John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

male, deceased
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the...
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Muckraker

male
A muckraker is an American English term for one who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that violate widely held values, such as...
Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis

male, deceased (in, United States)
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe,...
Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford

female, deceased
Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, known to friends and family as Decca, self-described muckraker and political radical, was the "red sheep" of the...
Ida M. Tarbell

Ida M. Tarbell

female, deceased
Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5 1857-January 6 1944) was a teacher, an author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of...
John Spargo

John Spargo

male, deceased
John Spargo was a British progressivist writer and muckraker whose exposé "The Bitter Cry of Children" explores the living conditions of children i...
Louis Filler

Louis Filler

male
Louis Filler (May 2, 1911 - December 22, 1998), a Philadelphia-reared, Columbia-trained writer on muckraking and abolitionism from 1939 to 1998,...
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Burton J. Hendrick

male, deceased
Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870-1949) born in New Haven, Connecticut. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and...
Hans-Peter Martin

Hans-Peter Martin

male
Hans-Peter Martin (born August 11, 1957) is an Austrian journalist who has also been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999. Born in...