Activists from San Francisco

American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)

Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

Irish-American author and publisher

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

Japanese American sculptor (1926–2013)

American disability activist (1974–2025)

American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist (1842–1919)

American activist

American political activist

American artist and activist and sex workers' rights activist (1951–2022)

African-American entrepreneur (1814-1904)

American security researcher (1979–2021)

American activist

American civil rights lawyer

Nicaraguan American terrorist (1943–1970)

civil rights leader and activist for LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, and health advocacy

American physician, epidemiologist, medical anthropologist

American perinatologist and public health administrator (1930-2014)

Australian computer scientist, security researcher, and activist (1978/1979–2022)

American Democratic political activist

American writer (1921–2015)

American physician-scientist

American actress, journalist and suffragist

Danish-born birth control advocate and radical socialist

American interpreter

American labor leader (1901–1990)

New Zealand teacher, feminist, community leader

American leftist and YPG volunteer

American suffragist (1833-1921)

American investigative journalist and editor