John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

male, deceased (1968)
From Salinas, California, Cinema of the United States, Academy Award for Best Story, Dust Bowl, nomination for Best Story, Stanford University alumni…migrantworker
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A...
César Chávez

César Chávez

male, deceased (1993)
vegan, Chicano, Mexican-American history, nonviolence, Roman Catholic, activist…migrantworker, United Farm Worker
César Estrada Chávez was a Mexican American (Chicano) farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Wo...
Wang Binyu

Wang Binyu

male, deceased (2005)
Muslim, capital punishment, executed, migrantworker, hui, gansu…migrant labourer
Wang Binyu (April 30, 1977 - October 19, 2005), was a Chinese migrant labourer executed for murder in China in 2005. His case attracted some...
Patrick Chamusso

Patrick Chamusso

male
coal-to-oil, Umkhonto we Sizwe, refinery, mining, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, tortured…migrantworker
Patrick Chamusso (born in 1949 in Mozambique) is a former political prisoner, freedom fighter/terrorist and member of the African National Congress...
Willie E. Gary

Willie E. Gary

male, 62 years old
African American, migrantworker, Disneyland, Anheuser-Busch
Willie E. Gary is a Senior Partner in the law firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando. He was born in Eastman, GA. His family...
Columba Bush

Columba Bush

female, 56 years old
Jeb Bush, Jr., U.S. Customs, From Leon, Guanajuato, Laredo Morning Times, tax evader, León, Guanajuato…migrantworker
Columba Bush is the wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the sister-in-law of President George W. Bush. Bush was born as Columba Garnica...
Raj Chouhan

Raj Chouhan

male
Indo-Canadian, Canadian, Raj R. S. Chouhan, British Columbia New Democratic Party, British Columbia MLA, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia…migrantworker
Raj Chouhan was elected as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds on May 17, 2005. Raj serves as Opposition Critic for Mental Health. Born in the Punjab...
Gaddi Vasquez

Gaddi Vasquez

male
Hispanics in the United States, governor, senate, hispanic, migrantworker, Peace Corps director
Ambassador Gaddi Holguin Vasquez (born January 22 1955) is the 8th United States Representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
Louis Carlet

Louis Carlet

male, 43 years old
yomiuri shimbun, Trade unions of Japan, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Japan Times, foreign worker, March in March…National Union of General Worker, migrantworker
Louis Carlet is the Deputy Secretary General of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu (Tokyo South), a union representing foreign...
T-Bone Slim

T-Bone Slim

male, deceased (1942)
From Ashtabula, Ohio, from Ohio, Industrial Worker, poet, Finnish, surrealist…industrial worker of the world, migrantworker
Matti Valentine Huhta (c.1890? - May 11?, 1942) better known by his pen name T-Bone Slim, was a humourist, poet, songwriter, hobo, and a labour...