- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962) was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition.
- Henry Dunant
Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 in Geneva - October 30, 1910 in Heiden), also known as "Henry Dunant" or "Henri Dunant", was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book "A Memory of Solferino" which became the inspiration for the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
- Jakob Kellenberger
Jakob Kellenberger is a Swiss diplomat and the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He studied French and Spanish literature as well as linguistics in Zürich, Tours and Granada and gained a doctorate from the University of Zürich. Later, he was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. In 1974, he started his diplomatic career with a position in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
- Cornelio Sommaruga
Cornelio Sommaruga (* December 29, 1932 in Rome) is a prominent Swiss humanitarian, lawyer and diplomat who is best known for being President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 1987 to 1999. Today, he chairs the International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) in Geneva. He is also active on a number of boards, such as the International Cancer Foundation.
- Edith Cavell
Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865-October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for allegedly helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide.
- Manadel Al-Jamadi
Manadel Jamadi was an Iraqi prisoner who was tortured to death in United States custody during interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison in November 2003. His name became known in 2004 when the Abu Ghraib scandal made news; his corpse, packed in ice, was the background for widely-reprinted pictures of grinning United States Army Specialists Sabrina Harman and Charles Graner, each offering a "thumbs-up" gesture. But the cause of his death was not generally known until February 17, …
- Gustave Moynier
Gustave Moynier (September 21, 1826 - August 21, 1910) was a Swiss Jurist who was active in many charitable organizations in Geneva. He was a co-founder of the "International Committee for Relief to the Wounded", which became the International Committee of the Red Cross after 1876. In 1864 he took over the position of President of the Committee from Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and he was also a major rival of the founder Henry Dunant.
- Enzo Baldoni
Enzo G. Baldoni was an Italian journalist working freelance and for the Italian news magazine "Diario". He was kidnapped near Najaf, Iraq, on August 21 2004, by the "Islamic Army in Iraq," a Muslim fundamentalist terrorist organization, allegedly linked with Al-Qaeda. The Islamic Army released a videotape, aired on August 24 by Al Jazeera, in which it requested the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq in 48 hours.
- Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed to his current position in the second cabinet Stoltenberg on 17 October 2005. Mr. Gahr Støre belongs to the Norwegian Labour Party. He attended Berg School in Oslo followed by naval officer training at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. He later studied political science at the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (best known as Sciences Po) in Paris, …
- Marcel Junod
Marcel Junod (May 14, 1904 - June 16, 1961) was a Swiss doctor and one of the most accomplished field delegates in the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). After medical school and a short position as a surgeon in Mulhouse, France, he became an ICRC delegate and was deployed in Ethiopia during the Abyssinian war, in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and in Europe as well as in Japan during World War II. In 1947, …
- George Reid
The Rt. Hon. George Newlands Reid, (born 4 June 1939) was the second Presiding Officer (Speaker) of the Scottish Parliament.
- Guillaume Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour (15 September 1787, Konstanz - 14 July 1875, Geneva) was a Swiss general and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and led the Swiss forces to victory against the Sonderbund. He presided over the first Geneva convention which established the International Red Cross. He was the most famous president of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography from 1838 to 1865. The Dufourspitze (the highest mountain in Switzerland) of Monte Rosa massif is named for him.
- Philippe Kirsch
Philippe Kirsch QC is a Canadian lawyer and has been President of the International Criminal Court and a judge in its Appeals Division since March 2003. Judge Kirsch is member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and of the Canadian Council on International Law and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988. He has extensive experience in the process of the establishment of the International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
- Peter Adams
William Peter Adams, PC, BA, M.Sc, Ph.D (born April 17, 1936 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian politician, and a former Liberal Member of Canada's House of Commons. He was a Member of Parliament from 1993 until 2005, representing the riding of Peterborough in eastern Ontario. Previously, Adams represented the provincial riding of Peterborough in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990, sitting as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.
- Henry P. Davison
Henry Pomeroy Davison (June 12, 1867 in Troy, Pennsylvania - May 6, 1922 in Locust Valley, New York) was an American banker and philanthropist. The oldest of the four children of George B. and Henrietta Davison, Henry's mother died when he was just eight years old. After completing his education he became a bookkeeper in a bank managed by one of his relatives, and at age 21 he gained employment at a bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the hometown of his wife Kate Trubee.
