- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
- Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress.
- David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is a self-styled "white nationalist," and he is commonly referred to by his opponents as a white supremacist. He says he does not think of himself as a racist, however, …
- Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose (alternate spelling Tokio Rose) was a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately twenty English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.
- Edward Bernays
Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 - March 9, 1995) is considered one of the fathers of the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. Combining the ideas of Gustave LeBon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the psychology of the subconscious. He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, …
- Ezra Loomis Pound
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote, Philadelphia , where his father held the position of assistant assayer for the United States Mint . Pound left high school, and attended the University of Pennsylvania , where he befriended another notable poet of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams , who was studying medicine at the time.
- Frank Luntz
Frank I. Luntz is an American corporate and political consultant and pollster who has worked most notably with the Republican Party in the United States. Luntz's specialty is testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate.” Luntz formed The Luntz Research Companies in 1992, and maintains an office in Alexandria, Virginia.
- Frank Capra
Frank Capra (18 May 1897 - 3 September 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", among others.
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American, was most identified with "Tokyo Rose", a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. Identified by the press as Tokyo Rose after the war, she was detained for a year by the U.S. military before being released for lack of evidence.
- John Reed
John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 - October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, "Ten Days that Shook the World". He was the husband of the writer and feminist Louise Bryant. Reed and Bryant were the subjects of the film "Reds" (1981), directed by Warren Beatty.
- Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (September 30 1905 - February 19 1990) was a British film director, renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger which produced a series of classic British films. Powell was born in Bekesbourne, Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and then at Dulwich College.
- George Creel
George Creel (December 1, 1876-2 October 1953) was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Creel began his career as a reporter for the "Kansas City World" in 1894 before starting his own newspaper, the "Kansas City Independent", in 1899.
- Sefton Delmer
Denis Sefton Delmer (May 24, 1904-September 4, 1979) was a British journalist and propagandist for the British government.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views.
- George Sylvester Viereck
George Sylvester Viereck (December 31 1884 in Munich, died March 18 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. His father, Louis, born out of wedlock to German actress Edwina Viereck, was reputed to be a son of Kaiser Wilhelm I, although another relative of the Hohenzollern family assumed legal paternity. Louis in the 1870s joined the Marxist socialist movement, and in 1896 emigrated to the United States, …
- Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the ancien régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre, …
- Humphrey Jennings
Humphrey Jennings, (August 19 1907 Walberswick, Suffolk - September 24 1950 Poros, Greece), was an English film-maker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Jennings was described by film maker Lindsay Anderson as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
- Mildred Gillars
"Axis Sally was a female radio personality during World War II. Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in Portland, Maine, she took the name Mildred Gillars as a small child after her mother remarried and moved to New York City where young Mildred dreamed of becoming an actress, but met with little success. Gillars studied drama at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH, but dropped out before graduating.
- Willi Münzenberg
Willi Münzenberg was a leading propagandist for the KPD ("Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands", Communist Party of Germany) in the Weimar Era. General secretary of the Communist Youth International. Born in Erfurt, Germany the son of a tavern keeper, Münzenberg grew up in poverty. As a young man, he became involved in trade unions and in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
- Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841 - December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behaviour and crowd psychology.
- Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens (November 18 1898-June 28 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and devout communist. He is generally respected as one of the foremost documentarists of the twentieth century but is critisized for his support for communists dictators like Joseph Stalin. Probably the best known of his early films is his 10-minute short "Rain" "(Regen)".
- Henry Hotze
Henry Hotze (September 2, 1833-April 19, 1887) was a Swiss-born propagandist for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
- Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (April 28, 1918 - September 20, 2001) was an East German journalist, propagandist, and host of the television show "Der schwarze Kanal" (German: "The Black Channel") from March 21, 1960 to October 30, 1989. Born in Berlin and the son of a Prussian aristocrat, Schnitzler attended a boarding school at Bad Godesberg and studied medicine and business at Cologne university.
- John Rankin
John (Jon) Rankin (1 February 1890 - 8 October 1973) was a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician. Rankin was educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. He became a school teacher, propagandist and lecturer. Rankin first stood for Parliament without success in Glasgow Pollok in 1923, 1924 and 1935.
- Movladi Udugov
Movladi Saidarbievich Udugov is a major ideologue of the Chechen rebels.
