Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

female, 64 years old
The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, Buddhist, Nobel Peace Prize, National League for Democracy, democracy activist, politician…Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Sakharov Prize, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, OlofPalmePrizelaureate, Rafto Prize
Aung San Suu Kyi ; born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in...
Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng

male, 59 years old
Bejing, Communist Party of China, Cultural Revolution, Red Guard, OlofPalmePrizelaureate, Democracy Wall…Recipient of the Sakharov Prize
Wei Jingsheng (born May 20, 1950) is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document, "Fifth...

Václav Havel

male, 73 years old
Erasmus Prize winner, OlofPalmePrizelaureate, Prince of Asturias Award winner, From Prague, President of Czechoslovakia, President of the Czech Republic…Karlspreis laureate
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (...
Fazle Hasan Abed

Fazle Hasan Abed

male, 73 years old
bangladeshi, Ramon Magsaysay Award, OlofPalmePrizelaureate, UNDP, brac, founder…Olof
Fazle Hasan Abed is a Bangladeshi social worker, and the founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For his...
Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan

male, 71 years old
fraternal twin, Recipient of the Star of Romania Order, Sloan Fellow, Nobel Peace Prize, Junior Chamber International, Kofi Atta Annan…OlofPalmePrizelaureate, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Annan must also be commended for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and for his sustained advocacy to increase access to drugs...
Cyril Ramaphosa

Cyril Ramaphosa

male, 57 years old
South African, Anti-Apartheid activist, apartheid, Gauteng Province, National Party, Soweto…OlofPalmePrizelaureate
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African lawyer, trade union leader, activist, politician and businessman. He was born in Soweto, near...

Veran Matić

male, 47 years old
journalist, serbian, B92, OlofPalmePrizelaureate
Veran Matić, born in 1962, is the Chief Executive Officer of B92.
Hans Blix

Hans Blix

male, 81 years old (Uppsala, Sweden)
weapons of mass destruction, From Uppsala, politician, Uppsala University alumni, Swedish Liberal Party politician, Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge…OlofPalmePrizelaureate
Dr Hans Blix , the former Foreign Minister of Sweden, was most recently the head of the UN's weapons inspection team in Iraq. Before that, from...
Hanan Ashrawi

Hanan Ashrawi

female, 63 years old
First Intifada, Palestinian Christian, Palestinian Legislative Council, earlham college, University of Virginia alumni, Ph.D.…OlofPalmePrizelaureate
Hanan Ashrawi is currently the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She was...
Harlem Désir

Harlem Désir

male, 50 years old
graduate of Claude Monet, Revelation$, OlofPalmePrizelaureate, Île-de-France, Party of European Socialist, Member of the European Parliament
Harlem Désir is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of th...