Lee C. Bollinger is an American lawyer and educator who is currently serving as the 19th president of Columbia University. Formerly the president of the University of Michigan, he is a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech. He was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action in admissions processes.

Giuseppe Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born July 21, 1948), is an Italian comedian and actor, who also works in theatres and television.

Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. She has a weekly program entitled "In Bed with Susie Bright" distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics.

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7 1885 - February 8 1957) was an American lawyer, academic and civil libertarian. An advocate for free speech, he was described by Sen. Joe McCarthy as "dangerous" to the United States. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he graduated from Brown University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, in 1907. Later, he received a law degree from Harvard University, completing his LL.B. in 1913.

Martin "Marty" S. Lederman is a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches various courses in constitutional law. He regularly contributes to the weblogs SCOTUSblog and Balkinization, including on matters relating to Executive power, detention, interrogation, civil liberties, and torture. Lederman was an Attorney Advisor in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel from 1994 to 2002, …

Christopher S. M. Kempling, Psy.D. is an educator and counsellor in British Columbia, Canada, whose suspension for voicing his opinions about homosexuality became the center of a controversy concerning minority rights and freedom of speech.

Chiang Ching-kuo (April 27<sup>1&lt;/sup>, 1910 – January 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son of President Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (ROC). He succeeded his father to power, serving as Premier of the Republic of China from 1972 to 1978, and President of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988. Under his tenure, the government of the Republic of China, …

Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter.

Charles Schenck was an American socialist, the Secretary of a local of the Socialist Party of America. He is notable for his involvement in the 1919 court case "Schenck v. United States". Schenck had been indicted and tried for distributing 15,000 subversive leaflets to prospective military draftees during World War I. The leaflets urged the potential draftees to refuse to serve if drafted, on the grounds that it constituted "involuntary servitude", …

Melville Bernard Nimmer (1923-1985) was an American lawyer and law professor, renowned as an expert in freedom of speech and United States copyright law. Nimmer graduated from UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the California State Bar in January 1951. He was professor at the UCLA School of Law from 1962. One year later, he published the two-volume treatise that would become the definitive text on copyright law, "Nimmer on Copyright." In 1984, …

Mohammad Mokhtari (?-Dec. 1998) was a secular Iranian writer who was murdered on the outskirts of Tehran in the course of the Chain Murders of Iran. His murder was initially blamed on a foreign "network". Later, blame was placed upon "rogue elements" in the intelligence ministry.. In 1994, he had signed a manifesto demanding freedom of speech.

Gustave de Molinari was a Belgian-born economist associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Throughout his life, together with the other "Économistes", Molinari defended peace, free trade, freedom of speech, freedom of association (including voluntary trade unions), and liberty in all its forms, and opposed slavery, colonialism, mercantilism, protectionism, imperialism, nationalism, corporatism, …

Janez Janša in Ljubljana is a Slovenian politician and head of the Slovenian Democratic Party since 1995. He has been the Prime Minister of Slovenia since he was elected by Parliament on November 9, 2004. Janša graduated from the University of Ljubljana with a degree in defence studies in 1982, and became a trainee in the Defence Secretariat. In his younger years, Janša was a member of the League of Communists and one of the leaders of its youth wing.

David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a Master's degree and a Ph.D. (1984) in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Touretzky has worked as an Internet activist in favor of freedom of speech, …

Swedish-born photographer Christer, AKA Christer Rosewell, specializes in fine art and erotic images, exploring the human condition through the medium of photography. His images evoke the deep-seated and often hidden fears and fantasies of his subjects, compelling both model and viewer to explore aspects of themselves of which they may have previously been unaware. Christer's work has been influenced by his life experiences.

Scott Norvell is a blogger and columnist for the Fox News Website, having run a column there since 2001. Norvell's blog and column at Fox News, entitled "Tongue Tied", details incidences of what he considers extreme "political correctness". He is also the primary author of the former website www.tonguetied.us which deals with similar issues of language use, American politics and international politics.

