- Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most recognized work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", … - Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation, a term he himself created. Kerouac enjoyed some degree of popular appeal but little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, however, he is considered an important and influential author. - Paul Krassner
Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932) was the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine "The Realist", first published in 1958. With the radical humor of his publication shattering taboos and breaking barriers, Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s. - Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. More than any other actor, Fonda is associated with Western counterculture of the 1960s. - Bruce Eisner
Bruce Jay Ehrlich (better known by his writing name Bruce Eisner) (born Brooklyn, New York, February 26, 1948) is an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book "Ecstasy: The MDMA Story". He received his B.A.in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979, his M.A. in psychology from the University of California, … - Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. He is best-known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings. - Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post" in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. - Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (born 1933) is an American professor, social thinker, writer, and critic. Theodore Roszak is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, San Francisco State University, California State University, Hayward, … - Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues and drug politics. Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University and the American University in Paris. - Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. - Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman was an American poet, writer, and public intellectual. He described his politics as anarchist, his loves as bisexual, and his profession as that of "man of letters". Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of "Growing up Absurd" and for having been, during the 1960s, an activist on the pacifist Left and an inspiration to the counterculture of that era. He is less remembered as a cofounder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and 50s. - Richard Neville
Richard Neville is an Australian author and futurist, originally known for publishing and editing the counterculture magazine "Oz" in Australia and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a frequent guest on "The Mike Walsh Show" in the 1980s - Mick Farren
Michael 'Mick' Farren (born 3 September 1943, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is a UK Underground/counterculture radical and anarchist. He was lead singer with the "Deviants". He went on to write for the main stream "New Musical Express", as well as developing a prolific career as a sci-fi/horror author, cultural journalist, and critic. In addition to non-fiction, Farren has also written a number of biographical and autobiographical books. - Stephen Gaskin
Stephen Gaskin is a counterculture hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a famous spiritual Intentional Community in Summertown, Tennessee. He was a Green Party presidential primary candidate in 2000 on a platform which included Campaign Finance Reform, Universal Health Care, and Marijuana Decriminalization. - Kerry Thornley
Kerry Wendell Thornley is perhaps best-known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism. In this context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, a name he derived from Omar Khayyám. He and Hill authored the religion's seminal text "Principia Discordia, or, how I found Goddess, and what I did to her when I found her." Less known is a series of "Zenarchy" articles, … - S. Clay Wilson
S. Clay Wilson (July 25,1941-) is an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson is known for aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of "lowlife," often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix, and Wilson's artistic audacity has been cited by R. Crumb as a liberating source of inspiration for Crumb's own work. - John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 - September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. - Peter Whitehead
Peter Lorrimer Whitehead (b. 8 January 1937 in Liverpool) is an English filmmaker who documented the counterculture in London and New York in the late 1960s. - Les Crane
Les Crane (born December 3, 1935) was a San Francisco-based radio announcer and television talk show host who scored an unexpected spoken word hit with his recording of the poem, "Desiderata", winning a "Best Spoken Word" Grammy for his efforts. The 45 RPM record reached #8 on the "Billboard" charts in late 1971. It had great influence on mainstream society (The Establishment) and became a counterculture anthem of sorts, and in particular, … - Michael Wadleigh
Michael Wadleigh (born September 24, 1941) is an American movie director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. A native of Akron, Ohio, Wadleigh entered films in his early 20s as a cinematographer on independently-produced low-budget films "David Holtzman's Diary" and "I Call First" (both 1967) and "My Girlfriend's Wedding" (1969). - Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb (born Aline Goldsmith, August 1948, Long Beach, New York) is an underground comix artist, who married into the Crumb family, best known for her autobiographical stories. In these stories she refers to herself as The Bunch, a nickname she was apparently given as a child. She was born to a middle class Jewish family in the Five Towns area of Long Island. - Michael Cole
Michael Cole has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, beginning in 1961 with a role in the film drama, "Forbid Them Not". Other film credits include the role of Mark in the science fiction film "The Bubble" (1967). Later titled, "The Fantastic Invasion". ; Alan Miller in "The Last Child" (1971), which was nominated for a Golden Globe; Cliff Norris in "Beg, Borrow or Steal" (1973); and an unnamed musician in the cult classic, "The Wicker Man" (1973). - Richard Fariña
Richard George Fariña was an American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era. - Bill Lee
William Francis "Bill" Lee III (born December 28, 1946), (nicknamed "Spaceman"), is an American athlete and retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1969-1978 and the Montreal Expos from 1979-1982. Lee is known for his adherence to the counterculture behavior, his antics both on and off the field, and his use of the Leephus pitch, a personalized variation of the eephus pitch. - Tom Campbell
