Kerry Kennedy08 September 1959, American
Human rights activist
Hillary Clinton26 October 1947, American
Former First Lady, Political Leader
Zack de la Rocha12 January 1970, American
Amal Clooney03 February 1978, Lebanese, British
Lawyer, Activist
Martin Luther King III23 October 1957, American
Activist
Michael Bolton26 February 1953, American
Singer, Songwriter
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Bianca Jagger02 May 1945, Nicaraguan, British
Actress
Melissa Mathison03 June 1950, American
Screenwriter
Mike Farrell06 February 1939, American
Actor
Laurie Holden17 December 1969, American
Actress
Ai Weiwei28 August 1957, Chinese
Artist
Jorja Fox07 July 1968, American
Actress
Graça Machel17 October 1945, Mozambican
Politician
Liu Xiaobo28 December 1955, Chinese
Chinese Human Rights Activist
Alan Lomax31 January 1915, American
Folklorist
Rigoberta Menchú09 January 1959, Guatemalan
Activist,Politician,Author
Anita Roddick23 October 1942, British
Shirin Ebadi21 June 1947, Iranian
Human Rights Activist
Fazle Hasan Abed27 April 1936, Bangladeshi
Social Worker
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel26 November 1931, Argentinian
Human Rights Activist
Waleed Abulkhair17 June 1979, Saudi Arabian
Saudi Arabian lawyer
Julian Ozanne30 November 1965, Kenyan
Film Producer
Charles Perkins16 June 1936, Australian
Soccer player
Joan Chandos Baez09 January 1941, American
Singer
K. D. Lang02 November 1961, Canadian
Singer, Songwriter
Jane Elliott27 May 1933, American
Schoolteacher
Manisha Koirala16 August 1970, Indian, Nepalese
Actress
Nazanin Boniadi22 May 1980, Iranian, British, American
Actress
Van Jones20 September 1968, American
Motivational speaker
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
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Michelle Alexander07 October 1967, American
Lawyer
Jello Biafra17 June 1958, American
Singer, Actor, Human rights activist, Politician,
Q'orianka Kilcher11 February 1990, German
Actress
Maajid Nawaz02 November 1977, British
Activist
Shiva Rose08 February 1969, Iranian, American
Actress
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943, French, Russian
Writer, Dissident, Politician, Poet, Human rights
Gloria Allred03 July 1941, American
Attorney
Andrew Koenig17 August 1968, American
Actor
Lady Miss Kier15 August 1963, American
Singer
Zelda Rubinstein28 May 1933, American
Actress
Nadia Murad1993 AD, Iraqi
Human rights activist
Ella Baker13 December 1903, American
American activist
Roy Jenkins11 November 1920, British, Welsh
Politician
Jack Herer18 June 1939, American
Politician
Sugathakumari03 January 1934, Indian
Writer, Human rights activist, Children's writer
Ophelia Dahl12 May 1964, American
Human rights activist
Jacob M. Appel21 February 1973, American
Historian, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Medical
Denis Mukwege01 March 1955, Congolese
Gynecologist
Ramsey Clark18 December 1927, American
American lawyer
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926, Indian
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
Domenico Modugno09 January 1928, Italian
Singer, Actor, Politician, Human rights activist,
Geronimo Pratt13 September 1947, American
Civil rights advocate, Human rights activist,
Natan Sharansky20 January 1948, Israeli
Politician, Writer, Mathematician, Human rights
Bogd Khan1869 AD, Mongolian
Mongolian head of state
Chico Mendes15 December 1944, Brazilian
Brazilian environmentalist
Vladimir Bukovsky30 December 1942, Russian
Writer, Human rights activist
Asma Jahangir27 January 1952, Pakistani
Human rights activist, Lawyer
Charles W. Chesnutt20 June 1858, American
Author
Oodgeroo Noonuccal03 November 1920, Australian
Poet, Author, Human rights activist, Writer
Nasrin Sotoudeh30 May 1963, Iranian
Lawyer
Hussein-Ali Montazeri22 September 1922, Iranian
Writer
Jan Egeland12 September 1957, Norwegian
Diplomat
Randall Robinson06 July 1941, American
Lawyer
Frances Lear14 July 1923, American
Activist
Irwin Cotler08 May 1940, Canadian
Lawyer, Politician, Human rights activist,
Fang Lizhi12 February 1936, Chinese
Astrophysicist
Maziar Bahari25 May 1967, Canadian
Film director, Journalist, Human rights activist
Yitzhak Zuckerman13 December 1915, Israeli, Polish
Revolutionary
Natalya Estemirova28 February 1959, Russian
Human rights activist
Yuri Orlov13 August 1924, American
Physicist, Human rights activist, Nuclear
Anna Walentynowicz15 August 1929, Polish
Trade unionist
Maggie Kuhn03 August 1905, American
Activist
Chiara Lubich22 January 1920, Italian
Activist
Allan Boesak23 February 1946, South African
Clergyman
Charlotte Forten Grimké17 August 1837, American
Poet
Vann Nath07 January 1946, Cambodian
Painter
Fatima Meer12 August 1928, South African
Writer
Alison Des Forges20 August 1942, American
Historian
David Diop09 July 1927, French
Poet
Vladimir Korolenko27 July 1853, Ukrainian, Russian
Writer
Warren Kimbro29 April 1934, American
Activist
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge20 May 1872, American
Human Rights Activist
Moncure D. Conway17 March 1832, American
Writer
Alexander Ginzburg21 November 1936, Russian
Journalist
Alan Berkman04 September 1945, American
Physician
Sister Helen Prejean21 April 1939, American
Sister
Luis Kutner09 June 1908, American
Human rights activist
Willie Barrow07 December 1924, American
Clergywoman
Saad Eddin Ibrahim31 December 1938, Egyptian
Sociologist
Fannie Barrier Williams12 February 1855, American
Educator
Megan Leslie29 September 1973, Canadian
Politician, Human rights activist
Alfred Métraux05 November 1902, Argentinian, Swiss
Anthropologist
Tawakel Karman07 February 1979, Yemeni
Women's Rights Activist