |
| Antonio Gramsci |
Activist |
23-Jan-1891 |
27-Apr-1937 |
Founder of the Italian Communist Party |
| Wavy Gravy |
Activist |
15-May-1936 |
|
Some damn hippy |
| Mike Gray |
Author |
c. 1936 |
|
The China Syndrome |
| William J. Grede |
Business |
24-Feb-1897 |
5-Jun-1989 |
Grede Foundries, Inc. |
| Germaine Greer |
Activist |
29-Jan-1939 |
|
Feminism Diva |
| Dick Gregory |
Activist |
12-Oct-1932 |
|
Autobiography: NIGGER! |
| Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
| Mandy Grunwald |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Hillary Clinton media adviser |
| Che Guevara |
Activist |
14-Jun-1928 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Still looking great on all those t-shirts |
| George Habash |
Activist |
2-Aug-1926 |
26-Jan-2008 |
Founder of the PFLP |
| John Hagelin |
Activist |
9-Jun-1954 |
|
Natural Law Party |
| David Hager |
Doctor |
c. 1946 |
|
Gynecologist, conservative activist |
| Matt Hale |
Religion |
27-Jul-1971 |
|
White supremacist |
| Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
| Gus Hall |
Activist |
8-Oct-1910 |
13-Oct-2000 |
Leader, Communist Party USA |
| Fannie Lou Hamer |
Activist |
6-Oct-1917 |
14-Mar-1977 |
Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer |
| Fred Hampton, Sr. |
Activist |
30-Aug-1948 |
4-Dec-1969 |
Black Panther leader assassinated by police |
| Ismail Haniyeh |
Activist |
1962 |
|
Prime Minister of Palestine, 2006-07 |
| Chuck Hansen |
Activist |
13-May-1947 |
26-Mar-2003 |
Nuclear historian and archivist |
| Frances E. W. Harper |
Poet |
24-Sep-1825 |
22-Feb-1911 |
Abolitionist, temperance activist |
| Michael Harrington |
Activist |
24-Feb-1928 |
31-Jul-1989 |
The Other America |
| Rita E. Hauser |
Activist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
| Harry Hay |
Activist |
7-Apr-1912 |
24-Oct-2002 |
Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society |
| Tom Hayden |
Activist |
11-Dec-1939 |
|
Jane Fonda's ex |
| Jacques René Hébert |
Activist |
15-Nov-1757 |
24-Mar-1794 |
Revolutionary of the Paris Commune |
| Wade Henderson |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| Jack Herer |
Activist |
1939 |
|
Cannabis evangelist |
| Bruce Herschensohn |
Activist |
? |
|
Conservative activist |
| Theodor Herzl |
Activist |
2-May-1860 |
3-Jul-1904 |
Lead Zionist |
| Miguel Hidalgo |
Religion |
8-May-1753 |
30-Jul-1811 |
Father of Mexican independence |
| Betty Hill |
Hoaxer |
28-Jun-1919 |
17-Oct-2004 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
| Abbie Hoffman |
Activist |
30-Nov-1936 |
12-Apr-1989 |
Steal This Book |
| Amy Holmes |
Columnist |
c. 1973 |
|
BET host, conservative commentator |
| Benjamin Hooks |
Activist |
31-Jan-1925 |
|
NAACP Director, 1977-92 |
| Christopher C. Horner |
Activist |
? |
|
Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| David Horowitz |
Activist |
10-Jan-1939 |
|
Conservative activist |
| José Ramos Horta |
Politician |
26-Dec-1949 |
|
President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
| Kent Hovind |
Religion |
15-Jan-1953 |
|
Creation Science huckster |
| John Howard |
Activist |
2-Sep-1726 |
20-Jan-1790 |
The State of Prisons |
| Julia Ward Howe |
Activist |
27-May-1819 |
17-Oct-1910 |
Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| Kathy Hubbard |
Activist |
? |
|
GOP activist |
| John Hume |
Politician |
18-Jan-1937 |
|
Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient |
| Robert P. Hunter |
Activist |
23-Aug-1940 |
|
Mackinac Center for Public Policy |
| Roy Innis |
Activist |
6-Jun-1934 |
|
Congress of Racial Equality |
| Patricia Ireland |
Activist |
19-Oct-1945 |
|
NOW president, 1991-2001 |
| Reed Irvine |
Activist |
29-Sep-1922 |
16-Nov-2004 |
Founder, Accuracy in Media |
| David Irving |
Activist |
24-Mar-1938 |
|
Notorious Holocaust denier |
| Jesse Jackson |
Activist |
8-Oct-1941 |
|
Rainbow Coalition |
| John E. Jacob |
Business |
16-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Urban League, 1982-94 |
| Bianca Jagger |
Model |
2-May-1945 |
|
Mick's ex-wife |