Thomas J. Campbell, Q.C. (born October 5, 1927) is a retired Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1967 through 1972. Campbell was born in Vancouver, where he became a lawyer. In 1962, he joined Vancouver City Council as an alderman, representing the Non-Partisan Association (NPA), a conservative civic party. Running as an independent, Campbell beat out Bill Rathie in the 1966 election, ending the NPA's long, … - Mark Vonnegut
Mark Vonnegut (born ca. 1948) is an American pediatrician and writer. He is the son of the late writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He describes himself in the preface to his book as "a hippie, son of a counterculture hero, B.A. in religion, (with a) genetic disposition to schizophrenia." Mark Vonnegut graduated from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in 1969 at the age of 21. - Bert Schneider
Berton "Bert" Schneider is an American movie producer, who was behind a number of important and topical films of the late-1960s and early-1970s. The son of Abraham Schneider, onetime president of Columbia Pictures, the younger Schneider tended toward the rebellious. He briefly attended Cornell University but was expelled. Because of his radical activities, the army rejected him. In the early Sixties, he went to work for Columbia's television division Screen Gems. - Otto Gross
Dr Otto Gross (1877-1920) was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. His father Hans Gross was a judge turned pioneering criminologist. Otto initially collaborated with him, and then turned against his determinist ideas on character. A champion of an early form of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, … - Louis Rossetto
Louis Rossetto (born 1949) is an American journalist. He is best known as the founder and former publisher of "Wired magazine". Rossetto was born and grew up on Long Island, New York. He went to Columbia University as an undergraduate and later returned for an MBA. In the early 1970s, he wrote a novel called "Takeover." Several years later, he ghostwrote a book about the making of the film "Caligula" called "Ultimate Porno". - A. J. Weberman
Alan J. Weberman (born May 26, 1945), better known as A. J. Weberman, is an American writer, political gadfly, and self-styled founder of the fields of "garbology" and "Dylanology". He is best known for his controversial personal confrontations with the musician Bob Dylan and for his 30-year involvement with the Yippies, a counterculture network. - Tara Browne
Tara Browne was a young London socialite and issue of peerage as a member of the Irish aristocratic family of Oranmore & Browne, whose untimely death in 1966 was immortalized in song by John Lennon of The Beatles. Browne was the son of Dominick Browne, the 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, a member of the House of Lords since 1927 who later became famous for having served in that house longer than any other peer, … - Miles Marshall Lewis
Miles Marshall Lewis is an American pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist. He is a graduate of Morehouse College, class of 1993. Lewis was born in The Bronx, New York, at the beginning of hip hop culture in the early 1970s. He expatriated from the United States to Paris, France during 2004 in response to the Iraq War. - Srini Kumar
Srini Kumar, aka !!!srini!!!, is an Internet entrepreneur and personality, most known as the founder of the "Unamerican.com" website in 1994, which sells stickers and other paraphernalia showcasing counterculture sayings written by Kumar; and of "StickerNation", a custom sticker printing operation. Aside from provocative manifestos on his websites, he has written the book "StickerNation", … - Jim Hogshire
Jim Hogshire (born 1958) is a counterculture author of magazine articles, short stories, and a number of books. His works have been published in such magazines as "Harper's", "Gentleman's Quarterly", "Details", "Esquire", "Covert Action Quarterly", "Omni", "FAIR", "The Animal's Agenda", and "Lies of Our Times". As of July 2007, he was living in Seattle, Washington. - Elizabeth Young
Elizabeth Young (1950-2001) was a London-based literary critic and author, who wrote principally on cult writers for a range of British newspapers and magazines. In particular she championed transgressive fiction, for which she received some criticism in the press, not least for her defence of A. M. Homes' "The End of Alice", which dealt with themes of paedophilia from what was seen as an uncomfortably neutral perspective. - Plume Latraverse
Plume Latraverse (born "Michel Latraverse" May 11, 1946) is a prolific singer, musician, songwriter and author from Quebec. His career spans over 30 years; Latraverse is probably one of the most influential names in Quebec counterculture - John Sewell
John Sewell, CM, (born 1940) is a political activist and writer on municipal affairs; he was the mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. Raised in the Beaches neighbourhood, in Toronto, Sewell attended Malvern Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto from which he graduated with an English Literature degree in 1961. He earned a law degree from the University of Toronto Law School in 1964 and was called to the bar in 1966. - Anna Kingsford
Anna Bonus Kingsford (b. September 16, 1846 in Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex - d. February 22, 1888 in London) was one of the first female English physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Kingsford participated in the Theosophical movement England and was best known as an advocate of women's rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarianism. She obtained a medical degree in Paris in 1880. In 1883, she was made President of the Theosophical Society. - Zohar Argov
Zohar Argov (July 16 1955 - November 6 1987) (born as Zohar Orkabi) was one of Israel's most popular and beloved singers, and a distinctive voice in the new wave of Israeli Middle-eastern Mizrahi music. The most serious hurdle on the way to stardom was Argov's socio-economic background. He grew up in a poor family, far from the cultural establishment. In those years, singers often began their careers by serving in military entertainment troupes, … - Guadalupe Marín
Guadalupe Marín was a model and novelist born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The second wife of muralist Diego Rivera and mother of his two youngest daughters, Ruth and Guadalupe Rivera. She was the subject of portrait paintings by Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. She is featured in the Rivera mural Creation where she modeled as Justice, Song, and Woman. She also modeled nude for Rivera's Chapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant.
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