Activists from Manhattan

Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

Michael Andrew Fox, known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American actor and activist. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989) and Marty McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990). Fox went on to star in films such as Teen Wolf (1985), The Secret of My Success (1987), Casualties of War (1989), Doc Hollywood (1991) and The Frighteners (1996). He returned to television on the ABC sitcom Spin City in the lead role of Mike Flaherty (1996–2000).

American folk singer (1919–2014)

American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)

American entertainer (1925–1990)

American actor (born 1940)

American burlesque performer, actress and author (1911–1970)

American suffragette and socialite (1853–1933)

American writer (1936-2019)

American writer (1946–1990)

Michele Singer Reiner was an American photographer, political activist, and film producer. Reiner was the second wife of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner. She was originally a photographer, taking the cover picture of The Art of the Deal (1987). While working on When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Reiner met her future husband and inspired him to revise the film's ending.

American feminist, historian, activist, professor and author (1939-2015)

American women's rights journalist

American author (1913–2012)

American politician

American abolitionist, reformer, activist and Civil War nurse (1801-1893)

Irish-American Roman Catholic priest and activist (1816-1888)