| Howard Jarvis |
Activist |
22-Sep-1903 |
11-Aug-1986 |
Anti-tax crusader |
| Benjamin Todd Jealous |
Activist |
c. 1972 |
|
President of the NAACP |
| Russell Johnson |
Religion |
? |
|
Ohio Restoration Project |
| Angelina Jolie |
Actor |
4-Jun-1975 |
|
Tomb Raider |
| Mother Jones |
Activist |
1-Aug-1837 |
30-Nov-1930 |
The grandmother of all agitators |
| David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
| Leon Jouhaux |
Labor Leader |
1-Jul-1879 |
28-Apr-1954 |
Union leader, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Meir Kahane |
Activist |
1-Aug-1932 |
5-Nov-1990 |
Founder of Jewish Defense League |
| John Von Kannon |
Activist |
? |
|
Heritage Foundation |
| Garry Kasparov |
Chess Player |
13-Apr-1963 |
|
Grand Master chess player |
| David Keating |
Activist |
? |
|
Club for Growth |
| Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
| Kerry Kennedy |
Activist |
8-Sep-1959 |
|
Human rights activist |
| Jomo Kenyatta |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1892 |
22-Aug-1978 |
President of Kenya, 1964-78 |
| Charles R. Kesler |
Scholar |
c. 1956 |
|
Conservative scholar |
| Jack Kevorkian |
Doctor |
26-May-1928 |
|
Euthanasia enthusiast |
| Cliff Kincaid |
Activist |
? |
|
Accuracy in Media |
| Coretta Scott King |
Activist |
27-Apr-1927 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King |
| Martin Luther King |
Activist |
15-Jan-1929 |
4-Apr-1968 |
Pacifist civil rights activist |
| Martin Luther King III |
Activist |
23-Oct-1957 |
|
Former President of the SCLC |
| Thomas Starr King |
Religion |
17-Dec-1824 |
4-Mar-1864 |
Saved California to the Union |
| Jim Kittle |
Business |
? |
|
Kittle's Furniture |
| Marc Klaas |
Activist |
? |
|
Lobbied to get bad Three Strikes law passed |
| Larry Klayman |
Activist |
20-Jul-1951 |
|
Founder, Judicial Watch |
| Diane Knippers |
Religion |
6-Jan-1952 |
18-Apr-2005 |
Conservative religious strategist |
| Walter Knott |
Business |
11-Dec-1889 |
3-Dec-1981 |
Founder of Knott's Berry Farm |
| Bruce Kovner |
Activist |
Feb-1945 |
|
Caxton Associates billionaire |
| Larry Kramer |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1935 |
|
The Normal Heart |
| Patrick Kroupa |
Author |
20-Jan-1968 |
|
Lord Digital of LOD, Mindvox |
| Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
Activist |
8-Jul-1926 |
24-Aug-2004 |
On Death And Dying |
| Maggie Kuhn |
Activist |
3-Aug-1905 |
22-Apr-1995 |
Organizer of the Gray Panthers |
| Robert Kuttner |
Editor |
c. 1943 |
|
The American Prospect |
| Aung San Suu Kyi |
Activist |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
Political activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Military |
20-May-1743 |
7-Apr-1803 |
Led the 1791 Slave Rebellion |
| Henri La Fontaine |
Activist |
22-Apr-1854 |
14-May-1943 |
Belgian activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Lawrence Lader |
Activist |
6-Aug-1919 |
7-May-2006 |
Father of abortion rights activism |
| Andrea Lafferty |
Activist |
c. 1961 |
|
Traditional Values Coalition |
| Beverly LaHaye |
Activist |
1926 |
|
Tim LaHaye's wife |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| Richard Land |
Religion |
1947 |
|
Southern Baptist Convention |
| Christian Lange |
Activist |
17-Sep-1869 |
11-Dec-1938 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Wayne LaPierre |
Activist |
8-Nov-1949 |
|
Head of the NRA |
| Timothy Leary |
Activist |
22-Oct-1920 |
31-May-1996 |
Tune in, turn on, drop out |
| Richard Lessner |
Activist |
c. 1949 |
|
Capital City Partners |
| Mark Levin |
Activist |
21-Sep-1957 |
|
Landmark Legal Foundation |
| Robert A. Levy |
Activist |
c. 1939 |
|
Cato Institute |
| Ann Lewis |
Activist |
? |
|
Clinton advisor |
| Marlo Lewis, Jr. |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Global Warming critic |
| Leonard P. Liggio |
Scholar |
5-Jul-1933 |
|
Libertarian |
| William S. Lind |
Activist |
9-Jul-1947 |
|
Free Congress Foundation |
| Belva Lockwood |
Activist |
24-Oct-1830 |
19-May-1917 |
Feminist |
