Category
page 2Activists from New York City
Henry Bergh
American animal welfare activist (1811–1888)
Robert L. Bernstein
American activist (1923–2019)
Jack Nichols
American gay-rights activist (1938–2005)
Morris Hillquit
Riga-born American lawyer, politician and art collector (1869-1933)
Barbara Rose Johns
American activist
Megan Rice
American activist
Mark Lane
American lawyer, politician and writer
Maud Nathan
American activist (1862-1946)
Oscar Neebe
American activist (1850-1916)
Patricia M. Derian
American activist
James Howard Kunstler
American writer
Roy Innis
American activist and politician (1934-2017)
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
American historian (1941-2018)
Louis Rossmann
American computer repair technician, YouTube personality, right-to-repair activist
Jane McAlevey
American labor unionist
Carl Gershman
President of the National Endowment for Democracy
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson
philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education
William Sloane Coffin
American clergyman and peace activist (1924–2006)
Siraj Wahhaj
American Imam (born 1950)
Felix Morrow
American politician (1906–1988)
Richard Gottfried
American attorney and politician
Berenice A. Carroll
American political scientist and activist
Linda Andre
American psychiatric survival activist/writer
Stuart Milk
LGBT rights activist
Mary Harriman Rumsey
American activist (1881-1934)
Jane Alpert
American feminist
Bernice Sandler
women's rights activist
Victor Vancier
American activist
Samuel F. Phillips
American politician, lawyer, and court stenographer (1824–1903)
Gershon Baskin
political activist
Lee Brewster
American drag queen, transvestite activist, and retailer (1943-2000)
Paul Weiss
American philosopher (1901–2002)
Louis Waldman
American politician (1892-1982)
Dana Beyer
American politician and activist (born 1952)
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
writer and activist
Katie Halper
American comedian, writer, filmmaker, and political commentator
Elva Ambía
Peruvian Quechua writer
Henry Demarest Lloyd
American journalist (1847–1903)
Victoria Cruz
Puerto Rican LGBT rights activist
Maurice Wertheim
American investment banker (1886–1950)
Miriam Freund-Rosenthal
American civic leader, activist, writer
Sam Marcy
Marxist writer
Elise Johnson McDougald
American educator, writer, activist and first African-American woman principal in New York City public schools (1885–1971)
Marie Shear
American feminist writer
Louisa Lee Schuyler
American leader in charitable work
Frances Kissling
American activist
Rebecca Dayan
French actress
Thomas Kaplan
American businessman and art collector
Elizabeth Sackler
American historian and philanthropist
Jack Shea
American director (1928–2013)
Fred Branfman
American activist and writer
Al Giordano
American journalist (1959–2023)
Peter J. McGuire
American labor leader (1852-1906)
Cecilia Gentili
Argentine-American trans activist, actor and sex worker (1972-2024)
Alma Vessells John
African-American nurse, civil rights activist, radio and television pioneer and writer (1906-1986)
Don Lane
American talk show host (1933-2009)
Lauren Singer
environmental Activist
Lorraine Gordon
Jazz music advocate
Itamar Marcus
Palestinian activist
Hugh Loebner
American activist (1942-2016)