Malcolm X19 May 1925, American
Activist
Hillary Clinton26 October 1947, American
Former First Lady, Political Leader
Kerry Kennedy08 September 1959, American
Human rights activist
Amal Clooney03 February 1978, Lebanese, British
Lawyer, Activist
Joan Chandos Baez09 January 1941, American
Singer
Zack de la Rocha12 January 1970, American
Martin Luther King III23 October 1957, American
Activist
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Michael Bolton26 February 1953, American
Singer, Songwriter
Mike Farrell06 February 1939, American
Actor
K. D. Lang02 November 1961, Canadian
Singer, Songwriter
Laurie Holden17 December 1969, American
Actress
Bianca Jagger02 May 1945, Nicaraguan, British
Actress
Melissa Mathison03 June 1950, American
Screenwriter
Jorja Fox07 July 1968, American
Actress
Ai Weiwei28 August 1957, Chinese
Artist
Graça Machel17 October 1945, Mozambican
Politician
Liu Xiaobo28 December 1955, Chinese
Chinese Human Rights Activist
Anita Roddick23 October 1942, British
Rigoberta Menchú09 January 1959, Guatemalan
Activist,Politician,Author
Alan Lomax31 January 1915, American
Folklorist
Shirin Ebadi21 June 1947, Iranian
Human Rights Activist
Charles Perkins16 June 1936, Australian
Soccer player
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
Van Jones20 September 1968, American
Motivational speaker
Manisha Koirala16 August 1970, Indian, Nepalese
Actress
Nazanin Boniadi22 May 1980, Iranian, British, American
Actress
Ramsey Clark18 December 1927, American
American lawyer
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Q'orianka Kilcher11 February 1990, German
Actress
Jello Biafra17 June 1958, American
Singer, Actor, Human rights activist, Politician,
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
Andrew Young Jr.12 March 1932, American
Politician
Ophelia Dahl12 May 1964, American
Human rights activist
Lady Miss Kier15 August 1963, American
Singer
Mangosuthu Buthelezi27 August 1928, South African
Politician
Maajid Nawaz02 November 1977, British
Activist
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943, French, Russian
Writer, Dissident, Politician, Poet, Human rights
Ella Baker13 December 1903, American
American activist
Jane Elliott27 May 1933, American
Schoolteacher
Andrew Koenig17 August 1968, American
Actor
Opal Tometi15 August 1984, American
Activist
Gloria Allred03 July 1941, American
Attorney
Nadia Murad1993 AD, Iraqi
Human rights activist
Teji Bachchan12 August 1914, Indian
Human rights activist
Zelda Rubinstein28 May 1933, American
Actress
Frances Lear14 July 1923, American
Activist
Sugathakumari03 January 1934, Indian
Writer, Human rights activist, Children's writer
Iris Chang28 March 1968, American
Journalist
Sister Helen Prejean21 April 1939, American
Sister
Roy Jenkins11 November 1920, British, Welsh
Politician
Geronimo Pratt13 September 1947, American
Civil rights advocate, Human rights activist,
Shiva Rose08 February 1969, Iranian, American
Actress
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926, Indian
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
Bogd Khan1869 AD, Mongolian
Mongolian head of state
Walter Reuther01 September 1907, American
Politician
Jack Herer18 June 1939, American
Politician
Michelle Alexander07 October 1967, American
Lawyer
Melissa Chen1985 AD, Singaporean
Journalist
Walter Sisulu18 May 1912, South African
Activist
Denis Mukwege01 March 1955, Congolese
Gynecologist
Natan Sharansky20 January 1948, Israeli
Politician, Writer, Mathematician, Human rights
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst22 September 1880, British
Militant
Domenico Modugno09 January 1928, Italian
Singer, Actor, Politician, Human rights activist,
Tawakel Karman07 February 1979, Yemeni
Women's Rights Activist
Chiara Lubich22 January 1920, Italian
Activist
Shirley Graham Du Bois11 November 1896, Ghanaian, American
Author
Chico Mendes15 December 1944, Brazilian
Brazilian environmentalist
Nasrin Sotoudeh30 May 1963, Iranian
Lawyer
Asma Jahangir27 January 1952, Pakistani
Human rights activist, Lawyer
Sarah Hegazi22 May 1989, Egyptian
Human rights activist
Warren Kimbro29 April 1934, American
Activist
Marina Picasso14 November 1950, French
Humanitarian
Serge Klarsfeld17 September 1935, French
Political activist
Charles W. Chesnutt20 June 1858, American
Author
Vladimir Bukovsky30 December 1942, Russian
Writer, Human rights activist
Esma Redžepova08 August 1943, Macedonian
Vocalist
Hussein-Ali Montazeri22 September 1922, Iranian
Writer
Jacob M. Appel21 February 1973, American
Historian, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Medical
Oodgeroo Noonuccal03 November 1920, Australian
Poet, Author, Human rights activist, Writer
Noura Erakat16 January 1980, Palestinian, American
Human rights activist
Peter Benenson31 July 1921, British
Lawyer
Charlotte Forten Grimké17 August 1837, American
Poet
Jan Egeland12 September 1957, Norwegian
Diplomat
Manning Marable13 May 1950, American
Scholar
Yuri Orlov13 August 1924, American
Physicist
Bun Rany15 December 1954, Cambodian
Nurse
Hanna Gabriel14 January 1983, Costa Rican
Boxer
Epsy Campbell Barr04 July 1963, Costa Rican
Politician
Roy Campbell02 October 1901, South African
Poet
Ed Roberts23 January 1939, American
American disability rights activist
Zineb El Rhazoui19 January 1982, French, Moroccan
Journalist