- Gary Lauck
Gary Rex Lauck (born 1953; also known as Gerhard Lauck) is the leader of the current incarnation of the NSDAP/AO in the United States and probably the largest producer of neo-Nazi literature in the world. He has been dubbed the "Farmbelt Fuehrer" by Jewish organizations and the "Evil Genius of Germany's Neo-Nazis" by the Reader's Digest (British edition, September 1995). Lauck, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 12, …
- Hanoi Hannah
Trịnh Thị Ngọ (born 1931), known as Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese woman who, during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, read broadcast radio messages and propaganda to convince U.S. troops to go desert, a psychological warfare scheme set forth by the Communist North Vietnamese. She made three broadcasts a day talking to American soldiers. She read the list of the newly killed or imprisoned Americans, …
- Elmer Davis
Elmer Davis (January 13, 1890 - May 18, 1958) was a well-known news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II, and a Peabody Award Recipient.
- Tim Eyman
Tim Eyman (b. 1966) is a conservative political activist in the U.S. state of Washington who uses direct democracy (initiatives and referenda) to pursue his stated goals of cutting taxes (framed as tax revolt) and limiting the power of the state government.
- Vladimir Posner
Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner, born April 1, 1934, is a Russian journalist best known in the West for appearing on television to represent and explain the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was a memorable spokesperson for the Soviets in part because he had grown up in the United States and spoke flawless American English with a New York accent. He worked as chief commentator for the North American service of the Radio Moscow network.
- Federica Montseny
Federica Montseny i Mañé was a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a poet, novelist, essayist, and children's writer. Federica Montseny was, in her own words, the "[d]aughter of a family of old anarchists"; her father was the anti-authoritarian writer and propagandist Joan Montseny (Federico Urales); her mother, Soledad Gustavo, …
- Alexander MacKendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8 1912 - December 22 1993) was a Scottish-American film director.
- John Amery
John Amery was a British fascist who proposed to Hitler the forming of a British volunteer force (which subsequently became the British Free Corps), made recruitment efforts and propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany. He was executed for treason after the war. He should not be confused with Jean Améry, an Austrian writer and close contemporary, who was a victim of Nazi Germany.
- Hassan Ngeze
Hassan Ngeze is a Rwandan journalist, best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments", which fomented anti-Tutsi feeling among Rwandan Hutus prior to the Rwandan Genocide. Ngeze was born in Rubavu Commune, Gisenyi Prefecture, in Rwanda. He is a Muslim of Hutu ethnicity. In 1990, he founded the newspaper "Kangura", initially intended as a counterweight to the popular anti-government newspaper "Kanguka".
- Agrippa D'Aubigné
Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem "Les Tragiques" (1616) is widely regarded as a French Baroque masterpiece.
- Mikhail Leontyev
Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontyev (born October 12, 1958, in Moscow) is a Russian journalist currently working on national TV Channel One. He is known for his program "Odnako", irregularly appearing on air with commentaries on certain political occasions since March 1999.
- Jessie Pope
Jessie Pope (1870 - 1941) was an English poet best known for her poems about World War I. Critics of her work accuse her of being a pro-war propagandist who trivialized the war through her use of simple rhyme schemes (similar to those in nursery rhymes) and allusions to sports, games and heroism. (Her poem, "My Bit," for instance, likens her swatting of a housefly to the British soldiers' killing of Germans.) Since she was female she never experienced life in the trenches, …
- Choi Eun-Hee
Choi Eun-hee (born 1928) is a South Korean actress. She began her film career in 1947 in the film "A New Oath". For the next 20 years, she was one of the biggest stars in Korean film and led the Shin Film company along with her husband, the director Shin Sang-ok. In 1978, Choi and Shin, who she had recently divorced, were kidnapped to North Korea by orders from future dictator Kim Jong-il.
- Vladimir Dedijer
Vladimir Dedijer (4 February 1914 - 30 November 1990) was a Yugoslav partisan fighter, politician and historian. During World War II he was an editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper "Borba", and member of the agitprop section to the General Staff. After the war he was a member of Yugoslav delegation on 1946 Paris peace conference and on several sessions of United Nations General Assembly (1945-1952).
- Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber is a professor at the University of Haifa. He was born in Palestine in 1943, he studied world and Jewish history in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from which he holds a Ph.D. Yoav Gelber is an expert on the history of the Israeli army. He is also a supporter of the right-wing Tzomet party and a vocal opponent of his colleague Ilan Pappe, whom he has compared to the British fascist and Nazi propagandist William Joyce.