Anthony Wentworth, born c.1982, in London, England, was a member of the British National Party. He studied politics at the University of Salford, although this has been an issue of controversy for the University due to the BNP's affiliation with the far-right. Tony Wentworth caused outrage on the University of Salford's campus in 2003 when students became aware of his political standpoint and membership with the BNP.

Zhu Xueqin (b. 1952) is a Shanghai-based Chinese historian and public intellectual.

Jos Verhulst (b. 29 May 1949, Londerzeel, Belgium) is a Belgian chemist (PhD in theoretical chemistry earned at the University of Leuven). He was a teacher at the Steiner School in Antwerp, an associate researcher at the Louis Bolk Institute in Driebergen, a writer and a direct democracy activist. He is married and has four children. His work was published in the areas of evolutionary theory and comparative anatomy, such as "Psychological Reports", …

Sir James Pickering (d. c. 1398) was Speaker of the English Parliament in 1378 (which met in Gloucester) and again from 1382 to 1383. The protestation which, as Speaker, he made for freedom of speech, and declaring the loyalty of the Commons, was recorded in the rolls for the first time (Rolls of Parliament, iii. 34 b). He was knight for the shire of Westmorland in 1363 and 1369. On 20 Dec 1368 he was commissioner of array in Westmorland, …

Richard Marsden Pankhurst (May, 1834 - July 5, 1898) was the son of Henry Francis Pankhurst (1806-1873) and Margaret Marsden (1803-1879). He was born in Stoke but spent most of his life in Manchester and London. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Owens College of Manchester. In 1858 he graduated BA from the University of London and in 1859 was awarded LLB with Honours. In 1863 he graduated LLD with gold medal.

Niyi Osundare (born in 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. He gained degrees at the University of Ibadan (BA), the University of Leeds (MA) and York University, Canada (PhD, 1979). Previously professor (from 1989) and Head of English (1993-1997) at the University of Ibadan, he became professor of English at the University of New Orleans in 1997.

Péter Molnár is a Hungarian academic and intellectual, working on questions related to communication law and freedom of speech. Molnár graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest in 1987. From 1990 to 1998, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament, where he sat on the committees on culture and press and on the constitution. In 1999 and 2000 he was a Fulbright fellow at Cardozo School of Law, at Columbia Law School, …

Gerhard Buchwald, born 15 February 1920, is a German medical doctor specialized in internal medicine and pulmonology. Buchwald studied medicine in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), Danzig (now Gdansk) und Jena und obtained his doctorate at Hamburg university. From 1970 to 1982 he was senior physician at the "Klinik Franken" of the "Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte" in Bad Steben, Germany, …

Pratiba Naitthani is an Indian professor and activist. She is known for opposing vulgarity and violence on Indian televisions. [ The correct spelling of her name is PRATIBA NAITTHANI] Born in Mumbai,her family hails from Pauri Garhwal,Uttarakhand, Pratiba Natthani is currently based in Mumbai. She currently teaches political science at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Her father Professor Dr. Shahi Shekar Naitthani founded St. Xavier's Hindi department.

Patrice Kayo is an African scholar, poet, and author born in 1942 in Bandjoun, West Province, Cameroon. He is also known for his radical opposition to Paul Biya's political regime, and his advocacy for freedom of speech and human rights. He served as chairman of the National Association of Poets and Writers of Cameroon from 1969 to 1981, and was one of the founders of the International Federation of French-speaking Writers established in 1982 in Quebec, Canada.

; in the Shogunate's elite "Denshūtai" unit. Numa fought on the Tokugawa side in the Boshin War. Following the Meiji Restoration, after a brief period in prison, he was released due to a favor he had once done for Itagaki Taisuke, and was hired by the new Meiji government as an infantry warfare instructor for the Tosa domain. He also taught English in Tōkyō. Among his students were Takamine Hideo and Shiba Shiro, …

Abdullahi Ali Hiirad (born in Jowhar, Somalia, grew up in Mogadishu, Somalia) was the founder of the first Somali Civil Society Organisation during the civil war. He promotes independent newspapers and the freedom of speech in Mogadishu.