Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

male, deceased (1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In India, he is recognized as the "Father of the Nation" and October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as...
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

male, deceased (1968)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is...
Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan

male, 88 years old
Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip performed...
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

male, 78 years old
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. He is noted for leading protests against the Free Trade Area of the A...
Danilo Dolci

Danilo Dolci

male
Danilo Dolci was a social activist, sociologist, popular educator and poet. He is best known for his opposition against poverty, social exclusion...
Nafez Assaily

Nafez Assaily

male, 53 years old
Nafez Assaily (Arabic:)was born in 1956 in the former Jordanian territory of the West Bank, in Hebron. Though a Sufi Muslim, he received his...
Ivan Cooper

Ivan Cooper

male, 65 years old
Ivan Cooper 's first involvement in politics began in the early 1960s when he became a member of the Young Unionist but later he joined the...
Qurratulain Haider

Qurratulain Haider

female, 82 years old
Qurratulain Haider (b. 1927, also written Qurat-ul-ain) is an Indian writer of Urdu fiction. She was born at Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and went to...
Pietro Ameglio

Pietro Ameglio

male, 51 years old
Pietro Ameglio (born in Italy 1958 Gandhian Civil Rights leader, author of a book on non-violence in Mexico. Has defended envionmentalists and...
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya

Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya

female, deceased (1979)
Alexandra Lvovna (1884-1979) was the youngest daughter and secretary of the famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Although Alexandra Lvovna shared...