- Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective. In addition, he holds an atheistic view of the world. - Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Newkirk (born July 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist, author, and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. She co-founded PETA in 1980 with American activist Alex Pacheco, and is the author of several books about animal liberation, including "Free the Animals", "You Can Save the Animals", and "Making Kind Choices", which has a foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. - Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer, known nationalist, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as immigration, Islam in France, miscegenation, … - Tom Regan
Tom Regan (born November 28, 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American philosopher and animal-rights activist. He is the author of four books on the philosophy of animal rights, including "The Case for Animal Rights", one of a handful of studies that have significantly influenced the animal-liberation movement. Regan argues that non-human animals are what he calls the subjects-of-a-life, just as humans are, and that, … - Paul Watson
Paul Watson (born December 2, 1950) is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is a significant, albeit controversial, figure in the environmental movement and the movement for animal rights. - Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham - June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and animal rights who influenced the development of liberalism. Bentham was one of the most influential utilitarians, partially through his writings but particularly through his students all around the world. - Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966). - Rod Coronado
Rodney Adam Coronado is an American eco-anarchist and animal rights activist who has been convicted of arson, conspiracy and other crimes in connection with his activism but now advocates non-violent action. He is an advocate and former activist for the Animal Liberation Front and a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front. - Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. Although at first she was best known for her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, she was later the author of several vegetarian cookbooks, a business entrepreneur, and professional photographer whose book "Linda McCartney's Sixties", written in association with poet and author Steve Turner, … - Jerry Vlasak
Jerry Vlasak is an American physician, animal rights activist, environmentalist, and press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. He is a member of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and a former member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's board of directors. Vlasak and his wife, former actress Pamelyn Ferdin, who is president of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty in the U.S., are also directors of the Animal Defense League. __TOC_ - Gary L. Francione
Professor Francione has been teaching animal rights and the law for more than 20 years, and he was the first academic to teach animal rights theory in an American law school. He has lectured on the topic throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, has served as a member of the guest faculty of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and has been a guest on numerous radio and television shows. - Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus (Pim) Fortuyn, (February 19, 1948 – May 6, 2002), was a controversial, openly gay, charismatic populistic right-wing politician in the Netherlands who formed his own party "Lijst Pim Fortuyn" (List Pim Fortuyn or LPF). He was assassinated during the 2002 Dutch national election campaign by animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf, … - Steven Best
Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American animal rights activist, author, talk-show host, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has been described as "one of the leading scholarly voices on animal rights." Best is co-founder of the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA), the first group dedicated to the philosophical discussion of animal liberation. - Imogen Bailey
Imogen Bailey is an Australian model, actress and singer. She is currently based in Sydney and is best known in her home country for her many appearances in the men's magazines "Ralph" and "FHM". In 2001, Bailey won the title of Australia’s sexiest model in "Ralph" and was said by the editor to be "winning by a large margin"." Imogen Bailey has also posed nude for "Playboy" and "Black+White" magazines, … - Bob Torres
Robert "Bob" Torres is the co-author, along with his wife Jenna Torres, of Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World. He is also currently working on another book Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, due out this fall. Bob and Jenna Torres produce a podcast about animal rights and veganism from their home in upstate New York. The podcast features the Torres' commentary, with the occasional guest, on vegan issues and culture. - Erik Marcus
Erik Marcus runs the website Vegan.com, which discusses veganism news, vegan topics of interest, animal rights and animal welfare through a bi-weekly podcast. Marcus has written two books; Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating and Meat Market: Animals, Ethics and Money . He currently resides in South Lake Tahoe, California. - Henry Spira
Henry Spira (June 19, 1927 - September 12, 1998) was a prominent animal rights activist, and architect of the movement in the United States to stop the use of animals in experiments. Though born in Antwerp, Belgium, he and his family, who were Jews, moved to America in 1940 (during the Second World War) to escape Nazism. - Barry Horne
Barry Horne (1952-November 5, 2001) was a British animal rights activist who died of liver failure in Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester in November 2001, following a series of four hunger strikes while serving an 18-year sentence for planting incendiary devices. Horne said his aim was to persuade the British government to hold a public inquiry into animal-testing practices in the UK, something the Labour Party had promised to do when it came to power in 1997. - Maneka Gandhi
Maneka Gandhi (born 26 August 1956 Monika Anand) is an Indian politician, an ardent animal rights activist, and a former journalist. She has been a Minister in four governments, and has authored a number of books in the areas of etymology, law and animal welfare. Maneka Gandhi is an estranged member of the Nehru-Gandhi Family. - Keith Mann
Keith Mann is a British animal rights campaigner. A senior activist for the Animal Liberation Front, Mann is widely regarded as a "cause célèbre" within the international animal liberation movement. - Steven M. Wise