- Bun Rany
Bun Rany is the First Lady of Cambodia, wife of Samdech Hun Sen and head of the Cambodian Red Cross.
- Basil O'Connor
Basil O'Connor (January 8, 1892 Taunton, Massachusetts - March 8, 1972) was an American lawyer. In co-operation with US-President Franklin D. Roosevelt he started two foundations for the rehabiltation of polio patients and the research on polio prevention and treatment. From 1944 to 1949 he was Chairman and President of the American Red Cross and from 1945 to 1950 he was Chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies.
- Tommy Armour
Thomas Dickson Armour (September 24, 1894 - September 12, 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. (Birth year sometimes listed as 1895.) He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. During his service in the World War I he rose from a private to Staff Major in the Tank Corps. His conduct earned him an audience with George V. However, …
- Farabundo Martí
Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez was a revolutionary in El Salvador. Early on, he worked with Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Augusto César Sandino, although they broke over political disagreements. Farabundo Marti, a communist, with the Socorro Rojo Internacional, led a communist alternative to the Red Cross. In 1932, they helped start a guerrilla revolt of indigenous campesinos.
- John Barton Payne
John Barton Payne (January 26, 1855 - January 24, 1935) was United States Secretary of the Interior from 1920 through 1921 under Woodrow Wilson. Born in Pruntytown, in what is now West Virginia, Payne was an attorney and longtime Chicago Democratic politician. Admitted to the bar in 1876 in West Virginia, Payne entered politics five years later as the chairman of the Preston County Democratic Party. He moved to Chicago in 1883, and was elected as a local judge in 1893.
- Norman Davis
Norman Davis was in 1878 in Bedford in Tennessee and died in 1944. He served as President Wilson's Assistant Secretary of Treasury and later as Undersecretary of State. He was a delegate to a General Disarmament Conference in Geneva in 1931. He was the President of the of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from 1938 to 1944.
- William Stevenson
William Edwards Stevenson (October 25, 1900 - April 2, 1985) was an American athlete, lawyer and diplomat, who won the gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics and later served as president of Oberlin College. At the Paris Olympics, Stevenson ran the last leg in the American 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3.16.0. His teammates were C. S. Cochrane, Alan Helffrich and J. O. MacDonald.
- Rudolf Seiters
Rudolf Seiters, born October 13, 1937 in Osnabrück, Germany is a German politician of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party. From 1989-1991 he was Federal Minister for Special Affairs and the Head of the Office of the German Chancellery. From 1991-1993 he was the Minister of the Interior. From 1998-2002 he was the Vice President of the German Bundestag, or Parliament. Since 2003 he has been the President of the German Red Cross.
- Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir<br><small>(Source: www.redcross.int)</small>; Dr. Théodore Maunoir (June 1, 1806 - April 26, 1869) was a Swiss surgeon and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Théodore Maunoir was born to a wealthy family of doctors in Geneva. Following family tradition he studied medicine in England and France and gained his doctorate in surgery in 1833.
- Sam Younger
Sam Younger is the chairman of the United Kingdom Electoral Commission. He was previously managing director of the BBC World Service from 1994 to 1998, and chief executive of the British Red Cross from 1999 to 2001. He is also chair of the governing body of the University of Sussex and chairman of the Board of QAA. Sam is the son of Kenneth Younger, a Labour Minister under Clement Attlee.
- Henry Cotton
Sir Henry Thomas Cotton (26 January, 1907 - 22 December, 1987) was a prominent British golfer of the 1930s and 1940s. Henry Cotton was born in Cheshire. he started his career as a professional golfer at the age of 17, and was known for working extremely hard at his game, often practising until his hands bled. He achieved fame during the Great Depression years with three victories in the British Open (1934, 1937, and 1948).