| Nancy B. Loeffler |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
|
Community activist, wife of Tom Loeffler |
| Linda Lovelace |
Pornstar |
10-Jan-1949 |
22-Apr-2002 |
Pornstar turned anti-porn activist |
| Mildred Loving |
Activist |
22-Jun-1939 |
2-May-2008 |
Interracial marriage |
| Juliette Gordon Low |
Activist |
31-Oct-1860 |
18-Jan-1927 |
Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA |
| Joseph Lowery |
Activist |
6-Oct-1921 |
|
Co-Founder of the SCLC |
| Bernard Lown |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1921 |
|
Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist |
| Carrie Lukas |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
| Benjamin Lundy |
Activist |
4-Jan-1789 |
22-Aug-1839 |
The Genius of Universal Emancipation |
| Albert Lutuli |
Activist |
c. 1898 |
21-Jul-1967 |
ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Rosa Luxemburg |
Activist |
5-Mar-1871 |
15-Jan-1919 |
Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany |
| Staughton Lynd |
Historian |
22-Nov-1929 |
|
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism |
| Barry Lynn |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Liberal activist |
| Mary Lyon |
Activist |
28-Feb-1797 |
5-Mar-1849 |
Founder of Mount Holyoke College |
| Wangari Maathai |
Activist |
1-Apr-1940 |
|
Planted 12 million trees in Kenya |
| Seán MacBride |
Activist |
26-Jan-1904 |
15-Jan-1988 |
Irish revolutionary, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Connie Mackey |
Activist |
? |
|
Family Research Council |
| Catharine MacKinnon |
Activist |
7-Oct-1946 |
|
Misguided anti-pornography activist |
| Malcolm X |
Activist |
19-May-1925 |
21-Feb-1965 |
Nation of Islam |
| Ellen Malcolm |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
|
Founder, EMILY's List |
| Jean-Paul Marat |
Activist |
24-May-1743 |
13-Jul-1793 |
French revolutionary |
| Subcomandante Marcos |
Activist |
? |
|
Spokesman for Zapatista Army |
| José Martí |
Activist |
28-Jan-1853 |
19-May-1895 |
Cuban hero |
| David H. Martin |
Activist |
? |
|
Founder, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund |
| Moussa Marzook |
Activist |
1951 |
|
Head of the Hamas politburo |
| Khaled Mashaal |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Hamas bureau chief in Damascus |
| Robert Mathews |
Criminal |
16-Jan-1953 |
8-Dec-1984 |
White supremacist died in shootout with FBI |
| Pat Matrisciana |
Activist |
? |
|
Produced The Clinton Chronicles |
| Clifford D. May |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
| Giuseppe Mazzini |
Activist |
22-Jun-1805 |
10-Mar-1872 |
Italian patriot, agitator |
| Norma McCorvey |
Activist |
22-Sep-1947 |
|
Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade |
| Alice McGrath |
Activist |
5-Apr-1917 |
|
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee |
| Keith McHenry |
Activist |
1957 |
|
Food Not Bombs |
| Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
| Russell Means |
Activist |
10-Nov-1939 |
|
American Indian Movement |
| Rigoberta Menchú Tum |
Activist |
9-Jan-1959 |
|
Political activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Tom Metzger |
Activist |
9-Apr-1938 |
|
White supremacist |
| Kate Michelman |
Activist |
? |
|
NARAL President, 1985-2004 |
| Adam Michnik |
Activist |
17-Oct-1946 |
|
Gazeta Wyborcza |
| Kate Millett |
Activist |
14-Sep-1934 |
|
Sexual Politics |
| Steven Milloy |
Activist |
? |
|
JunkScience.com |
| Heather Mills |
Activist |
12-Jan-1968 |
|
Ex-wife of Paul McCartney |
| Ho Chi Minh |
Activist |
19-May-1890 |
2-Sep-1969 |
Uncle Ho |
| Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
| Eben Moglen |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Shareware law |
| Goenawan Mohammad |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1941 |
|
Muckraking Indonesian journalist |
| Thomas Monaghan |
Business |
25-Mar-1937 |
|
Domino's Pizza founder, pro-life activist |
| Ernesto Teodoro Moneta |
Activist |
20-Sep-1833 |
10-Feb-1918 |
Founder of the Lombard League |
| Queen Mother Moore |
Activist |
27-Jul-1898 |