Steven M. Wise (born 1952) is an American legal scholar who specializes in animal protection issues, primatology, and animal intelligence. He teaches animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is a former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and founder and president of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights. - Gene Baur
Gene Baur is co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America's leading farm animal protection organization. He holds a masters degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University and has conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses to document conditions. His pictures and videotape, exposing factory farming cruelty, have been aired nationally and internationally, educating millions. - Alex Pacheco
Alex Pacheco is an American animal rights activist, a co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 1982, shortly after founding PETA, and while still a student at George Washington University, Pacheco took a summer job as a volunteer at the Institute for Biological Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Dr. Edward Taub was conducting research into nerve regeneration, and had cut the sensory nerves in monkeys' fingers, hands, … - Gill Langley
Dr Gill Langley is a British scientist and writer who specialises in alternatives to animal testing, animal rights and animal protection issues in relation to the use of animals in research. She is the Science Director of the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, the UK's leading non-animal medical research charity, and one of the world's foremost experts on non-animal replacements. She is a former member of the British government's Animal Procedures Committee, … - James McCartney
James Louis McCartney was born on 12 September, 1977 in London to Paul McCartney of The Beatles and his first wife, rock photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney. He was named after both his paternal grandfather Jim McCartney and father Paul, (whose birth name is James Paul McCartney), as well as Linda's late mother, heiress Louise Linder Eastman. He is a musician, songwriter and sculptor, living in London, England. - Robin Webb
Robin Webb runs the Animal Liberation Press Office in the UK, which releases material to the media on behalf of animal rights activists operating as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the Animal Rights Militia (ARM), and the Justice Department. Webb was previously a member of the ruling council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), and a director of Animal Aid. - Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain. - Andrew Tyler
Andrew Tyler is the director of Animal Aid, the UK's largest animal rights organization. Tyler has been an animal rights campaigner and journalist for 30 years. - Jill Phipps
Jill Phipps (January 15, 1964 - February 1, 1995) was a British animal rights activist. She lived in Coventry, England. On 1 February 1995, Phipps was crushed to death under the wheels of a lorry carrying live baby veal calves into Coventry Airport in Baginton, England, to be flown to Amsterdam for distribution across Europe. - Ronnie Lee
Ronnie Lee (born 1951) is a British animal rights activist and the founder of the Animal Liberation Front. - Chris Derose
Chris DeRose (born June 28, 1948) in Brooklyn, New York is an animal rights activist and a former actor. He appeared on General Hospital, Cagney and Lacey, CHiPs, The Rockford Files and Baretta. He was an on camera reporter for the television shows Hard Copy and Inside Edition. DeRose is the founder and president of Last Chance for Animals and the author of the book "In Your Face: From Actor to Animal Activist". - Summer Cummings
Summer Cummings (born March 4, 1968, in Reno, Nevada) is an American pornographic actress. She makes a cameo appearance Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film, "Boogie Nights". Cummings is an animal rights activist. - Greg Avery
Greg Avery (born 1963), also known as Greg Jennings and Greg Harrison, is a British animal rights activist and co-founder of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a controversial animal-testing company with bases in Huntingdon, England, and New Jersey in the United States. __TOC_ - Vanessa Ferlito
Vanessa Ferlito (born December 28, 1980) is an American actress. Ferlito, an Italian American, was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents who owned a local hair salon. Her father died when she was three years old. Ferlito portrayed Claudia during "24"'s third season and had a small part in "Spider-Man 2", but she is mostly known for her role as Detective Aiden Burn on CSI: New York. Ferlito is a vegetarian, supporter of animal rights, … - Marianne Thieme
Marianne Louise Thieme (Ede, March 6 1972) is a Dutch politician, animal activist and publicist. She is the chairwoman and political leader of the Party for the Animals and a writer on animal rights. - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (b. March 28, 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson), an American residing in New Zealand, is the author of a number of books on a wide range of subjects. He has written extensively on animal rights philosophy, but is perhaps best-known for concluding that Sigmund Freud changed his mind early in his career about his "seduction theory:" the truth of the childhood sexual abuse many of his women patients alleged to have experienced, … - Roberta Kalechofsky
Roberta Kalechofsky (born May 11, 1931) is an American writer, feminist and animal rights activist, focusing on the issue of animal rights within Judaism and the promotion of vegetarianism within the Jewish community. She is the founder of Jews for Animal Rights and runs Micah Publications, which specializes in the publication of animal-rights and vegetarian literature. She is the author of "Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons" (2003), … - Steven Seagal
Steven Seagal is a movie star, mor specifically an action movie star. The public has long since stopped believing in the movie star as moral paragon, but an odd residue of affectionate respect clings to action stars, probably because they're men of brawn-over-brain, seemingly incapable of the treachery, duplicity, and calculation associated with intelligence. Action heroes, whatever their personal flaws, benefit more than other movie stars from the mythical figures they portray. - John Feldmann
John Feldmann, also goes by Feldy is an American musician and producer who sings with the band Goldfinger. He is known as an animal rights advocate and supporter of the Animal Liberation Front. __TOC_ - Juliet Gellatley
Juliet Gellatley is a British writer and animal rights activist. She is the founder and director of Viva! and former director of the Vegetarian Society. She is also one of the founding directors of The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation along with Tony Benn and Tony Wardle. She is the author of "The Livewire Guide to Going, Being and Staying Veggie!", "The Silent Ark: A Chilling Expose of Meat - The Global Killer", …
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