Jane Addams

Jane Addams

female, deceased (1935)
Child labor in the United States, gym, Rockford College, Gymnasium, East End of London, Nobel Peace Prize laureate…socialreform, social welfare
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935) won the Nobel Peace Prize and was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement. Born in...
Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

male, deceased (1832)
philosopher, from Spitalfields, University College London, feminism, Political theorist, Social philosophy…socialreform
Jeremy Bentham - June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theorist...
Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

male, deceased (1860)
Gettysburg Address, Harvard Divinity School alumni, transcendentalist, slavery, abolitionist, emerson…social reformer, socialreform, reform movement
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister...
Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Fry

female, deceased (1845)
Banknotes of the pound sterling, From norwich, Anglican, Saint, From Ramsgate, activist…social reformer, socialreform, prison reform
Elizabeth Fry was an English prison reformer, social reformer and philanthropist. Fry was the driving force in legislation to make the treatment of...
Huey Long

Huey Long

male, deceased (1935)
death by firearm in the United States, French American, populist, United States Senator, U.S. Senator, Political bosses…socialreform
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893-September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A...
Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen

male, deceased (1904)
Christian, Evangelical, agnostic, Anglican, eton college, writer…social reformer, socialreform
Sir Leslie Stephen (November 28, 1832 - February 22, 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and...
Voltaire

Voltaire

male, deceased (1778)
French Enlightenment, buried at the Panthéon, deism, philosophy, polemicist, Freemason…socialreform
François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his w...
Mahadev Govind Ranade

Mahadev Govind Ranade

male, deceased (1901)
Indian, Chitpavan, socialreform, Bombay High Court, Prarthana Samaj figure, Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Act
Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade (16 January 1842-16 January 1901) was an Indian judge, author, and reformer. He was born at Niphad, in Nasik...
Adin Ballou

Adin Ballou

male, deceased (1890)
Pacifist, Hopedale Community, Christian, socialism, American, Unitarian…reform movement, socialreform
Adin Ballou was founder of the Hopedale Community in what is now Hopedale, Massachusetts, and a prominent 19th century exponent of pacifism,...
Parker Pillsbury

Parker Pillsbury

male, deceased (1898)
Herald of Freedom, Phillips Academy, congregational church, slavery, congregational, abolitionist…socialreform
Parker Pillsbury (September 22, 1809 - July 7, 1898) was an American minister and advocate for abolition and women's rights. Pillsbury was born in...