- Lisa Foiles
Lisa Renee Foiles (born September 29, 1986) is an actress from Spokane, Washington. She and her family moved to Riverside, California when she was 12. Foiles is best known for her work on Nickelodeon's "All That" which she joined in 2001. Besides "All That", Foiles has guest starred on "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Even Stevens". In addition, Lisa appeared on the April 8, 2002 edition of "The 700 Club".
- John MacAulay
John Alexander MacAulay CC (1895 - June 11, 1978) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and a volunteer worker in the Canadian Red Cross Society. Born in Morden, Manitoba, he obtained his LL.B. from the University of Manitoba in 1918 while serving in the Canadian Medical Corps. He was a partner at the Manitoba law firm of Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson and specialized in tax law.
- Antoine Depage
Antoine Depage (Bosvoorde, 1862-Den Haag, 10 August 1925), was a Belgian surgeon; founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross. He maried Marie Picard in 1893, but his wife dies when on 7 May 1915 the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. He studied medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and graduated magna cum laude in 1887. He became one of the founders and the first secretary of the International Surgical Society (1902-1912).
- Florence Melton
Florence Zacks Melton (November 6, 1911 - February 8, 2007) was an American inventor known for innovating the foam-soled and washable slipper.
- Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was a Polish writer and journalist, and a Holocaust survivor. Tadeusz Borowski was born in 1922 into the Polish community in Zhytomir, Ukraine, then part of the USSR. His parents became victims of the USSR spy-hunting psychosis. In 1926, his father, whose bookstore had been nationalized by the communists, was sent to a gulag in Karelia. His mother was arrested later the same year and sent to a gulag in Siberia, …
- Margaret Davies
Margaret Sidney Davies (December 14 1884 - March 13 1963), was a granddaughter of the philanthropist David Davies Llandinam. She and her elder sister Gwendoline became famous as patrons of the arts in Wales. Like her sister Gwen, Margaret was born at Llandinam and educated at Highfield School in Hendon. They and their brother David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, were the children of Edward Davies, the only son of David Davies Llandinam.
- Karl Gebhardt
Karl Gebhardt was a German medical doctor; personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. Gebhardt was born in Haag in Oberbayern, Bavaria. In 1919, he took up studies in medicine in Munich. He habilitated in 1935 and got a post as associate professor in Berlin the next year. As of 1937, he held a chair of orthopedic surgery.
- Robert Bárány
Robert Bárány was an Austrian physician of Hungarian-Jewish descent. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Bárány was born in Vienna. He attended medical school at Vienna University, graduating in 1900. As a doctor in Vienna, Bárány was syringing fluid into the inner ear of a patient to relieve the patient's dizzy spells.
- Anders Nordström
Anders Nordström is a Swedish physician who served as Acting Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 22 May 2006 to 8 November 2006. Nordström trained as a phyisician at Karolinska Institutet and has experience in the field of national and international health policy and planning and strategic leadership. Nordström worked with the Swedish Red Cross in Cambodia and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iran.
- William T. Young
William T. Young (February 15, 1918 - January 12, 2004) was an American businessman and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses. William T. Young attended the University of Kentucky where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Young graduated with high distinction in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. After a short employment with Bailey Meter in Cleveland, Ohio, he served as a captain in the United States Army from 1941-45.
- Cary Travers Grayson
Cary Travers Grayson (11 October 1878 - 15 February 1938) was a surgeon in the United States Navy who served a variety of roles from personal aide to President Woodrow Wilson, to chairman of the American Red Cross. Grayson was born in Culpeper, Virginia. After completing his medical studies, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon, USN, 14 July 1903. A variety of posts led Grayson to Washington, …
- Diana Rowden
Diana Hope Rowden (January 31, 1915 - July 6, 1944) was an Special Operations Executive (SOE) member who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
- Claire Adams
Claire Adams (Mackinnon) (24 September 1896 - 25 September 1978) was a film actress and benefactor.
- Gerald Haxton
Frederick Gerald Haxton (1892 - 1944) a native of San Francisco was the long term secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham. He and Maugham met at the outbreak of World War I when they both began serving from 1914 as part of the Red Cross ambulance unit in Flanders, France. Maugham and to a lesser extent Haxton had been affected by the trial of Oscar Wilde.