Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

female, 64 years old
Aung San Suu Kyi ; born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in...
Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

female, 57 years old
Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. Shiva,...
Steve Biko

Steve Biko

male, deceased (1977)
Stephen Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 - 12 September 1977) was a noted nonviolent anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early...
Barbara Deming

Barbara Deming

female, deceased (1984)
Barbara Deming (1917 - 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa

male, deceased (1995)
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. He was the...
Olivier Dupuis

Olivier Dupuis

male
Olivier Dupuis is a Belgian-born politician, and former Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party. He was born in 1958 in Ath (Belgium). He...
Ram Singh

Ram Singh

male, deceased (1885)
Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji Namdhari (February 3 1816 - 29 November 1885) was a Sikh philosopher and reformer and the first Indian to use...

Cliff Pearson

male
Clifford Blake "Cliff" Pearson is an American activist from Dallas, Texas who began his career in nonviolent direct action, civil disobedience,...
Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael

male, deceased (1998)
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist...

John Fries'S Rebellion

male
John Fries's Rebellion, also called the House Tax Rebellion, the Home Tax Rebellion or the Hot-Vuter Rebellion ("Blitz Wasser" in Pennsylvania...