Muhammad Ali17 January 1942, American
Malcolm X19 May 1925, American
Activist
Martin Luther King Jr.15 January 1929, American
Civil Rights Activist
Ben Shapiro15 January 1984, American
Political Commentator, Public Speaker
Woody Harrelson23 July 1961, American
Actor, Activist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Noam Chomsky07 December 1928, American
Linguist
Mark Ruffalo22 November 1967, American
Actor
Julian Assange03 July 1971, Australian, Ecuadorian
Computer programmer
Nathuram Godse19 May 1910, Indian
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
Kim Seok-jin04 December 1992, South Korean
Singer
Frederick Douglass01 February 1818, American
American orator
Bob Geldof05 October 1951, Irish
Singer
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29 November 1908, American
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
Thomas Paine29 January 1737, British, American
Founding Father of the United States
W. E. B. Du Bois23 February 1868, Ghanaian
Civil Rights Activists
Zack de la Rocha12 January 1970, American
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.17 January 1954, American
Environment Activist & Attorney
Arvind Kejriwal16 August 1968, Indian
Anti Corruption Activist, Politician
Michael Moore23 April 1954, American
Documentary Filmmaker
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Mike Farrell06 February 1939, American
Actor
James Baldwin02 August 1924, American
Novelist
Jeffrey Wright07 December 1965, American
Actor
Harvey Milk22 May 1930, American
Ronan Farrow19 December 1987, American
Journalist, Activist, Human Rights Lawyer
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Garry Kasparov13 April 1963, Russian
Chess Player
Clayton Kershaw19 March 1988, American
Baseball Pitcher
George Takei20 April 1937, American
Actor, Activist
Cesar Chavez31 March 1927, American
Civil Rights Activist
Russell Simmons04 October 1957, American
Founder of the hip-hop music label Def Jam
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Gary Burghoff24 May 1943, American
Actor
Michael Bolton26 February 1953, American
Singer, Songwriter
Serj Tankian21 August 1967, Lebanese, American
Singer-songwriter
Rick Harrison22 March 1965, American
Businessman
Ralph Nader27 February 1934, American
Political Activist, Attorney
Jason Ralph07 April 1986, American
Actor
Will Estes21 October 1978, American
Actor
Joshua Wong13 October 1996, Chinese, Hong Konger
Political Activist
Jesse Jackson08 October 1941, American
Civil Rights Activist
Ryan White06 December 1971, American
Kailash Satyarthi11 January 1954, Indian
Child Rights Activist
Burt Ward06 July 1945, American
Actor
Paul Robeson09 April 1898, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Abbie Hoffman30 November 1936, American
Anti-War Activist
Dennis Weaver04 June 1924, American
Actor
Daniel Ellsberg07 April 1931, American
Activist
Medgar Evers02 July 1925, American
William O. Douglas16 October 1898, American
Former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Stokely Carmichael29 June 1941, Guinean, Trinidadian, American
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
Steve Biko18 December 1946, South African
Anti-apartheid Activist
Jerry Falwell11 August 1933, American
Pastor
Sean Pertwee04 June 1964, British
Actor
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark26 May 1968, Danish
Eldest Son of Queen of Denmark Margrethe II
Ai Weiwei28 August 1957, Chinese
Artist
Rick Santorum10 May 1958, American
American Politician, Attorney
Matt McGorry12 April 1986, American
Actor
Mario Vargas Llosa28 March 1936, Peruvian
Writer
Will Geer09 March 1902, American
Actor
Saul Alinsky30 January 1909, American
Community Organizer
Zbigniew Brzezinski28 March 1928, Polish, American
Former Diplomat, Political Scientist
Olaudah Equiano1745 AD, Cental African
Anti Slavery Activist
Alexei Navalny04 June 1976, Russian
Lawyer
Solomon Northup10 July 1807, American
Author
Tom Hayden11 December 1939, American
Political Activist
Anjem Choudary18 January 1967, British
Political Activist
Liu Xiaobo28 December 1955, Chinese
Chinese Human Rights Activist
David Suzuki24 March 1936, Canadian
Academic, Enviromental Activist
Martin Luther King III23 October 1957, American
Activist
William Lloyd Garrison12 December 1805, American
Abolitionist
Fazle Hasan Abed27 April 1936, Bangladeshi
Social Worker
Anna Hazare15 June 1937, Indian
Lyndon LaRouche08 September 1922, American
Political Activist
Jacob Riis03 May 1849, American
Irenaeus0130 AD, Turkish, Ancient Roman
Bishop
Sean Hepburn Ferrer17 July 1960, Swiss
Film Producer
Baba Amte26 December 1914, Indian
Dashiell Hammett27 May 1894, American
Novelist
Giuseppe Mazzini22 June 1805, Italian
Ryan Merriman10 April 1983, American
Actor
Ron Silver02 July 1946, American
Actor
Juan Manuel Santos10 August 1951, Colombian
President of Colombia
Zach Callison23 October 1997, American
Actor
Benjamin Spock02 May 1903, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
Quinton Aaron15 August 1984, American
Actor
Ron Kovic04 July 1946, American
Anti-War Activist
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Novelist
Michael Franti21 April 1966, American
Musician, Musician, Peace Activist
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Benjamin Banneker09 November 1731, American
Compiler of Almanacs
Mahadev Govind Ranade18 January 1842, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Henry Dunant08 May 1828, Swiss
Founder of the Red Cross
E. G. Marshall18 June 1914, American
Actor
A. Philip Randolph15 April 1889, American
Leader of the African-American civil-rights