Martin Luther King Jr: US Civil Rights activist, proponent of non-violence
Malala Yousafzi: Afghan women's rights activist. Taliban attempted to kill her.
Bono: Irish rock star and humanitarian
Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch woman, sent to a concentration camp for hiding Jews from the Nazis.
Mohammad Ali: American boxing legend and conscientious objector during Vietnam War
Helen Keller: American pacifist and anti-war activist
Carl Sagan: American astronomer and anti-war activist
Desmond Doss: American conscientious objector in WW2; subject of Hacksaw Ridge
John Lennon: English rock star and anti-war activist
Jeannette Rankin: US Congresswoman, pacifist and suffragist
Desmond Tutu: South African anti-apartheid activist
Irwin Abrams: American Quaker, conscientious objector and Nobel Peace Prize authority
Betty Williams: Nobel Prize winner for peace in Ireland
John Lewis: Civil Rights activist and US congressman
Leymah Gbowee: Liberian peace activist
Gandhi: India leader of non-violent revolution
Jane Addams: American pacifist, suffragist and social justice activist
Oscar Romero: Catholic Archbishop murdered by rightwing death squads for his advocacy for the poor and for social justice.
Joan Baez: American folk singer and anti-war activist
Mother Jones: Irish-American labour activist and children's rights activist
Setsuko Thurlow: Hiroshima survivor and Canadian anti-nuclear weapons activist
Mairead Corrigan: Nobel Prize winner for peace in Ireland
Ted Studebaker: Vietnam War conscientious objector, died doing pacifist humanitarian work in Vietnam
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi: Somali-Kenyan peace activist
Sophie Scholl: Youth resistance in WW2 Germany, killed by Nazis
Henry David Thoreau: American proponent of civil disobedience. He was an abolitionist. He opposed wars of imperialism but was not a strict pacifist.
Wangari Maathi: Kenyan social and environmental activist
Dorothy Day: American journalist, activist, pacifist and founder of Catholic Workers Movement.
Peace Pilgrim: Peace activist who walked across the US 7 times over 28 years, to spread message of peace
Corretta Scott King: American Civil Rights leader
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