7-May-1997 |
Republic of New Africa |
| Stephen Moore |
Activist |
16-Feb-1960 |
|
Club for Growth |
| Melanie Morgan |
Radio Personality |
1956 |
|
Conservative radio host |
| Henry Morgentaler |
Doctor |
19-Mar-1923 |
|
Abortion rights in Canada |
| Georgette Mosbacher |
Activist |
16-Jan-1947 |
|
Washington socialite |
| John R. Mott |
Activist |
25-May-1865 |
31-Jan-1955 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Lucretia Mott |
Activist |
3-Jan-1793 |
11-Nov-1880 |
Women's rights and anti-slavery advocate |
| John Muir |
Activist |
21-Apr-1838 |
24-Dec-1914 |
Patron saint of Yosemite National Park |
| Ethan Nadelmann |
Activist |
13-Mar-1957 |
|
Drug Policy Alliance |
| Ralph Nader |
Activist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
Unsafe at Any Speed |
| Kathy Najimy |
Actor |
6-Feb-1957 |
|
Voice of Peggy on King of the Hill |
| James C. Napier |
Government |
9-Jun-1845 |
21-Apr-1940 |
Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| Carrie Nation |
Activist |
25-Nov-1846 |
9-Jun-1911 |
Temperance crusader |
| Ralph Neas |
Activist |
17-May-1946 |
|
People for the American Way |
| Gaylord Nelson |
Politician |
4-Jun-1916 |
3-Jul-2005 |
Founded Earth Day in 1970 |
| Michael Newdow |
Activist |
24-Jun-1953 |
|
Waged war against "under God" |
| Ingrid Newkirk |
Activist |
11-Jul-1949 |
|
President of PETA |
| Huey Newton |
Activist |
17-Feb-1942 |
22-Aug-1989 |
Black Panther |
| Florence Nightingale |
Activist |
12-May-1820 |
13-Aug-1910 |
Established nursing as a profession |
| Patrick Noonan |
Activist |
c. 1943 |
|
Chairman of the Conservation Fund |
| Grover Norquist |
Activist |
19-Oct-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader |
| Eric O'Keefe |
Activist |
Dec-1954 |
|
Sam Adams Alliance |
| John E. O'Neill |
Activist |
19-Feb-1946 |
|
Longtime John Kerry antagonist |
| Jane Olson |
Activist |
? |
|
Chairman, Human Rights Watch |
| George Oppen |
Poet |
24-Apr-1908 |
7-Jul-1984 |
Objectivist proponent and poet |
| Robert Owen |
Activist |
14-May-1771 |
17-Nov-1858 |
Founder of the Cooperative Movement |
| Robert Dale Owen |
Activist |
9-Nov-1801 |
24-Jun-1877 |
The Wrong of Slavery |
| Thomas Paine |
Activist |
29-Jan-1737 |
8-Jun-1809 |
Common Sense |
| Grace Paley |
Author |
11-Dec-1922 |
22-Aug-2007 |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
| Emmeline Pankhurst |
Activist |
14-Jul-1857 |
14-Jun-1928 |
Militant suffragette |
| Drazen Pantic |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Micromedia activist |
| Duane A. Parde |
Activist |
13-Jun-1963 |
|
National Taxpayers Union |
| Eli Pariser |
Activist |
17-Dec-1980 |
|
MoveOn.org |
| Rosa Parks |
Activist |
4-Feb-1913 |
24-Oct-2005 |
Wouldn't sit in the back of the bus |
| Rod Parsley |
Religion |
13-Jan-1957 |
|
Pastor, Christian Right activist |
| Albert Parsons |
Activist |
20-Jun-1848 |
11-Nov-1887 |
Haymarket Martyr |
| Eboo Patel |
Activist |
? |
|
Interfaith Youth Core |
| Buzz Patterson |
Radio Personality |
c. 1955 |
|
The Buzz Cut |
| Alice Paul |
Activist |
11-Jan-1885 |
9-Jul-1977 |
Suffragette |
| Kim Peek |
Activist |
11-Nov-1951 |
|
Inspiration for Raymond in Rain Man |
| Leonard Peltier |
Criminal |
12-Sep-1944 |
|
Native American political prisoner |
| Sean Penn |
Actor |
17-Aug-1960 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| John Perkins |
Activist |
1945 |
|
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man |
| Tony Perkins |
Activist |
20-Mar-1963 |
|
Family Research Council president |
| Bob Perry |
Business |
30-Oct-1932 |
|
Perry Homes |
| Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
| Fred Phelps |
Activist |
13-Nov-1929 |
|
Convinced that God hates fags |
| Howard Phillips |
Activist |
6-Feb-1941 |
|
Founder, US Taxpayers Party |
| Burton Pines |
Activist |
c. 1940 |
|
Conservative activist |
| Sally C. Pipes |
Activist |
? |
|
Pacific Research Institute |
| Georges Pire |
Religion |
10-Feb-1910 |
30-Jan-1969 |
Activist monk, Nobel Prize recipient |
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